1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:11,679 Wheaties presents Joel McCrae in Tales of the Texas Rangers on stage tonight, transcribed 2 00:00:11,679 --> 00:00:16,239 from Hollywood. Another in the Wheaties Big Parade of exciting half hour presentations, 3 00:00:25,839 --> 00:00:32,039 Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Pearson, Texas more 4 00:00:32,079 --> 00:00:36,880 than two hundred and sixty thousand square miles and fifty men who make up the 5 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:56,880 most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America. Now from the files 6 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:00,640 of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on fact only. Names, dates, 7 00:01:00,679 --> 00:01:06,200 and places are big fishes for obvious reasons. They events themselves are a 8 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:26,239 matter of record. Case for tonight Apatchee Peak. Shortly after midnight on October 9 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:30,519 four, last a late model blue Sedan came to a stop at a traffic 10 00:01:30,599 --> 00:01:34,519 light on the highway leading southwest out of Wichita Falls, Texas. While the 11 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:38,959 driver waited the light to change, a figure moved out from the shadows and 12 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:46,959 tapped on the window of a sedan I didn't hear with the window up, 13 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,799 said you going near askell I don't know where is it. I'm headed for 14 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:55,040 Alpasso. That's my direction. Now about a ride all right, hop in. 15 00:01:55,480 --> 00:02:07,680 Thanks money? Hard getting a ride as you like? Uh huh? 16 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:13,360 How far is uh? Haskell? About eighty miles? But I'm going past 17 00:02:13,439 --> 00:02:15,840 there up near a patch of peek, hey, far from the mail pass 18 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:20,319 Oh good, keep me from falling asleep at the wheel. I got to 19 00:02:20,319 --> 00:02:23,840 be an alpasso in the morning. Business appointment you from the East New York. 20 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:30,800 It just the accent sticks out right, And so what kind of business 21 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:35,840 in salesman airplane parts? You get tired? I can drive a spell. 22 00:02:36,439 --> 00:02:39,039 Hey, that's a thought as soon as I start to feel sleepy. Sure, 23 00:02:39,439 --> 00:02:53,560 give a chance to rest up. Good. It's almost four am, 24 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:58,800 being audest in twenty minutes. Do you want to take over? Yeah, 25 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,599 I guess I can stop place on this highway. I haven't seen another corn 26 00:03:01,599 --> 00:03:08,599 an hour. I'll slide over. You get out and come round. Now 27 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:13,919 you get out, Well, it's just as easy for you. Hey, 28 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:16,639 Hey, what are you doing with that gun? I need money, mister, 29 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:21,199 and you've got it. Sure, sure, I'll give it to you. 30 00:03:21,599 --> 00:03:23,240 I won't report him or anything I'll get I know you won't, mister. 31 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:43,159 Tales of the Texas Rangers will continue in just a moment tonight as special 32 00:03:43,199 --> 00:03:47,319 guest Wheaties Champion Robert Feller. Oh, by golly, it's always fun the 33 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:52,159 meat of Wheaties champion, especially when he's as nice a guy as Bob Feller, 34 00:03:52,199 --> 00:03:54,000 the Cleveland Indian. Hello, Bob, I ed, Are you seeing 35 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,479 many baseball games these days? Oh? You bad? Robert? You eating 36 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,240 many wheaties these days? What a question? Well, I've been eating Wheene's 37 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,000 for breakfast almost every morning for pretty close to twenty years and still going strong. 38 00:04:05,479 --> 00:04:09,400 Whitties are money, tough to get tired of. I guess wheenies and 39 00:04:09,479 --> 00:04:12,599 milk and fruit will still be my favorite breakfast when I'm too old to climb 40 00:04:12,599 --> 00:04:15,560 out of the dugout. Now that won't be happening for a lot of years 41 00:04:15,639 --> 00:04:18,519 yet. Thanks for stopping in. Bob Feller, a real Wheaty's champ. 42 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:21,959 You know, gentlemen of the audience, this man Feller has a wife and 43 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,959 youngsters, even as you and I. His paycheck depends in part on healthy 44 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,399 energy, just as ours does. You got my point? We need him 45 00:04:30,439 --> 00:04:39,000 too. Wheaties Breakfast of Champions, get yours And now back to our story 46 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:50,399 with Joel McCrae as Ranger Pearson. The body was discovered at eight fifteen in 47 00:04:50,439 --> 00:04:54,839 the morning of October fourth, when the fence ride up from the ranch bordering 48 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,079 the highway found it in the brush at the side of the road. He 49 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,199 reported the discovery to the nearest sh Erraff and the sheriff relaid the report to 50 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:11,120 the Texas Rangers. Ranger Jase Pearson was assigned to the case. There's the 51 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:17,439 body of Jace under that sheet. Where was he found? The sheriff about 52 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:23,680 eleven mile east. Must have been dumped out of a car and shot three 53 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:28,000 times, one through the neck and two through the chest. Thirty eight colar 54 00:05:28,199 --> 00:05:35,240 Yeah, corner got two of the slugs. Any identification on him or anything? 55 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:40,240 Jace? Whoever done it even stole the clothes off him, stepping his 56 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:44,040 shirt and shorts the necktime, and a pack of cigarettes from his shirt. 57 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:51,639 Punky, it's all there on the table, Hm, Andre mark on the 58 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:56,600 shirt. That might help Corners say how long he's been dead? Oh, 59 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:02,680 since four or five o'clock this morning? Hum? These cigarettes were they on 60 00:06:02,759 --> 00:06:08,399 him? Yeah? Why may help any maybe a whole lot? Look at 61 00:06:08,399 --> 00:06:12,920 this New York state tax stamp. Can you make something out of there? 62 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,240 Only the one pack of cigarettes wouldn't have lasted him from New York to Texas. 63 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,439 Probably bought a cartner to start out on the trip, so his home 64 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:24,639 might be in New York. I'm reckon an awful lot of folks to buy 65 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:28,160 a cottoner smokes in New York. Case, Yeah, but it's a place 66 00:06:28,199 --> 00:06:30,639 to start. Checking that laundry mark on the shirt. It will be a 67 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:34,160 help we know who this man is. I'll send these things into the lab 68 00:06:34,199 --> 00:06:36,720 and they can send a wire photo of the mark to New York. The 69 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:41,279 corner has some pictures of the body. I'll put them on the wire too. 70 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,519 You got a deputy to get the stuff to my headquarter, sure thing. 71 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:46,680 I'll call him good and we can get out and check the scene. 72 00:07:03,199 --> 00:07:06,680 Had this little piece of road here blocked off some who cars could wipe out 73 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:15,720 anything good? Eh, body was found right in here, Yeah, ragged 74 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:20,319 in from the road. Back of the heels scraped along. Their clothing caught 75 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:25,560 on the mesquite here. And what''re picking off there? A little fibers of 76 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,319 cloth snagged on here. A lat men get through with these and may be 77 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,959 able to tell us what kind of duds they came from. Let's take a 78 00:07:31,959 --> 00:07:40,240 look at the road, fresh headed tire tracks here on the shoulder. Jans, 79 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:46,639 Yeah, I noticed him. Impressions deeper here that's where they stopped. 80 00:07:46,959 --> 00:07:51,360 Look at the marks around it. Body was dragged out of the driver's side. 81 00:07:51,959 --> 00:07:56,439 That makes a difference. Means the dead man must have been driving, 82 00:07:57,519 --> 00:08:01,720 so it was a good chance it was his own car. I reckon it 83 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,160 is, But how about the other villa? Could be the same old story, 84 00:08:05,279 --> 00:08:09,639 Sheriff, a hitchhiker. Man have to be a fool and take a 85 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:13,639 hitchhiker through this country, didn't I? Yeah, a fool. The trouble 86 00:08:13,639 --> 00:08:18,879 with fools is most of them are nice people. They don't rate being killed. 87 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,360 I'm gonna play a hunch, make some work for the Highway Patrol. 88 00:08:22,519 --> 00:08:26,879 Captain Stimpson's out on investigation. I may be able to reach him in his 89 00:08:26,959 --> 00:08:35,240 car. Unit ten, the Unit three, Unit ten, the Unit three, 90 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:41,279 Unit three, the Unit ten Go ahead. Unit ten requests all points 91 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:46,799 bullet and alerting Highway Patrol and Ranger units to stop and check all cars carrying 92 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:52,159 New York state plates. Exhibit you sent over and arrived Unit ten. You 93 00:08:52,279 --> 00:08:56,320 know, just going on that cigarette tax stamp? Are you no? Captain 94 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:01,240 murder scene check indicates victim was driving car he would stumped from, might have 95 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:05,720 been his own. We're trying guess how soon can we expect report from New 96 00:09:05,799 --> 00:09:11,360 York police on laundry mark That don't take time, Unit ten, We'll keep 97 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:15,879 you informed. I have reports on exhibits in a few hours. We'll keep 98 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:20,279 Unit three informed if I move from this location, Unit ten, ten to 99 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:33,200 four. After the ten fourth sign off, I took the sheriff back to 100 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:37,799 his office, and that's when the hardest part of all hunting began, the 101 00:09:37,879 --> 00:09:41,399 waiting. The only thing we knew for certain about the murdered car was that 102 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,200 it was heading west on the road to pake Us now Passo. I headed 103 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,480 the same way, stopping to ask questions at all the smaller towns, the 104 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:52,519 cafes, and service stations wherever a man on the run might risk stopping. 105 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:58,600 But all the answers were the same New York car. You say, no, 106 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,480 no, I don't think so. I only saw I went out of 107 00:10:00,519 --> 00:10:03,279 state all day from Oklahoma. Well, thanks, any how many to sit 108 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,200 down have some coffee and pie? Ranger, Oh no, thanks, I 109 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:20,080 gotta find a fellow. No, I sure remember it. If a New 110 00:10:20,159 --> 00:10:24,399 York car stopped here for gas. Ain'teen one of the week. Well thanks, 111 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:30,200 uh ranger. Yeah, the kid runs the pumps a little while I'm 112 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,159 eating. Maybe he saw something. I call him out. If you want 113 00:10:33,159 --> 00:10:37,200 to wait till I catch his fellas win you I wait? Oh, but 114 00:10:37,399 --> 00:10:43,159 see I I just remembered the kid didn't sell nothing today. Well thanks. 115 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:54,759 Anyhow, we've been working on the Royal Dation York. But we don't know 116 00:10:54,799 --> 00:11:00,080 this nobody, I guess not. They detour passed you fifty yards away. 117 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,480 The one who might see swan he holds the red flag when the car is 118 00:11:03,519 --> 00:11:07,039 coming down there, boll He don't even to look up. He just hear 119 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,480 the car and wave the flag. He too busy looking in the movie magazine 120 00:11:09,519 --> 00:11:24,840 at Betty Gravel. Well thanks. By nightfall, I was just outside of 121 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:28,600 Pacas. I pulled into a grove near an auto quarter place i'd stomped before. 122 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:33,799 Let my horse, Charcoal get down from the trailer. Barely got him 123 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:45,600 unloaded when another Ranger car pulled in. Yeah, Kurtz Hoti boy HOI what 124 00:11:45,639 --> 00:11:48,120 are you doing down here? Got a teletype for from the headquarters. Murdered 125 00:11:48,159 --> 00:11:52,440 man's name was Roger Bradley, New York City salesman from airplane pods. Outfit 126 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:58,240 identification positive, Yeah, pictures, laundry mark everything. Police up there, 127 00:11:58,279 --> 00:12:03,759 trace the laundrymark. Bradley's wife identified the pictures. Was married. Yeah, 128 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:09,679 three kids. Car you're looking for as a forty nine blue sedan. Here's 129 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,120 the making license number. Highway patrol hasn't spotted at any place. Nope. 130 00:12:13,159 --> 00:12:16,039 But here's a list of all the clothes Bradley was scaring on the trip. 131 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:22,240 Pretty complete description. Can't understand why nobody's seen that car. Killer might have 132 00:12:22,279 --> 00:12:24,960 gotten out of the state, had a good start. I hope that isn't 133 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:30,399 it, Kurtz. Three kids have to grow up without their father because of 134 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:35,200 a gun crazy hitchhiker. I know what you mean. Let's hope he's still 135 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:52,879 in Texas. If he is, we're gonna find him in just a moment. 136 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,919 We continue with Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Rangers 137 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,799 Chase Pearson. Next time you bounce out of bed in the morning, Well 138 00:13:03,879 --> 00:13:09,240 you do bounce, don't you. Well, Okay, let's say next time 139 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:13,360 you get out of bed, head for the wheaties. Sure enough, head 140 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,919 for the wheaties at seven am, and see how they help at eleven am. 141 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:22,000 Yes, they can make a difference at eleven and they can make a 142 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,600 difference at the breakfast table. It's likely to be a pleasanter place with a 143 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:30,879 bowlful of crisp, little old wheaties next to your spoon and napkin. The 144 00:13:30,919 --> 00:13:35,200 reason is, of course, the whole hearted, whole wheat taste of wheaties. 145 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,039 You're getting. All that sweet is a nut, whole wheat flavor in 146 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,639 every wheati's flake. Pour on the milk, put on the fruit, and 147 00:13:41,759 --> 00:13:46,639 dig right in to one of the finest openings then a morning ever had. 148 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:52,000 And then see how much finer the morning itself goes when you've started with breakfast 149 00:13:52,159 --> 00:13:56,799 of champions. That full whole wheat really gives with vitality. You know, 150 00:13:58,399 --> 00:14:03,080 there's a whole kernel of wheat and every flake of wheaty's. I'll see if 151 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:07,639 you don't notice the difference all morning long, less of the mid morning slump, 152 00:14:07,159 --> 00:14:09,840 more of the up and adam punch, you know what I mean? 153 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:16,679 All right, then you try it tomorrow next day for a good breakfast, 154 00:14:16,159 --> 00:14:22,799 for a good morning, start with wheaties. See yourself how wheaties at seven, 155 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:31,639 can help at eleven And now back to Joel McCrae as Ranger jas Pearson 156 00:14:31,159 --> 00:14:43,919 in Tales of the Texas Rangers. For the next five days, Ranger Kurtz 157 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:48,159 and I worked our way west, but we couldn't get a lead. Then, 158 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,559 on the afternoon of October tenth, six days after the killing, we 159 00:14:50,639 --> 00:14:58,279 stopped and unloaded our horses at Eagle Flat in Hudsforth County. Blacksmiths place is 160 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:03,639 open. Yeah, horses can drink from his trough. Hey, look at 161 00:15:03,639 --> 00:15:09,759 that folk leaning against the fence there. They sure do get dutied up for 162 00:15:09,879 --> 00:15:15,919 Saturday. In that legal flash. Yeah, chritz matter Jason. That suit? 163 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,080 No polk ordered that through a male catalog. It looks like one of 164 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:28,120 the suits described on the teletype. Yeah, let's find out. Howdy, 165 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:33,360 Well, how do you range it? You live around here, work the 166 00:15:33,399 --> 00:15:37,240 Long Bowl ranch up near Tabernacle Mountain. Fday. Nice suit you got there, 167 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:43,519 kind of fancy. Yeah, ain'ted the thing from New York label, 168 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,480 says New York. Huh what'd you get that suit? Well? I bought 169 00:15:46,519 --> 00:15:52,360 off. Now wait a minute, range with this ain't stolen, is it? 170 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:54,960 Yeah? The man who was stolen from his dead. Oh man, 171 00:15:56,039 --> 00:15:58,960 I just bought off. When a feller come by the bunk house, when 172 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:03,759 oh reckon it was about five days ago. He'd drive up with a bunch 173 00:16:03,799 --> 00:16:07,759 of stuff. Drove up. What kind of car? A new seed? 174 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:12,200 Dan Blue noticed the license plates on the car? No, no, what 175 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:17,679 do you think, Kurtz? He's seen I'm in or he is imn Were 176 00:16:17,679 --> 00:16:21,159 you on the ranch October fourth? This is the first time I've been off 177 00:16:21,159 --> 00:16:22,799 of it in two weeks. I bought the suit. I'm telling you you 178 00:16:22,799 --> 00:16:26,039 buy anything else? Yeah, this, watch your hands. Wow, I'm 179 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:29,840 just gonna show you a wallet. The fellow threw in with a suit. 180 00:16:30,679 --> 00:16:34,720 All right, get it out, hey, y'all faded him ten dollars for 181 00:16:34,759 --> 00:16:41,200 the suit and this identifications cards and everything's stripped. You take anything out of 182 00:16:41,279 --> 00:16:45,440 here, want nothing to day? Just like I got a zept for my 183 00:16:45,559 --> 00:16:51,960 five dollars and the money. Parker killer took all identification out of these celluloid 184 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:56,000 cardholders. Might have left some prints. Ought to get it to the lab. 185 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,679 Yeah, all right, you better come with us now. Look, 186 00:16:59,679 --> 00:17:02,639 I didn't do nothing. Why are you taking me to the sheriff. You 187 00:17:02,679 --> 00:17:04,279 can give us a description of the man who sold you the duds. If 188 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:07,720 your story checks out clean, you've got nothing to worry about. Oh it's 189 00:17:07,799 --> 00:17:22,079 clean, all right, let's go. We checked the Polk's story at the 190 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:26,759 Longbo Ranch. He was telling the truth, all right. At least we 191 00:17:26,799 --> 00:17:30,640 had a description of the man we were after. Now about twenty years old, 192 00:17:30,839 --> 00:17:33,839 dark, five foot seven, about one hundred and forty pounds. Kurtz 193 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:41,319 and I unloaded our horses. Which way were riding Jase Coboy head north into 194 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:44,839 the hills road. Peter's art past his ranch, though nothing but a trail. 195 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,960 He might have turned back to the highway. Alarm was out for the 196 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:52,079 time he passed here. If he went back to a main highway, the 197 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,240 car would have been spotted. He's ditched it up here someplace. Oh, 198 00:17:55,319 --> 00:18:14,559 let's ride, get up there, charcoal. Yeah. We rode north from 199 00:18:14,559 --> 00:18:17,519 the long Bow Ranch, cutting into the mosquite seed of the flank. The 200 00:18:17,599 --> 00:18:21,200 road got thinner and more difficult, and just when I thought we might have 201 00:18:21,279 --> 00:18:29,039 come too far, we spotted the car. Reckon, that's it, let's 202 00:18:29,039 --> 00:18:37,440 see. Uh huh. Smart rolled it into a gully and then covered it 203 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:41,839 with dirt and grass. Nobody had ever spotted unless they were looking for it. 204 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:55,480 Let's get back and report it. Unit ten to kt XP, Unit 205 00:18:55,559 --> 00:19:03,119 ten to kt XP, kt XP go ahead. Uniten Unit ten located blue 206 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:08,640 sedan registered to Roger Bradley, New York City. A unit kt XP just 207 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,400 got report of fingerprints on say Lloyd. Current holders of bullet sent in. 208 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:18,839 One sent definitely those of murder victim Roger Bradley. Another set identified as being 209 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:26,640 those of Lenny Tripper. Please repeat Lenny Tripper, Lenny Tripper, any line 210 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:32,279 on him. Quanted by army for desertion three months ago. Description chicks last 211 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:37,200 known address lived with father and mother in Kevin, near Apache Peak. Carr 212 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:41,440 was found north of Long Bowl Ranch, Apache Peaks, about ten miles further 213 00:19:41,480 --> 00:20:00,440 in. Will investigate Unit ten ten to four. It was some down when 214 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,519 we got started. The country we had to go through is tough enough by 215 00:20:03,599 --> 00:20:07,920 daylight. Was after midnight when we sighted a patchy peek. There was still 216 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:14,720 a light on in a cabin nested down in the foothills. Wool boy, 217 00:20:14,759 --> 00:20:18,960 easy, keep kind of laid hours up here, don't they too late? 218 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:25,480 Better tie the horses to that mesquite and slip up and look in. Yeah, 219 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:33,680 come on, boy. Chase something moving over there? See it looks 220 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:40,599 like a couple of burrows. Let's take a look at him. You boys 221 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,920 up past your bedtime?'t you feel'em? Both in us sweat all 222 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:49,119 kicked up? Then packing too, and the hairs matted down where they've been 223 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:53,799 cinched for they time to be working. Burrs here, Come on, let's 224 00:20:53,799 --> 00:21:04,559 see the house. Looks through the window, then eaton? Got our boy 225 00:21:04,599 --> 00:21:10,640 though too old? Must be Tripper's father. Look, there's the old lady 226 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:12,680 too. You go around the back way and I'll go in through the front. 227 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:27,920 Wait to hear me, not get in right? Open up? Who's 228 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:36,359 that Texas ranger? What do you want? Lendy Tripper? He here? 229 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:40,240 Mind if I come in and make sure? Lend him in? No? 230 00:21:44,039 --> 00:21:47,319 Uh what? Just another ranger at the back? Missus Tripper? You wanna 231 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:53,039 let him into? Go ahead, and don't mind if where when he shooting? 232 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:57,000 Do you now? I'll go right? Ahare this year a regular meal 233 00:21:57,079 --> 00:22:00,000 time? Might he eat? Worn and water? Nothing on? Pack? 234 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:07,319 Jase? Where's your boy? Mister Tripper? You're the ranger? You find 235 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,440 him? We ain't seen him in the year since he joined the army. 236 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:15,000 You haven't seen him in the last three months either since he deserted from the 237 00:22:15,079 --> 00:22:21,359 army. You heard what you said, get me smoop Moore. If you 238 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:26,240 want to help your boy, you better help us. I don't help you. 239 00:22:27,599 --> 00:22:32,680 He's in Mexico. Didn't there more than a month? Mexico? Huh? 240 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:36,640 Thanks? Mind? If I uh have one of those cigarettes, mister 241 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:41,519 Tripper, yeah, never mind, I reckon, you can buy you or 242 00:22:41,559 --> 00:22:45,200 I just got a hankering for one of those. Can't always get a cigarette 243 00:22:45,279 --> 00:22:49,240 like that? What do you mean, Ranger? A New York tax stamp 244 00:22:49,279 --> 00:22:53,000 on the pack? Tripper? Those cigarettes were stolen from a murdered man six 245 00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:59,519 days ago. What were you doing with those burroughs outside? They've been packing 246 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:06,400 right, I was bringing some stuff down and been brush becking up to peak 247 00:23:06,799 --> 00:23:10,119 band of silver mines up there? Jase, is your son hiding out one 248 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,839 of those mind Stripper? Were you packing supplies to him? I told you 249 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:15,920 what I was doing. That boys wanted for murder, and if you're smart, 250 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,519 you'll take us to him and tell him to surrender. Do what they 251 00:23:18,559 --> 00:23:26,759 say, Paul, they were along. I didn't know about the murder. 252 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:32,400 He just said on he was after him. Come on, Kurtz, we 253 00:23:32,519 --> 00:23:36,680 better go up after him. Oh, don't go ahead, go after him. 254 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:47,000 He'll kill you. Next what he'll do, he'll kill you. We 255 00:23:47,079 --> 00:23:49,240 had to go up on foot. It was two treacherous for the horses, 256 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,680 and trailing over that rocky ground in the darkness slowed us to the crawling speed 257 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,640 of an overfed snake. There got to be less earth and more rock, 258 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,759 and the burrow tracks grew fainter. We tried to pick'em up by moonlight 259 00:24:00,839 --> 00:24:07,079 and flashlight. Uh, it could have gone in any direction from here. 260 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:11,640 Jase can't pick up a mark. Seems to level off a bit on that 261 00:24:11,759 --> 00:24:15,480 shelf ahead. Might be a narrow trail there. Oh so getting steeper. 262 00:24:15,799 --> 00:24:25,039 Huh too steep for burrows kerts. What dwarf folk here? Flashier light? 263 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:32,160 Yeah, that's it, hold it anything, Yeah, branch band, it's 264 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:37,160 been brushed. Look here been nibbled a bit too recent. Torn leaves are 265 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,799 still fresh. Well we're headed right then. Must have gone straight ahead between 266 00:24:41,799 --> 00:24:45,880 those big rocks. Yeah, uh, this is it all right. Look 267 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:51,960 at the side of the rock like the mic appealed off little fiber stuff bury 268 00:24:52,079 --> 00:25:11,119 pack ropes must have scraped it. Let's keep going. Oh we finally reached 269 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,799 the summit where the Oaks and Cedar's fought for whatever Smike gift their roots could 270 00:25:14,799 --> 00:25:18,960 get on the earth between the rocks. Dawn found us on a high shelf, 271 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,079 facing a rise that led to the open mouth of an abandoned silver mine. 272 00:25:22,559 --> 00:25:27,480 Tray leads straight enough. Now, yeah he's there, Chase, Yeah, 273 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:32,559 I'm but twenty feet back in. He could pick us off and we 274 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,039 never even get to see him. Stay down and keep the whole covered. 275 00:25:36,519 --> 00:25:41,599 What are you gonna do? Just call him out, Tripper, Lannie, 276 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:48,440 Tripper. He ain't gonna answer, Chase. You can't get out, Tripper, 277 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,559 Stay down, Jason. How he's got a rifle? Is what is 278 00:25:52,559 --> 00:25:56,160 that? Thirty eight he killed Bradley with. You're gonna come out, Tripper. 279 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,319 If we'd only packed a stick of dynamite, he'd come out soon enough. 280 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,680 We'll be buried in there. Maybe the idea of dynamite would be enough. 281 00:26:07,319 --> 00:26:10,480 Go over down the shelf and let him see you just once on the 282 00:26:10,519 --> 00:26:12,519 way, not long enough to draw a bead. Maybe we can bluff him. 283 00:26:12,599 --> 00:26:17,079 Why don't you go Donald, let me my idea. I'll stay go 284 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:26,480 ahead, Be careful, jeez, you missed him, Tripper, you're not 285 00:26:26,559 --> 00:26:30,880 gonna get another shot. He went down to our burs to get some dynamite. 286 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:38,240 We're gonna see you in there, Tripper, you better come out kill 287 00:26:38,319 --> 00:26:44,799 me. I won't if you do what I tell you. Leave your rifle 288 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:53,559 in there. Come out with your hands passed behind your head. All right, 289 00:26:53,640 --> 00:27:10,920 Tripper, now come out. He came out of the shaft, slowly, 290 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:12,519 first to blur, and then into the light, with his hands behind 291 00:27:12,559 --> 00:27:17,640 his head. I got up and he walked toward me. He wasn't wearing 292 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,160 a gun belt, but there was something in the way he moved that made 293 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,519 me keep my hands close to my holsters. Then he made a quick side 294 00:27:22,559 --> 00:27:25,799 step and his hands came from behind his head, and I caught the glend 295 00:27:25,799 --> 00:27:37,960 of a thirty eight. I'm all right, gun handed arm put a tourniquet 296 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,440 on him. He'll take it down. What's the matter with you, Jase? 297 00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:45,920 Look kind of funny just thinking of his folks down there, his mother 298 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,240 and even the old man, just trying to help him because he belongs to 299 00:27:49,279 --> 00:27:53,319 them in spite of everything he's done. Folks are like that. We gotta 300 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,640 bring him in and break their hearts. Yeah, makes you wonder why I 301 00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:03,039 ever wanted to wear bad until you remember the man he killed and three kids 302 00:28:03,079 --> 00:28:06,640 who have to go up without him. That makes you know you couldn't ever 303 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:12,039 want to do anything but wear a badge. There's a that'll hold him all 304 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:30,880 right, Tripper on your feet, let's go. A ballistic check of the 305 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,519 thirty eight that Lenny Tripper carried showed it to be the murder weapon used in 306 00:28:33,559 --> 00:28:38,319 the slaying of Roger Bradley. With that and other evidence accumulated by a range 307 00:28:38,319 --> 00:28:44,839 of Pearson and the Department, Tripper was convicted and sentenced to death in the 308 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:59,039 electric chair. Well, Joe, you did a fine job of clearing up 309 00:28:59,039 --> 00:29:03,279 that case. I've got a little mystery at home. Maybe you can help 310 00:29:03,319 --> 00:29:07,160 me try Joel. Well, it's the case of the disappearing wheaties. Every 311 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,039 once in a while, when I'm all set for a breakfast bowl of wheaties, 312 00:29:10,119 --> 00:29:14,200 my cook says, sorry, we're fresh out. Why that's no mystery. 313 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,279 Wheedies are so good, so crisp, so loaded with natural Sonny Hole 314 00:29:18,319 --> 00:29:21,160 week flavor. They're just doing last long. I know, But what can 315 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,319 I do? Well, you can get up early before anyone else gets at 316 00:29:23,359 --> 00:29:26,440 the wheaties or buy two or three bunss at a time. I think you 317 00:29:26,599 --> 00:29:30,880 hit it, Frank, anything good it item. Thank you Joel McCrae. 318 00:29:33,839 --> 00:29:37,720 Next week Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of the case from the files of 319 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:53,440 the Texas Rangers. Joel McCray will soon be seen in the MGM production Stars 320 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:59,359 in My Crown. Tonight's cast included Tony Barrett, Phill, Johnstone, Sam 321 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,799 Edwards, Well do you both? Byron Kin and Virginia grad And this is 322 00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:07,119 the Wheaties Man, Frank Martin inviting you to listen on Monday to Frank Lovejoy 323 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:17,839 and night Beat on the Wheaties Big Baraid. See you. Then tomorrow listen 324 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,400 for Dorothy Maynor. Now It's Basin Street on NBC.