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Jingles
Oh, no.
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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.
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Wild Bill Hickok
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Liberty Mutual Insurance Customer
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Jingles
Oh, no.
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United States Marshal Wild Bill Hickok was the greatest of the law officers of the Old west. And his big deputy, Jingles, wasn't far behind. But one time Jingles got the idea that he'd like to be even better. And that started plenty of trouble in the case of the dead man's dollar.
Wild Bill Hickok
Bill. Before we go to the office, I've just got to stop in at the post office.
Bill (Deputy)
You expecting some mail?
Wild Bill Hickok
Pardon? I sure am. And it's mighty all fired important too.
Bill (Deputy)
All right, let's go in,
Wild Bill Hickok
Newell. I see Tookie's still alive.
Bill (Deputy)
What's so surprising about that? He's a healthy old boy.
Wild Bill Hickok
I know, but he's so old, Bill.
Jingles
I hear that, Ginger, you overgrown buffalo.
Wild Bill Hickok
I don't care if you did, Tookie. You know you're 50 years older than a turtle and they live to be awful old.
Jingles
Why, I'm 71 and I got more ginger than you'll have when you're 40.
Wild Bill Hickok
71. Tookie. I heard that you started the first post office in the United States when George Washington was president.
Jingles
Now you looky here, Jingle.
Bill (Deputy)
Hold it, hold it, you two. Cut out the fighting or we'll never get any work done tonight.
Jingles
He makes me say, dad, blame man.
Wild Bill Hickok
Why do you think I do a Tookie? You blow up like a Fourth of July pinwheel.
Bill (Deputy)
How about a Tookie? You got any mail for Jingles?
Jingles
Yeah, there is. I don't know whether I'll give it to him or not.
Wild Bill Hickok
You better, you old goat, or I'll run you in for delaying government mail. I'm a United States official too, you know.
Jingles
Here you are, Jingles. Looks like a book or something. Oh, and Bill, here's a mighty official looking letter for you, too.
Wild Bill Hickok
Well, it finally got here.
Bill (Deputy)
Thanks, Tookie.
Wild Bill Hickok
Come on, Bill, we gotta get over to the office.
Bill (Deputy)
I never saw you in such a hurry to get to work. But if that's the way you feel, come on.
Wild Bill Hickok
So long, Tookie. Take care of yourself. You're an old man, you know. Old man?
Jingles
Why, you Big balloon. I'll be handing out letters here when you're in a rocking chair at the old folks home.
Wild Bill Hickok
Old Tookie sure sails when you call him an old man, Bill.
Bill (Deputy)
You want to watch out for him, Jingles. He's almost spry enough to give you a good fight sometime. Hey, what'd you get in the mail?
Wild Bill Hickok
Huh? Oh, nothing, Bill. Just a book I wrote away for.
Bill (Deputy)
Since when did you take up reading, Bill?
Wild Bill Hickok
I always read. I'm not stupid, you know.
Bill (Deputy)
Well, what's the book about?
Wild Bill Hickok
Well, maybe I better not tell you till I study it a little bit.
Bill (Deputy)
Here's the office jingle. You go first.
Wild Bill Hickok
Well, thank you, Bill.
Bill (Deputy)
Well, okay, partner. You can tell me about the book later. Then we've got a little official business to take care of.
Wild Bill Hickok
Well, you'll probably find out anyhow. And this is kind of official business, too. I sent away clear to Boston and got a book on how to be a detective.
Bill (Deputy)
A detective?
Wild Bill Hickok
Sure. What's wrong with that?
Bill (Deputy)
Nothing. I just can't imagine a detective chasing rustlers and stagecoach robbers.
Wild Bill Hickok
Well, you see, Bill, they didn't have any books on how to be a deputy United States Marshal. And I've been thinking that I. Well, that I needed some more education. So I sent for the best book that they had.
Bill (Deputy)
You're a pretty fair lawman already, Jingles.
Wild Bill Hickok
Yeah, but you're so much better than I am, Bill. I just thought I could catch up a little bit.
Bill (Deputy)
Well, it always pays to learn as much as you can about your job.
Wild Bill Hickok
Yeah. Look what comes with the book, Bill. Whole detective outfit. Here's a magnifying glass, some false mustaches and even a pair of handcuffs.
Bill (Deputy)
I think you better use your own handcuffs, Jingles. Those don't look like they'd hold some of the owl hoots we kid.
Wild Bill Hickok
No, they don't. Well, maybe the crooks run littler back in Boston. I never been there, you know.
Bill (Deputy)
Well, I'm glad to see you take such an interest in your work, Jingles.
Wild Bill Hickok
Well, thank you.
Bill (Deputy)
Because this letter I got this morning puts us on a real big case.
Wild Bill Hickok
It does? Good. I'm ready for it. The bigger, the better. What kind of case, Bill?
Bill (Deputy)
Counterfeiting.
Wild Bill Hickok
Counterfeiting? Say, that's real important. I'll just look it up in the book and see how to catch them counterfeiters. Now, let's see. Counterfeiters.
Bill (Deputy)
K. Try it with a C, partner.
Wild Bill Hickok
Huh? Oh, yes. C. O. Here it is. Ain't the way oughta spelled it. Page 87.
Bill (Deputy)
There's a gang somewhere around here turning out phony silver dollars. Headquarters wants us to get on the trail right away.
Wild Bill Hickok
Here it is. Here it is, Bill. Counterfeiting. The counterfeiter is one of the most dangerous types of criminal. He us down digging, somebody shooting at us. Jingles, keep your head down. But, Bill, I gotta get that book off the desk.
Bill (Deputy)
Forget about that book till we spot that bushwhacker. Must be across the street there somewhere.
Wild Bill Hickok
But, Bill. That's why I sent for the book. Keep down.
Bill (Deputy)
I saw the smoke that time.
Wild Bill Hickok
I got it, Bill. Now wait till I look and find out what to do. When you're shot at, don't bother to
Bill (Deputy)
look it up, Jingle.
Wild Bill Hickok
Just shoot back.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Agent
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Liberty Mutual Insurance Customer
Hey, everyone. Check out this guy and his bird. What is this, your first date?
Jingles
Oh, no.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Agent
We help people customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual together. We're married. Me to a human, him to a bird.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Customer
Yeah, the bird looks out of your league.
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Liberty Mutual Insurance Customer
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Tammy (Geico Subconscious News)
Mom, can you tell me a story?
Liberty Mutual Insurance Customer
Sure. Once upon a time, a mom needed a new car.
Tammy (Geico Subconscious News)
Was she brave?
Liberty Mutual Insurance Customer
She was tired mostly. But she went to Carvana.com and found a great car at a great price. No secret treasure map required.
Tammy (Geico Subconscious News)
Did you have to fight a dragon?
Liberty Mutual Insurance Customer
Nope. She bought it 100% online from her bed, actually.
Bill (Deputy)
Was it scary?
Liberty Mutual Insurance Customer
Honey, it was as unscary as car buying could be.
Tammy (Geico Subconscious News)
Did the car have a sunroof?
Liberty Mutual Insurance Customer
It did, actually.
Wild Bill Hickok
Okay, good story.
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Charlie Lyon
Hear that, kids? That's the way. From his treetop post, a squirrel passes along the information there's danger afoot coming along through the woods. Yep, it's really surprising how a sound like a squirrel makes can tell you so much about what's up.
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Kind of like the way Rice Krispies prepare you for what's to come. When you pour on milk or cream. The way these golden brown morsels speak right up and say, snap, crackle, pop.
Charlie Lyon
Yep, that fresh, crisp goodness of Kellogg's Rice Krispies. The minute they start peeping. Snap, crackle and pop. You can bet your boots you'll have crispy fresh cereal eaten.
Kellogg's Rice Krispies Announcer
And if I could add a suggestion.
Wild Bill Hickok
Yeah, sure.
Charlie Lyon
Go right ahead, Charlie. Rice Krispies don't do all the talking around here, though. They sure could, for my money.
Kellogg's Rice Krispies Announcer
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Bill (Deputy)
Mm.
Charlie Lyon
And however you eat them, remember there's only one Rice Krispies and it's the world's only talking cereal. The cereal that goes snap, crackle, pop. And now here's the sound I'd like you to make partners.
Wild Bill Hickok
Speak right up.
Charlie Lyon
And tell mom to fetch home a big box of Kellogg's Rice Krispies the next time she goes to the store.
Kellogg's Rice Krispies Announcer
Wild Bill and Jingles, sitting in the marshal's office in Santa Fe and discussing a new counterfeiting case, were fired on by a sniper somewhere across the street. While Jingles looked frantically through his how to be a detective book, Wild Bill spotted a puff of smoke and fired back.
Wild Bill Hickok
Did you get him, Bill?
Bill (Deputy)
He ran down the alley back of the hotel. Come on, Jingles.
Wild Bill Hickok
I got my book, Bill.
Bill (Deputy)
Never mind the book. Check your guns. This gent tried to kill us.
Wild Bill Hickok
Just wait til we catch up with him. I'll teach him not to shoot out our front window.
Bill (Deputy)
Hold it, partner.
Wild Bill Hickok
Sounds like a horse.
Jingles
It is.
Bill (Deputy)
Going down the other side of the street and really moving. Well, won't catch him this time.
Wild Bill Hickok
Who do you think it was, Bill?
Bill (Deputy)
It's our dry gulcher, all right. What I can't figure out is why he shot at us in the first place.
Wild Bill Hickok
Well, maybe there's something in the book that'll explain it.
Bill (Deputy)
Shouldn't take a detective to figure this one out.
Wild Bill Hickok
Well, we can at least do it scientifically. It says here in chapter one that the first thing to do is look for clues.
Bill (Deputy)
All right, we got plenty of clues, Jingles. Here's where he stood in the alley and watched us come into the office.
Wild Bill Hickok
Boot tracks in the dust.
Bill (Deputy)
Yeah. Stood here for quite a while too. Half a dozen cigarettes been stomped out.
Wild Bill Hickok
Yeah. Who sure help, don't they, Bill?
Bill (Deputy)
There's a print of his knee where he got down. Leaned his rifle against the building.
Wild Bill Hickok
How do you know it was a rifle?
Bill (Deputy)
Empty cartridge cases.32 caliber. And the man was a bad shot. Clues tell you that if he wasn't a bad shot with a rifle at 20 yards, one of us would be dead by now.
Wild Bill Hickok
Oh, we're pretty lucky, huh?
Bill (Deputy)
Sure are.
Wild Bill Hickok
You think he might try to get us again, Bill?
Bill (Deputy)
I'm pretty sure he will.
Wild Bill Hickok
Let me look in the book.
Bill (Deputy)
What are you looking for now?
Wild Bill Hickok
I want to know what to do in case he don't miss. And I accidentally get killed.
Bill (Deputy)
What are you doing with that magnifying glass, Jingles?
Wild Bill Hickok
I'm studying the clues. These cartridges are.32 caliber, all right.
Bill (Deputy)
Sure says so right on them. I can see it from here.
Wild Bill Hickok
Oh, yeah? What are you doing, Bill?
Bill (Deputy)
Well, I've been going back over all the records of counterfeiters here in the Southwest.
Wild Bill Hickok
Oh yeah? Studying the records. I haven't got to that yet. Maybe it's in chapter two.
Bill (Deputy)
There's only one man I can find that has enough experience to make good silver dollars.
Wild Bill Hickok
Who's that, Bill?
Bill (Deputy)
There's an old time counterfeiter named Jason Beach.
Wild Bill Hickok
Jason Beach. Oh yeah, I remember him. But we sent him to prison for making ten dollar bills that were worth ten cents a dozen.
Bill (Deputy)
That was five years ago, Jingles. Jason got out on parole just a couple of months ago.
Wild Bill Hickok
And you think maybe he came back to Santa Fe, huh?
Bill (Deputy)
Maybe. He said he was going to kill me when he got out, you know?
Wild Bill Hickok
Then maybe he's the bum shot that tried it this morning.
Bill (Deputy)
Could be. It's the best lead we've got anyway.
Wild Bill Hickok
A lead, huh? That's what it says in the book. When you get a lead from the clues, you follow it up. Which way we gonna follow it, Bill?
Bill (Deputy)
Let's take a picture of beach over to Tookie at the post office and see if our man's been around. You know, Tookie sees just about everybody in the county sooner or later.
Wild Bill Hickok
That's a good idea. Tookie may be older than a bald headed mountain goat, but he don't miss a thing. Thing.
Jingles
Jingles P. Jones. What are you doing wearing that big waller's mustache, Tooky?
Wild Bill Hickok
Dad blame it. Now you ain't supposed to recognize me. I'm the sky.
Jingles
The sky. Oh, fooy. Might as well try to disguise Camelback Mountain.
Wild Bill Hickok
None of your smart cracks, you old stamp canceller. I'm on a real important case.
Jingles
Well, when 300 pounds of buckskin fringe comes a walking in here with Wild Bill Hickok, it don't take me too long to figure out who it is. What do you want?
Bill (Deputy)
It's who we want, Tookie. You seen anybody that looks like the man in these pictures lately?
Jingles
Let me get my specs on. Hey, working on a big case, huh, Jingles?
Wild Bill Hickok
Sure am. I call it the case of the Silver Dollar Dry Gulcher. Us big detectives usually have names for our cases, you know.
Jingles
Oh, you do, huh?
Wild Bill Hickok
Sure do. That's how they do it in Boston.
Bill (Deputy)
How about it, Tookie? Have you seen him?
Jingles
Well now, maybe have. Maybe Have Bill. His hair was a little shorter, a little darker.
Bill (Deputy)
He could have had it dyed and cut. You know, that picture was taken almost five years ago.
Jingles
Then I think of seeing your man Bill. Comes in here now and then to pick up letters out of General Delivery. What's his name?
Bill (Deputy)
Jason Beach.
Jingles
Jason beach, huh? Nope. This feller's name was Trivet. Lemuel Trivet. Letters come addressed to him care of the Copperhead Mine.
Bill (Deputy)
He could have had his name changed easy enough. Where is this Copperhead mine?
Jingles
Oh, out the river Road, about 10 mile. But, Billy, it's been shut down for years. All played out. Gold's gone.
Wild Bill Hickok
Well, we'll go take a look anyway. Us detectives never overlook any bets, you know.
Bill (Deputy)
That's right, Jingles. There's just a chance that somebody's taking silver out of that mine now. Big, round, counterfeit silver doll,
Wild Bill Hickok
Bill. That must be the Copperhead mine right ahead of us.
Bill (Deputy)
Looks like it. I don't see any signs of life.
Wild Bill Hickok
Well, I hope we don't. If anybody's in there and sees us coming, they're liable to fly out of that mine tunnel. Shoot. Think I'll need a disguise or a magnifying glass or anything, Bill?
Bill (Deputy)
No, just bring your book, Jingles. There's somebody waiting for us in there. You can hit him over the head with.
Wild Bill Hickok
Oh, now, cut it out, Bill. Hey, look. Somebody's hung a door on that old shaft entrance.
Bill (Deputy)
Yeah, looks like it's been done pretty recently, too.
Wild Bill Hickok
Got a padlock on it, but it's unlocked.
Bill (Deputy)
Well, open it up. But be ready for anything dark in here, Bill. Strike a match, Jingle.
Wild Bill Hickok
Oh, yeah.
Bill (Deputy)
Well, look at that going in.
Wild Bill Hickok
Fixed up like a house in here. Furniture and everything. Break the paper.
Bill (Deputy)
I saw a lamp on the table here. I'll light it, Bill.
Wild Bill Hickok
Somebody must be living here for sure. But he ain't here now.
Bill (Deputy)
Well, let's take a look and see what we can find.
Wild Bill Hickok
Nothing much but the bed and the table and the stove and a few chairs.
Bill (Deputy)
Two beds, Jingles, and both of them have been slept in.
Wild Bill Hickok
That's a clue, ain't it?
Bill (Deputy)
Seems like at least two men are holing up in here. Come on, let's look farther back in the tunnel.
Wild Bill Hickok
I'll bring the lamp. This sure would be a good place for counterfeiters to hide out.
Bill (Deputy)
Seems like it. I'm hoping we can find a coin press and some silver. We might just do that somewhere back in here too.
Wild Bill Hickok
Bill. Wait a minute.
Bill (Deputy)
What is it?
Wild Bill Hickok
Right there at the edge of the light. Looks like somebody lying on the ground, Bill.
Bill (Deputy)
Yeah, shot in the back.
Wild Bill Hickok
Is he dead, Bill?
Bill (Deputy)
He sure is.
Wild Bill Hickok
Looks sort of familiar.
Bill (Deputy)
He should. This is the man we're after, Jason Beach.
Wild Bill Hickok
Jason Beach, Bill. That bust the whole case wide open. After all our clues and everything, some low down criminal went and shot our criminal before we caught him.
Bill (Deputy)
What does the buck say about that jingle?
Wild Bill Hickok
Now wait a minute.
Bill (Deputy)
Now look, you ought to be almost up to the last chapter by now.
Wild Bill Hickok
I am. I'm just starting it. Here we are.
Bill (Deputy)
I can hardly wait to hear this.
Wild Bill Hickok
You are now beginning the last chapter of our detective course. When you have finished it, write to us, General Delivery, Boston. And we will mail you a handsomely printed framed diploma. Well, what do you think of that? Somebody shot out the lamp.
Bill (Deputy)
Get down, Pointer. No telling how those Sluggo bounce coming down this tunnel.
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Tammy (Geico Subconscious News)
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Bill (Deputy)
And that's great.
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Bill (Deputy)
it's chock full of social obligations that are ready to fill that void.
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Charlie Lyon
Charlie, I brought my guitar along today.
Wild Bill Hickok
Well, good.
Kellogg's Rice Krispies Announcer
Are you gonna play us a tune?
Charlie Lyon
Well, sir, I'm gonna play a little song the kids all know. It's a song, but it's only got three notes. Oh, I see.
Kellogg's Rice Krispies Announcer
Well, okay, Johnny. Three notes. Let's hear it.
Bill (Deputy)
Snap, crackle, pop.
Kellogg's Rice Krispies Announcer
Snap, crackle pop. I might have known you'd play the breakfast music. The kids tune in most every morning. Kellogg's Rice Krispies. Snap, crackle Pop. Now Slim, how about telling us why Kellogg's Rice Krispies sound off like that when you pour milk or cream over them.
Charlie Lyon
All right.
Bill (Deputy)
Snap, crackle, Pop.
Charlie Lyon
Yep. The reason Kellogg's Rice Krispies go snap, crackle, Pop is that they're so crisp and fresh. When you pour on milk or cream they just speak right up and tell you all about it. Tell you in that cheery snap, Crackle and pop language that they're crisp as crisp can be.
Kellogg's Rice Krispies Announcer
Slim is right. Yes, sir. So why don't you ask mom real nice, like to bring home a package of the world's only talking cereal, Kellogg's Rice Krispies. Just as they had found the dead counterfeiter, Jason Beach, Wild Bill, Hickok and Jingles were fired on from farther back in the old mine tunnel. As they dropped to the floor, another shot came ricocheting along the rocky walls.
Wild Bill Hickok
Bill, I don't like your a little bit. Even if he can't see us in the dark, he stands a good chance of bouncing the bullet into us.
Bill (Deputy)
Maybe that'll move him back a little bit. We've got just as good chance as he has.
Wild Bill Hickok
I want a better chance than he has.
Bill (Deputy)
Follow me, Jingles.
Wild Bill Hickok
Where, Bill?
Bill (Deputy)
I thought I saw a wide place in the tunnel before the light went out. All along the side here.
Wild Bill Hickok
I wish you'd cut that out in here. Now this is more than a wide place, Bill. The wall just disappeared.
Bill (Deputy)
It's a side tunnel or a room of some kind. Well, we're out of his line of fire anyhow. I'm gonna strike a match and see where we are.
Wild Bill Hickok
It is a room, Bill. And look over there.
Bill (Deputy)
Yeah, stacks of lead and a few bars of silver.
Wild Bill Hickok
That proves it, Bill. Counterfeiters.
Bill (Deputy)
Not quite. Jingles, strike another match, will ya?
Wild Bill Hickok
All right.
Bill (Deputy)
Ah, maybe this will help us prove it though.
Wild Bill Hickok
Where'd you get the silver dollar?
Bill (Deputy)
The hand of the dead man outside there. I'll bet there's not much silver in it either.
Wild Bill Hickok
It's as phony as a nine dollar, Bill.
Bill (Deputy)
Sure is. Keep it for evidence. Now if we can just find that coin press.
Wild Bill Hickok
Well, our little playmate out there with the six gun might make that a little tough, Bill.
Bill (Deputy)
I'll just bet that coin press and the dies are back where he is too.
Kellogg's Rice Krispies Announcer
Dan.
Wild Bill Hickok
Let him stay there. So dark in this old mine I can't find my nose with both hands. I ain't going out in the tunnel and light any matches. Not with that trigger happy gent watching. Hey, Hickok, Billy knows who we are.
Jingles
Sure I know who you are. Jingles, you big ape.
Wild Bill Hickok
Don't you call me no ape. Who are you?
Jingles
Jack B.
Wild Bill Hickok
We know him, Bill, but he ain't no counterfeiter.
Bill (Deputy)
No, he's a cattle rustler. But he's a pretty hard case, gen, any way you look at him.
Wild Bill Hickok
What do you want, babe?
Jingles
I decided to give up. Light a lantern and come on back here.
Wild Bill Hickok
I won't shoot. He gives up awful easy.
Bill (Deputy)
Too easy.
Wild Bill Hickok
You light a lantern back there and
Bill (Deputy)
we'll come on back.
Wild Bill Hickok
That's better. If we stepped out in that tunnel with a light in our hands, you'd drill us plum center.
Jingles
Okay, Hickok, I got a light going.
Bill (Deputy)
Come on, let's go. Jingles, keep your gun handy at all times.
Wild Bill Hickok
I don't like it, Bill. I don't like it at all. I'm just sure there must be a trick into it somewhere.
Bill (Deputy)
Maybe so, but we weren't getting anywhere back there in the dark.
Wild Bill Hickok
There he is, Billy.
Bill (Deputy)
I see him. Sit real still, Bait, till we get there. Don't worry, Hickok.
Jingles
I got a lot of explaining to do.
Wild Bill Hickok
You sure have, you gun happy, bushwhacker.
Jingles
I. I just want to get things straight, Marshall. I didn't have nothing to do with this counterfeiting.
Bill (Deputy)
That makes a nice story. What are you doing back in this tunnel with a dead counterfeiter and a room full of lead and silver?
Jingles
I had another deal on with Beach.
Wild Bill Hickok
Something more in your line, like cattle rustling or maybe murder.
Jingles
Something like that. He hired me to kill you.
Wild Bill Hickok
Oh, you're the one that shot at us in the office this morning.
Jingles
That's right.
Bill (Deputy)
Take his gun away from him, Jingles.
Wild Bill Hickok
Sure, Bill. Now hold still, you.
Bill (Deputy)
What was your deal with Beach?
Jingles
I was to get half of his profits from his phony dollars for the next six months. If I got rid of you. I didn't have to do no counterfeiting.
Wild Bill Hickok
But you knew about it.
Bill (Deputy)
Sure.
Jingles
That ain't my business. I want to make a deal with you.
Bill (Deputy)
What sort of a deal?
Jingles
Well, I. I'll show you where he kept the coin press and the dies. You can wrap up your case against him and let me go.
Wild Bill Hickok
Let you go? Sure.
Jingles
I ain't done nothing. I didn't hit you when I shot at you. I had nothing to do with the bum silver dollars. I ain't committed no crime.
Bill (Deputy)
What about the murder of Jason Beach?
Jingles
It wasn't murder, Hickok. He and I argued over my missing you this morning. When he pulled a gun on me, I shot him in self defense. That ain't no crime.
Bill (Deputy)
Maybe you're right. Now, show me that coin. Press.
Wild Bill Hickok
Bill, you ain't falling for this. Liar.
Bill (Deputy)
How about it, babe?
Charlie Lyon
Sure.
Jingles
Look right through this little hole in the wall. I'll hold up the lantern for you.
Wild Bill Hickok
Let me see too, Bill.
Bill (Deputy)
Yep, the press. All right, I got you.
Jingles
Try that, Mr. Gan. I'll get you this time, fella.
Wild Bill Hickok
Stark, I can't see. You stay out of the way.
Bill (Deputy)
Jingles.
Wild Bill Hickok
Try this. You try this bait. I'll strike a match. Bill.
Bill (Deputy)
Oh, get through, babe. You forgot just one thing. You shoot a man in self defense, you never shoot him in the back. We're taking you in for murder.
Wild Bill Hickok
So he did do the killing. How'd you figure that out so fast, Bill?
Bill (Deputy)
Well, it's just one of those things you watch for when you're a law man.
Wild Bill Hickok
Oh, well, maybe I'll learn to watch for him, too. After all, it's been so dark in here and we've been so busy that I haven't had time to read the last chapter in my detective book and send for my diploma.
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Bill (Deputy)
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Wild Bill Hickok
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So long, kids.
Wild Bill Hickok
See you Monday.
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Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Aired: Jan 29, 1954 (Digitally Restored – OTRWesterns.com, April 12, 2026)
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Featured Voices: Guy Madison (Wild Bill Hickok), Andy Devine (Jingles), supporting cast
Restoration and commentary: OTRWesterns.com tribute to golden age Westerns
This episode of Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, "The Case of the Dead Man’s Dollar," follows the lawmen Wild Bill and his big-hearted deputy Jingles as they investigate a wave of counterfeit silver dollars in Santa Fe. The story combines classic frontier action, brisk detective banter, and the playful rivalry between Bill and Jingles, all while spoofing detective tropes and emphasizing the value of learning on the job. The digitally restored audio immerses listeners in the crackling world of old-time radio, complete with lively performances.
1. Jingles’ Detective Ambitions
2. The Counterfeiting Assignment
3. The Search for Clues (Detective Satire)
4. A Visit to Tookie at the Post Office
5. The Mine Investigation & The Dead Man
6. Ambush in the Darkness & More Clues
7. The Confrontation with Bait (The Shooter)
8. Epilogue & Lessons
"The Case of the Dead Man’s Dollar" blends high-stakes Western action with tongue-in-cheek detective parody. Jingles’ enthusiasm for “book learning” and Wild Bill’s steady horse sense provide plenty of comedic and heartfelt moments. The digitally restored sound, lively character interplay, and clever script are a tribute to the timeless charm of radio Westerns, highlighting the enduring appeal of Wild Bill Hickok and his trusty sidekick.
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