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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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Jace 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

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based on fact only.

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Speaker 2: Names, dates, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.

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Speaker 1: They advanced themselves are a matter of record. Case Fortnite

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Death in the Cards.

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Speaker 2: It is eleven thirty pm on the night of January

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twenty sixth, nineteen forty seven, at the ranch house of

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Chester Gentry in Reeves County, Texas. Chester is on the telephone.

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Is his steps on? Will Enters? All right, call me

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when you find him. Ain't sure where you've been, Will

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just out having a beer? That Sheriff Bennett you talk to? Yeah,

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friend Tovich telephones you want to go to He didn't

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tell a sheriff about Toby. I sure did. Sheriff just

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called us. Hey located Tovich's roominghouse over in Biggerstown. But

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Tobich wouldn't.

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Speaker 3: But I've told you a.

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Speaker 2: Hundred times that's the worst thing in the world that

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could do. Tovich finds out to kill me. Will. If

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maybe has found out to tot the sheriff, maybe he's

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honest way here right now to get me. Look, you

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got to give me the money to pay him off. Now,

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no Will, no more money. Do you know what you're saying?

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He'll kill me if I don't pay him. It told me.

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Now you listen to me, Will, I've reached the end

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of my rope and this whole rotten mess. I'm true,

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and I couldn't get another dime from me. I've done

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everything I can for you, but you're just no good

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at least that I need that doughnut. You shut up

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and listen to me. When you know my died. I

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promised you I'd do everything I could for you, and

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I have. I treated you like you was my own son.

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I've given you a home, I've given you money, a

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lot of money, and what have you done with it?

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You're phoned it away to a slimy gambler named tobch

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What two months has been going on? For two months?

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You've been breading me, wait to pay off that gambler.

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I told you to stay away from him, but you didn't.

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Now it's high time for me to meet him and

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tell him face to face to stay away from you.

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If you just give me the money this once more,

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I'll straighten out. I promise. Your promise is ain't worth

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a ball of straw. That's what you said last week.

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Get straightened out. I told you then i'd give you

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just one You're do it, and if you didn't, you

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get no more money from me. Now, however, you oh,

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don't die. You got yourself into this maces you get

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yourself out of it. Which can bluff you, but he

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can't bluff me. What's the man window at the window? Now?

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He's god? It's probably heading for the front door. All right, Larry,

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turn off the lights, wheel what are you doing? Get

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my gun? I'll give this too. With your reception. He

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ain't looking for no front door. No, stay away from

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that door that don't open it? Please don't m hmmm.

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I can't see a thing now, look, will you will?

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Will just a Gentry laid dead at his own front door.

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Will immediately notified Sheriff Bennett's office. Sheriff requested health in

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the Texas Rangers Ranger Jace Pearson was a signed to

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the case. He joined Sheriff Bennett at the Gentry wrench.

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It looks like an opening shutcase. Is Covich came here

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to get Will? But it was Chester who opened the

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door and collected the slugs instead. Where was the body,

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Sheriff lying right across front doorway here? How long ago

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the shooting take place? A couple hours ago? Chester notified

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me earlier in the evening he'd gotten a call from

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this Tovich. The call came from Biggerstown, so I went

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over there to see if I could find him. I

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located his rooming house, but he checked out. Looks like

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while I was there, he was here. You say, Tovich

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has been bleeding Will and Chester for some time in

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about two months, courting to what Chester told me on

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the phone, Wow, let's talk to Well. Oh oh, Sheriff,

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come on ere, this is Ranger Pierson Will. He'd like

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to ask you a couple of quick questions. For sure, region,

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how long have you known this Tovich? Well? A couple

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of months, I get, where'd you first meet him? Pete's

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place down the highway. That's a road house, chase that

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where you did your gambling? No? No, Tovich would call

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me from time to time, tell me I had a

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game lined up, so I'd meet him at his room

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in the house. And biggest time. Who else was in

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the games? A couple other fellas, different ones each time.

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I didn't know any of them, didn't even know the names.

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You kept losing to Tovich, didn't you? Yeah? I did,

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but you kept on playing cards with him. I kept

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thinking my luck would change. Your luck never changes when

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you're up against a professional gambler. I guess I know that. Nah,

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it's too bad you didn't know it two months ago.

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Your stepfather might still be alive. Frings you. That just

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isn't a thing you can say to me that I

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haven't already said to myself. I've been sitting here for

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two hours thinking about it. Known if I had the

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guts to straighten out, this wouldn't happen. It's only one

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thing I hope right now, hope somehow Dad knows how

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I feel. All right? Well, what does Tovich look like? Well?

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Pretty oldinary looking, fella. Can you never noticed in the

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crowd about my height? I'd say black hair, regular feature

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has nothing to rid a set him apart, and it's

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pretty general, I guess it is, but it's the best

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I can do. Okay, better get some sleep. You find

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any tracks outside, Sheriff, Nope, My deputy scarred in the yard,

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but it's too gravely to hold any kind of tracks,

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car or foot will? Do you remember hearing a car

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pull away from here after the shooting? Why no ranger

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come think of it? I didn't even hear one come up. Okay,

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when it gets light, we'll ride around a little in

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the back of the ranch, Sheriff and see if we

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can pick up any footprints. Right I. Meantime, let's take

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a run over to Bigger's town and talk to Tovic's landlady.

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Maybe she can give us a better line on him.

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Speaker 3: Afraid I can't help it much on a description, Ranger.

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I only got a good look at Toovic once. That

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was when I rented this room to him two months ago.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty strange that it'd be the only time you

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saw him, Missus Packer.

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Speaker 3: Well, he came and went by night. I'd hear voices

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in his room, sometimes in the evening, a couple of

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times a woman's voice.

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Speaker 2: But as far as seeing him around, I didn't you

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said he checked out earlier tonight. Didn't you see him then?

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Speaker 3: No, he just left an envelope under my door with

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his key and the money he owed on the room.

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Speaker 2: You think you'd recognize him if you saw him again,

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missus packer, Well I might.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but to sit down and describe him

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to you, I'm afraid it can't be much help there.

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Speaker 2: I don't like it. Sheriff Man's been living in this

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room for two months. Take a look around you. It's clean,

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too clean, nothing here to give us any line on. Hey,

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wait a minute, have you cleaned this room since Tovis

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checked out? No?

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Speaker 3: I ain't gotten around to it yet. I was figuring

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on giving it a good swamping out in the morning.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to save you the trouble. What do you mean,

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I'd like to have one of our men from the

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lab vacuum the room for you.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's my back the way he is sure, I

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ain't gonna say no.

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Speaker 2: You figure on having the content of the dustbag analyzes? Yeah,

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Covich has covered his tracks pretty well so far, but

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maybe he doesn't know. You can sometimes pick up a

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lot besides dust with a vacuum cleaner, missus packer. If

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you should ever see Tovich again, I'd like you to

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get in touch with me right away.

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Speaker 3: Well you can count on that, Ranger say, I don't

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hanker to have any killers running loose around my room

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in the house.

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Speaker 2: Dawn came and the only thing new on the case

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was the publicity papers were carrying this story with pictures

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of Chester and Will the sheriff and I started scouring

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the country in back of the gente ranch on horseback.

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This is hunting weather, Jase, with all that frost on

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the ground. Yeah, so far the hunting hasn't been good.

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Let's see, we're right in line with the back of

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the ranch house now, Yeah, maybe we better split up

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and go right hold it. Take a look on the

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ground there. Yeah, foot tracks coming from the back of

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the ranch house too, And judging from the distance between

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the tracks, he was in a hurry. Come on, heading

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straight north for the river, Jase. He could be trying

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for the new Mexico border. Could be you know one thing,

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It would be pretty easy to follow the tracks in

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the frost. Yeah, there's something funny about these tracks, though,

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what do you mean, I don't know yet. He'd just

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put my finger on it. But we'll keep trailing. See

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if we can put our finger on Tovich, Come on, charcoals. Yeah,

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I can't understand why you don't want to cross the river.

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Jase packs led smack into it back there. I know

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its sheriff, but let's just keep looking along the bank

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on this side, Okay, but he probably waded along a

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spell and kept going on the other side. What's on

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the other side Santa Fe track about fifteen mile away.

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And what's between the river and the tracks just open country.

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That's what I mean. I don't think Tovich would risk

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fifteen miles of open country. Yeah, see your point. Hey,

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we will keep looking along his side then, and we

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don't have to look any farther Sheriff. Look there they are,

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ooh ooh, charky. Hey they sure pacts coming up out

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of the river and heading back the way we came.

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There's still one thing I don't understand. What's that The

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shooting took place about eleven thirty last Tovich could have

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been halfway across that open country on the other side

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of the river by dawn. Now why do double back?

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I think I've got an answer for that, Sheriff. I

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told you a while back something was bothering me about

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those tracks. I finally figured out what it is. Oh,

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look at the tracks, and then look at the hoofmarks

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of our horses. They looked just about the same to me. Hey,

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they both cut down through the frost. Yeah, that's the point.

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What time you figure the frost formed on the ground

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this morning, between four and five maybe, and those tracks

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were made after the frost formed, they cut through it.

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If they'd been made before the frost, it would have

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formed over them. Wait a minute, maybe Tovid realized he

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killed the wrong man. Maybe he hid around the ranch

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trying for another crack at Will. Now those tracks are

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heading toward the ranch again. Come on, Sheriff, we better

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get back there, and a hurry. We followed the tracks

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back to the highway below the ranch and lost them there.

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Then we headed for the ranch house. There's no sign

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of life around the place. I don't see will outside anywhere.

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There's cars in the driveway. I hope we're not too

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late now, well will oh morning, chef Ranger. Yeah, I

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had to relief. Oh, come on here, something the matter

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we thought there might be? Can I use your phone?

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I want to call my office and see if there's

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anything new. I help you. Sair back in the haul. Okay,

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thanks ranger. So sheriff mean about being relieved to see me? Well,

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it's possible tobitch hung around here the ranch last night

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after the shooting. What you see or hear anything after

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we left there wasn't my imagination. What do you mean? Well,

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after you fellas left, I locked up tight about there

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for this morning's sound woke there? What kind of a

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sound like somebody walking around outside? Do you think would

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have been Tovich? I don't know. Well, I've got dad's

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good Tovich ever shows up around here again, I'll hand

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law enforcing's our business, will I'll try and take it

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into your own hands. Yes, er, Now what is it?

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My deputy just told me that landlady missus Packer phoned

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the office for you about an hour ago. Missus Packer, Yeah,

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they told her to call out here. Will. Yeah, did

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a missus packer phone me? Oh? Woman? Phone didn't leave

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a name, but she did leave a number. I got

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a written down right here. Thanks operator, two seven, three four.

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J How long ago she call? Will oh about hog?

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I guess she leave any message? No, just said to

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ask you to call her. You told her to get

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in touch with you if she ever saw Tovich again. Jason, Yeah,

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I know. Hm, no answer. Come on the sheriff. We

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better get over to Biggerstown and find out what's on

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missus Packer's mind. M She must have gone out her

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doors on lock, missus packer. Missus Packer. Look, jeez on

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the table there by the phone newspaper holded to the

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story of the killing. Well, she can't have gone very far.

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Coffee's boiling on the hot day. Humm's just about boiled. Dry.

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Come on, let's take a look in the next room.

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You know it's funny she'd call and then jeez on

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the bed. Yeah, missus Packer strangled.

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

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Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson. We continue now with

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tonight's case Death in the Cards, an authentic story from

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the files of the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: We were getting nowhere fast on this case. First Chester Gentry,

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then Missus Packer. We questioned all the rumors, but none

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of them had seen a thing, and we went back

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to the sheriff's office and Jace, there's no doubt about

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it at all. Ms. Packer was trying to tell you

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something about Povich, but he got to her first and

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killed her to shut her mouth. Yeah, we know who

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the killer is, all right, but the big question is

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where is he. It's just like the earth opened and

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swallowed him up. Every sheriff's office in the state's been alerted,

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Highway patrols on the lookout too, So sooner or later

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we're bound it. Yeah, excuse me, Jason, Sheriff Bennett speaking.

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Oh yeah, just a minute. You're headquarters, Jase KEPTN. Stinson, Thanks, Hello, Cavin.

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Speaker 4: Just got a report from the lab on those vacuum

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sweeping you had them take from Povich's.

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Speaker 2: Room in Biggerstown, JAS. What they find only.

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Speaker 4: Items of interest were two or three women's hairs red.

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Speaker 2: A lot of redheads in Texas, cap'n. I'm afraid that's

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not much help.

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Speaker 4: Maybe more than you think. His hair wasn't naturally red.

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It was a heavy dye job. You're judging from the

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distance between the roots.

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Speaker 2: And the dye.

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Speaker 4: The lab figures it was dyed about a week ago.

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Speaker 2: Well that's a horse of a different color. Thanks a lot, Cavin.

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I'll keep you posted, Sheriff. We haven't had any luck

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finding Tovich, have we? You sure have it? Okay, Now

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we're gonna start looking for Tovich's girl is girl? How

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many beauty partners do you figure they are in biggest town?

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I don't know, six or seven. Maybe before the day

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is over we'll know exactly how many there are. We're

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gonna visit them all. The sheriff had underestimated the town.

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There were ten of them. We had no luck on

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the first seven, and then just at dark we hit

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number eight. There we found an operator who remembered giving

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a henna dye job to a girl named Thelma Parrish

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about a week ago. We learned that Thelma was a

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waitress in a coffee shop. So I parked my car

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around the corner and we dropped in on her. Well,

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you men look like you could use a nice cup

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of coffee. Nothing I'd like better right now than having

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a pretty red headed waitress for me one, ma'am. Why

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thank you? Rangels coming up? What do you think? Jee?

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I think maybe black and black here too? Well? Here y'all. Thanks,

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and senior boyfriend lately boyfriend Tovich? Who Tovich? You must

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have me mixed up with somebody else, Ranger. I don't

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know anybody by that name. Are you really sure about that, ma'am?

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Speaker 3: Well, of course I am a girl sure who she

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does know.

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Speaker 2: And who she doesn't. Well, either I'm mistaken or you're

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lying to me.

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Speaker 3: Look, I don't know what this is all about, but

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I do know better than lie to a ranger.

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Speaker 2: I hope. So welcome on, Sheriff. You better be getting

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back to your office. Okay, here's for the coffee as.

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Speaker 3: Sorry, I can't help you any about.

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Speaker 2: Watch his name, it's am I. This way, Sheriff. Where

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are we going across the street. Yeah, but the car's

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on this side around the corner. Keep walking. She's watching

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us from inside. Oh, I think she was lying. That's

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what I want to find out. She seem pretty sure

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of herself. Okay, we're out of her line of sight. Now,

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let's get in this doorway quick good, and we're in

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the shadows here. She can't spot us some across the street.

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Now we just keep an eye on the front of

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that coffee shape. Look, she's coming outside. Uh, huh yeah,

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false alarm. She just washing the winded Yeah, well, that's

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the fastest wash job I've ever seen. She's heading inside again.

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She came out to make sure we'd gone. Come on,

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we'll work away along the sidewalk until we can see

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across the street into the coffee shop. Yeah, but she

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may spot us. They hold it. She's on the phone

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with her back doors. She was lying, all right, probably

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calling Tovich right now, Sheriff. How about slipping into the

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drug store and tracing that call. I can keep an

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eye on the front of the shop for my car.

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I'll meet you there. And the sheriff disappeared into the

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drug store. I waited my car. A couple of minutes later,

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he came over and got in, wearing a very puzzled look.

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There must be some mistake, Jason, What do you mean,

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I wakers she just telephoned the gentry ranch. I don't

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think there is any mistake, sheriff, And right now it

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doesn't surprise me much. But as far as we know,

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the only one of the gentry ranches, Will. Yeah, but

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Will's gonna have a company as soon as we can

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make it. There. Wait a minute, you trying to say

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that Will Genfry, Sheriff. It looks like there is no

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Tovich and never has been. I guess the boy we've

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been up against right from the start is Will Gentry.

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I radioed KTXA to set up a roadblock on the

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highway ten miles each way from the Gentry ranch in

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case Will should take off before we could get there,

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and I jammed the gas pedal of the floor and

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held it there. Jace, you're leaving me way behind Will Genry.

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Looks like I was way behind for a while too.

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But looking back on it, it all falls into place.

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We know Will was always after money from his stepfather Chester,

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and he invented the story about a gambler named Covich

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is an excuse to get that money, even once so

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far as to rent a room in biggers Down under

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that naz. But when Chester cracked down and threatened to

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disinherit him, we'll use the same Tovich device to kill Chester.

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That way he'd get all Chester's money. So when Chester

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opened the front door thinking Covich was outside, there wasn't

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anybody there at all, And it was Will who plugged me.

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KTX ten Unit ten Go ahead, kt XA unit three

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to two Station at Tucker's Junction Unit two five six

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station at Biggerstown turnoff Unit ten ten to four kt

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XI clear. We only got the roadblock set up Tucker's

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junctions about five miles the other side of the Gentry Ranch,

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isn't it yep? And with another highway patrol car back office.

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If the bigger Town turn off looks like we got,

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Will bottled up tight if he makes a run for right.

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There's no side roads off the highway for six or

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seven miles long. Here good. Soon as we get the

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top of this rise, we ought to be able to

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spot the Gentry Ranch. Yeah, ranch house only a mile

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or so from here. Jason, it was Will who made

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those tracks in the frost. Then, huh he heard me

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say we'd start trailing in the morning. I guess he

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figured on giving us something to trail. Yeah, And that

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explains miss Packer's murder too. She must have seen Will's

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picture in the paper, recognized him as Tovich, so she

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tried to phone you. And when she called the ranch house,

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Will knew he had to shut her mouth for keeps.

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He probably got back from killing her just before we

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showed up at the ranch house. After the trailing there's

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a ranch house only half mile more and wait, taiylight

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swinging out on the highway. He's making a run for it.

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What kind of cars he drive? Gray sedan, isn't it yep?

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Unit ten to all units in roadblock subject will Gentry

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attempting getaway? Proceeding east on Highway nineteen and gray sedan?

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Unit ten pursuing gonna do all three Unit dan, Unit

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ten go ahead, Unit two oh three, Unit two All

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three on Highway nineteen, three miles west of Tucker Stuckure.

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That's only a couple of miles east of us. Jase,

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proceed west on Highway nineteen, Unit two oh three, Unit two,

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All three ten four, Unit ten. Player. You know we

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got him bottled up for sure, Jace. We're back stopped

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at both ends, and we're coming at him from both ends.

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It's a squeeze, player, I sure hope, so Unit ten

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the unit two O three, Unit two three, go ahead,

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Unit ten. Have you sighted Gentry's car yet?

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Speaker 4: I get Unit ten well report contact.

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Speaker 2: Unit ten, Claire. I don't get at Sheriff. He should

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have spotted Gentry by this time. We're almost together. You

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watch it, Jase, sharp bend in the road just ahead,

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just past his driving movie here, Yeah, I see it.

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The only way Gentry could get off the highway is

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to ditch his car, and I don't think he'd do that. Hey,

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red light coming at us. That must be Unit two

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o three. He's stopping too. But where's will now? Sign

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a Gentry? How about throwing any side? Roads are tall?

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He couldn't have vanished into thin air. Hey wait a minute,

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that drive in movie would just passed. You think he

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turned in? It's the only place he could have turned in.

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Come on. We went back to the drive in theater,

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stationed the highway patrol car at the exit. Then the

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sheriff and I talked to the theater manager. He remembered

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a gray sedan pulling in there a few minutes before

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he'd sent at the rear aisle. So the three of

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us circled around the theater on the outside of the

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fence and then came in through a small gate in

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the rear. But Gentry's car wasn't in the back row.

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But he's gonna be in the back row, ranger, That's

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where I send him. Look so vacant spot in the

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row one in the next row ahead. He could have

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wormed his way forward a few rows. Yeah, it's right.

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A lot of people do that trying to get a

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better sponge. About two hundred cars in here, it's going

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to be like looking for a needle and hold it

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three aisles up near the side. Yeah, that's You's Carl right,

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Gonna take him now, Jason, I can't. There's too many

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cars around him. It's so since she won't come peacefully,

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somebody might get shot. If we can only get the

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car on each side of him to get clear, I

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could make an announcement on the public adrest. Noah, it's

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no good. He'd probably start shooting. I can't warn the

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car on each side. Will would spot me. Same goes

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for you, Sheriff. Want me to do it? You, I

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don't know. It'd be pretty Hey wait a minute, Yeah,

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I think I got it. You go up to the

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car on this side of Will, tell him to clear

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out in exactly one minute. Then go to Will's car,

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tell him you're checking the reception on those speakers they

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hang on the side of their cars, and then go

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to the car the other side of him. Tell them

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to clear out in two minutes. Good idea. That way,

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maybe Will won't get suspicious. Thirty seconds after the second

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car leaves, turn on all the lights.

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Speaker 5: Oh game, I'll give it a whirl. She could's all over,

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I hope. We watched the manager go along the line.

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He worked his way to Will's car and then passed

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it to the one beyond. Then he headed for the

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projection booth. So far, so good.

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Speaker 2: Seconds take By the end of the first minute, the

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car this side of Will pulled out. Another minute went by,

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and the car the other side of Will got going.

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He's out in the open now, Jason. Yeah, twenty seconds,

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so the lights go on. Come on, John, your change

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and we'll get just a little closer. I'll take him

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from this side. Hey, Jase, he's starting up to mascotsisticious.

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He won't get far. You get it far well, I'm

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out of that car with your hands.

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Speaker 3: In the air.

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Speaker 2: There goes the light. John coming out, all right, Rachel,

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Look we had on, sir, You okay, Jason? Yeah, you're

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sure enough? Him down hollow hit him in the shoulder.

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Why didn't you finish me off? That's up to the

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State of Texas. Will not me, but I think they'll

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have you, are right. Will Gentry was tried and convicted

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of the murders of Chester Gentry and Leona Pecker. In

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the morning of April twelfth, nineteen forty eight, he was

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executed in the electric chair at Huntsville Penitentiary.

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

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McCrae with another interesting story about the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: Although the Texas Rangers is a highly organized law enforcement agency,

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the men themselves are rugged individualists. One ranger in particular

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that I know of, carries his six shooters with only

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five shells in each gun. One day, he was asked

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why he did this if the hammer's resting on an

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empty chain mur He said, the gun can't be fired accidentally,

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but said, is interested friend, with only five bullets instead

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of six in the gun, aren't you endangering your own position?

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Maybe so, he said with a grin that if you

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can't hit your target with five shells, the sixth one

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won't do you much good anyhow. Good night, folks, See

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you 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 Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae is

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currently seen starring in the Universal International Technicolor production Frenchie.

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The Night's Past included Tony Barrett, Bill Johnstone, Barley Bear,

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Jeannette Nolan, Byron Kane, Mike Barrett, and Ernie Newton. This

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story was transcribed and adapted by Bob Wright from the

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program is produced into acted by Stacy Keach Hell give Me.

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Speaker 6: Speaking, Three chimes mean good Times on NBC. Remember all

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the delightful troubles that beset mister Blandings when he built

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his dream house.

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Speaker 2: While starting next Sunday.

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Speaker 6: Afternoon, you can hear the further adventures of the beleagued

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mister Blandings and his wonderful wife Muriel.

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Speaker 2: It's top listening for the entire family.

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Speaker 6: Next Sunday and Sundays thereafter, when Carrie Grant and Betsy

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Drake star as mister and Missus Blandings. Stay tuned for

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the sixty four dollars question. Tomorrow hear the Symphony on

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NBC