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Speaker 1: Wheatees presents Joel McCrae in Tales of the Texas Rangers

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on stage tonight, transcribed from Hollywood. Another in the Wheaties

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Big Parade of exciting half hour presentations, Tales of the

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Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Pearson, Texas. More

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than two hundred and sixty thousand square miles and fifty

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men who make up the most famous and oldest law

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enforcement body in North America.

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Speaker 2: Now from the files.

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Speaker 1: Of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on fact only. Names, dates,

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and places are bigtitious for obvious reasons. They events themselves

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are a matter of record. Tonight's case the Broken.

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Speaker 3: Spurg Saturday night, June fifth, nineteen forty eight, the time

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ten pm, on a small ranch ten miles south of Cranston,

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Irwin County, Texas. Milton Thomas was counting a large sum

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of money are Parritory to.

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Speaker 2: Lock it up to night.

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Speaker 3: As he was counting, his dog, Rags appeared to be nervous.

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Speaker 2: Thomas tried to quiet Rags, stuff that you're making me

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count wrong. His year one hundred? Where night now stop

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at the hiatrag down? Count who's there? What do you want?

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Seems to me a topfully don't like to be knocking

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at people's dark Give it's your baptist. What are you

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trying to get your dog? You get the same thing.

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You wait, give me that money. No, no, I want

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you ask for it? No, no, no.

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Speaker 4: All right, then.

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Speaker 1: Tales of the Texas Rangers will continue in just a moment.

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Speaker 2: If you've got a job to do tomorrow, partner, get

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your wheaties. Sure, Breakfast of Champions is for you, Josh

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Linkas for Ralph Kiner prior to the Pittsburgh Pirates, you

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may not play ball for a living, but whatever your

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job is tomorrow, you can do it better on a

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better breakfast. And it's a better breakfast starting with wheaties.

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There's a whole kernel of wheat in every wheatie's flake. Yes,

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whole wheat good sound, whole wheat pump and ripe and

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bursting with vitamins and minerals and protein for your vitality,

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your energy, your working power. So tumble the wheaties out

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of the package, pour on the milk, put on the fruit,

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pick up the spoon, and smile. You're eating good to

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be feeling good. Breakfast of champions for people who are

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going places? Are you ready triumph? See how wheaties at

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seven can help at eleven.

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Speaker 3: At ten point thirty the same night, Milton Thomas's house

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was discovered on fire. The Cranston Fire Department was called.

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Next morning, the local sheriff, making a routine investigation, discovered

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the burnt remains of a broken chair next to Thomas's body.

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Speaker 2: He ordered an autopsy.

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Speaker 3: The results prompted him to call the Texas Rangers. Ranger

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Jase Pearson was assigned to the case and arrived at

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the scene of the fire early that afternoon.

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Speaker 2: For hardy ranger. I'm Sheriff tax howdy, my name is

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Jace Pearson. Come on, I'll show you at the house,

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or what's left of it. All right, folks, step back, please,

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shouldn't have all these people walking around here, Sheriff ruin

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any footprints there might be. I had my deputy here

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at least few minutes ago, Pearson. I sent him down

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to get some coffee. Here, all right, folks, step back

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away from the house, all of you. I'll get back

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to the fans.

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Speaker 3: Please.

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Speaker 2: All burned out except for the wall. But you may

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find something you said when you called you didn't think

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it was an accident. I've been sheriff here for eighteen years,

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and I'll stake my reputation it was. It was ours

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to cover murder. Base that on the autopsy, yep, Browner

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couldn't find any trace of the carbon vaniels in the

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bronchial patches or learning, and only the normal amount of

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carbon monoxide in the lock, indicating milk Thomas wasn't breathing

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when the fire started. Right, This was the front door

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burned off the hinges and fell off. That's funny, But

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a lock on this door special kind takes a key

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on both sides. When the door's shut, you have to

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have a key to get out of the house as

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well as in Oh that, Yeah, milk was a funny

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old glop had them put on both doors. The windows

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had trick locks too. Why well, folks say, kept a

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lot of money in the house. Maybe just a story.

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This lock's still working. Let's look at the back door. Oh,

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here's what's left. The milkshole iron safe open like that

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when you found it. Yeah, empty too, and this lock's

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not forced or broken. Kind of hard to tell much

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about anything after the roof fell into Yeah, it's a mess,

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all right, same kind of lock here on the back door.

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It's working too, meaning whoever started the fire was locked in.

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I look here, whoever it was, here's where he went out.

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See that window glass outside on the ground. Climb out

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and look see he didn't break it. It's not crazed.

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It was knocked out from inside. And do you think

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the killer was trapped inside? Could have been after he

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set fire to the place. How about footprints, Sheriff, Though

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there's thousands of volunteer firemen tramps around alder and the fire. Wait, wait,

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here's something huh looks like a spur row? Exactly what

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it is? Broken off a spur right below where the

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window was. Maybe he busted off by a man jumping

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out the window with his tail feathers on fire. Maybe

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I don't envy and unperson. How come? Well as a clue,

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the spur row is probably mighty important. But what, Sheriff,

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I was just thinking, there probably ain't over ten million

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spurs in the state of Texas with rawles just like

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the one you got there in your hand. Your figure

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may be a little high, Sheriff, but I get your point.

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He say, Hey, Jack, Yeah, what do you think you're doing. Jack,

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what's the matter, Sheriff, You know, darn well, what's the matter?

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I told you to keep back. I was just looking around.

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I'll stop kicking around. Those ashes and the rest of you.

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That's evidence you're tramping on. We didn't mean no harm.

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I listen all of you. So the last time, I'm

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going to tell you, how'd you like it if we

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thought one of you was the criminal coming back to

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the scene of the crime and deliberately trying to destroy evidence. Okay,

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then get back or get off the property altogether. Books

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say that's generally not true. Sheriff, Huh about the criminal

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and the scene of the crime happens only one in

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a thousand times. Oh, I know it. I just wanted

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to throw a scarey into him. I see. Oh, by

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the way, who was that fellow you were talking to him?

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It names Casey, Jack Casey. The sheriff and I went

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over the yard thoroughly that any footprints the murderer might

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have left were trampled out by the fireman and the onlookers. Finally,

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some distance from the house, I found the place I

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was looking for. Sheriff, huh, I'm over here. What is it. Look,

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here's where he took off from hoose. Prince dug out

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in an awful hurry too, and his horse tethered to this tree.

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Seems to me any man who had legitimate business at

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the house would have tied up closer. Eh, that's the logical.

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Look here horse chewed on the tree. Might be a quibber.

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We find our man, who likely find a horse that

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chews on his feed. Bend See these tracks head west

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toward a snake creek. You got a horse, sheriff, I

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can get one good. I'll get mine out of the trailer.

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We're gonna follow those hook prints. Hold a sheriff, keep

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your horse off that bank. What's the matter? Bootprints, good

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fresh ones, I thought for many gypsy and the moccasin.

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This stream's full of cotton. I'll take my kit, make

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some plaster molds of these prints. He dismounted here and

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led his horse across. You're probably afraid of slipping on

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those flat moussy rocks and small foot aboutsize seven or eight,

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i'd say on track pattern too, not likely it was.

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He's outing a heavy load. Probably a fat man. Fat, Yeah,

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look at his tracks, deef even in the dry places.

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I make tracts as deep asous way over two hundred,

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But I ain't exactly fat. No, you're not fat, Sheriff.

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But what sized boot do you wear? Eleven and a half?

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If you ever see a man in your height, make

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a footprint this small. Come to think of it, I

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don't foose every dear. Wait a minute. That man who

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was poking around the ashes back at the house, Casey wasn't, Yeah,

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Jack Casey, what about him? He's fat, Sheriff? Was he

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driving a car or riding in case? He was riding

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his old paint mayor say she's a quibber. Then I'm

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gonna need a warrant. As soon as I get this mold,

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I'm heading for town sheriff. Either the books are wrong

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or this Casey is one in a thousand. Operator, Operator,

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this is Jack Casey again. What about that call I've

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been trying to get through for the last hour and

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a half. Yeah, money Texas, the Della's Hallmill Company. I

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know it Sunday, but somebody bound? What are you doing

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with that gun? Oh shoo? Operator? Hello, operator, And you

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said you'd call me back every twenty minutes. It was

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over a half hour last time. Well, keep trying.

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Speaker 4: Jack, who are you trying to call? And what are

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you doing with your shotgun?

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Speaker 2: Leave me alone? Martha? Where your Bensin's? Noon? You were

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supposed to meet me at the Tates for dinner. I

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know it, I know it. But oo's Zach Texas raiser.

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Speaker 4: Jack?

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Speaker 2: What have you done?

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Speaker 4: Put that gun away, get in the back room. You

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ain't fixing the shoes him?

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Speaker 2: Are you? If I have to, Jack, don't do it, please, Jack,

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don't hold it wringer here you are. Put that gun down, Casey,

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you're not come in here. I got a warrant here

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says I can, and I am shot. Put it down?

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You are right, ma'am? Yeah, yeah, I'm all right. Shotguns

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a nasty thing to carry around cocked. I'll just take this.

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I want to look around a little at your bedroom. Yeah,

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come on, paint mayor outside yours? Yes? It is? These

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your boots? Mm hmmm. How'd you break this? Spur? Eh?

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I didn't know it was broken. I'll take these boots along.

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Do you want me to get a check? No? Somebody

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gonna answer? Yeah? Sure? Hello? What but never mind? Catching

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you better come along with me, Casey? What's this all about? Ranger?

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Where you're taking Jack. He thinks somebody killed Milk Thomas

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the exact he thinks I did. Oh, you seem to

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know some of the answers, some of them. Before we go, Ranger,

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I'd like to ask you one question. Sure, what time

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did this soul called murder take place? About ten o'clock

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last night? Ten o'clock? Well, that's your hands. Suppose I

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can prove where it was last night. We're just as

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anxious to prove a man innocent as guilty. Casey, do

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you have any witnesses? About three hundred of them? At

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ten o'clock last night, I was sitting in the Cranston

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High School auditorium watching my niece graduate.

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Speaker 1: In just a moment, we continue with Tales of the

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Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.

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Speaker 2: If a man rides herd on one hundred head of

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cattle all day, first he needs his wheaties. Yes. And

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if a man sits behind a big desk and pushes

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buttons on his job, first, he needs his wheaties. And listen, mamma,

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you too. If you keep track of a couple of

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growing up kids and wash dishes and make beds on

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your job. First, you need your wheaties jump whatever your job,

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wherever you work, wheaties can help whether you run a machine,

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or pound a typewriter, or play baseball for a living. First,

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you need your wheaties because here is whole wheat, with

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the rich, full bodied energy of whole wheat. There's a

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whole kernel of wheat in every wheaty's flake. That's why

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wheaties give so much vitamins, minerals, protein. Wheaties have them,

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and they're for you. For the wheaties into the cereal bowl,

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add the milk, add the fruit, and dig right in.

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Do that at seven and see how much better you're

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working when eleven am rolls around. Yes, try them every morning,

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crisp and tempting, And see if I'm not right. See

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if a better breakfast with the whole wheat nourishment of

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wheaties doesn't make a pleasant difference in your morning's worked.

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See if milk fruit wheaties isn't honest and truly breakfast

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of champions. See yourself how wheaties at seven can help.

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At eleven, Casey stuck to the alibi that he'd been

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at the graduation the night before, and I already had

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enough evidence to take him in. While the sheriff was

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out asking questions around town, I tried to break down

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Casey's story. I kill you. I was there, all right,

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Take it easy, Casey. Let's assume for a minute you were.

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And how do you count for the boot prints made

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by your boots near the scene of the crime. Lots

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of people wear boots. Could have been anybody, I'm afraid not.

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You see, I made plaster cast of those prints, and

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the boots, the ones you admitted were yours, matched the

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prince to the last nailmark. Well, I've tramped around this

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part of the country a lot of times. They could

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have been old prince. Uh huh, these were fresh prints. Well,

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what about it? I don't know? All right? Then, what

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about the row we found just outside Thomas House, one

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broken off your spur. I don't know anything about that either.

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There's no point in withholding information, Casey. You know we'll

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find out about it sooner or later. How are you doing, person?

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Casey decided to come clean hunt chef. What about the

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niche sheriff. The neighbors say she and her family left

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on a vacation early this morning. You know anything about that, Casey. No,

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too bad, because I've had several interesting chats. Casey. I've

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just talked to four people who were at the graduation

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exercises last night, four people who know, oh you, and

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not one of them remember seeing you there. I was

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at the high school last night, I tell you, Casey.

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The Sheriff's talked to four people who didn't see you. Well,

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who did, I don't know. We're dark in the auditorium.

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Didn't you speak to anybody? No? Sing had already started.

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And wait a minute, yeah, I talked to one of

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the ushers. What was his name? Wasn't it him? It

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was to her one of the high school girls. He

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was wearing a long pink dress. Sheriff, who's the principal

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of the high school? Mister shot Warren? Shot? All right, locked, Casey. Up,

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I'm going to find out who the ushers were, and

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especially the little girl with a long pink dress. Right.

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Speaker 5: Why, yes, sir, I remember mister Casey being.

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Speaker 2: There with missus Casey, are you sure this is very important?

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Speaker 3: For sure?

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Speaker 6: I'm sure they came in late and had to wait

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until the invocation was over, and then he asked for

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an aisle i'll see.

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Speaker 5: He said he couldn't climb over people.

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Speaker 2: Well you know, yeah, I know. And he didn't leave

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at any time during the exercises.

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Speaker 6: Not until near the end. They left just before the recessional,

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while everybody was standing and singing the class song.

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Speaker 2: What time was that?

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Speaker 7: Oh a few minutes before eleven?

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you very much, good bye. Was I any help, Ranger? Yes,

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Ela May you were a big help. I was stuck

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and it looked like I was going to have to

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release Casey. And I remembered something. The phone call that

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came in while I was out at Casey's place, the

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one he'd been reluctant to answer. I dropped by the

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Lanston telephone office.

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Speaker 5: This is the call you wanted, Ranger.

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Speaker 2: What was it?

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Speaker 7: Mister Jack Casey placed a call to the Della Sawmill

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Company in Money, Texas at two twenty two pm today.

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There was no answer, and when the Money operator did

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get through, she called back at three forty, but mister

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Casey had canceled it.

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Speaker 2: Do you know who the call was for?

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Speaker 7: Yes, sir, it was person to person of mister Ben Casey.

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Ben Casey, mister Jack Casey's son son.

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Speaker 2: But do you know him.

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Speaker 5: I used to when well, we went to high school together.

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Speaker 7: Some of my girlfriends and I used to go places

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with Ben's bunch, but my mother made me stop. She

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said he wasn't the kind of boy that girls should

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run around with. I see, and he finally left home.

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Couldn't get along with his stepmother.

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Speaker 2: Oh then missus Casey's not his mother.

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Speaker 5: Oh no, ranger. They used to fight all go on.

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Speaker 2: This may be very important.

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Speaker 7: Well, I heard that she and Ben fought all the time,

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and then one day after they had a big fight,

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Ben packed up and left.

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Speaker 2: Well when was this?

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Speaker 5: I reckon It was.

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Speaker 2: A couple of years ago.

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Speaker 5: He went down to Monee then and got a job

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at that sawmill there.

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Speaker 2: What does this Ben look like?

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Speaker 5: He's a spitting image of his father and just as

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fat too.

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Speaker 2: Have you seen him lately?

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Speaker 5: I saw him at the bus station. His father came

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and picked him up.

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Speaker 7: When let's see him day before yesterday Friday.

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Speaker 2: There was no doubt now why Jack Casey wasn't talking.

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He was protecting his own son. I put a call

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through to missus Casey and met at the Sheriff's office.

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Speaker 4: I ain't saying this because he ain't my flesh and

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blood ranger. But Ben's bad through and through. I might

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have knowed he was the one killed Milk Thomas.

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Speaker 2: Uh, missus Casey, tell me about Ben. He came in Friday,

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didn't he.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, come in on the bus and stayed over Saturday.

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He wanted to borrow money. He's always broke.

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Speaker 2: Gambles, That's right. Pearson picked him up a couple of

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times for gambling. Go on, miss Casey.

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Speaker 4: Well, like I say, he wanted to borrow fifty dollars

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from Jack, but Jack didn't have it. He just paid

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off a note to Milk Thomas and he was kind

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of strapped.

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Speaker 2: Oh, your husband old Thomas money.

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Speaker 4: Yes, but it was the last payment. Jack was joking

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about how Thomas always wanted cash money, didn't trust Jack's.

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Speaker 2: It'd been hear him say this. He sure did, sheriff.

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Speaker 5: And then he sucked around all.

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Speaker 4: Day Saturday until we was getting ready to go to

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the commencement that night. And just before we left, he

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said he was going to use Jack's horse to.

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Speaker 2: Go for a ride at night.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, seems strange to me too, And then he asked

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could he borrow a pair of Jack's boots he was

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wearing flatteel shoes.

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Speaker 2: They wear the same size, oh have ever since I

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can remember. Well. Anyway, we went onto.

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Speaker 4: The graduation, and when we got home, the mayor was

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in the barn, still saddled, all sweaty. Look I she'd

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been run almost to death. And Jack's boots were tossed

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on the floor, and Ben was gone.

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Speaker 2: All right, miss Casey, that's all for now, and thanks,

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you're welcome. Come on, Sheriff, we're going on a little trip,

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sheriff taxon and I piled into my car and headed

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for Monee. As soon as we got out on the highway,

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I put in a call to my headquarters. Unit ten

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to kt X A, Unit ten to kt x A

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kt x A ton ten go ahead, Unit ten leaving

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Cranston State Highway twenty two to Monee, investigating murder suspect

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believed in vicinity of Delta Sawmill. We'll keep kt XA informed.

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Unit ten ten to four. Okay, kt XA Austin, Sheriff,

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you know young Ksey by sight. Don't you washed him?

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Grow up? Gertie. If he's gone, we have to comb

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for him. I don't want to turn up the wrong

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fat man again. Oh you'd know him now, after seeing

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his father, except for age. They're the same, you mean,

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except for age and the fact that the young one's

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a murderer. When we reached the sawmill, the moon was up.

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Afore moon there was a light burning through the wind

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of one shack at the edge of the camp. We

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pulled up there and got out of the car and

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went in. Well, how to arrange in, Sheriff. We're looking

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for a man named Casey. Ben Casey, Yeah, you're on.

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Speaker 3: I don't know for sure, sleeps in the big bunk

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house down the line, which bunk I'll show you if

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you lie fine, Sheriff.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you better take a look through the mess hall.

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Fat boy like him might be fixing the lights. If

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you don't find him, come up and meet me. And

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if you do find him, call me before you try

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and take him. Right bunk houses this way, no light

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in the place.

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Speaker 3: Well, some of the boys was going into town for

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moonlight dance. Don't know Ben went with him or.

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Speaker 2: I has He didn't packing any money that you know

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of we Oh, yeah, come think of it. He had

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quite a bit.

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Speaker 3: Said he hid it lucky in the dice game, and

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that oh he did get it in the dice game didn't.

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Speaker 2: If he did, the other fellow never got a chance

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to roll him. Oh, here, will I light this lamb

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for you?

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Speaker 3: Ben sleeps in that third bunk on the right.

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Speaker 2: Thanks. I'll wait for him, all right.

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Speaker 3: I'll get back to my books and just entering the

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shipment that's been hauled out tonight.

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Speaker 2: That's why you find me working. Go ahead, but if

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you see k don't mention I'm here. The farman went

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back to his shack and I ripped Ben Casey's bunk apart.

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There was nothing in the bunk of the covering. I

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dragged a foot locker out from underneath and was bending

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over it. Point up with him. Don't turn around, they're up.

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What are you doing here? If you're Ben Casey, you

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know what I'm doing. This is the end of the road, boy,

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I'll take that landin. I'd be careful of that. Ben.

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Remember what happened the last time you dropped the lantern.

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You're pretty smart, ain't you? Mischief?

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Speaker 8: But I'm smart too. Here's a present for you.

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Speaker 2: The lanyard at the edge of the bunk, and the

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flaming kerosene splashed over me. I beat the flames out

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of my hands and dove for the door. He rammed

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something against the outside of it. When I forced it open,

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I stumble over a heavy logged bench he used as

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a barricade. Hathy you see him, Sheriff, Well, somebody roll

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that way for the rail side and let's go. We

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spotted him swinging up the side of a flat cars.

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The train hit the main line and start to roll.

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We grabbed on to one of the last cars and

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scrambled to the top and started to work our way forward.

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There he is about five cars ahead. I can't see him.

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Kerosene starts. My eyes see us all right and true

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prop flat. We'll crawl up on him. He can't go

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any farther than the length of the train. There he goes,

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he's jumping.

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Speaker 6: I see him.

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Speaker 2: I'm going after him. Call I'm coming with you here down, Sheriff. Stop.

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Can you see over these coasts about ten yards in

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not moving? Keep low, we're stillhouetted. A good against this clearing.

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What you do, Pierson, take an over my jacket. See

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if you can find a stick about five feet long.

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Here's a dead branch, this new fine. Give it to me.

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Speaker 4: What you fit to do.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna put this branch to my coat sleeves like

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this here. When I tell you hold it up, I

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get him something for him to shoot at. Right, I

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fired his gun. Flash All right, Casey, come on with

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your hands up. There's your last chance. Casey. Okay, Sheriff,

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lift the coat you got him? Come on? Oh cut it? Please,

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please give me a chance like you gave Milt Thomas.

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It was a short train ride, Casey, but I got

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a hunch you'll get a longer one soon. Come on.

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Speaker 3: In case. He confessed to the murder of mil Thomas.

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On August two, nineteen forty eight. He entered Huntsville Penitentiary

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his sentence life imprisonment.

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Speaker 2: Joel McCrae, that was a great show tonight, wheedies, and

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I are proud of you. Thank you, Frank. I like

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to please the customers. Well, now, so do I take

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wheety's for instance? Frank, Are you going to say that

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wheaties taste good? Well, yes, I was going to touch

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on that. And are you going to say that wheaties

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are good for people? Yes? Yes, I was going to say,

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just there anything else? Well no, I guess that just

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about covers of Joel accept telling people to get something

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that's it, I do you know? Well, that's easy, Frank.

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I'm a Wheati's eater myself. You hear that, Folks, you

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too can be a Wheati's eater as early as tomorrow

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morning Breakfast of Champions, you know, get some.

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Speaker 1: Next week Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a

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case from the files of not Texas Rangers. This story

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was transcribed and adapted by David Bruce and was produced

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and directed.

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Speaker 2: By Stacy Keach. Hel give me speaking, and this is

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the Wheedies Man, Frank Marsham Invade. He listened Monday night

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to Frank Lovejoy and Night Beat on the Wheaties Big Parade.

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See you. Then tomorrow there's good listening with the Summer

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Symphony on NBC