1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: The DNIST Day Show returns to the air at this 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,440 hour the first week in October. Remember the DNIST Day 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:11,320 Show beginning here October seventh, presenting Joel McCrae in Tales. 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 2: Of the Texas Rangers on stage tonight, transcribed from Hollywood, 5 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:31,719 another an NBC's parade of exciting half hour presentations, Tales 6 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,640 of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Pearson, Texas, 7 00:00:36,679 --> 00:00:39,079 more than two hundred and sixty thousand square. 8 00:00:38,799 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 3: Miles and fifty men who make up. 9 00:00:41,240 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 2: The most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America. 10 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,840 Now from the piles of the Texas Rangers come these 11 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:07,480 stories based on fact only. Names, dates, and places are 12 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:11,319 fictitious for obvious reasons. The events themselves are a matter 13 00:01:11,359 --> 00:01:26,000 of record. Tonight's case play Poor keats. 14 00:01:28,879 --> 00:01:32,519 Speaker 4: At five minutes past midnight on December twelfth. Several years ago, 15 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:36,799 Sheriff Bob Smiths of Bradshaw County, Texas staged a raid 16 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,480 on a gambling establishment located on a country road. But 17 00:01:40,519 --> 00:01:43,159 there were no patrons in the house, and the Sheriff's 18 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:45,719 face grew dark red as he and the local constable 19 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:47,519 failed to find any evidence. 20 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:49,159 Speaker 3: Isn't it. 21 00:01:49,239 --> 00:01:50,319 Speaker 5: I'm serious, room Ei this. 22 00:01:50,359 --> 00:01:53,319 Speaker 3: Year, you're sure of that, hun, Jim, not even a 23 00:01:53,319 --> 00:01:54,799 decade cart see. 24 00:01:54,599 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 6: Sheriof Like I told you, I quit the racket. Yet 25 00:01:57,879 --> 00:02:00,079 this is the fourth time this year you routed me 26 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:00,640 out of bed. 27 00:02:00,879 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 3: I know you're operating Wharton, and I'm gonna get you 28 00:02:04,079 --> 00:02:06,920 for it. You're not gonna milk the citizens of this county, 29 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,919 not while I'm sheriff. Look Sheriff, this happens to be 30 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:11,759 my house. 31 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 5: Why and know why? 32 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,159 Speaker 3: You finish your business here? How about getting out? I 33 00:02:15,199 --> 00:02:17,960 guess we might as well go share. No, Jim, we're 34 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,879 gonna stay a minute. I want to talk to Walton 35 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:25,080 and you about what I was sure of this rate tonight. 36 00:02:25,159 --> 00:02:28,319 Jim did sure, just like I've been sure the last 37 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,439 three times, because only you and me ever knew about him. 38 00:02:32,039 --> 00:02:33,960 I didn't tell nobody but you, Jim. 39 00:02:34,319 --> 00:02:39,039 Speaker 6: You the constable sounds like he's accusing you of tipping 40 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:39,560 me off. 41 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:39,879 Speaker 5: Done. 42 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 3: I know he tipped your Wharton, but it wats what 43 00:02:42,199 --> 00:02:44,599 she's saying, Bob and all that talk about law and 44 00:02:44,759 --> 00:02:47,520 order and wanting to uphold him. Let me see your wallet, Jim, 45 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:49,439 take it out and let me see you. Now, wait 46 00:02:49,479 --> 00:02:53,120 a minute, Sheriff, you shut up. Come on, Jim, I 47 00:02:53,159 --> 00:02:55,080 want to see if you're carrying the kind of money 48 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:57,400 an honest man gets for being a peace officer. When 49 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,000 I carry on me is my own business. Why you 50 00:03:00,159 --> 00:03:01,319 cheap too, bitch, snake? 51 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 6: Nothing cheap about a few one hundred once in a while, 52 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:08,639 and be smart, Sheriff, get a fuel for yourself once. 53 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,159 Speaker 3: You listen to him, Sheriff, he's talking saints. Come on 54 00:03:11,319 --> 00:03:14,400 both here, I'm taking you. You can't make anything stick. 55 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,360 Maybe not, but I'm gonna make this counted too hot 56 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,599 for both here. I'm gonna run you out of the 57 00:03:20,159 --> 00:03:24,000 hands off me, sir. If you're up a rest, I 58 00:03:24,039 --> 00:03:27,879 got it, Just hold a well. I get you. 59 00:03:28,319 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 5: I got it, don't you. You killed him? You kill him. 60 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,439 Speaker 3: You grabbed his gun and killed him. He was after you, Wharton. 61 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,000 I got a gun on my own, none the constable 62 00:03:44,039 --> 00:03:46,919 for you set me up for a frame. Not necessarily, Warten. 63 00:03:47,479 --> 00:03:50,599 It's up to you. His body could be moved out 64 00:03:50,639 --> 00:03:51,759 of here. What's your play? 65 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 5: What do you want? No more chicken mash? 66 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,759 Speaker 3: Fifty percent of your take and you can go right 67 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:58,280 on operation with him. 68 00:03:58,120 --> 00:03:59,639 Speaker 5: Dead's you're crazy fool you're. 69 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 3: Forgetting Samon Walton. I'm top dog now in investigating this 70 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,199 murray would be my job until the new sheriff is appointed, 71 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,319 but I don't think I'm going to be able to 72 00:04:10,479 --> 00:04:10,919 solve it. 73 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 4: The body of Sheriff Smithers was found the next morning, 74 00:04:19,879 --> 00:04:21,560 dumped in a ditch by the side of an old 75 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,240 wagon road. During the next few days, Constable Jim Dunn 76 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:29,240 conducted a seemingly honest but fruitless investigation, even following the 77 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,480 efficient Peace Officer's routine of making use of the State 78 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:37,600 lab facilities at Austin, but citizens of Bradshaw were not satisfied, 79 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:41,360 nor was the editor of the Bradshaw Times. Clippings of 80 00:04:41,399 --> 00:04:44,000 his editorials were on file with Captain Stintson of the 81 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,519 Texas Rangers, and the captain sent for Ranger Jase Pearson. 82 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 5: You want to see me, Captain, Yeah, jeez, sit down. 83 00:04:55,639 --> 00:04:58,319 Speaker 3: There's no acting sheriff appointed by the Court of Bradshaw 84 00:04:58,319 --> 00:04:58,759 County here. 85 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 5: Jeez, I think you better. 86 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: Take over about the killing of Sheriff Smithers. I'd like 87 00:05:03,759 --> 00:05:06,879 to I knew Smithers. See that's right, you worked with 88 00:05:06,959 --> 00:05:09,519 him about five years ago when he first took office, 89 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,839 cleaned that county up in three months and cleaned it good. 90 00:05:13,079 --> 00:05:15,959 Speaker 5: And it doesn't look like it stayed clean, Jase. Not. 91 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:18,759 Speaker 3: According to this editorial clipping from the Bradshaw Times. 92 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 5: I've read it. It's going to be a tough one, Jace. 93 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:23,720 Speaker 3: No clue to the killer, and the trailers had a 94 00:05:23,759 --> 00:05:24,920 couple of days to cool off. 95 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,439 Speaker 1: And I'd better get gone before it gets any cooler. 96 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:31,839 You'll hear from me, uh, Jace, Yeah, cap'ain. 97 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 3: I just want to reminder whoever did it doesn't hesitate 98 00:05:36,199 --> 00:05:39,079 to kill a man wearing a badge. 99 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,439 Speaker 1: I reached Bradshaw in the early morning. The town was 100 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,040 waking up and the Bradshaw Times was turning out its 101 00:05:54,079 --> 00:05:56,920 bi weekly addition. I went in to see the editor, 102 00:05:56,959 --> 00:05:57,720 Frank Carlin. 103 00:05:58,759 --> 00:06:02,319 Speaker 4: So you read my editorials? Eh, I'm glad you know 104 00:06:02,439 --> 00:06:03,240 somebody's reading. 105 00:06:03,639 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 5: You've got readers all right. 106 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: People have been clipping them out and mailing them into 107 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:07,600 our headquarters. 108 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 6: Yeah. 109 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 5: I guess there's always a handful of people old. 110 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,639 Speaker 4: Uh wonder what the world would do without them. 111 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,199 Speaker 5: Everybody was so burned the day of the killing him. 112 00:06:17,319 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 4: Then in forty eight hours they want to forget it. 113 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 5: It's always Edwin. 114 00:06:21,519 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 1: How about the Constable Jim denn Oh he's all right, 115 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:25,720 I guess, but. 116 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 4: He's only been constable for a year. He just doesn't 117 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,399 have the experience that to take the quart a couple 118 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,600 more days to decide on a new show. I've better 119 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:37,000 knock out a story on your rangers coming in might. 120 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 5: Wake the people up again. I'd rather you didn't, mister Carlin. 121 00:06:40,319 --> 00:06:44,680 I'll be around and they'll know soon enough. See what 122 00:06:44,759 --> 00:06:45,079 you mean? 123 00:06:45,959 --> 00:06:48,319 Speaker 4: Want me to lay off the editorials for a while 124 00:06:48,399 --> 00:06:52,480 if you don't mind. You know, Sheriff and I are 125 00:06:52,519 --> 00:06:55,360 on different sides of the fence politically, But he was 126 00:06:55,399 --> 00:06:56,439 an honest man and. 127 00:06:56,399 --> 00:06:57,759 Speaker 5: I liked him. 128 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 4: I got a headline back there, all said and gathered 129 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,920 in dust, it says. 130 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:08,079 Speaker 5: Sheriffs kill a court ranger. Give me a chance to 131 00:07:08,199 --> 00:07:22,040 use it. I found a. 132 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 1: Place to park my horse trailer and put charcoal in 133 00:07:24,399 --> 00:07:27,319 the pasture. Then I headed for the Constable's office and 134 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:28,839 met Constable Jim Dunn. 135 00:07:30,519 --> 00:07:33,279 Speaker 3: They're all a re course in my investigations. Ranger, you 136 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,319 think I haven't done a good job, maybe those who 137 00:07:35,399 --> 00:07:38,439 change your mind. I even check ballistics with the Austin layab. 138 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:40,759 Speaker 1: My being here is in the criticism of you, mister Dunn. 139 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,040 I'm here because I was sent until a new sheriff 140 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:44,399 is appointed, and to give you a help. 141 00:07:44,519 --> 00:07:48,079 Speaker 3: I've done everything possible. I've questioned almost one hundred people. 142 00:07:48,279 --> 00:07:51,120 I've checked alibis on more than a dozen possible suspects. 143 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 5: It's all there. 144 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, everything's here, everything except the murderer. And that's the 145 00:07:56,879 --> 00:08:01,279 only thing I'm interested in seeing, mister Dunn. A little 146 00:08:01,279 --> 00:08:03,639 cooperation between us might clean it up. 147 00:08:04,839 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 5: I'm sure I'm blue Ranger. It's been getting under my skin. 148 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 3: This murder could have been committed by anybody, some bum 149 00:08:13,279 --> 00:08:15,360 from a hobo jungle, some drunk anybody. 150 00:08:15,399 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: We can't arrest anybody. We've got to arrest somebody, somebody definite. 151 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:22,360 Exactly where was the body found? 152 00:08:22,399 --> 00:08:25,519 Speaker 3: The old wagon road bypasses Town about two miles north. 153 00:08:25,639 --> 00:08:26,879 Speaker 5: Is it fit for a car. 154 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, but you gotta go round about to get to it, 155 00:08:29,199 --> 00:08:32,240 almost eleven miles. You won't find nothing there, though. 156 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,399 Speaker 5: I like to take a look. Anyhow. Can't we cut 157 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,799 cross country on horses? Yeah, shorter if you want it. 158 00:08:38,919 --> 00:08:41,240 I want to my horses in a pasture. I'll each 159 00:08:41,279 --> 00:08:42,840 at the edge of town in five minutes. 160 00:08:54,279 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 7: E body was found just a little further on. You 161 00:08:57,159 --> 00:08:59,960 can see the road now, not much of a road left. 162 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,639 Speaker 5: I'm no use for it anymore. Sheriff must have had 163 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:06,519 some reason for using other feat came away out here anywhere? 164 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:12,120 Who bo charco Hey? 165 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 3: Sheriff's car was found right over here by the side 166 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:14,919 of the road. 167 00:09:15,919 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 5: Where was he lying right beside? It? 168 00:09:18,399 --> 00:09:20,519 Speaker 3: Been dead about seven eight. 169 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,320 Speaker 5: Hours when he was found? Who found him? Cow polk 170 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:24,440 looking for some strays? 171 00:09:24,519 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 1: And it's lucky otherwise the body might have been here 172 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,240 for a few days or even weeks before somebody came 173 00:09:29,279 --> 00:09:32,559 across it. Yeah, you get pictures of the position of 174 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,720 the car and the body. Of course I did anything else, Yeah, 175 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,840 any exhibits, cast the footprints, anything like that. No, when 176 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:42,039 I got the call, I brought a bunch of men 177 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,759 out with me. I was excited, and I didn't think 178 00:09:44,759 --> 00:09:47,240 to stop him from tramping around. And see why you'd 179 00:09:47,279 --> 00:09:50,840 be upset? Well, if there was anything to find, it's 180 00:09:50,879 --> 00:09:52,840 a since it isn't here now, whether it would have 181 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:53,960 wiped it out if your men. 182 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 3: Hadn't You want to go back the time? 183 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:04,159 Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to look at the car. 184 00:10:05,919 --> 00:10:09,159 Speaker 5: How about the exhibits from the sheriff's body. I sent the. 185 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 3: Bullets and the gun in your lap. Checken terrified it 186 00:10:12,519 --> 00:10:13,600 was the sheriff's own gun. 187 00:10:14,159 --> 00:10:16,039 Speaker 7: I'm talking about the clothes he was wearing. 188 00:10:16,879 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 5: You got those, haven't you sure? I got him? I 189 00:10:20,159 --> 00:10:21,120 got all the evidence it. 190 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: Was and you should have sent it all in. I 191 00:10:24,039 --> 00:10:27,000 wanna look at that stuff too. I'll step it up 192 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:27,720 on tart. 193 00:10:41,879 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 3: Here's everything called tag everything the sheriff was wearing when. 194 00:10:45,159 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 5: He was killed. I see, And this the shirt he 195 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:48,679 was wearing. 196 00:10:48,879 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 3: See the blood and bullet holes, don't she? 197 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:52,399 Speaker 5: Yeah? 198 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 3: How come your lab didn't find any prints on the 199 00:10:54,759 --> 00:10:55,559 gun when I sent. 200 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:58,759 Speaker 1: It in, didn't even have the sheriff's own prince. It 201 00:10:58,799 --> 00:10:59,559 was white clean. 202 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 5: Hm. Well, this is kind of a what Well. 203 00:11:05,279 --> 00:11:08,039 Speaker 1: The sheriff was shot twice and they dug one slug 204 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:08,559 out of him. 205 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:10,879 Speaker 5: The other one passed clean through. Yeah. 206 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 3: According to the coroner's report, one schlug hit his collar 207 00:11:14,039 --> 00:11:14,799 ball and that stopped. 208 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,399 Speaker 5: That's what I mean. The course of the bullets. 209 00:11:17,519 --> 00:11:20,559 Speaker 1: Both shots fired into the left side, just above the kidney, 210 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:22,799 but the one that came through came out the right 211 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,320 side of his shirt collar here right through his neck. 212 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 5: What about it? 213 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: It's a funny course for a bullet to take unless 214 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:32,000 the man who fired the gun was lying down and 215 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:33,399 fired up at the sheriff. 216 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I figured too. They must 217 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:38,519 have had a fight for the gun. He got it, 218 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:40,080 but the sheriff knocked him down. 219 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,919 Speaker 5: And no, that isn't the way it happened. How do 220 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:43,200 you know? 221 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:45,919 Speaker 1: Because the sheriff wouldn't have turned his back on a 222 00:11:45,919 --> 00:11:48,960 man who had just taken his gun. Besides, these powder 223 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,000 burns show the gun was being held right against the 224 00:11:51,039 --> 00:11:52,120 shirt when it was fired. 225 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,320 Speaker 5: What do you think happened? Then? 226 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,279 Speaker 1: And the sheriff must have been in some position where 227 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,879 he was bent over forward, which he wouldn't be unless 228 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:01,440 but he was holding him in that position. 229 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,519 Speaker 5: Here, stand in front of me for a minute. Now, 230 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:06,879 you're back toward me. What are you gonna do? 231 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:09,799 Speaker 1: Slip one hand under your arms and then up behind 232 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:12,200 your head and a half nelson, and twist your other 233 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:13,080 arm behind. 234 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 5: You on an arm lock, and binge over forward like this. 235 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 7: The sheriff was held like I'm holding you now, and 236 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:21,720 the bullets were pumped into him. 237 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 5: See what I mean? 238 00:12:24,919 --> 00:12:26,759 Speaker 3: That's just a guess. 239 00:12:27,039 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 5: It's a guess. I'm gonna back up. 240 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 1: And if the sheriff was held in a half nelson 241 00:12:31,759 --> 00:12:34,840 and an arm lock, it tells us something else that 242 00:12:34,919 --> 00:12:37,279 there were two men in on the murder unless the 243 00:12:37,399 --> 00:12:39,799 killer had three hands and used the third one to 244 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:40,559 fire the gun. 245 00:12:41,279 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 5: That's pretty smart figure in ranger. 246 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: Only because it's the kind of figure and I've been 247 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:46,120 doing for a long time. 248 00:12:48,919 --> 00:12:50,600 Speaker 5: These the photos were taking at the scene. 249 00:12:50,879 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, the sheriff's body in the car, the car, the 250 00:12:53,759 --> 00:12:57,000 body moved any before these were taken. Nope, car was 251 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,799 right there with the sheriff flat on his face beside it. 252 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: And less than two feet away from it, his right 253 00:13:02,639 --> 00:13:06,960 side toward the car. Yeah, the bullet that passed through 254 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:08,799 the sheriff came out on his right side. 255 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:11,399 Speaker 5: That means it should have hit the car, But there's 256 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,399 no mark. I don't see that. That helps, you say, 257 00:13:15,039 --> 00:13:15,840 It helps plenty. 258 00:13:15,879 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 1: Then it tells us the sheriff wasn't killed out there, 259 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,720 He was killed someplace else and brought out there. 260 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 2: You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring 261 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:43,240 Joel mc crae as ranger Chase Pearson. Now we continue 262 00:13:43,279 --> 00:13:47,200 with the night's case play for keeps an authentic story 263 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,480 from the files of the Texas Rangers. 264 00:13:58,879 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: I knew the Sheriff Smith had been killed by two men, 265 00:14:01,519 --> 00:14:04,519 and his body had been moved after the killing, but 266 00:14:04,639 --> 00:14:07,879 it wasn't nearly enough. It was evening before I figured 267 00:14:07,879 --> 00:14:08,759 out my next. 268 00:14:08,519 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 5: Move, a move I didn't like to make evening, ma'am. 269 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,039 Remember me why HiT's Jace Pearson. 270 00:14:22,559 --> 00:14:26,639 Speaker 1: Isn't it, Yes, ma'am, been a long time, Missus Smithers, Oh. 271 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 8: Come in, Chase, come in. 272 00:14:30,159 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 9: I I suppose you know about Bob, Yes, ma'am, and 273 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:36,320 that's why I'm down here. 274 00:14:36,399 --> 00:14:38,519 Speaker 5: I came by to pay my respects. 275 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 9: Cunny thing. First time Bob brought you through that door. 276 00:14:44,279 --> 00:14:47,360 I never reckoned you might be back someday looking for 277 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:48,600 a man who killed him. 278 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: I wish it could have been for another reason, ma'am, 279 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,440 But Bob kept things working so well here. There seldom 280 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,360 was any reason for a Ranger to come visiting Bradshaw County. 281 00:14:58,559 --> 00:15:02,919 Speaker 9: I know how you, fellow, just keep working along. Can 282 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:04,360 I offer you a bite to eat? 283 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:09,279 Speaker 5: Please? Jase happy? Real fine? Miss Smithers. 284 00:15:11,919 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 1: I knew it might help her and me if she 285 00:15:14,159 --> 00:15:16,200 could keep a little busy with her hands, doing woman 286 00:15:16,279 --> 00:15:18,960 things in the kitchen, and I tried to eat, but 287 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,759 kept remembering the man who'd sat across the same table 288 00:15:22,799 --> 00:15:24,200 from me five years before. 289 00:15:24,639 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 5: Big, honest, stubborn and unafraid. 290 00:15:28,159 --> 00:15:31,399 Speaker 8: Kit It's mighty nice of you to stop by, Jace. 291 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:34,759 Bob would have been happy to see us sitting here again. 292 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:38,919 Speaker 9: He always said, a man with a good appetite was 293 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:40,440 right with the world. 294 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 1: Maam, I guess Jim Dunn has already asked you, But 295 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:47,519 do you have any ideas about who might have killed Bob? 296 00:15:47,879 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 3: Oh? 297 00:15:48,279 --> 00:15:53,279 Speaker 9: No, everything went so well for a few years. All 298 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:57,600 I know is the last year so Bob was upset about. 299 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 5: Gambling after anybody, in particular a man named Walton. 300 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 9: Lou Walton has a big house on the South Road 301 00:16:05,679 --> 00:16:09,639 out of town. Bob always says it was a gambling house, 302 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:12,200 but he could never catch Walton. 303 00:16:12,559 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 5: You mean he rated the place a couple of times. 304 00:16:17,039 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 9: Last time was and night he was killed. 305 00:16:21,159 --> 00:16:22,399 Speaker 5: Dun didn't tell me about that. 306 00:16:23,159 --> 00:16:26,519 Speaker 9: Bob was killed after he left there Walton's I mean, 307 00:16:27,799 --> 00:16:31,519 Dunn said they didn't find anything. So Bob started back 308 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,279 the town, but he never got home. 309 00:16:35,799 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: Missus Smithers, I have to ask a favor, A favor I. 310 00:16:40,559 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 5: Don't like to ask. 311 00:16:41,879 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 9: I want to help Jase every way I can. 312 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: I want your permission to have Bob's body exhumed for 313 00:16:48,639 --> 00:16:49,600 further examination. 314 00:16:51,879 --> 00:16:53,799 Speaker 5: He is it necessary. 315 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 1: I'm not satisfied with the examination that was made here, 316 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,759 all right, Jase, I'd like to have a more thorough 317 00:17:01,759 --> 00:17:05,240 examination made for headquarters. I'm sending him the clothes Bob 318 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,880 was wearing for lab check, and I don't want anybody 319 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:08,960 to know about it for now. 320 00:17:09,759 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 8: All right, you're gonna get him unch and Chase, I'm gonna. 321 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:21,279 Speaker 5: Try awful hard man. 322 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:34,079 Speaker 3: Well, fay Ranger, I've been waiting for you, but maybe 323 00:17:34,079 --> 00:17:35,519 you might have turned in for the night. 324 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 1: I'm going to in a few minutes. I just came 325 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:39,319 back to pick up the clothing exhibits. 326 00:17:39,599 --> 00:17:42,839 Speaker 3: Well, I locked him wiggin and big them out. 327 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 5: I want to send him out to cam Maybury for 328 00:17:44,759 --> 00:17:45,319 lab tests. 329 00:17:45,519 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 3: Well, all right, I'll give you a receipt for him. 330 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,279 Speaker 5: Okay, done? Yeah. 331 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:55,640 Speaker 1: In those reports of yours, I didn't see any mention 332 00:17:55,759 --> 00:17:57,279 of a man named lou Walkin. 333 00:17:57,799 --> 00:17:58,640 Speaker 5: Why should it be. 334 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 1: I understand that Walton's a gambler and that you helped 335 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:05,079 Smithers raid his place. The knight Smithers was killed. 336 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,279 Speaker 3: I hear the exhibits there, thinking way out of line 337 00:18:08,279 --> 00:18:11,880 on Walton. His alibi's air tight acrdon to who? According 338 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,759 to me, I was with him all night after Smithers 339 00:18:14,839 --> 00:18:15,359 left the place. 340 00:18:15,599 --> 00:18:17,920 Speaker 5: You didn't come back to town with the sheriff. No. 341 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:19,359 I stayed at Waltons. 342 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:23,160 Speaker 3: Why because the sheriff asked me to stay there. We 343 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,960 didn't find anything, But the sheriff figured if I hung around, 344 00:18:26,279 --> 00:18:28,559 somebody might show up a call up looking for a 345 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,559 game and not be able to get him some evidence, 346 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:34,559 the anything else you wanna know? 347 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 1: No, I guess that lets Walton. Now, I'll take these things. 348 00:18:39,759 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 5: Sure, go ahead, see them all done? 349 00:18:47,279 --> 00:18:47,440 Speaker 3: Right? 350 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:51,160 Speaker 1: Some please? 351 00:18:51,759 --> 00:18:51,960 Speaker 5: Oh? 352 00:18:52,079 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 3: Kill two four three ohe please? 353 00:18:59,720 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 10: Yeah? 354 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 3: Hello, well done? And get those people out and shut down. 355 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 7: Why? 356 00:19:05,079 --> 00:19:07,319 Speaker 5: What's wrong? That range is too smart? 357 00:19:07,839 --> 00:19:10,079 Speaker 3: I try to make things look good for myself, and well, 358 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:10,559 I guess I. 359 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:12,839 Speaker 5: Made him look too good. How much does he know? 360 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:13,960 All he's going to know? 361 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 3: You just close down and stand pat until he wears 362 00:19:16,759 --> 00:19:17,359 himself out. 363 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,759 Speaker 1: The sheriff's body was dug up in the examiner's report 364 00:19:29,839 --> 00:19:33,119 sent on to Austin headquarters also had the exhibits I'd 365 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:36,200 gotten from done. By late afternoon of the next day, 366 00:19:36,279 --> 00:19:38,200 Captain Stintson telephoned me long. 367 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Speaker 5: Distance got a complete report from the lab. Jez go ahead, Captain. 368 00:19:42,279 --> 00:19:44,279 Speaker 11: You were right about the position of the body when 369 00:19:44,279 --> 00:19:47,599 the shots were fired. AUTOMSI report shows the organs were 370 00:19:47,599 --> 00:19:50,480 pierced in a manner that'd be possible only if the sheriff. 371 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,920 Speaker 5: Were bent over forward good anything else? 372 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,920 Speaker 11: Yeah, that shirt you sit up labs thinks Smithers was 373 00:19:57,039 --> 00:19:57,839 killed indoors. 374 00:19:58,279 --> 00:20:00,519 Speaker 5: Why some lint stuck the blood? 375 00:20:00,559 --> 00:20:03,839 Speaker 11: And hell when it dried, analysis indicates it comes from 376 00:20:03,839 --> 00:20:06,920 a fabric used in expensive competing wild in color. 377 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:16,160 Speaker 1: Thanks captain, and maybe enough to wind this up. Then 378 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,720 you're convinced that Walton was running a gambling joint. 379 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 5: Mister Colin was. 380 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,799 Speaker 4: And is I swear to nobody'd been able to prove it. 381 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,319 You know how suckers are. They lose their shirts and 382 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,359 keep their mouths shut. Think they're in on a smart thing, 383 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:29,880 and they. 384 00:20:29,839 --> 00:20:30,559 Speaker 5: Help the racket. 385 00:20:30,599 --> 00:20:33,559 Speaker 1: Tears that cover up, and Walton must have been tipped off, 386 00:20:33,559 --> 00:20:36,200 but he was being raided part of the racket. They 387 00:20:36,319 --> 00:20:40,000 pay off and get tiptoe. You ever been in Walton's house? No, 388 00:20:40,319 --> 00:20:43,799 you know anybody who has been there? Well, it's no sacred. 389 00:20:43,839 --> 00:20:45,720 The newspaper men gamble moans. 390 00:20:45,759 --> 00:20:48,559 Speaker 5: Good for him. My line of type man plays horses. 391 00:20:48,599 --> 00:20:53,039 I know Pete be there in a minute. 392 00:20:53,559 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 4: Howdy, Ranger, howdy Pete? Have you ever been in low 393 00:20:56,519 --> 00:20:59,839 Walton's place? Come on, I don't stole tele arrange. 394 00:20:59,799 --> 00:21:03,599 Speaker 3: It's well, oh yeah, I've been there once or twice. 395 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:04,920 Speaker 5: I only want to know one thing. 396 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 1: You notice any carpeting in the house coppet? 397 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,799 Speaker 3: Oh? Sure, the house is lack a palace, woll cop 398 00:21:11,799 --> 00:21:12,759 it all over the place. 399 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,279 Speaker 5: What color? Well, it's a kind of a purple, i'd say. 400 00:21:16,599 --> 00:21:19,680 How about saying violent? Yeah, yeah, I guess that's what 401 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,880 it's called. You got something, Ranger. 402 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,599 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna wake up the nearest judge and get 403 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,799 a search warrant for Walton. You better brush the dust 404 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,640 off that headline you told me about. I think you're 405 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,039 gonna get a chance to use it. 406 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,039 Speaker 6: I was wondering when you get around to me, Ranger, 407 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,759 seems like everybody who wears a badge just loves to 408 00:21:44,799 --> 00:21:46,440 poke his nose into my life. 409 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: I wouldn't worry about your nose, Walton, if you want 410 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,480 to be smart, watch out for your mouth. 411 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 6: I didn't mean anything range you, just that a man 412 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,319 ought to well, or to have a little privacy. 413 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: And you love the death cells of Huntsville. They're real private. 414 00:22:00,079 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 5: Well. 415 00:22:00,279 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 6: I always cooperated the constable Jim Dunn, he'll tell you that. 416 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 5: I bet he would nice carpeting you got here. I 417 00:22:09,599 --> 00:22:10,240 like the color. 418 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, let me get you a drink or something, 419 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:16,240 ranging all good stuff. 420 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 5: I don't have anything but the best. 421 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 6: You know the old saying the best is nothing too 422 00:22:21,279 --> 00:22:23,400 good Walds. 423 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: Then a strong cleaning fluid used on a piece of 424 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,480 this rug, and one spot faded just a little. 425 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 5: Well, I spilled some wine. I had a party one night, 426 00:22:32,519 --> 00:22:35,440 the night the sheriff Smithers was here last, No, no, 427 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:36,240 before that. 428 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,279 Speaker 1: Oh oh that's right. I forgot. Nobody was here the 429 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:41,279 night Smithers came. 430 00:22:41,799 --> 00:22:43,799 Speaker 5: No, no, nobody. 431 00:22:44,319 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 6: The constable he stayed, stayed most of the night after 432 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:48,920 the sheriff left. 433 00:22:49,039 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, so he told me, let me show you the 434 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,319 rest of the house upstairs. 435 00:22:54,319 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: All thanks, I just want to look at the walls 436 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:01,599 in this room. Sure pretty, you know what, Huntsville they 437 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:05,000 don't have pretty walls like these, just cold concrete and 438 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:06,039 steel bar What. 439 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,599 Speaker 5: Do you keep talking about Huntsville. 440 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,400 Speaker 1: I'll tell you as soon as I stand up on 441 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,759 this chair and rip off this new piece of wallpaper. 442 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 5: You have no right to. 443 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:21,119 Speaker 1: Just looking for this small bullet hole papered over. Of course, 444 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:23,480 you know that one bullet went right through the sheriff. 445 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 5: The hole was repapered because the heavy picture fell. The 446 00:23:27,279 --> 00:23:31,960 nail made the whole thirty eight caliber nail. Then I 447 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,240 have this rug ripped up and sent to my lamb Walding. 448 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 1: No cleaning fluid made will wipe out all of a 449 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:37,799 blood trace. 450 00:23:38,319 --> 00:23:40,880 Speaker 5: Even a drop is enough to hang you. I didn't 451 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:44,400 do it. I tell you done. Shut him, it was done. Done. 452 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:51,240 Shut him. Hold your wrists out. You'll never get those Huney. 453 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,559 Speaker 1: You bet wrong this time, gambler. Now get up, I'm 454 00:23:58,559 --> 00:24:06,680 taking you in. I took him through town to the 455 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,440 county jail, and I walked over to the Constable's office. 456 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,240 But Done wasn't there. I had to find him quick 457 00:24:12,279 --> 00:24:14,880 before he knew I had walked. I headed back for 458 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:16,720 the jail, and so I turned into the street. I 459 00:24:16,759 --> 00:24:19,920 saw something move in the shadows. There was another car 460 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,319 not far from mine. It's the Constable's car, and done 461 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:24,039 was getting into it. 462 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:49,079 Speaker 5: Done wait a minute, the way he clean A rat 463 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,279 punctured my tires. 464 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,279 Speaker 1: You an attend to kt x A you and attend 465 00:24:55,319 --> 00:24:58,160 to kt x A. 466 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 5: Kt x ay o a tent. 467 00:24:58,799 --> 00:24:59,640 Speaker 7: Go ahead in a tent. 468 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 1: Unit ten convinced Constable Jim Dunne's subject sought in killing 469 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,960 of Sheriff Smithers, Bradshaw County, attempting get away, headed north 470 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,880 on State Highway nineteen from Bradshaw. Alert Highway Patrol in 471 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:14,160 all units for complete roadblock of area order no further 472 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,400 radio communication. Subject in Constable's marked car equipped with sharp 473 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:19,079 wave receiver. 474 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 3: We'll do. 475 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: Unit ten's car Commission will attempt to commandeer another car 476 00:25:25,039 --> 00:25:25,519 for pursuit. 477 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 5: Unit ten ten four. 478 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 7: KAT step off the wait, please please step back, Come 479 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,359 on sharp, Let's hope dun heard that car. 480 00:25:42,759 --> 00:25:55,839 Speaker 5: Come on here, ye up, come on. I had to gamble. 481 00:25:56,759 --> 00:25:58,519 Speaker 1: The last part of my call had been a plant 482 00:25:59,079 --> 00:26:01,920 a plan I wanted done to here. He'd know he 483 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,200 couldn't get more than fifteen or twenty miles before he 484 00:26:04,279 --> 00:26:06,799 was blocked unless he took some back road, and I'd 485 00:26:06,799 --> 00:26:08,680 seen him take a north turn out of town toward 486 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:11,240 the wagon road. He dumped the sheriff's body on it. 487 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,160 It was eleven miles for him by car, two miles 488 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,279 across country from me. I raked charcoal all the way, 489 00:26:17,319 --> 00:26:19,440 reached the road, and Rope dragged a couple of dead. 490 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,839 Speaker 5: Logs across him. We finished just in time. 491 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,039 Speaker 1: I heard the whine of a car coming over the 492 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,160 rise in the rough road as the first glimmer. 493 00:26:25,839 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 5: Of the headlights stabbed the darkness. 494 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 1: I tied charcoal back in the trees and dropped in 495 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:31,000 the brush to wait. 496 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:35,880 Speaker 5: That's the end of the road. 497 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 3: Done. 498 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 5: Don't try backing out. 499 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:43,039 Speaker 3: Now. 500 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,279 Speaker 7: You haven't got any tires. I'm giving you a chance 501 00:26:46,279 --> 00:26:46,920 to surrender. 502 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:54,799 Speaker 3: Don you get your tang and rain you mess done. 503 00:26:54,319 --> 00:26:57,319 Speaker 7: Now I'm coming around the car to get you. You 504 00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,920 want to shoot it out, let's go. 505 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:03,799 Speaker 5: Wait a minute. 506 00:27:04,519 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 3: Sorry, no shoon, no shoe, look out, I'll drop my gun. 507 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,640 Speaker 5: Persie hoad On, come here. 508 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,839 Speaker 1: Neither were Smithers when you lifted his gun and killed 509 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:22,400 him with it. 510 00:27:22,559 --> 00:27:26,519 Speaker 5: Good thing for Texas. All constables aren't like you. Come on. 511 00:27:27,839 --> 00:27:31,119 Walton's waiting for you at the jail. Looks like you'll 512 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,599 be partners again. At Huntsville. 513 00:27:48,559 --> 00:27:51,559 Speaker 4: The following week, the headlines of the Brideshaw Times read 514 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:57,039 Sheriff killers Court. Though Jim Dunn protested his innocence, Lou 515 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,680 Walton's confession and evidence submitted by the Rangers convinced the 516 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:05,440 court of Dunn's guilt. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment 517 00:28:05,559 --> 00:28:12,200 at Huntsville. 518 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,160 Speaker 5: This is Joel McCrae. 519 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,119 Speaker 1: In one hundred and twenty five years since their organization 520 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,319 was founded, the Texas Rangers have written many new pages 521 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:28,119 into the history of law enforcement. 522 00:28:28,799 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 5: With only a handful of men in a. 523 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: Vast territory, they have never failed to live up to 524 00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:36,640 their slogan, first to advance, never retreat. 525 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 5: That is the creed a Ranger follows. 526 00:28:39,559 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: And they have a belief that was impressed on me 527 00:28:41,559 --> 00:28:44,519 by one of their officers, a belief that often brings 528 00:28:44,559 --> 00:28:48,039 them victory over tremendous odds. In the words of the 529 00:28:48,079 --> 00:28:52,039 Texas Rangers, a man who is wrong can't stand. 530 00:28:51,799 --> 00:28:54,559 Speaker 5: Up to a man who is right. And keep on coming. 531 00:28:55,559 --> 00:28:58,039 Speaker 1: Next week we bring you another exciting case taken from 532 00:28:58,039 --> 00:28:59,640 the files of the Texas Rangers. 533 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 5: Hope you'll be listening. Good Night. 534 00:29:05,039 --> 00:29:07,839 Speaker 2: Next week, Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a 535 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:20,119 case from the files of not Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae 536 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,480 is currently seen starring in the MGM production Stars in 537 00:29:23,599 --> 00:29:27,960 My Crown. 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