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

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the Texas Rangers. Tonight transcribe from Hollywood another authentic reenactment

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of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers.

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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 party 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 names, dates and places, star,

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big fishes, more obvious reasons they have manage themselves are

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a matter of record.

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Speaker 2: Case for Tonight Christmas Present.

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Speaker 3: It is two pm December twenty first, four days before Christmas,

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in the depression year of nineteen thirty one, on a

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city street corner in North Texas, A man dressed as

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Santa Claus suddenly leaves his post beside a large red

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pot labeled Helpful Pool. Shivering with cold, he enters the

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newly opened building of the Panhandle Equity Bank and approaches

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the bank guard.

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Speaker 2: Say Master, you might if I stay here a few minutes.

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Speaker 4: Warm up a little.

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Speaker 2: I sure don't. I've been watching you through the window.

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Don't know how you stood it as long.

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Speaker 4: As you did.

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Speaker 3: Oh this Haanta Claus out is pretty warm at first,

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then a cold sort of creeps in on you.

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Speaker 2: How long they expect you to stand out in the

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eight two six?

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Speaker 4: That's all.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's two o'clock right now. You can go home,

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not till my relief man shows up. I can't. Can't

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later he gets here. Some money in the pot out there. Oh, well,

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why don't you wait right in here till you see

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I was.

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Speaker 3: Hoping you'd say that, because I'm sure. Oh that is now,

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just drove up in a car. Oh he can't leave

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a car park there in front of the bank. There's

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a time limit on parking.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think he's just wondering why I'm not there.

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I better go out and oh he sees me. He's

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coming in.

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Speaker 3: Hardy was wondering when you get here, God, let me

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come in warm up.

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Speaker 2: I hope you're saying the Claus suit as warmer and his.

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We'll be closed up by the time you need woman.

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Speaker 5: I don't think I'll get very cold. I got a

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cold forty five mic pocket point the right for you, belly,

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I don't move.

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Speaker 2: For don't move, he said, keep your hand awaking your gun.

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You guys are pulling the stick up.

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Speaker 3: No, Ki, you figure that all out for yourself, stupid.

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Let's make it a nice quiet stick up. Just walk

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to the red of the bank with this. Take us

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through the door to the money and the board. Now

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go on, and you'll never get away with this. You

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just trying to track any attention. You never lived to

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know whether we're do or not.

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Speaker 4: All right, open that door.

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Speaker 2: The girl by the desk and open it. It's button control.

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Well I tell her you want end me?

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Speaker 4: Miss Keene. Oh I'm sorry, mister, love it you Santa

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Claus friends coming in with you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, where's the busy? I didn't even notice it? Something

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wrong with you?

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Speaker 5: Love it?

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Speaker 2: You look kind of sick. You'd be more than sick

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if you let out one year they got guns in

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their pockets, Maschine.

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Speaker 4: Watch your mouth, sister.

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Speaker 2: Nobody else can see us.

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Speaker 4: Something Dick is gone.

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Speaker 2: But I got it, my sister. Whether he loves or

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others up to you. Understand. What do you want me

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to do?

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Speaker 4: Open the keys of those money trays, get.

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Speaker 2: To it, all right? You got the sack, tell her what.

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Speaker 5: To put in it, and stuff it into your jacket

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when you're through, all right, and remember sis one yapping

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this your gets it?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm on a seven the sack. What are

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you gonna do when you leave? Come on fast? What

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do you mean will give you a chance to get away?

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I mean we won't yell or anything until you're gone punished.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's really nicee you. Maybe you ought to

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be wearing the Santa Claus suit instead of me. I

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think I'm gonna afford her for you or PULLI. One

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of the bank executives is heading badge here.

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Speaker 4: All right, all right, I'm.

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Speaker 3: Almost through soon as I did it in my bad

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What are you doing back here?

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Speaker 2: Love it? Why aren't you out front? Leads of Santa

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Claus fellows, Mister Peabody just wanted to go. What's the

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other one doing in the wall?

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Speaker 4: There?

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Speaker 2: The scheme worker?

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Speaker 5: Good answer this question later winning if he comes to

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congratulations on your self control, you're liable to get middles

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for saving your own lives.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's leave these people the quiet week.

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Speaker 3: Texas Ranger Jason Pearson closest unit to the scene, of

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the crime was requested to investigate.

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Speaker 2: The chief police gave me the general details. I'd like

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to get your story firsthand.

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Speaker 6: Well, I saw the guard take them through there, ranger,

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and I went back to see why I was leaving

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his post on the bank floor, and that's when I

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got hit.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any idea how big they were?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 4: I know, I'm too excited.

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Speaker 6: I see what's your name, Leon Peabody, I'm second vice president.

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Speaker 2: How about the girl, miss Keane and the guard love it?

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Speaker 4: Both of them were knocked out too.

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Speaker 6: Miss Keene finally came to and we sent her home,

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but they took Love to the hospital. He wasn't in

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good sheepe scull fracture. They don't know how come you

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stayed around. It's a nasty bump you got. I feel

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it too, plenty, But I knew the police would need

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whatever information he is, so I steed you.

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Speaker 2: Better sit down.

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Speaker 4: Oh thanks.

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Speaker 2: You think you could recognize either of the hold up

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men just the way they were, I'm free not just

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since they chucked those Santa suits right after they left here.

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I hope they left a few fingerprints.

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Speaker 4: Both of them were wearing gloves.

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Speaker 2: You get itally on how much they made off with.

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Speaker 6: We're running a teapot. We'll know in a couple of minutes.

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Men who pulled this job worked pretty smoothly. They seem

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to know the set up behind the petitions. There have

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any of your employees ever been in any trouble?

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Speaker 4: Those men weren't employees of the bank.

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Speaker 2: I know they weren't, but somebody inside could have supplied

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them with your new layout help them plan the job.

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Speaker 6: Those all of our employees have been with us for

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at these years, and we haven't taken on any new

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ones since we moved.

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Speaker 4: Over here two months ago. Mister Peabody. Oh yes, donalie.

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Speaker 2: Is that the rundown?

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Speaker 5: Yes, sixty three hundred, and we've got serial numbers on

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some of the larger buildings.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll help if they try to pass any I'll

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take a copy of that list. Police can alert the

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other banks and merchants. We'll get numbers out on the

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state wide and netter state.

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Speaker 5: We may run down some more serial numbers when we

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of course checked your positive.

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Speaker 2: I think you ought to go home now, mister Peabody.

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We can reach you there if you needed.

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Speaker 4: Oh, thank you. I guess I shouldn't even think about

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myself though I'm a bachelor. But the God love it.

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Speaker 2: He's got a wife and treat children.

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Speaker 6: Could he rotten Christmas present for them if he doesn't

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pull through.

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Speaker 2: I paid a call on Miss Keane, the girl who

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had been slugged, but she was in the state of

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shock and hysteria. By nightfall, all possible angles had been

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checked and we still didn't have a lead. My boss ranger,

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Captain Stinson, flew in and I met him at the

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airport and drove into town.

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Speaker 7: You talked to all the welfare agencies that have Santa

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Claus's stationed on the streets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, every man they have checked out clean. It was

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a phony set up, Captain, even though one of the

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bandits spent the whole day right out in the corner

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outside the bank.

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Speaker 7: Oh that was smart. The bank god used to seeing him. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: City police are checking to see if they can find

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out where the suits came from and who got them.

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Good idea. How's the bank guard doing? Love it? I

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checked the hospital. He's still out, no fracture, but they

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can't bring him around. He may have that's yours, Jason. Yeah,

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Unit ten, go ahead kt X.

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Speaker 3: A city police report stolen car found an alley.

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Speaker 2: Off Crockett Street between Maple and Lolly.

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Speaker 3: Maybe car used in penhandle equity bank rubbery.

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Speaker 2: Police Chief request your assistance ten four proceeding there immediately

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ten four unit ten clear, Katy x Austin. We better

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get there fast. This may be the break we need.

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Speaker 4: Here.

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Speaker 6: It is Rangers expanded in the alley for all cause

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fun didn't check the license of the stolen car?

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Speaker 2: Is when was it reported? Stolen?

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Speaker 6: Chief heard it this morning, says it might have been

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missing suggesterday.

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Speaker 4: He's been away.

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Speaker 2: You check on him.

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Speaker 4: Yep, he's clear. That's where he said he was.

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Speaker 2: What makes you fellas think this is the car?

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Speaker 4: Found? This on the floor under the seat begad.

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Speaker 2: Button off a Santa suit. All right, I'm going to

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climb in behind the wheel for a second. Ask one

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of the men in the proud car to flash his

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light this way.

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Speaker 4: Sure, let's have a spotlight here with you boys.

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Speaker 2: Okay, kay they do Ranger, Yeah that's fine. Hey, if

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any of your men moved this rare vision mirror, Chief doop.

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How about this front seat you slide it back to

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get that button you found?

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Speaker 6: Who just saw it under there? And reached in and

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got it. What are you trying to figure, Jason?

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Speaker 2: The last fellow drove this car was pretty big, about

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an inch or inch and a half taller than I am.

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What makes you think so, because the seat's all the

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way back where it would be for tall driver, and

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I have to raise myself a bit to get a

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clear view through the rare vision mirror. Eh, that's good thinking, Jess.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but maybe he didn't touch anything. Maybe he left

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the car just like it was when he stole it.

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Speaker 2: I'll give odds against that. A man who's getting away

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from a bank stick up wants to know what's coming

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behind him. All roads out of the city had been

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under watch since the report of the robbery, so the

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men we were after figure to be close by, but

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all we knew was that one of them was about

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six foot three. In the morning, we made a routine

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check with police headquarters.

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Speaker 7: Morning Rangers, Morning, Chief, you men, come across anything, We're

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just gonna check through.

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Speaker 6: This report tells us locations. Just about every sent a

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close suit in town. All of them belonged to organizations

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using them for the Christmas parties. Was once in a

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while they led some private individual bomber kid party or

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something as if they put up deposit.

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Speaker 4: Bunny, You've got.

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Speaker 2: A list of the places that have loan suits out

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and who got them.

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Speaker 4: They're top paper who just tried to check it? Look

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if you liked thanks.

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Speaker 6: It's like we might be adding the murder charge to

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the armed drugbery captain a bank god bad. Not yet,

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but it looks bad. Yeah, up reading for a blood

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club on the brein.

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Speaker 2: He's wait a minute, what is it, Jess. I think

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we've got a boy to talk to. Look at this list.

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Two suits borrowed from two different organizations, but both borrowed

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by the same man, Anthony Ross one two four petagrossas Street.

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Speaker 7: Say that's worth looking into, Jess. Come on, let's pick

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him up.

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Speaker 8: 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 Christmas Present, an authentic story from the piles

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of the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: The home of Anthony Ross at one two four Petagross

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Street turned out to be a rundown shack on the

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outskirts of town. A small boy and girl not dressed

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well enough against the cold, stopped playing with a mongrel dog.

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As we drove up, they stared at us. One we

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went up the rickety porch, the dog barking at our heels.

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It's all right, boys, all right, tket easy, good pairs

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of good.

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Speaker 6: Yeah what oh Texas Rangers you Anthony Ross, Yeah, we would.

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Speaker 2: Like to come in. Oh sure, Annie, you and Jim.

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Speaker 7: Take the dog on the back of the house and

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play there.

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Speaker 2: Look at those soup boxes. Jeez, I see him. What

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do you want to see me about it? We can

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start with those boxes on the table. What's in him?

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I don't I don't know. Just just a couple of packages.

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That's all. These They ain't mine. You better open them up, juice.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, no, no, no, wait a minute, I tell you

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they ain't mine.

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Speaker 2: You got no right to this.

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Speaker 4: Search.

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Speaker 2: Warr And says we have search war. Now. Look, those

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things ain't stolen. They were rented. A couple of Santa suits.

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All right, captain. Look a button missing from the jacket

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of this one.

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Speaker 6: I don't know what this is all about. Why are you?

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Maybe we can refresh your memory. The guard you s

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lugged at the Panhandle Equity Bank isn't expected to live?

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Speaker 2: What who was wearing the other suit?

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Speaker 4: Ross?

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Speaker 2: Who was your partner? What are you guys doing to me?

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I don't know what you're talking of, but talking about

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the sixty three thousand dollars stick up you and somebody

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else pulled yesterday. And since you're about five foot ten,

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I can tell you that your partner is about sixty.

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Speaker 7: Three range as you're making a mistake. I don't even

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know anything about a hold up.

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Speaker 2: A button missing from this suit was found in your

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getaway car, the one your partner drove. It wasn't me.

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Speaker 7: I tell you, I didn't even know what kind of

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costumes were in them boxes?

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Speaker 2: They ain't mine? And where'd you get them? I picked

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him up at a couple of places yesterday morning. You

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say you picked them up, and you're trying to tell

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us you don't know what's in the boxes. I picked

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them up for somebody else. They rented out in your name.

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The woman ordered him in my name? What woman?

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Speaker 7: The one who hired me to pick him up? That's

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a pretty funny story. Ross. Who was this woman you're

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talking about? What's her name?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't even know. You Better come with.

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Speaker 7: Us, Ross, No, No, no, no, no, you gotta listen

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to me. Please, please listen. You gotta believe me. I

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was in town early yesterday morning. She come right up

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to me on the street. I was pulling my kid's

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old wagon a long time to find some junk I

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might sell you. Sure you don't want to think this

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story over before you go any further. She asked me

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if I want to earn a dollar running a couple

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of errands. I said, sure, a BUCKETD give my kids

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a for a change. She asked me my name and

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a dress, and I told her, and then she told

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me to wait well or She went into a booth

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and made some phone calls. When she come out, she

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sent me to two different clubs, told me that'd be

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costumes and packages.

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Speaker 2: She had them left in my name to avoid confusion.

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She said, you didn't think that was funny, mister. All

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I could think about was earning that dollar.

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Speaker 7: She gave me money deposit money for the costumes and

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told me to come back and meet her with the

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stuff on that same corner.

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Speaker 2: Where were you at two o'clock yesterday afternoon?

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Speaker 7: I was looking around for a junk again for a

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couple hours after I'd delivered the packages, and then I

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guess at two o'clock I was walking.

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Speaker 2: Back home from town. There's a long walk to here

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in this weather. Cost of a bus, riddle by a

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loaf of bread for the kids?

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Speaker 4: You saw outside? Is that a clime?

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Speaker 2: What's it to you if I walk my feet off

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to feed my kids? All right?

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Speaker 7: Ross, that was a nice act, but there's a big

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hole in it. You say you delivered the Santa Claus

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suits to a woman you didn't know, but you've still

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got them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got him.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna mean a good Christmas. Yeah, but you're not

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gonna believe what I tell you.

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Speaker 7: The woman came here last night, drove up in a car,

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woke me up. She said she was leaving town in

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a hurry. It didn't have time to take the costumes

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back yourself.

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Speaker 2: And and if I take.

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Speaker 7: Him back, I could keep the deposits fifteen dollars each.

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Speaker 2: But you're not gonna believe that, are you? You better

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get your coat?

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Speaker 7: Will Will you give me a chance to ask one

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of the neighbors to watch out from my kids. I'm

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afraid you'll be gone too long for that. I'm sorry,

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but we'll have to take him into the juvenile home. Oh,

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I guess they'll get better care of there than I've

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been able.

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Speaker 2: To give them.

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Speaker 4: I get my coat.

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Speaker 2: Ross, you been doing any painting around here? Paint this

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place look like an ever saw paint? But made you

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ask that? Jas, I just noticed this inside the log

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of this Santa Claus suit paint blob looks fresh. Well,

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how come it's inside the log not outside? I don't know.

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That's something we'll have to figure. This is the large

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sized suit. Must have been worn by the big boy

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we're looking for. Catherine and I did a job we

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hated dropping the Ross kids off the juvenal home. Sometimes

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it's the only thing to do. They cried for their father.

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Always make something inside you cry a little with him.

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He took Ross to the jail and locked him up.

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Speaker 4: Well, that seems to be a rangers.

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Speaker 6: The time he comes up for trial, he should be

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read as the name is accomplished. It is if we

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don't find him before then.

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Speaker 2: I'd go along with that chief if we'd found any

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money on him or in the house, even a few dollars. Uh,

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kids got under your skin. I they got under yours shoe, Captain,

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you know it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, But We got to remember that bank God has

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kids too, You.

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Speaker 2: Got any late reports on him from the hospital.

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Speaker 6: Man's stationed there says the operation is over. Don't know

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how it's going to come out yet, though, you might

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as well go over there and check with the doctor's jess.

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I got to get back to company headquarters.

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Speaker 2: Do me a favor. Then you're heading towards Austin. Take

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the scent outfits with you and have them sent onto

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the lab. Get an analysis of that paint in the trousers,

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maybe some traces in the boots too.

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Speaker 6: Well, how come the boots they made to go on

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over regular shoes.

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Speaker 2: I figured that paint stain on the inside of the

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pants came from a blomber paint on the shoe or

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the man who put them on.

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Speaker 7: I see all right, jas, you want to know the

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content of the paint and see if LAD can run down.

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Speaker 2: The source is that it. Yeah, you were working up

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to some kind of a lead. Maybe things I'm trying

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to fit together. Maybe they won't fit if they do, though,

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you'll hear from me. I went over to the hospital

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and checked with the doctors, but the outcome was still

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in doubt. The guard's wife was there, face twisted with

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worry and fear. There was nothing I could do to help.

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I got some sleep. Then in the morning I went

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back to see the police chief.

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Speaker 4: Oh, Ranger, I'm glad you dropped in it.

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Speaker 6: Just had a long distance call from your lab d

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quarters at Austin.

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Speaker 4: Report on that paint. Yeah, loads it all down.

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Speaker 6: Paint is manufactured right here, and tell them brand name

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is light Glow.

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Speaker 2: Lightglow can get a list of local painting contractors who

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use it.

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Speaker 4: Well, I reckon just about all of them do.

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Speaker 6: It's good paint and this wouldn't hardly be Texas if

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we didn't deal with a local.

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Speaker 2: Outfit with it now, it wouldn't thanks a lot. I'll

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see you later. The where are you're going over to

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the Panhandle? What a bank, mister Peabody. Do you know

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who painted this bank before he opened? Well, the contract

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for the building included the painting. I guess that was

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done on a subcontract. Can you find out from the contractor?

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Speaker 4: Sure? But do you mind my asking why.

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Speaker 2: I told you the day of the robbery everything was

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too well planned, like the men who did it knew

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the inside of the bank.

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Speaker 4: Because I remember you saying that you think the painter's me.

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Speaker 2: Of that's what I think. Why not some of the

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construction men. I've got a reason for being interested in painters.

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Check it for me, will you? He checked The contractor

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gave the name of the painters, two men, Eddie West

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and Martin Pagan. They'd been working the day of the robbery.

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He sat at a house on the north side of town.

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I went out to the house to see the owner. Well, yes, Range,

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they worked here all day that day.

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Speaker 3: I remember we heard the report of the.

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Speaker 2: Robbery on the radio. They were both here all day, Yes,

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didn't even go out to eat, had their lunches with

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him and a smelly When the house gets painted, most

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women usually get out of the way.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to watch them, so I was here every

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minute to see they.

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Speaker 2: Didn't get sloppy. I like things neat. I see. Well, thanks, ma'am.

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I'm sorry about you. Why are you asking about him?

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Speaker 4: Ranger?

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Speaker 2: Nothing important, not as long as you say that we're here. Goodbye, ma'am.

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Merry Christmas? Do you seek? Merry Christmas? She was the

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alibi for Eddie West and Martin Pagan. She was too

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nervous about answering a few simple questions, nervous enough to

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make me wonder. I went back to the jail, got

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Anthony Ross out in my custody and drove him to

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the north side of town. All right, get out, Ross,

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We're going in here for a minute. Why what are

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you trying to frame?

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Speaker 6: Now? I just want you to meet somebody.

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Speaker 7: Well back again, Ranger, I thought we'd that's Ranger, that's

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the woman.

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Speaker 2: Who is this man? You are to remember me, lady.

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My kids are in juvenile home on account of you,

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and I've been in jail. I never saw you before

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in my whole life. Tell him the truth, tell him,

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take him away from here, Go away, both of you. Ranger.

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I got those costumes for her, for her a lot.

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That word fits somebody. All right, Can I come in

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and have a look around, ma'am? What for what do

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you want? I want to check over the painting job

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to see if it's just new painting or if there's

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some new plaster under. At some point, you can't come in.

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You have no right. The boys you're Alibi and four

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must have come back here after they cracked the bank,

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because you must have picked them up in your car

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after they ditched the one they're using I don't know

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what you're talking about. Wouldn't carry the money on them?

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Did they cover it up here? Say? If under fresh

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plaster and paint until it cools out? No, I can

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call for a search, want and wait till the crew

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comes and tears this place apart, and we'll go better

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for you if you don't try to cover money? Isn't jeered? Oh?

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Come on? Come on? Where is it it? It's here

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all right in that wall behind the picture. Come on, Ross,

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which one's your boyfriend? Poggin her West? Eddie West? He

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said we'd get married, go to Europe next year. You'll

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all go someplace next year, but it won't be Europe.

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West about six foot three? Yes, how did you know?

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I got an early Christmas present? Somebody sent me a

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crystal ball. So as I call the police and dig

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out that bank money, you're coming with us, Ranger. I'm

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clear now A day looks that way, Ross, But you'll

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have to go back to jail for a while and

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be checked out for the local police. That won't take

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any longer than it'll take me to pick up Eddie

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West and Martin Pagan. I made my call, then took

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West's girlfriend and Anthony Ross back to jail. Pagan and

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West were playing it smart, working right up to Christmas Eve,

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like a couple of house painters would be doing. I

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found out where they were working, the loft of a warehouse.

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Local police covered the building while I went in.

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Speaker 4: Who's probably the watchman?

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Speaker 2: Watch out for those paint cans? All right? I see him?

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Speaker 5: It ain't the watchman's voice, an come on the sheriffs

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where we can see you.

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Speaker 2: I'm coming. But seeing me isn't going to make you happy.

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It's Jaxus Ranger.

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Speaker 4: I got my gun, are they Ranger?

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Speaker 3: W one?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I want the two men who robbed the panhanda

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equity bank.

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Speaker 4: What would we know about that, Ranger?

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Speaker 2: I'm down off that scoffold and I'll tell you. Okay,

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mighty low, way too bad. You aren't working in a

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place with a phone.

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Speaker 4: Your girlfriend could have warned you earlier.

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Speaker 2: Did you knows he dies. I'm hurt. I'm just like

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you when you're trying to tick for that gun in

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your pocket. You're not hurt. We didn't do nothing, Ranger.

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Somebody should have told you that the real Santa Claus

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gives he doesn't take get up and try this present

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I've got for you a pair of handcuffs.

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Speaker 4: Well that winds it up for sure.

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Speaker 6: Ranger didn't turn out too bad either, just hurt from

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the hospital.

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Speaker 4: Guard passed the crisis. He's going to be all right.

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Speaker 2: And you couldn't have better news, Chief, Just in time too.

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It's getting dark Christmas Eve. You let Anthony Ross go.

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Speaker 6: About ten minutes ago. He didn't seem too happy though life,

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Just like he didn't care.

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Speaker 4: What were his kids in the juvenile home and everything?

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Speaker 6: Judge mightn't even release them if you can't care for them.

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Speaker 2: Ross didn't have a dime, not even bus fare. It'd

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take him a couple hours to walk home.

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Speaker 4: Oh why didn't I think?

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe it's just as well that way.

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Speaker 6: Let me call it Judge and mister Peabody, the bank

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vice president.

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Speaker 2: Stores will be open late, won't they sure?

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Speaker 4: Sure?

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Speaker 2: Why it'll take Ross a long time to get to

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his house. Maybe we can get some of your boys

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to help us and change his mind about Christmas. There's Ross.

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You hear him coming up the walk down, coming slow.

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Speaker 4: His teal is dray.

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Speaker 9: Yeah not do I blame you for the kid's asleep? Yeah,

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all bundled in them new blankets.

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Speaker 3: Sh what.

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Speaker 7: Ranger and the chief the lights lights there on.

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Speaker 2: The power company turned him off. Yeah, they sent a

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man out to turn him on again. What what? What's

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all this stuff? Ornaments? Christmas trail, all those toys and things.

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Tomorrow's Christmas Ross for you and your kids.

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Speaker 9: They're in the bedroom asleep, my kids. You brought my

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kids back to me.

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Speaker 4: Yes, And there's plenty of grub in the kitchen.

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Speaker 2: And you've got a job starting next week at the

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Panhandle Equity Bank. Just go in and see mister Peabody

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after the holiday. Meanwhile, he sent you a little cash

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in this envelope, sort of a Christmas bonus, just like

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the rest of the employees get. We have to be going.

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Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 7: Merry Christmas, Bros, Merry Christmas, fellows, Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 2: And God bless you. Thanks, God bless you on behalf

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of all of us. On Tales of the Texas Rangers.

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This is Joel McCrae wishing you a very merry Christmas.

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Speaker 8: Next week Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a

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case from the files of Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae is

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currently seen starring in the Universal International Technicolor production Frenchie.

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Tonight's past included Tony Barrett, Shepherd, Menken, Jim Nusser, Virginia Greig,

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Victor Rodman, and Byron Kane. This story was transcribed and

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adapted by Joel Murcott, and the program was produced and directed.

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Speaker 2: By Stacy Geats. This is Hal Give Me Speaking.

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Speaker 6: Three Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC, Monday Means Music

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on NBC and for your Christmas Night listening Pleasure Tomorrow,

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The Voice of Firestorm presents soprano Eleanor Steber in a

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thrilling selection of Christmas melodies. Next, Jack Parr calls a

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marine veteran in Japan on NBC