What happens
United States Marshal Wild Bill Hickok and his deputy Jingles track a bandit calling himself the Red Skull, who has been robbing gold shipments in town. At a dig site they find a Wells Fargo strongbox full of rocks and a taunting note signed by the Red Skull. Hickok compares the handwriting of two notes and begins to suspect that someone is playing a trick on them. The pair question the local banker, Doug Ritter, and the Wells Fargo agent, Hank Shooter, who both have red ink stains connected to the case. The series is Wild Bill Hickok, with Guy Madison as Hickok and Andy Devine as Jingles, first aired on September 23, 1953.
A frontier town in the American West, with its bank, Wells Fargo office, and the surrounding trails and mountain passes.
Characters: Wild Bill Hickok, Jingles, Doug Ritter, Hank Shooter, Red Skull
Listen for: Hickok comparing the two handwritten notes side by side, and the banker and the Wells Fargo agent both being connected to red ink.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.