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New Mexico Manhunt
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00:01Here he comes! Here he comes!
00:04There's the truppets, there's the drums, here he comes!
00:09Humble on Cassidy, here he comes!
00:14Red Connors and I had been stalking the bloody trail of Sam Harden and his gang.
00:30They had robbed a train carrying a $50,000 appropriation from the Denver Mint for the relief of Mingo Basin flood victims.
00:44In the dead man's pockets, I found a man in the dead man's pockets.
01:13I found two hundred-dollar gold pieces, dated 1882.
01:18Red had found a newspaper clutched in the hand of the dead storekeeper.
01:22It carried a description of stolen treasury shipment consisting of gold coins of the same denomination and minted state,
01:28which I had broadcast by telegraph all over the Southwest.
01:33The gut shows every time we tried to spend one of them blasted coins, that Cassidy would pop up gunning for the rest of them.
01:39Well, Sam, Grubb and a fresh horse aren't gonna get you any further.
01:43Thanks to Marshal Cassidy, the Border Patrol's been tripled. Even I couldn't get you across.
01:47Keller, you gotta hide me out until this thing cools off. I'll give you 20% of the gold.
01:52Sorry, Sam. The gold's too hot. I'll need greenbacks.
01:57Greenbacks? If I had greenbacks, I wouldn't be here.
02:00Now, Sam, what about the Lordsburg Miner's Bank?
02:04Now, for, say, 50% of the deal, I could set it up so you could rob at single hand.
02:11Well, it's a deal. Make it fast. Cassidy can't be very far behind me.
02:14I'll, uh, keep the gold in my safe. Hmm?
02:17Okay.
02:18There's an old tunnel you can hide out in here.
02:23The coat will keep you in food and water.
02:25Convinced that Hardin couldn't make it across the border, Red and I had stayed back at the trading post to give the old storekeeper a decent burial.
02:47Then in the hills above Lordsburg, we spent some time looking about for likely places for Hardin to hold up.
02:54Don't shoot, men. I don't aim to harm. Now, hold your fire.
03:04All right, old-timer. Come on down.
03:15You published any prospect in this country?
03:19Well, in a way, yes.
03:21Well, mighty lucky that you run into me.
03:23Of course, I know every doggone rock in the diggings.
03:26You live around here?
03:27Yes, sirree. Forty years come now.
03:31They call me, uh, Hermit Joe.
03:33You know, I can't bide the city.
03:35It's just made for dudes and cow folks like, like you fellas.
03:39But tell you what, if you just turn over your stakes to me, I'll get you the doggone pile of pay dirt you ever seen.
03:47I'm afraid we're looking for a different kind of pay dirt, old-timer.
03:49You are?
03:50You are?
03:51Have you seen a stranger around here later that answers to this description?
03:54Now, listen. If there's a stranger in these hills, I'd have known it, sonny.
03:57I'll bet you. There he is.
03:59Well...
04:00Sam, Sam...
04:02Sam Hardin.
04:03Sam Hardin.
04:04Sam Hardin.
04:05Seems to me that I heard that name not, not later than, um, last night.
04:11Where?
04:12Now, just hold your horses.
04:14I recommend it ain't as good as it used to be.
04:17Let me see.
04:18Sam Hardin, Sam Hardin.
04:20It must have been down at Lordsburg.
04:22Because I ain't been down there in a coon's age.
04:25And you know, every time I go down there, the thing changes, and I can't seem to find which way I'm going.
04:30Never mind that.
04:31Where in Lordsburg did you hear the name Sam Hardin?
04:34Oh, Sam Hardin, Sam Hardin.
04:37Oh, I guess it was back in the saloon.
04:40Me and the borough were bedding down there in the open.
04:43You know, I just can't stand them four walls crushing in on me. Can you?
04:47What happened back in the saloon?
04:49Well, there was, uh, two fellas talking.
04:53And this one fella, Sam, he was trying to bribe the other fella to get him out of town.
04:59Well, I just couldn't figure out that because I said the fella could go out of town.
05:03By himself.
05:04Well, go on.
05:05And the other fella said he could fix it so Sam.
05:08Could get the money out of the Lordsburg...
05:10Miners.
05:11Bank.
05:12That's right.
05:13In the morning.
05:14In the morning.
05:15Yeah.
05:16Then I went off to sleep and I started thinking, well, them fellas must be in their cups.
05:21Because anybody that's sober knows that Lordsburg closes up tighter than the clam on a Sunday.
05:27Sunday?
05:28Yeah.
05:29You know, all the day rest.
05:30Well, you could shoot a cannon down the street and never hit nobody.
05:34Sunday?
05:35Hoppy, that's today.
05:36Yeah.
05:37A nice, quiet day to rob a bank.
05:39I'll see you in town.
05:40I'll see you in town.
05:41I'll see you in town.
05:47I've been waiting for you, Hardin.
05:48I'm sure the bank officials won't mind my breaking in first.
05:50All right, let's go.
05:51It's a long ways to mingle basin, Sam.
05:52I've been waiting for you, Hardin.
05:55I'm sure the bank officials won't mind my breaking in first.
06:02All right, let's go.
06:04It's a long ways to mingle basin, Sam.
06:07I've been waiting for you, Hardin.
06:12I'm sure the bank officials won't mind my breaking in first.
06:16All right, let's go.
06:17It's a long ways to Mingo Basin, Sam, so let's go out and get that relief money.
06:37Be careful, Frank.
06:48Hardin.
06:49Hardin.
06:50You're all through.
06:51Where's that gold?
06:53The double-crossing.
06:55Who?
06:56Who double-crossed you?
07:00You killed him, Red.
07:02It was either him or you.
07:07Well, Frank Bent, how are you?
07:10Hoppy, what's wrong?
07:11What happened here?
07:12Well, somebody shot at us from one of these buildings.
07:15Let's go see if we can find him.
07:16Come on, Red.
07:25It's no use.
07:26Everything's locked here on Sunday.
07:28We searched for that hidden rifleman, but it was a waste of time.
07:31Marianne, I want you to meet my friend, Hopalong Cassidy.
07:37How do you do?
07:38Hello, Marianne.
07:40Well, are you moving in or moving out?
07:42Oh, we're moving to a new goldfield in Nevada.
07:44There's not enough assaying in Lordsburg to keep us going.
07:46We're packing.
07:47That's why we're the only people in town on Sunday.
07:49I see.
07:52Hey, Hoppy, look what I found in a rain barrel right back of this office.
07:56Miss Beth, this is Mr. Connors.
07:58Hello.
07:58Well, it's been fired recently.
08:06You act like you've seen that gun before.
08:08Well, it's mine, Hoppy.
08:10You'd find that out sooner or later.
08:12But how it got in a rain barrel, I don't know.
08:14Frank, you loaned a gun to Gramps.
08:16Well, no, I...
08:17Well, there's nothing to be afraid of, dear.
08:19He's out of town.
08:22Well, I guess this is a gun I gave to Soky.
08:25Mr. Jones, I mean.
08:27But Marion's right, Hoppy.
08:29He couldn't have fired this gun today.
08:31He must have loaned it to somebody else.
08:33Sure.
08:33Gramps ought to be able to tell you who did it.
08:35He'll be in town tomorrow or day after.
08:38Ah, that's good.
08:39Frank, would you help Red get Hardin's body off the street for me, please?
08:52Marion, where is your grandfather?
08:54Up in the hills somewhere.
08:57He won't even tell me where he goes until his claim's been renewed.
09:00Claim?
09:01Well, Frank just said he was leaving here because all the gold had been worked out of these hills.
09:05Well, it has.
09:06All except what was buried in Gramps' mine by a landslide 20 years ago.
09:10He just found it again.
09:11Oh, well, that should have made you very happy.
09:15More waste than one, Hoppy.
09:17Now that Gramps is able to support himself, I'll be able to quit the bank and move west with Frank to Nevada.
09:24Well, you mean the miners already producing?
09:26Sure.
09:26Frank essayed a sample yesterday.
09:28He said it was almost pure gold.
09:30Well, that sounds like a rich strike.
09:33Has he got the samples around here?
09:34No, Hoppy.
09:35I shipped the samples out last night.
09:37Oh, Marion, I forgot to pick up the mail.
09:39Here's the key.
09:40Would you mind?
09:41Sounds like an excuse to get rid of me.
09:43I know Frank's just dying to find out about some of his old Texas girlfriends.
09:47I'll go on with you.
09:48All right.
09:49Oh, and just to give you plenty of time, I'll go on home from the post office and start dinner.
09:53You'll be staying with us, won't you?
09:54Maybe some other time, thank you.
09:58Uh, Red, would you go on and see if that gunman left anything besides the rifle?
10:02Yeah, I'll take a look on the roof, too.
10:04Good.
10:07You're not fooling me, Eddie.
10:08You sent Red to spy on Marion.
10:11Why?
10:11She had nothing to do with this.
10:13With what?
10:14Double crossing Sam Harden for his gold.
10:17I know you sent me away with Red so you could question her.
10:20Well, Frank, I wanted to find out more about her grandfather and why you didn't want her to talk about him.
10:25Well, I promised I wouldn't tell anybody about his claim until it was cleared.
10:30Oh, I'm sorry, Frank.
10:32But with Harden dead and no trace of that stolen gold, I have to be suspicious of everybody and everything in this town.
10:38Especially anybody that shows up with new gold.
10:41Well, all right, Hoppy.
10:42You've got plenty of reason to be suspicious of me.
10:45I had plenty of time to climb down off that roof, ditch the gun, and get over to the bank while you were still examining Harden.
10:51As an assayer, I could have talked Harden into turning his gold over to me for fencing a conversion.
10:55I could have lured him into the ambush by claiming I had inside information on the bank setup from my wife who worked there.
11:03I was the only man you found in town after the shooting.
11:06And I admit that the gun is mine.
11:07It started it all.
11:09I could have lied to my wife about loaning it to somebody else.
11:12You found me packing, ready to leave right after the shooting.
11:16I could have used the proceeds of Harden's gold to get started someplace else.
11:20And you could have covered up by having Hermit Joe furnish a phony tip that would have sent Red and me into that gun trap at the bank, too.
11:26And I could have claimed that I cut Harden trying to rob the bank and shot him, if he got you.
11:30Well, I've given you all the evidence you need to arrest me.
11:33What more do you want?
11:34About $50,000 in minted gold.
11:37I can arrest you without it, but I can't convict you.
11:40Then find it.
11:42I'm going to, as soon as I check with the Border Patrol.
11:45You still don't believe that I played a lone hand?
11:48No, I don't, Frank.
11:50But don't try to run.
11:52I'll expect you to be here when I get back.
11:57Time and circumstance can change some men.
12:00But I couldn't believe that they'd turn Frank Benton to a killer.
12:04But his eagerness to confess that he alone was guilty convinced me he was trying to protect someone else.
12:11I did know that my refusal to buy Frank's story or even search his office had him plenty worried.
12:16I had no intentions of riding to the border.
12:20The next move was up to him.
12:24On the way out of town, we passed Frank's house, and a short way beyond was an old barn.
12:29I told Red that as soon as we were out of sight, we'd double back and stake out there, so we could watch his house.
12:38Red and I had watched Frank lock up his office and go home.
12:42When we saw him put up his horse, it looked like our vigil would be a long one.
12:46I had let Red talk me into taking turns standing the night watch from inside the barn door.
12:51I should have known better.
12:59How long have you been asleep?
13:01Who, me?
13:02I ain't been asleep.
13:03I've just been sitting here watching.
13:04Yeah?
13:05Hey, it's daylight.
13:07Yeah.
13:07And the 7th Cavalry could have gone right through here without you knowing anything about it.
13:11Come on.
13:13Come on.
13:14Come on.
13:15Come on.
13:16Come on.
13:17Come on.
13:18Come on.
13:19Come on.
13:20Come on.
13:21Well, good morning, Marion.
13:33Where's Frank?
13:34I don't know, and I'm getting worried.
13:36He went out during the night to investigate a prowler, and he hasn't come back.
13:40It's been hours.
13:42Well, I wouldn't worry too much about him.
13:43He's probably all right.
13:45Hey, Hoppy.
13:53Yeah?
13:54She ain't in on this.
13:55If you pin anything crooked on Frank Bent, you'll break that young'un's heart.
13:58Ah, I know it, Red.
14:00You just put in the words the toughest part of a lawman's job.
14:06We headed northeast toward the place where we had met the old sourdough, Hermit Joe.
14:11I had to locate him to find out if Frank had sent him to intercept us, or if he would be able to recognize Frank's voice as the one he heard in the dark behind the saloon.
14:20Besides the tracks of Hermit Joe in his burrow, there were now recent hoof prints of several other horses.
14:43If one of them belonged to Frank Bent's mount, Frank's case was beginning to look worse instead of better.
14:48Now, hurry into town.
14:56Tell Frank to assay the nuggets and ship them out.
14:59Use the horse I brought you.
15:01But don't hang around town.
15:02Tell Frank you're coming right back to the mine.
15:06Keep going until you get to Hermit Rock.
15:08And lay low until you see one of us coming to tell you that Cassidy's left the country.
15:18Let's go.
15:19Let's go.
15:20Let's go.
15:21Let's go.
15:22Let's go.
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15:29Let's go.
15:30Let's go.
15:31Let's go.
15:32Let's go.
15:33Let's go.
15:34Let's go.
15:35Let's go.
15:36Let's go.
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15:44Let's go.
15:45Let's go.
15:46All right, I'll take that gold.
15:54Work.
16:10Wait a minute.
16:14Come on.
16:16All right, you take care of him.
16:33All right, this is as far as you go.
16:35Get that mask off.
16:38Frank, have you lost your mind?
16:43Give me this bag.
16:45Oh.
16:58Well, that's practically pure gold.
17:00What are you doing with this?
17:01I had to do it, Hoppy, to protect Sokey.
17:04Sokey?
17:05You mean the man they call Hermit Joe?
17:07Well, yes.
17:08Isn't he Marion's grandfather?
17:11That's right.
17:13I thought so.
17:15Now I'm beginning to understand.
17:18Come on.
17:19Here you are.
17:23Just take it easy.
17:26Frank, I think you've protected Sokey long enough.
17:30All right, old timer, let's have the truth.
17:32Well, all I know is that Keller said his friend up north had made a rich strike, and he wanted
17:39to send it down here to cash it in so that he wouldn't start a gold rush.
17:45And I figured it was a good chance for me to tell Marion that I'd found a rich vein in a
17:51mine that I'd never even owned.
17:53I just wanted to be proud of me.
17:55Ann, I guess after you analyzed those nuggets and found that they were practically pure gold,
18:00it was Marion you were thinking about, too, huh?
18:02I was worried about what it would do to her if she found out that her grandfather had anything
18:06to do with that stolen relief money.
18:08Yeah, but I didn't have anything to do with it.
18:10That is, I didn't know it was stolen gold.
18:13That adds up, Hoppy.
18:15Sokey's no crook.
18:16I know that, Frank.
18:18But just a minute.
18:19Somebody had to melt those gold coins in the nugget somewhere.
18:24Hoppy.
18:24Hey, Keller must have taken over Tom Braxton's abandoned smelter, Joshua Grove.
18:29His man, Dakota, used to work for Braxton.
18:31He'd know how to melt down gold coins and disguise them.
18:34Well, that makes sense.
18:35Well, all I know is that they were nuggets when Keller and Dakota handed them to me.
18:42Marion won't have to know the truth, Hoppy.
18:44If you let me take all the blame, you can say you found the evidence on me.
18:48But, Frank, with that evidence on you, you'd go to the penitentiary.
18:50How's that going to help Marion?
18:52And what about Keller?
18:53He's not stupid enough to melt all those coins up at once.
18:57Where's the rest of the gold?
18:58I don't know, Hoppy.
18:59But I'll get them for you if it's the last thing I do.
19:02I'm sorry, Frank.
19:03I can't send you to the penitentiary for something you didn't do.
19:06Neither can I, Mr. Marshall.
19:09Look, I'm going to clean up my own mess.
19:14Now, you just raise your hands.
19:16Put that gun away, Sokey.
19:17Nothing doing.
19:18You don't think I'm going to let Keller make a fool out of Sokey Jones, will you?
19:22I'm going to find you the rest of that gold and move over there.
19:27All of you.
19:28If Keller gets wise, he'll kill you, Sokey.
19:30Well, don't you put him wise by trying to follow me.
19:34Stand where you are.
19:36Let him go, Frank.
19:43Yee-haw!
19:43Wait a minute.
19:50Are you going to let him commit suicide?
19:52Oh, he'll be all right.
19:53I'm going to trail him, see where he goes anyhow.
19:56Now, Frank, I want you to go to that smelter in Joshua Grove.
19:58If it's been fired lately, turn the place upside down looking for the gold.
20:02Red, you go back to town the way we came.
20:04Go to Keller's office and go through it with a fine-toothed phone.
20:08And if he's there, nab him.
20:10Here, take this, will you?
20:13Here, take this, will you?
20:43We heard gunfire from over there.
20:45Sure did.
20:46We better get out of sight.
20:47Yeah.
20:58Keller, that friend of yours up north has been pulling the wool over your eyes.
21:02Why?
21:03How do you know?
21:04Well, Cassidy tracked me to the mine.
21:07Tried to arrest me for selling minted gold.
21:09He caught Frank assaying the gold nuggets.
21:12I had to give him the slip.
21:14How much does he know?
21:15Well, I ain't so sure.
21:16But if you fellas have got a thing to hide, you better think up some mighty quick answers.
21:20You think he's still after you?
21:22Well, I don't know why not.
21:23Tracked me once.
21:24Don't know why he couldn't do it again.
21:26And you came looking for us while you...
21:28Cut it out.
21:28Gunshot will tell Cassidy where we are if he is trailing Sokey.
21:32Well, then let's go pick up the rest of the gold and clear out of the country.
21:36Say, maybe you fellas would like to hide out up there at Hermit Bluff.
21:41And I'll get that gold that you're talking about.
21:43I'll go and get it for you.
21:44You don't know Cassidy.
21:46He'd trail us there and starve us off Hermit's Bluff till he got the gold.
21:49Well, what else can we do, then?
21:50Well, the only thing left to do.
21:52Run the risk of a showdown right here and now.
21:55Come on.
22:14Come on.
22:44Come on.
23:14Keller, don't leave me.
23:20Soaking's back.
23:33Don't bother about me.
23:34Take care of the other.
23:40The killer.
23:42Keller, the rat.
23:44Running out on me.
23:46Did I get him?
23:47Yeah, you got him right enough back.
23:49The same way you planned to shoot Harden and me.
23:52No.
23:52Keller did that.
23:55Where's the gold?
23:57Tunnel.
23:58Under Keller's office.
24:01You found the rest of the stolen gold under Keller's office, huh?
24:12Yeah, all except a few coins that Harden had spent.
24:13And the government's willing to write those off as a reward.
24:15Thanks, Hoppy.
24:16Thanks, Hoppy.
24:17Hey, Hoppy.
24:18I just told Marion or Gramps, here's a real hero.
24:21Well, he certainly is.
24:23Do you know that he practically rounded up Keller in that stolen gold single hand?
24:26I'm proud of you.
24:27I'm proud of you, Gramps.
24:29Oh, now you just forget it, honey.
24:31I couldn't have done a doggone thing without the help of Mr. Cassidy.
24:36Well, so long, Frank.
24:37Hoppy.
24:38Goodbye, Marion.
24:39Bye.
24:39Goodbye.
24:40Certainly glad to know you.
24:41Right old timer.
24:42Bye-bye.
24:43Hi, little partners.
25:02Anytime you play a game, play it to win.
25:05But remember, somebody always has to lose.
25:09And in case it's you, don't be unhappy about it.
25:12Be a good loser.
25:14Just try a little harder the next time.
25:17I'll see you next week.
25:20There he goes, on his way,
25:24Down the moonly trail to where Cowboys rain.
25:29Hop along, Cassidy.
25:32Hop along, Cassidy.
25:35He'll return, soon again.
25:38There's no use to say goodbye until then.
25:44Hop along, Cassidy.
25:47So long, hop along.
25:49Hop along, Get out of town.
25:59By the way, I'll be happy.
26:00Come along, get out of town.
26:01Tell all I can.
26:02We'll be happy about it.
26:03Let's go, where you can.
26:04There he goes, out of town.
26:05Let's go, where you can.
26:05You can get out of town.
26:06I'll be happy about it.
26:07We'll be happy about it.
26:08We'll be happy about it.
26:09We'll be happy about it.
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