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Speaker 1: Before we bring you tonight's Tales of the Texas Rangers,

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here's a Christmas message all of us associated with this

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program would like you to hear. Christmas is just two

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weeks away, and unless everybody helps in his own city

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or town, there are some less fortunate children who will.

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Speaker 2: Not receive Christmas gifts.

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Speaker 1: Lets everyone join your local groups and give a thing

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a thing for kids for Christmas. In your town there

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are one or more agencies collecting toys for less fortunate children.

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Do your part and contribute the things you can.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: The National Broadcasting Company presents Joe mc crae in Tales

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of the Texas Rangers. Tonight transcribe from Hollywood another authentic

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reenactment of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers,

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The Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joe McCrae as

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Ranger Jace Pearson, Texas more than two hundred and sixty thousand.

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Speaker 4: Square miles and fifty men will make up.

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Speaker 3: The most famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America.

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Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these

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stories based on fact only. Names, dates and places are

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big ficious for obvious reasons. The events themselves are a

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matter of record. Case Fortnight the Lucky Dollar.

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Speaker 5: It is seven point thirty of a simmering hot night,

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August fourteenth, nineteen forty five.

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Speaker 2: In a small South Texas town.

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Speaker 5: Not far from Corpus Christie, Joe Barry is counting up

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the day's receipts of his modest story.

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Speaker 2: His wife Clara is locking up and back dark early

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forty fifty. What there?

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Speaker 6: What happened to the light summer throw back here?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 7: I didn't turn them up.

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Speaker 8: Ma. One of the fuses must have blown.

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Speaker 6: Thin need to be the refrigerator again.

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Speaker 7: No, I just put in a whole new unit, didn't I.

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Speaker 8: Hey, you just stay.

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Speaker 7: Where you are, Claire. I'll get my fash light here

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and see what the.

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Speaker 9: Trouble is, Josey.

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Speaker 8: And don't worry, honey. I'll be careful. Let's see what

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we got here.

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Speaker 2: These futures look good, Joseph.

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Speaker 9: Everything seems alright in here. Mauh must be in the

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main switch box. How they can look outside?

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Speaker 8: Well, I'll be done.

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Speaker 2: Means switch is pulled.

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Speaker 10: Who if you're back to me and give me a flashlight?

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Speaker 8: Wish?

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Speaker 10: Who are you hold?

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Speaker 7: Nobody's gonna hold up. True, very well, tell you off.

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Speaker 8: Didn't you find the trouble?

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Speaker 11: Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, what a mass of doing?

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Speaker 10: Trying to count appear with so little?

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Speaker 2: Joseph, What do you do you keep away? Old woman?

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Speaker 10: Is away from me?

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Speaker 7: Sho crazy old.

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Speaker 5: When Joseph Barry regained consciousness, he staggered to the phone

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and called Sheriff Jennings, who in turn requested help from

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the Texas Rangers. Ranger Jace Person was at the scene

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of the crime a short time later.

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Speaker 2: It's just like Barry, said Sheriff. The thief pulled his

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master switch outside the store to draw up the storekeeper, and.

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Speaker 10: He must have thought Joe was along in the sort.

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Speaker 2: Sure he did, too bad. He wasn't missus Barry to

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be alive. Now, well, let's go inside against Sheriff. I'd

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like to ask Barry a few more questions.

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Speaker 12: You know, Jason, this is mighty like another hold up

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we had in this area just a week ago. Yeah,

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liquor store. No gunplay, but otherwise just the scene.

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Speaker 10: Mean switch pulls.

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Speaker 12: Only went out to check the fuses were slut.

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Speaker 2: Nobody saw the thief, nobody, but it could be the

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same guy. Could be mister Barry.

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Speaker 7: Here, stranger, find anything more?

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Speaker 2: Maybe. I know this is hard on you, but I'd

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like to ask a few more questions.

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Speaker 13: Go right ahead, ranger, ask all you want.

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Speaker 7: I'll do anything to catch the devil that that.

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Speaker 8: Murdered my wife.

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Speaker 2: I know you're sure you didn't get a good look

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at the burglar. Something you could remember his identification.

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Speaker 13: No, sir, he came up on me out of nowhere,

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no sound, nothing until he spoke.

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Speaker 8: Then we fought.

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Speaker 13: But that voice, I'd remember that whispering voice anywhere as.

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Speaker 10: You didn't mention that before, Joel didn't.

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Speaker 13: I it's kind of hard to think right now, shell

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with poor Clara.

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Speaker 2: What the burglars say, mister Barry, Not much, ranger, But

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I know that voice.

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Speaker 8: I know it all right.

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Speaker 2: Go on, try to remember it word for word.

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Speaker 13: He said, hold everything, pop, keep you back to me

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and hand over your fash life.

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Speaker 7: And then when I fought him, let go you all fool.

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Speaker 8: That's all I mean.

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Speaker 10: The next thing I knew I saw Clara.

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Speaker 2: It's all right, mister Barry. I want to ask you

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to talk much more now, but would you mind coming

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over to the cash register for a minute.

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Speaker 8: Sure?

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Speaker 13: How come we there was so little in the till

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Ranger only forty five dollars.

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Speaker 8: It was forty five dollars for my Clara.

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Speaker 2: Look here, mister Barry, can you tell me about this

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piece of adhesive stuck on the front of the register.

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Looks like something was pasted here.

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Speaker 13: It was Ranger, that murdering skunk even took the first

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dollar this store ever made.

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Speaker 8: My lucky dollar.

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Speaker 10: Lucky dollar.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and he stuck up.

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Speaker 13: There on the register with a couple of pieces of adhesive.

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Speaker 2: Team he took it, not all of it, mister Barry.

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Look here, a corner of the bill is still stuck

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under this piece of adhesive. Must have torn off when

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he grabbed.

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Speaker 8: It's not much to go on, Jays.

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Speaker 2: It's a star sheriff dollar bill that matches this torn

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corner and the bullets from Missus Barry's body.

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Speaker 10: How can we help him?

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Speaker 2: Jeez? And best thing for him is some arrests here.

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I'll leave it to you, all right, What about you?

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I'm hoping we can pick up some fingerprints on the

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register here from the outside switchbox our radio. The lab

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crew to fly down here and we'll see what they

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can find. Meantime, we'll notify all banks to be on

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the lookout for a sticky dollar bill with one corner missing.

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The lab crew came in from Austin and gathered all evidence.

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But the next day I had a report from capt'n

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Stinson on.

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Speaker 8: That very robbery and homicide.

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Speaker 2: Jez, Yeah, cap'n. And he make on the bullets or prints.

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Nothing on the bullets.

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Speaker 8: All we know is that they're from A thirty two.

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But on the prince, that's another thing. The lab dug

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up something interesting.

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Speaker 2: What's that?

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Speaker 9: No direct prince, jeez, But the thief wore cotton gloves.

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Speaker 2: There's an imperfection in the weave of the lift.

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Speaker 5: Though.

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Speaker 2: There's not a lot to go on, cap'n gez, you

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got any more leads, not exactly, But we don't think

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he was done by somebody just passing through, yo. Why

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not because Sheriff Jennings had a similar robbery in this

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area last week with the same moo pulled the switch

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and worked in the dark.

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Speaker 8: A lot of people down.

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Speaker 2: There with a cotton season in full swing out there,

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swarms of them reckon.

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Speaker 8: It could be a cotton worker.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to say, really. If it is, you've got

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a big territory to cover of jes Now, I got

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an old dollar bill working for me too, Captain is

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and by the way, JS, all.

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Speaker 9: The banks in your territory will have blow ups of

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the torn corner of.

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Speaker 8: That bill by morning. Good.

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Speaker 2: I guess all we can do now, Captain is sweat

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it out and wait for that dollar bill to pay off.

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Captain Stinson made good his promise. By next morning, every

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bank in the area had a description of the missing

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lucky dollar and photos of the torn corner. Three days

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went by. Then, on the nineteenth of August, a man

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walked into state bank. Yes, what can I do for you?

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Speaker 8: Money?

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Speaker 7: Here is money to pay for the loan on my house.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we have a loan on your house. See your name.

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Speaker 10: Please, Ramos one, Ramos.

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Speaker 2: I'll get your records, mister Ramas.

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Speaker 10: What these rooms? Here?

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Speaker 2: This dollar bill? Who gave me a corners torn away?

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Speaker 7: But it's good?

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Speaker 8: The dollar is good?

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Speaker 14: No?

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Speaker 2: Oh, sure for sure, but just a minute please?

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Speaker 7: Oh okay?

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Speaker 2: Hello, hello operator, get me the Sheriff's office.

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Speaker 10: Sheriff's office, Jenny speaking.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Sheriff, This is Jim Moutus over at the bank.

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Speaker 10: Oh, yes, Jim, what can I do?

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Speaker 2: Here. Fellow just came in the bank and handed me

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that dollar you're looking for. He did, Yeah, fell about

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the name of Juan Ramos.

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Speaker 10: He's here now, I say, hold on a minute.

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 10: Shir named by the name of.

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Speaker 12: Ramos just passed a dollar up the bank and answers

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the description of the lucky dollar we've been looking for.

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Speaker 8: He's still there.

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Speaker 2: Donald Stalling will be right over. Hello, Jim, We're coming

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right over.

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Speaker 12: And don't let that Ramas get away.

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Speaker 2: This is the missing lucky dollar, all right, Sheriff, see

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how it matches.

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Speaker 7: But I swear for you, Ranger, I do nothing wrong.

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I come to the bank to make payment for my house.

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Speaker 2: Where'd you get this dollar? Ramas?

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Speaker 7: Are you only to range your kin? Shab me where

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it comes from?

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Speaker 8: One day?

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Speaker 7: I work one place, one day another place.

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Speaker 8: Who knows where I get paid it?

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Speaker 1: All?

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Speaker 10: That was your last job.

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Speaker 7: I worked for five days for mister Larson, Sheriff.

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Speaker 2: You know I cross it tracks Larson.

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Speaker 12: Only Larson on a sort of swap shop in the

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Mexican Settlement, Jays. It's a dump, but hopefully done a

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pretty good business.

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Speaker 2: Let's go see mister Larson and maybe he'll be able

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to tell us something about Ramas and the lucky dollar.

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Speaker 15: Tell him, mister Larson, Sure, Ramas work for me, rain Ger,

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but only for a few days.

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Speaker 2: Mister Larson, look carefully at this dollar.

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Speaker 10: H what did that it?

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Speaker 2: Ever see it before?

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Speaker 14: I do?

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Speaker 2: An't no, Ranger, dollars a dollar, ain't it not always

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the a less one, for instance, and is sticky and

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the edge is torn.

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Speaker 10: Try to remember already. It's very important for.

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Speaker 2: You to me an old lady was shot down, killed

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by someone who stole this particular dollar.

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Speaker 15: And old lady that dollar come from someone.

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Speaker 8: No, No, I didn't do it.

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Speaker 10: Ranger.

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Speaker 7: Are you earned a dollar here from mister.

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Speaker 4: Losh hagget easy, mus say maybe I do remember this dollar, Ranger,

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you do?

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Speaker 15: And it seems to me a little Mexican girl give

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it to me. Sure I remember, because it stuck to

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the other money.

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Speaker 10: She give me no whore we can find her.

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Speaker 15: I think she workedship, one of the cotton farms near

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his Sheff. I don't know for sure, but she give

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me this dollar and two more to pay down in a.

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Speaker 10: Red silk dress. Yeah, I'll show you. It's in the

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back room.

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Speaker 2: Never mind that, mister Larson. Just when did she pay

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you on the dress? Just last evening?

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Speaker 10: Ranger?

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I keep open at nineteen the workers, the cotton

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pickers I paid off Ramis when we closed up. Must

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have given him that sticky buck along with the rest.

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Speaker 6: Of us paid.

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Speaker 7: Mister Larson, give me that dollar.

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Speaker 2: Girl say when she'd be back for her dress today.

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You've never seen the girl before, mister Larson. You don't

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know her name or where she lives.

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Speaker 12: Didn't you give her some kind of receipt for her deposit?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 10: Sure, but just for the three.

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Speaker 15: Bucks when she brings in the receipt and the rest

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of the Manetia gets to dress.

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Speaker 2: Don't need a name and address for that, Well you.

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Speaker 3: Think, gee?

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Speaker 2: I think we'll wait for the lady sheriff. Meantime, Ramis,

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see your injured stick around town. I may want to

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talk to you again. See you now, mister Larson, you

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mind if we wait for the girl in the back room?

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Speaker 10: Of course not, Ranger. Just come this way.

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Speaker 15: You ain't much to look at hard jump fire in

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h but make yourselves comfortable as you can.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry about us, mister Larson. Just go on about

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your business as if we weren't here when the girl

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comes in.

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Speaker 10: Let us know you can depend on that ranger.

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Speaker 4: I will.

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Speaker 2: Jee do you reckon Odie's telling us the truth. I

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don't know, Sheriff. We ought to find out pretty soon.

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I gotta hunch that lucky dollar is gonna hit the jackpot.

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Speaker 3: You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring

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Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson. We continue now with

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tonight's case, the Lucky Dollar, an authentic story from the

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files of the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: Waited in the back room for some time. Larson had

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a good trade, plenty of customers, but nobody wanting a

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red silk dress us. Then, about an hour later, a

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Mexican girl walked into the store.

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Speaker 6: Hello, I come for my dress. You know that red dress?

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Speaker 10: Jays easy cheff, Yeah, sure, I remember.

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Speaker 7: Got the rest of the money here you are.

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Speaker 8: It's dollars.

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Speaker 5: Yep, that's right.

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Speaker 7: You wait here now and I'll go get the dress.

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Speaker 2: It's her ranger, you young lady, what is the ranger?

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Mind telling me your name?

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Speaker 8: Where you live?

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Speaker 6: Your name is Juda Marsalis. Are live right now at

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mister Compton's farm. I pick cotton. Nor family works there,

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My mother, father, brothers.

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Speaker 10: That's Cat Comton.

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Speaker 12: I know him.

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Speaker 10: Jays owns one of the biggest farms in these parts.

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Speaker 2: When does he pay his pickers like the rask once

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a week Saturdays. Why you asked this question because you

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paid this dollar on a dress last night, Cheetah. It's

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a dollar we've been looking for. Where'd you get it?

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Speaker 6: It's for my pay I get for working. You speaking cotton.

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Speaker 2: If you were a picker, I'll come. You're off work

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at this time of day.

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Speaker 6: I want to get my new dress. I ride into

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Palm and one of the trucks.

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Speaker 10: You can walk off your job anytime, your feet like

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a cheetah.

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Speaker 6: It's my business.

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Speaker 2: You're wrong there, young lady. There's plenty of our business

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when you pass a stolen dollarl Come on, you're going

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back to the Compton farm with us. Sheriff Jennings and

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I drove Cheetah Marsalas back to the Compton farm. The

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girl had her new red dress, but he didn't seem

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to make her happy. We found Prescott Compton at one

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of the trucks near the main house wharing the continence.

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Pickers were bringing in.

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Speaker 10: And that's counting right.

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Speaker 13: Over there't off to Compton, quall loud it.

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Speaker 10: Sure this is Ranger pission.

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Speaker 2: We'd like to talk here. Of course, this girl worked

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for you, mister Compton.

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Speaker 8: Cheatah, sure she does, Ranger.

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Speaker 16: Whole Marsalis family works for me, the fine feeble.

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Speaker 8: Hey, what are you doing away from the fields? Cheer

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You haven't got yourself in any trouble.

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Speaker 6: I you do nothing, mister Compton.

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Speaker 2: She passed this dollar bill that was stolen in a

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robbery and killing four days ago. Mister Compton, Cheetah can't

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seem her remember where she got it unless it was

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from you.

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Speaker 16: Now for me, she didn't. That robber was four days ago.

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I pay off on Saturday's Ranger. Well, a whole family

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is high like the Marsalas. I paid ahead of the

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family in this case of father. Let's see that dollar.

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Speaker 8: Ranger. Here you are, No, sir, didn't get this from me.

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Speaker 16: I swear, I've been paying my pictures off with new.

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Speaker 8: Bills, new bills. Well, Cheetah, I.

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Speaker 6: Didn't do anything wrong. Ranger. I don't know where that

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dollar came from.

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Speaker 16: Well, we'll soon settle this, Ranger. Cheeta's brother is working

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right close.

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Speaker 7: Here, Colse dolls dolls move him in the barn.

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Speaker 10: Say say, Senor, what do you want?

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Speaker 5: Cheta?

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Speaker 8: What are you paying?

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Speaker 3: Papa? O?

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Speaker 10: Gaby?

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Speaker 8: Where for you? Ranger here wants to ask some questions.

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Carlos bought some money.

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Speaker 7: Your sister has been a little trouble trouble trouble with Cheeta.

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Speaker 10: What you've done?

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Speaker 2: Would your father give her any spending money?

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Speaker 14: Carlos, Papa keep us all a little sea, Ranger see

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fifteen maybe seventy five cents.

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Speaker 2: And he never give Cheetah as much as eight or

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nine dollars at a time.

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Speaker 7: And oh no, Senor, never Cheetah never had that much.

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Speaker 2: Any idea where she might have gotten it?

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Speaker 14: I can guess from dandy birds. From who Dandy Bird?

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Speaker 2: Donald Dandy Bird is working me for over a year.

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Speaker 8: Ranger trust with us as far as I know.

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Speaker 2: Septie fancies himself sort of the latest man a record. Cheetah,

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what do you want? Did Donald Bird give you this dollar?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 6: I tell you I don't know where I get a

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dollar and you'll like it.

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Speaker 14: Hey, take it easy, marsalas you should forget the money

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from no other place on your this Dandy and no

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system mind going to take money from a man like that.

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Speaker 2: Where does Bird work, mister Campton, Well, Carlos can take

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you right to this truck, Ranger.

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Speaker 8: Hey you bet, I show you the way, Ranger, and.

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Speaker 14: You little sister, you'll pick your cap here across to

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the house where I can keep an eye on you

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when we come back with your fine dandy choison.

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Speaker 2: Everybody, come on, Sheriff Carlas, let's get started for Bird's truck.

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Carlos Marsalas directed us along the road through the coffon

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fields where Donald Bird had been working. A trailer was there,

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but the truck was nowhere in sight. Hey, that's strange, senor.

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I know he was working here.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Sam, come over here a minute.

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Speaker 10: Maybe moved to another part of the field.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. Sure where's Dandy Bird? This ranger?

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Speaker 4: If you wanted what Dandy drove out of the fields

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three four hours ago.

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Speaker 8: Mister ranger at full load?

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Speaker 2: He's in town.

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Speaker 7: Be sure is fart at the cotton gin.

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Speaker 14: If Dandy hi himself some card trouble, We're going to

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make him plenty of trouble.

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Speaker 5: If he's only cheer alone.

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Speaker 2: Your sister, well, she drove into town with Dandy. She's

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dead and she lied to us twice. Sheriff Bird was

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at the gin when she came to the store for

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her dress. Sure we were thanks for the information, sam

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oh pa, I can have this please, Carlas says, can

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you give us a good description of Dandy Bird?

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Speaker 14: Say? See, he's about as tall as the sheriff that

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breaks him, fair foot chain. He sees than blonde color,

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eyes and blue veiled blue, cold like a snake's eye.

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Speaker 2: No scars, no distinguishing marks, no singer only he is

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always dressed up, even in a truck had worked.

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Speaker 7: He dresses fancy.

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Speaker 2: That's why they call him.

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Speaker 10: Then that's a pretty good description. Jesse. Shouldn't be hard

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to pick him out in the crowd.

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Speaker 2: Oh please, right, you let me go with you to town. No,

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you can do more good back at the farm. Carlos,

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I'll drop you there. You keep an eye on your

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sister until we contact you again. We'll head back for town.

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Sheriff pick up Dandy at the cotton Gin. There was

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a big line up of trucks at the Cotton Gin,

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but we didn't see any driver that answered Dandy's description.

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Sheriff Jennings and I went up to the loading platform

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and headed for the Superintendent's office.

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Speaker 8: Here we are, Jane, Yes, sir, what can I do

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for you?

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Speaker 10: Ranger? Person would like some information?

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Speaker 4: Mister Collins, why sure, come on in my office so

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we can hear ourselves talk. Yeah, have a chair, gentlemen, Oh, how.

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Speaker 2: Can I help you? You know most of the drivers

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by side, don't you, mister Collins?

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Speaker 4: I'd say so, Ranger, the regulars anyway, but there's a

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heavy crop this year. You saw the line of trucks outside. Well,

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there's lots of new drivers.

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Speaker 12: The man we wanted regular, mister Collins works for Press Compton.

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Speaker 2: Man's name is Donald or Dandy Bird Dandy?

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Speaker 8: Why sure I know him? Funny you should ask for

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him too.

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Speaker 2: Somebody else wanted him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a phone call came in here about half hour ago.

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Speaker 8: Phone call.

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Speaker 4: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 8: I went out on the platform and.

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Speaker 4: Gave a yell. Andy moved up close to the head

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of the line, and he climbed out and came back

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in the office with me.

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Speaker 2: Then you heard the conversation, what there was of it, Ranger.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't paying much attention, but seems to me he

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did say something about meeting somebody at the same place tonight.

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Speaker 8: Any high tailed out of here, and I haven't seen

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him since.

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Speaker 2: You any idea where he went?

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Speaker 8: No one I wish I did.

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Speaker 4: Left the truck standing blocking the whole line. You're looking

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for Dandy bird Ranger. I'd like to get my hands

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on him myself.

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Speaker 2: Well thanks, mister Collins. Oh one thing more. Do you

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know who called bird on the phone?

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Speaker 4: I know, sounded like some little Mexican gowal.

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Speaker 2: I left Sheriff Jennings scouring the town for Bird while

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I went back to the Conferenent Farm to have a

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talk with Cheetah. We didn't have much time. It was

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getting died. As I turned off the highway onto the

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Compton Road, I saw Carlos Marsalis running toward me.

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Speaker 7: Er, Now, what is it, Carlos Jeeter, She's gone.

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Speaker 17: What I thought?

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Speaker 2: I told you to keep an eye on her.

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Speaker 4: I did.

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Speaker 17: I did.

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Speaker 14: She went into a shock and I wait, but once

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you don't come out, I go in and Cheeta's gone,

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her claws, everything.

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Speaker 7: Then I look out the window.

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Speaker 10: I see her stopping the bus.

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Speaker 8: I run after her.

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Speaker 7: Body snow, Yes, the bus was gone.

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Speaker 2: A bus asked me coming down here highland, Carlos, we'll

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follow it. Carlos Marsalis and I followed that bus for

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eighteen miles. Then we saw Cheeta get off in the town.

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It wasn't morn up with some stop. She went into

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a dingy beard. Jill was small, but plenty noisy parked

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the carward wouldn't be noticed. And we sat there for

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almost an hour.

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Speaker 5: Why shouldn't my sister go into a place like that.

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Speaker 2: I hope it's because of Dandy. I hope he shows up.

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Uncle's killing me. That to the state. Carlos, you'll get

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what's coming to and see.

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Speaker 5: But just to sit here ranger doing nothing?

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Speaker 2: Wait a man look going into the CANTEENA now, oh

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is that bird?

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Speaker 10: See see? Does he might let me go?

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Speaker 2: Hell? You stay here, Carlos, And I'm mean, I see ranger.

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Whatever you say?

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Speaker 1: And I buy a beer.

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Speaker 6: Baby Dandy, Oh, Dandy, Darling. But was too afraid you

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wouldn't call.

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Speaker 2: I told you I went on a phone, didn't I

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did you see you did?

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Speaker 6: But I was so frightened first that ranger. Then I

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had a big fight with my family. Carlos even hit me.

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Poor kid, I leave them, Dundee, I leave my family

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because I love you.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 17: Sure nobody followed you here, kid, no no, and even

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saw me leave the phone. Good and I can do

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without them rangers snooping on my tail?

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Speaker 6: Hell waiter, Dundee, what you do to make those rangers

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come for you?

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Speaker 17: What does anybody do to get the rangers after him?

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Those guys are always looking for trouble.

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Speaker 7: Hey, what about them?

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Speaker 10: Bida?

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Speaker 6: Then you tell me the truth.

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Speaker 8: M for you.

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Speaker 6: I leave my family, Dundee. I love you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I know, baby it bils signor h just

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in time, bully in mind dry.

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Speaker 17: Like I said, kid, dandy bird never makes trouble for nobody.

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Speaker 2: I've got plans for.

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Speaker 6: You, Dundy. What's wrong?

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Speaker 2: The ranger coming in the door.

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Speaker 7: He's sitting this way that gun, Dundee, So you did

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leave the rangers here?

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Speaker 11: Hey, way you are, ranger, don't go for your guns.

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Speaker 10: I got the curl in front of it. Hold on, babe,

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you'll stay close to the.

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Speaker 8: White bird.

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Speaker 4: Haud on my life.

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Speaker 5: Ranger, you try to come in and head her.

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Speaker 8: Fuss.

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Speaker 7: You treat me like this.

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Speaker 11: You don't look poop to your table.

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Speaker 8: Let me get this toll.

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Speaker 2: Obeny come coming.

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Speaker 11: Across the ranger.

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Speaker 6: Has it gone, Ranger, get away from it?

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Speaker 11: Tea here you look Chea, hold it, Dandy? Oh yeah,

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don't shoot no more, Ranger.

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Speaker 10: Don't shoot no more.

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Speaker 3: Harm done.

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Speaker 2: You sure are too bad. You didn't stick to the

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cotton business. Come on, Dandy, on your feet.

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Speaker 5: The cotton glove with the imperfect we was found on

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Donald Byrd at the time of his capture. Confronted with

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this and the undeniable evidence establishing his gun is the murder,

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and Donald Vandy Byrd made a full confession. Cheetah Marcellus

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was given a suspended sentence of five years. Bird was

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sent to the State Penitentiary at Huntsville for the rest

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of his life.

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Speaker 8: And now here again is the star of our show.

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Speaker 3: Joel McCrae with another interesting anecdote about the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: In the early oil boom days of Texas, the Rangers

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were faced with a problem of rounding up lawbreakers and

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holding them in custody until they could get them to

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the nearest jail, which might be fifty miles away. Captain M. T.

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Lone Wolf Gonzales, now commander of Company B Texas Rangers,

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used a novel fresh air jail that became known as

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the Ranger troplined. It was simply a long chain strung

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up between two posts with fifty or sixty trace chains attached.

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When an arrest was made, he padlocked the free end

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of the trace chain to his prisoner and left him

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there to face the jibs and laughter of the local citizens.

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Though it's no longer used today, the Ranger trop line

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started quite a few would be bad men on the

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straight and Narrow path, and to this day there are

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some characters who still can't stand the sight of a

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trace change. Good night, folks, see the same time next week.

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Speaker 8: Good night, Joel, folks.

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Speaker 3: There have been so many requests for the Texas Ranger

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Prayer read by Joel McCray a few weeks ago, that

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there has been some delay in answering all of the mail.

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If you were copy of the Texas Ranger Prayer has

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not been received as yet, please be patient.

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Speaker 8: You should receive your copy soon next week.

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Speaker 3: Joel McCray and another authentic reenactment of a case from

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the Piles of not Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 8: Joel McCrae is currently seen starring in the.

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Speaker 3: Universal International Technicolor productions Saddle Tramp Tonight's cast included Tony Barrett,

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Nester Fiva, Peggy Weber, Lou Krugman, Herb Butterfield, Byron Kine,

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Wilms Herbert, and Barney Phillips. This story was transcribed and

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adapted by Virginia M. Cook, and the program was produced

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and directed by Stacy Keach.

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Speaker 8: This is Hell, Give Me Speaking.

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Speaker 1: Three Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC. It's Yo Ho

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for the Open Sea. Tomorrow, as The Railroad Hour presents

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Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance, starring

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Gordon McRae, Lucille Norman, and Clark Dennis. Gordon McRae will

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star in the comedy character role of the Major General.

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This will be the third of Gilbert and Sullivan's musical whimsies.

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Speaker 2: Offered on The Railroad Hour.

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Speaker 1: For music in a more serious manner, Tomorrow, the NBC

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Symphony brings you another hour long concert of some of

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the world's greatest music under the baton of the brilliant

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young conductor Guido Cantelli. Now the sixty four dollars question.

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Three Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC