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Speaker 1: The National Broadcasting Company presents.

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Speaker 2: Joel McCrae in Tales.

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Speaker 3: Of the Texas.

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Speaker 2: Rangers to Night Transcribe from Hollywood, another authentic reenactment of

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a case from the Piles of the Texas Rangers, Tales

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of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson,

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Texas more.

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Speaker 1: Than two hundred and sixty.

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Speaker 2: Thousand square miles and fifty men who make up the

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most famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America.

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Now from the Piles of the Texas Rangers come these

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stories based.

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Speaker 1: On fact only names, dates, and play.

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Speaker 2: It's our fictitious more obvious reasons they announced themselves are

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a matter of records.

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Speaker 1: Case Fortnite, Soft Touch.

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Speaker 4: There's eleven am on a Sunday in August nineteen forty nine,

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a blue sedan comes to a stop in front of

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a ranch house thirty miles in the town of.

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Speaker 5: Salt Flats, Texas.

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Speaker 3: My kids, this Gramdmar's house.

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Speaker 6: But now let me sleep. We started so early and

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they're tired.

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Speaker 3: Well, we can't leave them in the car.

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Speaker 6: If we wake them up now, they'll never understand aps.

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Speaker 7: We'll bring them in a few more Okay, getting up

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at four am was kind of early even for them.

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Huh hey, look pause painted the windmill.

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Speaker 6: Oh, Phil, I love this. I wish we didn't live

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so far away. Yeah, we don't get here off a lot.

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Speaker 3: Hey, wonder where the folks are.

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Speaker 7: They usually stand in the middle of the road waiting

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for us when they know we're bringing the kids for

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a visit.

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Speaker 6: And the door's open. Your mother's probably in the kitchen

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cooking enough food for a dozen.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, don't smell anything cooking.

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Speaker 3: Ha ha, y'arehu?

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Speaker 6: Maybe they're still a church bell.

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Speaker 3: No, they're always back by ten o'clock.

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Speaker 7: The garage door was closed too, always leaves it open

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when he's got the car.

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Speaker 6: At Oh, then they must be in back someplace.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, am ah, where are you?

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Speaker 6: I've never known your mother to be any place but

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in the kitchen though.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but she doesn't hear so well anymore.

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Speaker 7: Let's take a look. Ah hm, nobody here, Judy, Bill, Bill.

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Speaker 6: What's that spilled on the floor at the door of

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the penetry.

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Speaker 7: Huh hey, Judy, it looks like blood.

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Speaker 3: Oh good law, Oh.

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Speaker 6: Honey, away, come away.

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Speaker 8: The brutal murder of the rancher and his wife was reported.

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Speaker 4: Texas Ranger Jace Pearson was notified by a short wave radio.

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He reached the ranch house less than one hour after

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the body has been discovered.

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Speaker 8: I'm sorry to have to ask questions at a time

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like this, mister Ross.

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Speaker 7: All right, My my kids are sleeping the car, though,

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But if my wife takes him into.

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Speaker 5: Town, please, honey, I'll be all right.

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Speaker 3: I don't want the kids to come in here. I

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even know.

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Speaker 8: About this might be best, ma'am.

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Speaker 3: I meet you at the hotel later, all.

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Speaker 8: Right, honey, better tell me anything you know, mister Ross.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, we drove out from Fort Worth this morning.

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Speaker 3: That's my home now. I'm a commercial artist. This is

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the first time we've been here in five months.

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Speaker 9: I love Sheriff, Ahi Ranger. Your wife told us to

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come right in.

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Speaker 5: Bill. Sure, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 9: It might have known something was wrong when I didn't

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see your folks at services this morning.

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Speaker 5: They never did, miss you.

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Speaker 8: Better go on with what you were telling me, mister Ross.

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Speaker 3: Nothing else. Two tail, Judy noticed the blood in.

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Speaker 7: The kitchen by the pantry door.

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Speaker 8: Okay, better take a look at him, Sheriff. Just one

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thing more, mister Ross, your parents have any enemies you

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know of no Jed.

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Speaker 9: Martha Ross never made an enemy in their whole lives.

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Ranger say you don't. You don't want me to go

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in there with you?

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Speaker 8: Do you? It won't be necessary.

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Speaker 5: Just take it easy, Kitchens there. They took a pretty

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cruel beaten Ranger.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I was sign of a weapon, though he helped

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me move the old man's body a little bit. Uh hm,

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A lot of heavy welds, but beaten to death and

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then put in here. But comes mostly from hemorrhaging, though

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not so much from cuts.

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Speaker 5: It's thick.

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Speaker 9: A weapon would have cut him up more than that.

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Plus it was wrapped in something.

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Speaker 8: Only one other thing I can think of, bare fists. Hey,

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what's this?

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Speaker 5: Let me see?

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Speaker 8: Well, just a little hook of paper, Yeah, crumpled to

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piece of a larger sheet. Rest of it must have

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been torn away. It feels like a good grade of

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letterhead paper. Anything to you if you find the rest

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of the paper this came from. No, but if we don't,

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it could mean plenty like what and the way this

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is crumpled might have been part of something the old

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man was hanging on to and somebody tried to get

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it away from him. I'm going to send this into

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our lab at Austin.

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Speaker 9: Looks like this happened sometime last night.

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Speaker 8: That's something we'll know when we get an autopsy report.

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We called to have the bodies and the piece of

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paper picked up. Then we checked around the outside of

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the house. The gravel road wouldn't hold a car track,

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but behind the house we found marks where a horse

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had been tied. I got charcoal out of the trailer

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and the sheriff got a horse from the ranch barn.

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Speaker 5: You went right towards the southeast.

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Speaker 9: Porter ross has two hundred acres and cotton down there.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I see it.

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Speaker 9: Might have ridden over yesterday on one of his own horses.

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Speaker 8: Oh horse that mad. This trail wasn't one of rosses

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only were found has a spread of wool. Look see

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the marks bar across the frog in the right fore foot.

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Speaker 9: Wondered why you were checking the shoes on the horses

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back there in the barn.

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Speaker 8: And that's why one is the adjoining place other side

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of the cotton.

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Speaker 10: Big Chuck Whittaker, Well, let's get moving. I want to

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have a talk with this Big Chuck Whittaker.

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Speaker 8: Come on, Chuck pit boy.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I was over there yesterday afternoon. But I didn't

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kill nobody.

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Speaker 8: Well, that's very interesting, mister Whittaker, because we didn't tell

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you anything about anybody being killed.

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Speaker 11: I know you didn't.

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Speaker 4: Range you.

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Speaker 10: My phone happens to be on the same party line

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as a Ross Ranch. I heard his son Bill call

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when he found him this morning. You make a habit

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of listening in. I had a call to make. I

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picked up the phone I heard. Couldn't help it you

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through asking questions. I'd like to go back to mend

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this horner.

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Speaker 8: That can wait, Chuck, you're not exactly broken up about

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losing your neighbors Range, and I got troubles enough more.

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Why did you go to Ross's yesterday? What time were

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you there? In the evening?

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Speaker 10: Just for some down Ross was fixing to have some

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crop dust and done again. I wanted to talk to

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him about it, about doing the job for him.

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Speaker 9: No, Ranger, the crop dustin plane comes down from salt flats.

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Speaker 8: I'll go ahead, Whitaker.

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Speaker 10: And then last time Ross dusted the spray carried over

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on my place some of my cattle water down near

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that cort and.

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Speaker 8: Made him sick. And Ross say you'd watch out for it. Yeah,

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And that was all that was.

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Speaker 10: Wrong, And I'll come home all right, Whitaker, come on, sheriff, all.

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Speaker 5: Right, Chuck, gusey for.

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Speaker 2: Help.

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Speaker 5: Hey, wait a minute.

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Speaker 11: Ahead, Chuck.

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Speaker 10: When I left Ross's place just for dog, car drove

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Speaker 8: I came around the house. Who was in it? Man?

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Speaker 5: That's all I know.

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Speaker 8: You didn't see his face. No.

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Speaker 10: The only thing that makes me think of it was

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something to notice car wasn't from around here, a doi.

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You know they had one of them fancy frames around

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the license place, and you know the things mean that

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the name of the town stamped on it.

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Speaker 8: Did you notice the stamp? Yeah, car was from San Anton,

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Santa Anton. Thanks, let's go, Sheriff, get.

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Speaker 3: Up charge.

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Speaker 5: Good thing in order, said Car remembered. It might be

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a big help.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, might be a big lie too. That man's heart.

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Speaker 9: He just acts hard ranger, kind of sour since his

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wife ran off with one of his cow heads.

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Speaker 3: A few years back.

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Speaker 5: But he don't need no harm.

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Speaker 3: Maybe not.

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Speaker 5: He makes a bad impression.

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Speaker 9: He's able to send more flowers the Ross funeral the

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most anybody around.

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Speaker 8: I've known killers to do that before too. We checked

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other ranchers in the area, but we didn't get any

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information until next morning at the sheriff's office.

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Speaker 5: Heard anything from your headquarters yet.

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Speaker 8: No wait for him to call me now. And what's

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that the autopsy report?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, medical examiner seems to agree with your idea. Death

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might have been caused by a beating with fish.

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Speaker 8: Pretty thorough job of beating you read this. Yeah, old

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woman died of a broken neck, struck right at the

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base of the brain. Rabbit punch.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, old man, ross hemorrhage to death, like you.

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Speaker 8: Said, broken jaw, broken nose, ribs smashed in under the heart,

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vessels ruptured from being beaten on the kidneys and in

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the solar plexus.

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Speaker 5: I'd like to get my hands on anybody who'd do that.

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Speaker 8: If you did get your hands on him, you'd have

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your hands full. Whoever did it was big and he

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could hit plenty hard and adjust the right spots.

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Speaker 9: You still got Chuck Whittaker on your mind.

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Speaker 8: Only because he fits the bill in a few ways.

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Speaker 5: Never hurt nobody before.

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Speaker 8: Nah, but he's a bitter man that kind.

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Speaker 5: Can excuse me.

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Speaker 9: All, Yes, he's here, Yeah for you jays. Captain Stintson

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calling long distance things.

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Speaker 8: Hello, cap Hello, J's just going to report.

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Speaker 11: On the scrap of people. You see here.

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Speaker 12: Special type the paper stock indicates the original sheet was

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a letterhead printed in the Government Printed Office in Washington.

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Speaker 8: No which bureau, No, But try and find out if

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any department there has had any correspondence with Jed Ross recently.

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Speaker 11: That's what we're doing. But don't expect anything in a hurry.

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Speaker 8: I won't by j By cap'n.

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Speaker 9: You'll find out where the paper come from.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, some government office in Washington. You've been checking on

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that car from San Anton?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, nobody I found sad.

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Speaker 5: How about you?

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Speaker 8: Nobody? Seems like the only one did see it was

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Chuck Whittaker.

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Speaker 9: I hate to admit it, Jess, but it's beginning to

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look that way.

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Speaker 8: Let's get our horses. I want to see Whittaker again.

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Speaker 9: When you've known a man all your life, you hate

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to think he's a murderer. The other hand, you hate

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to see a neighbor get killed too.

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Speaker 8: Whittaker's telling the truth. He's got nothing to worry about.

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Speaker 9: Feel mighty sorry for young Bill Ross. He was all

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busted up at the funeral parlor.

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Speaker 10: Tough for him to take it alan, but he made

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his wife and kids go back to Fort Worth. He's

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the only child, Bill, Yeah, the only one living, that is.

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I had a sister job nice a girl. You ever

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see what happened to her.

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Speaker 9: She was a navy nurse, got killed Solomon Island during

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the war.

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Speaker 5: Ross is sure had the sheriff.

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Speaker 8: Trouble, all right, and the trouble somebody ought to pay for.

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Speaker 9: Hey, look there's what a canal on a pony coming

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tortoise just rode out of the gully.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, get up, John, Oh.

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Speaker 11: Oh oh, you're.

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Speaker 10: Coming back to see me. That's right, Whittaker. You think

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I've been lying to you, don't you?

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Speaker 11: Range you?

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Speaker 5: I take it easy, Chuck.

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Speaker 8: Get one thing straight, Whittaker. I got nothing against you

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or any man, not personally. But I do intend to

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find the man who killed your neighbors, and.

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Speaker 10: Then you can stop looking around my place. Sheriff, I

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rode out to meet you cause your office called.

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Speaker 8: You both wanted back in town.

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Speaker 10: Why, Because I ain't blind, I ain't lying. One of

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the Sheriff's deputies has found somebody else who saw that

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car from San Anton.

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

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Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson, and now we continue

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with tonight's case, soft Touch.

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Speaker 8: We went back to town and from there to a

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roadside cafe about fifteen miles out the state highway.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I sure did see the car, Like I told

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the deputy, it had that thing a jig on the

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license plate.

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Speaker 6: Noticed it when I give him some gas.

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Speaker 8: Are you sure it was on Saturday?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 13: I sure it was about five o'clock, I'd say.

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Speaker 8: I guess there's not much traffic from San Anton comes

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through here, does it?

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Speaker 9: Share all, we're off the main US highways. Anybody coming

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down here on the state road they have to have

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some business right here.

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Speaker 8: So place you remember the man in the car, No,

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I sure do.

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Speaker 13: After i'd give him the gas, he come in for

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some coffee.

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Speaker 8: Can you describe him?

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Speaker 11: Oh?

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Speaker 13: Well, three days ago, but he's better than six feet

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maybe two hundred pounds. Then of course there was his face.

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Speaker 5: What was wrong with it?

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Speaker 13: Well, Sheriff, His face looked like he tried the bulldog

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to steer on a rocky ground and lost it.

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Speaker 8: Sure was scarder he bleeding any place?

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Speaker 6: Oh no, Ranger, I didn't mean fresh scard reckon.

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Speaker 9: He looked that way for a long time, and when

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he left here, you drive on toward salt flights.

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Speaker 3: He sure did.

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Speaker 13: Wasn't nobody else in here when he's stopping her when

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he left?

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Speaker 3: So I didn't have.

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Speaker 6: Nothing much to do, and I was a watch him

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when he drove off.

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Speaker 8: He was going in the direction of the Ross ranch.

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All right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? But who was he?

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Speaker 8: That's what I'm gonna find out if I can. Bill

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Ross said he's a commercial artist, didn't he?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: Why because I want to bring him out here, get

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a detailed description of that face and see if Ross

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can draw something that comes close to it. We sent

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for Bill Ross, but before he joined us at the

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Sheriff's off there's something else turned up, a long distance

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call from capt'n Stinson.

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Speaker 11: We found out what that letter from Washington might have been. JS.

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Speaker 8: Good, cap'n let's have it.

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Speaker 12: Well, it might have been from the Veterans Administration answer

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to a letter Jed Ross wrote asking if they had

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any record of the United States Marine named.

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Speaker 8: Herbert wolfh What else?

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Speaker 11: Well?

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Speaker 12: For some reason, Ross wanted to know if there really

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had been a Herbert Walsh in the court, and especially

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if he'd been wounded, didn't hospitalized in the Solomon Islands.

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If the piece of paper you sent in might have

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come from the answer the vet's administration sent to Ross.

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Speaker 8: What was the answer?

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Speaker 11: There's no record of the Herbert wolfsh Jesse. Does it

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fit anything?

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Speaker 8: I don't know, Cavin, but the Ross has lost a

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daughter in the Solomons, a navy nurse. Bill Ross, just

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came in with the sheriff. I'll get on it, Bye bye, Jess. Ross.

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Does the name Herbert Walsh ring a bell with you?

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Speaker 14: Why?

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Speaker 7: Yes, yes, Ranger does My father told me about him

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in a letter two months ago. You know who he is? No,

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I never saw him. Folks wrote that he stopped by

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the ranch and told him My sister had taken care

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of him in the Solomon's before she got killed.

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Speaker 8: Is that all No?

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Speaker 7: According to my father's letter, Walsh gave my folks the

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idea that well, that he and my sister had been

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very close.

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Speaker 8: Had your sister ever mentioned him in letters to your

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folks when she was overseas?

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Speaker 3: They couldn't remember.

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Speaker 7: But we were awful fond of my kid's sister, Ranger.

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Speaker 3: Anybody who'd known her would have found an open door.

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Speaker 8: With my folks. Somebody had found one, all right?

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Speaker 11: Two?

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Speaker 8: Open? What do you mean there isn't any Herbert was,

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but my Paul gave him some money. When did he

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write to you about that?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 7: But I've just been going over my father's affairs in

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the past two months.

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Speaker 3: He loaned Wall several hundred dollars. I have the canceled checks.

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Speaker 8: Where are the checks at the.

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Speaker 3: Lawyer's office on the corner.

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Speaker 8: I want to see where those checks were cashed.

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Speaker 9: Come on, jeeh, did you figure this watch is a

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phony working in the old war? Buddy?

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Speaker 8: Of course he is, but with a new angle. A

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dead girl.

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Speaker 11: What do you mean?

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Speaker 8: I mean the families of servicemen and women open their

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hearts too easily, the strangers they think might have been

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close to somebody they loved.

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Speaker 3: You mean Walsh killed my family.

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Speaker 8: Your father must have suspected him. He wrote to Washington

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and found out Walsh had never been in the Solomon's

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or the Marines. When Walsh came the last time, your

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father called his hand with the letter he'd gotten from

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the VA.

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Speaker 5: Here's a building where the lawyer is.

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Speaker 3: Here the Czech stranger, four of them, total of six hundred.

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Speaker 8: Dollars endorsed by Walsh cashed for him by merchants in

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san and tone.

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Speaker 9: That car came from San Anton. Jason, that short fits it.

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Speaker 8: Sure does. Let's get out to that cafe and get

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that sketch drawn up. No, no, it it weren't quite

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like that.

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Speaker 6: Around the eyes.

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Speaker 13: There was uh marks around the eyebrows.

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Speaker 8: Uh, she means scar tissue.

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Speaker 3: M see your eyes deeper set then? Mm like this?

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Speaker 13: So ah sure were Uh the nose didn't come out

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so far. Had the a kind of a damp in

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the middle.

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Speaker 3: Mmkay, yeah like that.

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Speaker 6: Hey, that's fine, it's real good.

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Speaker 8: If somebody knew the man, would they recognize him from them?

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Speaker 3: Say?

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Speaker 13: Sure, Wood, that's almost a spitting image.

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Speaker 8: I'd say, thanks a lot, ma'am.

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Speaker 6: You sure welcome.

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Speaker 8: I'll take that bill. Thanks again.

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Speaker 3: Uh huh, come back, Well, he ain't.

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Speaker 5: The prettiest fella I ever saw.

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Speaker 7: I don't know my folks said that too, But Walsh

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told him he'd been in a jack prison camp and

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treated back Us was lying.

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Speaker 8: If waltsh is his real name.

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Speaker 5: Wester Gott beat up someplace.

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Speaker 8: Jason, Yeah, and I've got a hunch I know where.

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What do you think in a prize ring? The man

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who kills. Your cooks was a professional fighter.

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Speaker 5: You figure that just because of his face.

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Speaker 8: And one other thing. Don't forget that autopsy report, sheriff.

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Speaker 9: That's right, well you we remarked right then that the

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fellow who threw those punches knew what he was doing.

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Speaker 3: I should like to get my hands on him. Two

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old people getting them through my kid's sister.

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Speaker 8: I don't think about your own revenge. I'll take care

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of that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but no lock can bring them back to life.

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Speaker 8: I'll drop you the office. Bill you in the sheriff.

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I'll be in touch with you later. Where are you going,

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jas out of your territory? San Antono? Why come on

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christ for I want to fan Vata, come on, roll

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with it.

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Speaker 3: I's that let me see it, ranger.

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Speaker 8: I want seen that face before.

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Speaker 4: Sure, well, fend some time, but I used to train here,

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all right, heavyweight fight a man?

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Speaker 5: Hey, Pop, come here, coming right.

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Speaker 4: Papa's world's oldest fire fan knows every fighter in his

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record for the past fifty years.

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Speaker 3: Maybe he can tell you something.

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Speaker 14: You know, what can I do for you?

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Speaker 8: You know man who looks like this, Yeah, I seen

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him boy.

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Speaker 10: His name Walsh, Walsh, nothing and Jeddie Pooler. I never

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did him out anything, had a punch like a bullocks

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with no change, wide open for.

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Speaker 14: A left hook.

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Speaker 10: Had thirty one fights in the eyed up mine pop

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Hoola hoole range. You don't care about all life.

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Speaker 8: The main thing I want to know is when did

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you see him last?

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Speaker 14: Oh, six seven years ago?

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Speaker 8: That long ago, A.

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Speaker 10: Long enough to shoot me. Paula never should have been

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allowed in the ring. He wasn't the kind of fighter

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that loved the sport.

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Speaker 8: He liked to hit.

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Speaker 14: Him into ruin him next one.

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Speaker 8: And you have no idea where I might find it, well,

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not me. Well, thank you for your health.

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Speaker 11: Now you're welcome.

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Speaker 14: Strangers.

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Speaker 10: I show a lot of help, right, hey, hey, hey,

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wait a minute, Wait a minute, ranger, Yeah, I just remembered.

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Speaker 14: It was a girl Pola used to hang out with.

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Speaker 8: Name was.

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Speaker 10: Dolly, Dolly Richards. She might know where he is.

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Speaker 8: You know where I might find her where.

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Speaker 10: She used to work in the box office the Empire Theater.

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Speaker 14: That's all I know.

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Speaker 8: Thanks, I'll try.

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Speaker 14: You were ranning to arrest Eddie Poler.

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Speaker 8: That's my plan, all right, whiet.

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Speaker 10: Well, don't surprise me. None to understand, but let me

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give you some advice. Go ahead, watch yourself in the

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pinches if you find him, ranger, he's stuck with.

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Speaker 14: Nine miles on paved road.

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Speaker 10: He's bad medicine and he won't be fighting by the

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rule books if he knows you want him.

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Speaker 8: Thanks Pop, I'll be careful.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, being careful ain't enough.

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Speaker 14: Get off first. Remember he's a sucker for a left hook.

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Speaker 10: If he gets a chance to hit you good, he

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won't stop till he kills you.

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Speaker 8: I checked the Empire Theater for Pola's girl, Dolly Richards,

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but she hadn't been seen for years. I put through

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a call to headquarters asking him to check auto registration

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for one in Pola's name. It was late afternoon when

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Captain Stinson got back to me by phone.

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Speaker 11: The car he was using must have been stolen. JS,

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there's nothing registered in that name.

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Speaker 8: You checking for a criminal record on him?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, but there's nothing in this state. We're checking with

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other states, though I just said, teletypes off.

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Speaker 8: I'll have to wait a while then.

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Speaker 11: Nothing names you can do jas so long.

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Speaker 8: Hey, I wait a minute, Captain, what I take one

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more crack at the license bureau in Austin. See if

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they have a car registered to Dolly Richards.

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Speaker 12: Dolly Richards, who she jas full of the girlfriend she was.

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Speaker 8: Let's hope the torch is still burning. I didn't move

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from the phone until the Captain called back. This time

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he had something.

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Speaker 12: Here is geez, car registered to Donny Richards, Texas license

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T four nine seven five three. Our address is RFD

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number four on Farm Highway seventy three.

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Speaker 11: It's a turnoff north of Tilden.

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Speaker 8: That doesn't sound right to me, Captain, car I want

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had san and tone marked on the license plate frame.

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Speaker 11: That's still all.

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Speaker 5: Right, Geez.

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Speaker 12: Johnna Richards bought the car six months ago from a

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san Antone dealer.

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Speaker 11: Frame might have been on there.

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Speaker 8: That's better any out of state record on Pola?

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Speaker 3: Not yet?

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Speaker 11: You want to wait another hour or so?

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Speaker 8: No, you can give me word by short wave. I'm

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heading toward Tilden, KTXA Unit ten, Unit ten Go ahead

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kt X A report.

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Speaker 15: On subject Eddie Pola served three years Leavenworth impersonating Army

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office and using mails to the fraud, one year Oklahoma

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State Penitentiary for fraud, one year Louisiana.

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Speaker 8: Assault ten four Unit ten Claire Katy exy Austin. He

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took the turn off north of Tilden, headed for the

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sprawling country Ribbon By Farm Highway seventy three. It was

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midnight when my headlights picked out the mailbox and the

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named d Richard. I left the car and I rode

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and slipped up to the house.

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Speaker 2: It was dark.

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Speaker 13: I knocked, all right, all right, don't blow your top.

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Speaker 6: Got a tired kitty.

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Speaker 8: Oh isn't home? Euh, Paula.

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Speaker 6: I don't know anybody with that name.

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Speaker 8: You can save the static lady. Where was he last

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Saturday night?

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Speaker 6: Hey, I was right here with me during.

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Speaker 8: The late afternoon and evening.

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Speaker 5: You heard her right here, kitty.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know you was in.

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Speaker 6: He knocked, and I thought you forgot your kids.

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Speaker 8: Shut up, like we said, Ranger, I was here last Saturday.

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I know somebody who says you weren't described you well

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enough for this to be drawn. Good likeness, tool.

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Speaker 11: I was here.

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Speaker 8: What are you gonna prove with a drawing. I'm not

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gonna prove anything with a drawing, but I'm gonna have

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an eyewitness prove that you were near Salt Flat Saturday

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when Jed and Martha Ross were murdered.

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Speaker 3: Shut up, Dolly.

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Speaker 8: Forget to tell her about that part of it. And Paula,

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maybe you forgot to tell her about the checks to

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Herbert Walsh, the Marine, the VA never heard of. Where's

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that letter you ripped out of the old man's hand?

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Speaker 14: All right, Ranger, I'll show you.

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Speaker 8: Come in, eh, it's over here, old boyet sent antone.

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Jim told me you were open for a left hook, Polo,

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I don't try that again. Get on your feet and

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turn around, you too, man? Why mean so I can

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cuff you together?

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Speaker 6: What are you taking me, Paula.

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Speaker 8: For harboring a murderer? To give you a chance to

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decide whether you want to stick to your story or

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tell the truth? All right, move, Dolly.

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Speaker 4: Richards turned state's evidence against steady Pula. Paula was tried, convicted,

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and sentenced to death in the electric chair.

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Speaker 1: Now Here again is the star of our show, Joel McCrae.

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Speaker 8: Many years ago, a group of Texas Rangers had a

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showdown battle with a notorious band of killers. Several days later,

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the range assigned to the case staggered back to their headquarters,

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showing the marks of combat, many of them badly wounded.

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The captain of the company, too impatient to wait for

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a written report, went to the barracks where the men

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were cleaning up and tending to their wounds. What happened,

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the captain asked. There was silence for a moment as

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the rangers looked up at him. Finally one of them said,

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another much, cap, We had a little shooting match and

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they lost. Good night, folks, See you again, same time next.

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Speaker 2: Week, Next week Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of

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the case from the files of not Texas Rangers. Joel

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McCrae is currently seen starring in the Universal International Technicolor

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Productions Saddle Tramp. Tonight's cast included Tony Barrett, Paul Preeze,

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Mike Berrett, Tom Tully, Bill Johnstone, Byron Kane, and Virginia Great.

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This story was transcribed and adapted by Joel Murcott, and

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the program was produced and directed by Stacy Keach.

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Speaker 16: This is Hal give Me speaking, three Chimes being good

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Times on NBC. The Chimes are really excited about a

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big show. In fact, it's the Big Show an hour

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and a half every Sunday with Tallula Bankhead as FEMC

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and starring Jimmy Durretty, Fred Allen, Jack, Carson Graucho, Marx,

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Jose Ferrer, Meredith Wilson and many many more. All this

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and Tallula too, No wonder, it's the Big Show. The

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premiere date is Sunday, November fifth, just one.

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Speaker 3: Week from today.

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Speaker 4: Phil Harris reminding you that next it's Theater Guild on

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NBC