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Mr. Dillon.
Mr. Dillon.
Take it easy Chester.
But there's been a train robbery Mr. Dillon about five mile east.
They held up the baggage clerk and got away with $50,000 in double eagle.
Well why did you hear about it?
Just now and number seven pulled into the station.
You've got to get over there right away.
And I guess they'll wait until that city's the end of the line.
Well yes sir I know that.
Did anybody say how many were in on it?
Three according to the clerk all wearing masks.
They snuck aboard when the train stopped for water caught in wood tanks.
Made them cut the rest of the train loose and go on with just the engine and the baggage
car.
Had horses waiting down the track somewheres.
You ought to get over to the depot Mr. Dillon.
The baggage clerk shot pretty bad.
God.
Now that didn't just say it.
And another thing.
They cut the wire so the train crew couldn't telegraph ahead.
Same old story Mr. Dillon.
You'd think them bandits would figure out some new way.
Why this one usually works.
Town pounded I said to keep that mob out of this baggage car.
They're out Doc.
Huh?
Well who are you?
Oh I didn't know it was you Mac.
How is he?
He caught one through the lung.
I wouldn't give your plug nickel for that.
I want to find out where it happened.
I can tell you exactly Marshal.
How?
About a hundred yards east of mile post 314.
It's on the curb where the line swings in toward the river park.
You one of the passengers?
I'm a legal agent for the railroad and for the bank that owns that money.
My name is Crocker J.L. Crocker.
And I want immediate action on this matter.
I want that money back at once.
And I want the guilty parties brought to justice.
Are you getting all this Chester?
Yes sir I'm making mental notes.
Well now Marshal I don't believe you quite understand who I am.
Sure you're the legal something or other for somebody and you're bothering me.
Now will you stand back?
Doc is there any chance of talking to him?
Well we can try.
Alright.
Lester can you hear me?
Yes.
Did you recognize any of them?
No.
War mask.
Only one said anything.
Gave all the orders.
He's the one who shot me.
Men about fifty.
Is that all you can tell me?
I don't feel so good Marshal.
I think I...
That's it.
Yeah.
Chester.
Go get our horses settled up.
We'll ride out to mile post 314.
With luck we can get there before dark.
Maybe pick up their trail some way.
Aren't you?
Well now Marshal in my opinion you ought to form a posse and go after these criminals.
Mr. Crocker I don't care about your opinions.
I think I'll have a little talk with your superiors when I get back to civilization.
Good.
Find out what's happened to my checks.
I haven't been paid for two months.
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Chester, pull up a second.
Mr. Reckon they've heard a shade.
They don't show it.
Both of them are still working around the campfire, paying no attention.
Fixing supper I guess.
A man and a young boy.
Must be homesteaders on the move.
I've never heard of bandits hightailing it in a covered wagon.
Besides, there's only two of them.
Three men helped up the train.
Yeah, I know.
Now let's ride on down to the fire.
Well now, howdy strangers.
Evening.
Climb down and sit.
Have some supper ready here in the spell, such as this.
Keep your eye on that coffee Jerry.
I'm watching you, Pa.
You men pushing cattle?
No, hunting killers.
What?
Had a train robbery this morning.
Now I'm a U.S. Marshal out of Dodge.
My name's Dillon.
Well, proud to know you, Marshal Dillon.
I'm Dan Everly.
This is my boy Jerry.
How are you, sir?
Jerry, how are you?
Well, we were heading for Dodge ourselves.
How far we got to go yet?
About nine miles.
You, kind of the homestead?
That's right.
Had a place back at Newton, but it didn't do so good.
So somebody robbed a train.
Mm-hmm, three of them.
That way with $50,000 in gold.
Have you met anybody today?
No, no, near your soul.
Now Marshal, you just rest yourself there now and we'll have some side meat and harmony
in a few minutes.
Oh, fine, thanks.
This is it, Chester.
We found them.
These two?
How do you figure?
They're horses.
Saddle stock, never meant to haul a wagon.
And the third one's over to the right and that thicket covering us.
George, lend us a gun barrel.
What will you do?
Move fast.
You roll to the left, draw and cover the tube with a fire and I'll take the one on the brush.
You got it?
Yes, sir.
All right then.
Now.
Don't move, you do, you're covered.
You lower the brush.
Come out with your hands up.
Now wait, Marshal, don't shoot.
All right then, tell him to get out here with his hands up.
They got us.
They know you're fighting.
Come out like he says.
Why didn't you let me fight, Pa?
I could have shot them both.
He's a girl.
Oh, it is.
Look, my daughter Janet, I told her to hide out there till we found out what she wanted.
I wanted to keep her out of this.
So you and your two kids were the bandits, huh?
You're quite a father, Mr. Everly.
You leave him alone.
Pa knew what he was doing.
He had a right to that money.
I see.
How old are you, Janet?
Eighteen.
Is any of your business?
The young'uns ain't to blame, Marshal.
I brought them up to do like I told them.
They didn't know.
Somebody ought to have known.
Now where's the money?
Don't tell him, Pa.
Be quiet, Janet.
Marshal, we buried that money and I reckon I'm not going to tell you where it is.
It's ours and we got a right to it.
Yeah, you said that before.
I had a homestead outside of Newton.
My wife died there.
The young'uns and me fought the prairie for four years.
Crop failures, hard times.
Then last fall I finally got a good stand of wheat ripe for the harvest.
You know what happened?
Now what happened?
Sparks from a train set fire to the grain field, burned us out, lost everything.
I wrote letters to the railroad office in St. Louis.
They said I'd have to come back there and prove my claim.
Now they knew I couldn't do that.
Now does anybody ever tell you things were easy out here in the West, Mr. Iverly?
Just that you and the boy hitch up that wagon and start loading it.
All right, sir.
Come on, son.
What are you aiming to do with it?
Back in the Dodge City, to jail.
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All right, pull up, everybody.
Oh, boy.
All of you, get on.
I guess my reasons for robbing that train don't count for much, do they, Marshal?
Judging is not part of my job, Everly.
But not the young ones.
It wasn't there for...
You killed a man, Everly.
What do you expect?
Marshal, I didn't aim to kill him.
He went for his gun as we was leaving, but I didn't aim to kill him.
Oh, Marshal, I see you brought in the culprits.
Yeah, it looks that way, Mr. Crocker.
Oh, where's the money?
I want to get it locked up in the bank right away.
They say they buried it.
They've...
What?
Matt?
Matt, are you all right?
I heard of the balloon that you bought in the bandits.
That's right.
Is she one of them?
That girl?
Yeah.
Well, she's just a kid, Matt.
You're not going to lock up a girl.
Kitty, I don't like the idea any better than you do.
That jail wasn't built for women.
I know that.
Matt, let me take her.
What?
She won't try to get away with the others in jail.
She can stay in my room while I'm working.
I'll take care of her, Matt.
Janet, you go with Kitty here.
Yes, sir.
Stay with her and do whatever she says.
Thanks, Matt.
Thanks a lot.
Come on, honey.
Just so you take these other two inside and lock them up.
Come on.
Let's go.
Oh, Marshall, pretty or not, that girl is a criminal.
Why aren't you locking her up?
Well, we've got a different attitude toward women out here, Mr. Crocker.
We never got around to building jails for them.
Well, what about the money?
Fifty thousand dollars missing.
That's right, it is.
Oh.
It's a long ride into town, wasn't it, Marshall?
Moonlight, pretty girl in a wagon, chance to talk.
Maybe do a little bit of work.
Why, you!
Get up.
You there.
Yes, sir.
Drag him over there to the water trough and stick his head under the pump.
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How are you and Kitty getting along, Janet?
Oh, just fine. She's been wonderful.
The noise downstairs bother you? Keep you awake at night?
No, no. The only thing that keeps me awake is worrying about Pa and Jerry.
What are you going to do with it?
I got no say about that. There's no proper court here.
I'll probably get orders to send you up to Hayes City for trial.
Oh, they won't understand. Maybe Pa was wrong. I guess he was, but he thought he was doing right.
Sure, we all think that.
He was doing it for us, for Jerry and me.
And he didn't mean to kill that man, Marshall. Really, he didn't.
Well, I, uh, I better be going now.
Sure.
Goodbye, Janet.
Bye.
Well, Matt?
He's quite thick, isn't he, Kitty?
Stories around town say you're a little thick in with her, Matt.
That's Mr. Crocker's time. He's been shooting his mouth off for a week now.
He's offered a thousand-dollar reward for the return of that money, no questions asked.
Yeah, I know.
But how much do you know?
What do you mean?
Well, people will know you don't pay any attention, Matt, but some of these hangers on around the saloon wonder if you did make a deal for that money.
Who cares what they think?
It's bad, Matt. Crocker keeps prodding them. Some of them are beginning to say that Everly might remember where the money is if they had ropes around their necks.
Now, Lynch, Barbara.
Yeah, they're going to have to move fast. I got orders about an hour ago to send the three up to Hayes City in the morning.
Oh, Matt.
Does she know about it?
No.
Just didn't have the heart to tell her.
Mr. Dillon. Mr. Dillon.
What's the matter, Chester?
Miss Kitty sent me to get you.
Oh?
That fellow Crocker's over at the Long Branch. He's got a bunch of the boys all liquored up. They're talking about crashing the jail.
Well, usually the best way to stop that kind of trouble is to break it up before it starts.
Well, that groove is just upstairs right over the head, Mr. Dillon.
Yeah, I know. They hadn't bothered her, have they, Chester?
Well, they hadn't when I left.
All right, you let me handle it. You stay clear and cover my back.
Yes, sir, I will.
All right, come on.
A man that holds a deal like that ought to be running out of town. And you're just the boy to do it.
It's about time somebody took the star off of that tin horned marshal and shoved it down his throat.
And as far as I'm concerned, I...
Go on, Mr. Crocker, you're doing real fine.
There's quite a crew you picked up. All the bums, bar flyers, swindlers, and bushwhackers in Dart City.
Well, your friends don't seem to be as talkative as they were a couple of minutes ago, Mr. Crocker.
Dillon, if I had you in St. Louis for one hour, you'd be in jail, not running.
All right, boys, the party's over. Now move on.
Now, you've got no right to order those men around, Dillon.
I don't hear any of them objecting.
Matt, Matt, she's gone.
What?
Janet's not in the room. She's gone.
Well, where would she go?
I can tell you, Matt, you have a children.
That girl got her dad and brother out and they just left town on their horses.
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Well, you'll get double your money back.
We're getting pretty close to the place where the camp's at that night.
It's right ahead of us there, Chester.
I sure do hope that cut-in storm holds off.
First you know they may not have came back here at all.
Well, then we'll backtrack to cottonwood tanks.
They'll want that gold. It's got to be somewhere between here and the railroad.
Yonder's where the wagon was standing.
Yeah. All right, pull up, Chester. Let's take a look around.
Mr. Jones, look there.
What?
A hole dug in the ground, right where they had the campfire that night.
Yeah.
They buried the gold there, Chester, and built their fire right on top of it.
Get up.
It came from that thicket over there.
I'm going to fire and roll away, maybe draw a shot.
Now, you keep your eyes open.
Sure I will.
It came from the left of that big tree up there.
Yeah, I saw it.
You got him.
Yeah. Come on, Chester.
Everly.
Now, you're covered, Everly. One move and you're finished.
I'm finished anyway.
I'm sorry I had to do it.
No matter what, the young minister ever changed.
They rode on with the money, I suppose.
Let them go, Marshal. It's their money. I had a right.
Maybe, but you had no right to kill.
I didn't aim to, Marshal.
The law has to go by acts, Everly, not intentions.
Storm coming up?
Yeah, it looks that way.
I hope that Youngins finds shelter. Jerry caught cold up there in jail.
Used to worry his mother when he coughed.
She's dead now.
Died back there, back, back.
I guess he paid for it, Mr. Youngins.
Yeah, he paid.
Well, let's try to pick up the trail and the other two before that storm.
Where are they?
Horses. Couple of horses coming in fast.
All right, hold it.
He's died, Marshal. Wait on.
Pa, where is he? We heard the chute and turned around and rode back.
You better get off your horses, both of you.
Tell me, what happened to...
I'm sorry, Janet.
I knew. I knew when he made us ride on ahead that we'd never see him again, alive.
You kids carrying the money?
It's there in my saddlebags.
Get it, will you, Chester?
He thought he was doing the right thing. He thought he was doing it for us.
I know, but he was wrong.
And now there's the two of you that decide about it.
Here's the money, Mr. Young.
Chester, count out a thousand dollars.
Yes, sir.
You know, technically, I guess I ought to take you back to Dodge.
But I figure everybody's got certain rights.
It's my job to try to keep all those rights sorted out and evened up.
All I can do is call on the way I see him.
Chester, give him a thousand dollars.
There you are.
But I don't understand.
Clock her up at a thousand dollars and no questions asked for the return of his money.
Well, you returned it. And there's the reward.
Yes, but...
Now, if you ride north and keep bearing west, you'll eventually hit Wyoming.
I hear it's fine country, plenty of rangeland, homesteads.
The two of you ought to do all right.
And Jerry?
Yes, sir?
You take care of her.
Yes, sir, I will, Mr. Dillon.
I understand what you're doing for us.
Now, go on, you two.
Get out of here before I think it over and change my mind.
Now, go on. Ride.
Thank you, Marshal. Thanks.
Go on.
Goodbye, Mr. Dillon.
Go on, get out of here.
You'd better get a move on, Mr. Dillon. It's starting to rain.
I hope they find the shelter somewhere.
Mr. Dillon, it's starting to rain, Mr. Dillon.
You'd better get a move on.
Switch me on.
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Gunsmoke. Produced and directed by Norman McDonald,
starring William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal.
The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Les Parchfields
with editorial supervision by John Messon.
Featured in the cast were Vic Perrin, Barbara Eiler, Sam Edwards, and Bart Robinson.
Harley Bear is Chester, Howard McNear is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty.
This is George Walsh inviting you to join us again next week
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