Cisco Kid 52-10-14 025 The Innocent Rustler

Summary

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Harold’s Old Time Radio

Cisco Kid: “The Innocent Rustler” (October 14, 1952) – Podcast Recap

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Episode Overview

This episode revives a classic Western tale from the golden age of radio—The Cisco Kid—focusing on "The Innocent Rustler." In this adventure, the Cisco Kid and his sidekick Pancho come to the aid of John Perry, a man recently released from prison after being framed for cattle rustling. The story explores themes of justice, redemption, and frontier law, set against a backdrop of betrayal and vengeance in the Old West.

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Key Discussion Points & Plot Breakdown

1. Setting Up the Adventure & Introducing Characters

• [01:26] Narrator outlines the main conflict: John Perry returns to his land after serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. Old animosities flare up, especially due to Perry’s former neighbors, Ace Hansen and his foreman, Gil Tallman, who were responsible for his false conviction.
• The Cisco Kid and Pancho are introduced traveling to Silver City, craving adventure and embodying the spirit of roaming heroes.

2. Encounter with Violence

• [03:02] Cisco and Pancho stumble upon Ace and Gil violently confronting John Perry. Cisco intercedes:
  • Cisco Kid (03:23): “You are taking an unfair advantage.”
  • A brief but intense fight follows, ending with Cisco and Pancho rescuing Perry.

3. Revealing the Frame-Up

• [05:01] John Perry explains his plight:
  • John Perry (05:09): “What they don't know is that I was framed.”
  • He recounts how Ace and Gil planted evidence and manipulated the law to convict him.

4. Tensions Build in Silver City

• [06:17] Ace and Gil warn the sheriff that Perry, accompanied by "dangerous" friends (Cisco and Pancho), might cause trouble—setting up Perry as a scapegoat.
  • Ace also reveals intentions to marry Perry's daughter, Alice, and take over Perry's land.

5. Family Reunion & Doubt

• [07:50] Cisco and Pancho escort Perry home and meet his daughter, Alice.
  • Alice is torn between her father and Ace, whom she has found helpful in her father's absence.
  • John Perry (10:09): “Alice, you know why I was sent to jail. And you know it was Ace Hansen that framed me.”

6. Scheming and an Attempted Murder

• [11:48] Ace and Gil plot to permanently get rid of John Perry, seeing his return as a threat to their ambitions.

• [12:22] Perry confronts Ace and Gil, demanding they stay away from his daughter—only to be ambushed and restrained.

  • Ace Hansen (13:13): “With one end of a rope around your neck and the other end around the pommel of my saddle. We'll see how long you can keep running behind my horse.” (A chilling description of planned frontier justice.)

7. Cisco and Pancho to the Rescue

• [15:27] Sensing trouble, Cisco and Pancho race back to the Perry ranch.

• [16:08] Alice reveals her father went to confront Ace.

• The duo tracks Perry just as Ace and Gil nearly kill him by dragging him with a rope.

  • [17:51] Cisco Kid (17:53): "How you shot this, Cisco? My new rope."
  • [18:06] Cisco Kid (18:06): “I would like to give him a taste of his own medicine.”

8. The Showdown and Exposing the Villains

• [19:02] Ace and Gil try to twist the story when the sheriff arrives, accusing Cisco of violence.

• A clever ruse by Cisco fakes Perry’s death, tricking Ace and Gil into revealing incriminating details.

  • Cisco Kid (22:13): “Now, senora, it will cause you a little discomfort for a few minutes. The rope is again around your neck now, senor.”
  • John Perry (23:42): “Ace Hansen. Gil Tolman. I'll get justice if I have to follow you all the rest of it.” (Perry “comes back to life,” shocking the villains and the lawmen.)

9. Resolution and Justice Restored

• [24:27] The villains are arrested, Perry’s innocence becomes clear, and Alice’s trust is restored.

  • Cisco Kid (24:41): “Perhaps, Senorita Alice, you have learned something tonight of the ways of the world.”

• [25:23] Perry, now vindicated, discusses justice with Cisco and Pancho.

  • Cisco Kid (25:23): “They're going to the territorial prison. For a long time they were tried before a judge and jury and sentenced.”

• [25:48] Pancho (25:48): Jokes about the number 13 (the size of a judge and jury), adding a lighter postscript.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Action & Justice:

  • Cisco Kid (03:23): “You are taking an unfair advantage.”
  • Ace Hansen (13:13): “With one end of a rope around your neck and the other end around the pommel of my saddle. We'll see how long you can keep running behind my horse.”
  • Cisco Kid (22:13): “The rope is again around your neck now, senor.”
  • John Perry (23:42): “Ace Hansen. Gil Tolman. I'll get justice if I have to follow you all the rest of it.”

• On the Human Condition:

  • John Perry (05:46): “All I want is to live peaceable and get back my good name. Four years in prison is a long time to spend for something that you didn't do.”

• Lighthearted Finale:

  • Pancho (25:48): “No wonder so many people go to the jail.”
  • Cisco Kid (26:08): “Oh, Poncho.”

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Key Timestamps

• [01:26] — Narrator sets up the story of John Perry’s wrongful conviction.
• [03:02] — Cisco and Pancho intervene in a beating.
• [05:01] — Perry reveals his frame-up.
• [12:22] — Perry confronts Ace and Gil at their ranch.
• [13:13] — Ace describes their plan to murder Perry.
• [15:27] — Cisco and Pancho realize Perry is in danger.
• [17:53] — Cisco and Pancho save Perry from being killed.
• [19:02] — Confrontation with the sheriff and tricking Ace and Gil.
• [23:42] — Perry “returns” to incriminate his would-be murderers.
• [25:23] — Epilogue on justice and the jury system.

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Tone & Style Summary

This episode encapsulates the straightforward morality and adventurous spirit of golden-age radio westerns, leaning into dramatic showdowns, clear distinctions between right and wrong, and a sprinkle of humor at the end. The Cisco Kid is both charming and principled, while Pancho adds warmth and comic relief. Dialogue is authentic to the period, full of homespun wisdom, code-switching between Spanish and English, and the larger-than-life persona of the American West.

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For Fans of Classic Radio:
This episode is a compact showcase of the high drama and moral clarity that made The Cisco Kid a favorite, with action, suspense, and the enduring theme of justice prevailing over deception.

Transcript

[Cisco Kid]

Limu.

[John Perry]

Emu and Doug Limu and I always.

[Ace Hansen]

Tell you to customize your car insurance and save hundreds with Liberty Mutual. But now we want you to feel it.

[John Perry]

Cue the Emu music. Limu.

[Alice Perry]

Save yourself money today.

[Ace Hansen]

Increase your wealth.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Customize and save.

[Alice Perry]

We save.

[Ace Hansen]

That may have been too much feeling.

[Cisco Kid]

Only pay for what you [e-mail] Liberty.

[John Perry]

Liberty. Liberty. Liberty.

[Cisco Kid]

Savings vary underwritten by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and affiliates. Excludes Massachusetts. Here's adventure. Here's romance.

[Narrator]

Here's the famous Robin Hood of the Old West.

[Pancho]

Cisco the sheriff. He is getting closer this way.

[Ace Hansen]

Pancho Pomelo, the Cisco Kid.

[Narrator]

And now, another exciting adventure of the Cisco Kid. When a man serves a prison term for a crime he didn't commit, is he justified in seeking revenge against those whose perjured testimony convicted him? The law says no, unless he's able to prove his case through the established courts. But in the days of the Old west, men took the law into their own hands and made their own justice. This is the story of a man who had every reason to avenge the wrong that had been done him, but who returned from prison with a determination to live peaceably. A determination that was to almost make him lose his life if the Cisco Kid hadn't stepped in to help.

[Pancho]

Cisco.

[Cisco Kid]

Si, Pancho?

[Pancho]

Why is this we always riding?

[Cisco Kid]

Oh, because we like to ride, do we not, amigo? Today we're riding to Silver City because I have to buy a new lariero.

[Pancho]

See this? Pancho know riding all right. Pancho think. But other people's got places where they live and sleep and eat all the time.

[Cisco Kid]

Eat all the time, Ameco.

[Pancho]

That's not what Pancho mean. But it's not a bad idea that.

[Cisco Kid]

I know what you mean, Pancho. We ride, amigo, because of adventure in my blood. A great urging to travel to far places.

[Pancho]

Cisco speak many words. What do you mean?

[Cisco Kid]

Huh?

[Pancho]

Pancho has got that feeling, I guess.

[Cisco Kid]

Pancho. I have that feeling because my family came to America from far across the sea. They're among the first to settle and explore this part of the country.

[Pancho]

So we still go on like what.

[Cisco Kid]

You say, huh, Jimmy? We too, are perhaps explorers. Who knows? Right around this bend of the trail, there may be new adventures.

[Pancho]

The trail not so steep now. Cisco, look. Hey there. Huh? There's something bad happening, Pancho.

[Cisco Kid]

Thing. Two men on horses are talking to a man on foot.

[Pancho]

They get off the horse. Cisco, look. They hit that sailor.

[Cisco Kid]

No, both of them start to beat him. Come, Pancho.

[Pancho]

Oh, this is not our fight. Cisco.

[Cisco Kid]

Ah, that we will find out after.

[Pancho]

Go to the fight.

[Ace Hansen]

Go on now. Go now.

[Cisco Kid]

You are taking an unfair advantage.

[Ace Hansen]

Look, mister, this is a private fight. Stay out of it.

[Cisco Kid]

Then why do you not fight fairly? One man against one man.

[Ace Hansen]

None of your business how we fight. Now get going and leave us alone.

[Cisco Kid]

Perhaps this becomes our business.

[Ace Hansen]

Hey, where you are First?

[Cisco Kid]

I would ask the senor on the ground a question.

[Ace Hansen]

You won't ask no questions, hombre. On your way.

[Cisco Kid]

We will leave when we wish.

[Ace Hansen]

Well, how do you like that? Come on, Gil. We'll settle this right now.

[Pancho]

This will be easy.

[Cisco Kid]

You think so, hombre?

[Pancho]

And I take this one. She's got bigger.

[Ace Hansen]

Maybe this gun will settle things quicker.

[Cisco Kid]

Maybe that gun will not have a chance to you.

[Ace Hansen]

He took my gun, Gil.

[Pancho]

I won't get mine. Poncho thing different way.

[Cisco Kid]

Now, Poncho. Now one more. All right, all right. You've had enough, eh? Very well.

[Ace Hansen]

We've had enough for now. But you ain't heard the last of this. Get out of here and stay away.

[Pancho]

Face and Gil.

[Ace Hansen]

Yeah, Perry.

[John Perry]

And don't forget, you two ain't heard the last of this neither.

[Ace Hansen]

Good thing for you, Perry, these two come along. But we're warning you again. Get out of here. I ain't figurin on having a jailbird for a neighbor. Yeah.

[Cisco Kid]

You all hurt, senor?

[John Perry]

No, not bad. Thanks to you two. I'm John Perry.

[Cisco Kid]

I'm the Cisco Kid. And this is me compenero Pancho.

[John Perry]

Howdy.

[Pancho]

Glad to know you.

[Cisco Kid]

Say, you Perry's Perry? Are you ill? You seem to be quite pale.

[John Perry]

No, Cisco, I ain't ill. Guess my face looks white because I've been in prison.

[Cisco Kid]

I wonder what those two meant by jailbird.

[John Perry]

Well, folks here about know that I've been in prison. Most of them don't know why, though. They. What they don't know is that I was framed.

[Cisco Kid]

This crime you went to prison for, senora, may I ask what it was?

[John Perry]

Sure, sis. Go cattle rustling. Come out here and bought me some land. Figured to raise cattle. Neighbors of mine. Them two you just met, Ace Hanson and his foreman, Gil Tallman, sent me warning. Didn't want me on that land.

[Cisco Kid]

But you did not take that warning, eh, senor?

[John Perry]

No, Cisco. I went right on ahead. Before I got rightly started, though, they planted some of their cattle on my land and done a crude job of brand changing. And accused me and had me sent to prison.

[Pancho]

Pancho think those are two very bad men. The zombre.

[Cisco Kid]

Si, Pancho. I think they Will cause you trouble, senor.

[John Perry]

Well, I ain't afeard of them. All I want is to live peaceable and get back my good name. Four years in prison is a long time to spend for something that you didn't do.

[Cisco Kid]

See? See, senor? It is. Come. Pancho and I will see that you get home safely.

[Ace Hansen]

Howdy, Sheriff. Howdy, Ace. Howdy, Gil. Howdy. Come in. Come in. Set a spell you can't stop, Sheriff. Me and Gil's on our way back to the ranch. Just come by to give you a warning.

[Cisco Kid]

Warning?

[Ace Hansen]

What about John? Perry's out of jail. He's back home and threatening trouble. I knew he was due to get out right soon.

[John Perry]

He's got a couple of tough hands with him, too. Met up with him a while back.

[Ace Hansen]

Yeah?

[Cisco Kid]

Who are they?

[John Perry]

Don't rightly know their names, but I heard them called Cisco and Poncho.

[Ace Hansen]

Hmm. That'd be the Cisco Kid and his sidekick, most likely. Yeah, Must be Perry's out to start something. That's why we come to you. If there's any trouble, you'll know who's to blame. Yeah, of course, Ace. Lot of folks hereabout ain't never believed Perry was guilty of that cattle rustling charge. Perry's daughter, Ellis, now, she's talked right some about her dad being framed. Yeah, I know, Sheriff. But I think Perry will have a hard time convincing even his own daughter that he's innocent now. What do you mean, now, Miss Alice? Perry's soon gonna be Mrs. Ace Hansen. Like to have you at the wedding, Sheriff. Sure, sure, Ace. Glad to attend. You ain't making any charges against Perry about this fracas, are you? Oh, not now I ain't, Sheriff. I'm a peaceable man. I want to avoid trouble.

[John Perry]

It sure is mighty helpful of you two to bring me home this way.

[Cisco Kid]

Glad we could be of service, Senor Perry.

[John Perry]

I want you to come in and meet my daughter, Alice.

[Cisco Kid]

Well, we will stop for just a moment, senor. Then we must be on our way.

[Pancho]

Dad.

[Alice Perry]

Oh, dad, you're home.

[John Perry]

Sure, Alice, I'm home. I'm glad to be here, too.

[Alice Perry]

Oh, and I'm so glad to have you back, Alice.

[John Perry]

This year's a Cisco Kid and Poncho.

[Alice Perry]

Oh, well, how do you do?

[Cisco Kid]

Buenas dias, senorita.

[Pancho]

Buenas dias, senorita.

[John Perry]

These two friends just happened along. It's a good thing, too. Ace Hansen and his foreman, Gil Tolman jumped me back a p. Ace jumped you?

[Alice Perry]

Oh, I can't believe that, dad. Well, he told me he'd ride to meet you and bring you home.

[John Perry]

He met me, all right. And if Cisco and Pancho hadn't come along, I guess I wouldn't have never got home.

[Cisco Kid]

Those two Senorita Alice, that Ace and Gil, have they caused you trouble while your father was away?

[Alice Perry]

They haven't made any threats, if that's what you mean. As a matter of fact, Ace has been very kind to me.

[Cisco Kid]

This seems strange, Senor Perry.

[John Perry]

To me too, Cisco. Well, I guess everything will be all right now. Come on in the house.

[Cisco Kid]

No, no, no. Senor Pancho and I will be on our way. We have to go into town and then we have far to ride.

[Alice Perry]

Won't you stop back and see us? We'd love to have you.

[Cisco Kid]

Perhaps we will, Senor Italis. Someday soon.

[Alice Perry]

I hope you'll always be sure of a welcome, Cisco.

[John Perry]

Si.

[Cisco Kid]

Si. Well, adios, Senor Perry. Senoritales. Sure. Be careful. Come, Pancho.

[Ace Hansen]

Go now. Go now, go.

[Pancho]

Why we not stop at Senor Pere's house?

[Cisco Kid]

Isco Senior? Perry and his daughter would wish to be alone, Pancho. They have much to talk about.

[Pancho]

Pancho. Think they maybe got more to talk about soon.

[Cisco Kid]

Si, amigo. I think that too. Well, we will go back there much sooner than I let Senor Perry to believe.

[Ace Hansen]

Why?

[Pancho]

Why? Why?

[Cisco Kid]

Why? There will be great trouble there, Pancho. Senor Perry and his daughter will need our help. Dad?

[John Perry]

Yes, Alice?

[Alice Perry]

Did you do anything to provoke Ace when he met you? I can't see why he would try to hurt you without a cause.

[John Perry]

He told me to stay away and not to try to come home. Said he didn't want no jailbird for a neighbor.

[Alice Perry]

That seems like a strange thing. Ace has been acting real sweet to me since you've been gone.

[John Perry]

Now, I don't like that one bit. Alice, you know why I was sent to jail. And you know it was Ace Hansen that framed me.

[Alice Perry]

Well, yes, dad. I've always thought so. Until Ace showed me that it must have been you who stole his cattle. Oh, but I. I don't believe him, dad. Really, I don't.

[John Perry]

Now, look a here, Alice. You going sweet on that no good tomcat?

[Alice Perry]

Oh, Dad, I. I don't know what to say.

[John Perry]

Well, by thunder, I know what to say. And I'm going to say it to Ace.

[Cisco Kid]

Hanse.

[John Perry]

Anything else you need now?

[Cisco Kid]

No, no, senor. These hard twist rope is on. Here's your money.

[Narrator]

Thank you. Call again.

[Cisco Kid]

Gracias. Come, Pancho. One minute, you two.

[Ace Hansen]

I take it you're the Cisco Kid, ain't you see?

[Cisco Kid]

That is right, senor. You, on notice are the sheriff charged.

[Ace Hansen]

With keeping the peace around here.

[Cisco Kid]

That is a very worthy calling, senor.

[Pancho]

See? A very worthy calling, senor.

[Ace Hansen]

That's what I want to warn you about. Cisco here, you're teamed up with John Perry and you're here to cause trouble.

[Cisco Kid]

There will be no trouble caused by us, Senor Sheriff. If trouble comes our way, then of course, we shall not try to avoid it.

[Ace Hansen]

I think I would if I was you. What you doing with that new coil of rope?

[Pancho]

Not telling.

[Cisco Kid]

Juan has to replace his rope occasionally, senor. I paid for it.

[Ace Hansen]

I better get out of town. I'd hate to have to run you two in, Pancho.

[Cisco Kid]

And I would hate it even more than you, Senor Sheriff. But I think we will be around Silver City for a few days.

[Ace Hansen]

And Gil.

[Pancho]

Yes?

[Ace Hansen]

Getting old man Perry out of the way'll fix things the way I want.

[Cisco Kid]

Em.

[Ace Hansen]

That land of his will come in right handy.

[Pancho]

Don't see why getting rid of Perry'll.

[Ace Hansen]

Get you the land. He made a will when he went to prison leaving everything to Alice, didn't he? So if anything happens to him, I get Alice in the land, too. You ain't forgetting this Cisco Kid in poncho, are you? Nope. I'd like to settle up a score with them two. Well, look who's walking right up to the house. Perry himself. Playing right into our hands.

[John Perry]

Come to see you. Ace and I want to talk a few things over.

[Ace Hansen]

I might wait till you're invited. Instead of walking into a man's house.

[John Perry]

This way, I'll walk in where I please. And what's more, I'm warning you, Stand. Stay away from my daughter.

[Ace Hansen]

You hear that, Gil? He's warning me to stay away from Alice. Why you? You ain't gonna be around to know anything about it.

[John Perry]

I'll be around, all right.

[Ace Hansen]

But not for long. Ace, he's saying his last words right about now.

[John Perry]

Yeah, well, we'll see about that.

[Ace Hansen]

Take him. Yield.

[Pancho]

Ain't hardly nothing to it, Ace.

[John Perry]

Maybe not, but they will be.

[Pancho]

Don't pull no gun now. I'm a faster shot, Perry.

[Ace Hansen]

That ain't the way we're gonna do this, Gil. No shooting.

[John Perry]

Going to club me to death, are you?

[Ace Hansen]

No, Perry. Not that either.

[John Perry]

Well, you're two to one. Ain't much I can do about it.

[Ace Hansen]

There sure ain't, Perry. But Gill and me's gonna have some fun. You're gonna get your neck stretched, Perry.

[John Perry]

Tried your best to get me hung once before.

[Cisco Kid]

Didn't you?

[John Perry]

Now you're going to do it yourself.

[Ace Hansen]

No, Perry, we're not. This is going to be different.

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[Ace Hansen]

No tree limbs for a rope to go over, but it'll be just as effective. Tie his hands behind his back.

[John Perry]

Gil.

[Pancho]

Yeah, Ace. Oh, still you.

[Ace Hansen]

And we're gonna take you out on the range and see how good a runner you are.

[John Perry]

Oh, no, no, Ace, you can't do that.

[Ace Hansen]

Oh, no. With one end of a rope around your neck and the other end around the pommel of my saddle. We'll see how long you can keep running behind my horse.

[Narrator]

In just a moment, we'll continue with our thrilling story of the Cisco Kid. And now back to the Cisco Kid. When John Perry called on Ace Hansen and Gil Tolman, he walked right into a trap. A cruel plan to kill him by dragging him at the end of a rope tied to a saddle. Meanwhile, Cisco and Pancho have decided to pay a return visit to the Perry ranch. Cutting across open range to save time.

[Pancho]

Why'd you change your mind, Cisco? Why we come back this way.

[Cisco Kid]

We stop again at Senor Perry's rancho. I'm afraid for his life that Ace is a killer. He is almost insane. Come, Pancho. Faster.

[Pancho]

You're sure it's not the seas you worry about?

[Cisco Kid]

No, no, no. Pancho is the father. There is the rancho ahead.

[Pancho]

Bunch of things. Say, you're very at home. There a light in your house.

[Cisco Kid]

Ah, see, amigor, that is a good sign. Soon this moon will make everything bright outside too.

[Pancho]

And suppose those two Ace and kill at the house is called?

[Cisco Kid]

I do not think they will be there yet. Pancho here raining.

[John Perry]

Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Raining.

[Pancho]

Logo rolling.

[Cisco Kid]

See you, Perry. Who's there? He's I the Cisco Kid.

[Pancho]

I too, Pancho.

[Alice Perry]

Oh, I'm glad you came back, Cisco.

[Cisco Kid]

Senator Alice. Is your father here?

[Alice Perry]

No, he isn't, Cisco. He went over to Ace Hansen.

[Cisco Kid]

As I feared. How long has he been gone?

[Alice Perry]

About an hour.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Why?

[Alice Perry]

Do you think something's wrong?

[Cisco Kid]

There may be Much that is wrong, senorita. I do not trust that Ace Hansen.

[Alice Perry]

Neither does Father. But I don't understand why Ace would want to harm him. Ace has been very nice to me.

[Cisco Kid]

I think, senorita, you are not quite aware of the ways of the world. Come, Pancho.

[Alice Perry]

Wait. You worry me, Cisco.

[Cisco Kid]

Are you sure it is regrettable that you are not worried sooner? Then perhaps this would never have happened.

[Narrator]

Happened?

[Pancho]

What do you mean?

[Cisco Kid]

I mean that you may never see your father alive again.

[Alice Perry]

Oh, no.

[Ace Hansen]

Now we start all over again. Perry, get him to his feet again. Gil.

[Cisco Kid]

Yeah.

[Pancho]

Ace.

[Ace Hansen]

Ace.

[John Perry]

Ace, you can't do this. It ain't human. Why don't you shoot me and get it done with?

[Ace Hansen]

Shooting is much too painless, Perry. I like this way much better. The news all right, Gil?

[Cisco Kid]

Sure.

[Ace Hansen]

He's getting tired, Ace. Not too tired to run, I bet. Giddy up, horse.

[Cisco Kid]

Ace, I'll do anything. Don't torture me this way.

[Ace Hansen]

There's only one thing I wish, Perry. That the Cisco Kid was here with you with the same rope around his neck. Didn't get to do much running in jail, did you?

[Pancho]

Stop. Stop.

[Ace Hansen]

We'll be stopping for good tune. Stretch those legs, Perry, before your neck gets stretched.

[Pancho]

He's running real good, Ace, for a.

[Ace Hansen]

Man whose hands are tied behind his back. Let's see him run now, Pete.

[Cisco Kid]

Flip base.

[Pancho]

You gonna stop again?

[Ace Hansen]

Not this time, Gil.

[Pancho]

Yup, yup, yup. Pancho.

[Cisco Kid]

Quick eye. Stay and parry.

[Pancho]

How you shot this, Cisco? My new rope.

[Cisco Kid]

The wide swing. The load falls around the edge of the neck. Hold the Abbo. Get this on your Perry quickly, Poncho.

[Pancho]

I do, Cisco. As you pull that Ace ombre, see?

[Cisco Kid]

I would like to give him a taste of his own medicine.

[Pancho]

No, no yet.

[Cisco Kid]

Bad aim, hombre. Keep the rope tight.

[Pancho]

Yellow saddle rifle.

[Cisco Kid]

Finish these quickly, Aubrey.

[Pancho]

Oh, yeah. How about this?

[Cisco Kid]

Why don't you take care of Sir Mary?

[Pancho]

Diablo must stop until she spot him. Diablo stop now. I bet he get after that, eh, sombre? You had enough? Yeah, yeah.

[Cisco Kid]

Hold off, will you? I certainly will. I want you in good show to the sheriff, Pancho.

[Pancho]

Cisco, I got this one.

[Cisco Kid]

Bueno. I take one of their horses and help Senor Perry Tomorrow ride with him back to his rancho.

[Pancho]

Senor Perry in a very bad shape, Cisco.

[John Perry]

I'll be all right in a minute.

[Cisco Kid]

Help you get Ace and Gill on Gil's horse here.

[Ace Hansen]

Where are you taking us?

[Cisco Kid]

To the sheriff.

[Ace Hansen]

That's a good one. You think the sheriff's gonna believe you?

[Cisco Kid]

This is evidence that he would believe.

[Ace Hansen]

He Believed evidence before and sent John Perry to prison.

[Cisco Kid]

This would have been more than prison if I had not come along. You ready, Poncho? Tie them up.

[Pancho]

They ready, Cisco? They all tie up.

[Cisco Kid]

Well, I'll see you at Senor Perry's rancho up there. Over here.

[Ace Hansen]

Just stopped out, Miss Alice, to see your father. Heard he's got a couple of bad gents with him and he's planning to cause trouble.

[Alice Perry]

Oh, I don't know, sheriff. Everything's so mixed up. Father went over to Ace Hansen's and Cisco and Pancho went after him.

[Ace Hansen]

I'm afraid sheriff brought some deputies along with me. I guess we'll just be riding over to Hanson's and see what's up.

[Cisco Kid]

Come on, man. You would be. Well, you too, if you save your talk until we get to the sheriff.

[Ace Hansen]

We got plenty of talk saved up for them too. I'll talk and talk fast, even if I have got a sore throat.

[Cisco Kid]

I think you will. Now square things with Senor Perry.

[Ace Hansen]

We'll square things with you, Cisco, for butting in where you're not wanted.

[Cisco Kid]

I think I was greatly wanted by Senor Perry. Perhaps, too, I have saved you from a murder charge.

[Ace Hansen]

Hey, this Piptor here thinks the sheriff's gonna take his word against ours. Here comes the sheriff and his men now.

[Cisco Kid]

We'll find out.

[Ace Hansen]

All right, you, what's going on here? Howdy, sheriff. Glad you come by. Cisco here like to kill us.

[Cisco Kid]

That is not true, Senor Sheriff. But they almost killed my friend John Perry.

[Ace Hansen]

Yeah, Looks like you got these two pretty well trussed up. What happened, Ace? Well, this Cisco come by our place with Perry and that other one, Poncho. It was three to two and we couldn't fight him. Look here, sheriff, this rope's still around my neck. This Cisco kid here was fixing to hang us. You're right, Ace. I saw this fell in town today buying that very same rope.

[Cisco Kid]

All right, you. You are wrong, sheriff.

[Ace Hansen]

Wrong am I? Cover him in. Come on, Cisco. You're my prisoner.

[Cisco Kid]

That is open to discussion, Senior sheriff. Halt. Halt.

[Pancho]

After him, man. Your father very sick, saying he read those two, Ace and Gill almost kill him. Why they do this, you think?

[Alice Perry]

I don't know, Pancho? Father always accused Ace of framing him and sending him to prison.

[John Perry]

He did too, Alice. I just need time to get the proof. But don't look like they're gonna give me time.

[Pancho]

That a very bad thing they do tonight, Pancho?

[John Perry]

Think I heard about things like that. But I didn't never expect to see you or be on the end of the road.

[Alice Perry]

Dad, listen. Someone's coming.

[Pancho]

Neither worry, Cisco.

[Cisco Kid]

Senor Perry. Senor Dallas.

[Pancho]

You in a very big hurry, Cisco? Pancho. See, Pancho?

[John Perry]

I am.

[Cisco Kid]

How are you feeling, Senor Perry?

[John Perry]

Oh, outside my neck being awful sore.

[Pancho]

I feel pretty good.

[John Perry]

Pancho and Alice bandaged me.

[Cisco Kid]

Remove the bandages from his neck, Pancho.

[Alice Perry]

Well, that's crazy.

[Narrator]

Do as I say.

[Ace Hansen]

Quickly, Pancho.

[Pancho]

See, amigo, where is the rope that.

[Cisco Kid]

Was around Senor Perry's neck? Ace Hansen's rope on a chair over. Bueno. Now, senora, it will cause you a little discomfort for a few minutes. The rope is again around your neck now, senor. Lie down again. Senorita?

[Alice Perry]

Yes?

[Cisco Kid]

A blanket, please.

[Alice Perry]

Oh, here.

[Cisco Kid]

Gracias. We'll cover you, senor. The rope too. Pull the blanket up around your chin there, senorita. Sit in his chair by the bed. Hey, Pancho.

[Pancho]

Qui compadre?

[Cisco Kid]

Stand by the foot of the bed, quickly. Keep very still, Senor Perry. Now blanket up over your head there.

[Ace Hansen]

All right, you get your hands high. Trying to escape, Poyge?

[Cisco Kid]

No, no, senor. Sheriff, I came to offer sympathy to Senorita Alice. Her father, Senor. Look.

[Ace Hansen]

Well, now, better take your hats off, men. John Perry was a jailbird. But this here is a courtesy we gotta show. You had it coming to him, if you ask me, sheriff.

[Cisco Kid]

No one was asking you. But maybe you would like to tell us how it happened. Me?

[Ace Hansen]

I ain't got nothing to tell. No, Cisco. I think you're the one can tell us how it happened. I'm arresting you now for murder.

[Cisco Kid]

As you will, senior sheriff. But first you need evidence, do you not? Plenty evidence.

[Ace Hansen]

Perry's corpse a lying there. Yeah, and if you look, sheriff, you'll.

[Pancho]

Probably find his neck stretched and broke.

[Cisco Kid]

His neck, senor. How would you know this?

[Ace Hansen]

Gil's just guessing. Ain't you, Gil?

[Cisco Kid]

Guessing? Where's your saddle rope, Ace Hanson?

[Ace Hansen]

Why, on my horse. Well, sure, a horse usually is and.

[Cisco Kid]

Is much nearer, I believe. Sheriff, look, I removed the blanket from Senor Perry.

[Ace Hansen]

The rope still around his neck. That don't prove nothing. Don't prove it's my rope.

[Cisco Kid]

No one mentioned that neither. Did they mention that you would profit.

[Ace Hansen]

By Senor Perry's death, Sheriff, this hombre is just delaying justice. Ace, the corpse, its eyes are moving. It's gonna speak.

[John Perry]

Ace Hansen. Gil Tolman. I'll get justice if I have to follow you all the rest of it.

[Pancho]

No, Ace, he's talking.

[Ace Hansen]

Don't be a fool.

[Cisco Kid]

Your lips speak the truth, Ace. The truth that will haunt you.

[Ace Hansen]

Oh, no, they don't. Nothing's gonna haunt you.

[Cisco Kid]

Even the way you sent John Perry to prison.

[Pancho]

Come on, Ace.

[Cisco Kid]

Even your plan to marry Senorita Alice after Senor Perry's will left everything to her when he died.

[Ace Hansen]

Mary Alice.

[Narrator]

Huh?

[Ace Hansen]

Look, this is crazy. Wait a minute. You told me that yourself. Ace invited me to your wedding. Yeah, yeah, so I did, Sheriff, but. Well, there ain't gonna be no. Just go.

[Pancho]

That one got a gun. I'm gonna use it too. I'm at court anyway, I swear.

[Ace Hansen]

But nobody, Sheriff, in the name of the law, until after you stop some lamps again.

[Cisco Kid]

Your aim is bad over it.

[Ace Hansen]

And you ain't getting away with this.

[Cisco Kid]

If you wish more, I will be glad to have.

[Ace Hansen]

Good work, Cisco. Now you come on. Get going. We can't fight all of you. Thanks, Cisco. I guess you saved my life.

[John Perry]

And you saved my life too, Sheriff. You saved Alice here from making a big mistake.

[Cisco Kid]

Perhaps, Senorita Alice, you have learned something tonight of the ways of the world.

[Ace Hansen]

Yes.

[Alice Perry]

Yes, Cisco, I. I think I.

[Pancho]

Cisco.

[Cisco Kid]

Si, Pancho?

[Pancho]

Those two, Ace and Gill, they make a very bad plan to kill CEO Perry.

[Cisco Kid]

Pancho, they almost had him, too. They're very cruel men.

[Pancho]

And they not cause any more troubles now. Ay, Cisco.

[Ace Hansen]

No, no.

[Cisco Kid]

They're going to the territorial prison. For a long time they were tried before a judge and jury unsentanced.

[Pancho]

This judge and the jury system.

[Ace Hansen]

Who they?

[John Perry]

Who they?

[Ace Hansen]

Huh?

[Cisco Kid]

Oh, people who hear the evidence and then decide the fate of the prisoners. 12 men on the jury and one judge.

[Pancho]

12 and one acute. How many that add up to?

[Cisco Kid]

Oh, it's very simple, Pancho. 12 and 1 add up to 13, Padre.

[Pancho]

No wonder so many people go to the jail.

[Cisco Kid]

What do you mean, Pancho?

[Pancho]

This, George and the jury. What? Send Peebles to the prison, Pancho not like to be tried by them.

[Cisco Kid]

Oh, if you were not guilty, Poncho, you would have nothing to fear.

[Pancho]

Poncho not so sure, Cisco. Why not, Amigo Poncho always here. This toy is a very unlucky number.

[Ace Hansen]

Oh, Poncho.

[Pancho]

Oh, she's home.

[Narrator]

And so ends another exciting adventure with O. Henry's famous Robin Hood of the.

[Ace Hansen]

West, the Cisco Kid.

[Narrator]

Be sure to listen again for another thrilling adventure of the Cisco Kid. Cisco Kid was played by Jack Mather, Poncho by Harry.

[Ace Hansen]

Language.

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