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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 absolutely free. This 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 Guns. 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, a symbol of justice and mercy. In the lawless west of the 1870s, this legendary figure was known to all as Dr. Six Guns.
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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 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. Once because I am a gypsy and once 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 Ditzko. I remember a time when we rode together along the trail out past the Mesa Verde. We're sopping water over the ride. Someone is camped at the water hole. Smoke. You're behind the time. That's Matt Wilder's cabin in the dream of that water hole. When did this happen? About a month ago. Matt bought the land from the deblanco estate. The old Spanish land grant. I didn't know the title was bought. Isn't 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 DeBlanco claims for years. It's clear title, though. Matt showed me the court order. Doc, does not Howard Keeling use Rimrock to water his stock? I suppose so. Flying Bees. A 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 grain. He had a notion to grow wheat. I heard about that. They never proved that Fearing's man did it when he was found hanged with a strand of wire from his own fence. And you think it was Bearing'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 man for a good cup of coffee. Come on, Pablo. Hello, Matt. All right, Mr. Lee. What? Get in the door. Get behind you. Get inside. I'm coming, I'm coming. Now shut the door behind you. Go on. Matt, what's going on here? This no good kid busted in on me. Oh, I'll do the talking. Use a 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, fellow, what's this all about? I've 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 out. 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. Cut that out. Listen, mister, you want to argue with me? That's a pretty big offer for you to make, Sonny, with that gun in your hand. Yeah, and that's just where it's going to stay. I guess I'll move on. Remember, Wilder, pack up and get. Don't move, mister. All right. Just to make sure somebody don't take pot shots at me from the window. You come here. The girl. You let my daughter alone. I ain't gonna hurt her. 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. Go up to me. Gun. Rifle in the closet. No. No, it's not. He's got your daughter. Matt. Easy. Hurt the bad doctor. My arm. Glad to see it, Matt. No. No. Mary. I gotta go after her. Pablo, take care of him. All right. After him, Matt. Gun. Mar. She'll be all right, I swear. Doc. Is he here? She's all right, Matt. I can see her. She's coming back over the ride. I'll kill him, Doc. Just lie back, Matt. I'll go get her. Mary. Mary, you all right? Doug. Doug. All right. All right, now. Did he hurt you? No. Nobody held me, so he just dropped me off this horse. Anything hurt your ankle? Oh, no. I'm so scared I can't stop shaking. 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 the knees. Go ahead. The way he held me, I mean. It's all right, Ma. I hope you're worried about it. You're all right. Your father isn't hurt. Best. Why did he do this, Doc? Why? I don't know exactly. Can you stand up now? Here. Here, I'll carry it. Now, just hang on. It's all right now, Mary. It's all over. Sure, she's all Right, Doc. She's sleeping with Wilder. I put a measure of laudanum in that tea. You're right. 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. I 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 Fearing I'd let him water his stock. It would 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 Pering's gun by sight. That was Eddie Baker. He's new, you see. He's so young for a hired gun. I was Fearing I. 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 gunslinger. He's mean clear through that. So help me for what he did to Mary. Next time I see him, I've kill him like I would a rattlesnake. We all rode into Frenchman's Ford. 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? Are you afraid to do your duty? That ain't the point. Before I got near the home ranch, Eddie'd be up on the hill, snug as a bug in a rug. That's right, Matt. Sheriff's been trying to serve warrants on Fearing's top hand for a year now. You think I'm gonna let that little skunk get away with. Don't get head up, man. 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, make out the complaint. Keep it on the books anyway. Just take it easy, Matt. Needs no better than fearance. Delivers no good. Ah, he's just being practical, Matt. 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 looked 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, mister? Doc like to hold my arm? Don't be a fool. Got eight guns behind me. Funny how some fellas would shoot their mouths off if they think nobody's listening. He's just waiting for you to go look at Matt. He'll gun you down. What's the matter, Wilder? Can't you talk anymore? Won't do Mary any good for you to get killed. Well, Mr. Wilder, your long drink of water. France. Why don't you go away? Eddie? I just wanted to say hello to my good friend Wilder. Listen, Baker. Well, 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. It's a real cute little armful on a horse, you know, Kind of let that know. 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, man. 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 me. 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. There 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? Mad 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. Hearing guns, I figured. Doc, that ain't it. I mean, all of it. A girl. What's her name? Mary. Pretty little kid. What happened? Well, Doc, she's. Alvy 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. You shut up. Can't hear. 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. There ain't nothing you can do, is there, Doc? No Dr. Die. I sent Milt Evers to round up enough writers to go after Eddie Baker. You want to go along, Say he was married. Go on. Go after him.
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They brought Eddie Baker in a day later. I saw him ride down the main street past delivery stable to the lock up. His hands were tied behind him, 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 into 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 murdered. Let him alone. Here, let me see. It'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 butt and deputies helped me and. He hit you? Liar. Don't touch him again. Don't touch him. I mean. Oh, he kept on hitting me. He had my hands tied to the bars and he was. I'll stop talking while I set this arm. Doc. 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. Look, George. Oh, help me God. If this man is tortured Anymore. I'll swear out a complaint against you and file it with a territorial attorney general. Doc, you're forgetting something. This dirty, rough. I'm not forgetting anything. I sat with that girl till she died. This here Crow and Lause did that. I know he'll be tried, and I hope that God he hangs for us. I don't know, Doc. I mean, a trial's a little chancey. You know that Howard Fearon 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 with him, Doctor? 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. Ain't gonna be no better if I batting behind the ear right now. That child died because he didn't follow the law. I don't want him murdered. I want to see him executed for his crime. He's gonna kill me. You can't let him do that. He isn't gonna kill you, Eddie. You're gonna die by those laws. The trial was quick and simple. A Mexican sheep herder had seen Eddie near Remrock Waterhole that morning. Doc testified about Eddie's birth of on Matt Wilder. O' Shea, from the bull run, told of Eddie prepping to come back to get Wilder. His quirk was found at the waterfall. It took the jury 13 minutes to find him guilty. And the judge another four consented to hang. Get up, Eddie. Leave me alone. Get up, Doc. Here's to look at your arm. Just a laugh. What do you care? Me? Nothing. Doc's got a. Let me see it. Eddie. Holler when you run up. Don't hurt none. It'll men straight. Yeah, sure, with me dead. Feeling sorry for yourself? You know what you've got against me. Don't. What are you? 19 years old, was killed by the 12 men and that girl animal. How did you kill Wilder? Listen, Doc, you can't really hang me for something I didn't do. I wasn't there. Yeah. How about that quirk? Well, I mean, I rode past there that morning, see? Then I headed out to the Rio Verde and. Listen, I've seen a man get hanged once. You gotta help me. Why? I never hurt nobody in my life. I mean, not on purpose. This hurting. It's all right. Listen, you can't Leave it 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 mean, 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. They did? But we never had a mother. Well, I mean, I never saw her much. That's what I mean. All right, I'm done with you. You're in fine shape. Tomorrow morning, I'll be signing your death certificate, Baker. And I'll be thinking of Mary Wilder. 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 going to come calling on her, you know. She was real pretty. I wouldn't do nothing. Maker, shut up or I'll tell you my. George, get me out of here. It was the morning of the hanging and I sat in the Bull Run Cafe. With document having fallen. O' Shea kept the place open all night to handle the crowds. Finish up, Pablo. I'm in no hurry. What's coming? It is not like you, Doc, to go to death as if it were a wedding. It's Eddie Baker being hanged. I know different. Is it? Pablo, I saw that girl, Mary Wilder. When Matt first came out to the play, she was. Never mind. The end of life is always sad. Any life. What do you mean, Doc, I. 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 sat trying to escape. He had a fair trial. He was condemned to death by the law. Dead? You're sorry for him, is that it? I'm sorry for you and all of us. I'll save it. 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 Romany law, I was to kill his murderer. Did you? Yes. With the same knife. It did not bring back my father I'm not gonna sit here listening to this kind of crazy talk in 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, of course. Stop breaking the mouth. Go, my friend. You will miss the hanging. So they hanged every Baker in the morning sunlight. And there was no one to mourn when they cut the body down. And Doc 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. There 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. Got 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. And if. Leave him alone. Now, just who are you pushing, peddler? Leave him. A man needs to be alone when he first finds blood on his hands. What? Leave him. All right. You're taking on queer. Not some no good killer. I'll see you later. Pablo. Yes? Nothing. There is nothing. I wanted him dead. I didn't want justice. I. I wanted him dead. You didn't know I wanted it lethal, but I wanted him dead. I'm going to get a drink. Will I bring the bottle? Now? I. Excuse me. Wait, Doc. Doc. Where are you going? D. 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 woman weary mother. Then he rode back to Frenchman's Ford and began life again.
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been listening to Dr. Six Gun Doc Six Gun is played by Carl Weber and Pablo by William Griffith. Today's script was written by Ernest Kanoy. Heard in the cast were Edwin Bruce as Eddie, Denise Alexander as Mary, William Keane as Matt, and Wendell Holmes as the sheriff SA. Doctor 6 gun, starring Carl Weber as the frontier doctor with William Griffiths as Pablo. The Wandering Gypsy has come to you through the worldwide facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio and and Television Service. Foreign.
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