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Speaker 4: They events themselves are a matter of record.
Speaker 5: Tonight's case the Broken.
Speaker 6: Spurg Saturday night, June fifth, nineteen forty eight, the time
Speaker 6: ten pm, on a small ranch ten miles south of Cranston,
Speaker 6: Irwin County, Texas. Milton Thomas was counting a large sum
Speaker 6: of money aparatory.
Speaker 5: To locking it up to night.
Speaker 4: As he was counting, his dog Rags appeared to be nervous.
Speaker 4: Thomas tried to quiet drag stuff that you're making me
Speaker 4: count rough year one hundred.
Speaker 2: Night now stop it to kaap down.
Speaker 4: Who's there?
Speaker 2: What do you want? I want to.
Speaker 4: Seems to be a topfully don't like to be knocking
Speaker 4: at people's dark Give it about. What are you trying
Speaker 4: to get?
Speaker 7: Your dog?
Speaker 8: You'll get the same thing you wait, Matt dog, give
Speaker 8: me that money?
Speaker 9: No, no, I want you ask for it? No, no, no,
Speaker 9: all right.
Speaker 3: Tales of the Texas Rangers will continue in just a moment.
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Speaker 6: At ten thirty the same night, Milton Thomas's house was
Speaker 6: discovered on fire.
Speaker 4: Fire department was called.
Speaker 6: Next morning, the local sheriff, making a routine investigation, discovered
Speaker 6: the burnt remains of a broken chair next to Thomas's body.
Speaker 5: He ordered an autopsy.
Speaker 6: The results prompted him to call the Texas Rangers. Ranger
Speaker 6: Jase Pearson was assigned to the case and arrived at
Speaker 6: the scene of the fire early that afternoon.
Speaker 4: For hardy ranger. I'm Sheriff tax howdy, my name's Jace Pearson.
Speaker 4: Come on, I'll show you at the house, or what's
Speaker 4: left of it. All right, folks, step back, please, shouldn't
Speaker 4: have all these people walking around here, Sheriff ruin any
Speaker 4: footprints there might be. I had my deputy here at
Speaker 4: least a few minutes ago, Pearson, I send him down
Speaker 4: to get some coffee here. All right, folks, step back
Speaker 4: away from the house, all of you. I'll get back
Speaker 4: to the fan. Please. All burned out except for the wall,
Speaker 4: but you may find something you said when you called
Speaker 4: you didn't think it was an accident. I've been sheriff
Speaker 4: here for eighteen years and I'll stake my reputation here.
Speaker 4: It was it was ours to cover murder. Base that
Speaker 4: on the autopsy yep. Coroner couldn't find any trace of
Speaker 4: the carbon daniels in the bronchial passages or lungs, and
Speaker 4: only the normal amount of carbon monoxide in the lone, indicating.
Speaker 5: Milk Thomas wasn't breathing when the fire started.
Speaker 4: Right, this was the front door burned off the hinges
Speaker 4: and fell off. That's funny. But a lock on this
Speaker 4: door special kind takes a key on both sides. When
Speaker 4: the door's shut, you have to have a key to
Speaker 4: get out of the house as well as in Oh that, yeah,
Speaker 4: milk was a funny. Old Gluop had them put on
Speaker 4: both doors. The windows had trick locks too. Why well,
Speaker 4: folks say, kept a lot of money.
Speaker 5: In the house.
Speaker 4: Maybe just a story. This lock's still working. Let's look
Speaker 4: at the back door. Oh, here's what's left. The milk's
Speaker 4: whole iron safe open like that when you found it.
Speaker 4: Yeap empty too, And this lock's not forced or broken.
Speaker 4: Kind of hard to tell much about anything after the
Speaker 4: roofs felling. Yeah, it's a mess, all right, same kind
Speaker 4: of lock here on the back door.
Speaker 5: It's working too.
Speaker 4: Meaning whoever started the fire was locked in. I look here,
Speaker 4: whoever it was, here's where he went out. See that
Speaker 4: window glass outside on the ground. Climb out and look
Speaker 4: see he didn't break it. It's not crazed. It was
Speaker 4: knocked out from inside. And do you think the killer
Speaker 4: was trapped inside? Could have been after he set fire
Speaker 4: to the place. How about footprints, sheriff, there's thousands of
Speaker 4: volunteer firemen tramps around Alder and the fire.
Speaker 5: Wait, wait, here's something.
Speaker 10: Huh looks like a spur row.
Speaker 4: Exactly what it is? Broken off a spur right low
Speaker 4: where the window was. Maybe he busted off by a
Speaker 4: man jumping out the window with his tail feathers unfair?
Speaker 4: Maybe I don't envy an unpeershon. I'll come well as
Speaker 4: a clue. The spur row is probably mighty important.
Speaker 5: But what, Sheriff, I was just thinking.
Speaker 4: There probably ain't over ten million spurs in the state
Speaker 4: of Texas with rowles just like the one you got
Speaker 4: there in your hand. Your figure may be a little high, Sheriff,
Speaker 4: But I get your point. He said, Hey, Jack, Yeah,
Speaker 4: what do you think you're doing? Jack? What's the matter, Sheriff?
Speaker 4: You know, darn well, what's the matter? I told you
Speaker 4: to keep back. I was just looking around. I'll stop
Speaker 4: kicking around. Those ashes and the rest of you. That's
Speaker 4: evidence you're tramping on. We didn't mean no harm. I'll
Speaker 4: listen all of you, So last time, I'm going to
Speaker 4: tell you, how'd you like it if we thought one
Speaker 4: of you was the criminal coming back to the scene
Speaker 4: of the crime and deliberately trying to destroy evidence? Okay,
Speaker 4: then get back or get off the property. All the
Speaker 4: guy books say that's generally not true. Sheriff, Huh about
Speaker 4: the criminal and the scene of the crime happens only
Speaker 4: once in a thousand times.
Speaker 5: Oh, I know it.
Speaker 4: I just want to throw a scare into him. I see. Oh,
Speaker 4: by the way, who was that fellow you were talking
Speaker 4: to him? It names Casey, Jack Casey. The sheriff and
Speaker 4: I went over the yard thoroughly that any footprints the
Speaker 4: murderer might have left were trampled out by the fireman
Speaker 4: and the onlookers. Finally, some distance from the house, I
Speaker 4: found the place I was looking for, Sheriff. Huh, I'm
Speaker 4: over here.
Speaker 7: What is it?
Speaker 4: Look here's where he took off from hoof. Prince dug
Speaker 4: out in an awful hurry too, and his horse tethered
Speaker 4: to this tree. Seems to me any man who had
Speaker 4: legitimate business at the house would have night up closer. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's logical.
Speaker 5: Look here, horse chewed on the tree. Might be a quibber.
Speaker 4: We find our man will likely find a horse that
Speaker 4: chews on his feed. Bend. See these tracks head west
Speaker 4: towards Snake Creek. You got a horse, sheriff, I can
Speaker 4: get one good.
Speaker 5: I'll get mine out of the trailer.
Speaker 4: We're gonna follow those hoof prints. Hold a sheriff, keep
Speaker 4: your horse off that bank. Why what's the mass bootprints?
Speaker 4: Good fresh ones? I thought for a many gypsy anda moccasin.
Speaker 4: This stream's full of cotton. I'll take my kit make
Speaker 4: some flaster molds of these prints. He dismounted here and
Speaker 4: let his horse across. Yeah, probably afraid of slip on
Speaker 4: those flat moussy rocks and small foot about size seven
Speaker 4: or eight, i'd say on track pattern too. Not likely
Speaker 4: he was toting a heavy load. Probably a fat man.
Speaker 5: Fat?
Speaker 4: Yeah, look at his tracks, deef, even in the dry places.
Speaker 4: I make tracts as deep asos way over two hundred.
Speaker 4: But I ain't exactly fat. No, you're not fat, Sheriff.
Speaker 4: But what sized boot do you wear? Eleven and a half?
Speaker 4: If you ever see a man your height, make a
Speaker 4: footprint this small? Come to think of it, I don't
Speaker 4: close every dear.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute.
Speaker 4: That man who was poking around the ashes back at
Speaker 4: the house, Casey wasn't, Yeah, Jack Casey, what about him?
Speaker 4: He's fat, Sheriff? Was he driving a car or riding
Speaker 4: in case? He was riding his old paint Mayre say
Speaker 4: she's a quibber.
Speaker 5: Then I'm gonna need a warrant.
Speaker 4: As soon as I get this mold, I'm heading for
Speaker 4: town sheriff. Either the books are wrong or this Casey
Speaker 4: is one in a thousand. Yeah, operator, operator, this is
Speaker 4: Jack Casey again. What about that call I've been trying
Speaker 4: to get through for the last hour and a half. Yeah,
Speaker 4: money Texas, the Devill's Hallmill Company. I know it Sunday,
Speaker 4: but somebody bound?
Speaker 7: What are you doing with that gun?
Speaker 5: Oh shoe?
Speaker 4: Operator? Hello? Operator? And you said you'd call me back
Speaker 4: every twenty minutes. It was over a half hour last time.
Speaker 4: Well keep trying.
Speaker 7: Jack, who you're trying to call? And what are you
Speaker 7: doing with your shotgun?
Speaker 5: Leave me alone, Martha?
Speaker 7: Where your Bensin's noon? You were supposed to meet me
Speaker 7: at the Tates for dinner.
Speaker 4: I know it, I know it. OHO's that Texas Raider? Jack?
Speaker 4: What have you done?
Speaker 7: Put that gun away?
Speaker 4: Get in the back room. You ain't fixing the shoes him?
Speaker 4: Are you? If I have to Jack, don't to me, Jack,
Speaker 4: hold it wringer here you are. Put that gun down, Katie,
Speaker 4: you're not coming in here. I got a warrant here
Speaker 4: says I can, and I am shot. Put it down?
Speaker 4: You are right, ma'am?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I'm all right.
Speaker 4: Shotgun is a nasty thing to carry around cocked. I'll
Speaker 4: just take this. I want to look around a little.
Speaker 4: That's your bedroom? Yeah, come on, paint mayor outside yours?
Speaker 4: Yes it is.
Speaker 5: These are your boots?
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: How'd you break this? Spur?
Speaker 4: Eh?
Speaker 5: Didn't know it was broken. I'll take these boots along.
Speaker 7: Do you want me to get a check?
Speaker 5: No, somebody gonna answer it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 4: Hello? What never mind?
Speaker 5: Catching it?
Speaker 4: You better come along with me, Casey, what's this all about? Ranger?
Speaker 4: Where are you taking? Jack? He thinks somebody killed Milk
Speaker 4: Thomas the exact he thinks I did.
Speaker 5: Oh, you seem to know some of the answers.
Speaker 4: Some of them. Before we go, Ranger, I'd like to
Speaker 4: ask you one question. Sure, what time did this so
Speaker 4: called murder take place?
Speaker 5: About ten o'clock last night?
Speaker 4: Ten o'clock. Well, that's the handles Martin. Suppose I can
Speaker 4: prove where it was last night. We're just as anxious
Speaker 4: to prove a man innocent as guilty.
Speaker 5: Casey, do you have any witnesses?
Speaker 4: About three hundred of them? At ten o'clock last night,
Speaker 4: I was sitting in the Cranston High School auditorium watching
Speaker 4: my niece graduate.
Speaker 3: In just a moment, we continue with Tales of the
Speaker 3: Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 4: If a man rides herd on one hundred head of
Speaker 4: cattle all day, first he needs his wheaties. Yes. And
Speaker 4: if a man sits behind a big desk and pushes
Speaker 4: buttons on his job, first, he needs his wheaties. And listen, Mamma,
Speaker 4: you too, if you keep track of a couple of
Speaker 4: growing up kids, and wash dishes and make beds.
Speaker 5: On your job.
Speaker 4: First, you need your wheaties jump whatever your job, wherever
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Speaker 4: Do that at seven and see how much better you're
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Speaker 4: At eleven, Casey stuck to the alibi that he'd been
Speaker 4: at the graduation the night before, and I already had
Speaker 4: enough evidence to take him in. While the sheriff was
Speaker 4: out asking questions around town, I tried to break down
Speaker 4: Casey's star. I tell you I was there, all right,
Speaker 4: Take it easy, Casey.
Speaker 5: Let's assume for a minute you were.
Speaker 4: And how do you count for the boot prints made
Speaker 4: by your boots and found near the scene of the crime.
Speaker 4: Lots of people wear boots. Could have been anybody, I'm
Speaker 4: afraid not.
Speaker 5: You see.
Speaker 4: I made plaster cast of those prints, and the boots,
Speaker 4: the ones you admitted were yours, matched the prince to
Speaker 4: the last nailmark. Well, I've tramped around this part of
Speaker 4: the country a lot of times.
Speaker 5: They could have been old prince. Huh huhm.
Speaker 4: These were fresh prints. Well, what about it?
Speaker 5: I don't know? All right? Then?
Speaker 4: What about the row we found just outside Thomas House,
Speaker 4: one broken off your spur? I don't know anything about
Speaker 4: that either. There's no point in withholding information, Casey. You
Speaker 4: know we'll find out about it sooner or later. How
Speaker 4: you doing, Pierson? Casey decided to come too, aunt? Ye?
Speaker 5: What about the niche sheriff.
Speaker 4: The neighbors say she and her family left on a
Speaker 4: vacation early this morning.
Speaker 5: You know anything about that, Casey.
Speaker 4: No, too bad, because I've had several interesting chests. Casey.
Speaker 4: I've just talked to four people who were at the
Speaker 4: graduation exercise last night, four people who know you, and
Speaker 4: not one of them remember seeing you there. I was
Speaker 4: at the high school last night, I tell you, Casey.
Speaker 4: The Sheriff's talked to four people who didn't see you. Well,
Speaker 4: who did?
Speaker 5: I don't know?
Speaker 4: Were dark in the auditorium. Didn't you speak to anybody?
Speaker 4: No thing had already started. And wait a minute, yeah,
Speaker 4: I talked to one of the ushers.
Speaker 5: What was his name?
Speaker 4: Wasn't it him? It was to her one of the
Speaker 4: high school girls. He was wearing a long pink dress. Sheriff,
Speaker 4: who's the principal of the high school? Mister shot Warren? Shot?
Speaker 5: All right? Locked, Casey.
Speaker 4: Up, I'm going to find out who the ushers were,
Speaker 4: and especially the little girl with a long pink dress.
Speaker 11: Why why, Yes, sir, I remember mister Casey being there
Speaker 11: with missus Casey.
Speaker 4: Are you sure, Elma, this is very important?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 11: I'm sure they came in late and had to wait
Speaker 11: until the invocation was over, and then he asked for
Speaker 11: an Aisle'll see he said he couldn't climb over people.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, yeah, I know. And he didn't leave
Speaker 4: at any time during the exercises.
Speaker 7: Not until near the end.
Speaker 11: They left just before the recessional while everybody was standing
Speaker 11: and singing the class song.
Speaker 5: What time was that?
Speaker 1: Oh a few minutes before eleven?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Thank you very much? Good bye.
Speaker 4: Was I any help, Ranger?
Speaker 5: Yes, Lma, you were a big help. I was stuck.
Speaker 4: It looked like I was gonna have to release Casey,
Speaker 4: and I remembered something. The phone call that came in
Speaker 4: while I was out at Casey's place, the one he'd
Speaker 4: been reluctant to answer. I dropped by the Cranston telephone office.
Speaker 4: This is the call you wanted, Ranger. What was it?
Speaker 1: Mister Jack Casey placed a call to the Della Sawmill
Speaker 1: Company in Money, Texas at two twenty two pm today.
Speaker 1: There was no answer, and when the money operator did
Speaker 1: get through, she called back at three forty, but mister
Speaker 1: Casey had canceled it.
Speaker 5: Do you know who the call was for?
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, it was person to person of mister Ben Casey.
Speaker 1: Ben Casey, mister Jack Casey's son son.
Speaker 5: But do you know him?
Speaker 4: I used to when well, we went to high school together.
Speaker 1: Some of my girlfriends and I used to go places
Speaker 1: with Ben's bunch, but my mother made me stop. She
Speaker 1: said he wasn't the kind of boy that girl should
Speaker 1: run around with.
Speaker 5: I see, and.
Speaker 1: He finally left home. Couldn't get along with his stepmother.
Speaker 4: Oh then missus Casey's not his mother. Oh no, ranger.
Speaker 4: They used to fight all go on.
Speaker 5: This may be very important.
Speaker 1: Well, I heard that she and Ben fought all the time,
Speaker 1: and then one day after they had a big fight,
Speaker 1: Ben packed up and left.
Speaker 5: Well when was this?
Speaker 4: I reckon It was a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: He went down to Monee then and got a job
Speaker 1: at that sawmill there.
Speaker 5: What does this Ben look like?
Speaker 1: He's a spitting image of his father and Justice fat too.
Speaker 5: Have you seen him lately?
Speaker 4: I saw him at the bus station. His father came
Speaker 4: and picked him up.
Speaker 1: When let's see day before yesterday, Friday.
Speaker 4: There was no doubt now why Jack Casey wasn't talking.
Speaker 4: He was protecting his own son. I put a call
Speaker 4: through to missus Casey and met her at the Sheriff's office.
Speaker 7: I ain't saying this because he ain't my flesh and
Speaker 7: blood ranger. But Ben's bad through and through. I might
Speaker 7: have known he was the one killed Milk.
Speaker 4: Tom Us Uh, missus Casey, tell me about Ben.
Speaker 5: He came in Friday, didn't he.
Speaker 7: Yeah, come in on the bus and stayed over Saturday.
Speaker 7: He wanted to borrow money. He's always broke gambles.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 4: Pearson picked him up a couple of times for gambling.
Speaker 5: Go on, miss Casey.
Speaker 7: Well, like I say, he wanted to borrow fifty dollars
Speaker 7: from Jack, but Jack didn't have it. He just paid
Speaker 7: off a note to Milk Thomas, and he was kind
Speaker 7: of strapped.
Speaker 5: Oh, your husband owed Thomas money.
Speaker 7: Yes, but it was the last payment. Jack was joking
Speaker 7: about how Thomas always wanted cash money, didn't trust Jacks.
Speaker 5: Did Ben hear him say this?
Speaker 7: He sure did, Sheriff. And then he sucked around all
Speaker 7: day Saturday until we was getting ready to go to
Speaker 7: the commencement that night. And just before we left, he
Speaker 7: said he was going to use Jack's.
Speaker 4: Horse to go for a ride at night.
Speaker 7: Yeah, seems strange to me too, And then he asked
Speaker 7: could he borrow a pair of Jack's boots. He was
Speaker 7: wearing flatteel shoes.
Speaker 4: They wear the same size, oh have ever since I
Speaker 4: can remember. Well.
Speaker 7: Anyway, we went onto the grind graduation, and when we
Speaker 7: got home, the mayor was in the barn, still saddled,
Speaker 7: all sweaty. Look I she'd been run almost to death,
Speaker 7: and Jack's boots were tossed on the floor, and Ben
Speaker 7: was gone.
Speaker 4: All right, miss Kasey, that's all for now, and thanks,
Speaker 4: you're welcome. Come on, sheriff, we're going on a little trip.
Speaker 4: Sheriff taxon and I piled into my car and headed
Speaker 4: for Monee. As soon as we got out on the highway,
Speaker 4: I put in a call to my headquarters, Unit ten
Speaker 4: to KTXA, Unit ten to KTXA, KTXA to Unit ten,
Speaker 4: go ahead, Unit ten leaving Cranston State Highway twenty two
Speaker 4: un to Monee, investigating murder suspect believed in vicinity of
Speaker 4: Delta Sawmill. We'll keep KTXA informed. Unit ten ten to four.
Speaker 5: Okay, kt x A bustin. You know young Casey by sight,
Speaker 5: don't you washed him?
Speaker 4: Grow up good? If he's gone and we have to
Speaker 4: comb for him, I don't want to turn up the
Speaker 4: wrong fat man again. Oh, you'd know him now after
Speaker 4: seeing his father. Except for age. They're the same, you mean,
Speaker 4: except for age and the fact that the young one's
Speaker 4: a murderer. When we reached the sawmill, the moon was up.
Speaker 5: Afore moon.
Speaker 4: There was a light burning through the wind of one
Speaker 4: shack at the edge of the camp.
Speaker 5: We pulled up there and got out of the car
Speaker 5: and went in.
Speaker 4: Well, how to range his share? We're looking for a
Speaker 4: man named Casey. Ben Casey, Yeah, you're on. I don't
Speaker 4: know for sure, sleeps in the big bunk house down
Speaker 4: the line. Which bunk I'll show you if you lie fine, sheriff.
Speaker 4: Maybe you better take a look through the mess hall.
Speaker 4: Fat boy like him might be fixing a late snack.
Speaker 4: If you don't find him, come up and meet me.
Speaker 4: And if you do find him, call me before you
Speaker 4: try and take him. Right bunk houses this way. No
Speaker 4: light in the place. Well, some of the boys was
Speaker 4: going into town for moonlight dance. Don't know Ben went
Speaker 4: with him or has he been packing any money that
Speaker 4: you know of?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, come think of it. He had quite a bit,
Speaker 4: said he hit it lucky in the dice game and
Speaker 4: that Oh he did get it in the dice game.
Speaker 4: Didn't If he did, the other fellow never got a
Speaker 4: chance to roll him.
Speaker 5: Oh? Here, will I light this lamb for you? Ben
Speaker 5: sleeps in that third bunk on the right. Thanks. I'll
Speaker 5: wait for him, all right.
Speaker 4: I'll get back to my books and just entering the
Speaker 4: shipment that's been hauled out tonight. That's why you found
Speaker 4: me working. Go ahead, but if you see Casey.
Speaker 5: Don't mention I'm here.
Speaker 4: The foreman went back to his shack and I ripped
Speaker 4: Ben Casey's bunk apart. There was nothing in the bunk
Speaker 4: of the covering. I dragged a foot locker out from
Speaker 4: underneath and was bending over it up with him. Don't
Speaker 4: turn around there. What are you doing here? If you're
Speaker 4: Ben Casey, you know what I'm doing. This is the
Speaker 4: end of the road, boy, I'll take that landin.
Speaker 5: I'd be careful with that.
Speaker 4: Ben. Remember what happened the last time you dropped the lantern.
Speaker 4: You're pretty smart, ain't you?
Speaker 5: Mischief?
Speaker 8: But I'm smart too. Here's a present for you.
Speaker 4: The lantern at the edge of the bunk, and the
Speaker 4: flaming kerosene splashed over me. I beat the flames off
Speaker 4: of my hands and dope for the door. He rammed
Speaker 4: something against the outside of it. When I forced it open,
Speaker 4: I stumble over a heavy logged bench he used as
Speaker 4: a barricade.
Speaker 9: Casey you see himself for somebody rut off that way
Speaker 9: for the rail side and let's go.
Speaker 4: We spotted him swinging up the side of a flat cars.
Speaker 4: The train hit the main line and started to roll.
Speaker 4: We grabbed on to one of the last cars and
Speaker 4: scrambled to the top and started to work our way forward.
Speaker 4: There he is about five cars ahead.
Speaker 5: I can't see him.
Speaker 4: Kerosene starts my eyes see us all right, he shoo
Speaker 4: prop flat. We'll crawl up on him. He can't go
Speaker 4: any farther than the length of the train. There he goes,
Speaker 4: he's jumping. I see him. I'm going after him.
Speaker 2: I'm coming with you.
Speaker 4: Get down, sir, stop give me see nobody's close about
Speaker 4: ten yards in, not moving. Keep low. We're silhouetted. Good
Speaker 4: against this clarity. What you do, Pierson, take an old
Speaker 4: my jacket. See if you can find a stick about
Speaker 4: five feet long. Here's a dead branch. This dude, fine,
Speaker 4: give it to me.
Speaker 7: What do you fixing to do.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna put this branch to my coat sleeves like
Speaker 4: this here. When I tell you hold it up, I
Speaker 4: get him something for him to shoot at. Right, I'll
Speaker 4: fired his gun flash All right, Casey, come on with
Speaker 4: your hands up. It's your last chance. Casey. Okay, Sheriff,
Speaker 4: lift the coat, you got it? Come on, Okudy, please
Speaker 4: please give me a chance like you gave milk Thomas.
Speaker 4: It was a short train ride, Casey, but I got
Speaker 4: a hunch you'll get a longer one soon.
Speaker 5: Come on in.
Speaker 6: Casey confessed to the murder of mil Thomas. On August two,
Speaker 6: nineteen forty eight. He entered Huntsville Penitentiary. His sentence life imprisonment.
Speaker 4: Joel McCrae. That was a great show tonight, Whedi's and
Speaker 4: I are proud of you. Thank you, Frank, I'd like
Speaker 4: to please the customers. Well, now, so do why take
Speaker 4: Wheedy's for instance, Frank, are you going to say that
Speaker 4: wheatyes taste good? Well yes, I was going to touch
Speaker 4: on that. And are you going to say that wheties
Speaker 4: are good for people? Yes, yes, I was going to
Speaker 4: say just there anything else? Well, no, I guess that
Speaker 4: just about covers of Joel, except to accept telling people
Speaker 4: to get some.
Speaker 5: That's it, Ad.
Speaker 4: You know, well that's easy, Frank. I'm a wheati's eater myself.
Speaker 4: You hear that, Folks, You too can be a wheaties
Speaker 4: eater as early as tomorrow morning Breakfast of Champions.
Speaker 5: You know, get some.
Speaker 4: Next week.
Speaker 3: Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a case from
Speaker 3: the files of not Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed
Speaker 3: and adapted by David Bruce and produced and directed.
Speaker 5: By Stacy Keach hel give.
Speaker 4: Me speaking, And this is the Wheaties Man, Frank Marsham
Speaker 4: inviting you to listen Monday night to Frank Lovejoy and
Speaker 4: Night Beat on the Wheaties Big Parade. See you.
Speaker 10: Then tomorrow there's good listening with the Summer Symphony on
Speaker 10: npc
Speaker 5: BO