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Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host Andrew Rines and I'm excited to bring you another episode after Absolutely free. This is one of over 80 episodes released monthly for your enjoyment. Now let's get into this episode.
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Across the rugged Indian territory rides a tall young man on a mission of mercy, his medical bag strapped on one hip, his six shooter on the other. This is Dr. Six Gun. The National Broadcasting Company brings you another transcribed episode in the exciting adventure series Dr. Six Gun. Ray Matson, M.D. was the gun toting frontier doctor who roamed the length and breadth of the old Indian territory. Friend and physician to white man and Indian alike, the symbol of justice and mercy in the lawless west of the 1870s, this legendary figure was known to all as Dr. Six Guns. This is the story of the one as an H Vac technician. He and his digital multimeter are in high demand. So when a noisy office H Vac turns out to be a failing blower motor, he doesn't break a sweat. With Grainger's easy to use website and product information, he selects the product he needs to keep everything humming right along. Call 1-800-granger clickranger.com or just stop by Granger for the ones who get it done. In the Territory, there is a great deal of law. There is the law of the angry mob with gun and rope, and even the law of the learned judges with book and gavel. But justice? Ah, there is a horse of an entirely different color. In my travels through the territory, I have seen law of one sort or another many times, but justice very seldom. It is as the diamond. Priceless because it is so rare. Who am I to be a philosopher like this? Well, I am Pablo, the gypsy peddler. And I am twice a philosopher. Waltz, because I am a gypsy. And Wolfs because I am a coward. And this is my friend, Midnight. Midnight. He is a raven, but he too is a philosopher. Shoot first, no questions. A philosopher of violence, but also a coward under the feathers. I have, of course, known many brave men. And among these is my friend, Max Eastcott. I remember a time when we rode together along the trail out past the Mesa Verde. We're stopping. Water over the ride. Someone was camped at the waterhole. Smoke. You're behind the time. That's Matt Wilder's cabin. It's a dream without waterhole. When did this happen? About a month ago. Matt bought the land from the Deblanco State. The old Spanish land grant. I didn't know the title, except for about a thousand acres around Rimrod. The decision was handed down by the circuit court back in St. Louis. But no one in the territory has paid any attention to the Blanco claims for years. It's clear title, though. Matt showed me the court order. Doc does not Howard feeling use Rimrock to water his stock? I suppose so. Flying Bee's very big outfit. Yeah, they are also traditionalists. You think Fearing will make trouble for Matt? Well, there was a man over to the Rio Verde who fenced off a few hundred acres of grains. He had a notion to grow wheat. Yeah, I heard about that. They never proved that Fearing's men did it when he was found hanged with a strand of wire from his own fence. And you think it was Fearing's hired gun? Doc, it has been a very bad year for small men. Between the drought and the big outfits, there are a lot of men with no jobs. And the six gone and an empty belly. Well, looks quiet enough now. Come on. We can probably strike Mac for a good cup of coffee. Come on, Pablo. Hello, Matt. All right, Mr. Re, get in the door. You, behind. Get inside. I'm coming, I'm coming. Now shut the door behind you. Go on. Matt, what's going on here? There's no good. Kid busted in on here. Go. I'll do the talking. You the big one. Drop your gun. All right, all right. Take it easy, kid. Watch your mouth. Drop it. Now get over there with the girl. What do you want from us? Shut up, kid. Listen, fella, what's this all about? I got a message to deliver to old man Wilder here. What do you want? I just Want to let you know this here is a very unhealthy place to homestead, see? Yeah? Who say so? I do. Look, I'm giving you a nice, friendly warning like I'm supposed to. Get out of here, Wilder. Get out fast, get those fences down and get off. Listen, you tell Howard Fearing, if he wants to talk to me, to come himself. Not to send some sniveling baby toting a six gun where his diapers ought to be. Are you? Cut that out. Listen, mister, you want to argue with me? That's a pretty big offer for you to make, Sonny, with a gun in your hand. Yeah, and that's just where it's going to stay. I guess I'll move on. And remember, Wilder, pack up and get. Don't move, mister. All right. Just to make sure somebody don't take potshots at me from the window, you come here. The girl. You left my daughter alone. Ain't gonna hurt her, a pretty girl like her. Now, come on, honey. No. No. Let me go. Come on. Why, you dirty. Get back. Oh. Oh. All right, keep back there, the rest of you. We're going for a little ride, honey. Let go of me. Let go. You ain't such a little girl after all. I'm warning you. One shot out these windows and just don't try it. Come on. Let go of me. Gun. Rifle in the closet. He's got your daughter, Matt. Easy. Hurt bad, Doc. In my arm. Glad to see you, Matt. No. No, Mary. I gotta go after her. Pablo, take care of him. All right. After him, Matt. Gun. Mary. She'll be all right, I swear, Doc. Is he hurt, sir? She's all right, Matt. I can see her. She's coming back over the ride. I'll kill him, Doc. Out. Just lie back, Matt. I'll. Mary. Mary, you all right? Doug. Doug. It's all right. All right, now. Did he hurt you? No. Nobody held me so he just dropped me off his horse. Anything hurt? Your anger? Oh, no, but I'm so scared, I can't stop shaking it. I mean. Here, now, sit down right here on the ground. Go ahead. My dad. What happened? I think I'm gonna be sick. Just put your head down between your knees. Go ahead. The way he held me, I mean. It's all right, Mary. Don't you worry about it. You're all right. Your father isn't hurt. There. Why did he do this, Doc? Why? I don't know exactly. Can you stand up now? Here. Here, I'll carry you. Now, just hang on. All right, now, Mary. It's all over. You sure she's all right, doc? She's skimping, Mr. Wilder. I put a measure of laudanum in that tea. Feel red. That's no good, baby face Killer, I. You better get some rest, too. I'm telling you, Doc, I can take care of myself. If Howard Fearing sends his hired guns out after me, I'll fight back. But my girl. I know they want to scare you away from the water hole, Doc. It's mine. I paid for it. I got the legal title. Just because they've been using this water hole don't mean it's theirs. I told Hering I'd let him water his stock if he'd guarantee me against loss from broken fences and my own critters. He wants to be king of the open range, like he always been. That's why he sent that miserable coyote after me. I never saw that before, but I knew most of Fearing's gun by sight. That was Eddie Baker. He's new. He seems so young for a hired gun. I was. Fearing I would not trust my business to a child. He ain't no child. Not Eddie. He's killed as many men as any of Fearing's gunslingers. He's mean clear through. So help me, for what he did to Mary. Next time I see him, I'll kill him like I would a rattlesnake. We all rode into French. Matt Wilder left Mary at Doc's place and we all went together to find the sheriff to swear out a complaint. The sheriff at this time was George Hargrove. And a man who looked for him at his office was wasting time. So we went straight to the Bull Run Saloon. Now, look, Matt. I can swear out a warrant again, Eddie, for shooting you an arm. But you know as well as I do I can't ride on to Fearing's place to serve it. What's the matter, Sheriff? You afraid to do your duty? That ain't the point. Before I got near the home ranch, Eddie'd be up in the hill, snug as a bug in a rug. That's right, Matt. Sheriff's been trying to serve Warren Tom Fearing's top hand for a year now. You think I'm gonna let that little skunk get away with you? Don't get head up, Matt. But my daughter. Now, the girl wasn't hurt. Doc here says she's all right. Now, get off the stove and quit boiling. I'll go down and make out the complaint. Keep it on the books anyway. Just take it easy, Matt. He's no Better than fearing lily liver's no good. No, he's just being practical, Matt. As long as the big stockman keep a private army. Army? I fit in the army. I got respect for any man that did. North or South, I don't care. But that weasel with that baby face, he wouldn't have the guts to fight in no real war. I could just get a hold of him. You talking about anybody I know, Mr. Doc? Like all my arms. Don't be a fool. Got eight guns behind me. Funny how some fellows will shoot their mouths off if they think nobody's listening. Let me go. Doc, he's just waiting for you to draw. Look at him, Matt. He'll gun you down. What's the matter, Wilder? Can't you talk anymore? Won't you marry any good for you to get killed. Well, Mr. Wilder, in your long drink of water. Friends. Why don't you go away? Eddie, I just wanted to say hello to my good friend Wilder. Listen, Baker. Yeah? What? Nothing. That's what I figured. I just wanted to tell you thanks for your hospitality and that girl of yours. I called it. Makes a real cute little armful on a horse. You know, kind of. Let go of him. Let go of him. Go ahead, let him draw. I got something for him. Well, I've got something for you. Nobody draw. You men, you're covered. O'. Shea, Send somebody for the sheriff. I wouldn't do that, Doc. You can't hold off eight guns. I'm gonna walk right out of that door. You start shooting and a lot of men are gonna get hurt. And get out of here. Get out in a hurry. All right there, Doc. We'll figure it's a Mexican standoff this time. Doc, let. No, no, no. He's right. Let him go. I'll be back to see you again, Wilder. And that girl of yours. Come on. You should have shot him down, Doc. That would have been an awful lot of people hurt. Maybe it's all over, man. Come on, you better get back to Mary. We thought maybe it would blow over the range war. Eddie Baker wasn't seen for several weeks. There was a rumor that he shot a barkeep in Chisholm City. But no one was really quite sure. And then on a Saturday afternoon, Sheriff Hargrove called Doc over to his office. What is it, George? Matt Wilder. What happened? Alfie Pierce brought him in on his buckboard. Shot dead? Yeah. He took one in the hip and one in the back when he fell. Alfie says the fences was down, stock was gone bearing guns. I figured Doc, that ain't it. I mean all of it. The girl, what's her name? Mary. Pretty little kid. What happened? Well, Doc, she's. Alfie was kind of broken up. He. He's got kids. Is she alive? What are you waiting for? You ain't gonna be able to help her none. Doc. She's out back. What are you wasting time for? Wait a minute here, Doc. She's kind of broken, cut up. She in here? Mary? Mary? She don't know nobody. Alfie brought her in. Give me my bag. She was mine. I don't know as I'd want her to live. She won't. There ain't nothing you can do, is there, Doc? No. Just watch her die. I sent Milt Evers to round up enough writers to go after Eddie Baker. You want to go along? I'll stay here with Mary. Okay, Doctor. Go on. Go after him. They brought Eddie Baker in a day later. I saw him ride down the main street past the livery stable to the lock up. His hands were tied behind him and his feet tied together under the belly of the horse. There was blood on his face. And the sheriff cut the rope from his feet and pushed him off the horse. He fell into the dust and manure. Then the sheriff dragged him to the jail. It was two hours later that they sent for Doc. In here, Doc. What happened to him? He resisted arrest. On your feet, you murder. Let him alone. My arm. Here, let me see. That's broken now. Get that shirt off. This arm wasn't broken when he rode into town. Saw him go by the Bull Run. He tried to jump me. He's a liar. He hit me with his rifle. But them deputies held me and he hit you. Liar. Don't touch him again. Don't touch him. He kept on hitting me. He had my hands tied to the bars and he was. I stopped off while I set this arm. About cold. Give me a bucket of water and some rags. Oh, now, Doc, don't you hurt me. Milk, get a bucket of water, some rags. What's the idea? What's the difference? He was resisting arrest. Help, George. So help me God, if this man is tortured anymore I'll swear out a complaint against you and file it with the territorial attorney general. Doc, you're forgetting something this dirty, right? I'm not forgetting anything. I sat with that girl till she died. This here crow and La did that. I know he'll be tried, and I hope that God he hangs for it. I don't know, Jack. I mean, a trial's a little chancey. You know that Howard fear and puts a lot of money into politics. Maybe it'd be better if he was to get shot trying to escape. George, don't do it. You want this to go on living? Duck that pretty little girl lying out there the way she was. George, I took an oath to save lives. This is one life I want to see snuffed out like it never happened at all. Well, But I want him tried and found guilty and hanged according to the law. I don't know. He ain't gonna be no deader if I bat him behind the ear right now. That child died because he didn't follow law. I don't want him murdered. I want to see him executed for his crime. He's going to kill me. You can't let him do that. He isn't going to kill you, Eddie. You're going to die all right by the law. The trial was quick and simple. A Mexican sheep herder had seen Eddie near Remrock Waterhole that morning. Doc testified about Eddie's first assault on Matt Wilder. O' Shea from the bull run told of Eddie threatening to come back to get Wilder. His quirt was found at the waterhole. It took the jury 13 minutes to find him guilty and the judge another four to sentence him to hang. Get up, Eddie. Leave me alone. Get up. Doc. Here's to look at your arm. It's a laugh. What do you care? Me? Nothing. Doc's got a conscience. Let me see it, Eddie. Holler when you want to. Don't hurt none. It'll mend straight. Yeah, sure, with me dead. Feeling sorry for yourself. I don't know what you've got against me. You don't? What are you, 19 years old? You've killed maybe 12 men and that girl animal. I didn't kill Wilder. Listen, Doc, they can't really hang me for something I didn't do. I wasn't there. How about that court? Well, I mean, I rode past there that morning, see? Then I headed out to the Rio Verde. Listen, I seen a man get hanged once. You gotta help me. Why? I never hurt nobody in my life. I mean, not on purpose. Does this hurtin? It's all right. Listen, he can't do this to me. I mean, I ain't never had nobody, no mother or nothing. They gotta feel sorry for an orphan, don't they? Keep it in the slang. You gotta listen to me. You got influence, ain't you? I mean, if you was to tell a governor of the territory. I mean, he could give me a reprieve. You want me to carry your appeal? You got to. I mean, it's me. It's me. Look, Doc, I ain't never had nothing. I never meant to hurt nobody, not really. Where are you from? Back east. New York. My folks moved out here when I was 10, I did. Thought you never had a mother. Well, I. I mean, I never saw her much. That's what I mean. All right, I'm done with you. You're in fine shape for tomorrow morning. I'll be signing your death certificate, Baker. And I'll be thinking of Mary Wilder. Oh, now, Doc, I never did nothing to that girl. Honest. I never touched her. Except that time I took her on the horse. George, let me out of here. You gotta believe me. I wouldn't hurt that girl. I mean, I liked her, see? I was gonna come calling on her, you know. She was real pretty. I wouldn't do nothing. Shut up or I'll kill you myself with my bare hands. George, get me out of here. It was the morning of the hanging and I sat in the Bull Run Cafe with Doc having coffee. O' Shea kept the place open all night to handle the crowd. Finish up, Pablo. I am in no hurry. Aren't you coming? It is not like you, Doc, to. To go to death as if it were a wedding. It's Eddie Baker, her being hanged. I know. It's different. Is it? Pablo, I saw that girl, Mary Wilder, when Matt first came out of the territory. She was. Never mind. The end of life is always sad. Any life. What do you mean, Dark eyes? I've been in many countries. I've seen men die in many places. And I've heard them call to many different gods with their last breath. I do not rejoice in murder. What do you mean? I kept Baker from being lynched or shot trying to escape. He had a fair trial. He was condemned to death by the law. Death? You're sorry for him, is that it? I'm sorry for you and all of us. I'll save it. I will. I will. Pablo, listen. Are you trying to say that Eddie Baker should go scot free? Doc, my. My father was killed by a Basque in a knife fight. By Roman in law, I was to kill his murderer. Did you? Yes. With the same knife. It did not bring back my father. I'm not going to sit here listening to this kind of crazy talk. It's been many years. Well, perhaps you will know what it is to have blood on your hands. Are you comparing a legal execution with a knife fight between two gypsies? The blood Is the same color. You're drunk. Yes. Yes, of course. Stop ringing them out. Go, my friend. You will miss the hanging. And so they hanged Eddie Baker in the morning sunlight. And there was no one to mourn when they cut the body down. And Buck signed the death certificate and pronounced him dead. And Eddie Baker and the girl Mary were beneath the same ground. I did not speak to Doc that day or the next. I found him the night after in the Bull Run. When I came up to his table, Sheriff Hargrove was talking to him. Marshal Darrow out of Fort Dale picked him up. There's about five of them Mescalero Apaches. They were scouts with the army and deserted about a month ago. Are they sure? Darrell said one of them had Mary Wilder's ring. Are they sure? Darrell got a confession. They come riding through about noon as looking to rob the place. Shot down Matt and the girl. Funny, ain't it? I mean, Eddie Baker, he killed maybe a dozen men. Gets his neck stretched for something he didn't do. Well, don't matter none. The army will probably hang those Indians. I guess you'll be glad to hear that, huh? Let me alone. Well, I mean, you were so bound to see the. Go away. Well, now, you don't have to get riled. Leave him alone. Now just who you push him, peddler. Leave him. A man needs to be alone when he first finds blood on his hands. What? Leave him. All right. He's sure taking on queer about some no good killer. I'll see you later. Pablo. Yes? Nothing. Yes, there is nothing. I wanted him dead. I didn't want justice. I. I wanted him dead. You didn't know. I wanted it legal, but I wanted him dead. I'm going to get a drink. Shall I bring the bottle? Now? I. Excuse me. Wait, Doc. Doc, where are you going? Document. He rode out into the night and he was gone for two days. And then suddenly he appeared at the cabin of Bob Calder, whose wife was in labor. Doc delivered the baby girl and placed the baby in the arms of the weary mother. Then he rode back to Frenchman's Ford and began life again.
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Dr. Six Gun Doc Six Gun is played by Carl Weber and Pablo by William Griffiths. Today's script was written by Ernest Kinhoy. Heard in the cast were Edwin Bruce as Eddie, Denise Alexander as Mary, William Keene as Mary Matt and Wendell Holmes as the Sheriff. Sa. You've been listening to Dr. Six Guns starring Carl Weber as the frontier doctor with William Griffiths as Pablo. This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. Foreign.
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