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Foreign 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 is one of over 80 episodes released monthly for your enjoyment. Now, let's get into this episode. Here's adventure, here's romance. Here's the famous Robin Hood of the Old west way. Pancho Bono, the Cisco Kids. Now, the Cisco Kid in our exciting story, the sheriff's brother. In the old southwest of the 1870s, Woody Halston was a vicious killer, subject to black moods of hate and vengeance. For a time, he would hold sway in one section of the country. Then suddenly, he would strike in another, perhaps under another name. But when he finally was arrested, it was by his brother, Sheriff Dave Halston of Sage Corners. Now, as our story opens, Woody and the henchman, Sam Clor, are just breaking their way out of their cell. That cell bar's getting loose now, Sam. Couple more Yanks ought to do it. Now lay hold. Yeah, yeah. Now, Woody, once more. We'll have it. Yep. Bend your back. Now we can get out of here. Going out through your brother's office, Woody? I sure am. I hope he's there. If he is, he'll be a dead man in five more minutes. We got no gun. The leg of that bench will do the trick. Come on, Sam. Go quiet. Wait a minute. Let's listen. All quiet in the office, Woody. Yeah, maybe. That don't mean anything, David. A deputy may be there. Get ready to rush, Sam, as I open this door. Deputy's asleep. Yeah, he ain't ever gonna wake up. Just let me get behind him. No, that finishes him for keeps. He ain't wearing a gun. You gotta have guns, Woody. Look in that closet, sir. No guns here. Oh, blast it. They're all lookin these desk drawers. Nothing here. They're here. You'd think there'd be an extra gun or too loose in the sheriff's office. They're right. We better not hang around here anymore, Woody. We'll go out along the trail into town and jump the first army that comes along. After we get guns and a horse, we're coming back Here. Here, hand me that pencil, Sam. I'm gonna leave a note on the body of the kidding. Yeah, yeah. To that brother of mine. Dear Dave, you're next. It'll make the buzzer do some thinking. Now, come on, Sam. Let's get out along that. Very soon it gets dark, Cisco. And when it gets dark, Pancho stomach get hungry. I'm well aware of that, Poncho. As soon as we get to the next town, we will stop somewhere and have our supper. That's good. The question is, which of these trails will lead us to it? Down. Oh, they'll hold. P'archa. Think this one, Cisco? You could be right, amigo. I didn't drive this way, Cisco. Oh. I say. Suppose we ask these people in the box board. We ask the peoples in the box. What can I do for you strangers? Which of these trails leads to a town? Seor, the one you're on carries you right smack into Shade's Corners. Gracias, senor. Glad to, senor. Is a good cafe in the town? All pretty fair. What do you think, Maud? Why, the food ain't nothing to brag about. Stranger seems to be all right. Jake, why don't we ask him for supper? Sure, let's do that. My wife and I, we got a little farm close by. We're just coming back from town. Like to offer you our hospitality. If I do say so myself. There ain't a woman in these parts can beat me when it comes to cornbread. Mmm. Cornbread likes Poncho. You are very kind, but Pancho and I are riding south to the Ledge Mountain country. We must get there as quickly as possible. So I think we had better push on. Well, would you be the Cisco Kid? Si, senor. This is mi compaero, Pancho. Cornbread and Pancho. Well, what do you know? We'd be a mighty honor to have the Cisco Kid and his partner as our guest. Wouldn't we, Maud? We sure would, Jade. We heard so much about you again. Gracias. We'll be happy to call upon you on our way back, senora and seor, but right now our business to the south is urgent. All right, then, Cisco. Call me in on your way back. You'll be mighty welcome. Yep. Get up, boys. Come on. They nice to us, Cisco? Very fine people, Poncho. We'll remember them. I would like to visit with them, Poncho, but our friends in the Ledge Mountain country need our help against the bandido. Mickey Denver. Who? Mickey Denver. Cisco, I have an idea. He is the notorious Woody Halston. Poncho going under another name. That is Hoston's method. In any event, we must get there as quickly as we can. Up the other car. Logo no more, comrade. Logo no more. Com. You ready now, Sam? Here's a couple of riders coming. Yeah, you got that club, but I got nothing to use. Woody, use one of them rocks. Hold it tight in your fist. All you got to do is Jump down on them as they ride by. All right. Which one you want me to take? Take the second one. Right. I'll take the one ahead. Make this good now, Sam. We need them horses and guns. How far can you stand, Cisco? Oh, it cannot be very far enough, Buncho. Great gun, Twitty. Cisco Kid. Never mind. I'm taking Cisco. All right. My career. What is this? Find out what it is. Come on, horse. You skinny one, you. Hey. I will come down off this horse. Nobody. Now we will see what is what. Five to four. I need some. He not good no more. We know. Puncho. Try to arrange matters. Somebody will do the same. Knock the UMB down. Come on. What's the matter? We go after them, Chiso. No, no. Let them go, Chico. We cannot waste time going after them. We must be on our way. Come on. She greet Scott. Deputy. Deputy dead. Hey, boys, come over here quick. Thunder. This is terrible. Terrible. What's the matter, Sheriff? Deputy's been struck down. Killed. Here's a note. Been to his coat. Let me see what it says. Dear Dave, you're next. No name signed, but that's my brother's handwriting. What? Let me look out in that cell. He got away, him and Sam. Both boys gotta get a posse out right away after that scoundrel of a brother of mine. It's his life of mine. So if you're same, shoot to kill. Ah, there's the town down there, Pancho. See, it's twilight now, Cisco. And they put on the lamp, see? As soon as we get through this grove, we'll be in the town and we will look for a cafe. Yeah. What is trouble, you, diablo? What's trouble, you loco? Better stop and look the situation over. It's there, boys. Hey, stop. Open up on us, Santos. What is this? Over among the trees, Diablo, come on. Take the trees where we're going. Down, boy. Now the sheriff Poncho. Yeah, he likes his shoes automatic Sheriff. What do you think you are shooting at? Hold on your guns and come up with your hands up. Woody. Woody. You too, Sam. You have the wrong one, Sheriff. We are not Woody and Sam. Not Sam and Woody either. You sure don't look like him. Ride out this way slow. Hold your pile, boy. Very well. Come on, devil. Come on, Lou. Come on. Come on. That's near enough. Now keep your hands up so I can get over there and get a look at you strangers. Yes, I owe you an apology. I thought you were somebody else. We will accept your apology, senor Sheriff. But next time I hope you will last before you shoot, some of your bullets nearly hit us. Well, maybe I'm a might jumpy. Woody Halston's a bad ombre. Even if he is my brother, Woody Harston. Your brother? Shane? Hell, yeah. Had him in jail. He escaped. Left a note saying he was going to get me. And he will, too, unless I get him first. Woody Holston. I would like to talk to you about him. Sheriff Pancho and I have come a long way to help the law bring in that hombre. See, Sheriff Cisco helped you get that hombre Cisco. Ah, there's Cisco Kid. That's what I'm called, Sheriff. Two hombres jumped Pancho me back along the trail. They could have been the ones you were after. And let's go get him. As you wish, Sheriff, but Poncho and I will ride onto the cafe. There's little use trying to track down anyone in the dark. Yeah, you're right about that, Cisco. I'll go back to cafe with you. We'll talk things over. And I sure hope you can help me land Woody. I'll have your supper fixed for you in just a minute, Jake. Oh, no hurry. I do wish Cisco and Poncho could be with us. I'd like to hear Cisco tell of his experiences rounding up all them criminals. From what I hear, Cisco, he ain't much of a hand for talking about himself. Well, anyway, I wish he'd come back with us. And I do hope he stays in this country for a time. Jake makes me nervous knowing that awful Woody Halston's around here. But Woody's behind bars. He's in jail, Maud. Yes, but even so, that jail ain't any too good. You know, Sheriff lets things slide. Oh, quit your worrying and put that food on the table. Sit down. Then. Listen. What I heard. Somebody come up onto the porch. I guess I was mistaken, though. Hope you wasn't mistaken. Shut the door, Sam. Yeah, just in time for supper. By thunderbolt, it's Woody Hoxton. That's right, mister. You stay right where you are. Sam, get them guns and ammunition belt hanging from the wall. Sure will, Woody. What are you going to do with that club? I'll show you, man. Let her get away, Woody. You can't do nothing. Let her go. We'll eat up this grub, Sam, and we'll saddle a couple of horses and ride back to town. I ain't only going to kill my brother, Dave. I'm going to take that town apart so they won't ever forget me. And I'm going to do it Tonight you smell nice in this cafe. Say, Poncho, but stop that sniffing or they will take you for a bloodhound. And I guess Poncho's ready to put on the feedback. Ready for the feedback. Let's check our guns, boys. Rule this cafe. And hang him up on this rack, see? Say, you're sheriff. Now. There's a table we can sit at. I want to corner. I'll sit so I can watch the door. It's a good idea. Now, as I was saying about my brother Woody, he's always been a bad hombre, ever since he was a boy. He'll be coming back after me. And when he does it. What's the trouble, Maud had William Austin. He come to our place, sheriff, and he struck down Jacob. Afraid he killed him. Well, by thunder, is it seniority school, see? All right, Martin, I'll go right out there, why don't you and I will go with you, Sheriff. Drive your horses right into the camp. My Sheriff Santos. Let us get our guns. Well, if it ain't my brother Sam and the Ombre to give me his black eye. Open up on him. I turn a feeling. It looks as if Cisco, Pancho and the sheriff have small chance of escaping. In just a minute, we'll return to the Cisco Kid. Now back to the Cisco Kid in our exciting story, the Sheriff's Brother. When the escape killers Woody Halston and Sam Fluor returned to the town of Sage Corners to kill Woody's brother, the sheriff, they rode their horses into the cafe where the sheriff, the Cisco and Poncho was about to eat. At once, pandemonium broke loose as customers rushed to get out. Then Woody saw our friend. Hey, come, Jared. Sam, let him have it. Look out, Sheriff Poncho. Our gun's on the rack. He's as good. Oh. Oh. I got him, Sam. Are you coyotes? If I can get my hands on you for that. Get out of here, Woody. Pancho, those guns. Hurry. Down. Down, Pancho. Be down. That'll shut him on. Raise once. All right, Sing about the door. I saw the whole thing, senora. Let me have a look at his wound. Bad wound, Cisco. Some of you carry the sheriff holds the doctors. Careful now. Be very gentle with him. Easy there. Can't you do something about the murderers? We can, senora. I can tell you this much. I never wanted to get my hands on any Omri so much as I do on that Woody Harson. Come on, Poncho. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, hey, Woody. Woody. I just been back mixing with the crowd. I say your Brother's going to pull through. What do you mean, sir? My bullets got him for keeps. All I know is what they're saying. He's over the docks now, and they say he's going to get better. Oh, he is, huh? And if I got anything to say about it. We'll ride back there, Sam, and go into the doc's house. And I'll finish Dave Hoff. Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. What about that Cisco Kid? Well, what about him? He's around this town somewhere. Talk is he's looking for us. Let him look. He's bad medicine, Woody. How, so am I. I can take that Cisco Kid anytime. Well, just the same, let's be smart about it. How about this, Woody? Right now, we're at one end of the town, and I figure Cisco's at the other, near where the doc's house is. Now, suppose. Suppose we was to set this barn on fire. That'd draw him here, wouldn't it? Maybe. There's an idea. Sam, get down off your horse and we'll set her a gone. It's the safest way. You can make a circle back. And while Cisco's here, I can get into the doc's house. It's all dry straw to get her going quick. I'll kick a little some of this against the wall. Here's a match, Tom. Finger off, Sam. Yeah, she sure blazes up. Now, come on, let's get out of here. What we do now, Shisco? We ought to stop for a moment, Poncho. Slow down, Loco. Yeah, there's nothing more we can do at the moment, amigo. We've asked at least a dozen people if they've seen those two quietes, and none of them have. You could see in the dark like a gato, Cisco. Say, so do I. But neither of us has the eyes of a cat. No, neither, neither. But all we can do, Poncho, is to wait until morning and then pick up their tracks. Where is yours, Cisco? She went over to the doctors to get him to go with her rancho on a tender husband. The doctor go? I believe so, Chico. Now he's made the sheriff comfortable. What if the bandidos go out to the rancho, too, Cisco? They might, Pancho, they might. I've just been thinking of that. The question is whether we should ride out there in case they decide to go there or to remain here in the town in case the bandido hears his brother not dead. See? Perhaps you don't know how one brother can kill another brother because that Woody Holston Is a devil, Pancho. He hates his brother that much more for arresting him. Hey, look. Look, Wanjo. You fire Cisco. Hey, at the other end of the town, Bandidos may be there, see? But wait, wait, Wancho, wait. That may be a trick. I do not know. In any event, let us do this. Ride to that fire. Be prepared to ride back here fast if we see no sign of the bandidos. No san die bandidos. Bob Dell, come on. This is far enough, Sam. Oh, boy. Well, I can see everything from here in the light of that fire. Now watch for Cisco and the fat one. Yeah, that fire sure is drawing all the rest of the town there. Yeah, but we don't care nothing about them. I don't see Cisco. Neither do I. Maybe he rode on through town, Sam. Maybe he had enough. Yeah, maybe. And I wouldn't count on it. From all I hear, that hombre likes to mix into things. Hey, look. Look. Ain't that Cisco riding towards the fire now? Sure is no mistaking that big horse. And the fat one's with him, too. Now's our chance to get back to the doc's house, Sam. Come on, let's go get a bad boy. Oh, you think fire, Chico. Hey, there's no possible chance of saving that barn. Pay no attention to fire. Poncho. Keep your eyes open for those two bandidos. P. Keep his eyes open, Chico, but fast. And I can see the bandidos. Let us ride on fast. This way, amigo. Off D. Come on. Go now. Go. Go. They set that fire. The chances are they would hide somewhere close. Close to spy in order to watch it. Hey, wait. Wait. Two riders won't get up. Just went over the crest of that hill. Pancho. For that hole. The bandidosis. I could not tell. They were too far away. But they are riding towards the other end of the town. We'll go back, Pancho. Up there. Come on now. Go. Go. Come on now. Come. Go. Go. Madre. Romeo. I believe it was a trick to get us to this end of the town Is troublesome. That may be there, Pancho. They're up ahead of us. They get off their horses in front of the doctor. Cisco. They are the bandiros. I'm sure of it. Now they run for the house, too. She's gone. Only the door is locked. It will give us a moment more to get there. Poncho. Shoot at them, but not to kill. But aren't you not to hit them anyway? She's called B. Now the door is locked. Get back away from that house you care now they run back to the water. She's going. Little too late for that now. The mavericks right in the Come on. The last time you will fire a gun long time. Now we can settle this with our fist that you shoot is you. H you take that gun with the footwear enough arm to take. I'm waiting for these killers now. I'm going to make the most of it. Now, you leave your jaw exposed like that just to make sure. This will help. So will this. That hombre old truce is cold. So it seems, Pancho. At least for the time being. So you are coming back to kill your brother, Woody Harston, alias Mickey Denver? I got nothing to say. Me. Me neither. There is no need for you to say anything. I will say it for you this time, hombres. You are going to a jail that will hold you and keep you from being lynched. Let's tie them up and get them out of here in a hurry. Poncho. So you took him over the mountain to Sage City, Cisco? Si, seora. Cisco not dare to put the hombres in the Sage Corners jail, senora. Not with the people of this town. As fighting matters they were. Was the only thing we could do. Now, tell me, senora, how is the senora? Oh, he's going to be all right, Cisco. The doctor said he just had a slight concussion. Nothing serious. Well, I'm happy for you, senora. Aren't you happy for the senora, too? Yes, and I'm mighty glad the sheriff's gonna get better, too. Say, there is also good news. He's the best news. Pancho. What are you sniffing at, Pancho? Smell something good, Cisco? Why, it must be that cornbread I'm making out in the kitchen. See? It is a cornbread. Pancho is not polite to sniff that way. Where are your manners? Now, you let Fancho alone, Cisco. He can have all that cornbread he wants. And a lot of good steak to go with it. And some fried potatoes and gooseberry pie. Pancho not say? No, senor. Pancho say. How about you, Cisco? Well, see, see? For once, senora, I believe I can eat as much as Pancho. Do you not know what you say, Cisco? You think Pancho fat Now, wait till Pancho get through with his meal. Pancho meal like a balloon. It was a good meal. Oh, it was a wonderful meal. The steak and the cornbread and the gooseberry pie. Pancho is Big Maria cook like this. Well, is not Big Maria a good cook, Pancho Big Maria nice. She's not a good cook. Well, how do you know she is not? She cooked something for Pancho once. She and Pancho tastes and says, who spilled mustard on this pancake? Who spilled mustard on the pancake? And what did Big Maria say to that, Chico? Big Maria say, that's not a pancake, Pancho, that a lemon pie. Oh, well, Big Maria may not be a good cook, Pancho, but she's very pleasant. Big Maria very pleasant. Cisco, Big Maria could marry anybody she Please, please. She could marry anyone she pleased. Anyone she pleased. Well, then why is Big Maria still single? Because she never pleased nobody. Oh, Poncho. Oh, she. And so ends another exciting adventure with O. Henry's famous Robin Hood of the west, the Cisco Kid. Be sure to listen again for another thrilling adventure of the Cisco Kid. Cisco Kid was played by Jack Mather, Poncho by Harry. This has been a presentation of otrwesterns.com and we hope you enjoyed. Please take some time to like and rate this episode within your favorite podcast application. Follow us on Facebook by going to otrwesterns.com Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube channel by going to otrwesterns.Com YouTube become one of our ranch hands and unlock some exclusive content. We want to thank the following ranch hand, Steve, who joined us recently. 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