A Medal for Marksmanship | The Cisco Kid (04-26-55)

Summary

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Old Time Radio Westerns

"A Medal for Marksmanship" | The Cisco Kid (04-26-55)

Podcast Host: Andrew Rhynes
Original Air Date: April 26, 1955
Podcast Release Date: June 2, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this episode of The Cisco Kid titled "A Medal for Marksmanship," Cisco and his loyal companion Pancho unwittingly become entangled in a plot of greed, deceit, and attempted murder surrounding a gold mine. What starts as a seemingly innocent box supper social soon turns into a dangerous mystery involving stolen mine plans, a counterfeit identity, and a fateful medal that holds the key to unraveling the villains' scheme. The tension builds to gunfights, close calls with dynamite, and a battle of wits in true Western style.

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Key Discussion Points & Plot Summary

1. The Villainous Plot Unfolds (00:58–04:39)

• Carl Munro and his partner Wilder Cooper scheme to destroy the Fair Friday gold mine and frame Carl’s own business partner, Chris Mitchell.
  • Carl's plan: Hire a notorious outlaw (Dobie Johnson) to dynamite the mine.
  • The handoff: Wilder is to give mine blueprints—hidden in a sandwich at a local social—to Dobie, who will be recognized by wearing a distinctive octagonal marksmanship medal.

Carl Monroe: "The plans will be hidden in a sandwich." (03:19)

2. Cisco and Pancho Arrive (04:39–07:54)

• Cisco and Pancho arrive in town after putting a criminal in jail.
• Pancho unknowingly acquires the marksmanship medal after a scuffle, setting up mistaken identity for the box supper handoff.
• At the social, Wilder, mistaking Pancho for Dobie due to the medal, directs him to bid on the supper with the plans inside.

Pancho: "You like this medal? It's Octagon." (07:21)

3. The Plans Fall Into Cisco's Hands (08:09–10:01)

• The real Dobie, having escaped jail, confronts Carl for his payment but realizes the plans have gone to the wrong man—Pancho.
• Carl and Wilder decide drastic action is needed to recover the plans and silence the witnesses.

Carl Monroe: "Dynamite. The plans, the sheriff, the Cisco Kid and Pancho will end up in a million pieces." (10:01)

4. Discovery and Narrow Escape (10:18–14:36)

• Cisco, Pancho, and Sheriff Hadley discover the map inside Pancho's sandwich and realize a bombing is imminent.
• Carl, Dobie, and Wilder attempt to kill them by dynamiting the sheriff’s house, but Pancho warns Cisco in the nick of time.

Pancho: "Dynamite! You both be killed!" (13:10)

5. Clue in the Medal & Closing in on the Villains (14:36–18:10)

• The medal's initials—"C.M."—become a crucial clue.
• Cisco deduces the villain’s identity by realizing the medal could belong to either Chris Mitchell or Carl Munro, but the events and characteristics point to Munro.

Cisco Kid: "The initial C.M. on the back of that medal do not stand for Chris Mitchell. They stand for Carl Munro." (21:33)

6. Showdown at the Mine (19:15–23:57)

• Cisco, Pancho, and Sheriff Hadley confront the villains at the mine.
• Carl attempts to frame Chris Mitchell for the planned violence, but Cisco exposes the true scheme.
• A tense gunfight ensues; Cisco is wounded but, with Pancho's help, manages to corner and apprehend Munro and his accomplices after some sharp-shooting and quick thinking.

Carl Monroe: "What good's it going to do you when the muzzle of my six shooter's pointed at the middle of your forehead while yours is still in your wholesale?" (21:52)

Cisco Kid: "You are going to jail, dead or alive." (22:24)

7. Aftermath & Lighthearted Ending (24:23–26:04)

• The villains are rounded up (with Pancho cleverly tripping Dobie with his bullwhip), and justice is restored.
• The episode closes with the comic antics between Cisco and Pancho, especially a joke about a button in the salad that makes Big Maria "very mad at Pancho."

Pancho: "Pancho think that button fall off while the salad dresses." (25:32)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote/Description | |-----------|------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 03:24 | Carl Monroe | "You'll be acting like all the other young girls trying to get a beau." | | 05:12 | Pancho | "Pancho means. But Pancho... Octagon. Octagon." | | 10:01 | Carl Monroe | "Dynamite. The plans, the sheriff, the Cisco Kid and Pancho will end up in a million pieces."| | 13:10 | Pancho | "Dynamite! You both be killed!" | | 21:33 | Cisco Kid | "The initial C.M. on the back of that medal do not stand for Chris Mitchell. They stand for Carl Munro." | | 22:24 | Cisco Kid | "You are going to jail, dead or alive." | | 25:32 | Pancho | "Pancho think that button fall off while the salad dresses." |

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Conspiracy Unveiled: 00:58–04:39
• Mistaken Identity at the Social: 07:02–08:09
• Villains Realize the Mistake: 08:09–10:01
• Dynamite Attack: 12:45–14:36
• The Medal Clue: 15:40–16:26
• Mine Showdown: 19:15–23:57
• Resolution & Wrap-up: 24:23–26:04

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Tone and Style

The episode maintains a blend of suspense, action, and the characteristic playful banter between Cisco and Pancho. The tension of the sinister plot is balanced by lighthearted exchanges and Pancho’s comic relief, staying true to the spirit of classic Old Time Radio Westerns.

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For listeners: This episode stands out as a cleverly woven Western mystery with rich sound detail and lively characterization. Newcomers will enjoy the twists, and longtime fans will relish the interplay between Cisco’s shrewdness and Pancho’s lovable humor.

Transcript

[Pancho]

Foreign.

[Andrew Rines]

Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host Andrew Rines and I'm excited to bring you another episode. This is one of over 80 episodes released monthly for your enjoyment, you can find more western shows at our website by going to otrwesterns.com now let's get into this episode.

[Narrator]

Here's adventure, here's romance. Here's the famous Robin Hood of the old West.

[Pancho]

He's close. He's Yay. He is getting closer.

[Narrator]

The cisco here. Old kid in our exciting story. A medal for marksmanship. In many of the frontier towns in the early days of our west, crime flourished. There were rustlers, gunslingers and gamblers in abundance. There were also the so called respectable men whose greed had eaten away their honor until all that was left was

[Cisco Kid]

the core of self gain.

[Narrator]

One such man was Carl Munro, who with his partner Chris Mitchell, owned the

[Cisco Kid]

Fair Friday gold mine.

[Narrator]

As our story opens, Carl is sitting

[Cisco Kid]

at the desk in his home with

[Narrator]

Wilder Cooper plotting the destruction of his gold mine and his partner.

[Carl Monroe]

All right, Wilder, I think that about finishes the sketch of the Fair Friday mine office. And the mine shaft Is that red

[Wilder Cooper]

square the safe call?

[Carl Monroe]

That's right. And these little green dots are where the dynamite is to be placed in the shaft. I think the explanation I've written on the bottom of the drawing is clear.

[Wilder Cooper]

It's clear if this yokel you're hiring can read.

[Carl Monroe]

No need to worry about that. He's one of the cleverest gunslingers and safecrackers in the West.

[Wilder Cooper]

Where'd you hear about him?

[Carl Monroe]

All through a connection.

[Wilder Cooper]

What's his name?

[Cisco Kid]

Who knows?

[Carl Monroe]

He's got as many aliases as a porcupine has quills. I contacted him under the name Adobe Johnson. But he may use another name when you meet him.

[Wilder Cooper]

Then how am I going to know who to give these drawings to if I can't be sure of his name?

[Carl Monroe]

Oh, that'd be fairly simple. Remember the silver marksmanship medal I used to carry?

[Wilder Cooper]

Sure. It had eight sides, octagon shaped.

[Carl Monroe]

Well, this connection I spoke of gave it to Dobie.

[Cisco Kid]

He used to be wearing it when you meet him.

[Wilder Cooper]

Where am I supposed to meet him?

[Carl Monroe]

At the box supper social being held at the school tonight.

[Wilder Cooper]

You mean I see this Dobie wearing that gun medal and walk up and give him the plans of the mine?

[Carl Monroe]

No, no. You were to say nothing to him about any plans.

[Wilder Cooper]

Then how'll he know I have him?

[Carl Monroe]

Because you're going to have the most unique box supper at the social. The plans will Be hidden in a sandwich.

[Wilder Cooper]

Yeah, but somebody else might bid for that box supper.

[Carl Monroe]

Not if you go up to Doby and tell him to bid for it. You'll be acting like all the other young girls trying to get a bowl.

[Wilder Cooper]

You know, I gotta hand it to you, Carl.

[Cisco Kid]

Yeah?

[Wilder Cooper]

This way. That partner of yours, Chris, will never suspect that you had a hand in blowing up the mine.

[Carl Monroe]

I have to be careful. Doby knows who I am, but I can't afford to have him come to me. Chris has been suspicious of me for some time.

[Wilder Cooper]

Has he caught on that you've been digging out the gold from that second shaft you made?

[Carl Monroe]

The ore is almost gone from that shaft. And before Chris does discover it, I want the safe, rug and the whole

[Cisco Kid]

mine blown to bits.

[Wilder Cooper]

And you're having this Dobie Johnson, or whatever his name is, do it so that Chris will blame it on an outsider, huh?

[Carl Monroe]

You catch on fast, Wilder. By the way, you get paid for this job after you've kept your date with Dobie.

[Wilder Cooper]

And Dobie gets paid after he's done the dynamiting.

[Carl Monroe]

I take care of my debts, Wilder. If the job's well done, it's in cash. If there's a double cross, it's in bullets.

[Pancho]

Pancho. Hope we get some rest when we

[Cisco Kid]

get to Orville, Cisco. I think we will, Pancho. Why are you tired? After the troubles we got put in

[Pancho]

that hombre in the jail back in Greystone. And Pancho got the right to be tired.

[Cisco Kid]

That coyote gave us a hard fight, Cisco.

[Pancho]

Ever find out the real name of the Maverick?

[Cisco Kid]

No, Pancho. He's gone under many names.

[Pancho]

Many? How many? How many?

[Cisco Kid]

Oh, I do not know.

[Carl Monroe]

All of them.

[Cisco Kid]

Not all. He has used the names Cargo, Brake, Bill, Brandon, Dobie Parker. Perhaps his name really is Doby Johnson. Tell the sheriff in Greystone his name.

[Pancho]

Dobie Johnson. And Pan hope that sheriff keep him in the jail. He a bad umbrella. Pancho almost forgot something.

[Cisco Kid]

What are you looking for?

[Pancho]

Poncho got the look.

[Cisco Kid]

Look.

[Pancho]

And Pancho pin this on his shirt.

[Cisco Kid]

He's a medal.

[Narrator]

Poncho.

[Wilder Cooper]

He's a medal.

[Cisco Kid]

A marksmanship medal for fast draw and accurate aim. Where did you get a marksmanship medal? Pancho?

[Pancho]

After Cisco and Adobe have defied Pancho. Find it?

[Cisco Kid]

Oh, it may have belonged to Dobby. You should have turned it over to the sheriff.

[Pancho]

Pancho means. But Pancho

[Cisco Kid]

8 Chico is eight sided. That shape is called an octagon.

[Pancho]

Octagon. Octagon. She's so full, Pancho. She's got so fancy that the things were leaving the ocean.

[Cisco Kid]

You are thinking of octopus, Chico.

[Pancho]

Octopus.

[Cisco Kid]

The medal is an octagon.

[Pancho]

Me shave Harley and orbital thing. Pine to a dead child is punched to a ready medal.

[Cisco Kid]

Let us hope Sheriff Hadley has nothing for us to do and that you do not have to prove it.

[Pancho]

Punch not have to prove it. Sheriff Hadley writing a letter for 6 Queen Castle to come to the box rubber sociable tonight. No.

[Cisco Kid]

See Chico, the only trouble you will have tonight at the Sociable is a stomach ache from eating too much. Sure, I'm glad you and Poncho could

[Carl Monroe]

come to the sociable, Cisco.

[Cisco Kid]

Always lots of goodies at these box uppers. Have you picked out the senorita you want to eat with yet?

[Pancho]

Poncho Cheese do not know nothing about box sobers. Do not think I the Sangrita, Cisco. You pick out the super box and the Sangrita will bring the plain and sober box bring the best clothes. Is she so busy coping? Is she not got time to make it with?

[Cisco Kid]

Hey, Poncho.

[Wilder Cooper]

Huh?

[Cisco Kid]

That girl over there has been eyeing you for the last five minutes. Me see Poncho and she is coming this way. That's a pretty thing.

[Pancho]

Either she ain't that coming. She fine.

[Cisco Kid]

She looking for somebody else.

[Wilder Cooper]

I've been noticing that medal you're wearing.

[Pancho]

You like this medal? It's Octagon.

[Wilder Cooper]

It's the machine

[Pancho]

I'd like to have

[Wilder Cooper]

you bid on the supper I prepared. It's that plain supper box.

[Cisco Kid]

The plain supper box.

[Wilder Cooper]

I didn't have time to make it fancy like the others.

[Pancho]

The plain supper box.

[Cisco Kid]

Well, that's different.

[Wilder Cooper]

You call yourself Funcho?

[Pancho]

Uh huh.

[Wilder Cooper]

My name's Wilder.

[Pancho]

Buenosal is a wielder.

[Wilder Cooper]

Don't forget now. The plain one.

[Pancho]

The plain one.

[Wilder Cooper]

I'm sure you'll find everything you're looking for inside.

[Carl Monroe]

Who is it? Carl Monroe? Yes, who are you?

[Cisco Kid]

Johnson let me in.

[Carl Monroe]

You were told not to contact me. What are you doing here? I couldn't make it to the box supper. Got into some trouble today. What kind of trouble? I got thrown into jail back in Greystone. How'd you get out?

[Cisco Kid]

Kill the sheriff?

[Carl Monroe]

Oh, you're local. Why did you come here? I need the money. You're gonna pay me very well. When Wilder comes back with the sketches of the mine, you can have them. And we'll go through the deal for 5,000. That was the original agreement. All right. The hombre that's on your trail must be pretty tough for a man like you to be scared, Doobie.

[Cisco Kid]

Who is he? The Cisco Kid?

[Carl Monroe]

The Cisco Kid. I don't blame you for wanting to get out of this territory. That must be Wilder now. Yes.

[Cisco Kid]

In case you ain't out hide behind this door.

[Carl Monroe]

She'd be surprised to find you here. That you, Wilder?

[Wilder Cooper]

Yes, pal. I came to collect You.

[Carl Monroe]

What?

[Wilder Cooper]

I came to get my money for delivering the plans.

[Carl Monroe]

Who'd you give those plans to?

[Wilder Cooper]

I gave them to the gent who was wearing that marksmanship medal of yours. Only tonight he wasn't calling himself Dobie Johnson. Said his name was Poncho.

[Carl Monroe]

Pancho. Who's this Dobie Johnson?

[Wilder Cooper]

Then who was Poncho?

[Carl Monroe]

Pancho's my partner. And a Cisco Kid. How did he get that medal, Dobie? I don't know. When Cisco took me, we had a fight. I must have dropped. You blundering idiot. Did Poncho keep the plan?

[Wilder Cooper]

Yeah, he sneaked him out of the sandwich and put him in his pocket.

[Carl Monroe]

Did you say anything to Poncho about them?

[Wilder Cooper]

Not a thing.

[Pancho]

You told me not to.

[Carl Monroe]

Then it might not be too late.

[Wilder Cooper]

They might be staying with the sheriff. They came to supper with him.

[Carl Monroe]

We can check. And if they are, I can gun them down through a window. That still wouldn't get rid of those plans. And if the sheriff found them, he might recognize the drawing of the mine. We could set fire to the place. That's not sure enough. They might be able to put the fire out.

[Wilder Cooper]

Well, the fire's not sure what is.

[Carl Monroe]

Dynamite. The plans. The sheriff, the Cisco Kid and Poncho will end up in a million pieces.

[Cisco Kid]

You look sad, Chico. What is the matter? Is hungry. You're hungry. You're just coming from a box supper and you're hungry. What? Poncho, you told Sheriff Hadley and me to pick a plain supper box because it had the best food.

[Pancho]

Yeah, but Fango tells you wrong wish. Now you pick a pretty supper box that St. Eddie will not know how

[Carl Monroe]

to cook at all.

[Cisco Kid]

Well, look to me like she picked some nice sandwiches.

[Pancho]

Pancho not to eat the sandwich.

[Cisco Kid]

It must have been tasteless if you could not eat it. Pancho. What was it filled with? Paper.

[Pancho]

Paper in Pancho. Look at it. It looked like a map.

[Cisco Kid]

A map?

[Pancho]

Uh huh.

[Cisco Kid]

That is very strange. Do you still have the paper, Pancho?

[Pancho]

See Pancho sneaky from the sandwich when the saint eaten out.

[Cisco Kid]

Look, Pancho thinks he in the pocket. Here's my house now. Cisco, let's go inside and take a look at it. See you, Sheriff.

[Pancho]

Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up.

[Cisco Kid]

Tell me, Sheriff Tom, do you know the Sen. Wilder. That Poncho ate with?

[Carl Monroe]

Nope, Cisco.

[Cisco Kid]

Can't recollect. It'll do, Pancho.

[Pancho]

Parson either.

[Cisco Kid]

Go on in now. Turn up the lantern. There. Now we can see. Cisco, let's have a look at that map. See? It is a map. Do you recognize this place, Sheriff? Not without studying it. A mic. That writing down at the bottom of the page, Cisco, it says, red box is the safe. The green dots are where the dynamite is to be placed.

[Pancho]

Somebody blows something up, Cisco.

[Cisco Kid]

Seems these are plans for a robbery of some kind, Pancho. Yeah, can't quite figure it out. This drone looks familiar, though.

[Pancho]

Pancho. Think he hears something, Cisco?

[Cisco Kid]

Probably the horses. I'll put him in the barn for the night.

[Pancho]

I'm fine to do that for you, Senor Sherry.

[Cisco Kid]

Oh, thanks, Pancho. After you bed down the horses for the night, look around outside, Pancho. That Senorita Wilder may try to reclaim this map. And I'm sure she will not do it alone. We gotta figure out what's gonna be dynamited, Cisco. Maybe we can stop it before it's too late.

[Wilder Cooper]

Look, Carl. Through that window. There's the sheriff and Cisco. And the reading center.

[Carl Monroe]

The plans. Ready with that dynamite, Dobby?

[Cisco Kid]

I got it in my hand.

[Carl Monroe]

Carl, strike a match. When the fuse is lit, heave the stick right through that window. When I throw it, start running. That blast could be the end of us too.

[Wilder Cooper]

Hurry, there's someone coming.

[Carl Monroe]

Yeah, here's the light. The fuse is lit. Now throw. Yeah, I'll throw it right through the window.

[Pancho]

Dynamite. You both be killed.

[Narrator]

And even if Cisco hears Poncho's warning, it is not likely he and the sheriff can escape in time. In just a moment, we'll return to the Cisco Kid. And now back to the Cisco Kid in our gripping story, A Medal for Marksmanship. In an effort to rid himself of

[Cisco Kid]

the partner he had been cheating, Carl

[Narrator]

Monroe employed Wilder, Cooper and the killer, Dobie Johnson. The plans to murder Carl's partner, Chris Mitchell, inadvertently fell into the hands of Cisco and Pancho, who are the guests of Sheriff Tom Hadley. When Carl learned that the plans had gone astray, he, Wilder and Dobie set out to dynamite the sheriff's house and kill the sheriff, Sisco and Poncho. However, Poncho was outside the house and shouted a warning to Cisco just at the moment the dynamite was thrown.

[Carl Monroe]

Now.

[Pancho]

It'll explode out of here. Fix it right on the door. I can't,

[Cisco Kid]

Santos.

[Carl Monroe]

That was close.

[Cisco Kid]

Oh, sure gave it a mighty heap, Cisco. Lucky it landed in the middle of that empty quell didn't hurt a thing, Cisco.

[Pancho]

Say you, Sheriff.

[Cisco Kid]

You all right, amigo?

[Carl Monroe]

Gracias to you.

[Cisco Kid]

I was quick thinking on your part, Pancho. You saved our lives. Yeah. Did you see who threw it?

[Pancho]

He's that bandido with all the names. The ones you say call himself Dobby.

[Cisco Kid]

Dobie Johnson.

[Pancho]

Uh huh.

[Cisco Kid]

I wonder how he got out of the jail at Greystone. Jail at Gravestone. I see. We put Dobie in jail there before we came to visit you. He must have escaped. Yeah, well, the only way he could have escaped from Sheriff Howard is stabbed. Killed him. We'll find out about that. Also. Was there anyone else with Dobie? Poncho? He two other hombles.

[Carl Monroe]

Only one of them that Sandy the Wilder.

[Pancho]

What part you eat with?

[Cisco Kid]

Yeah, and the other one should. I can see his face. I have an idea.

[Carl Monroe]

Poncho.

[Cisco Kid]

Let me see that matter you picked up when Dobie and I had the fight.

[Pancho]

Please. Hiscount unfinished.

[Cisco Kid]

Yes, he demanded of course. Why didn't I think of that? That girl Wilder was interested in that medal and Dobie had it originally.

[Pancho]

What's this? Good thing he find on the medal.

[Cisco Kid]

Perhaps a clue as to who was the other hombre that you saw, Poncho. Yeah.

[Carl Monroe]

There's a couple of initials on the back of the medal, Cisco.

[Cisco Kid]

Bloody initials.

[Pancho]

What initials?

[Wilder Cooper]

What, what, what?

[Cisco Kid]

What? They are C.M. c.M. You know anyone with those initial, Sheriff Tom? Well, offhand I don't recollect. Wait a minute. There's Charlie Morgan, Chris Mitchell. Oh yeah. His partner, Carl Monroe. We will check on each of them. Let's take a look at that map again that Poncho found.

[Pancho]

What do you think he find there?

[Cisco Kid]

I thought this layout was familiar. It's a Fair Friday Mine office and the main shaft of the mine. Who owns the Fair Friday Mine, Sheriff? Well, by thunder. Both partners that own it have the initial CM Carl Monroe and Chris Mitchell.

[Pancho]

But which one of them helped through the dynamite?

[Cisco Kid]

I have an idea that it was the same one that drew this map. Sheriff, let us ride out to the Fair Friday Mine. If we get there in time, we can prevent a murder.

[Carl Monroe]

How much rally to the Fair Friday Mine, Carl? Oh, just up the road a piece.

[Pancho]

Doby, are you sure that partner of

[Wilder Cooper]

yours, Chris Mitchell is at the mine?

[Carl Monroe]

Chris is there all right. Wilder. We're making a gold shipment tomorrow. He's sleeping there tonight to guard it. How do you figure? I'm blaming him for dynamiting the sheriff in, Cisco. Oh, I'm sure Sheriff Hadley has recognized the Sketch I made of the mine.

[Wilder Cooper]

Then Cisco Ponceau and the sheriff will be out to the mine after.

[Carl Monroe]

Ah, Correct. Only they won't be looking for Kyle Monroe. They'll be out to get Chris Mitchell. What makes you think that? The initials on the back of the marksmanship medal. The one you sent to me? Yeah, the one Pancho must have picked up when you and Cisco were fighting.

[Wilder Cooper]

Well, what about it?

[Carl Monroe]

Well, the initials on the back of that medal are CM they could stand for Chris Mitchell.

[Wilder Cooper]

Even if you can blame it all on Chris Mitchell, it still don't put Dobie and me in the clear.

[Carl Monroe]

Chris Mitchell ain't gonna say the medal's his when it ain't. Chris Mitchell won't say anything.

[Cisco Kid]

He'll be dead.

[Wilder Cooper]

You gonna kill him?

[Carl Monroe]

I am. How come you didn't do it before?

[Cisco Kid]

Why'd you need me?

[Carl Monroe]

The circumstances have been altered by the fact that your identities are known.

[Wilder Cooper]

Ah. Your partner's death won't convince pistol.

[Carl Monroe]

With your help, it will. And in payment for that help, we'll split that gold shipment three ways.

[Wilder Cooper]

That's the kind of talk I like to hear. What do you want me to do?

[Carl Monroe]

Toby? How about you? Money's my metal. Name.

[Cisco Kid]

What's the setup?

[Carl Monroe]

When Cisco, Pancho and the sheriff show up at the mine office, I'll have a gun on you, too. I'll tell the sheriff I've been holding you for him.

[Pancho]

You'll do what?

[Carl Monroe]

I'm going to tell the sheriff that Chris rode up with you and tried to kill me, but I had to gun him down. All right, that clears you a little while.

[Cisco Kid]

What about us?

[Carl Monroe]

Well, as long as I'm not under suspicion, I'll still have my gun. And while those three are busy with

[Cisco Kid]

you, I'll get the drop on.

[Wilder Cooper]

That's quite a plan if it works.

[Carl Monroe]

It'll work. We'll dispose of the Sheriff, Poncho and the Cisco Kid in the same manner we dispose of Chris Mitchell.

[Cisco Kid]

There's the Fair Friday mine office right up ahead.

[Pancho]

Ciso, I just see a light. In that order. So you should have.

[Cisco Kid]

It may be that the man we are after is expecting us. Well, looks like you're right, Cisco. Could easily be a trap.

[Pancho]

Do not walk into the trap.

[Cisco Kid]

No, I do not think it is a trap. If it were, they would have hidden their horses and put the light out. They would have tried to drag us.

[Carl Monroe]

Well, we'll find out soon enough. Who's out there?

[Pancho]

Whose voice is that?

[Carl Monroe]

Sheriff?

[Cisco Kid]

Tom? I don't know.

[Pancho]

That's one of the Homies what might own the medal.

[Cisco Kid]

No, it's Sheriff Hadley.

[Carl Monroe]

Monroe.

[Cisco Kid]

We're coming in.

[Carl Monroe]

Lucky for me it is you. Sheriff. I got a couple of prisoners in here for you. Santos.

[Cisco Kid]

Where's that dead hombre on the floor my der. He shot through the head. It's Chris Mitchell. You direct calm?

[Carl Monroe]

Yes, I did, Sheriff. But before you jump to any conclusions, hear me out. I'm listening. Chris Mitchell rode up here like a wild man with this other gent and the girl. Talked about a dynamiting and threatened to kill me. I was lucky I beat him to the draw.

[Pancho]

To tell the truth, he's gone. Dobie Johnson in the finger outside the sheriff's house.

[Cisco Kid]

You Doby Johnson? How did you get away from Sheriff Howard back at Greystone? I got wings, Cisco. I flew through the bar.

[Wilder Cooper]

I guess there's no use. Hold them out. I was paid to get those plans for dynamite and the mind into Dobie's hands.

[Cisco Kid]

But you made sure that Poncho got them instead.

[Wilder Cooper]

That was a mistake. He was wearing the shooting medal that was supposed to identify Dobie.

[Cisco Kid]

Poncho picked up that medal after you and I had that fight in Greystone. Dobie, where did you get it? Where do you think?

[Carl Monroe]

From Creek Metro.

[Cisco Kid]

That settled it. Guess I'd better get Dobby's gun. Take these two back to jail.

[Pancho]

Pancho. Get that gun for you, Senor Sheridan.

[Cisco Kid]

Pancho, before you do anything. Senor Sheriff Dobe and the senorita are not the only two you want. What do you mean, Cisco? That Senor Car is lying.

[Carl Monroe]

That's a foolish thing to say, Cisco, about a man who's holding a gun on you. You'd better be able to prove it.

[Cisco Kid]

I can. Homie, you said you beat Chris Mitchell to the draw.

[Carl Monroe]

That's right.

[Pancho]

He did.

[Wilder Cooper]

We witnessed it.

[Cisco Kid]

You are all lying. This Mitchell was supposed to have won that medal for a fast draw and accurate marksmanship. Yet you were able to beat him. I say that the initial CM on the back of that medal do not stand for Chris Mitchell. They stand for Carl Munro. By George, you're right, Cisco. Hey, Cisco.

[Pancho]

Smiling good old Ban umbrio.

[Carl Monroe]

You are smart, Cisco. Smarter than I give you credit for. But what good's it going to do you when the muzzle of my six shooter's pointed at the middle of your forehead while yours is still in your wholesale? You have smarted yourself this time, Cisco. Sheriff.

[Cisco Kid]

Pancho, get out of the way. Keep your eyes on that Dobby hombre in the senorita.

[Pancho]

What you do, Cisco?

[Cisco Kid]

What'd you do?

[Pancho]

What'd you do?

[Cisco Kid]

Monroe? Since the medal is yours, there is no doubt you are fast with the six gun. But from the hands of that clock, point to four. I am going to draw on you anyway. You are going to jail, dead or alive.

[Pancho]

Don't let him get away. Help the sheriff, Poncho.

[Cisco Kid]

I have a rock corner.

[Pancho]

Fine. To help the sheriff. Stop your.

[Carl Monroe]

You think they're going to keep me here, Cisco?

[Cisco Kid]

See, Monroe? That is what I'm going to do. Oh, my arm.

[Carl Monroe]

Ah, that bullet found you, Cisco. Maybe I should have told you I caught the reflection of the moon on your gun barrel. How does that arm feel?

[Cisco Kid]

It's only a flesh wound, you coyote. I still have the other hand and I can use these guns.

[Carl Monroe]

Not very well, Cisco. How can you shoot me when you can't see me?

[Cisco Kid]

You missed, hombre. You have only three bullets left in that gun.

[Carl Monroe]

And each one's got your name on it. Fisco.

[Cisco Kid]

Only two left, Monroe. That was a book I tossed in the corner. You will not add another murder to your score to life.

[Carl Monroe]

Blast you, Cisco.

[Cisco Kid]

I'll kill you another. Ms. Fontido. Is this how you won that medal for marksmanship? And that was your last shot, you coyote. Now I'm coming after you.

[Pancho]

I'll break this gun barrel over your head to coat.

[Cisco Kid]

Not what I can still.

[Pancho]

And the left. Oh, and another.

[Narrator]

Your job.

[Pancho]

Now get it. What have you. No more.

[Carl Monroe]

No more.

[Cisco Kid]

Four o'.

[Wilder Cooper]

Clock.

[Cisco Kid]

I told you, hombre, you would be going to jail. I have kept my word, Cisco.

[Pancho]

Say, Poncho, Pancho and Sheriff Harley have the hard time rounding up that bandito Joby and the senorita wielder.

[Cisco Kid]

I know you did, Pancho. The sheriff told me about the chase. He said you finally had to trip that Dobie hombre with your bullwhip.

[Pancho]

I don't trip him with your bullwhip.

[Cisco Kid]

Well, Monroe Dobie and that will senuator will all remain behind bars for a long.

[Pancho]

That's Eddie the Willow. You got awful lot of Poncho.

[Cisco Kid]

I noticed you did it with trial when you testified.

[Pancho]

That's the time when Pancho Chestnut testified.

[Cisco Kid]

Poncho.

[Pancho]

That's what Poncho say, Chestnut. But that thing will not get as mad as Big Maria.

[Cisco Kid]

One time Big Maria was mad at you, Poncho. Mad at me?

[Pancho]

She very mad at Pine girls.

[Cisco Kid]

Well, why was she mad at you, Chico?

[Pancho]

That time Big Maria cooked the suburb of Pancho. And what happened when Big Maria put the salad on the table? Big Maria say, look, Pancho a buddy is wanting a salad.

[Cisco Kid]

What made Big Maria so mad after she said a button had fallen in the salad?

[Pancho]

Because panjo say panjo think that button fall off while the salad dresses. Oh fajo. Oh Cheesco.

[Narrator]

And so ends another exciting adventure with O. Henry's famous Robin Hood of the West, Cisco Kid. Be sure to listen again for another thrilling adventure of the Cisco Kid. Cisco Kid was played by Jack Mathers Funcho by Harry Lance.

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[Pancho]

It.