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In Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers
and the spoilers, and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of Gun Smoke.
Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, the transcribed story of the violence that moved West with
young America, and the story of a man who moved with it.
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal, the first man they look for and the last they
want to meet.
It's a chancey job, and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
Well, looks like the Kinsmans is at it again, Mr. Dillon.
What?
Jeff Kinsman and his wife standing by their wagon over yonder.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, she's after him about something, isn't she?
I'd clarify, Jeff, I'd leave her at the ranch when I come to town.
Well, she's bigger than he is, just...
By golly, she just about is.
Maybe you lost your pride, Jeff Kinsman, but I sure ain't.
What kind of a man are you, anyway?
But are you sure he done it, Kate?
Of course he done it.
He does it every chance he gets.
You gonna let another man flirt with your wife right in public?
I just wanted to be sure.
There he comes now.
Ask him about it.
I sure would.
What's that good Dolly she's talking about, Mr. Dillon?
Yeah, I guess they're not such good neighbors after all.
Look, he's carrying a rifle.
Yeah, it says sharps of 50.
That looks brand new.
Well, I guess they won't be no trouble, Jeff Kinsman.
Hello, Jeff.
Mrs. Kinsman.
I want to settle something with you, Dolly.
What's wrong, Jeff?
You're to leave my wife alone, you hear?
What?
You stop trying to fool with her.
Jeff, are you going crazy?
You tell her, Mrs. Kinsman.
She done told me.
And I'm warning you, Dolly, you go get your own woman, leave mine be.
I don't know, I like being accused this way.
Put that gun down, I'll learn you to like it.
They gonna fight, Mr. Dillon?
And as long as they aren't gonna shoot each other.
There.
Now what are you gonna do, Kinsman?
I'll show you.
Uh-oh, you got a knife.
You put that knife away, I ain't armed.
All right, hold it, Kinsman.
This is my fight, Marshal.
Not with a knife.
Now drop it.
Go on, drop it.
No.
No, I won't drop it.
But I won't use it on him.
Not till next time I won.
Come on and fight, you coward.
You're a beggar than I am.
I'll fight you any way you like.
I see you bought a new Sharps rifle, Dolly.
Never mind guns, you men settle this some other way.
Sure.
Only he better remember I got a Sharps rifle at home, too.
Now look, Kinsman, are you too, Dolly?
If there's any shooting out your way, I'll know who to come for.
And I won't take any time at all.
Ah, that little coward ain't gonna do nothing.
And I wouldn't put salt on an old crow like her anyway.
Jeff, you hear what he called me?
He called me a coward.
He called you?
By heaven, Jeff, what things are coming to when a woman's got to put up with that?
Sure, sir.
Come on, let's go.
I never heard of a man getting by insulting a lady right in public twice, and each time
he's like, he's no good, that dolliver, and you ain't much better.
I swear she's gonna have them men fighting yet, Mr. Dillon.
That trouble ain't about over.
No, that's the worst kind of trouble, Chester.
You never know who's guilty of what.
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Pour me a little more coffee, will you, man?
Yeah, sure, Kitty.
Thanks.
Is that enough?
It's enough of this restaurant's coffee.
At least it's hot anyway.
Yeah.
Oh, about Ed Dulliver.
Well, all I know is that he's a bachelor and I never yet, so I'm shy away from a pretty
girl.
Yeah.
Kitty, I want to ask you a question.
Would you call Kate Kinsman pretty?
No, she might have been, once.
That woman's lived a hard life, Matt.
Oh?
In fact, it was Ed Dulliver who told me about her.
She was married before, you know.
No, no, I didn't know.
He died of pneumonia or something.
He was a buffalo hunter for the Santa Fe Railroad.
He used to take Kate right along with him, just like she was a man.
And maybe that's why she demands so much respect now.
Matt, I don't think objecting to being called an old crow is exactly demand and respect
for any woman.
What's that?
Oh, it's Chester.
He looks pretty excited about something.
Yeah.
Excuse me, Kitty.
I better go see what he wants.
I'll see you later.
Sure, Matt.
Yeah, what is it, Chester?
I'm sorry.
Miss Kinsman, she's waiting right over there.
What?
Is there something wrong?
You better hear it from her, Mr. Doom.
You come out alone today?
Yes, sir.
Hello, Miss Kinsman.
What can I do for you?
That ain't me, Marshal.
It's my husband.
It's Jeff.
What's the matter?
He's dead.
What?
He was murdered early this morning.
Ed Dolliver done it.
How do you know it was Dolliver?
I'll show you how.
I left Jeff right on the prairie where I found him.
Chester.
Yes, sir?
Go get Doc.
We'll follow Miss Kinsman out to the ranch.
There he is, Marshal.
I ain't touched him.
Just throwed that candy silver in.
Miss Kinsman, how'd you happen to find him out here?
I heard the shot.
I knew Jeff didn't have his rifle with him.
Whoever did it can't be accused of ambushing him.
There's no cover anywhere around here.
You're forgetting Ed Dolliver has a new Sharp's 50-inch, Doc.
Oh, yeah.
Well, it won't shoot over the horizon, will it?
I'll take a look here.
Marshal?
If you take a good look around the way I did, you'll see something.
Huh?
What?
That little clump of switchgrass out there.
A man could hide behind that.
Clear out there?
Why, that's more than a thousand yards.
It ain't too far for a Sharp.
Chester, right over there and take a look, will you?
You can't, what you're doing.
Matt?
Matt.
Yeah, what is it?
There's only one bullet in him.
It's not very far in.
What do you mean?
I hope it was enough to kill him, all right, but it was pretty well spent.
Whoever fired it was a long ways off.
I told you.
What was Jeff doing here, anyways?
He was putting out bait for wolves, Doc.
Poisoning them.
We've been bothered lately.
Where do you want to bury him, Mrs. Ginsman?
Oh, out back at the house.
There's a place he liked.
Well, I guess we can conduct a service or something, son.
Why don't you get Ed Dolliver?
I hear he reads the book real good.
You haven't seen him around, have you, Mrs. Ginsman?
I can tell you right where he is.
Huh?
It's noon, ain't it?
He's sitting on his front porch like he does every day at noon.
He always sits there for an hour, doing nothing.
I see.
I wonder what he's thinking.
What?
I mean about having gone out and killed a man because of me.
Must be working on his mind pretty strong.
Yeah.
But you know something?
It was one or the other of them.
It had come to that.
And all because of me.
Oh, now, you mustn't feel guilty, Mrs. Ginsman.
It wasn't your fault.
Oh, I am guilty, Doc.
Just being a woman-man fight-over just makes me guilty.
How'd you find anything, Chester?
I found this.
I'm laying on the ground right behind that clump of grass.
Oh, what is it?
A shell from Sharps 50?
It don't look good, does it, Marshal?
No, Dolly, it doesn't.
Just one thing might have worked for me.
Oh, what's that?
My new Sharps rifle.
Supposing it hadn't ever been fired.
You could tell, couldn't you?
Easy.
Where is it?
Ain't no use, Marshal.
I was shooting it this morning, trying it out for the first time.
You weren't with anybody, huh?
No.
No, I got no alibi, none at all.
You don't even seem much interested in trying to clear yourself of this dollar.
Well, I figure sometimes if a man raises too big a holler about how innocent he is, it
kind of works to make people think he's guilty.
Yeah, sometimes, maybe.
Can you think of anybody else who might have shot Jeff?
No.
I'm the only one, I guess.
Now, Oliver, I want you to tell me the truth now.
You have any interest in Miss Kensman?
I wouldn't be proud of it.
I can do better in her, Marshal.
A whole lot better.
Yeah, you got a pencil and some paper around here.
What?
I want to write a note to Miss Kensman.
About what?
Well, never mind, just get it for me, will you?
What will you say, Marshal?
Chester.
Yes, sir?
Now, when I get this written, I want you to write over to Miss Kensman's with it.
Sure, but where are you going?
Well, I'm taking Oliver and the Dodge to lock him up, but don't you tell her.
Now, you stay here tonight, and I'll be back by tomorrow morning.
I swear, I don't understand.
You will.
I will.
Later.
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of the L&M Miracle Tip.
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Smokes cleaner.
Draws easier.
So light up, free up.
Let your taste come alive.
Live modern.
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Make today your big red letter day and start to live the modern way.
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I told you to stay away from my window, Chester.
Well, I was only peeking to see if that there Mr. Dover was doing all right out there on
the porch.
Oh, I was, eh?
Oh, yes, sir, he's sitting real quiet, just staring off across the prairie.
Ah, that's good.
Most noon, Mr. Doan.
You getting hungry?
Well, I didn't have no breakfast to speak of hardly, and now that you mention it, I
don't guess I'd mind sitting down to a plate of hot meat and maybe a loaf of sourdough
bread.
See, maybe we could rummage around in his cupboard here some, hm?
We'll eat while we get through here.
Yeah, sure, but when'll that be?
Eh, not too long, if my hunch is right.
And if it ain't?
Yeah, you've been hungry before, haven't you?
Eh, come on over here.
Well, I just can't hardly see nothing out of this little hole.
Yeah, there's a bigger one on your left there.
Oh.
Oh, yeah, I can see fine now.
I got an idea there isn't gonna be much to see anyway.
You can't never tell.
You, uh, sure our horses are out of sight, huh?
I got them tied up back at the house I told you, Mr. Doan.
Yeah, okay.
Hey, look at Mr. Dolliver.
Got him.
Knocked him right off of his chair.
Yeah.
Yeah, you see that puff of smoke out there?
Yeah, that's a good thousand yards.
Well, that's some shooting, but whoever it is is pretty well hid.
Now, we'll wait a minute, then we'll go out back and get our horses.
We're gonna have to ride awful fast.
We'll make it.
Well, what about Mr. Dolliver?
Leave him.
He was hit square.
Come on.
We'll put our horses in the barn here, Chester.
Nobody in sight yet.
Now, let's hurry.
Tie him up in those first two stalls, huh?
All right, sir.
Well, you're clear as black on the inside of a cow in here after that blazing sunshine.
Your eyes will get used to it after a while.
I don't see nobody coming.
She'll be along directly.
I wasn't too sure we'd beat her.
Mr. Doan, what exactly did you tell her in that note you wrote?
Yeah, just that Ed Dolliver had a good alibi.
Who'd you say it was?
A woman.
Yeah, I didn't give a name.
I just said that Dolliver was gonna bring the woman into Dodge tonight and prove it.
Well, I'll be darned.
You keep an eye out here, Chester.
I'm gonna take a look around the barn.
No, you wait, Marshal.
Well...
Stand right where you are.
It's her.
She'll be just back here.
Get your hands off both of you.
I can't see a thing in here.
No use, Miss Kinsman.
You can't shoot both of us.
I said get your hands off.
Well, I'd be...
That Sharps isn't a repeating rifle, you know.
Then what?
That Sharps isn't a repeating rifle, you know.
Then I'll shoot you, Marshal.
And Chester'll take you if you do.
I heard what you told him.
Them lies you wrote.
I had to trick you out somehow.
You can't prove I did nothing.
No, you proved it.
Ed Dolliver's a while ago.
That's pretty good shooting at a thousand yards, Miss Kinsman.
Ha!
Too good for a woman, Marshal.
There ain't nobody to believe you.
I didn't believe it myself when we looked at Jeff yesterday.
That was quite some shooting, too.
Get out of here and leave me alone.
I remembered something late, Miss Kinsman.
What?
How your first husband took you out buffalo hunting with him.
Yeah, you can shoot all right.
As good as any man.
These rifles aim right at your chest, Marshal.
You know, Miss Kinsman, I feel kind of sorry for you.
Sorry?
You liked men fighting over you.
You needed for them, too.
You needed it so bad you told Jeff lies about Ed Dolliver.
About Ed too?
Oh, yes, it is.
You just had to have a man kill over you.
But you knew Dolliver wasn't interested, so you shot Jeff yourself.
That way at least people didn't think they were fighting over you.
No.
Yeah, my note about Dolliver's alibi being a woman destroyed all that, didn't it?
You just couldn't take that.
Marshal.
Here, give me your rifle.
I'm glad I killed him.
Yeah, but you didn't kill him.
What?
I sent Dolliver to dodge for a day or so.
What you shot was a couple of grain bags dressed in his clothes.
No.
Yeah, that's true.
No.
I hated Jeff, but I hated Dolliver even worse now.
Like I say, Miss Gensmen, I'm sorry for you.
Jeff was a good man.
Now there's nobody to fight for you.
In a moment, our star, William Conrad.
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And now William Conrad.
You know, on the frontier it was usually land or water that we're fought and died for.
But next week, a man dies because of a clabbered building.
And that was the West.
Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman MacDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon,
U.S. Marshal.
Our story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston, with music composed and conducted
by Rex Corey.
Sound patterns by Tom Hanley and Bill James.
Featured in the cast were Jeanette Nolan, Harry Bartel, and Paul Duvall.
Harley Bear is Chester, Howard McNair is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty.
Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal,
starts to bring law and order out of the wild violence of the West in Gunsmoke.