Oscar: If there were any justice in this town, the sheriff would make me a de-de-de... marshal.

- Tom Dugan in The Phantom of the West (1931)

[a group of angry townsman, the recipients of threatening notes from "The Phantom," confront the skeptical Sheriff]
Sheriff Jim H. Ryan: Well, maybe it ain't a joke after all.
Royce Macklin: It's likely to be a joke on you, Sheriff, if you don't get down to business quickly. If you don't catch this "Phantom" we'll take the law into our own hands.

- Philo McCullough in The Phantom of the West (1931)