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When Ted Gray is attacked by Martinez for lying about receipt of mortgage money, his uncle Ollie states he will foreclose and then Ollie is found murdered.
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00:00Here he comes, here he comes, there's the truppets, there's the drums, here he comes,
00:10Hop along, Cassidy, here he comes.
00:30Jose Martinez was one of the hardest working men I ever knew.
00:33When he wasn't tending his farm on the edge of town, he chopped and sold wood, mended fences, repaired roofs, dug wells, and took on any other odd jobs that came his way.
00:49His wife, Maria, helped with the farm, took in washing, and thought Jose was the most wonderful guy in the world.
01:00I'd have said that Jose Martinez was about the last person in Twin Rivers who'd cause any trouble.
01:06At least, I'd have said that until the Saturday morning he came down Main Street, walked over to the town banker, Ollie Gray, and his nephew, Ted.
01:17Exchanged a few angry words, and then suddenly...
01:19No, I'm going to go, Senor Hop.
01:30I will kill him!
01:31Shut up!
01:32Now, who started this?
01:33I just reminded him that a payment was due on his bank loan, and he accused me of cheating.
01:38When Ted tried to reason with him, he flew at him like a maniac.
01:41But already I pay the mortgage.
01:42That's ridiculous.
01:44But I give you $500.
01:45Now, that proves he's lying.
01:46Where'd he ever get that much money unless he stole it?
01:48Do not believe him, Senor Hopi.
01:49Maria and me, we have worked hard.
01:51We have not spent anything.
01:52We save money, so someday we own our farm.
01:55Have you got the receipt for the money you gave him?
01:58What is that?
01:59That's a piece of paper that shows that you paid the money.
02:03You never give me such a paper.
02:04Of course not, because you didn't give me any money.
02:06But I did.
02:07I come to the bank and I ask for Senor Gray.
02:10His nephew here say he is out, but he will take the money.
02:12So I give it to him, the $500.
02:14Well, the man must be crazy.
02:15When did all this happen?
02:17Thursday.
02:17Were you out of the bank on Thursday?
02:21Well, as a matter of fact, I went over to...
02:23Wait a minute, Cassidy.
02:25Don't tell me you're believing him.
02:26Ollie, I'm just trying to get at the truth.
02:28Well, that shouldn't be very difficult.
02:30Jose is making up these wild charges to cover the fact that he can't pay off his debt.
02:35It is not true.
02:36If you'd come to me like a man and ask for an extension of the mortgage, I would have granted it.
02:41But now you'd better pay what you owe, or the bank will foreclose.
02:44But I give you all I have.
02:46Come, Ted.
02:46No, wait, you can't.
02:50But Senor Hoppe, you believe me, I paid the money.
02:53If you did, you'll never be able to prove it now.
02:58I'm sorry I lose a temper.
03:00That's all right.
03:01What will I do?
03:02We have worked hard.
03:03We have planned everything.
03:05To lose our farm now with a baby coming, it would kill Maria.
03:09Don't you worry about it.
03:11I'll see what I can do.
03:12Gracias, Senor Hoppe.
03:13You are my friend.
03:14You run on home.
03:21The next morning was Sunday, and the bank was closed.
03:24So Red and I rode out to Ollie Gray's home.
03:27Ollie was an honest, fair-minded man, and now that he'd had time to cool off,
03:31I felt sure he'd listen to reason.
03:40It was too early for Ollie to have left for church,
03:43and if he'd gone into town, we'd have met him on the way.
03:45Ollie.
03:46Ollie.
03:47Ollie.
03:48Ollie.
03:49Ollie.
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03:50Ollie.
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03:52Ollie.
03:53Ollie.
03:54Ollie.
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03:59Ollie.
04:00Ollie.
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04:02Ollie.
04:03Ollie.
04:04Ollie.
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04:06Ollie.
04:07Ollie.
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04:15Ollie.
04:16Ollie.
04:17Ollie.
04:20Ollie.
04:21I'll be who could have done this.
04:26It was a nice old man.
04:27old man. Yeah, I know. Hey, that knife, that's strangely familiar. I don't see anything unusual
04:35about it. Yeah, but maybe not. Jose Martinez, he had a knife like that, I remember. I hope
04:43he's still got it. You don't think he'd do that? Now, don't go jump at the conclusions,
04:48Red. I was more upset than I wanted to admit. The knife was bad enough, but there was something
04:56else. That's off of Jose's coat. I wouldn't believe it. I wouldn't either. But it still
05:14doesn't change the facts. Well, Jose wouldn't kill it.
05:26Not a word about any of this.
05:39Hello, Cassie, Red. You're going to church with my uncle? I'm afraid not. Where have you
05:45been? I got involved in the lake poker game at Monte Cain's last night, so I just stayed
05:50over in Sage City. Say, what are you doing here? Is there anything wrong? I hate to tell
05:56you this, Ted, but your uncle is dead. Dead? Oh, no, this is impossible.
06:02Who would do such a thing? That's what we'd like to know. Did Ollie keep any money here
06:20in the house? Yeah, some. It's gone. So's his gun. Were there any clues? No, we haven't
06:34found any yet. Suppose you go in the other room and we'll take a look around. Yeah. I purposely
06:43didn't tell Ted what we'd found. I wanted to talk to Jose before folks got all stirred up.
06:48Red was to get a wagon and take the body into town. I asked Ted to come with him to make
06:53an official statement. I'd meet them at the office. Hello, Maria. Is Jose around? I am
07:10most worried, senor. He is gone all night. Won't you sit down, please? Thank you. What time
07:17did he leave? After supper. He go to talk with senor Grey. Grey? When he not come home,
07:24I think maybe he stop at Cantina. But that is not like Jose. No, it isn't. Something
07:30has happened to my Jose. Is he hurt, maybe? No, Maria. Jose is all right. But senor Grey
07:38has been murdered. Madre de Dios. Maria, when Jose left yesterday evening, what coat was
07:46he wearing? Coat? Why, his leather coat. They went with his silver conchos. Whoever killed
07:55Mr. Grey fought with him. I found this in his hand. No. That is not true. Jose would. He
08:03would not. Oh, senor, help me. No. No. Try not to worry about it too much. I'll do what I can
08:11for you. On the way back to town, I kept agreeing with Maria. Jose couldn't be a killer,
08:21but the evidence was against him. And if Jose wasn't guilty, where was he? Why had he run
08:27away? When I got back to the office, I issued a warrant for Jose's arrest. Then I rounded
08:33up a posse to go after him. Feeling was running so high, there wasn't any trouble getting volunteers.
08:41All right, men. I want Jose brought in alive. And remember this. This is a posse, not a lynch
08:48mob. Starkey, I want you to go out and keep an eye on Jose's house. He may try to get
08:53in touch with his wife. The rest of you are on your way.
09:00We must have covered every inch of ground within a radius of 10 miles. Not a sign of our man. No tracks,
09:26no prints, no prints, no clues of any kind. Jose Martinez hadn't left the trail. He'd vanished into thin air.
09:33Now, Jose ain't smart enough to disappear like this. And he don't know anything about tracking,
09:38or false trailing and such. It just don't make sense. There are a lot of things about this,
09:45don't you? I don't know anything about tracking, or false trailing and such. It just don't make sense.
09:53There are a lot of things about this that don't make sense. What do you mean? Well, for instance,
10:12I can't figure Jose as a killer. He just isn't that kind of a man. Yeah, he's always seems so,
10:18well, so gentle-like. Yeah. Hey, maybe he's been hurt. Well, if he had, we'd have found him.
10:26Well, I'm stumped. What do we do next? We'd better start asking ourselves who else could have killed
10:32Ollie. Well, I've been asking. I ain't getting any answers. Ah, maybe we can get some of the answers
10:37and save the city. I'm going to have a talk with Monty Keen. Monty was a professional gambler,
10:46smooth as a snake and just as crooked. He verified that on the night of the murder, he and Ted and a
10:52couple of his cronies had played poker in the back room of the Silver Dollar. He said the game
10:57started around six in the evening and hadn't broken up until next morning. You've been asking me a lot
11:02of questions. No, I'm going to ask one. Go right ahead. How come you're checking on me instead of
11:07looking for that Mexican? Because I don't think Jose killed Ollie Gray. How about all
11:11the evidence you got on me? He was framed. Framed? Even if that boy could kill a man,
11:16I don't think he'd run out on his wife when she's expecting a baby. If he was hiding out,
11:21he'd try to get in touch with her. Well, maybe he has. Ever since the killing, I've had somebody
11:26watching Maria day and night. That don't prove nothing. It may not do a jury, but it's good
11:32enough for me. We'll see you later. Come on, Red. Now what? We'll just wait and see what happens.
11:44What'd you expect to happen? Nothing if Jose's guilty.
11:48We rode back to Twin Rivers and stopped at Jose's cabin.
12:12Starkey, who'd been watching the place, reported that there'd been no excitement and I told him
12:16to go on home. We'd take over.
12:39Who is this? Cassidy. I want to talk to you.
12:41You have found my Jose? No, I'm afraid not, Maria.
12:50Something has happened to him. I know it.
12:53Or he would come to prove he did not do this terrible thing.
12:55We've been looking all over for him.
12:57Only so that you can hang him.
12:59Maria, you know better than that.
13:01I do not know anything anymore.
13:04You are my friends, but you hunt Jose like an animal.
13:07Señor Ted, who has not been my friend, he gave me money.
13:09Ted gave you money?
13:10Si, Señor.
13:12He said he do not blame me for what Jose has done.
13:14He is worried about the baby and he wants to help.
13:17Well, I'll be a horned toad.
13:18How much did he give you?
13:20Twenty-five dollars.
13:21Well, that was very nice of him.
13:23But, Maria, we're your friends, too.
13:25We want to prove that Jose's innocent.
13:27You can help us.
13:28How?
13:29I want you to stay right here in this house for the rest of the day.
13:32Don't go outside no matter what happens.
13:35I do not see how that will help.
13:37I think you're going to have a caller before long.
13:39Now, please do as I say.
13:49Brett and I took turns on watch.
13:51As the hours dragged on and nothing happened,
13:53I began to think my plan wasn't going to work.
13:56Let's go.
14:09There's somebody in that brush.
14:39Keep firing, Red.
14:55There's somebody in that brush.
15:11There's somebody in that brush.
15:27There's somebody in that brush.
15:47There's somebody in that brush.
16:03There's somebody in that brush.
16:09All right?
16:26Yeah, I'm all right.
16:28Golly, I never thought Jose would be that sneaky.
16:30He tried to kill you.
16:31Yeah, I guess he did.
16:32Only it's not Jose.
16:34Not Jose?
16:35Holy smokes, Trig Dawson.
16:40With Jose's hat and jacket on.
16:42Where'd you get him?
16:43He'd give him to me.
16:44You're lying.
16:46You're a professional gunslinger and somebody hired you to ambush me.
16:49Who was it?
16:50I don't know what you're talking about.
16:53You were gonna kill me and let Red see you do it.
16:56And in those clothes, he'd have thought it was Jose.
16:58You're loco.
17:00Who are you working for, Dawson?
17:02Nobody.
17:03I seen this Mexican up in the hills and he'd give me these duds.
17:06Why would he do that?
17:08He's in some kind of trouble.
17:09He...
17:10He wanted me to get a message to his wife.
17:12He didn't have any money, so he'd give me the hat and coat.
17:14That's a good try, but you're still lying.
17:16Now tell the truth or I'll slap you in jail for attempted murder.
17:21I seen you two sneaking out from behind the brush and I thought that I...
17:24You thought we was bandits.
17:25Yeah.
17:26Yeah, so I opened fire.
17:28Now I've heard everything.
17:30Get him on his horse, Red.
17:32Trigg Dawson had found himself a good story and was going to stick to it.
17:37About all I could do was to jail him and hope I could think of a way to break him down.
17:41There wasn't much time.
17:45Back in town, Trigg was locked up.
17:47But we hadn't been able to shake his story.
17:49Well, do you think we ought to try again?
17:51Sure, why not?
17:52Now what do you want?
18:04The same as before, the truth.
18:06I told you what happened.
18:08Take it or leave it.
18:09You can get up to 20 years for attempted murder.
18:12You got to prove it first.
18:13And I'm taking my chances you can't.
18:15With a record like yours, there isn't a jury in the world that believe you.
18:19I said I'd take my chances.
18:22Well, I don't know who you're trying to protect.
18:25But if I...
18:27All right, law man.
18:28Now I'm calling the turn.
18:29Get your hands up.
18:31Unlock the door.
18:32All right, Red.
18:33Hurry up.
18:40Now get in there.
18:41Come on, move.
18:49You know we'll come after you, don't you?
18:50That's what you think.
18:53Why you...
19:03Well...
19:04I'm...
19:10You...
19:14That's what you think what you think!
19:28anybody been here what give me what answer my question no no one who are you why you keep me
19:54like this Maria will worry and be afraid shut up I told you get your hands up Cassidy take care of him
20:09Red I thought you were dead take more than blanks to kill us thanks we plan for you to take that gun
20:18and break out of jail get in there gone I pray you will find me I'm sorry I took us so long but we
20:30had to be careful Jose they they make me prisoner hey who's a I do not know all the time my eyes they
20:40are blindfolded what happened then well the night I go to talk with Senor Gray when I reach the house
20:48something hit the back of my head when I wake up I am tired and there is a cloth over my eyes
20:56and my mouth but I am in a barn I think well after many hours a man comes he take the cloth from my
21:05mouth and he gives me food but I do not know who he is what about his voice didn't he say anything
21:12he he talk in a whisper Senor Hoppy oh then what happened two times he moved me to different places
21:19that's why we had such a hard time finding them yeah well not many hours ago this man come with
21:24a man who whispers and they take my coat and my sombrero yeah I know about that they wanted us to
21:29think you were still on the prowl you think you can walk now I'm not sure my legs are weak they have
21:35been tight so long get your hands up Cassie I go on get them up you too red yes it's lucky I was
21:44late they followed me here I couldn't help it yeah so I gather well Cassie let's see you get out of
21:50this one I might not be able to but neither will you well anyhow congratulations you found my uncle's
21:57murder Senor Gray is killed yeah he was killed by his own nephew who needed some money to pay off
22:03his gambling debts too bad you won't be able to prove it everyone's gonna go on thinking it was
22:08Jose me yeah your friend here has issued a warrant for your arrest he's had a posse scour in the
22:14country well you found your man now there's gonna be a little gunfight between the three of you
22:20but no survivors you are local I've worked out all the details even down to whose gun kills who
22:27you know you and red will be heroes but dead ones you will not kill my friends
22:33all right on your feet red get over there well I guess we took care of them too yeah we sure did
22:59take care of Jose you all right Jose I'm all right I think outside
23:07we jailed Ted and Dawson and when I had Monty picked up in Sage City he broke down and confessed
23:18everything the killing and the frame-up had been Ted's idea Monty had furnished the alibi
23:24Jose was completely in the clear Senor happy we have tried hard to think how to thank you but it is of
23:32no use oh don't you even think about it you just go on being the hard-working man you've always been
23:38I will Senor my Maria she would like to ask you a favor certainly if you will permit the new baby we
23:47would like to name it for you if it's a boy sure it's a boy I'd be honored it's a nice name don't you
23:54think hop along Martinez hop along Martinez I think it's a beautiful name and I'm very glad
24:03thank you Senor we will see you soon
24:07hi my little partners there's a group of men in America that walk the streets and stand on the
24:22corners dressed in pretty good-looking uniforms those men look pretty smart and I want to assure
24:30you that they are smart or they wouldn't be there I'm speaking of policemen the policeman is a father
24:40the same as some of you grown-ups are he has children the same as you have and his job is to
24:47help you protect your children and to help protect the children themselves so keep one thing in mind
24:54won't you please don't call him a cop he's a respected man and we should call him by a respected name a
25:04police officer always remember that and see how much nicer he'll be I'll see you next week
25:11there he goes on his way down the moon that trail to where cowboys rain
25:20hop along Cassidy hop along Cassidy he'll return soon again there's no use to say goodbye until then
25:35hop along Cassidy so long hop along
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