Speaker 1: Presenting Joel McCrae as Jace Pearson in Tales of the
Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers authentic stories from
their official files Texas more than two hundred and sixty
thousand square miles and fifty men who make up the
most famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America.
Now from the piles of the Texas Rangers come these
stories based on fact. Only nine states and places are
fictitious for obvious reason. The events themselves are a matter
of records. Tonight's transcribe case Dead or Alive.
Speaker 2: At exactly nine thirteen am on Wednesday, April sixteenth, nineteen
forty seven, the French freight of Grand Camp, carrying a
highly explosive cargo of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, blew up in
the harbor at Texas City, Texas. It was the first
and a chain of explosions as chemical plants, tin smelts,
and oil refineries disappeared in blasts and flame. Shortly after
one am the next morning, the major chain reaction was
set off, the explosions rocking the city of Galveston, ten
miles across the bay, where excited crowds gathered in the
streets watching the raging flame fierce sky.
Speaker 3: Xtray xtray Texas City Death Hole, three hundred hundreds more
missed the scurse upon He's unidentified type a mistake. Yeah,
give me one here, lead about an unidentified death poles.
Speaker 4: Where are the names? Vance, where's the list of the dead.
Speaker 5: They only got a few of them identified.
Speaker 4: Well, it's Ralph's name there a minute.
Speaker 5: No, No, he's probably all right. A working square like
him would be.
Speaker 4: But he worked at one of the refineries.
Speaker 6: That Bernie stop blubbering, want would tract attention to me?
Speaker 4: No, no, Vance, No, but he is my brother. I
gotta worry about him too, don't I.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, come on over here in the doorway. Look
at that blaze over there across the bay with a spot.
The cleanest money jewelry must be laying around the streets.
Speaker 6: Just fence.
Speaker 4: Can't you crazy to be police there?
Speaker 7: Arranges?
Speaker 4: You're in enough trouble now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he'll live, You're right, but I'm gift out of
it now for good. And that place over there is
gonna do it. Maybe your brother Ralph is one of
the dead they haven't identified. You gotta go there, baby,
He is, you'll have to identify if he is there
and with the ones they don't know, there's nothing you
can do to help him, But you can't help me.
Speaker 4: That's what do you mean?
Speaker 5: But if you find him there, baby, you can identify
the body.
Speaker 7: And say it's mine.
Speaker 6: Y want me and the claar, don't you baby? It
won't be chasing after me if they think I'm dead.
Don't you see?
Speaker 4: What's my own? Brother? What are you asking me to do?
Speaker 6: I'm asking you do as you're told.
Speaker 5: You want to walk out of me, go ahead, but
if you don't, you're gonna want me to keep on
running for the rest of my life. We'll let him
get me and send me to Huntsville for ten to twenty.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't want anything to happen to you mentioned
that one.
Speaker 6: Then show me, baby, show me you can't help brother.
Speaker 8: He's over there, but you can't help me, don't you see.
Speaker 5: I'll get out of here tonight and I'll let you
know when to meet me, maybe at that resort place
where we passed near Lake Blue Water.
Speaker 6: It'll be free, baby, You and me free from there on.
Speaker 4: What'll we do for money?
Speaker 6: That'll be taken care of too. It's a safe in Landstone.
Speaker 8: I've been itching to get at it for a long time.
One last box job.
Speaker 6: Baby, and enough to see us through.
Speaker 5: I go ahead right now, and remember if you find
your brother, he ain't Ralph Brennan. He's me pants young
and come back, pack up and stay put to your
hair for me. Man On. It's gravy. Nobody ever arrests
a dead man.
Speaker 2: By Friday morning, April eighteenth, more than two hundred bodies,
many still unidentified, were laid out in the Texas City
High School Gymnasium. Texas rangers, including Ranger Jas Pearson, were
on hand to help distract relatives make identification.
Speaker 6: You're sure your husband isn't in any of the other
places where bodies are being.
Speaker 4: Hung up, No, Ranger, he.
Speaker 6: May be all right. Lots of men have been so
busy helping others. He may be one of those.
Speaker 4: Oh it, only he isn't here.
Speaker 6: I hope he isn't. The en bombers are still working
on more bodies over at mcguar's garage. It's the only
place Handy keep your hopes up them. Just don't hope
too much for a while.
Speaker 4: I'll be all right.
Speaker 6: I as well, start looking through this next row. Now,
there had pretty bad cases. Recognize anything on this one? No? This, No,
I'm sorry, I'm very sorry. Are you sure.
Speaker 4: That ring on his sneaker? I came it to him
a long time ago.
Speaker 6: It isn't easy, but try and get a grip. I
I I'm alright, Ranger, you better give me the any
name for the tag.
Speaker 4: His name is Rot. That's my husband.
Speaker 8: That's Young, Vance Young.
Speaker 6: Her name burned in my mind like a branding iron.
There was no time to ask her, and yet I
had to ask. It was part of my job. I
waited until we got out into the street. There's some
information I have to get from you, missus Young, about
your husband.
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 6: Did he did he have a criminal record?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 6: Did you know we were looking for him for a
string of safe critter?
Speaker 4: He's dead, is he?
Speaker 6: Yes? I'm sorry. You'll find some men at the desks
and that building across the way. They will help you
with funeral arrangements. All right, right, Vanceym j Hey, Jase,
huh oh, hello, Kurtz, where is he? Combile? Let's go?
Speaker 3: Oh be glad When this as Simon is over, I
hope we never see another one like it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, helped with five identifications. Today you stand there with
somebody and see their life fall apart because of a
freak accident. Women who just left you, She finds somebody, Yeah,
her husband, Kurtz. It was Vance Young, Vance Young, the
knob knucker. Yeah, it's like the explosion ended his case
for our files.
Speaker 3: Don't you think we better check the body for prince.
Speaker 6: Of marks and he got it too badly. She identified
him by a rain.
Speaker 3: Unidentified bodies give a knob knucker like Young a big
chance to disappear.
Speaker 6: I thought of that too, Except for one thing. That
woman's grief was real. She wasn't faking it. A week passed,
a week of horror and nightmares till the fires in
Texas City were controlled and stopped, and men with tight
lips and grim courage started to rebuild the ruins. Most
of US rangers went back to regular duty in our
regular areas. Then, one day, when Bud Kurtz and I
had just finished a routine job and were driving back
to headquarters, a call came through via sharp wave.
Speaker 7: KTXA to Unit ten, KTXA to Unit.
Speaker 6: Ten, Unit ten to KTXA, go ahead, KTXA.
Speaker 10: Unit ten proceed immediately to Lanstone, Texas, Atha County Safe
of Mercantile Store burglarized there at four am today. Crime
reported by ONO went store open at nine to thirty am.
Speaker 6: The state any lead on responsible subject.
Speaker 10: Subject unidentified but known to be one man working alone.
According to information given by Watchman, Watchman was overpowered being
treated at Lanstone Emergency.
Speaker 6: Hospital Units ten and six. Preceding to Lanstone will keep
KTXA informed Unit ten ten four.
Speaker 7: Assignment Authority Captain Stinton kt.
Speaker 3: X A Austin Limestone for forty miles chase. Yeah, now
I'm knocking job.
Speaker 6: Uh yeah. At least though there's one safe specialist we
can eliminate right from scratch on this one. O's young.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot about him.
Speaker 3: Dead men don't rob saves, do they.
Speaker 6: We reached the Lianstone Mercantil Store at eleven fifteen and
Sheriff Joe Pastroni showed us through.
Speaker 9: These back rooms are used for storage. He came in
through the back, went through that door over there to
the general office. That's where the safe is. How to
get into the building, of course, the Watchman will let
him in. Watchman patrols this whole area door shape. It
as keys to get at all the stores. If he
sees anything that looks funny.
Speaker 6: And then he must have met the safecracker outside.
Speaker 9: I guess so watchman was pretty days this morning with
the darkest patching him up at the hospital.
Speaker 8: Debby, You don't drive him back here.
Speaker 9: So's his head's fixed now, as you can see, been
over everything for fingerprints, can find any sure, hundreds They
probably all belonged to employees of the store.
Speaker 6: Best bet is to check the prints on the safe first.
Speaker 9: Already did that only two sets, owner of the store
and the bookkeeper.
Speaker 3: Well that won't tell us anything, Jason, unless one of
them robbed the store, and isn't likely.
Speaker 6: I don't have a look at the safe now, Sheriff.
Speaker 3: Sure they got last office back here. What maker is
a safe shore?
Speaker 8: It's uh will Zatlas new model.
Speaker 3: It's a tough box Jase steel and wrought iron plates
and more alarm wires and the marionette show.
Speaker 6: But a good safe cracker could divert the alarm circuit
without tripping it. And the box is a cinch because
he's got the wire holes to start working on.
Speaker 7: Here.
Speaker 6: You figured a jace backplate blown clean out. Yeah, and
didn't even have to drill small nitro charges in the
wire holes, and it was as good as having the combination.
Here's where he jumped the alarm circuit. Neat hook up.
Speaker 3: All right, you take the pictures of all this, Sheriff. Yeah,
I can pick up a set of my office if
you like.
Speaker 6: Thanks.
Speaker 8: Oh, wait, the shrif arrangers. But waiting for this is
a lot.
Speaker 6: How you hear well?
Speaker 8: Ashburn ain't gonna help it anyhow, tell you that you're
gonna get the.
Speaker 6: Front bill to answer that better. When the fingerprints are checked.
Speaker 11: Fingerprints, he ain't gonna find any he left. He's wearing gloves,
figure Jase.
Speaker 6: Yeah, tell me, Winky, would you recognize the man if
you saw him again? Could you pick out his picture?
Speaker 8: Yeah, they've had his picture? Chuckle. The sack over his head,
I could that? Ain't likely?
Speaker 6: You mean his face was covered, had a shack over.
Speaker 11: His head like a Tulia holes for the eyes. He
ain't gonna catch him by no fingerprintser pictures if you
ain't gonna catch her at all.
Speaker 6: Oh, I wouldn't say that, Winki, Sheriff, would you mind
going down to your office for prints? Of the pictures
of the scene here. I'd like them send on to
my headquarters for an m O check.
Speaker 8: Oh sure, take care of it right away. What kind
of chick is an m old chick ranger?
Speaker 6: It means modus operandi, winky. All criminals have definite methods
and habits. They're repeated on each job they do. Forms
a pattern, wether Sure a pattern here?
Speaker 3: All right, Jason, method of entry, whether that circuit was jumped,
sack mask, ndro charge and the wire holes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it fits three men, three safe crackers we
followed before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's bird of lockin he's still doing time and
folsom for a job he pulled.
Speaker 6: On the coast. Yeah. And the other two are Jack
Fontaine and Vance Young. Yeah, but young as dead. That
leaves us Fontane, you.
Speaker 8: Mean you know who did it without nothing to tell you?
Speaker 6: There's plenty to tell us. The modus operandi can be
almost as good as a fingerprint or a signature.
Speaker 8: I'll be waned. Maybe that fellow is gonna pay off
for slugging me after all and hurting my arm when
he grabbed me in the alley there.
Speaker 6: How do you grab you? Show me go ahead, show
me on you.
Speaker 8: Well, let's see. You whipped my arm up behind me
like this. Then he japped the flumb up behind my
ear like this. Sure hurts.
Speaker 6: You can let go now. Judo still fits Fontaine, Jace, Yeah,
or Vance Young? He used it too on other jobs.
Speaker 11: When did he slug you after he made me open
up the back door and let him in.
Speaker 6: I mean he sneaked up on you before he could
draw your gun.
Speaker 11: Sneak nothing. That's why I didn't get onto him at first.
Heard him come walking through the alley toward me like
he's taking a shortcut.
Speaker 8: You heard him, Yeah, it was dark, so so I.
Speaker 11: Didn't see the mask until a little match he yes
for a late see. Then he grabbed me and he
got me inside here and beat on me and kick me.
Speaker 6: Jase, that doesn't sound like Fontaine. It wasn't Fontaine. He
always sneaked a watchman from behind and they never heard him.
He always wore sneakers. Well, then who Vance Young? That
match trick is Vance Young's. But Young is dead? Maybe yes,
maybe now, but I know one thing I'm going find out.
Speaker 1: You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson, and now we continue
with the night's case Dead or Alive an authentic story
from the files of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 6: I headed for Texas City. In Galveston, Kurtz and I
had no way to move until we knew for certain
whether Vance Young was dead or alive. As we drove,
I put through a request for headquarters to dig up
some information. We were still on the road when kt
XA came up with the.
Speaker 7: Answers kt X A un ten kt xaighty, Unit ten.
Speaker 6: Unit ten to kt X A, go ahead, kt.
Speaker 7: XA, have information you requested.
Speaker 10: Woman who identified body of Vance Young in Texas City
gave name as Lillian Young, residing at.
Speaker 7: Four to one oh Harbor Lane, Galveston.
Speaker 6: Deceased was wearing ring used in identification. Has subject Lilian
Young claimed ring.
Speaker 10: No claim has been filed yet, ring still being held
at property claims in Texas City.
Speaker 6: Unit ten also requested check on place where body identified
as Vance Young was originally found.
Speaker 10: Body was among those recovered from debris of amalgamated refinery
plants seven.
Speaker 6: Unit ten believes identification may have been falsified. Possibility Vance
Young still alive. Units ten and six continuing investigation, maybe
tied in with robbery in Landstone, Texas proceed and Keith
kd XA informed authority Captain Stinson, Unit ten ten four
dy Xales.
Speaker 3: You get that address, Kirtz, Yeah, four ten Harbor Lane, Galston.
Speaker 6: If we're right, she may have cleared out by now,
but we've got to try it. What do you want
me to do? I'll drop you at Texas City, get
that ring and check every living person who worked it amalgamated.
See if any of them remember that ring and the
man who wore it. Right, I better call kat x
A again. Have that marriage rector of trace. Find out
when and where that woman married Young, what her maiden
name was. Everything.
Speaker 3: We can get to be in Texas City in a
couple of minutes. I can start to check from there
and bring the information to you.
Speaker 6: Where we meet the Harbor Lane address and Galveston. I
found the rooming house Lilian and Advance Young had lived in,
but I was too late. Lili and Young had checked
out the day before. The landlord showed me the room. Hey,
they lived here five six months. Also, you get to
know the husband very well. I'll tell you the truth, Ranger.
I hardly have us. I saw him. The only time
he ever lift the place was at.
Speaker 5: Nine the White City's eyes got hurt in the wall
or something.
Speaker 6: The sunlight bothered him. When did you see him last?
When they moved out?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 6: No, he wasn't with her.
Speaker 7: Then.
Speaker 5: Last I saw him was, Oh, we went out about
a week ago night had the big blast over at
Texas City, cracked the wall plaster here. Are you sure
you didn't see him after that? Why, I'm positive. I
don't think he ever did come back. Didn't even hear
no talking from the room, just just her crying an
awful lot.
Speaker 6: I see. She decided to leave kind of sudden.
Speaker 5: Oh, like a jack rabbit here and a hound dog.
Left for work yesterday morning, came steaming back by. Now, lady,
give me the keys, pack up and left.
Speaker 6: Came back from work. You know where she worked?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, she was a waitress the Bay Shore Diner, Bay
Short Diner.
Speaker 6: Thanks.
Speaker 2: So she up and quit on it just like that
yesterday morning, right smack in the middle of a breakfast
rush too. Because the postman come in and give her
a special liver letter Who is it from?
Speaker 6: Who was it from?
Speaker 2: With twenty dollars of ham man in the fire, I
got time to read a mail. All I know is
she leaves me the servant, the dishes and the clean and.
Speaker 8: And stop beef and chuck.
Speaker 6: That little little gal had trouble.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you should talk. All you got to do
is drive one cab. You don't have the servant and
the dishes and the cleaner.
Speaker 12: They find yourself a little old chaplain to hear your
troubles and give me some coffee.
Speaker 2: Come on kill, Okay, maybe you can tell a ranger
more about little than I can hanging around her making
eyes at her all day.
Speaker 6: You took her out when she left her?
Speaker 4: Is that right?
Speaker 6: Driver? Did she leave here with you?
Speaker 8: Well, she hired my cabs, that's what you mean.
Speaker 6: Where'd you take her? Hello?
Speaker 12: I took her home, waited while she packed some things,
then rushed her to the bus depot. She said somebody
in her family was seek and she had to go
help them right away. I guess that's what the letter
was about. I was sitting there having my breakfast like
I always and.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I understand. But what about the bustypo? You
know what bus?
Speaker 8: She caught the north bound towards San Anton.
Speaker 12: Cut it mightifying to got there just about a minute
before the bus pulled out. Would have made it a
lot easier if she didn't make me come dashing back
about a.
Speaker 6: Mile after we left here, back here to the dinner.
Speaker 8: No, back to the laundry down the street.
Speaker 12: I guess she had some stuff in there, although she
didn't bring a bundle out with her. And then on
top of that, she says she can't pay me, Not
that I'd mind, except for the ten extra blocks back
to the laundry, I could have put the flag back
up as she told me beforehand.
Speaker 6: You say the laundry is right down the street about
half block. Thanks. I walked down.
Speaker 3: Hey, Jake, Hi, Kurtz Hell at the room house told
me you came down here.
Speaker 6: Ye find out anything on that ring?
Speaker 3: Plenty couple of men who worked at Amalgamy that recognized
that longco plant man named.
Speaker 6: Ralph Brennard, And it wasn't Young. No.
Speaker 3: I got that rundown on Young's wife. Her maiden name
was Lilian Brenner. The guys identified was her brother and
not her.
Speaker 6: Husband, and that's why she was broken up. I knew
that part wasn't an act. Come on, where we're going
we're going into the laundry business.
Speaker 13: Yeah, she was re upset cause the things wasn't ready,
But you know how it was range. You know, we
was almost ten days behind because of Texas City.
Speaker 8: There was even using our delivery trucks for emergence over there.
Some of 'em men left the job to help out.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, sure, But uh what did she leave here?
Waitress uniforms?
Speaker 13: Oh lands, no dinner up there has the regular uniform service.
Speaker 8: All she ever left here was men's.
Speaker 3: Shirts, probably vancer's shirts Chase.
Speaker 13: Yeah, a real good shirts to ranger kind, you don't
have to start at all, and real fancy colors too, Dude,
wouldn't want to be found dead in some of 'em.
Speaker 6: Did she say she'd be back to pick 'em up?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 13: No, she she asked me to send 'em to a
cod said she needed the money she.
Speaker 8: Had on us for traveling shirts like that.
Speaker 13: You think her and a man was living off the
top of the hall.
Speaker 6: But sure, sure? But uh did she give you an address?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I got it right here in this book, m.
Speaker 6: Right here.
Speaker 8: Sh she wrote it down herself.
Speaker 6: General Delivery Lake Blue Water.
Speaker 8: Uh, the sure it's are ready? Now I'm gonna mail
'em out tonight when I leave.
Speaker 6: We'll save you the trouble, wrap 'em up, and we'll
deliver 'em for you. Kurtz and I headed for Lake
Blue Water, towing our horses in the trailer, ready to
follow vance Young. No matter which way you moved. It
was dark as we drove into the town. The clock
on the courthouse was just striking nine. Not many people
on the streets.
Speaker 3: Jay walks like everything's closed up with the night except
for the moving the duck store.
Speaker 6: Better find a place and turn in. I think we
ought to drive out of town, camp someplace off the
lake shore. Walk the horses out for a while.
Speaker 3: I thought, we're gonna plant that laundry bundle at the
post office in the morning, watch for a pickup. We are, well,
why not pass to the horses the edge of town.
Find accommodations right here.
Speaker 6: If we stay in town overnight, it may start some
talk talk drifts. We don't want to tip our hands.
I guess you're right. Well, let's get out to the
lake and find a campsite.
Speaker 3: Funny thing about Young's wife remembering his shirts is his
force of.
Speaker 6: Habit for a woman. Strong thing habit his safe, cracking
habits told us he was still alive, and now maybe
her habits are gonna make him wish he was dead again.
We took the road for the lake, past the summer cottages,
skirting the shore on one side of it. Then as
we rounded a curve and passed a house and a
group of resort cabins, I spotted something. Hey, Jase, what's
the matter? I saw something? Wait, I back up headlines
picked it up as we came around this curve.
Speaker 3: There, look at those well, I see is the back
of a few cabins.
Speaker 6: Some wash on the line. Look at those two shirts
on the end of the line. Look like a couple
of rainbows even in this light. Hey, that's the kind
of color scheme Vance Young goes in for shirts we
have in the laundry bundle are just like those lights
on in a few of the cabins. I'm gonna leave
the car here while we have a look at those shirts.
Horse trail will make too much of a racket if
we drive in.
Speaker 3: There are no chance of being taken for tourists with
that on the back. Better cut the motor and dossa headlights.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what was the laundry mark on those shirts.
Speaker 3: We've got four to ten Mark. There was a number
of their house in Galveston.
Speaker 6: Come on, let's see if we can find it on
that line. Close the car door's easy, right right, Take
one of them down so we can get a better
look at it. Watch of other Yeah, clothes pins, dark there,
I got it and pulled it a load of the ground,
A couple of head out of the flashlight. Good, here
it is four ten. He's belonged to our boy, all right.
Quite a few cabins, Jase, he's in one of 'em.
That's all we have to know. Come on, stuck with
his end cabin and go right on down the line.
We'd better be ready for anything. Here's the first stop,
dark jays. Yeah, I have to feel your way around.
Doesn't seem to be anybody living here. This one's empty.
That's moving all right, But that flash out before I fire?
Speaker 8: Oh, oh, rangers, I'll put him on.
Speaker 6: That's better or you.
Speaker 9: That name's Ed Bullock. I own these cabins. Just walking
back from the boat dock with a couple of guests.
So he's sneaking in the dark. You uh, you look
him for a place to stay. We're looking for a
couple named Young. Oh well, that's funny. It was mister
Young who spotted your shadows.
Speaker 7: Hey, mister Yung?
Speaker 6: Was that young just with you?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Him and his wife was right behind me when I
flash light in them here they spotted us, Jase.
Speaker 6: Yeah, come on, hey, hit of my boat and somebody
started my boat? Is that the only boat you got
down there? Only one with a motor. There's a canoe.
You're not gonna reach them, Chase. They'll head across the lake.
How far is it, Bullock?
Speaker 8: A mile and a half?
Speaker 6: Kurtz. Grab your horse from the trailer. You can beat
him around to the far side. If you ride hard.
When you get there, flash your light. That'll keep him
from trying the shore over there. Right, what about you?
I'm taking the canoe and hurry, will you Arranger.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna go up back to the office my wife.
Speaker 6: You can faint later, mister Bullock. Right now, I need you.
I'm going out in the canoe. Flash your light from
this shore. They'll think I'm here and they won't dare
land on either side. But make sure you don't turn
the light on me in this canoe. All right, Bullock,
turn your light on As soon as I get out
in the open water, I paddled the canoe toward the
center of the lake. Kurtz beat the youngs a ound
of the outfit shore, and I could still hear their motor.
When I saw the beam of Kerk's light. The young
saw it too. The beam wasn't strong enough to reach them.
I heard the boat in a turn, and the motor
came back towards me form and it went dead on
the dark water.
Speaker 4: What you stop the motor for?
Speaker 9: Then?
Speaker 6: Shut up? They waiting for us on each shore That
lights don't reach us.
Speaker 8: Thanks, we gotta get out of here.
Speaker 6: Let me think there's a little wind. The boat will
drift to the far end of the lake.
Speaker 8: It's so slow.
Speaker 6: What do you want me to do? I can't swim
like you can.
Speaker 8: Why can't you use the ocause the all locks.
Speaker 6: Squeet stupid, they'd hear him. Yeah, there's only two of them.
They can't cover the whole shore.
Speaker 8: She invented. So dark And hey, I hear something something
in the water.
Speaker 6: Crazy, can't you see their lights on the shore?
Speaker 8: Thanks? I do hear something.
Speaker 4: I see it's a canoe.
Speaker 6: What don't young I'm coming into your boat. What you
I'll bring you with this hour?
Speaker 5: Help hell he called me?
Speaker 8: Letting go?
Speaker 6: He have you got any he can't him where he's going,
It won't matter. Grab on the canoe and kick for shaw.
I got a nice dry shirt waiting for him.
Speaker 2: Convicted of robbing a safe in the mrcanteal store of
Vance Young on the basis of his previous record, was
sentenced to life imprisonment at Huntsville.
Speaker 6: This is Joel McCrae. Many of our listeners, particularly in Texas,
recall these cases we've been dramatizing, and some listeners have
sent in questions about the Rangers. Yes, it's true, there
are only fifty Texas Rangers. And to show you how
busy these Rangers are, from nineteen forty six to nineteen
forty eight, the Rangers handled nearly seventeen thousand cases with
Texas as big as it is. That means they cover
about four times greater area of per man than any
other police officer in the world. Next week, we'll have
another authentic story I believe you'll enjoy very much like
the others. It's based on their official files, adding further
glory to the Rangers. Hope you'll be listening good Night.
Speaker 1: Next week Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of the
case from.
Speaker 6: The files of Not Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1: Joel McCray, currently seen starring in the MGM production Stars
in My Crown. This story was transcribed and adapted by
Joel Murcott, and the program is produced and directed by
Stacy Keach.
Speaker 6: This is Hell, Give Me Speaking.
Speaker 14: Three Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC. Your Saturday Hour
of Fun begins in four weeks. You'll hear Judy Canova
and this young man.
Speaker 15: Hello everybody, this is dynas d. On October seventh, I'll
be starting a new season on the air. They'll be
fun for all, lots of music and lance. So join
us for our opening show October seventh. Will your favorite
NBC station?
Speaker 14: Yes, Beginning October seventh, Here Dennis Day, then Judy Canova
in an Hour of Fun on NBC.
Speaker 6: Three Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC.