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

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the Texas Rangers Tonight transcribed from Hollywood. Another authentic reenactment

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of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers.

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The Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as

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Ranger Jase Pearson, Texas more than two hundred and sixty

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thousand square miles and fifty men will make up the

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most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America.

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Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these

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stories based on fact only.

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Speaker 2: Names, dates and.

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Speaker 3: Places are pickted.

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Speaker 1: It's just more obvious reasons they events themselves are a

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matter of record.

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Speaker 2: Hey, spot tonite loggers larcening.

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Speaker 4: It is mid afternoon, September seventh, nineteen thirty eight. Two

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laggers employed by the Gulf Lumber Company are marking timber

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and near a lonely stretch of company logging road in

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the Piney Woods region of East Texas.

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Speaker 3: Cutting crew ought to be able to see that.

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Speaker 5: Mike, Yeah, looks like that's the last decent stick left

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in this standard timber.

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Speaker 6: Plenty more trees than it was come on across the

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creek and start working that stand up on the other

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side of the road.

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Speaker 5: There, we're already marking off a lot of trees today.

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I think my axe is heavy and I could do

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with a breather.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, catch it on the rounde. Come on, you'll get

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your sad axe. I told you i'd make a logger

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out of here. Just stick with my kid. I'll put

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muscles like this on your arm, hair on your chest,

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iron in your fists.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, if I live through it, well, I'm about done in.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, that creak sure looks good.

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Speaker 3: I don't let it fool you.

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Speaker 6: Ain't fit the drink down here, sowdas pilet the mill,

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poison it whatever?

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Speaker 3: Do red?

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Speaker 6: Sure ain't eve enough to swim? Is it that he

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wanted to ride across?

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Speaker 2: Take a bath? Hey bo?

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Speaker 5: Look uh over there on the other side. Up there again,

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said old cut over stump.

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Speaker 2: That's the car, Yeah, upside down or smashed up?

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Speaker 3: Oh, come on, somebody might be hurt.

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Speaker 5: Hey, bullet, that's one of the company costs on the mill.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I see, sure is wrecked, ain't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah? He smell that gasoline.

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Speaker 3: Tanks busted wide open.

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Speaker 2: Sure, good thing there wasn't a spark.

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Speaker 3: But then some fire if I gas had caught.

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Speaker 2: Hey, look at here kid in.

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Speaker 6: The front seat, who is so old man hunting?

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Speaker 3: What's left of him?

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Speaker 2: Just the paymaster? Come on, we better get him out

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of there.

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Speaker 3: No, we can't do nothing for him. Get a load

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of this bank.

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Speaker 2: That's full of money.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh payroll for the mill?

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Speaker 2: Oh what are you doing?

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Speaker 5: What are you stuffing that money in your shirt for?

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Speaker 3: Look? Kid, we ain't been around here. Understand, You've got

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no right to that. Monk. It's got a better one.

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It's even gonna know it's missing.

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Speaker 6: Unless you shoot off your mouth. I'll twist your neck

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right off your shoulders. If you let out one word

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for the law, I get the law.

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Speaker 3: Just remember you'll get the worst beat than you ever had.

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Speaker 2: You understand, Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: I understand.

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Speaker 6: That's being smart. Yeah, throw this sack back in the car. Well,

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I got my shirt button.

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Speaker 2: There's still some money left you sure?

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Speaker 3: All the coins and a few bills used being a hog?

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Is it? Besides? This is gonna look right, Throw it

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back in the car.

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Speaker 5: I said, sure, you got a match, crazy bullet match

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with all the guessings built around here?

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Speaker 3: Wait and see how crazy? Give me a match.

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Speaker 2: Here?

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Speaker 6: There's only one left in the box that's already got Yeah,

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well we'll make us some counting. Now get back out

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of the way.

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Speaker 4: The frantic mill superintendent waited until evening to report the

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missing paymaster and money. Sheriff Stenton immediately contacted the Texas Rangers.

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An all points bulletin for the apprehension of the man

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was sent out, and Ranger Jase Pearson was a signed

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to the case.

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Speaker 3: He arrived at the mill with the sheriff early the

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next morning.

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Speaker 2: Here's the meal office. Jase might as well start there.

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The quicker. We can get a line on Hutt and

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the batter. Yeah, if he's making a run for it,

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he's already got a big lead on.

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Speaker 3: Sure.

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Speaker 2: I haven't waiting for you to meet Ranger Peerson, mister Browning.

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Mister Browning is the mill super and mister Brownie, I

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pleased to meet you, Ranger. Anything new here? No, I'm

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kind of experienced to this sort of thing. I shore

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have been waiting for you. The lay is my fault

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was nearly sun up when I met the sheriff. It

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took time enough for breakfast and to drag the bank

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teller out of bed. He says, your man. Hutton left

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the bank about a half hour after closing time yesterday. Yeah,

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they waited until the street doors were closed before they

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started making up Hutton's orders for mixed currency. And they

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usually work it that way at the bank on pay days.

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Eighteen thousand dollars. There's a lot of money to cut out,

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you Well, we not only know how much money we're

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looking for, but how much of each denomination. I've got

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Hutton's list. The bank teller gave me a copy of it.

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He sure must have slipped out quiet. Not a soul

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in town saw him after he left the bank, no

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telling which direction he headed. Would you have a picture

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of him by any chance, mister Browning, to sort of

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amplify the description we've already sent out. Well, there may

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be one among his belongings in his shack, you know,

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shere if I I still can't believe Bob absconded with

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that money. Eighteen thousand dollars. There's a lot of temptations,

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mister Brownie, I know it, but Bob Hutton's been with

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us for years. I'd have trusted him with every assy

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the company owns. I just don't know what to think now.

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We won't rule out any possibility. Before we go through

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Hutton's things, I'd like to talk to any of your

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crew who might have been working near the road yesterday afternoon.

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Well forming bull Evans and his helper will marking a

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standard timber over by Pine Creek. They're down in the

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drying yard this morning. The rest of the crews out

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in the woods. How do they feel about Hutting not

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showing up. Quite a few of them wanted to dig

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up a roop and go hunting for him, but bull

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Evans choked him out of that. Let's go find this

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forman of yours. He sounds like some talker. Maybe he

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can tell us something.

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Speaker 3: I put your shoulder of a dollar kid here, that's good.

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Speaker 6: I will stack this a lot of shim beside that

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last bunch of tobuys. Stand him on in and sladomnicagainst

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the ridgepole.

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Speaker 2: It's green stuff, heavy his lid.

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Speaker 3: Stack it up straight. Want the whole blame rock to

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come down on top of it. That's the matter with you? Nervous? No, No,

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I ain't nervous.

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Speaker 2: Give me a hand, won't your boy?

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Speaker 3: Sure?

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Speaker 6: Like I told you, keep your mouth shutting A nothing little.

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Speaker 2: Happened to you.

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Speaker 3: Got that next stick?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but then maybe we'll make a logger out of you.

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Speaker 5: Yet, poor, Look he comes to horse and a ranger.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and the sheriff, So what grab that next stick?

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Speaker 3: And I remember what I told you about talking.

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Speaker 6: A Hello, boss, sheriff, find old man hunting on the

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payroll again?

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Speaker 2: It's ranger peers. Oh, howdy, ranger ranging? The sheriff want

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to ask you and the boy some questions.

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Speaker 6: Well, sure, sure, glad to help, hey kid, hold in

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a minute there, Yeah, sure, I understand you were working

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somewhere near the road from town yesterday afternoon. No, we're

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working a standover on Pine Creek. Sometimes it was near

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the road, sometimes it wasn't.

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Speaker 2: Did you see anything of Hutton or the company car

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he was driving.

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Speaker 3: We didn't see any car, did we get No?

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Speaker 2: Did you hear a car going either way on the road.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we didn't hear nothing. We didn't see nothing. Rad

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you're barking up a wrong tree, rincher, how's that bull?

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Oh man, Hutton wasn't crazy. He's seen a chance, had

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a lot of money, and he took it. He never

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headed back this way from town. You'll pick him up someplace.

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Speaker 2: Long gone from here. All right, Bo, that's all, come on, kid,

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let's get back to work. No, wait a minute, I

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haven't talked to your helper yet.

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Speaker 5: Well, Bull told you we didn't see nothing. I don't

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know nothing about that money.

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Speaker 2: We're looking for a man right now, son, not the

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money he was carrying. Are you as convinced as Bull

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here that he ran off with a company payroll? Well, well,

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are you or aren't you? I don't know nothing about it.

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I tell you, what are you so nervous about? For nothing? Night?

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I just don't know nothing to buy looks And maybe

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you don't know it, but there's a severe penalty for

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withholding information from the law in this state. If you

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do know anything about this case, anything at all, it's

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your duty to tell the ranger and me. Now, well,

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I yeah, Well.

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Speaker 5: There's a pretty bad turnover there on Pine Creek. Mister

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Hutton might have had an accident when nobody was around.

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Speaker 3: See it is a possibility, Ranger.

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Speaker 2: That's the worst stretch along the road, and one of

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those turns is a bad one.

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Speaker 6: Old Bob Hutton could drive that road backwards and blindfolded.

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Speaker 3: He's been doing it for years. Besides, men. They had

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come in by the road last night. There wasn't no

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wreck along a tent.

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Speaker 5: Did you see anything, Son, No, No, there wasn't nothing

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along the road when we went by.

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Speaker 2: We came out that way this morning, Jase, wasn't anything

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inside then either. The area along the creek is an

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old cutover. Brush has come back thick and sponge. The

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car down in there could be completely hidden from the road. Well,

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we're gonna have to search every into the way out

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from town to eliminate accident as a possibility in this case. Anyway, Jase,

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this bad turn out of the creeks like as good

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a place as they need to begin with. Yeah, let's

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get out there and take a look. You mind showing

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us that cut over? Mister Browning too, arranger. I'll get

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my car and you can follow me.

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Speaker 3: Booll.

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Speaker 2: If anything comes up here when I'm going, you take

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care of it for me.

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Speaker 3: Will you? Ah? Sure, boss, Sure, I'll take care of everything.

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Speaker 2: Don't you want me to go with it?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Thanks?

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Speaker 3: Son?

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Speaker 2: You better stay here, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I kid, you stay here.

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Speaker 6: There's gonna be plenty to keep you busy.

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Speaker 2: Roadside tracks and broken brush and hear the bad turn

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on pine creek were so faint we nearly missed them.

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The car itself was completely screened from the road by brush,

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was badly burned, and lay upside down on an open

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patch of grass, body of its drivers slump near the wheels.

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An accident, all right, Jason, seems like good heavens, what

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are we to die? Mark Syndicate Hutton lost control when

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he left the road. Judging from the damage to the car,

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I think there's no question but what. He was dead

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when the wreck caught fire.

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Speaker 3: And I hope so.

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Speaker 2: I told you I couldn't believe Bob Hutton would steal

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that money. Looks like you were right, mister Browning. Here

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look in this window. Yeah, what a mess. There's your money?

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What's left of it there beside the springs of that

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burned seat cushion. Oh yeah, I see some corn rolls

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with the rappers burned over and the fluff of ash

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on top of them. Is what's left of the paper money.

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Hard to believe it would burn that much, and it

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was a mighty hot fire while it lasted. Even the

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body metals warped all out of shape. Lje, this looks

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like it's back to town for us. I gotta get

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an undertaker's wagging out here to pick up his body.

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I have to kill at all points. Wanted bulletin on

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Hutting too. I guess I'll about wind this up. Huh,

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I'm not so sure, Sheriff. What do you mean? This

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just doesn't feel quite right? What doesn't finding this car

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like this? We might have looked for a day before

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we found it down here in this brush. Don't you

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have more to go on the ranger? No, nothing more,

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just a hunch. Seems like working on hunches would be

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kind of dangerous in your business. It usually is for somebody.

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Come on, I want to get back to the mail. Well,

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what do you want to go back there for? You

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don't need a phone, you can use your car radio. Yeah,

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I know, but there's something funny about this, and I

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want to get it cleared up. Hey, sheriff, look out,

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what's where you're stepping to? What is it? That match box? Oh? Hey,

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wait a minute, what's so important about a match box?

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This could be plenty important. Now look where it's lying.

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I don't get you Jason, all right, look up there, Sheriff,

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that's where a Hutton's car turned over. It slid down

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from there on its roof. The match box is right

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in the track and it hasn't been crushed, meaning it

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was dropped after the wreck. That's right, Sheriff. Let's see

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it's empty. My last match was used in the box

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thrown away. We'll use for what, ranger. What's some matchbox

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got to do with Bob Hutton's dead? Maybe nothing. Even

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when the cars as badly damaged as this one was,

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even when it's drenched with gasoline, it doesn't always catch fire.

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Let's go back a minute. Do you know what you're seeing?

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I think so? You mean somebody could have deliberately set

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this car fire after the actually if this was an accident.

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Oh but look, Jesse's the only possible reason for arson

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and the case like this had be the cover taken

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the money Hutting had with him, and he's still there.

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What's left of it anyway? I know, Sheriff, there we are,

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give me your hand, will you share? Sure? Jaz, what

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do you want to do and see? If we can't

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get what's left of that money out without disturbing the

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ash around it, I want to send it into the lab.

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What let gets you? If any of it's missing, they

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may be able to tell us. We removed the remains

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of the charred money bag and its contents as carefully

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as possible, and packed them for transfer to the laboratory.

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When we drove back the mill yard, Bull Evans was

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just coming out of the office.

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Speaker 3: Ay you find signed a hunt? Yes? He std Boom dead.

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Speaker 2: He had an accident in your pine creek, just about

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where that kid suggested we look too. What can you

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beat that? Where is the kid? I think we better

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talk to him again.

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Speaker 6: He ain't gonna get much out of him, ranger. Why no,

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These young punks never look where they're going on?

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Speaker 3: What that door?

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Speaker 6: And he got himself really bunned up? Where is he

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in the first state room? Back in the office. I

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wanted to send for a doctor, but he wouldn't let me.

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I got him on a cotback. Err, he don't feel

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so good.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a look. Come on you too? Boom yeah,

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sure right through there, ranger, Okay, easy, kids, have a

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look at you. Why bruises on his ribs in deli too?

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What happened to you? Sir?

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Speaker 3: Go way?

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Speaker 2: You better answer the ranger boy? What happened to you?

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Speaker 3: Go on, kid, tell them what happened.

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Speaker 5: The drawing rack. It fell on me.

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

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Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson. We continue now with

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tonight's case, Logger's Larceny, an authentic story from the files

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of the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: The kid was in no condition for further questioning. When

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we were unable to persuade him to submit the medical treatment,

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the sheriff and I returned to town and had a

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talk with the Justice of the Peace. The next morning,

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the sheriff attended Hutton's inquest while I waited in his

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office for a call from our lab at Austin. It

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just comes when the sheriff returned. Sorry to be salong, Jason.

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I was comfortable, Sheriff, you got a nice office. Thanks.

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In quest over Yeah, death by natural causes, I suppose, yeah,

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failure of the heart. Doc says Hutton was dead when

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his car left the road an out and out accident.

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Oh look, Jase, he's like the JP told you last night.

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That match box don't mean anything. It could have blown

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in on those tracks. I guess this isn't my week

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for Hunch's sheriff. Now, the lab report came into How

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did ad coins in the bank's ack talent? Exactly what

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the withdrawal slipped? The teller gave us. How about the

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bills the paper money, and there were traces of them

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in the ash. The quantity was small and might indicate

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some paper money was missing, but it burned so completely

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the lab couldn't be sure. Eh, looks like that. Sah, yeah, well, Sheriff,

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I guess I better get started, salong, Jason, Thanks, see

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you again on another case. Yeah, call us anytime you

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need us. You know, Shaff It still doesn't feel right,

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you know, Gee, it doesn't to me either. There's that

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match box, Sure it could have blown in there. But

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that kid at the mill, Yeah, what about the kid

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if he had a hunch Hutton's car was wrecked and

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where it might be. Why didn't he tell his boss

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that as soon as he and Bull came in from

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the timber. Yeah, that's right, as it was. He didn't

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tell us till we dragged it out of it. That

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turn out there didn't have anything to do with Hutton's death.

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His heart quit. He could have gone over the edge

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anywhere along the road. Yeah, but Jace, he did go

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over at that turn. Sure he did, and that's why

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the kid couldn't have known the car was there unless

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he'd seen it. Then Bull Evans and the kid were lying.

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But why, That's what we're gonna find out. That and

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why the drying wreck fell on the kid. Kind of

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funny two accidents should happen so close together. Come on, Sheriff,

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let's get out to that mill where serie I didn't

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look for you and arrange a Pierson bank something new comer,

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Not exactly, mister Brownie, just a few loose ends. I

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want to talk to that kid who was hurt yesterday.

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How is he whooh, apparently not better than he looked.

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How's that he was up for breakfast this morning and

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said he was in shape to work, in shape to work,

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that's what he claimed. That kid was in shape for

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a hospital. Bull banked him up. He'd been taking care

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of him. I guess you ought to know. They are

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on the yard here. The bull didn't figure the kid

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was quite up the yard work. They went out with

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a felon crew together. Sure, a bull said he'd watch

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after the kid. Oh he did. Where are they up

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in the northeast quarter of Section three, someomeplace about four

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miles A. Come on, sheriff, we got to get out there.

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That kid was in no condition to work. You can't

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make it in the car. We haven't got our access

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road to that section finished yet. You got any horses here? Yeah,

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the one I used for making my rounds. The cruise

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is saddled up out bad. Bring it around for the sheriff.

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I'll get my horse unloaded from the trailer, right do we?

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Speaker 3: Red?

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Speaker 2: You come on, Sheriff shutting the other side of that

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end gate.

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Speaker 3: Will you.

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Speaker 2: Do you think that kicked in any danger? Tea? What

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do you think? Beginning to think it's all mine?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Bad, herdy boy, easy, easy boy, Sheriff shot to be

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about right. Well, thanks, mister Browning. Now you take that

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work road at the corner of the yard, you begin

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to hit some of the crew out at the end

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of it.

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Speaker 3: They can tell you just where Bulling is. Help.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, let's go, Sheriff come up. Following mister Browning's directions,

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we found some of his sawyers and axe men at

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work in deep woods. They sent us on to others,

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knowing only that Bull Evans and the kid were working

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somewhere up ahead. Call that sheriff listen, somebody working over there. Yeah,

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come on, let's go, John coming.

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Speaker 3: Hid it? Bull?

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Speaker 1: My kid?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Here a hi the sheriff ranger, what you doing out here?

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Speaker 2: Looking for bull? Evans and his partner boys down the

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line said they were up this way. Yeah, they were

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a little while ago. Where'd they go? Blame the final

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though into a crazy crazy What do you mean?

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Speaker 3: A bull was working over there?

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Speaker 2: You can see the cut he was making.

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Speaker 3: U huh.

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Speaker 4: The kid wasn't worth much bunged up where he was,

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so he was just fooling around, kind of grubbing out

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a little brush. That bull come over the bummer, smoke

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off me, and when he turned around, the kid was gone, gone,

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slept off in the brush. Bull hollered for him. When

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he didn't get no answer, bull took right off after him,

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swearing fit the meg ol' Paul Bunyon turn.

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Speaker 2: Over his grave? How long ago? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Ten?

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Speaker 2: Maybe fifteen minutes ago? I'm on the sheriff.

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Speaker 3: Hey, look what is all there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Later, here's the tracks again on this soft ground. Yeah,

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oh charcoal, Wait a minute, sheriff, what do you make

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of it? Jason? I don't like it? Or you suppose

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that kid's heading. It beats me wherever it is. He's

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sure heading there in a straight line as hard as

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he can go. Yeah, with Bull apparently right behind him,

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it makes about as little sense as that drying rack

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falling on him yesterday or Bull talking him into reporting

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for work this morning. What's between the two of them.

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That's what we got to find out. Tracking us too slow.

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We're losing too much time. That's pretty thick timber ahead.

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Speaker 3: Get ought to slow them up.

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Speaker 2: Some won't be much to follow when we get in there.

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And those pine needles either, Jace. Maybe we better split

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sort of spread out that way will be Yeah, somebody

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in there's got a gun. Come on, gemp charcoal chalk

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out you know what I'm fitting it pool sounds like

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the shots in the middle of that timber stand. It's

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a bad place to work blind, Jase.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you might miss.

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Speaker 2: Him complete in there, possible look Sheriff, You'll cut around

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the timber the other edge in case somebody breaks out

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in the clear in that direction. I'll add straight for

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the sound of those shot. Try to box him in,

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huh Worth A try can chart cut on a horse

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deep into the timber. I stopped near a blowdown a

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huge living pine tree blown over onto the ground. I

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wanted to listen for movement, but I knew an armed

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man was somewhere ahead of me, and Charcoal seemed to

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sense my tenseness. Ooh woo, charcoals. Steady boy, steady, take

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it easy, charky. I'm founded. What are you shine away from? Ooh?

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Whoa boy?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 2: Crawl out from under that blowdown? No goodhoo, good shoot.

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Nobody's gonna shoot. Kid, Crawl out of.

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Speaker 3: There, no get away?

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Speaker 2: Will you plead me? Be? You'll kill me if he

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finds me. Hold yourself, kid? Who'll kill you? What for?

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He almost caught me? You all right? Now, son, come

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on out. He shot him. I crawled him there and

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he lost me. He ran on past. I heard him,

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but he'll be back. Better tell me why he's after you.

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Come on, spell it quick. I saw him take the

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money from Hutton's wreck car. You know.

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Speaker 5: We came down to the creek and there it was.

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He took the money and threw a match into the gasoline.

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He burned the car and mister Hutton's.

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Speaker 3: Still in it.

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Speaker 2: Settled down, Take it easy. Hutton was dead when his

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car left the road. Why didn't you tell us about

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this yesterday when we asked him?

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Speaker 5: All right, I tried to tell you, but Buu was

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standing at watch and listening.

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Speaker 2: And look what happened to me afterwards? That accident at

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the drying rack.

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Speaker 5: Accident He pushed the rack over to make it look

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that way.

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Speaker 2: Afterwards he beat me and almost killed me. Came close enough.

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Why didn't you sneak out to mister Browning with your

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story last night? I never got a chance.

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Speaker 5: Bull got a gun out of his possible's bag and

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kept it under his blanket all night, pointed at me.

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Speaker 2: He never slept a wing.

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Speaker 5: I had to get up this morning and make it

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look like I wanted to come out here to work

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with him.

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Speaker 2: Why'd you head in this direction when you made your

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break this morning?

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Speaker 5: Well, I figured if I could get to the money

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and get it back to mister Browning, this all be

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over and where then I'd be safe.

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Speaker 2: You know where the money is?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a little stump and a draw between here

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and the road.

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Speaker 2: Come on, charcoal will carry double. We got some riding

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to do. I got understand the kid's terror, and a

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professional primone knows the odds against him and seldom goes

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beyond a certain limit. An amateur is like a man

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in quicksand more desperate with every step, and more dangerous. There.

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Speaker 5: That's the stump right over there. There's a hollow on

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the other side of it.

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Speaker 2: A hurry up, will you? Huh?

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Speaker 3: Figur it?

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Speaker 2: Easy? Kid, Charcoal made a lot better time than Bull

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could have made on foot. Besides, he's still probably looking

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for you. Maybe he's been here already. We'll soon see

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yeah here, all right, can't you hurry? Hey, this is

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a pile of money. Yeah, no, come on, I'll set kid,

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just as soon as I stashed these bills away in

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my saddle bags. This is what you call valuable evidence.

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Speaker 3: And this is what's called it gone rage.

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Speaker 6: You're making a mistake. Ball, you'll make yours. Drop him,

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saddle bags. You ain't getting that money.

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Speaker 2: It's mine.

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Speaker 6: I'll drop him, all right. Get off that horse, kid,

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Get off. I said, all right, I'll start backing away

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my money.

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Speaker 3: Bother here. I told you i'd kill you if you

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opened your mouth. Kid. Now, it's gonna be both.

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Speaker 2: Here kid, No, no, you okay, yeah, Bull's gun just

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didn't shoot very straight, or you're sure didn't and fast

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that's what a spring clip holsters for? Son?

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Speaker 8: Okay, okay, everything all right, yeah, everybody but Bull he's dead.

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Speaker 2: Kind of what was the deal? Je, Did he have

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some of the money from the wreck? Show him what's

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in the saddle bags?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 2: Sure, take a look. It's like he had it all.

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How deep was the kid here in with him?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: And that's something the court will have to judge on

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the evidence. Here, give me your hand, the sheriff, I'll

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hang Bull across your saddle. He's got one last ride coming.

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Speaker 4: At twelfth nineteen thirty eight, the kid was arraigned before

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the County Court and found innocent of willful complicity in

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the theft from the paymaster's wreck card. It was returned

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to society with a deeper appreciation and understanding of the

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duties of a citizen in the face of crime.

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

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Speaker 2: You know, we're awfully grateful to you people for the

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nice letters you've sent in. It makes you feel good

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to know that there's some folks who just want to

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let you know that they're all for you and that

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they like your show. I know, it's kind of an

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effort to sit down and write a letter or postcard

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to a voice hundreds of miles away. And that's why

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it would be downright ungrateful if we didn't thank you

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for your trouble. It's really a compliment. There's a little

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story I ran across about a ranger. I thought you'd

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like to hear before we say good night. I thought

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it was kind. It seems that in the days when

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the Texas Rangers were charged with the enforcement of the

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prohibition laws, their reputation for apprehending offenders caused moonshiners to

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keep a sharp eye out for these famed officers. One day,

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on a lonely road in East Texas, a moonshiner with

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a load of bootleg whiskey rounded the turn and came

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upon a man dressed in khaki clothes, big hat and boots,

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signaling him to stop. Frantically, he grabbed a wrench and

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broke all ten of the one gallon bottles of whiskey.

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Turning to the man in the road, he called, you

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can't arrest me, Ranger. You ain't got no evidence. What

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do you mean, fellow replied the Texas Ranger, I have

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a flat tire. Can you loan me You're Jack. Good night, folks,

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see you again next week.

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Speaker 1: Next week Joe McCray and another authentic reenactment of a

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case from the files of not Texas Rangers. Joel McRae

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is currently seen starring in the Universal International Technicol of

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production French See Tonight's Past included Tony Parrott, Bill Conrad Stacey, Harris,

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Parley Bear and Bill Johnstone. This story was transcribed and

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betafted by Tom W. Blackburn, and the program is produced

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and directed by Stacy Keach hal Gidney.

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