WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.320 You are about to hear a story based on actual events to protect the innocent names and places 00:07.320 --> 00:13.440 have been changed. 00:13.440 --> 00:18.920 Auto Light and its 96,000 dealers bring you Mr. Richard Widmark in a story taken from 00:18.920 --> 00:19.920 life. 00:19.920 --> 00:25.000 Tonight's presentation of Suspense. 00:25.000 --> 00:32.720 Tonight, Auto Light presents the hunting of Bob Lee. 00:32.720 --> 00:44.880 The true story about the most famous of all Texas views, starring Mr. Richard Widmark. 00:44.880 --> 00:46.840 Here it comes folks, here it comes. 00:46.840 --> 00:51.720 You're so right Johnny Plug Check, cold weather is on its way and now's the time to take your 00:51.720 --> 00:56.280 car to your neighborhood Auto Light spark plug dealer for a change of oil, grease, some 00:56.280 --> 00:57.280 antifreeze. 00:57.280 --> 00:58.920 And check those spark plugs too. 00:58.920 --> 01:03.120 Right Johnny because the spark plugs are the very heart of your car's ignition system. 01:03.120 --> 01:07.760 And when they're right, your chances of starting even in coldest weather are better than ever. 01:07.760 --> 01:12.240 If your spark plugs are worn out, then your Auto Light spark plug dealer will install ignition 01:12.240 --> 01:17.800 engineered resistor type or standard type Auto Light spark plugs for smoother performance, 01:17.800 --> 01:20.440 quick starts and gas savings. 01:20.440 --> 01:23.080 So prepare for cold weather driving now. 01:23.080 --> 01:24.680 And check those spark plugs too. 01:24.680 --> 01:28.120 Yes friends, see your neighborhood Auto Light spark plug dealer this week. 01:28.120 --> 01:31.800 Just call Western Union by number and ask for operator 25. 01:31.800 --> 01:36.800 She'll quickly tell you the name and location of your nearest Auto Light spark plug dealer. 01:36.800 --> 01:42.400 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 01:42.400 --> 01:48.600 And now with the hunting of Bob Lee and the performance of Mr. Richard Widmark, Auto Light 01:48.600 --> 01:52.600 hopes once again to keep you in suspense. 02:18.600 --> 02:36.600 Lee Ranch, Fannin County, June 26, 1868. 02:36.600 --> 02:40.200 Editors, Texas News, Barnum, Texas. 02:40.200 --> 02:45.800 Gentlemen, if you will permit me the use of your valuable columns, I would like to give 02:45.800 --> 02:50.560 you a true statement on what is known as the pilot grove difficulty. 02:50.560 --> 02:55.280 Notwithstanding that there's been no killing in the village except Dr. Pierce. 02:55.280 --> 02:59.320 But to begin, I was raised in this state. 02:59.320 --> 03:04.720 I came home from the war a hated man, merely because my fortunes had not suffered during 03:04.720 --> 03:07.760 the wars at those of my neighbors. 03:07.760 --> 03:10.640 And that was the basis for the hatred. 03:10.640 --> 03:13.200 I was too prosperous. 03:13.200 --> 03:16.560 They used my habit of dressing as an excuse for the first real trouble. 03:16.560 --> 03:21.600 But when I rode into the village into pilot grove, I wore a black suit and a hat with 03:21.600 --> 03:23.240 a plume in it. 03:23.240 --> 03:25.600 It was that hat that started the trouble. 03:25.600 --> 03:27.640 They were waiting in front of Nelson's saloon. 03:27.640 --> 03:28.640 Hold up, Lee. 03:28.640 --> 03:31.640 We want to talk with you. 03:31.640 --> 03:32.640 Hold that. 03:32.640 --> 03:33.640 Hold that. 03:33.640 --> 03:34.640 Hold that. 03:34.640 --> 03:35.640 Hold that. 03:35.640 --> 03:36.640 What do you have to say to me? 03:36.640 --> 03:39.680 We want to know who you are to be dressing like that. 03:39.680 --> 03:44.000 Are you lauding it over us with your fancy suit and a plume and your hat? 03:44.000 --> 03:45.440 Why should I laude it over anybody? 03:45.440 --> 03:47.080 I dress the way that pleases me. 03:47.080 --> 03:49.440 No man would ever wear a hat like that. 03:49.440 --> 03:51.520 It's for a woman. 03:51.520 --> 03:53.000 I'm wearing it, Evans. 03:53.000 --> 03:54.120 We can see that. 03:54.120 --> 03:55.720 That makes you worse than a woman. 03:55.720 --> 03:57.400 Only one reason you wear it. 03:57.400 --> 03:59.640 You think you're better than us. 03:59.640 --> 04:01.560 Takes more than a plume to make you better. 04:01.560 --> 04:04.840 And I see that hat pulled down around your neck. 04:04.840 --> 04:06.240 You want to try that, Evans? 04:06.240 --> 04:07.240 I'll see it there. 04:07.240 --> 04:10.480 You talk mighty brave still upon your horse. 04:10.480 --> 04:11.480 Then I'll get down. 04:11.480 --> 04:12.480 Oh, stand there. 04:12.480 --> 04:13.480 Stand there. 04:13.480 --> 04:16.000 I'll take it from him, Evans. 04:16.000 --> 04:22.520 Now Evans, if you or any one of the rest of you think you can tell me how to dress, this 04:22.520 --> 04:23.920 is the time to begin. 04:23.920 --> 04:24.920 Go ahead, Evans. 04:24.920 --> 04:25.920 We're behind you. 04:25.920 --> 04:26.920 Don't take it from him, Evans. 04:26.920 --> 04:27.920 Shove that hat down his throat. 04:27.920 --> 04:28.920 All right, I will. 04:28.920 --> 04:29.920 Good boy, Evans. 04:29.920 --> 04:38.400 Get him now. 04:38.400 --> 04:41.400 You got some dirt on you, Evans. 04:41.400 --> 04:44.400 Get him now, Evans. 04:44.400 --> 04:49.400 Evans, pull him out from under that horse. 04:49.400 --> 04:52.400 Come on, he got stepped on. 04:52.400 --> 04:53.400 Move that horse. 04:53.400 --> 04:54.400 Come on. 04:54.400 --> 04:55.400 Pull him out. 04:55.400 --> 04:56.400 Pull him out. 04:56.400 --> 04:57.400 Come on. 04:57.400 --> 04:58.400 Pull that horse. 04:58.400 --> 04:59.400 Stand there. 04:59.400 --> 05:00.400 Look at him. 05:00.400 --> 05:01.400 Look at him. 05:01.400 --> 05:02.400 He's dead, boys. 05:02.400 --> 05:05.200 Look at the back of his head. 05:05.200 --> 05:06.960 Did you hear that, Lee? 05:06.960 --> 05:07.960 I heard. 05:07.960 --> 05:08.960 Evans is dead. 05:08.960 --> 05:11.200 And you killed him, Lee. 05:11.200 --> 05:12.320 He fell under my horse. 05:12.320 --> 05:13.320 You knocked him out. 05:13.320 --> 05:16.440 It was a fair fight and I knocked him down. 05:16.440 --> 05:17.840 Your sort was that way. 05:17.840 --> 05:21.440 You killed him, Lee, and we'll get you for it. 05:21.440 --> 05:23.120 He's not the only one who'll die in Pilot Grove. 05:23.120 --> 05:24.120 You can remember that, Lee. 05:24.120 --> 05:25.120 You'll pay for this. 05:25.120 --> 05:26.120 Isn't that right, boys? 05:26.120 --> 05:27.120 That's right. 05:27.120 --> 05:29.280 There's no sense in my talking to you. 05:29.280 --> 05:32.280 You all know it was a fair fight, but you've built up a hate. 05:32.280 --> 05:34.640 And you'll think what you want to think. 05:34.640 --> 05:35.800 So do what you want to do. 05:35.800 --> 05:36.800 I'll be waiting. 05:36.800 --> 05:39.440 You won't wait long. 05:39.440 --> 05:52.480 You Madison, you can give me back my hat. 05:52.480 --> 05:55.640 I want to say this strongly, gentlemen. 05:55.640 --> 05:58.840 I did not kill Hugh Evans. 05:58.840 --> 06:02.160 Those men knew I didn't or they would have killed me then they were all armed. 06:02.160 --> 06:04.840 But nobody drew a gun. 06:04.840 --> 06:18.080 So I left them on a road back home where my wife and my brother waited for me. 06:18.080 --> 06:20.240 Why did you fight, Bob? 06:20.240 --> 06:21.600 Why did you let them make you fight? 06:21.600 --> 06:22.600 I had to, Coy. 06:22.600 --> 06:23.600 I holds to. 06:23.600 --> 06:26.040 You shouldn't have, Bob. 06:26.040 --> 06:27.960 Now they got you, Evans dead. 06:27.960 --> 06:28.960 Didn't help that Henry. 06:28.960 --> 06:29.960 Hold still. 06:29.960 --> 06:32.880 It's what they've been waiting for something like this. 06:32.880 --> 06:35.920 Sometimes a man can't sit back. 06:35.920 --> 06:37.000 Sometimes it's smarter to. 06:37.000 --> 06:40.400 A man can't be insulted in the street and sit back. 06:40.400 --> 06:42.640 Now I'm not a man for trouble. 06:42.640 --> 06:45.240 I came home to live in peace. 06:45.240 --> 06:46.240 They started this. 06:46.240 --> 06:48.080 I've done nothing that I wasn't pushed into. 06:48.080 --> 06:50.880 The way they're thinking is you kill one of theirs. 06:50.880 --> 06:52.600 Now they'll kill you if they can. 06:52.600 --> 06:54.720 And that's what they'll try. 06:54.720 --> 06:58.160 There's nothing I can do about the way they're thinking. 06:58.160 --> 07:10.480 But I'll wait for them. 07:10.480 --> 07:15.120 As this group of men had been known before to raid ranches for profits, I thought they 07:15.120 --> 07:19.540 might ride to mine if they were planning retaliation, however groundless. 07:19.540 --> 07:20.960 So I prepared accordingly. 07:20.960 --> 07:26.320 I sent my three ranch hands to take all the horses, saving two, into hiding a few miles 07:26.320 --> 07:27.320 away. 07:27.320 --> 07:32.800 And then at nightfall with lamps unlighted and with my wife afforded such protection 07:32.800 --> 07:39.960 as possible, my brother and I sat down with our rifles at open windows and waited. 07:39.960 --> 07:45.660 Now these might seem to you gentlemen unnecessary precautions, but they would not seem so if 07:45.660 --> 07:49.280 you knew this band of cutthroats. 07:49.280 --> 07:52.840 Well we were relieved sometime after when we heard two horses approach the house, saw 07:52.840 --> 07:56.360 two men dismount in honesty near the front door. 07:56.360 --> 07:59.800 The Union soldiers, what do they want? 07:59.800 --> 08:00.800 I don't know. 08:00.800 --> 08:01.800 Put your rifle aside. 08:01.800 --> 08:04.800 Who is it Bob? 08:04.800 --> 08:05.800 Union soldiers. 08:05.800 --> 08:07.160 Why have they come here? 08:07.160 --> 08:09.120 We'll find out. 08:09.120 --> 08:16.400 Light another lamp Cory. 08:16.400 --> 08:17.400 Evening men. 08:17.400 --> 08:20.200 We're looking for Bob Lee. 08:20.200 --> 08:22.280 You found him. 08:22.280 --> 08:23.280 I'm Bob Lee. 08:23.280 --> 08:26.280 What do you want? 08:26.280 --> 08:32.480 I've come to take you to Sherman. 08:32.480 --> 08:35.640 I have orders to put you under arrest. 08:35.640 --> 08:36.640 Put me under arrest? 08:36.640 --> 08:38.280 For the murder of Hugh Evans. 08:38.280 --> 08:39.280 That was no murder. 08:39.280 --> 08:42.080 It was a fair fight and I knocked him down, but he died by accident. 08:42.080 --> 08:46.120 You'll have a chance to say all that to my officers at Sherman. 08:46.120 --> 08:48.840 You'll come peaceably won't you Lee? 08:48.840 --> 08:51.440 Of course I'll come peaceably. 08:51.440 --> 08:52.440 Bob. 08:52.440 --> 08:56.440 The Union army is a just army and I'll be treated fairly Cory. 08:56.440 --> 08:59.720 That's more than I can expect from Boran and Beer and the others. 08:59.720 --> 09:10.440 Of course I'll go peaceably. 09:10.440 --> 09:15.560 In truth I was anxious to yield myself to arrest because I knew that by fair trial no 09:15.560 --> 09:19.200 army court could find me guilty of murder. 09:19.200 --> 09:22.920 So I surrendered in good faith believing in right. 09:22.920 --> 09:27.240 But I was soon to learn that those two men who took me weaponless from my house were 09:27.240 --> 09:29.320 not Union troops at all. 09:29.320 --> 09:32.320 They were imposters with forged orders shaming the uniform. 09:32.320 --> 09:36.880 And they turned me over to Boran and ten or a dozen others in Choctaw Bottom where I 09:36.880 --> 09:40.720 was summarily tied to a tree before a fire. 09:40.720 --> 09:43.360 You can say what you want Lee, but you'll be thanking us for what we've done here. 09:43.360 --> 09:48.680 I'll thank the day that sees the end of you Boran and you Sam Beer and Wilson and Maddox, 09:48.680 --> 09:50.320 Lewis Peacock all of you. 09:50.320 --> 09:51.880 You might have seen your last one. 09:51.880 --> 09:53.280 Did you ever think of that? 09:53.280 --> 09:55.920 Are you trying to scare me Maddox? 09:55.920 --> 09:56.920 Because you don't. 09:56.920 --> 09:58.280 None of you do. 09:58.280 --> 10:00.440 You want to get yourself killed Lee? 10:00.440 --> 10:02.040 Never mind Maddox don't listen to him. 10:02.040 --> 10:05.240 We brought you here to give you a chance to live. 10:05.240 --> 10:07.840 You give me a chance to live? 10:07.840 --> 10:08.840 That's what I said. 10:08.840 --> 10:09.840 Ask arrested boys. 10:09.840 --> 10:14.720 What kind of talk is that to give me a chance to live? 10:14.720 --> 10:19.440 You mean you think you hold the right to give anybody a chance to live? 10:19.440 --> 10:21.840 You're nothing but filth all of you. 10:21.840 --> 10:22.840 Filth is it? 10:22.840 --> 10:27.840 I say kill him and be done with it. 10:27.840 --> 10:30.520 This isn't the time for talk like that Lee. 10:30.520 --> 10:33.400 Some of the boys are just as soon to knock your brains out right now. 10:33.400 --> 10:34.800 You don't hear me begging them. 10:34.800 --> 10:35.800 Not to. 10:35.800 --> 10:36.800 Give it to them boys. 10:36.800 --> 10:37.800 Wait. 10:37.800 --> 10:38.800 Wait. 10:38.800 --> 10:40.280 We brought him here to give him a chance. 10:40.280 --> 10:41.880 Why get it over with? 10:41.880 --> 10:44.240 Now listen to me Lee. 10:44.240 --> 10:45.240 You want to live don't you? 10:45.240 --> 10:47.000 You got a wife to live for. 10:47.000 --> 10:48.000 You're young. 10:48.000 --> 10:50.200 A man comes back from a war he doesn't want to die. 10:50.200 --> 10:52.440 Say what you have to say. 10:52.440 --> 10:54.640 Blair there has a paper we're asking you to sign. 10:54.640 --> 10:57.960 If you don't sign it we'll kill you here and now. 10:57.960 --> 11:06.880 Get in the firelight beer and rate it to him. 11:06.880 --> 11:10.480 This is what those thieves demanded of me in their note. 11:10.480 --> 11:13.800 That I sign over to them a bill of sale upon my ranch. 11:13.800 --> 11:17.880 The buildings, the cattle and horses and all other property. 11:17.880 --> 11:22.900 That I promise payable on demand two thousand dollars in gold. 11:22.900 --> 11:27.320 And that I and my family leave the state forever. 11:27.320 --> 11:29.800 They threatened to kill me if I did not sign. 11:29.800 --> 11:32.800 And also to kill me if I failed to meet the demands. 11:32.800 --> 11:36.640 So balancing certain death against probable death in the future. 11:36.640 --> 11:39.960 I decided to give them my signature. 11:39.960 --> 11:45.640 But I forced myself to suffer their beatings and their insults for three long hours. 11:45.640 --> 11:57.160 So that they'd get no inkling of a plan that was in my mind. 11:57.160 --> 12:01.580 Now after being released I thought to set about proving the illegality of the note they 12:01.580 --> 12:02.640 held. 12:02.640 --> 12:05.460 And turn the civil law upon the scoundrels. 12:05.460 --> 12:09.720 So in the company of my brother the next morning I rode into Pilot Grove to inquire about legal 12:09.720 --> 12:11.240 counsel. 12:11.240 --> 12:14.000 Although we still sought peace we went armed. 12:14.000 --> 12:16.380 I with two pistols and a rifle. 12:16.380 --> 12:18.780 My brother with two pistols. 12:18.780 --> 12:22.440 It so happened that I first stopped for information at Nelson's saloon. 12:22.440 --> 12:25.960 And in front of there I saw one of the men from the night before. 12:25.960 --> 12:27.600 Jim Maddox. 12:27.600 --> 12:29.940 I didn't notice out there if he was armed. 12:29.940 --> 12:32.960 But he was not when he followed us in a few minutes later. 12:32.960 --> 12:39.120 There he comes Bob. 12:39.120 --> 12:41.680 I'm unarmed Lee. 12:41.680 --> 12:44.040 I'm not starting a play Maddox. 12:44.040 --> 12:48.760 But if you feel like backing up some of the things you said last night. 12:48.760 --> 12:51.200 I'll loan you a gun. 12:51.200 --> 12:53.520 I come in to say I was sorry about that. 12:53.520 --> 12:56.520 The rest of the boys got me riled up. 12:56.520 --> 12:59.520 I sure didn't expect to see you in town this morning. 12:59.520 --> 13:01.280 While I'm here. 13:01.280 --> 13:04.200 I came in to prove that note assigned isn't worth anything. 13:04.200 --> 13:05.200 Be quiet Bond. 13:05.200 --> 13:09.480 You can tell Boran and the others that if you've got enough brains to understand. 13:09.480 --> 13:11.680 That note was mine dear Lee. 13:11.680 --> 13:14.360 I didn't have nothing to do with it. 13:14.360 --> 13:17.080 Then we've got nothing to talk about. 13:17.080 --> 13:20.080 Goodbye. 13:20.080 --> 13:21.320 You talk too much Bond. 13:21.320 --> 13:23.240 I can't be driven by anybody. 13:23.240 --> 13:25.280 This isn't a time for pride. 13:25.280 --> 13:26.440 You got to let them know. 13:26.440 --> 13:29.240 First chance you get you came out on top last night. 13:29.240 --> 13:31.400 What's wrong Bob Maddox will get the boy. 13:31.400 --> 13:33.120 Lee wanted me to. 13:33.120 --> 13:35.160 Without a chance to draw Maddox. 13:35.160 --> 13:38.160 That's no. 13:38.160 --> 13:41.160 Bob. 13:41.160 --> 13:43.760 Bob. 13:43.760 --> 13:45.760 What did you do Bob? 13:45.760 --> 13:48.760 What did you do? 13:48.760 --> 13:51.760 Wake up. 13:51.760 --> 13:56.760 Wake up darling Cory. 13:56.760 --> 13:59.880 Wake up baby. 13:59.880 --> 14:04.400 Wake up darling. 14:04.400 --> 14:10.000 Auto light is bringing you Mr. Richard Widmark in The Hunting of Bob Lee. 14:10.000 --> 14:13.840 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 14:13.840 --> 14:14.840 Suspense. 14:14.840 --> 14:31.300 Folks, winterize right now. 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The bullet 16:13.740 --> 16:18.140 entered one side of my face, tearing my cheek and breaking my jawbone. Came out on the other 16:18.140 --> 16:24.380 side of my head just in front of my ear. Maddox left me for dead. And well I might be had 16:24.380 --> 16:28.700 it not been for the timely aid and skill of the late Dr. Pierce who I mentioned at the 16:28.700 --> 16:36.120 beginning. I may add here that this excellent person later who nursed me in his own home 16:36.120 --> 16:42.820 was later killed by this gang. He was murdered in the presence of his family for the reason 16:42.820 --> 16:55.680 that he saved my life. 16:55.680 --> 17:00.880 In time I was well enough to return to my ranch. But my face will always be twisted 17:00.880 --> 17:07.380 by scars. My cattle had been stolen, one of my hands had been killed, and the other two 17:07.380 --> 17:14.500 frightened and sought work elsewhere. The difficulty had become a true feud. My wife 17:14.500 --> 17:24.220 had been removed to safety in Hunt County and I was forced to take up arms myself. 17:24.220 --> 17:29.140 I'll stand with you whatever you say, Bob. We can't be outed anymore. I don't see how 17:29.140 --> 17:34.820 it can get any worse. Except for one thing, Henry. Once we start out we can't come back 17:34.820 --> 17:40.740 here. There's nothing to stay for anyway. All right then. We'll pack some food and blankets 17:40.740 --> 17:45.660 right out late this afternoon. It's sure the ranch is being watched so we'll ride north 17:45.660 --> 17:49.940 as though we're leaving. Then tonight when we're clear we'll cross over the blackjack 17:49.940 --> 17:56.140 come back the other way. Where to, Bob? I made a list, Henry, and I put Jim Maddox at 17:56.140 --> 18:12.820 the top. Under him there's Sam Beer and William Dixon and Israel Boran and Lewis Peacock. 18:12.820 --> 18:17.680 It was at this time that my brother and I were first called outlaws. That is not now 18:17.680 --> 18:25.280 nor never was true. All we wanted was peace and there was no law nor order. We never killed 18:25.280 --> 18:30.140 an unarmed man or never without giving a man a chance. Why, that first night when we got 18:30.140 --> 18:34.420 to the Maddox shack he was alone there with his guns hung up. We could have killed him 18:34.420 --> 18:43.060 through the window. That's far enough. I won't go in alone. I can see how you would. Yeah, 18:43.060 --> 18:50.460 yeah, but you might remember my voice. If you knock on his door and if he asks you tell 18:50.460 --> 18:59.580 him you're John Baldock that Boran sent you. All right, Bob. Step to the side when he opens. 18:59.580 --> 19:16.540 Who's there? John Baldock. Boran sent me. All right. Hey, what? I've come to clear it 19:16.540 --> 19:25.020 up with you and me, Maddox. I'm not armed. You said that before. You'll put your gun 19:25.020 --> 19:31.580 on. What if I won't? Then I'll kill you where you stand. Put it on. You'll have a chance 19:31.580 --> 19:42.060 to draw. You don't have to watch me. Turn around. Buckle your gun on. Turn around so 19:42.060 --> 20:00.420 you can see where it is. Bob. It's all right. He tried to draw from where it was hanging. 20:00.420 --> 20:14.660 I think this is a night we'll remember, Henry. Sam Beers next on the list. Then we moved 20:14.660 --> 20:18.980 into Jenigan Thicket for safety because Boran and Peacock and the others had enlisted aid 20:18.980 --> 20:25.900 from Kansas. Some 30 strong, we were told, hired killers. So we were forced to move by 20:25.900 --> 20:43.900 that. All right, Henry. I'm all right. I'll look for him on the right side, you on the 20:43.900 --> 20:57.260 left. We'll go in there. Bob, there. Move farther down while we can. They see us now. 20:57.260 --> 21:06.700 Sam Beer, William Dixon. The Lee brothers have come to clear it up with you and us. 21:06.700 --> 21:12.340 What do you want, Lee? We want you to stand up from your table and start a play so we 21:12.340 --> 21:16.660 won't have to kill you sitting there. They're going to dump the table. What are you going 21:16.660 --> 21:26.620 to do? Back to the door. You've heard what the Lees have had from these men. If they 21:26.620 --> 21:46.220 have any friends here, this is the time to speak up. One day, about 12 after that, when 21:46.220 --> 21:50.300 my brother and I returned from hunting to the shack in Jenigan Thicket, we were surprised 21:50.300 --> 21:55.740 to see Israel Boran waiting for us unarmed and with his hands in the air. What does he 21:55.740 --> 22:01.940 want? Hold back, boys. You can see I came of peace. Then leave in peace, Boran. Hold 22:01.940 --> 22:08.060 on. Hold. Stand. Stand. Leave, Boran, and come back wearing your gun. No. Wait. I came 22:08.060 --> 22:16.700 of peace. You've got no right to come in peace. Bob, can't we hear what... Henry! 22:16.700 --> 22:38.220 My brother was killed there in the Thicket by rifles hidden in the brush. Boran and his 22:38.220 --> 22:42.900 hired gunman took advantage of the fact that we always gave our enemies a chance and lured 22:42.900 --> 22:48.780 us in with an unarmed man. I killed Israel Boran after that and I looked for Peacock, 22:48.780 --> 22:54.300 but I couldn't find him. And then I learned he put a thousand dollars on my head. And 22:54.300 --> 23:00.420 more gunmen came to hunt me from Kansas. I moved to Gibson Thicket, then to Thatcher. 23:00.420 --> 23:05.500 And there were so many men I could hardly move at all. And then finally, after three 23:05.500 --> 23:12.100 months, although I'd vowed that I'd die before I ran, I left the county and rode to see my 23:12.100 --> 23:24.820 wife. Oh, Bob, what have they done? What have they done so that we can't be man and wife 23:24.820 --> 23:32.420 and live the way we want to live? It's finished now. I've seen my brother killed and I've 23:32.420 --> 23:40.660 avenged him. I've done what I can. I can't do any more. There are things to do. There 23:40.660 --> 23:48.940 are places we can go. We started in Fan County. We can start someplace else. Yes. Yes, yes, 23:48.940 --> 23:55.660 we can. But I've one more thing I have to do, Carrie. I'll write a letter about this 23:55.660 --> 24:00.620 trouble we've had to the newspaper in Barnum. When the people read it, they'll know the 24:00.620 --> 24:15.220 truth that I'm not a criminal, that I wanted peace and I couldn't have it. And so I say 24:15.220 --> 24:22.140 in conclusion that I have done what I can to procure peace. I have been driven farther 24:22.140 --> 24:30.020 than most men I think, and any violence I have done has been justified. And finally, 24:30.020 --> 24:36.500 I am still willing to surrender myself to any impartial civil authority at any time 24:36.500 --> 24:44.700 since I know I am right. I'm sorry to take so much of your valuable time in your newspaper 24:44.700 --> 24:52.140 space, but a great many people have no idea of the true origin of all this trouble. I 24:52.140 --> 25:06.540 remain yours, Robert Lee. There's no danger here, Bob. Are you sure? If Peacock had followed, 25:06.540 --> 25:12.100 I'd have known. I'm sure, Corey. I'll post a letter, be back in 30 minutes. Then we can 25:12.100 --> 25:19.700 talk about where we'll go. Well, after four months, Corey, I think there should be much 25:19.700 --> 25:28.700 to talk about. You wait in the house. Please hurry. I will. You go inside. Come on, boy. 25:28.700 --> 25:57.540 Wake up, wake up, darling Corey, and go get me my gun. I ate no hand for trouble, but 25:57.540 --> 26:04.540 I'll die before I run. 26:27.540 --> 26:55.100 Suspense. A true story of the Old West, presented by Auto Light. Tonight's star, Mr. Richard 26:55.100 --> 27:00.820 Woodmark. That was a powerful story, Richard Woodmark, a Western drama we'll remember for 27:00.820 --> 27:06.140 a long time. Thanks, Harlow. I really enjoyed playing Bob Lee. And may I thank the other 27:06.140 --> 27:11.540 members of the cast for their wonderful support. They were a great team. Reminds me of the 27:11.540 --> 27:16.300 Auto Light team, Dick, working together for better performance. Yes, I see what you mean. 27:16.300 --> 27:21.700 Yes, Auto Light makes over 400 products for cars, trucks, tractors, planes, and boats. 27:21.700 --> 27:26.820 And they're engineered to work together perfectly. Auto Light makes a complete line of ignition 27:26.820 --> 27:31.380 engineered spark plugs, both standard and resistor types. Auto Light batteries, including 27:31.380 --> 27:37.180 the famous Auto Light Stay Full. In fact, Auto Light makes complete electrical systems. 27:37.180 --> 27:52.780 No wonder from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. Next week on 27:52.780 --> 27:59.340 Suspense, our star will be Mr. Joseph Clotten as a man who, in a most unusual fashion, tried 27:59.340 --> 28:05.980 to clear himself of the suspicion of murder. A dramatic report we call The Trials of Thomas 28:05.980 --> 28:12.500 Shaw. In weeks to come, we shall also present Mr. John Hodiac, Mr. John Lund, and Mr. Frank 28:12.500 --> 28:24.260 Lovejoy. All on Suspense. Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed 28:24.260 --> 28:30.740 by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Lud Gluskin. Ms. Teria Lee was the ballad singer. The hunting 28:30.740 --> 28:36.380 of Bob Lee was based on the book by C. L. Sonicson and was adapted for Suspense by Gil 28:36.380 --> 28:42.220 Dowd. Featured in tonight's cast were Kathy Lewis, Lou Krugman, Junius Matthews, William 28:42.220 --> 28:50.620 Conrad, Harry Bartel, Byron Cain, and Joseph Kearns. 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