1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 And the performance of Mr. Frank Lovejoy. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Auto Light hopes once again to keep you in... 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,000 ...SALS SPENCE! 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,000 I've done a lot of living for a kid 18 years old. 5 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,000 And right then I could feel time beginning to run out. 6 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,000 That was the night thing had us holed up in the old McSween house. 7 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,000 The place burning all around us, an old man McSween sitting there reading his Bible. 8 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,000 And me and Charlie both were knowing we had to make a break. 9 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,000 Fire's getting hot all the time, Billy. When's it gonna be? 10 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:49,000 Still got time for only a good smoke, ain't I? 11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 There's ain't hardly no time to be smoking cigarettes, is there? 12 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 No, we've been a tighter ones than this, haven't we, Charlie? 13 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Maybe you have, but I haven't. 14 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,000 You realize we gotta run within 10 feet of them fellas out there... 15 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,000 ...before we can make it to the woods? 16 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,000 If we make it to the woods, we'll make it. 17 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Some of us have a doubt for who came this far. 18 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Now ain't that convenient. Just what I need to light my smoke. 19 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Ready to go, Charlie? 20 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,000 I guess so. 21 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Good luck. 22 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,000 Charlie Fowler, get him! 23 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,000 He made it, Mr. McSween, he made it. 24 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,000 I shall go now, then. 25 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,000 All right. Hey, wait a minute. Where's your gun? 26 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,000 I've never carried a gun yet, Billy. 27 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,000 And I do not intend to now. 28 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:42,000 I shall carry my Bible. 29 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,000 It stood me in good stead for many years. 30 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,000 A Bible against them? 31 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Say, it might work. It might just work at that. 32 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,000 You step out there where they can see you holding it... 33 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,000 ...and I won't fire when you start a cross. 34 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 All right. Now. 35 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Here do I walk in the valley of the shadow of death. 36 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Mr. McSween! 37 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,000 I will be an OEVO... 38 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,000 ...without what we think. 39 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:17,000 I am on a nice journey. 40 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 They shot him. 41 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Nothing but a Bible in his hand, they shot him. 42 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,000 All right, kid. You're next. 43 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Well, here goes nothing. 44 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Oh, come on, I'm waiting. 45 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Let's go get him. Get him in one. 46 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,000 I'll be. 47 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 I'll be seeing you fellas around. 48 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:49,000 And when I do, watch out. 49 00:02:49,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Ha ha, the Lincoln County War, they call that one. 50 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Just a feud between two cattle kings... 51 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:07,000 ...and me, nothing but a working hand. 52 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 But seems like they blamed the whole thing square on to me... 53 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,000 ...just because it was Billy the Kid. 54 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,000 I'm not going to let them get away with it. 55 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,000 It seems like they blamed the whole thing square on to me... 56 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 ...just because it was Billy the Kid. 57 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,000 A tough little vile that had killed 16 men. 58 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 From then on, it was me running and them closing in... 59 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 ...and just a matter of time. 60 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 That was when I first met Pat Garrett. 61 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Me and Charlie was hit out in the mountains. 62 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:46,000 I'll never forget the first sight I had of all Pat. 63 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Hey Billy, looky here. 64 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,000 What is it? 65 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 The fellow riding up the trail. 66 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Oh, a lanky cuss, ain't he? 67 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Likes putting that drag on the ground over that poor little pole. 68 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Lanky or not, I don't like it. 69 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,000 What's he doing up here? You know him? 70 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,000 No. 71 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,000 Howdy. 72 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 You mind if I pull up a spell? 73 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,000 It's a free country up on these parts anyway. 74 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 We just passing through? 75 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Not exactly. 76 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 You're Billy the Kid, aren't you? 77 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Keep your hands in plain sight, mister. 78 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 You'll get down off that horse really soon. 79 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,000 All right. 80 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,000 That's better. 81 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Ah, was you looking for Billy the Kid? 82 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,000 That's right. 83 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,000 What do you want with him? 84 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,000 I got a message for him. 85 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,000 You're from the law? 86 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,000 No, but my message is... 87 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:43,000 Well, if you made the kind of law like Bob Olinger and that bunch in Lincoln, 88 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,000 I got no time for him. 89 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,000 And you are the Kid, huh? 90 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 That's right. 91 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Now what do you want? 92 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,000 I got a message from General Lou Wallace. 93 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 He wants to talk to you. 94 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Who's General Wallace? 95 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,000 New governor of New Mexico. 96 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 President Hayes just appointed him. 97 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 He's waiting for you, Don Lincoln. 98 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 No. 99 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,000 You crazy, mister? 100 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,000 You think either one of us is right back into that town after what's happened? 101 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Ah, wait a minute, Charlie. 102 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,000 You see... 103 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:12,000 What's your name in here? 104 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Pat Garrett. 105 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,000 You say this man was sent all the way out here by the President? 106 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,000 He wants to talk to me? 107 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 That's right. 108 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 But if it comes from the President of the United States, 109 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000 I don't see how I can very well say no. 110 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Billy, you ain't going. 111 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:27,000 I'm going. 112 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,000 He'll guarantee you safe conduct. 113 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 As far as he can. 114 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,000 I know what you mean. 115 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Billy, you know Bob Allens, he'll never let you get out of that town alive. 116 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Yeah, I'm kind of curious about that myself. 117 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,000 By the way, Mr. Garrett, whatever made him send you? 118 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,000 You're a stranger out here, ain't you? 119 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,000 I guess that's the reason. 120 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:55,000 Seems they couldn't find nobody else in Lincoln that took much to the notion 121 00:05:55,000 --> 00:06:00,000 of tracking down Billy the Kid. 122 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Well, there's your town of Lincoln. 123 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 That's her. 124 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,000 And if there ain't Bob Olinger and the rest standing out in front of Murphy's store, 125 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,000 just like they were waiting for somebody. 126 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,000 They are. 127 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Word got around even before 11. 128 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 I guess it would have been. 129 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,000 You're on your own now, kid. I'm staying here. 130 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 So, now are you scared? 131 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,000 No. 132 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:38,000 I'm just staying on my side of the wall. 133 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,000 What's that supposed to mean? 134 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Well, if I was to ride in there with you and Bob Olinger and them started shooting, 135 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,000 the next thing you know, I'd be shooting back. 136 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:52,000 And the next thing you know, I'd be in the same sorry sort of shape you are. 137 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,000 That's good enough, Nancy. 138 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:00,000 I'll be seeing you around. 139 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Hi, Billy. 140 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Hi, Bob. 141 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,000 I hear you're the law around here now. 142 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,000 I'm a deputy, huh? 143 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Looking for the law? 144 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,000 When I come looking for you, Bob, you'll know it. 145 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Right now I'm looking for General Wallace. 146 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 Smart kid. 147 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 You know where I can find the General? 148 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,000 He's sitting down there on the porch of the old house. 149 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Thanks, Bob. 150 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 I don't want no thanks for you. 151 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Nothing. 152 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000 General Wallace? 153 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Yes? 154 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,000 You wanted to talk to me. I'm Billy the Kid. 155 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,000 What? What's with you so young? 156 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 What? 157 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,000 Shall we go inside, Billy? 158 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,000 All right, General. 159 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,000 I'd like to talk to you privately. 160 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Sit down. 161 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Thanks. 162 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 A lot of paperwork you got on that desk, General. 163 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Well, to tell you the truth, I'm writing a book. 164 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Then? 165 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,000 It's about ancient Rome. 166 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000 I never had much school. 167 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,000 I know you didn't. 168 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,000 I know quite a lot about you, Billy. 169 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,000 But not if you listen to the way they tell it around here, you know. 170 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,000 I've heard both sides. 171 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,000 I know you didn't start the Lincoln County War single-handed. 172 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:37,000 But frankly, Billy, the whole country has been shocked by the lawlessness and bloodshed out here. 173 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,000 And some people seem to think you had quite a lot to do with it. 174 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,000 I fought for my side just like the others did for theirs, that's all. 175 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:46,000 That may be. 176 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:53,000 The point is, I've been sent all the way out here by the President of the United States to put a stop to it. 177 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:58,000 Billy, I want you to take off your guns now. 178 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,000 And I want you to stand trial. 179 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:07,000 I don't mean to be disrespectful, General, but do you see that bunch of men standing in front of Murphy's store? 180 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Yes. 181 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:13,000 Think I could walk past that store without my guns and get past it alive? 182 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,000 You've got past it just now. 183 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,000 That's because I had my guns. 184 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:23,000 And as for standing trial, I couldn't get any kind of a trial in New Mexico. 185 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:27,000 All right, Billy. I'm going to make you a proposition. 186 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:34,000 If you stand trial and you are convicted, I personally will promise you a full and immediate pardon. 187 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,000 Full pardon? And then what? 188 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Start a new life. Settle down. 189 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:47,000 General, when Mr. McSween walked out in front of that mob, he was a man that never carried a gun in his life. 190 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 All he had in his hand was a Bible. 191 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,000 They shot him down in cold blood. 192 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Ah, General, I got a few scores to even up before I settled down. 193 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Maybe it was fate. 194 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:13,000 I don't know, because Pat Garrett and me got to be real good friends after that. 195 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:18,000 I was hanging around Fort Sumner and so was he, and we used to see a whole lot of each other. 196 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,000 And then I didn't see him around for quite a while. 197 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Until one day I walked into Jose Valdez's saloon. 198 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:29,000 Pat! Pat Garrett, you old son of a gun! 199 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Hello, Billy. Long time no see. 200 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,000 That's right. How about a drink on me? 201 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:36,000 All right. 202 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Whiskey for two, Jose. 203 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 Sure thing, Billy. 204 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 Why, you've been keeping yourself lately, Pat. 205 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,000 Oh, I've been here and there. 206 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Yeah, I've been hearing about some of those places you've been. 207 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Have you? 208 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Hey, is that Billy the Kid? 209 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Yes, that's right, you. 210 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,000 Who's that heading over here? 211 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Joe Grant from Texas likes to think he's a pretty hard case. 212 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Hope I ain't gonna have that kind of trouble again, Pat. 213 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,000 You know, Billy the Kid ain't you? 214 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,000 That's right, and you're Joe Grant. 215 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Oh, you hear about me, have you? 216 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Oh, sure, I've heard of you. 217 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Tell you what, Billy, I bet I'll kill a man today before you do. 218 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:23,000 I don't aim to kill a man today or tomorrow or anytime. 219 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,000 You think I don't mean it, huh? 220 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Well, there's $25 cash money right on the bar. 221 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:32,000 Jose will hold the stakes. 222 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Now, what would I want to make a bet like that for? 223 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,000 You scared of losing it? 224 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,000 All right, Joe, there's my $25. 225 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Just see that you don't kill nobody that don't deserve killing. 226 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:50,000 Don't you worry none about that. 227 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 I expect he'll sweep it off before he can do any damage. 228 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Where was we, Pat? 229 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:59,000 Yeah, we was talking about the places you'd heard I'd been. 230 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:03,000 Yeah, I heard you've been talking to the Cattlemen's Association. 231 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,000 And I heard they've been talking about making you sheriff. 232 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 That's right, Billy. 233 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,000 I hate to see that, Pat. 234 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:16,000 This territory is going to be a state someday, Billy, someday soon. 235 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,000 And the state's got to have some law. 236 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:24,000 For instance, you've been living off other men's cattle for the last two years. 237 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,000 That's the kind of thing you're going to have to start. 238 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,000 And if you was the law, you'd have to start. 239 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Yeah, I would. 240 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Billy, the Joe Grant's coming back up here. 241 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Thanks, Jose. 242 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:40,000 Here he comes now. 243 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,000 I was afraid of something like this. 244 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Don't worry, I'll handle it. 245 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Hello, Joe. 246 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Hello, sir. 247 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,000 Can I help you? 248 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,000 I'm collecting that back from you, kid. 249 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,000 Shit! 250 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,000 You seen he drew first? 251 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,000 You all seen that, didn't you? 252 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Sure, sure. 253 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Let's hold along, Pat. 254 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 All right. 255 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 The rest of you fellas just take it easy. 256 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,000 That way there won't be no trouble. 257 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,000 Where's your horse at? 258 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,000 Right alongside yours. 259 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Let's you and me take a little ride. 260 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,000 That would be a bad idea. 261 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Hey, you know what, Pat? 262 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 I clean forgot to collect that $25 bet. 263 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Pat, tell me something. 264 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:46,000 What? 265 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:54,000 You gonna take that sheriff job? 266 00:13:54,000 --> 00:14:01,000 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Frank Lovejoy in the shooting of Billy the Kid. 267 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, South Spence. 268 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:21,000 Say, Harlow, what do you like to do on a fine spring night like this? 269 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Why, Hab, I like to press the starter of my car and experience that engine snapping alive 270 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:31,000 thanks to the potent and persuasive power of my Auto Light Stay Full, 271 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,000 the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 272 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 And when you get started, Harlow? 273 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Why, Hab, when I get started I can't stop talking about the fiberglass retaining mats 274 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:47,000 that protect every positive plate of the Auto Light Stay Full to reduce shedding and flaking, 275 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,000 and that the Auto Light Stay Full gives longer life, 276 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:55,000 as proved by tests conducted according to accepted life cycle standards. 277 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,000 But, Harlow, we were talking about spring. 278 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Why, Hab, spring to your telephone and call Western Union by number. 279 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,000 And ask for me, Operator 25. 280 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,000 I'll gladly tell you the location of your nearest Auto Light battery dealer 281 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 where you can get an Auto Light Stay Full. 282 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:17,000 And remember, from bumper to tail light, you're always right with Auto Light. 283 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:23,000 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage Mr. Frank Lovejoy 284 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,000 and Louis's production of The Shooting of Billy the Kid, 285 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:33,000 a true story well calculated to keep you in suspense. 286 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:43,000 The Shooting of Billy the Kid 287 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:47,000 After Pat Garrett got to be sheriff, the cards was dealt, 288 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,000 nothing now but to wait for the showdown. 289 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 And I guess I knew it too. 290 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 But somehow I couldn't bring myself to leave the country, 291 00:15:54,000 --> 00:16:01,000 and that's how we happen to be holed up at the old sheep herders' hut at Stinking Springs. 292 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,000 It was early the next morning. 293 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 When you figuring to move out, Charlie? 294 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Most any time, I guess, Charlie. 295 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Well, I better feed the horses then. 296 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Yeah. 297 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 All right. 298 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Off your hands, Charlie, we're not your comers. 299 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Get that carrot! 300 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Charlie, you hit bad. 301 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000 I tried to draw on him. 302 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Lie down here. 303 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Give me your eyes. 304 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Oh, man, don't. 305 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Don't talk like that. 306 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,000 Billy, I want a parse. 307 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,000 A parse? 308 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,000 I've done some pretty bad things in my life. 309 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:47,000 I'd like to get him off my chest before I die. 310 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 How are we going to get a parser out here? 311 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Talk to Pat Garrett. 312 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Ask him to take me into town. 313 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,000 We'd be at ease. 314 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:02,000 All right, Charlie. 315 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Pat Garrett. 316 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,000 John Billy. 317 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,000 I want a parley. Will you come in? 318 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,000 I won't hurt you. 319 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 I'll give you my horse. 320 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,000 I'll give you my horse. 321 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Charlie. 322 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Charlie's dying. He wants a priest. 323 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 Will you send him back to town? 324 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 I'm sorry about that. 325 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,000 Will you? 326 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Billy, you can take this as a compliment or not, 327 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,000 but I don't dare spare the men. 328 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,000 I'll send a couple of new ones to get away. 329 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,000 Are you trying to bargain over a dying man's last wish? 330 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:39,000 No. 331 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,000 There's been too much already about you and me being friends. 332 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,000 That's all over. 333 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,000 Maybe. 334 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,000 I wish you'd give yourself up. 335 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:51,000 If you don't, we're going to kill you the night or tomorrow or the next day. 336 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,000 I don't want that to happen. 337 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Billy, is he there? Is Pat there? 338 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,000 I'm here, Charlie. 339 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:05,000 You were the one who hurt Pat. 340 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Charlie. 341 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,000 All right, Pat. Here's my gun. 342 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:13,000 Tell your men we're coming out with our hands up. 343 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:23,000 So they caught me at last. 344 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:28,000 And the trial was just like I said it would be, short and sweet, 345 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,000 and me sentenced to hang on the 13th of May. 346 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 And they took me back to the jail in Lincoln. 347 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,000 Handcuffs and leg irons and two deputies to guard me day and night. 348 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,000 And who were they? 349 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:44,000 Jack Bell and my old friend, Bob Olinger. 350 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,000 Know what day it is today, kid? 351 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,000 28th, unless I miscount. 352 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,000 You didn't miscount. 353 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,000 You counting the days just the same as I am. 354 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Why don't you lay off the kid, Bob? 355 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Oh, let him have his fun, Jack. 356 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:02,000 15 more days for you, kid. 357 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:06,000 Then you'll be a dancer on the end of the world. 358 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,000 That'll make you mighty happy, wouldn't it, Bob? 359 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,000 If you want to know the truth, it'll be the happiest day of my life. 360 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Well, maybe it will, maybe it won't. 361 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Lots of things can happen in 15 days. 362 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,000 You figure I'll make it rain. 363 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,000 I just hope you try. 364 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 You see this double barrel shot here? 365 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Yeah, I see it. 366 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,000 And I've seen it before. 367 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,000 It's loaded with 18 bucks. 368 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,000 If there's anything I want more than seeing you hang, 369 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,000 it's a chance to kill you yourself. 370 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Morning, gents. 371 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,000 How's that? 372 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Everything all right up here? 373 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:43,000 Just fine and dandy. 374 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,000 The boys treat me right, Billy. 375 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Everything a condemned man could want, 376 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:51,000 including Bob's daily lecture on the fine art of hanging. 377 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000 I thought I told you to cut that out, Bob. 378 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000 Ah, just ragging on that? 379 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Well, I've got to go to White Oaks today. 380 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:01,000 Won't be back till tomorrow, so I want you two to take good care of my boy. 381 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000 You worry about that? 382 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,000 I'm going home for lunch. 383 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,000 You got him like it back, Jack. 384 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,000 Then I'll sped. 385 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,000 All right, Bob. 386 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,000 Sorry about Bob. 387 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,000 I want your Billy. 388 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,000 I know he's a mean devil, but he's my deputy 389 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,000 and I had to put him on a job. 390 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:16,000 Oh, I don't mind. 391 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,000 Fact is, I'm kind of glad it's him. 392 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,000 I don't know. 393 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,000 What does that mean? 394 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Nothing much. 395 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,000 Well, Pat, you... 396 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:31,000 What are you going to White Oaks for? 397 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,000 His business. 398 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,000 I heard about that business. 399 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,000 You're getting a man to build the gallows. 400 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,000 I'll be going long, sir. 401 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,000 Hurry back with the gallows, Pat. 402 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,000 It'd be a shame if you never got to use them. 403 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,000 Ha ha ha. 404 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,000 How about a little game of blackjack till Bob gets back? 405 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,000 True to me. 406 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,000 I've got the cards right here. 407 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 Do you want a bucket or a bank? 408 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,000 I'll bank it. 409 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,000 I feel lucky today. 410 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Let's go up to the table. 411 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,000 Not too close, Billy. 412 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,000 I wouldn't want you to go making a grab 413 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,000 with this gun in my belt. 414 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:08,000 Now, how could a man in leg irons and handcuffs 415 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000 do a thing like that? 416 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,000 I can hardly make out to play my cards. 417 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,000 Deal. 418 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,000 I wish I was playing for money instead of matches. 419 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:20,000 I feel real lucky. 420 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Doug. 421 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000 I'm sorry I dropped the card on the floor. 422 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,000 I'm sorry. 423 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,000 That's all right. I'll get it. 424 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,000 Hey, you got my gun. 425 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000 I sure have, Jack. 426 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 I'll use it on you if I have to. 427 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,000 What are you going to do? 428 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Just don't make any wrong moves 429 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 and you'll be all right. 430 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,000 I'm going to lock you up in a safe place 431 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,000 and then I'm going to wait for good old Bob. 432 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:54,000 I'll open that door and start marching down that hall. 433 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 Jack, stop! 434 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:07,000 I hated to do that one, but I couldn't help it. 435 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,000 I had to move fast now. 436 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000 I slipped the cuffs. 437 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,000 I'd always known I could do that easy. 438 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,000 I started back for the front of the building. 439 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Then I seen Bob Olinger's shotgun 440 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,000 leaning there against the wall. 441 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,000 I grabbed it up and went over and hit by the open window 442 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,000 that looks out on the street. 443 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,000 And sure enough, the next thing I see is old Bob 444 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,000 hurrying down the street with his six gun in his hand. 445 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,000 Jack, everything all right up there? 446 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Hello, Bob. 447 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Really? 448 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,000 That's right. 449 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,000 And looking at you right down the barrel of that shotgun of yours. 450 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:53,000 Oh, wait! 451 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,000 I had a blacksmith cut off my leg irons 452 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,000 and that was when I should have left the country for sure. 453 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,000 But still I couldn't do it. 454 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Fade again? Maybe. 455 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,000 But then there was a girl in Fort Sumner, 456 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:12,000 never mind who, but there was a girl. 457 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,000 Who is there? 458 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,000 It's me. 459 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,000 Oh, Chiquito. 460 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,000 It was so late I didn't think you were coming. 461 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,000 I said I would. 462 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,000 Come quickly. 463 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Chiquito, it's so good to see you. 464 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,000 You too, darling. 465 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,000 Billy, you mustn't stay long. 466 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 They say Pat Garrett is in town. 467 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Pat? No. 468 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Old Pat's down around Viscosa. 469 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,000 He thought I'd head south. 470 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 Well, I don't know, but I think... 471 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Chiquito, what are you going to do? 472 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000 You can't hide and run like this forever. 473 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 I'm not going, oh, darling. 474 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:54,000 I want to settle down like they always said I should. 475 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,000 I'm going to Mexico. 476 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 You're going with me. 477 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000 Will you? 478 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Oh, yes, yes, yes. 479 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,000 We'll start in the morning. 480 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,000 We'll be over the border in a couple of days. 481 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,000 I'm half-starved. 482 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,000 You got anything to eat? 483 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:05,080 No, only a little bread and some 484 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:09,000 No, only a little bread and some 485 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,000 But Pete Maxwell killed us two today. 486 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 I'll go borrow some meat from him. 487 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,000 No, Billy. 488 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,000 Let's just next door and pizza and all that. 489 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,000 Billy, be careful. 490 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,000 Don't worry. 491 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:28,000 I'll be right back. 492 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,000 Nice, ain't you? 493 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Who is it? 494 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:36,000 You're one of them out-of-town sheepherders, ain't you? 495 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,000 Who is it? 496 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:56,000 You need to be some nerves. 497 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,000 Pete, hey, Pete. 498 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,000 Is Billy asleep? 499 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,000 No, Billy. 500 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:09,000 It's so dark I can't see nothing in there. 501 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,000 Who's that fella out on the porch? 502 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,000 Pete. 503 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Pete. 504 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,000 He's with me, Billy. 505 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,000 Pat. 506 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:30,000 I'm sorry, Billy. 507 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:58,000 I'm sorry it had to be me that shot you. 508 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Suspense, a true story presented by Auto Light. 509 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000 Tonight's star, Mr. Frank Lovejoy. 510 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,000 This is Harlow Willcox speaking for Auto Light. 511 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,000 And here once again is our star, Frank Lovejoy. 512 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,000 Thank you, Harlow. 513 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:24,000 And ladies and gentlemen, may I thank you for the many wonderful letters you wrote following 514 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:29,000 my appearance on Suspense and the wreck of the old 97. 515 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,000 We of the Auto Light family are happy when you enjoy the show. 516 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:38,000 And may I urge you to listen next week where I know you'll especially enjoy Frankie and 517 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,000 Johnny, a Suspense story starring Dinah Shore. 518 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,000 Right you are, Frank. 519 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:49,000 And friends, remember, Suspense is presented by the Auto Light family of 98,000 distributors 520 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:54,000 and dealers, the nearly 30,000 men and women in 28 great Auto Light plants from coast to 521 00:26:54,000 --> 00:27:00,000 coast, and the 18,000 people who have invested a portion of their savings in Auto Light. 522 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Every Auto Light product is backed by constant research and precision built to the highest 523 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,000 standards of quality and performance. 524 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:21,000 That's why you're always right with Auto Light. 525 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:40,000 Next week, the radio dramatization and song and story of a woman.