Speaker 1: The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCrae in Tales of
the Texas Rangers Tonight transcribed from Hollywood. Another authentic reenactment
of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers.
The Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as
Ranger Jase Pearson, Texas more than two hundred and sixty
thousand square miles and fifty men will make up the
most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America.
Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these
stories based on fact only.
Speaker 2: Names, dates and.
Speaker 3: Places are pickted.
Speaker 1: It's just more obvious reasons they events themselves are a
matter of record.
Speaker 2: Hey, spot tonite loggers larcening.
Speaker 4: It is mid afternoon, September seventh, nineteen thirty eight. Two
laggers employed by the Gulf Lumber Company are marking timber
and near a lonely stretch of company logging road in
the Piney Woods region of East Texas.
Speaker 3: Cutting crew ought to be able to see that.
Speaker 5: Mike, Yeah, looks like that's the last decent stick left
in this standard timber.
Speaker 6: Plenty more trees than it was come on across the
creek and start working that stand up on the other
side of the road.
Speaker 5: There, we're already marking off a lot of trees today.
I think my axe is heavy and I could do
with a breather.
Speaker 6: Yeah, catch it on the rounde. Come on, you'll get
your sad axe. I told you i'd make a logger
out of here. Just stick with my kid. I'll put
muscles like this on your arm, hair on your chest,
iron in your fists.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if I live through it, well, I'm about done in.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that creak sure looks good.
Speaker 3: I don't let it fool you.
Speaker 6: Ain't fit the drink down here, sowdas pilet the mill,
poison it whatever?
Speaker 3: Do red?
Speaker 6: Sure ain't eve enough to swim? Is it that he
wanted to ride across?
Speaker 2: Take a bath? Hey bo?
Speaker 5: Look uh over there on the other side. Up there again,
said old cut over stump.
Speaker 2: That's the car, Yeah, upside down or smashed up?
Speaker 3: Oh, come on, somebody might be hurt.
Speaker 5: Hey, bullet, that's one of the company costs on the mill.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I see, sure is wrecked, ain't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah? He smell that gasoline.
Speaker 3: Tanks busted wide open.
Speaker 2: Sure, good thing there wasn't a spark.
Speaker 3: But then some fire if I gas had caught.
Speaker 2: Hey, look at here kid in.
Speaker 6: The front seat, who is so old man hunting?
Speaker 3: What's left of him?
Speaker 2: Just the paymaster? Come on, we better get him out
of there.
Speaker 3: No, we can't do nothing for him. Get a load
of this bank.
Speaker 2: That's full of money.
Speaker 3: Uh huh payroll for the mill?
Speaker 2: Oh what are you doing?
Speaker 5: What are you stuffing that money in your shirt for?
Speaker 3: Look? Kid, we ain't been around here. Understand, You've got
no right to that. Monk. It's got a better one.
It's even gonna know it's missing.
Speaker 6: Unless you shoot off your mouth. I'll twist your neck
right off your shoulders. If you let out one word
for the law, I get the law.
Speaker 3: Just remember you'll get the worst beat than you ever had.
Speaker 2: You understand, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I understand.
Speaker 6: That's being smart. Yeah, throw this sack back in the car. Well,
I got my shirt button.
Speaker 2: There's still some money left you sure?
Speaker 3: All the coins and a few bills used being a hog?
Is it? Besides? This is gonna look right, Throw it
back in the car.
Speaker 5: I said, sure, you got a match, crazy bullet match
with all the guessings built around here?
Speaker 3: Wait and see how crazy? Give me a match.
Speaker 2: Here?
Speaker 6: There's only one left in the box that's already got Yeah,
well we'll make us some counting. Now get back out
of the way.
Speaker 4: The frantic mill superintendent waited until evening to report the
missing paymaster and money. Sheriff Stenton immediately contacted the Texas Rangers.
An all points bulletin for the apprehension of the man
was sent out, and Ranger Jase Pearson was a signed
to the case.
Speaker 3: He arrived at the mill with the sheriff early the
next morning.
Speaker 2: Here's the meal office. Jase might as well start there.
The quicker. We can get a line on Hutt and
the batter. Yeah, if he's making a run for it,
he's already got a big lead on.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 2: I haven't waiting for you to meet Ranger Peerson, mister Browning.
Mister Browning is the mill super and mister Brownie, I
pleased to meet you, Ranger. Anything new here? No, I'm
kind of experienced to this sort of thing. I shore
have been waiting for you. The lay is my fault
was nearly sun up when I met the sheriff. It
took time enough for breakfast and to drag the bank
teller out of bed. He says, your man. Hutton left
the bank about a half hour after closing time yesterday. Yeah,
they waited until the street doors were closed before they
started making up Hutton's orders for mixed currency. And they
usually work it that way at the bank on pay days.
Eighteen thousand dollars. There's a lot of money to cut out,
you Well, we not only know how much money we're
looking for, but how much of each denomination. I've got
Hutton's list. The bank teller gave me a copy of it.
He sure must have slipped out quiet. Not a soul
in town saw him after he left the bank, no
telling which direction he headed. Would you have a picture
of him by any chance, mister Browning, to sort of
amplify the description we've already sent out. Well, there may
be one among his belongings in his shack, you know,
shere if I I still can't believe Bob absconded with
that money. Eighteen thousand dollars. There's a lot of temptations,
mister Brownie, I know it, but Bob Hutton's been with
us for years. I'd have trusted him with every assy
the company owns. I just don't know what to think now.
We won't rule out any possibility. Before we go through
Hutton's things, I'd like to talk to any of your
crew who might have been working near the road yesterday afternoon.
Well forming bull Evans and his helper will marking a
standard timber over by Pine Creek. They're down in the
drying yard this morning. The rest of the crews out
in the woods. How do they feel about Hutting not
showing up. Quite a few of them wanted to dig
up a roop and go hunting for him, but bull
Evans choked him out of that. Let's go find this
forman of yours. He sounds like some talker. Maybe he
can tell us something.
Speaker 3: I put your shoulder of a dollar kid here, that's good.
Speaker 6: I will stack this a lot of shim beside that
last bunch of tobuys. Stand him on in and sladomnicagainst
the ridgepole.
Speaker 2: It's green stuff, heavy his lid.
Speaker 3: Stack it up straight. Want the whole blame rock to
come down on top of it. That's the matter with you? Nervous? No, No,
I ain't nervous.
Speaker 2: Give me a hand, won't your boy?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 6: Like I told you, keep your mouth shutting A nothing little.
Speaker 2: Happened to you.
Speaker 3: Got that next stick?
Speaker 6: Yeah, but then maybe we'll make a logger out of you.
Speaker 5: Yet, poor, Look he comes to horse and a ranger.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and the sheriff, So what grab that next stick?
Speaker 3: And I remember what I told you about talking.
Speaker 6: A Hello, boss, sheriff, find old man hunting on the
payroll again?
Speaker 2: It's ranger peers. Oh, howdy, ranger ranging? The sheriff want
to ask you and the boy some questions.
Speaker 6: Well, sure, sure, glad to help, hey kid, hold in
a minute there, Yeah, sure, I understand you were working
somewhere near the road from town yesterday afternoon. No, we're
working a standover on Pine Creek. Sometimes it was near
the road, sometimes it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Did you see anything of Hutton or the company car
he was driving.
Speaker 3: We didn't see any car, did we get No?
Speaker 2: Did you hear a car going either way on the road.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we didn't hear nothing. We didn't see nothing. Rad
you're barking up a wrong tree, rincher, how's that bull?
Oh man, Hutton wasn't crazy. He's seen a chance, had
a lot of money, and he took it. He never
headed back this way from town. You'll pick him up someplace.
Speaker 2: Long gone from here. All right, Bo, that's all, come on, kid,
let's get back to work. No, wait a minute, I
haven't talked to your helper yet.
Speaker 5: Well, Bull told you we didn't see nothing. I don't
know nothing about that money.
Speaker 2: We're looking for a man right now, son, not the
money he was carrying. Are you as convinced as Bull
here that he ran off with a company payroll? Well, well,
are you or aren't you? I don't know nothing about it.
I tell you, what are you so nervous about? For nothing? Night?
I just don't know nothing to buy looks And maybe
you don't know it, but there's a severe penalty for
withholding information from the law in this state. If you
do know anything about this case, anything at all, it's
your duty to tell the ranger and me. Now, well,
I yeah, Well.
Speaker 5: There's a pretty bad turnover there on Pine Creek. Mister
Hutton might have had an accident when nobody was around.
Speaker 3: See it is a possibility, Ranger.
Speaker 2: That's the worst stretch along the road, and one of
those turns is a bad one.
Speaker 6: Old Bob Hutton could drive that road backwards and blindfolded.
Speaker 3: He's been doing it for years. Besides, men. They had
come in by the road last night. There wasn't no
wreck along a tent.
Speaker 5: Did you see anything, Son, No, No, there wasn't nothing
along the road when we went by.
Speaker 2: We came out that way this morning, Jase, wasn't anything
inside then either. The area along the creek is an
old cutover. Brush has come back thick and sponge. The
car down in there could be completely hidden from the road. Well,
we're gonna have to search every into the way out
from town to eliminate accident as a possibility in this case. Anyway, Jase,
this bad turn out of the creeks like as good
a place as they need to begin with. Yeah, let's
get out there and take a look. You mind showing
us that cut over? Mister Browning too, arranger. I'll get
my car and you can follow me.
Speaker 3: Booll.
Speaker 2: If anything comes up here when I'm going, you take
care of it for me.
Speaker 3: Will you? Ah? Sure, boss, Sure, I'll take care of everything.
Speaker 2: Don't you want me to go with it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Thanks?
Speaker 3: Son?
Speaker 2: You better stay here, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I kid, you stay here.
Speaker 6: There's gonna be plenty to keep you busy.
Speaker 2: Roadside tracks and broken brush and hear the bad turn
on pine creek were so faint we nearly missed them.
The car itself was completely screened from the road by brush,
was badly burned, and lay upside down on an open
patch of grass, body of its drivers slump near the wheels.
An accident, all right, Jason, seems like good heavens, what
are we to die? Mark Syndicate Hutton lost control when
he left the road. Judging from the damage to the car,
I think there's no question but what. He was dead
when the wreck caught fire.
Speaker 3: And I hope so.
Speaker 2: I told you I couldn't believe Bob Hutton would steal
that money. Looks like you were right, mister Browning. Here
look in this window. Yeah, what a mess. There's your money?
What's left of it there beside the springs of that
burned seat cushion. Oh yeah, I see some corn rolls
with the rappers burned over and the fluff of ash
on top of them. Is what's left of the paper money.
Hard to believe it would burn that much, and it
was a mighty hot fire while it lasted. Even the
body metals warped all out of shape. Lje, this looks
like it's back to town for us. I gotta get
an undertaker's wagging out here to pick up his body.
I have to kill at all points. Wanted bulletin on
Hutting too. I guess I'll about wind this up. Huh,
I'm not so sure, Sheriff. What do you mean? This
just doesn't feel quite right? What doesn't finding this car
like this? We might have looked for a day before
we found it down here in this brush. Don't you
have more to go on the ranger? No, nothing more,
just a hunch. Seems like working on hunches would be
kind of dangerous in your business. It usually is for somebody.
Come on, I want to get back to the mail. Well,
what do you want to go back there for? You
don't need a phone, you can use your car radio. Yeah,
I know, but there's something funny about this, and I
want to get it cleared up. Hey, sheriff, look out,
what's where you're stepping to? What is it? That match box? Oh? Hey,
wait a minute, what's so important about a match box?
This could be plenty important. Now look where it's lying.
I don't get you Jason, all right, look up there, Sheriff,
that's where a Hutton's car turned over. It slid down
from there on its roof. The match box is right
in the track and it hasn't been crushed, meaning it
was dropped after the wreck. That's right, Sheriff. Let's see
it's empty. My last match was used in the box
thrown away. We'll use for what, ranger. What's some matchbox
got to do with Bob Hutton's dead? Maybe nothing. Even
when the cars as badly damaged as this one was,
even when it's drenched with gasoline, it doesn't always catch fire.
Let's go back a minute. Do you know what you're seeing?
I think so? You mean somebody could have deliberately set
this car fire after the actually if this was an accident.
Oh but look, Jesse's the only possible reason for arson
and the case like this had be the cover taken
the money Hutting had with him, and he's still there.
What's left of it anyway? I know, Sheriff, there we are,
give me your hand, will you share? Sure? Jaz, what
do you want to do and see? If we can't
get what's left of that money out without disturbing the
ash around it, I want to send it into the lab.
What let gets you? If any of it's missing, they
may be able to tell us. We removed the remains
of the charred money bag and its contents as carefully
as possible, and packed them for transfer to the laboratory.
When we drove back the mill yard, Bull Evans was
just coming out of the office.
Speaker 3: Ay you find signed a hunt? Yes? He std Boom dead.
Speaker 2: He had an accident in your pine creek, just about
where that kid suggested we look too. What can you
beat that? Where is the kid? I think we better
talk to him again.
Speaker 6: He ain't gonna get much out of him, ranger. Why no,
These young punks never look where they're going on?
Speaker 3: What that door?
Speaker 6: And he got himself really bunned up? Where is he
in the first state room? Back in the office. I
wanted to send for a doctor, but he wouldn't let me.
I got him on a cotback. Err, he don't feel
so good.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look. Come on you too? Boom yeah,
sure right through there, ranger, Okay, easy, kids, have a
look at you. Why bruises on his ribs in deli too?
What happened to you? Sir?
Speaker 3: Go way?
Speaker 2: You better answer the ranger boy? What happened to you?
Speaker 3: Go on, kid, tell them what happened.
Speaker 5: The drawing rack. It fell on me.
Speaker 1: You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson. We continue now with
tonight's case, Logger's Larceny, an authentic story from the files
of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2: The kid was in no condition for further questioning. When
we were unable to persuade him to submit the medical treatment,
the sheriff and I returned to town and had a
talk with the Justice of the Peace. The next morning,
the sheriff attended Hutton's inquest while I waited in his
office for a call from our lab at Austin. It
just comes when the sheriff returned. Sorry to be salong, Jason.
I was comfortable, Sheriff, you got a nice office. Thanks.
In quest over Yeah, death by natural causes, I suppose, yeah,
failure of the heart. Doc says Hutton was dead when
his car left the road an out and out accident.
Oh look, Jase, he's like the JP told you last night.
That match box don't mean anything. It could have blown
in on those tracks. I guess this isn't my week
for Hunch's sheriff. Now, the lab report came into How
did ad coins in the bank's ack talent? Exactly what
the withdrawal slipped? The teller gave us. How about the
bills the paper money, and there were traces of them
in the ash. The quantity was small and might indicate
some paper money was missing, but it burned so completely
the lab couldn't be sure. Eh, looks like that. Sah, yeah, well, Sheriff,
I guess I better get started, salong, Jason, Thanks, see
you again on another case. Yeah, call us anytime you
need us. You know, Shaff It still doesn't feel right,
you know, Gee, it doesn't to me either. There's that
match box, Sure it could have blown in there. But
that kid at the mill, Yeah, what about the kid
if he had a hunch Hutton's car was wrecked and
where it might be. Why didn't he tell his boss
that as soon as he and Bull came in from
the timber. Yeah, that's right, as it was. He didn't
tell us till we dragged it out of it. That
turn out there didn't have anything to do with Hutton's death.
His heart quit. He could have gone over the edge
anywhere along the road. Yeah, but Jace, he did go
over at that turn. Sure he did, and that's why
the kid couldn't have known the car was there unless
he'd seen it. Then Bull Evans and the kid were lying.
But why, That's what we're gonna find out. That and
why the drying wreck fell on the kid. Kind of
funny two accidents should happen so close together. Come on, Sheriff,
let's get out to that mill where serie I didn't
look for you and arrange a Pierson bank something new comer,
Not exactly, mister Brownie, just a few loose ends. I
want to talk to that kid who was hurt yesterday.
How is he whooh, apparently not better than he looked.
How's that he was up for breakfast this morning and
said he was in shape to work, in shape to work,
that's what he claimed. That kid was in shape for
a hospital. Bull banked him up. He'd been taking care
of him. I guess you ought to know. They are
on the yard here. The bull didn't figure the kid
was quite up the yard work. They went out with
a felon crew together. Sure, a bull said he'd watch
after the kid. Oh he did. Where are they up
in the northeast quarter of Section three, someomeplace about four
miles A. Come on, sheriff, we got to get out there.
That kid was in no condition to work. You can't
make it in the car. We haven't got our access
road to that section finished yet. You got any horses here? Yeah,
the one I used for making my rounds. The cruise
is saddled up out bad. Bring it around for the sheriff.
I'll get my horse unloaded from the trailer, right do we?
Speaker 3: Red?
Speaker 2: You come on, Sheriff shutting the other side of that
end gate.
Speaker 3: Will you.
Speaker 2: Do you think that kicked in any danger? Tea? What
do you think? Beginning to think it's all mine?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Bad, herdy boy, easy, easy boy, Sheriff shot to be
about right. Well, thanks, mister Browning. Now you take that
work road at the corner of the yard, you begin
to hit some of the crew out at the end
of it.
Speaker 3: They can tell you just where Bulling is. Help.
Speaker 2: Thanks, let's go, Sheriff come up. Following mister Browning's directions,
we found some of his sawyers and axe men at
work in deep woods. They sent us on to others,
knowing only that Bull Evans and the kid were working
somewhere up ahead. Call that sheriff listen, somebody working over there. Yeah,
come on, let's go, John coming.
Speaker 3: Hid it? Bull?
Speaker 1: My kid?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: Here a hi the sheriff ranger, what you doing out here?
Speaker 2: Looking for bull? Evans and his partner boys down the
line said they were up this way. Yeah, they were
a little while ago. Where'd they go? Blame the final
though into a crazy crazy What do you mean?
Speaker 3: A bull was working over there?
Speaker 2: You can see the cut he was making.
Speaker 3: U huh.
Speaker 4: The kid wasn't worth much bunged up where he was,
so he was just fooling around, kind of grubbing out
a little brush. That bull come over the bummer, smoke
off me, and when he turned around, the kid was gone, gone,
slept off in the brush. Bull hollered for him. When
he didn't get no answer, bull took right off after him,
swearing fit the meg ol' Paul Bunyon turn.
Speaker 2: Over his grave? How long ago? Oh?
Speaker 3: Ten?
Speaker 2: Maybe fifteen minutes ago? I'm on the sheriff.
Speaker 3: Hey, look what is all there?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Later, here's the tracks again on this soft ground. Yeah,
oh charcoal, Wait a minute, sheriff, what do you make
of it? Jason? I don't like it? Or you suppose
that kid's heading. It beats me wherever it is. He's
sure heading there in a straight line as hard as
he can go. Yeah, with Bull apparently right behind him,
it makes about as little sense as that drying rack
falling on him yesterday or Bull talking him into reporting
for work this morning. What's between the two of them.
That's what we got to find out. Tracking us too slow.
We're losing too much time. That's pretty thick timber ahead.
Speaker 3: Get ought to slow them up.
Speaker 2: Some won't be much to follow when we get in there.
And those pine needles either, Jace. Maybe we better split
sort of spread out that way will be Yeah, somebody
in there's got a gun. Come on, gemp charcoal chalk
out you know what I'm fitting it pool sounds like
the shots in the middle of that timber stand. It's
a bad place to work blind, Jase.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you might miss.
Speaker 2: Him complete in there, possible look Sheriff, You'll cut around
the timber the other edge in case somebody breaks out
in the clear in that direction. I'll add straight for
the sound of those shot. Try to box him in,
huh Worth A try can chart cut on a horse
deep into the timber. I stopped near a blowdown a
huge living pine tree blown over onto the ground. I
wanted to listen for movement, but I knew an armed
man was somewhere ahead of me, and Charcoal seemed to
sense my tenseness. Ooh woo, charcoals. Steady boy, steady, take
it easy, charky. I'm founded. What are you shine away from? Ooh?
Whoa boy?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Crawl out from under that blowdown? No goodhoo, good shoot.
Nobody's gonna shoot. Kid, Crawl out of.
Speaker 3: There, no get away?
Speaker 2: Will you plead me? Be? You'll kill me if he
finds me. Hold yourself, kid? Who'll kill you? What for?
He almost caught me? You all right? Now, son, come
on out. He shot him. I crawled him there and
he lost me. He ran on past. I heard him,
but he'll be back. Better tell me why he's after you.
Come on, spell it quick. I saw him take the
money from Hutton's wreck car. You know.
Speaker 5: We came down to the creek and there it was.
He took the money and threw a match into the gasoline.
He burned the car and mister Hutton's.
Speaker 3: Still in it.
Speaker 2: Settled down, Take it easy. Hutton was dead when his
car left the road. Why didn't you tell us about
this yesterday when we asked him?
Speaker 5: All right, I tried to tell you, but Buu was
standing at watch and listening.
Speaker 2: And look what happened to me afterwards? That accident at
the drying rack.
Speaker 5: Accident He pushed the rack over to make it look
that way.
Speaker 2: Afterwards he beat me and almost killed me. Came close enough.
Why didn't you sneak out to mister Browning with your
story last night? I never got a chance.
Speaker 5: Bull got a gun out of his possible's bag and
kept it under his blanket all night, pointed at me.
Speaker 2: He never slept a wing.
Speaker 5: I had to get up this morning and make it
look like I wanted to come out here to work
with him.
Speaker 2: Why'd you head in this direction when you made your
break this morning?
Speaker 5: Well, I figured if I could get to the money
and get it back to mister Browning, this all be
over and where then I'd be safe.
Speaker 2: You know where the money is?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a little stump and a draw between here
and the road.
Speaker 2: Come on, charcoal will carry double. We got some riding
to do. I got understand the kid's terror, and a
professional primone knows the odds against him and seldom goes
beyond a certain limit. An amateur is like a man
in quicksand more desperate with every step, and more dangerous. There.
Speaker 5: That's the stump right over there. There's a hollow on
the other side of it.
Speaker 2: A hurry up, will you? Huh?
Speaker 3: Figur it?
Speaker 2: Easy? Kid, Charcoal made a lot better time than Bull
could have made on foot. Besides, he's still probably looking
for you. Maybe he's been here already. We'll soon see
yeah here, all right, can't you hurry? Hey, this is
a pile of money. Yeah, no, come on, I'll set kid,
just as soon as I stashed these bills away in
my saddle bags. This is what you call valuable evidence.
Speaker 3: And this is what's called it gone rage.
Speaker 6: You're making a mistake. Ball, you'll make yours. Drop him,
saddle bags. You ain't getting that money.
Speaker 2: It's mine.
Speaker 6: I'll drop him, all right. Get off that horse, kid,
Get off. I said, all right, I'll start backing away
my money.
Speaker 3: Bother here. I told you i'd kill you if you
opened your mouth. Kid. Now, it's gonna be both.
Speaker 2: Here kid, No, no, you okay, yeah, Bull's gun just
didn't shoot very straight, or you're sure didn't and fast
that's what a spring clip holsters for? Son?
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, everything all right, yeah, everybody but Bull he's dead.
Speaker 2: Kind of what was the deal? Je, Did he have
some of the money from the wreck? Show him what's
in the saddle bags?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 2: Sure, take a look. It's like he had it all.
How deep was the kid here in with him?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: And that's something the court will have to judge on
the evidence. Here, give me your hand, the sheriff, I'll
hang Bull across your saddle. He's got one last ride coming.
Speaker 4: At twelfth nineteen thirty eight, the kid was arraigned before
the County Court and found innocent of willful complicity in
the theft from the paymaster's wreck card. It was returned
to society with a deeper appreciation and understanding of the
duties of a citizen in the face of crime.
Speaker 1: And here again is the star of our show, Joel McCrae.
Speaker 2: You know, we're awfully grateful to you people for the
nice letters you've sent in. It makes you feel good
to know that there's some folks who just want to
let you know that they're all for you and that
they like your show. I know, it's kind of an
effort to sit down and write a letter or postcard
to a voice hundreds of miles away. And that's why
it would be downright ungrateful if we didn't thank you
for your trouble. It's really a compliment. There's a little
story I ran across about a ranger. I thought you'd
like to hear before we say good night. I thought
it was kind. It seems that in the days when
the Texas Rangers were charged with the enforcement of the
prohibition laws, their reputation for apprehending offenders caused moonshiners to
keep a sharp eye out for these famed officers. One day,
on a lonely road in East Texas, a moonshiner with
a load of bootleg whiskey rounded the turn and came
upon a man dressed in khaki clothes, big hat and boots,
signaling him to stop. Frantically, he grabbed a wrench and
broke all ten of the one gallon bottles of whiskey.
Turning to the man in the road, he called, you
can't arrest me, Ranger. You ain't got no evidence. What
do you mean, fellow replied the Texas Ranger, I have
a flat tire. Can you loan me You're Jack. Good night, folks,
see you again next week.
Speaker 1: Next week Joe McCray and another authentic reenactment of a
case from the files of not Texas Rangers. Joel McRae
is currently seen starring in the Universal International Technicol of
production French See Tonight's Past included Tony Parrott, Bill Conrad Stacey, Harris,
Parley Bear and Bill Johnstone. This story was transcribed and
betafted by Tom W. Blackburn, and the program is produced
and directed by Stacy Keach hal Gidney.
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