The Hanging at Four Oaks

Kathy and Elliot Lewis on stage. Kathy Lewis, Elliot Lewis, two of the most distinguished names in radio. Appearing each week in their own theater, starring in a repertory of transcribed stories of their own and your choosing.

Radios, four-month players in Radios, four-month plays. Ladies and gentlemen, Elliot Lewis. Good evening. May I present my wife, Kathy. Good evening. As a member of the audience, I don't believe I've ever heard a bad Western.

Some of them are extraordinarily good. Gun smoke here on CBS Radio is probably the best example of that. Shirley Gordon, who seems to be one of your favorite writers for onstage plays, decided she wanted to write a Western since we hadn't done one since the series started.

And that's what we're going to do tonight. A strange and exciting story of the West by Shirley Gordon, called The Hanging at Four Oaks. The sound is coming from behind the hill out there in the distance.

The sound of guns being fired. We're standing in a clump of brush several hundred yards away on the flat of the lens. And then a man on horseback appears riding this way, and behind him two other men firing their rifles at him.

You got it, horse. You can't get off. Two directions are going to head. We better split up.

Right. My guns on your shirt. You know I'll use it. I need your horse. You're crazy, Kane. You'll never make it. Never make it. Get North easy. Get North real easy.

I'm letting you live. Don't count on me giving you the same break next time we meet Kane. You don't have it coming. You like to find me first. Gee, I'm blind. Without direction. That's the way it is with you.