The Six Shooter: Silver Annie

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A transcribed series of dramas based on the life of Britt Ponson, the Texas Plainsman who wandered through the Western territories, leaving behind a trail of still remembered legends. Now in just a moment immediately following this important announcement, you'll hear Act 1 of the Six Schuver.

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There always seemed to be a stack of thick marshmallow clouds on the side of Barranacan. By the time you got through them, the town was right in front of you. Anyway, it was about two o'clock in the afternoon when I hit the city limits, and at least what had been the city limits 10, 15 years ago.

Of course, nowadays, houses on the outskirts weren't much more just lose timber and broken windows. When I reach the main street, things look more normal. Not like a real town, of course, but, well, the mercantile was open on the bank and the post office.

10 or 12 stores made it. All still doing business. I spotted what I was looking for. What was the sign on the Opera House said Rocky Mountain Western Railroad, virtue city office. Well, I guess they might as well use the opera house for something.

Jenny Lynch sure won't be singing there anymore. Not like she did for the grand opening. Howdy. Afternoon. Excuse me. Oh, sure. Mind handling me that box? Mm-hmm. That one there on the desk. Oh, oh, this one, yeah.

Yeah, I want to put these papers in it. Yeah, thanks. Hey, you're cleaning out the opera. That's right. I say, moving to another place. Yeah. Well, I guess there's plenty of vacancies in virtue city, isn't there?

Sun be one more. Away, but what? You leaving town? Sure, I am, Mr. Three weeks. That's what I wasted here. Three weeks. Well, I'm not wasting any more time. More night, that's the deadline than I take the stage.

Where's two city doesn't deserve a railroad? No, not getting one. Well, what's on your mind? Well, under the circumstances, I'm not exactly sure. That's no surprise. Nobody's sure anything around here. No, no. What I mean is I was figuring on signing up at the railroad.

I've laid track before, and I thought that I heard the new line was going through Virtue City. You heard wrong, mister? Uh-huh. Well, I'm sort of troubled, yeah. As other folks who should be sorry gave me their word.

They'd have the right way for him clear. I'd assume. That's what we ordered. What? What? What? What? Oh, hello Doc! Oh, well sure! Thomas Bred on your right. Oh, um, say I didn't know you were still living on a...

What? Well, what in the thunder you're doing on a wheelchair, Doc? Oh, I fell off my horse a couple of months ago. Here's fault, not mine. Oh, here's fault. Oh sure, yes. Did you break anything?

I ain't positive had to send for Doc Simpson over to Watsonville. He says broke my leg. Oh, but you don't think he'd know a broken leg from a floating kidney If you asked me he's keeping me off my feet so he'll get a crack at all my patients. Oh well, Doc could do you good. Get a little rest

Maybe I'll sit down and breathe That's kind of surprised to see the courthouse still open. I thought they moved county seat over to Fort Gray All the titians, those people in Fort Gray bribed the legislature.

That's what they did. But we'll get the county seat back again just to wait and see. Meantime, we're using the courthouse for our city hall. I guess we got just about the fanciest city hall west at Enbreg.

Yeah, we'll be surprised. I'm the mayor now, Britt. Oh, wow. Wow. Hey, what about you? What brought you to virtue city after all this time? I hope you ain't just passing through. No, I'm afraid so, Doc.

I was aiming to sign up at the railroad, but since they ain't coming this way. You're not coming this way, but who told you that? Well, that's follow with the opera house. Oh, that's Nelson.

That's bad, Nelson. Don't pay no attention to him. Well, he works for the railroad, don't he? Well, yes, he does. But he ain't never wanted the line to go through Virtues City anyhow. He'd rather rent the whale Watsonville.

If you ask me Watsonville, he's paying him all. Aw. That's the reason he's been looking for an excuse to get out of our contract. He figures just trouble with Annie, he'll let him off the hook.

Annie? The silver, Annie. You remember her. britani huxley any how old and he huxley oh sure i thought she'd move away no such luck she's still sitting on the old huxley mine like a hen hat your nays only thing is there ain't no eggs net mine not anymore well what what she got to do with the railroad the with the route spent survey to go through her

property i don't agree to secure all the right-of-way the railroad it needs we're willing to pay for him and a good price but and he's not satisfied with what you offer we don't know she won't talk to us won't even let anybody near shack oh She just sets her day and night, right?

But the window with her shop's gotten poking out. Anybody comes on a ranch and let's go. Got some food and nothing. They're still silver in that mine. And folks are trying to get it away from her.

I'm crazy. That's what she is. If you ask me. Oh, I wouldn't say that, Doc. Maybe Annie's living the past a little bit. She got quite a past living, too. You know? She was. I remember about her wedding to Sinhoxley.

But how he put down a street is silver dollars. police what I'm charging that woman with attempted murder no you don't mean Annie I certainly do mean Annie she ought to be locked up and if I have anything to do with it she will be oh then she she wouldn't sign over the right away and I'm

not even for you her own can't I didn't get a chance to discuss it she shot at me point blank don't look like she had you it was a miracle she didn't well I guess she just didn't know who you were mr. Hudson if she didn't recognize it I told her I was right after that she fired

Some folks just don't cotton to relatives, seems like. She tried to kill me. Oh no, she was just defending her property, Miss Hoxley. If she'd wanted to kill you, you wouldn't be walking around now.

Annie knows how to handle the gun. We gotta do something, Rick. If we don't have that right away by tomorrow, Nelson, he's the railroad man. Nelson will leave town. The railroad goes to Washingtonville, and that'll just about wash up virtue city once and for all.

There must be some way of explaining things to Annie, Doc, doc and throwing jail that just have to make a more cusset than ever you know but is another way sure somebody she trusted somebody who didn't have no acts to grind she'd listen to him now now doc you got those papers already for her to find mr huckley

or they're given the break doc uh... now they say my affair doc i don't want to get mixed up with them i know you bring all the let out down not on the time i get go on huckley given the papers no wait a minute we'll never forget what you're to and rip the whole hole to be in your death.

Just get her to sign the place you're marked with an X. Dog. Dog. Dog. The next thing I knew I was riding up to the Huxley mine, Annie Shack was next to the main shaft, about 100 yards off the road.

I slid down all the saddle and tried the gate. Holy smokes. Padlock big enough to protect the Denver mint was chained around the post. Well, nothing else to do with the pile over the fence.

And just getting on toward dusk. Now, I didn't know whether to sneak up on Annie Unawares or just walk up the front door and play in sight and take my chances while I was making up my mind.

Are you splatting down behind a pile of wooden boxes? Well, at least one thing was certain. I wasn't going to sneak up on her Unawares. I'll put that thing down, Annie, or I'll shoot it out of your hands.

Well who's up? Britt Ponsett. Britt? Right, right? None of the flea-bitten skunks from around here have none of you have to talk to me that way. All right, I'm coming in, Annie. I guess there's no job in you.

Not that I believe you ever try to shoot this gun out of my hand, Britt, no matter what you say. Well, that makes us even, man. I don't believe you would aim it at me then.

How are you think, Danny? Well, not too bad. Not too bad. It glues at dawn. Sure. Back to the matter is, Bitt. I've been working in the southern chaplainy. Found a vein that looks real promising.

One of these days, the Huxley will be going full force again. Now, Annie, you don't really believe that. Well, of course I believe it. Why shouldn't I? We took a quarter of a million dollars out of this mine, sin and me, and there's plenty more.

Just a question to find it. Here, you want some coffee? Yeah, yeah, thanks. Now, these hills have been work dry, and hey, there's no silver, and I'm not anymore. Now, that's why I came up to talk to you.

Care. Drink your coffee. Thanks. That's about the right away for the rear road. You're just wasting your breath. No, but Doc Cross said you didn't know anything about the railroad that nobody's been able to explain it to.

Oh, nobody had to explain it. There's nothing goes on in VirtuSitti that I don't get wind of. I ain't lived here 35 years for nothing. Oh, Doc says the town needs the railroad needs it bad.

Why, I got no objection to a railroad into VirtuSitti. Probably need it myself to haul it all out when I strike a rich vein. But the line don't have to go through my property. Mountain country like this railroads don't have much choice. I asked dark cross The only other route would cost a whole lot more money more on the Rocky Mountain Westerns won't the pay

Well, that is my problem. All I care about is the Huxley and they not laying in it tracks across it All right, all right. That's the way you feel. Thanks for copying Oh, I guess maybe I'll to warn you, your cousin's talking about putting you in jail.

He ate my cousin, he sins, and sin never had no use for him neither. Well, whoever he is, he's coming. And it's for putting me in jail. You have to find somebody to come out here and arrest me first.

From what I've seen her here in this afternoon, and there ain't much else. There she is, can you hear me? I'd call in there. I'd make no trouble. What's going on here, Huxley? I told you I was going to swear out of one and her arrest.

Thanks to you, the sheriff was able to serve it. Wait! I'll wait a minute. Oh, wait a minute. Oh, well, no, no, down me. Annie. Keep and me occupied so they can sneak in here.

Why, why, Annie? Come on, Annie. Let's go. Listen, Annie. I can see you there. I've done enough listening to you already. Take your hands off me, Sheriff. I ain't one of the girls from Crawford, saloon.

I'm silver Annie Huxley. And when I go to jail, I go under my own power. We'll return to James Stewart as the six-shooter in a moment. First, a word from Coleman, America's leader in modern automatic home heating equipment.

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Well, they put Annie in a buckboard and start out for town. I rode alongside for half a mile or so and tried to tell her I wasn't part of getting arrested but she wasn't listening so I gave stories about nine o'clock when I got back to virtue setting. I placed up even stranger by night than the day just a

light here and there on folks were living and then whole blocks of darkness in between sort of like a like the candles on a cake when part of them been blown around. I stopped off at the mansion hotel long enough to get me a room and I I had it over the dock cross his house.

He was sitting in the living room, meeting him in the box of hard candy when I got there. Come on in, Rick. Come on in. How'd you make up? Get her to find him the dotted line?

No. Sorry to hear that. Oh, man. You guys got a boy out of no bed and eat this stuff with my teeth. Sure is good, though. Have a piece? No. No, thanks. Well, now you mustn't feel too bad, Rick.

I was afraid you wouldn't have much luck with it. So was Mr. Huxley. He went ahead and got that warrant, draw that. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Uh-huh. Yeah. I was there when the sheriff arrested her.

She thinks I was in cahoots with him and Huxley. Oh, well, now that's a shame. But don't you worry. I'll see she finds out the truth. Oh, I guess it's certainly right for getting mixed up in her affairs.

Well, you wasn't mixing. But you were just doing us a favor, and we're all much obliged. You know, sending for Clyde Huxley was just about the smartest thing I ever pulled. Maybe, maybe so. But you haven't got the right away yet.

We'll get it, Britt. We'll get it. Well, I don't think Jaylon is the answer. Besides, you'll have to turn a loose. Anyway, Hopsy can't make that charge of attempted murder stay. No, he's not charging her with anything, Britt.

It's just a question of whether she's got all her faculties or not. That's what the hearing will be about. You mean he's claiming she's crazy? Well, you said yourself he was peculiar. I said she lived in the past. That's all.

Everybody's got something to remember, does that more or less? Well, in her case, it's more or not less. Of course, he's got the judge drinking to decide. Well, hasn't there got to be medical testimony in a sanity hearing? Yeah, that's what he's appointed me this evening. A dog gone a dog. Now, this just isn't right.

That's not her only relative. He looked up our state law. It says the nearest relative can demand a sanity hearing if there's sufficient cause. You take that mine away from her, you'll break her heart. Now, wait a minute, Britt. You said yourself this wasn't money or business. If you were sorry, you mixed into it.

Sure, but it just looks like I got mixed up on it. All right, good night, Doc. I'll see you later. Mr. S Oh, let's see. Oh, yes. Well, surely you must admit this behavior of yours isn't exactly normal.

It's normal for me. No. Oh, that's what I mean is the average person doesn't use firearms on harmless visitors. The average person don't own the Huxley mine. I do. I do. Uh, uh, yeah. You're all right.

You're all right. No, I haven't. This is the crux of my poor cousin's delusion. This feeling of hurt for the Huxley mine is of some great value that it still contains silver when we all know that it's worthless.

And just how do you know that? You've proved it to us for ten years. You've lived there and searched the sharps every day. Have you found silver? Even a trace of it? No, I ain't.

You see, Your Honor? If that makes me crazy, then sin must have really been out of his head. He spent 12 years prospecting that mine before he made his first strike. I still got two years ago before I'll be even with him.

It's right, but I was super there then. Where is now? Well, no. I'm sorry Mrs. Huxley, but after what Doc Cross said, and then what you yourself say, well, I'm afraid that the law allows me no alternative.

Excuse me, your honor. Now see here, we're not going to have any more interruptions. Who is that, ma'am doc? Ritz Pernsett. Pernsett, six-shooters? Yes, and now those two make you talk to me. Well, if there's something you wish to say, Mr. Pernsett, this here caught over here.

Happy to hear you. Well, thanks, Judge. I've been listening to this hearing, and like Mr. Huxley says, that all seems to hinge on whether or not there's any silver in the Huxley mine. mind. What I mean is if there was silver then Annie's actions wouldn't seem so strange, would they?

No, no, no. I suppose not. She'd be protecting a valuable piece of land. But, yeah, I think maybe you ought to see this report here. You see, I took some ore samples from the Huxley mind over to this assay office this morning. And, well, here's one of them. I'm afraid I don't quite follow you, Mr. Potter. If you'll just read that report, you're on it.

I've seen samples tested, so a value of approximately $125 a ton. $125? Yeah, I figured they'd run a little higher, but I guess they're here. Yes, let me see that, George. I can't believe it.

Well, that's what it says, all right? 120, wait, wait, this ought to come from the hutch-lick. Yeah? That's where I can, Tom. Listen, listen, everybody, everybody and these brown silver again. Well, we know the whole town has got money, just like in the old days.

Hey, George, you've got a contract in my company. We don't need your railroad, Nelson. We've got silver. You need it? I wouldn't be too hasty, Doc. Of course, there's no possibility of bringing the line through the Huxley now, I suppose.

But there is that other route. It costs much of Nelson's company a little more money. That might be arranged. Of course I'll have to check with the main office. Oh, you would. Oh, that seems shame. Too bad you can't sort of make the decision right now on the spot, you know, for another railroad here is about to sail over and try to beat you in here.

Oh, no, no, no. I'm second thought there really isn't any reason to delay the matter. If you'll just drop by my office, Dr. Cross, I'll send the contract and give the order to begin construction on the other route.

I'll make the housemen with you. Well, I guess that takes care of everything, except Annie and the sanity hearing. You were just about to hand down a ruling, Judge. Oh, now, now, you come to order! Come to order!

Well, there's no question about her sanity. I'm surprised at you, Mr. Huxley. A lawyer of your standing, pressing a complaint like this. Why, Silver Annie Huxley is one of virtue city's outstanding citizens. Always have been, always will be.

Of course adjourners. Inside of five minutes, the only people left in that cold room were me and Annie. It's a funny thing, you know. She was the only person who hadn't been excited about the silver.

She just kind of stared at me without budget. And then the corners of her lips sort of wrinkle up into a smile. Great, promises? Yes ma'am. You better get out of town before they find out.

They tar and set the year for sure. Well, what are you talking about, Annie? Why? You think I didn't recognize that piece of ore, I've been looking at it for 30 years. Uh, hmm? Them samples have been sitting on my dresser ever since Sin found them in his first strike.

Mmm. Oh. You saw them last night. You knew they were souvenirs for the old days. Well, they could have been something that you dug up recently, couldn't they? I'm not saying you lied with. Or you told them, or was it the or was from Moxley?

That's true enough. It's just a good thing they didn't ask you a friend. Yes, it gets to, it gets to. Well, anybody can make a mistake. You knew what you were doing. And you knew the way of it would be coming through the other route before they got wise.

No, I wouldn't exactly say that. But under the circumstances, I kind of think maybe I'd better leave town. Don't you think that's a big solo, honey? Wait a minute, babe. I've wanted to thank you.

Well, nothing to thank me for, honey. It just looks like I can't tell old or samples from fresh ones, and so on. It was a month or two later before I heard about virtue of city again.

Something to fall on Idaho Springs, who was heading up that way. Said that it'd been a big silver strike near the town. I tried to talk him out of going over there. I told him it was probably just a false alarm.

He wouldn't listen. He said there'd been a false strike three or four weeks ago, and everybody went out prospecting. And the first thing you knew somebody found sober, the real thing. Follow had a newspaper from virtue city to prove it.

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Mr. Stewart may currently be seen in the Universal International Picture Thunder Bay. Others in the cast were Jeanette Nolan, Dan Orrhelehe, Herb Bygren, Robert Griffin and Harley Bear. The six-shooters and NBC radio network production in association with review productions and is based on a character who is created by Frank Burke and the transcribed story is written by him. Special music was by

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