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Speaker 1: The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCrae in.

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Speaker 2: Tales of the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 1: Tonight transcribe from Hollywood another authentic reenactment of a case

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from the files of the Texas Rangers. Tales of the

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Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson, Texas

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more than two hundred and sixty thousand square miles and

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fifty men who make up the most famous and oldest

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law enforcement party in North America. Now from the files

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of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on fact only. Names, dates,

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and places are the pitches for obvious reasons. They events

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themselves are a matter of record. Case for Tonite the

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Cactus Pair.

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Speaker 3: It is four pm the afternoon of March twenty eighth,

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nineteen forty seven. Robert Coot's, a new hand on the

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Triangle Ranch, is repairing of fence on the Southeast Range.

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Speaker 4: He stops as a writer aproaches, ooh ooh, how'd he brect.

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Speaker 2: On?

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Speaker 5: How do he meet Coots? Well, I see you finally

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got my job.

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Speaker 6: I got a job because there was one open. If

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you left it open at your worry, I reckon, not

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mine You've.

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Speaker 5: Been making up to the old man, trying to get

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me fired ever since you came into this country.

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Speaker 4: That ain't sowing. You know it.

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Speaker 6: I've been looking for work yere, but you didn't get

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fired in mine. I can you got sacked because you

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can't leave a bottle alone.

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Speaker 4: Sounds like you're calling me a lad.

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Speaker 6: I ain't calling you anything. I'm just telling you I

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have about clearing off.

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Speaker 5: You're telling me to clear off this range. All right,

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I'll get but before I do, I'm gonna whip your

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tail coats.

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Speaker 4: You better not try it because you ain't about to

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whip my tail. Wait. Wait, show now, clear off.

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Speaker 6: Like I told you, don't come back.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be no need for me to come back.

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Put that shock stand away from me. Get away. Here's

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the other barrel for good measure. All right, boy, come

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here here.

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Speaker 3: The body of ranch hand Robert Coots was discovered by

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the owner of the ranch next day.

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Speaker 4: When he wrote out the search for the missing rider.

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Speaker 3: He summoned the sheriff and the Sheriff cold with the

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assistance of a Texas ranger. Ranger Jace Pearson was a

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signed to the case.

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Speaker 4: Say you spotted the buzzards this morning, mister Golf. Yeah, yeah,

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and I found Coots. Im look im. He must have

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been shot sometime yesterday.

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Speaker 6: I thought I heard a shotgun yesterday afternoon through the

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road out.

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Speaker 4: Then why didn't you, Sheriff?

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Speaker 6: You know, even having a time with the kyots and

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mountain cats lately. I just figured one of my hands

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must have spotted one and cut loose.

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Speaker 4: Coots was fixing the break in the fence. Uh, that's right.

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I might have known something was.

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Speaker 6: Wrong when Coach didn't come back to the rants last night.

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Speaker 4: Spot's just up ahead with my deputy standing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I can see the body now. Anybody been stealing

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paddle around here lately, Sheriff, Oh, few, headman then jas

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nothing big Coots might have run into somebody doing it though,

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might have here we are hobo right, yeah, Hide the

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horses off the fence here, and I want Tom tramping

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around their body. Coots with you a long time, mister Golf.

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No reason no hired him on less than a week ago.

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Speaker 4: There was no round here. Jase only been here about

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a month, all told you? Ever say where he came from?

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Speaker 6: Hip hip over on Martha hit with both bells. Jace

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once through the stomach once.

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Speaker 4: Through the head.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I was on the ground when the second charge

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hit him, though. Look some of the shot clipped the

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grass mm and killer's force stopped here too.

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Speaker 4: Looks like him.

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Speaker 6: Coots must have had a fist fight with a man

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who killed him. How do you figure that, Jason? My

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little dried blood in the grass here, scuffle marks and

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some of the blades pressed down as though somebody had

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been lying here.

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Speaker 4: Coots was shot though it might be his blood, you know,

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but his wounds. He was killed instantly.

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Speaker 6: He didn't move fifteen feet and then back again after

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getting blasted like that.

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Speaker 4: Come on, yeah, what are you looking for?

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Speaker 6: Marsh moved off this way, Prince, mixed right in with

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some of your herd. It was grazing around here, and

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then took off mighty sudden. See here where they dug

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in to get started.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that could mean the cattle people, all right, chasing

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the stock.

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Speaker 6: Jas we'll find out. Let's get back to the horses.

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Follow this trail, all right, this is far enough. Whoever

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it was, he wasn't trying to steal the cattle. He

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was following the herd tracks. So the trail of his

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horse wouldn't stand out clear. I don't see how you

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can tell that herd moved up rains toward the Mesa.

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Anybody stealing them would have been driving him to the

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south fence where the state road is. I have to

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get him to a truck to get him away.

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Speaker 4: But we made him wrung.

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Speaker 6: Then, jays a shotgun must have stampeded him. They'd been driven,

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someone had left marks where they out to get away

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from the rider, and the rider would have left tracks

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cutting after him.

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Speaker 4: I see what you mean. But shouldn't we keep on

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trailing them? Go? Yeah, but not this way.

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Speaker 6: He was headed for rocky ground near the Mesa, trying

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to lose anybody who might follow him.

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Speaker 4: He's smart.

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Speaker 6: I don't get your plan. Well, he was careful leaving

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here after he killed a man. He mightn't have been

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so careful riding in before he killed. You know, backtrack

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the trail he took getting here. It might tell us

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where he came from.

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Speaker 4: That makes sense.

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Speaker 6: Jeez, let's go, ranger. Can I have the body picked

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up by the funeral house now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? And even an autopsy isn't gonna tell us much. Huh.

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Speaker 6: I thought you could tell a lot from the shot

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to kill somebody. That uh, ballistic stuff, not so much

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with a shotgun. Barrels are smooth bore. Don't leave rifle, Marx.

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But hey, hold it, what's your planing ranger? These empty

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sixteen gage shotgun shells. Killer might have ejected him here

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to reload his shotgun in case he ran into trouble.

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Speaker 4: Oh can you tell anything with those?

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Speaker 6: If we find the gun they came from, we might

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be able to match the way the hammer hits the shell. Yeah,

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if we find the shotgun, every rancher in ky Polkan

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the county must have one.

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Speaker 4: The sheriff and I'm backtracked on the approach the killer

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had used.

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Speaker 6: To get to the Triangle ranch owned by Gaulf But

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we came to a dead end.

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Speaker 4: Well, Jason, yes, this as far as we go. Then't

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followim on pavement or the gravel road shoulder and rode

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out from town. It's too bad.

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Speaker 6: I was hoping he'd come from a ranch someplace with

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a narratives down to one spot.

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Speaker 4: Not much we can do now, so I can go

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around exambling shotguns. One other thing.

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Speaker 6: First, A couple of deep tracks in that ditch off

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the road.

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Speaker 4: Must have had rain here. Yeah, day four yesterday. That's

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why I left such a clear print there yesterday.

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Speaker 6: Then I want to get a kit from my radio

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car and drive back here. Well for take a couple

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of photographs of that print, make a faster impression of it.

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Help us to identify the horse if we find him.

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We took the cast and headed for town to check

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every horse in the territory. It would have been impossible,

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so I had to gamble on a short cut.

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Speaker 4: Howdie ranger?

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Speaker 1: Sure?

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Speaker 4: Audi Haudi? Hey? Mind dropping that hammer a minute and

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taking a look at this here? He hey?

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Speaker 6: Ready it faster cast shoe print of a left hind hoof.

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Speaker 4: You remember making a shoe like this?

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Speaker 6: Head common flit share it was cocked or something. I

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might remember, but I don't know. I know it's a

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tough one. But all shoes are a little different. We're

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in different places. Hoops have to be fitted for slightly

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different shapes. That's true, right, If I come across that

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shoe now, after seeing the cast, I might recognize him.

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Speaker 4: Good. I'm gonna leave this cast here.

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Speaker 6: If anybody brings in a horse to be shod, and

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the left hind hoof looks like the cast, don't touch

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it until you call us.

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Speaker 4: You're right glad to have keep my eyes open.

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Speaker 6: Any other blacksmiths around here, Sheriff, Oh not for over

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fifty miles.

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Speaker 4: Were gonna look a for that gun. Now you start

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on it.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna pay another visit to the Triangle ranch. I

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want to talk with mister gauld again. Finish here in

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a minute, Joe, you know, run on the rest of

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the irrigation clumps with this. Okay, that's fine.

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Speaker 4: Good. What was it you wanted to know?

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Speaker 6: I asked you if Coote seemed nervous, like he'd been

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running away from something or somebody who was afraid might

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catch up with him. No, I can't say, dud well,

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he was anxious about what's find it? Job seemed like

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good workers. So when I had an opener and I

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took him on regular, oh one of your hands leave,

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I know, no, say I. I had to fire a

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folk named Harvey Brecktt fired him. Huh, Why you're drinking,

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making trouble in the bunk house and I'm doing his work?

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Speaker 4: Did this break?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 4: Coats just have been seen him around. I'd a break

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take it. When you told him he was fired? She

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was kind of drunk cuss me out, though? Is that all? Yep?

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I paid him off, give him an extra month, Like

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I do with any hand I have to let go.

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He seemed all right after that. You know where this

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break is living now here?

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Speaker 6: He's bunked up one of them deserted dobe huts by

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the old quicksilver her mind Rhodes washed out, though all

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the huts ramptish since mine stop operating, why really you

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want to seem?

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Speaker 4: I sure intend to.

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Speaker 6: I went back through town and picked up the sheriff,

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and we rode our horses out to the bend and mine.

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Speaker 4: I've checked one hundred guns today, chase every tough and

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near tough. I could think of, oh good though, huh uh?

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No hammer marks like the one we're looking.

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Speaker 6: For to fire the guns to get a test shelt

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for comparison. Sure, but I'd swear none of them was

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a gun we want. I kept the most likely ones

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and labeled them for UV good. You can add one

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more when we test Brick's gun. And here the shacks

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now poor.

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Speaker 4: Must be that one little smoke's coming up the chimney.

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That's Brick Good is coming. Your fella's looking for.

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Speaker 5: Oh Howdy share, howdy.

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Speaker 4: Brick Ranger wants a few words with you.

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Speaker 6: Okay, mind if we come inside?

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Speaker 4: All right, reckon.

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Speaker 6: You know that somebody killed a man who took your

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place over the Triangle Ranch.

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Speaker 4: Yeah so I heard on Tuesday afternoon? Where were you?

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I was right here? Anybody who says I wasn't as

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a liar?

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Speaker 6: Nobody said anything yet? Where's your shotgun? I don't have

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a gun? You don't, huh? And where's the gun you clean?

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Speaker 4: Not long ago? I didn't click.

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Speaker 6: And tell me you didn't. It's aily rag in the

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corner says you did. This rag was used for cleaning

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the gun and nothing else.

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Speaker 4: Better. I got the gun bricked. We want to see it.

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Speaker 6: It's under the bunk, sixteen gage, double barrel, Yeah, loaded

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two he let me have it a minute. I just

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matched these with the shells you've been carrying twins, all right, Sheriff.

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Speaker 4: No doubt about this matcham brack.

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Speaker 6: We found the shells on the Triangle Ranch. Hammer marks

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match yours, and Coots was killed with a shotgun.

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Speaker 4: At that gun.

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Speaker 5: Sure you found shells from it on the Triangle Ranch,

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because I worked on the Triangle Ranch.

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Speaker 4: Remembering, Hey, you can.

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Speaker 5: Get laughed out of court With evidence like that, I

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fired a hundred shots out there at coyotes.

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Speaker 4: The story could hold, Jase.

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Speaker 6: Maybe maybe not, because there's one other thing, Brick. We're

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all going to take a ride into town after I

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checked the shoes on your horse.

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Speaker 5: That's real interesting, Ranger, because if we're riding in the town,

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you'll be packing me behind you.

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Speaker 4: I don't own a horse.

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Speaker 1: You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring

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Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson. Now we continue with

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tonight's case the Cactus, an authentic story from the files

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of the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 4: Breck had a stop and he knew it.

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Speaker 6: His story about the coyotes and the empty shotgun shells

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covered him and we didn't even have enough to take

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him in.

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Speaker 4: We left him and headed back for town.

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Speaker 6: If he is the one, Jase, we're going to have

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a time proving it. Gun would have made a strong

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case against anybody who hadn't worked on the ranch.

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Speaker 4: But he can all by that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you got someone your mind, Jase, What is it?

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He swore he hadn't been on the Triangle Ranch in

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a week since golf fired him.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we can't prove otherwise.

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Speaker 6: I don't know if he did shoot at a coyote,

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must have been before Golf fired him.

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Speaker 4: That means those empty shells would have been lying out

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on the ground when it rained two days ago.

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Speaker 6: A cardboard portion of the shells don't look like they'd

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been wet. The son could have dried him out after

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the rain, Jase. Yeah, there's some metal on the shell too.

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I'm gonna send those shells through to the lab at Austin.

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Speaker 4: You think they'll be able to tell it to've been

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out in the rain.

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Speaker 6: Or nut metal gets wet. It's gotta be some oxidation.

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I will know whether there is or not if there

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isn't for me, and the shells were fired in the

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past two days.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but he'd still stick to his story. Jase.

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Speaker 6: You know how jury is with scientific evidence, little leary

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of it sometimes. I know he'll need more.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't thinking of the shells as jury evidence.

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Speaker 6: I was thinking of him as a timesaver for us. Uh,

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he's telling the truth, he'll have to start all over.

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But if he's lying, we'll have to trip him up.

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I sent the shells through to Austin, and while I

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waited for a report. I drove to Koot's old home

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at Marfa. He'd been well liked. There no reason for

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anybody to follow him and kill him. It was a

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routine check. And on the way back I got my

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report from Austin, KTXA to Unit ten, Unit ten to

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KTXA go ahead, A report from Loustin.

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Speaker 4: Lab on exhibits submitted by Unit ten for examination ready

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for it.

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Speaker 3: Lab report slight oxidation probably caused by brief exposure to

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normal night moisture.

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Speaker 6: No evidence the shells were thoroughly soaked, though no indication

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of such exposure, and LAB report ten for Unit ten

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clear KTXA Austin. I drove back south as hard as

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I could. When I got near the Quicksilver mine, I

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took charcoal out of the trailer and rode onto the

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shack Brick had been using to make sure he was

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still around.

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Speaker 4: Oh boy, oh charcoal, crack open up.

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Speaker 6: I want to talk to you, all right, What do

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you want this time? I just want to make sure

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you're still around, that's all. Well, you see me, don't you? Yeah?

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I see something else too. Looks like you've been packing

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a few things in there. That's my business, not yours.

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I'll make it my business. If you try to leave

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this county, I'll look, Rangie, you've got nothing on me here.

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You had taken me in before.

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Speaker 5: If I want to move out of here, I reckon

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I can move.

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Speaker 6: You try it and you'll hit the county jail so

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fast it won't even give your spurs time to rattle.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're talking big, but you ain't got a charge

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to hold me on. It ain't no law against shooting

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coyotes now.

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Speaker 6: But there's a law against moving into a shack without

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the owner's permission. The mining company give you the right

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to live here. Yeah, that isn't going to be hard

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to check on all right, then, Ranger, go back to

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town and chick because until you do and get a warrant,

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you got no right.

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Speaker 4: In here, have you?

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Speaker 6: Okay, Brey, I'll be back and you better be here.

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Speaker 4: I got back to town as fast as I could.

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I had to have a minor charge to hold him

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on because I pulled up to the.

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Speaker 6: Sheriff's office I found out I wasn't gonna need it.

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Speaker 4: Stay in the car, chase. Why what's happen?

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Speaker 6: You got here just in time? We're just heading for

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my car. Let's move which way right ahead? Blacksmith shout,

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he found the horse we've.

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Speaker 4: Been looking for. Oh, why, oh yeah, here, Ranger. Look

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it's like the cast. Oh whoa boy?

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Speaker 6: You see this nick in the left hind shoe? Snail

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bent a little shame as the impression of the cast,

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and said, all right, who wounds him?

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Speaker 4: Ranger?

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Speaker 6: You're probably gonna eat me out for this? But he's

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mine yours. You mean to say you couldn't recognize the

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shoe you fitted to one of your own horses. But

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that's a trouble, Ranger. I didn't show him. I only

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part him a month ago. I just going to put

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new plates on him for the first time. Now, that's

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how come I just spotted the shoe.

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Speaker 4: What were you doing out on the Triangle ranch when

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Coots was killed? But Ranger, I wasn't out there.

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Speaker 6: Your horse was last Tuesday, but I wasn't riding him.

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Speaker 4: I loaned him out. You better tell us who you

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loaned them to.

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Speaker 6: Well, let Harvey Breck use him.

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Speaker 4: Frey.

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Speaker 6: Well, well, my wife couldn't tell you.

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Speaker 2: I'll call her.

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Speaker 6: You don't have to call her. Come on, Sheriff, let's go.

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He stopped for the sheriff's horse.

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Speaker 4: Loaded him in the double trailer with charcoal, and then

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headed to the mine.

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Speaker 6: Left the car at the wash out, unloaded the horses,

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and rode to the adobe shack Breck was using.

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Speaker 4: We got enough to take him in now, Jason, he's

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still here. He was packing the leaves. Look, yes, let it,

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here's the hooey was using rack a light under the door.

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We're on time, then, how much to spare?

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Speaker 6: So since she figures to move out tonight, he won't

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move now stop here, Huh, he isn't gonna come easy,

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share Watch out for that shotgun. He wants gun player,

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he can have it, and we'll know when he answers

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the door.

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Speaker 4: All right, Breck, open up. We know you're in there. Breck,

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Now come on, maybe waiting in there so he can

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nail us with that shotgun. If we bust in, we

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can wait out here for your breck.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that light in there could keep us waiting all night.

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Speaker 4: If he's gone. You mean it's a trick to slow

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us up. We'll find out. Keep that door covered while

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I kick it in. He's empty. Reckon made his getaway.

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We went over the ground outside to get his direction.

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Led toward rugged country, and.

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Speaker 6: We followed as fast as we put on horseback, cut

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him back and forth to pick up his marks, went

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up into these hills, share and made some time.

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Speaker 4: He was easy to trail as far. And he's on foot.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but we're gonna be on foot too. Now, Why

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he's headed for the border Jase three or Grand's that way.

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Speaker 4: But no horse can take this country between here and there.

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Speaker 6: Oh boy, Charco, how far is it to the river?

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Speaker 4: Forty miles the country the devil won't have and we'll

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have to cover every inch of it on foot.

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Speaker 6: That's what he's doing. Come on, let's go. We must

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be close to him by Hey, look sheriff, that's him

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top of the ridge. Get the cover under that leg, humble.

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Speaker 4: Of horses so they can move off from grays later.

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How are we going to get to him? Long way

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up that bridge, and we'll be moving right into his sight.

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You go around that way, all right, Crawl and hunk

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whatever cover you can find.

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Speaker 6: I'll go the other way and see if we can't

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circle in behind him.

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Speaker 4: Move slowly inches at a time at the side of

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the treacherous slope. Took almost an hour, and it was

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just what Breck wanted. All right, don't move, Yes, yeah, jeez,

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he isn't here. Of course he isn't. I should have

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figured his play.

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Speaker 6: The only reason he fired from uphill was the triggers

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and to giveing him time. I'm sure it was. He's

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ahead of us with a knight to cover him. We

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don't have horses to give us an edge anymore. I

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see if we can pick up his trail, jays.

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Speaker 4: If we're going into this, we're going to need water

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time to go back for it. Now. We'll have to

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get it as we find it. If we find it.

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Speaker 6: And he's headed this way, come on, we'll have to

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keep trail cutting, and it's gonna be plenty rough.

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Speaker 4: It's like the sheriff said, country the devil wouldn't have

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wreck was piling up a lead. With every hour of

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the night.

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Speaker 6: We have to cover two miles to his one chase.

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Every time we lose the trail, he games ground can

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be helped.

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Speaker 4: We get to the.

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Speaker 6: Top of this original maybe the wrong one again, like

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the last two.

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Speaker 4: We climb.

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Speaker 6: The daylight in a couple of hours'll be able to

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spot his tracks better then, and we can fans. Maybe

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we better rest until then can't. I'm counting on him

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having the rest. That's the only time we can make

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up on him. Reckon your right chase.

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Speaker 4: But there will be another day and night of this

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without a wink and no guarantee we catch him at that.

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He may go any directions and make us crossing.

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Speaker 7: You want to rest a few hours when I go

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on ahead? If you're going, I'm going good, Come on.

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If we only knew which pull the sheriff. What scrub

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between the rocks? Yeah, throw your light on it.

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Speaker 6: All right, Look barely growing in the earth between the rocks,

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roots ripped out a little and exposed.

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Speaker 4: Fresh to grab the scrub. Pull himself up, good, and

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it's we aren't climbing this for the mouth of this time.

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Now we better keep on climbing. Almost twenty four hours

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getting dark again.

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Speaker 6: Jesse, Yeah, and more mountains ahead. Hey wait, losen no, no,

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got over this way. Something on the ground by that

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cactus patch?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, dug for water again and hit it too, Still wet,

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Dig a little, get a drink from yourself. Knows the

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country all right, never misses, seems to know just where

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to dig. If there's even a mouthful of water. What's

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your doing over there.

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Speaker 6: He ate here the rest of two access pear has

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been cut in skin son hasn't dried the skins out yet.

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He's only an hour or so I had. Now this

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track show he's slowing down, still going fast enough to

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make that river. Sometimes in night though, we'll be there too.

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Then little water running up in this hole. Now, Chase,

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you better take him house, for you've clean the canyon.

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Speaker 4: Chase. The river's narrow there, how far a mile away?

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Gotta run in the sheriff, can you make it? Buck?

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His shot gun couldn't holler it any further. Lightening up

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to make his last run. I think I heard something

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that good. Keep going. We heard him in front of him,

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and we broke through the brush of the river.

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Speaker 6: He was just waiting in stop breaking, I'll get him.

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Speaker 4: Don't make me put a bullet in you brack. You

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you ain't taking a nat Oh, yes I am. I

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go I'm over the border while you're still in the river.

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I go white that I don't shot get him.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but you're going to have to help me drag

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them the shore.

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Speaker 4: You four feet made.

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Speaker 8: You needed just a few more seconds, just about as

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long as it took to eat a cactus fear. R. V.

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Speaker 2: Breck was tried and convicted for the murder of Robert

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Coots is sentenced ninety nine years.

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Speaker 1: And now here again is the star of our show,

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Joel the Craye.

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Speaker 6: When the Allies invaded Normandy in World War II, they

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got an idea as to how far the fame of

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the Texas Rangers had spread. Both surrendering Nazis and liberated

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free French said they knew the war was as good

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as over because the Texas.

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Speaker 4: Rangers had landed.

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Speaker 6: Of course, it was the heroic American Ranger troops who

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made the landings, but nothing could convince the Nazi war

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prisoners that these were not the terrible Texans they had

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heard about in many American legends.

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Speaker 4: Good Night, Folks, see at the same time next week.

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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 the Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae

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is currently seen starting in the MGM production.

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Speaker 4: Stars in My Crown The Night's Past.

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Speaker 1: Included Tony Barrett, Williams, Herbert Tom McKee, and Gerald Moore.

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The story was transcribed and adapted by Joel MerCad and

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the program is produced.

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Speaker 4: And directed by Stacy Keith. This is hal Given speaking.

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Three chimes mean good Times on NBC Monday Means Music

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on NBC. Tomorrow Night, The Voice of Firestone presents a

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selection of melodies in the Christmas Spirit with Metropolitan Opera

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star Jerome Hines, a solarist, The NBC Symphony brings you

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another one hour concert featuring works by Vivaldi and Beethoven

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under the baton of the brilliant young conductor Guido Cantelli.

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Stay tuned for the sixty four dollars question with more

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good Times on NBC