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Speaker 1: The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCrae in Tales of

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the Texas Rangers Tonight Transcribe from Hollywood, another authentic reenactment

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of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers,

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Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger

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Jase Pearson, Texas more than two hundred and sixty thousand

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square miles and fifty men who make up the most

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famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America. Now

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

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Speaker 2: On fact only.

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Speaker 1: Names, dates, and fights are fictitious for obvious reasons. They

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avounced themselves are a matter of.

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Speaker 2: Record case for Tonite dead Head Fright.

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Speaker 3: It is shortly before midnight, August twenty seventh, nineteen thirty eight,

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at the Santa Fe Freight Yards in Lubbock, Texas. A

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dead head freight hauling empties back to the West Coast

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from Galveston has just pulled into the yard.

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Speaker 4: The brakeman and a railroad.

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Speaker 3: Detective are making a routine check of the cars for

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free riding hoboes.

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Speaker 5: If I was a yard dick, I'd be snoozing in

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the roundhouse. You ain't found a free rider in money?

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So what I get paid the check in night share?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 5: Boson the frates always hop off before we pull into

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the yards.

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Speaker 6: Every think one of them might fall a sleep in

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the car and don't have anybody to wake him up.

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Speaker 2: Where it could be?

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Speaker 6: Eh, fleshy lent nash Okay, hey gee, nobody now.

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Speaker 5: The car up ahead is the last of the box cars.

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I walked the flats and gondolas while we was rolling.

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Speaker 2: So I know that they're clear.

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Speaker 4: Hey, hey, where's the door rolled? Set on?

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Speaker 2: Listen?

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Speaker 4: I don't know now I shouldn't be.

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Speaker 6: And let's get her open and throw you later on here.

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Nobody riding? Eh he count all right, bow on your

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feet and throw that lighter right on here. Well, no

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wonder it didn't move, Just an old upper bag. Yeah,

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what's the difful bag doing on a dead head freight

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in a minute?

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Speaker 4: Eh?

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Speaker 2: Hey, ain't come here?

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Speaker 4: Feel is right? Feels like a buddy?

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Speaker 6: Hey, you get a nine pointing y'all here, And it's

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a good thing we didn't pass these cars to jump

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to the bag showed up tighter.

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Speaker 2: And to cut right through the sight.

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Speaker 4: Eh, what h's she jump.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, stabbed to death and threw that light around the curve.

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But what are you looking for? There's no blood in

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any place. She wasn't killed on the train. Somebody must

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have loaded the body on to get rid of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Soon.

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Speaker 6: The murder can't be pinned down any definite area. Where'd

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you stop last before he pulled in here sid in

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west of Sweetwater? The body must have been put on

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some place between then and Galveston.

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Speaker 2: Then we better call the police.

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Speaker 6: They can notify the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 3: After a brief but penetrating study of the situation, Ranger

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Captain Stinson had the body removed to a Lubvick funeral parlor.

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He then requested Texas Ranger jas Pearson to take over

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the case.

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Speaker 2: Well there it is, jeez, pretty brutal job of stabbing.

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Speaker 7: You figured it happened a good piece from here, huh?

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Speaker 2: A couple of reasons for that. Here's a map shows

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the route the freight train. Cook spots circled in red,

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shows where it made stops and at what time.

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Speaker 7: I see no stops after it left the siding outside Sweetwater, huh.

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Speaker 2: Right, And most of the stops were made much further east.

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Speaker 7: Well, according to the time of these stops, a body

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must have been loaded on the train between Presby here

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and Turner City here. Well, how do you arrive at

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that train made all its night stops between these points.

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Isn't likely the killer loaded the body on by daylight,

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too much chance of being spotted by the train crew.

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Speaker 4: That's a good reasoning, Jase, you may be right.

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Speaker 2: He said.

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Speaker 7: The body was sewed up in a duffel bag.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you better look at it before I sent it

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on to the lad and I have the undertaker lock

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it in this cabinet and give me the key. Yeh,

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here it is regular opening at the top of the

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bag is sewed up tight. A draw cord is missing.

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See good thing.

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Speaker 7: The man who found the body cut into the bag

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instead of ripping out those new stitches.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see what you mean. Kind of funniest stitching.

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Speaker 7: It may have been made by somebody with a special

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trade where that kind.

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Speaker 2: Of stitching is used.

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Speaker 7: Lab gets a look at it may be able to

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tell us what trade.

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Speaker 4: Well, I hope.

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Speaker 2: So the bag itself won't help much.

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Speaker 7: I'm afraid I'm probably picked up in the war surplus

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could belong to anybody Hey, look at this the bottom

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of the bag.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of soiled. Whoever carted it around with a

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body and it must have set it on the ground

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to rest.

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Speaker 7: You sure did on reddish brown earth blood seepach made

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some of it stick. Let's have a look at that

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train map again. I think that earth stain kind of

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narrows down our search cabin.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'll come.

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Speaker 7: I know the country that train passed at night. I've

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been over at plenty. Only place i've seen earth that

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color is right around this area and a few stream beds.

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Cotton Belt runs parallel to the railroad for about forty

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miles through there. Well, I've seen all I want to see.

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Unless you have something else, Nope, let's go. I'll get

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this bag, go off to Austin. Are he going to

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be held here for identification?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? If she isn't identified, we will see if we

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can run down something by her clothes.

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Speaker 7: Any laundry marks or anything.

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Speaker 2: On him, fraid not. Jas homemade and home laundered. No

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dental work to help us either, and a fingerprints out

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on the fire.

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Speaker 7: I'd have a man check on the shoes she was wearing.

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They weren't homemade, and we will try it.

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Speaker 4: You've got any ideas about what you're going to do,

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if it's.

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Speaker 7: All right with you, I'd like to take a crack

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at that cotton belt area, tow charcoal down on the

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horse trailer and then ride parallel to the railroad tracks

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and see what I can find.

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of territory. How about Steve Clark riding

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with you? Good deal? We get anything from the lab,

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I'll let you know. I'll radio Clark and assign him

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and you can pick him up on the way.

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Speaker 7: Good luck, Jase, Thanks Captain, you'll hear from me. I

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met Clark. We drove down to the beginning of the

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area I wanted to check, left the car and used

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our horses for the long.

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Speaker 2: Ride along the rail bed.

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Speaker 7: By noon of the next day we covered fifteen miles.

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Horses are getting tired, Jason. I know there's a siding

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a little ways ahead. Freight stopped there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, looking at the cover coming up?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, bank's pretty steep. Watch your heart right, careful boy,

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easy charcoal, easy.

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Speaker 5: Steep. Climb out of here, jas Maybe if we're right. Hey,

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what are you looking at?

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Speaker 4: Oh? The crowd?

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Speaker 7: Huh yeah, same reddish brown color. We've been checking for right, don't.

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Speaker 4: See anything else, So want to ride through a ways?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, chark boy.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to be a killed joye Jays. But

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we've done this in a dozen creek beds.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but none of the others were.

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Speaker 7: It's close to a train stop siding's only about fifty

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yards further up the ooh ooh charcoal.

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Speaker 4: Oh boy, oh buying something, Jase?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, come here?

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Speaker 4: What is it? Ah?

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Speaker 7: Marks in the sand, trace of a couple of footprints.

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Not enough to make a cast. Look at this other

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mark around impression, Yeah, what made it? Might have been

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somebody setting that Duffel bag down.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that would have count for the jerch you found

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on the bag.

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Speaker 2: We'll find out.

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Speaker 7: Get a glass jar from your saddle page, Okay, gonna

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cut a cor around that mark. Yeah, lab contested for blood,

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trace earth this color. We can't tell anything by sight.

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And here's the job Hanks.

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Speaker 5: A few empty cans around here, Jas, Those marks might

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have been made by a hobo.

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Speaker 7: No, I don't think so. Then those stiffs travel light.

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They don't carry Duffel bags. What's the nearest town to hear, Bullville?

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About a mile further on. Well, let's get there. We

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can phone for a highway patrol car and they can

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drive you back and pick up our car.

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Speaker 4: Right, you're gonna check around Bullville.

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Speaker 2: With a fine tooth comb.

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Speaker 7: The cotton crop around Bulville was good, too, good. Migratory

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pickers were jamming the town. I had photos of the

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dead girl. Tried to find somebody who might have seen her.

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Speaker 8: No, no, ranger, never saw her around the gyin here.

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Speaker 2: Town's full of though.

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Speaker 8: It's possible one of the pickers saw or someplace.

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Speaker 2: You know, anybody who comes in contact with a lot

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of the pickers.

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Speaker 4: No, no train, you have to tackle damn coop a crew.

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Speaker 2: That's what I was trying to avoid.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, must be a couple of thousand minigators around.

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Speaker 7: You might if I asked your man at the Wayne

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platform to check with the haulers when they bring cotton

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in for Jenny.

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Speaker 2: Saw right with me.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, Oh a ranger.

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Speaker 8: Hover in a second, just half the steak. There is

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somebody who gets to see a lot of the pickers.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 5: The Mexican woman names Old Rosie drives a junkie old

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truck around pedaling soda pop in the fields.

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Speaker 2: You know where I can locate her?

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Speaker 8: Haulers, give you a lift out of the fields, and

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somebody will steal out to her. Everybody knows, old Rosie.

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Speaker 4: Somebody killed that poor GIRLA.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Rosie.

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Speaker 4: You ever see her, you'll find who killer.

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Speaker 2: You're going to put him in a jail.

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Speaker 7: That's my job, how about it. You ever seen her

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around here?

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Speaker 2: See one time where at the bus station in the town,

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she was with a man. You know who the man was? No, Senor,

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why do you hesitate? Is that the truth? Why should

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I tell lie?

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Speaker 4: Senor?

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Speaker 2: I don't know who the man was.

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Speaker 7: She described the man a vague, stumbling description that might

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fit anybody. And while she described him, I had a

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feeling she was lying, A feeling that was strengthened by

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a faint odor of whiskey coming from the truck. Whatever

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business Rosie was in, it wasn't limited to the sale

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of soft drinks. I pretended the Swallower story. Then I

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got a lift back to town, where Steve Clark was

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waiting with our car.

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Speaker 4: But if in Jay's just had a cough, Mauston and.

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Speaker 2: They checked the earth samples sent in in the jar.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, blood trace all right, same type as the victims.

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They got a line on a few other things too.

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The shoes on the dead girl have been traced through

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the manufactured to a store in Sheffield.

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Speaker 4: Wrote down the name of the store.

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Speaker 2: And the address.

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Speaker 7: Better get over there and see if we can establish identity. Yeah,

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shees will be waiting at the Sheffield Airport. It isn't

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likely that the shoe clerk is gonna remember who he

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sold them to. Though I saw the shoes. They've been

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repaired recently. Whoever fixed them might remember. Well, that's a chance.

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Any information on that Duffel bank.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, lab ties in with a seaman.

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Speaker 5: Ah, the stitches used to show up the bag or

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the kind seamen used a man to torn sail chase?

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Speaker 2: She looked like that throws you, It does a little.

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I was beginning to have a sneaking suspicion about an

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old Mexican woman.

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Speaker 7: But she's no seaman. What made you suspect her? She

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said she saw the dead girl with a man. She

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gave me kind of a phony description.

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Speaker 2: Not only that, but she's supposed to be selling soft

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drinks to the field.

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Speaker 7: Ends from an old truck. It wreaked a liquor, oh bootleg.

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Speaker 5: In huh hey, that could mean something what I'll report

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from Morriston mentioned liquor stains and that Duffel bag. Actually,

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they just figured that a bottle had been broken in

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the bag at one time or another.

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Speaker 7: But yeah, but it could be something else too. Yeah,

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that bag might have been used for haul and moonshine.

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Speaker 4: Stop the car, Hey, Jace, what's the matter?

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Speaker 7: Slide out? I'm going to Sheffield alone. You stay here, okay, Jash.

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Speaker 4: What do you want me to work on?

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Speaker 7: Taylor Rosie the Mexican woman While I'm gone, Check on

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any special contact she makes. Whoever she sees, find out

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who they are. See if you can run down any

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who've worked as seamen. I burned up the road to Sheffield.

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The clerk who'd sold the shoes couldn't help, but I

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got the information I was after in a repair shop.

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Speaker 2: My shoe shoe. I fixed these all right.

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Speaker 3: Look here's who I sowed the broken strap, you see,

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I remember because of something else it too. I never

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get to pay for the job. Bushoes on Missus Watson.

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She's a livery two blocks up a brown wood.

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Speaker 7: House and Missus Watson, uh her husband around.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, it's a go away a month ago.

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That's why she got no money to pay for the shows,

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and on Jibad she lived with her mother and a

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little baby's a one year old.

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Speaker 2: Any idea where her husband went, Oh.

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Speaker 3: Nos, Sometimes, she says, to go away for work or

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someplace with a cotton, sometimes to galvest them to work

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her for the boat.

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Speaker 7: He's in a sailor hunh sail everything.

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Speaker 3: Whatever he is, he is, He not send the money.

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Last week, is she come in? She says she's gonna

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meet him and she's gonna pay me when she's come back.

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Speaker 2: But she's not come back.

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Speaker 3: Hey, just a minute, why ask me all this thing?

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Speaker 7: Eh?

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Speaker 2: You know how come you all got the shows?

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Speaker 7: Because missus Watson doesn't need him anymore. She's dead.

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

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Joey as Ranger Chase Pearson. We continue now with tonight's case,

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dead Head Freight, an authentic story from the fields of

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the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 7: It wasn't the kind of news you enjoy breaking to

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a dead girl's mother and the girl's baby crying in

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the next room.

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Speaker 2: To help it, Annie, you see it split up about

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a month ago, and then last week her husband wrote

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to her from Beaulville.

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Speaker 4: He said he was sorry. Wanted my daughter Helen to

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come to meet.

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Speaker 7: I thought she was there with it looks like she

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was for a while.

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Speaker 2: You promised Helen everything in a letter, said he had

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a lot of money from her.

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Speaker 4: The baby. She was never any good.

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Speaker 2: Now the babies left to me.

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Speaker 4: I'm just too.

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, ma'am. Can you give me your son in

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law's full name and his description?

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Speaker 4: I but Watson is his name.

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Speaker 7: They call him Bud, her bird Bud?

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Speaker 2: And watch about how tall? Would you say?

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Speaker 7: You better put yourself together, ma'am. Somebody's at the door.

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Speaker 2: I'll call out the wind and send him before.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to see anybody.

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Speaker 2: What is it, ma'am?

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Speaker 7: What's the matter?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Somebody open the door?

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Speaker 7: I him open, all right, ma'am, opening the door and

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let him in? Go ahead?

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Speaker 2: What took you so long? Where's Helen? You know where

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she is?

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Speaker 7: What did you do to her?

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Speaker 5: What did you do?

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Speaker 2: Are you crazy?

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Speaker 4: What's the matter?

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Speaker 2: Let him go, ma'am and stand back. What brings you?

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Get your hands up and turn around?

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Speaker 9: Kill that you got the call to come in with

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your own baby?

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Speaker 2: Crime? Rachel?

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Speaker 4: What is his kill?

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Speaker 2: Whom hell, where's Helen? Where is she? Don't you know?

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Speaker 7: Watson? What did you think she'd never be identified?

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Speaker 2: Helen's been murdered? Oh no, no, you get it?

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Speaker 4: Ye no, mom, No.

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Speaker 9: I gave him money, told her to come back home,

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and i'd meet a here today.

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Speaker 4: Who is going to take the kidden make a fresh start.

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Speaker 7: How much money did you give your wife?

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Speaker 2: A thousand dollars?

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Speaker 7: That's a lot. Where'd you get it?

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Speaker 2: Come on? I was bootlegging to the pickers.

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Speaker 7: How long you've been getting away with that?

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Speaker 4: Started it last season?

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Speaker 7: Did old Rosie sell any of this stuff for you?

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How did you know about that? I didn't for sure

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until now. Come on, we're going back to your place

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of business in Bowlville.

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Speaker 4: Hi, yes, Dave, and I got your message to meet

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you here.

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Speaker 7: Rosies over there. I want to get her off the

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truck and she can talk from there. Come on, you two, Watson? Okay,

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Bud Watson murdered girl's husband and moot legg him.

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Speaker 5: Here.

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Speaker 7: Rosie's been moving some of the stuff for him.

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Speaker 6: Huh, Why you keep me from my works in yours?

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Speaker 7: Your work isn't as legal as it could be, Rosie,

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sa sit tight, Yeah, you've ever seen this man before?

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Speaker 4: You know, she's seen me before. I didn't ask you,

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how about it, Rosie?

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Speaker 7: See all right, Rosie, Now is he the same man

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you saw at the bus depot with a girl whose

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picture I showed you?

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Speaker 4: See, he's the mine at the bus depot.

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Speaker 2: But that ain't so. I was never with Helen at

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the bus depot. You didn't meet her when she came

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down here. No, I'll tell you.

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Speaker 5: I didn't know what bus she was coming in on,

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or even if she would come after she got my letter.

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Speaker 9: First I saw her. She turned up here at the sheeck.

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Speaker 2: How about when she left to go home? She only

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stayed two three hours? All told?

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Speaker 9: Let her go back to the bus depot alone, because

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well it was.

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Speaker 5: Getting dark and you're time for the pickers to be

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coming there to buy drinks.

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Speaker 7: You hear that, Rosie? That means one of you.

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Speaker 4: Is lying, Rosie, Tell you truth, Senor.

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Speaker 2: You don't always tell the truth. Rosie.

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Speaker 7: The first time I asked you about the man you saw,

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you said he was a stranger, a man you'd never

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seen before.

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Speaker 2: You forget, Senor, I see a lot of people every

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day in the fields.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you trying to kid me? You've been selling liquor

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for this man. You couldn't mistake him for a strange I.

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Speaker 4: Do, Senor, I make mistake you wanted hell? If I

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give you hell, Rosie tell you all she knows.

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Speaker 2: That's all. Now.

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Speaker 7: It was obvious that Rosie was lying, just as I'd

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suspected her of lying the first time, and I had to.

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Speaker 2: Be a reason for it.

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Speaker 7: He took Bud Watson and the Bowlville jail and went

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back to search his shack.

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Speaker 5: I can't figure something, jess. Why won't Watson admit it?

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If he was at the bus station with his wife,

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that wouldn't.

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Speaker 7: Hurt him, It wouldn't. That's why I think he's telling

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the truth. Rosie must be covering up for something, covering

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up for somebody's a better guess.

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Speaker 4: She might have done it herself.

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Speaker 7: No, I don't think so. She's too old A cart

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a body across the country to the railroad.

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Speaker 5: And then you figure she really did see missus Watson

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at the bustypo with the man.

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Speaker 7: Huh, yeah, the man who killed her to get the

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thousand dollars Bud Watson had given her.

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Speaker 4: Well, then what's Rosie's angle in line to.

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Speaker 2: Us that's an easy one, Steve, shakedown.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Chase, you're right, couldn't be anything else.

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Speaker 5: Why I'd be worth the cut for her to forget

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seeing the man and say it was Watson instead. Only

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one thing wrong with it, And I watched her while

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you were gone. She didn't make any suspicious contacts, nothing

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that could have been a payoff.

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Speaker 7: She might have gotten her payoff right after I showed

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her the Watson girl's picture and told her she'd been murdered.

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That was before you started the tailor.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't think of that. She had time and

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we comb this shack Jase, nothing here.

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Speaker 2: What do we do now? Go back to Taylor Rosie again.

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Speaker 7: If she squeezed hush money out of the man once,

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she's like to try it again, they all do. We'll

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start by watching her house when she comes in from

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the fields. Tonight we staked out near Rosie's adobe hut,

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but it got dark and she didn't come in from

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the fields. I left Steve on watch and went out

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to look for keeping an eye out for old truck.

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I found it about five miles out, surrounded by a

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group of men carrying torches.

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Speaker 2: Hey, what's going on here? Oh, ranger, Rosie, you bet it,

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come now. What happened?

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Speaker 8: We were walking into town, saw the truck here by

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the side of the roads, so maybe it broke down.

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Speaker 5: So we started to call roll. Rosie and one of

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the boys fought. Of the blood on the ground. Blood,

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I'll show you over here, must fuel.

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Speaker 8: Rosie's a reckon because we found her over here in

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the cotton roll. She's dead, Ranger. Somebody cut her throat

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from ear to ear.

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Speaker 7: Old Rosie had tried to shake down a killer once

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too often, with the usual payoff. I sent a rush,

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called to Steve Clark to Toy's horse out and joined me.

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We followed the trail which led to a deserted picker

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shack way off in a field that looked like it

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hadn't been culivated for years. The shack had been occupied,

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though recently occupied, but whoever had been there was gone.

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There's a lamp there, Steve lighted.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: As clean as a whistle, Jae. Yeah, it's too clean.

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Floor has been scrub.

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Speaker 5: Mighty hide for a shack like this, sure has, especially

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for a place nobody's living.

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Speaker 4: It must have been cleaning up blood.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and there are two other things. What's that Whoever

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was hiding here was mighty handy with a knife. Look

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at the inside of the door, circle drawn on the wood,

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wood chipped where somebody practiced throwing a knife at it.

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Speaker 5: Eh, good aim, All the marks right, smack inside the circle.

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Speaker 2: Now what else?

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Speaker 7: Take a look at the lamp you just lit. The

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cord that's hanging by.

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Speaker 4: It's just an ordinary hunkle rope except.

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Speaker 7: For the knot holding the lamp, a running bolan so

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the light could be raised their lord towards the table.

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Speaker 4: A running bolan is a seman's not.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, And that cord is just about big enough to

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be the drawer cord from a duffel bag. Our seamen

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was here, all right.

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Speaker 4: It couldn't have been Watson. Jac was safe in jail

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when Rosie was killed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Whoever Rosie saw with missus Watson at the bus depot

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must have met the girl after she left Watson after

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she had the money. Yeah, married woman on her way home.

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Speaker 2: To her baby.

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Speaker 7: Isn't able to leave a bus deepo with a stranger?

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Is she chances I was somebody she knew. Watson's been

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a sailor. It might have been an old ship made

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of his Let's go see if he remembers one who

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was henned they with a knife.

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Speaker 9: You say somebody killed old Rosie.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, the same man who kills your wife. I'll think

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and think her. The killer was a seaman. We got

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reason to think it could be an old shipmate of

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yours who knew your wife.

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Speaker 5: Ah, but Helen new shipmates mine all along the Gulf.

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I introduced to the lots of him.

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Speaker 7: The one we want had a habit of throwing a knife,

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and he drew targets on the door. Never missed Matt Corpett.

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Speaker 2: It was Matt Corbett.

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Speaker 7: How do you know any reason for him to be

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around here?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: He was my partner last year, boot legging here. Business

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got bad and he left. I wrote two months ago,

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asked and come back for this.

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Speaker 4: Pickup, But it never answered me. Did Rosie know him?

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Speaker 2: Sure she did from last year.

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Speaker 7: That's it, Clark Rose. He'd seen Corpett with Missus Watson.

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That's why he couldn't run with the money after he'd

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killed her. He had to wait to see if the

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body was found and identified.

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Speaker 5: And when we moved in and she knew about the murder,

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she really had him pinned down.

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Speaker 9: And it used to be my best friend asleep.

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Speaker 2: Never mind that. Now where would he run to? I

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don't know. He was always Roman like me.

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Speaker 4: You wrote to him someplace, You said you must have

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an address.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it was general delivery at Port O'Connor.

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Speaker 2: There's no bait shack there.

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Speaker 9: He lived in it whenever he had enough money to

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stop moving for a while.

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Speaker 2: He's got enough now what he got from your wife.

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Speaker 7: Come on, Clark, let's get him. We headed for Port O'Connor,

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made it by morning and found the abandoned bait shack.

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Speaker 4: Nobody inside. Jays can see through the window. He isn't here, and.

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Speaker 7: He's probably traveling by freight to avoid being spotted.

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Speaker 2: He couldn't have beaten us here. We rolled too fast.

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Speaker 7: Gonna stake it out and wait, Yeah, our car's out

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of sight where we left it. He won't spot it.

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Come along the wharf. Come on, let's go inside.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it looked like Matt Corbett's the man will after

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all right, same trademarks here. We found that picker shack

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at Boulville.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, knife marks in a circle on the door, same

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running bowl and holding lamp. Draw that burlap sack across

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the window. That'll make it pretty dark in here, Jason.

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You want it dark when you're throwing a surprise party, Steve, Steve,

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wake up, somebody coming along on the wharf.

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Speaker 2: It's dark?

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Speaker 4: What time?

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Speaker 7: As if that'll after midnight? Steps are coming closer. Hand

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must be Carbett. Not going to bring anybody else this

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way at this time of night.

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Speaker 4: You shouldn't fear all right, Yeah, but.

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Speaker 7: I'm getting all the way inside. And remember he's got

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that knife and he's handy with it.

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Speaker 4: I know, right, Corbett.

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Speaker 2: Never mind that lamp.

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Speaker 5: What did I think that, Steve Handling turns down your carpet.

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Speaker 2: You us thinking fast?

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Speaker 7: My arm, my arm, just brench your shoulder, carpet, keep

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your throwing that knife for a while.

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Speaker 2: Come on, get up.

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Speaker 7: Better light the lamp now, Steve.

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Speaker 4: It's a good thing you jumped.

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Speaker 5: Jason, fed up that and I passing my ear look

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better than that wall A good.

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Speaker 2: Inch, Rangers.

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Speaker 9: I thought you were a couple of crooks.

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Speaker 2: What's she doing here?

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Speaker 7: Just dropped into arresture for the murder of Helen Watson

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and old Rosie up at Boulville.

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Speaker 2: It'd be nice if you could prove it. I haven't

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been near Bulville. I think we can prove you were mark.

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Speaker 7: She left on the door and a few other things.

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I'd come back right.

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding?

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Speaker 7: No, I'm serious. You should have rowed pullman. Get your

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shoes shined on. A pullman would have taken that reddish

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brown earth off your shoes. Our lab can match that

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with Boulville.

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Speaker 2: Watch off with that shoulder.

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Speaker 4: That's better, Corby. Want a cup from Jason?

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Speaker 7: No, I think you'll come quiet all right, Corbett, Let's move.

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Speaker 3: Herbert Bud Watson served the required term for his bootlegging activities,

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and Matt Corbett was tried and convicted of murder.

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Speaker 2: The sentence of the.

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Speaker 3: Court was carried out on February twentieth, nineteen thirty nine,

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when at Huntsville Penitentiary, Matt Corbett died in the electric chair.

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Speaker 4: And now here again is the star of our show.

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Speaker 1: Joel McCrae with another interesting story about the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 7: In the early days of Texas, major disturbances were not infrequent.

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It was a lusty, brawling, growing territory, and as happens

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in such a territory, there were days when the street

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were not safe for the good citizens. An Easterner happening

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into a Texas town at such a time, found shelter

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in the house of a minister.

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Speaker 2: Everything will be all right soon, he was assured.

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Speaker 7: Later that same afternoon, the minister, who'd been looking out

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the window, said, well, friend, the streets are safe now.

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You may go about your business. The easterner looked out

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the window, but all he saw was a lone figure

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riding casually down the main street on a horse. What

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makes you think it's safe for me out there now,

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he asked in bewilderment. The minister pointed to the horseman,

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because that feller on the horse is a Texas Ranger,

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he said. Only folks that aren't safe in this town

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now are the ones who started the trouble, and when

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he finds them, they wish they'd been peaceable. Good night, folks,

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See you next week.

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Speaker 2: Next week.

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Speaker 1: Jole mc cray and another authentic reenactment of a case

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from the files.

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Speaker 2: Of but Texas Ranger.

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Speaker 1: Joel McCrae is currently seen starring in the MGM production

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Stars in My Crown.

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Speaker 2: The Night's Past included Tony.

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Speaker 1: Barrett, Herbellus, Tom Holland, Tyrant Kan, Tom McKee, and Lillian Bayer.

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This story was transcribed and adapted by Joel Murcock, and

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the program was produced and directed by Stacy keats Hell.

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Speaker 2: Give Me Speaking

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