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Speaker 1: Listen at the close of this program for an important

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announcement of a change in time for Tales of the

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Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCrae in Tales of

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the Texas Rangers. Tonight transcribe from Hollywood another authentic reenactment

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of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers.

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Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger

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Jase Pearson, Texas more than two hundred and sixty thousand

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square miles and fifty men will make up the most

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famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America. Now

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from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories based.

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Speaker 3: On fact only.

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Speaker 1: Name, states, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.

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Speaker 2: The events themselves are a matter of record.

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Speaker 1: Case for Tonite Blood Relative.

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Speaker 4: It is four pm June twenty sixth, nineteen forty nine.

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Will Bonner, proprietor of the General Store at Stump Hill, Texas,

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is waiting on mc kennedy a dirt fummer.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, if found your flying to bacon may anything ears, yeah,

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Cartner's cigarettes, Yeah, how about making it a couple of

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sax tobacco.

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Speaker 6: What's the matter? Will my credit no good anymore?

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Speaker 7: Ma?

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Speaker 1: I think you're pulling your homes a little. Your bills

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run kind of high.

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Speaker 6: You get your money, don't you hate a question.

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Speaker 1: Of getting in me?

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Speaker 5: You stand to make a good crump this year unless

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you have to pay out the better chance you'll have

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to get on your feet permanent without no credit.

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Speaker 6: Let me worry about it. Go ahead, wait down here here.

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Speaker 3: That's all right?

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Speaker 1: I got time. No, no, I'll take care of you, sir,

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Well you have stranger. Time ain't helping your sight in here?

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Is it? Uncle? Will Ben?

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Speaker 8: Ben?

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Speaker 6: Dang it?

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Speaker 4: Boy?

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Speaker 1: You change? How do you like? That? Didn't make nice?

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More blood relative earlier's there's Conse's here? Well? Well, an sezer,

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what is it we.

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Speaker 3: Fellow?

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Speaker 1: Once you know you want to buy some perfume? No,

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well you could have told him that. What would I

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do with Why?

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Speaker 6: It's your brother's boy, Ben, It's sure he is.

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Speaker 1: Stop tackling with you. You know about your Paul.

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Speaker 3: I know he's dead.

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Speaker 5: He ain't glad to see you being almost for god,

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he happened last winter, the pneumonia. Yeah, we're trying to

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locate you, boy, but nobody knew where he was.

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Speaker 4: Nobody would have wanted to know. I was in the

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Pennant Huntsville, m That's where I've been for four.

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Speaker 1: Years in the prison. Your Paul never said it wasn't

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nobody's business but mine. Oh well, Ben, I I guess

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we can talk that over. Leader. If you want to

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stay this, please you.

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Speaker 4: I'm asking you for nothing except what's coming to me.

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I just want you to buy out my paw share

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of the store and pay me off.

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Speaker 3: Ben.

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Speaker 1: Your father never did have a share in the store.

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You only worked for me. But you trying to get

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away with Uncle Will. He told me what was going

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in where they want to move out here?

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Speaker 7: But then you knew your Paul. He always talked big,

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but he never did have a dime of his own.

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You telling me about my own father. You know we

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ain't ruining him down.

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Speaker 1: Boy. He he never harmed nobody better. Drunking big was

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just his week, Lou. I come to get what's mine?

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Do I get it off?

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Speaker 3: Don't I? Ben?

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Speaker 5: Here's a beding a job waiting for you if you

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want them. You're a kinfolk and that makes you welcome.

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But I'm saying that there ain't nothing here that yours.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna pay you. Just hold on, you reckon. I

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can still take care of myself. Maybe can maybe kan,

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I'll go away.

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Speaker 4: I'm staying around town and give you a chance to

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change your mind.

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Speaker 1: I'm warning you, I won't care what's mine if I

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have to tell you for it.

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Speaker 9: On the following morning, June twenty seventh, neighbors found will

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Bonna shot to death and his wife Liz, critically wounded

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and unconscious in the back room living quarters of this story.

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The sheriff called, with the assistance of a Texas Ranger.

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Ranger Jace Person was assigned to the case. Well that's

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the all of the story, just like I found it.

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Speaker 3: Jeez. He looked pretty down hearted. Sheriff Bonner a friend

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of yours. I knowed him all my life. He helped

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me get elected. Bodies in the back room. You want

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to see it? Yeah, you can stay here if you'd rather. No, No,

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I'll come.

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Speaker 1: I guess you noticed the way the safe was cracked

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and the door where the killer got in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, professional job, all right. I covered will over with

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the sheet. Maybe I shouldn't have, but it's all right.

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Corner hasn't been here yet, huh.

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Speaker 1: No, he's on his way.

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Speaker 3: Dead about six seven hours. How do you figure that

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gets just beginning to set in. You see a lot

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of them. You get to know nine o'clock. Now, that

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means it happened about two or three this morning. Huh,

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that's close to it. How about Bonner's wife, she's gonna

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pull through. Doc Woodson took her to the county hospital.

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He said, there's a little chance. You've got a deputy

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posted at the hospital and in case she comes to yep,

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he can take any statements. Sure, sure, if I got

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to talk to you a minute, Well, all right, Jody

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come in farm. Had worked for Mac Kennedy on and

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off out a ranger sheriff.

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Speaker 1: What's on your mind? Jody?

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Speaker 5: But I I just come to pick up some feet

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and Max pickup Grid. About what happened, I don't know

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anything about it, not exactly. But I was in town

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with Mac yesterday afternoon. He come trust some supplies from Bonner.

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What time, ooh, about four o'clock. I wasn't in the

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store with him, but when he come out and we

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was driving back, Max said Bonnet had a fuss with somebody,

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Fellows fretting to kill him.

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Speaker 3: He say who the fellow was.

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Speaker 5: No, but whoever it was, he took a swing at Boner.

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Mac had to grab him to stop a fight. Where's

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Kennedy now?

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Speaker 1: Well? He was out proud want to laugh.

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Speaker 3: I won't be able to get him. Buy a phone. Man,

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Come on, Sheriff, let's get out there and talk to him.

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Speaker 1: Dead. We will Bonnard dead, Yeah, and Liz is mighty

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close to joining him. Mac.

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Speaker 6: Cut the motor on your tractor. Yeah, Sheriff. Will should

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have told you about that fella. I should have called

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and told you myself after what he threatened to do

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to him.

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Speaker 3: Too late for what anybody should have done. You know

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the man never saw him before, but I know who

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he is. Bonner's nephew fresh shout of Huntsville. I heard

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him say so, an ex con And you didn't say

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anything about it. Well, Sheriff, how could I know he'd

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do it? A blood relative? Wasn't myle Pharaoh?

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Speaker 4: Was it?

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Speaker 3: You know the man? If you saw him again, I'd

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know him any place better? Come into town with us,

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talk while we rhyde. Okay, Bonner mentioned his nephew's name, welly,

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he called him Ben he Will.

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Speaker 1: Bonner had a brother died last year. Must have been

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his boy.

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Speaker 3: We'll find out.

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Speaker 1: On the way.

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Speaker 3: In the Stump Hill, Mat Kennedy told us the story

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of the threat and gave me a description of Ben Bonner.

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I put a shortwave radio call through the kt XA.

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You'n attended, kat request all units be alerted to look

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out for subject Ben Bonner, recently released from Huntsville. Subject

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wanted for questioning and murder of Will Bonner at Stump Hill.

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Top four Request special alert on all roads leading from

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Stump Hill. Subject may be leaving Aria on foot or

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by hitchhike. Top four Unit ten clear.

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Speaker 1: Knt X house. Really young Bonner didn't run for it, Jaz.

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He may be hiding out someplace nearby.

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Speaker 3: Not likely, Sheriff. If he killed his uncle, he'll go

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for distance.

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Speaker 1: He killed him, all right.

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Speaker 3: You can bet on that when a man's life's at stake, Kennedy,

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I don't bet Ben Bonner wasn't around Stump Hill. He

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pulled stakes and made a run for it, all right.

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We got the information from a woman in the crowd

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near the store when we got back to town. Her

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name was Sadie Waddle. She ran a rooming house.

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Speaker 6: I ran all my.

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Speaker 1: Rooms to extra for generally, because I don't have to

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serve no meals that way. With him eating where.

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Speaker 7: They're working, so naturally, I thought this fellow was one

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of their migratory hands.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I understand all that.

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Speaker 7: Man.

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Speaker 3: All I want to know is when Ben Bonner left

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your place.

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Speaker 7: Well, it must have been just around midnight last night.

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Everybody was in and sleeping in the house, was locked up,

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and well the phone hooked.

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Speaker 1: Me up, and it was for him, not Ben phone.

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Speaker 3: Huh you know who called him?

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Speaker 6: Of course not.

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Speaker 7: I didn't know who was or nothing about him excepting

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his name was Ben.

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Speaker 3: Did you recognize the voice of the person who called. No, Well,

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please go ahead about.

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Speaker 1: The phone call. Well, I called him to the phone.

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That's all fine.

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Speaker 7: Time a night to be waking people, I told him.

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Speaker 1: Then he answered it. Right after that he lit up

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like the devil was after him.

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Speaker 3: Do you hear any of the conversations?

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Speaker 7: I did not.

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Speaker 1: I mind my own business. Besides, all he said was hello.

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Speaker 7: After that, all the talking must have been done by

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whoever called him, because he never said another word, just

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listened a minute, then hung up and.

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Speaker 1: Let out the phone ringing.

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Speaker 5: In the story, Jase, I better get it go ahead, sir.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thanks for your help.

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Speaker 1: Missus waddall, I'm glad, I'm out. I have to give it.

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Speaker 7: I might have been murdered mound sleep with an ex

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convict under my roof.

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Speaker 1: Ought to be some way we could tell him from

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other folks.

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Speaker 3: A man who served his time can't be expected to

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carry a brand, ma'am. Besides, how did you know Ben

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Bonner's an next convict?

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Speaker 5: So did I know what?

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Speaker 1: It's all over town?

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Speaker 3: It's Jace that calls for you right there, Sheriff, Thanks, ma'am.

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Excuse me? Who's calling your headquarters?

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Speaker 1: Captain Stinson, Hello, Kevin, got some good news for you jays.

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The Highway Patrol has picked up Ben Potter.

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Speaker 3: Fine, where'd they get him?

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Speaker 6: Almost rail passo patrol car was stopped at a railroad

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crossing waiting for a freight to get through.

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Speaker 1: They spotted him riding a nimpty flat freight.

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Speaker 3: Huh. It's a good thing they saw him. If he

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made out pass so he'd been across the border into

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Warez and no time. Really he didn't make it.

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Speaker 1: Bringing him back to stump Keill, now you have him

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there in a few hours.

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Speaker 3: You getting the case against him. I seem to be

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getting plenty.

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Speaker 1: You don't sounds I don't know.

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Speaker 3: You look up his record. What was on his last

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ticket to Huntsville?

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Speaker 1: Uglary jas And that fits except for the.

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Speaker 3: Killing this time. Yeah, it fits all right, like the

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executioner's glove. Stump Hill was five miles cross country from

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the nearest railroad spur. We had time before the highway

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patrol would be delivering Ben Bonner. We sent Kennedy back

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to his farm. I unloaded charcoal from a horse trailer,

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and the sheriff got his horse. We rode to the

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Speaker 1: He was smart, Jason almost got away.

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Speaker 3: Lots of them almost get away. Sure, made a lot

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of distance in it.

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Speaker 1: Don't know why you wanted to be sure. He came

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this way to get to the train.

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Speaker 3: Just wanted to be certain. He cut through this five

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miles on foot proves he didn't hitchhike a fast ride

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and pick up a train further on down the line. Well,

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luck was with him for a while. He cut the

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only train he could have cut. You mean only one

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freight goes through here at night?

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Speaker 1: Yep, hotshot passenger clears first at about one am. Freight

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comes through about fifteen minutes later close for the grade

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here where.

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Speaker 3: He jumped it about one fifteen is the schedule for

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the freight?

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Speaker 1: Then, huh, that's right, Let's get back to town. Come on, Chuck,

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you look like that train schedule means something, Jase, it might.

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Speaker 3: Parner's report ought to be end by the time we

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get back to town.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I see what you mean. If Bonner was killed

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between two and three am, like you figured, it'll mean

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his nephew Ben was on that freight at the time

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the old man.

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Speaker 3: Was killed, Harner or had been completed. It was waiting

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at the Sheriff's office when we got back.

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Speaker 1: Early.

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Speaker 5: Didn't miss but much, Jase. Here's the report, the time

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of day. What is it between one and two a m.

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Speaker 3: Then Ben Bonnard didn't kill his uncle. Even if he

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ran the five miles across country. His track showed us

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he walked. He couldn't have made it in time to

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catch that freight.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't look that way.

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Speaker 3: Bullets from Bonner's body have been sent through to Austin.

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We may get a lead from ballistics. I'm gonna do

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some more checking around town on them.

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Speaker 1: Just second, Jason Share speaking, Oh good, good, She did

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huh No, no, you say right there? Goodbye? Well, Jace,

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looks like there's been a mistake someplace. That was my deputy.

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At the county hospital, Liz Bonner regained consciousness for a

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few seconds.

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Speaker 3: What she's say?

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Speaker 1: She said her and her husband were shot by their

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nephew Ben.

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Speaker 2: You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring

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Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson. We continue with the

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night's case Blood Relative, an authentic story from the files

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of the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 3: The Highway Patrol brought Ben Bonner back to Stump Hill

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and unloaded him at the local jail, where the sheriff

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and I questioned it.

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Speaker 1: But I didn't kill him. I tell you didn't know

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he was dead till now. Who said you was gonna

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kill him? You said it in front of the witness.

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Man is the difference between saying and doing?

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Speaker 3: If you had nothing to do with it, why'd you

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run away? Of course?

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Speaker 1: Somebody called me up last night.

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Speaker 4: The room in the house late was a man said

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he was a friend in one of the warning the

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sheriff was going to pick me up a threatening uncle.

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Speaker 1: Will you scary easy? Don't you but your life, I do, mister.

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I just pulled four years at Huntsville and I had enough.

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Speaker 3: I don't want no more.

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Speaker 4: Maybe I was tough when I went to Uncle Will yesterday,

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but last night when I got that call, I was

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scarce sick.

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Speaker 3: And you don't know who called you.

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Speaker 1: No, No, I don't. I'm sure it wasn't somebody who

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served time with letting you know he was here to

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help you with the job.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 1: Look, you gotta believe me. This is a murderer. You

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can't send me up for it. Just because I shot

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off my mouth. That ain't evidence.

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Speaker 6: Ben.

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Speaker 3: There's more than that. Your aunt Liz didn't die. She

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came to at the hospital. She says it was you

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who gunned her and her husband.

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Speaker 1: That's a dirty lie. Look if I did that, If

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I shot them and robbed the store, what was I

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doing on a freight? What did I do with the money.

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I ain't gonna say anymore. I ain't gonna talk to

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I see a lawyer.

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Speaker 3: That's youre right. We told you that in the beginning,

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All right, Sheriff, Yes, you can lock him up again.

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Speaker 1: Go on, go ahead, ranger, police. I didn't do it.

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Maybe the fellow who told you I threatened Uncle Will

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didn't tell you everything. Maybe you want to ask him

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why there was odd and when I come into the store.

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All right, Ben, all right, well what do you think case?

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Let's get outside.

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Speaker 1: If he did have an accomplish, the other fellow might

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be carting the loot and the gun might.

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Speaker 3: Be I'll see later, Sheriff. I'm driving over to the

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hospital at the county seat. I want to talk to

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his aunt, Liz Bonner, Missus Bonner. The doctor will only

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let me stay a minute. Well, shot Will?

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Speaker 1: Just getting up?

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Speaker 3: Who shot him? Missus Bonner? Then then, ungrateful.

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Speaker 1: Wanted to help him.

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Speaker 3: How did it happen?

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Speaker 8: It was a noise in the store, woke us up?

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Well cold, said who's there? Then he got up, went

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put on the lights, then shot him.

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Speaker 3: Did he get the lights on? Did you ever see

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your nephew?

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Speaker 1: No, but it was him, he said he'd do it.

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Speaker 7: It was him.

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Speaker 3: If you didn't see him, did he say anything? Did

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you hear his voice and recognize him?

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Speaker 1: No? He just shot Will. I screamed and that's all.

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Speaker 3: But you didn't see Ben or recognize his voice?

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Speaker 1: No, But he said he would. There couldn't be anybody else.

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Speaker 3: I think you're wrong, man, I think it could be.

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I burned up the road back to Stump Hill and

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got the sheriff. I wanted to make another check at

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the store and find out a few things about Mac kennedy.

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Speaker 1: Dog. Honey, jeez, you're sending your dogs at the wrong tree.

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Mac Kennedy's been Will's friend for a year.

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Speaker 3: I just asked if Kennedy had ever been in trouble.

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Speaker 1: Never. He's honest, god peran dirt farmer, and that's all.

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Speaker 3: What kind of shape is he in financially?

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Speaker 1: Well, oh, Jase, A man don't have to be a

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criminal just because he's down on his luck. Max's crops

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have been bad.

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Speaker 3: Sure, if I'm just asking a few questions, that's all. Well,

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I'm sorry, Jayce, I reckon Max in hawk up to

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his neck plays and all his equipment as mortgage.

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Speaker 1: How come he can afford a hired hand? You mean, Jody? Oh,

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he just drifts in and out. Ain't much of a worker,

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but he's all Mac needs.

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Speaker 3: Migrates in in the spring for planting season, then out

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again in the fall after harvest. He doesn't work for nothing,

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does he Mac pays him right off when he makes

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his crop from Selsey. That the way he pays everybody.

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It's the only time he ever had any cash. Why

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just wondering, did Mac buy here on credit from Bonner?

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Speaker 1: Well? I guess so. Why you find something in the ledger?

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Speaker 3: Come take a look. Seems to be a page torn out.

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The book has kept in alphabetical order. Missing page is

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in the case if there was a charge page in

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here for Kennedy, it'd be right here.

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Speaker 1: Now you've got something I can't fight, Jace. What a setup?

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An x Colm threatens to kill a man makes it

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perfect for somebody else to do the job and set

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the jailbird up.

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Speaker 3: For a frank Come on, Sheriff, let's get out to

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Kennedy's place again. Only this trip we won't be asking

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questions about Ben Bonner. There's one thing still bothering me, Jace.

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Mat Kennedy He's never been in trouble, so.

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Speaker 1: How come we both spotted the marks of a professional

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knob knocker on the burger?

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Speaker 3: And it's been bothering me too. The more I think

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of it, the more I wonder why tore that charge

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page out of the ledger? Why do something that would

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point right at him when he had somebody else all

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set up to take the fall. Just beating the bill

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wouldn't make the chance worthwhile. Not with murder, it wouldn't

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ktx any out of ten oh, this may be the

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ballistics report, Jason, Unit ten go ahead, kt XA lap.

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Speaker 10: Report completed on bullets US and the slang of Will

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Butler thirty eight kalaba probably Smith and Wesson Police.

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Speaker 3: Special ten to four. Unit ten Claire kdx A austin

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a minute, KTXA stand by.

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Speaker 1: Please ATXA standing by this matter.

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Speaker 3: Jon just got an idea, something that didn't fit before

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at hand. Who works for Kennedy? That Jody? What's his

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last name?

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Speaker 1: Jody?

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Speaker 3: Let's see it. It's Pelham, Jody Pelham. Why, I'll tell

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you in a minute. You there, kt X at this

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unit requests quick check on subject Jody Pelham. Repeat Jody Pellham, Urgent.

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Speaker 1: Ten four get back to you with information soon as possible.

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Unit ten Claire kenny x ay often yeeh. You figuring

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Jody helped make Kennedy to pull this job.

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Speaker 3: Maybe or maybe Jody did it on his own. I

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want to know if he's got a record, what Swisch,

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you're thinking to him he was waiting outside Bonner's store

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for Kennedy when Ben walked in yesterday and made his threats.

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Speaker 1: Well, sure, he admitted that Kennedy told him about Ben

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when he come out and he'd drove on back to

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the farm.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, But when Jody came into town the next morning

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and came to tell us about the threats, he pretended

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he didn't know too much, just knew that old Will

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Bonnard been threatened, couldn't say who made the threats.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't get what you're driving at, Joe. If

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Kennedy told him.

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Speaker 3: He must have told him the whole story about the

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threats coming from Bonner's nephew, a nephew just gotten out

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of prison. That'd be the logical way to tell it,

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And that's the way Kennedy did did tell it. But

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Jody was anxious not to seem to know too much.

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Speaker 1: Hey, sure, I see what you mean. Kennedy wasn't in

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town this morning until we went out and brought me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but when we got back, everybody in town knew

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that the man we were looking for was Bonner's nephew,

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and that he was an ex Khan Sadie Waddles told

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us that.

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Speaker 1: Only wound it could have come from with Jody. He

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spread it around while we were out getting Kennedy.

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Speaker 3: When we get to the farm, draw him out. Don't

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pounce on him until I get an answer on him

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from Austin.

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Speaker 1: I hope it's the right, an't she? It may save

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Mac Kennedy's life.

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Speaker 3: It was dark and we reached the farmhouse. There was

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a light on him the house, but the pickup truck

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wasn't in sight in the open garage. We left my

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car around in the back of the house and en

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up on the porch.

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Speaker 1: Oh he'll hold your horses?

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Speaker 6: Oh sure, ranger. I thought it was Jody coming back

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with the pickup.

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Speaker 3: Where'd he go?

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Speaker 6: He drove up north to Edgeville this afternoon, said he

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wanted to get something. You ought to be back soon.

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Speaker 1: Well, aren't you gonna ask us in? Mac? Sure?

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Speaker 3: Sure thing?

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Speaker 1: Make yourself at home.

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Speaker 6: Un there's stand you got Bonner's nephew today heard a

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couple of women chewing about it on the party line.

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Speaker 3: He got him temporarily. What do you mean temporarily? He

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didn't kill anybody. Mac. You had an argument with Bonner

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yesterday what about I reckon, that's my business, yours and Bonner's.

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But he's dead now, so that makes it my business.

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Speaker 6: Better. Talk up, Mac, Well, I've been running up a

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big bill. Will was cutting me down a little. You

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admit you owed him money. Why wouldn't I admit it?

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I pay my bills?

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Speaker 1: Any an sways otherwise as a liar. Nobody is saying otherwise. Mac.

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Speaker 3: You keep a gun around here anyplace?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: What kind?

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Speaker 6: Smith and Wasson thirty eight? It's right there on the

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mantel over the fireplace.

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Speaker 3: I'll get it, Jase, Oh, don't wipe off any prints.

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Stick a pencil in the muzzle and lift it that way.

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Speaker 1: Ok, pencil won't go in Gay something jamming it.

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Speaker 3: Let me see, I have to worry about prints on

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that outside has been white clean with an oil rag.

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Speaker 1: Looks like paper jammed in there.

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Speaker 3: Must soon find out. Take these shells out, poke the

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pencil through there.

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Speaker 1: Why is Max's charge page from the ledger? What are

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you trying to pull?

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Speaker 3: Make it easy, Mac, We're not. After you smell this

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gun and look at it, Sheriff. It was used, then reloaded,

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but never cleaned.

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Speaker 6: That gun hasn't been touched in years.

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Speaker 3: Mac. This gun killed Will Bonnard almost killed his wife

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last night. Jody Pelham did it after you told him

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about Bonner's nephew.

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Speaker 1: But why would he tear out that page and plant

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it here.

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Speaker 3: So he could use Mac here to give himself a

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double cover up. He made the call to the rooming

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house and got Ben Bonner to run, But he knew

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if Ben was caught any place and could set up

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an alibi, there'd be a second search. That's why he

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tore out the page and planted it here on Mac.

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I'm sure glad you know it wasn't me. If it

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was you, you'd have burned the page.

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Speaker 6: That dirty little Hey there he comes, Now that's the pickup.

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Speaker 3: You want to help us nail him all?

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Speaker 1: I'd like to blow his brains out of this a.

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Speaker 3: Better way I di him feel safe here? Let me

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put these cuffs on you quick. What I've done back

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in the mantle, Sheriff.

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Speaker 1: But are you sure the junk is ma.

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Speaker 3: Boy?

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Speaker 1: I didn't know anybody was here, mag heck was the matter?

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What are you doing with those things? On?

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Speaker 3: What's your guess? Jody? What's in that bag you're carried?

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What I used to pick me up a bottle of

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package Stone Edgeville. What you use for money? You don't

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get credit on liquor.

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Speaker 1: Well, mag Mac, he paid me some wages this morning. Oh,

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I get it. I kind of wondered where he got

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the money, now you know?

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Speaker 3: Huh.

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Speaker 5: Well, when I got up last night and found he

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was going to I saw have got the wondering this morning, you.

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Speaker 1: Shut up man?

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Speaker 3: All right, Sheriff, I guess we can take him in.

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You better come along the make a statement. Jody, sure, sure.

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Speaker 1: I hate to do a thing like this to a friend,

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but I guess he deserves it.

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Speaker 3: Don't know, Bonner like he did. Yeah, I thought you'd

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feel that way. Let's go. You might as well admit

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you fired the gun. Mac A die Fenleman. Test will

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prove you did. What kind of test is that man

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fires a gun? The nitrate from the powder gets into

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the pores of his hands. Chemical application shows it up.

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Speaker 5: Well, he's washed his hand since last night, I reckon, Oh,

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Washington won't get it out.

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Speaker 3: Stays for a couple of days. You fired a gun recently, Jody, No, No,

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Then we make the same test on your hand. It

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will show you the difference. Well, you don't have to

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do that. I don't understand that kind of stuff. Anyway,

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It's too bad. I thought you might like to see

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how we work. Get in watch him, Sheriff. All right,

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Austin ought to have that information I requested before. Sheriff. Yeah,

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this might bore you. Jody, you tend to k t XA.

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This unit back in service, been waiting.

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Speaker 1: For you have information You're inquested on subject? Jody Pelham,

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what's that?

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Speaker 10: Two years Huntsville bargery, three years Louisiana State ptitentry, burgery

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and safe.

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Speaker 3: Cracking ten four unit ten clear?

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Speaker 1: Any exit? Austin shut this car. You got me get

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out of here, watching sharpon making use his gun. Judy,

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you can rot.

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Speaker 3: Never mind that mac here. Take these keys and put

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the cuffs on the right man, Sheriff. We might as

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well have him there. He'll be wearing them a lot

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until he reaches the death cell. At Huntsville.

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Speaker 9: Jody Pelham was tried and convicted for the wanton murder

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of Will Bunner on the morning of December sixth, nineteen

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forty nine, at Huntsville Penitentiary.

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Speaker 1: His sentence was carried out death and the jov and

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now here again is the star of our show, Joel McCrae.

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Speaker 3: Folks, Tales of the Texas Rangers is moving to a

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new time. You won't hear us next Sunday, but the

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week after that we'll be back just an hour and

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a half later than usual on NBC, right after Theater Guild.

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So we'll see you in two weeks on Sunday, November

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twenty sixth, and I hope you'll be listening. Good night,

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good night, Joel.

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Speaker 2: See you one week from this coming Sunday. Remember, friends,

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as Joel told you, Tales of the Texas Rangers will

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come to you an hour and a half later, immediately

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following Theater Guild, beginning next Sunday. At this time you'll

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hear head of Hopper's Fine Program. The week after next,

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November twenty sixth, Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson will

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be with you again.

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Speaker 1: A week from Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Joel McCray and another authentic reenactment of a case from

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the files.

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Speaker 1: Of the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: Joel McCray is currently seen starring in the MGM production

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Stars in My Crown. Tonight's cast included Tony Barrett, Bill Johnstone,

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jodeval Virginia, Greg Parley Bear, and Byron Kine.

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Speaker 1: This story was transcribed and adapted by Joel Murcott, and

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the program was.

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Speaker 2: Produced and directed by Stacy Keach. One week from next Sunday,

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Tales of the Texas Rangers will be back with you

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immediately following Theater Guild. Consult your local radio schedule for time.

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This is Hal give me speaking.

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Speaker 1: Three chimes mean good times on NBC mm hmm