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Speaker 1: Listen at the close of this program for an important

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announcement of a change in time for Tales of the

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Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: 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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Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger

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Jase Pearson, Texas more than two hundred and sixty thousand

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square miles and fifty men will make up the most

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famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America. Now

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from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories

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based on fact only.

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Speaker 3: Name, states, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.

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Speaker 2: The events themselves are a matter of record.

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Speaker 3: Case for Tonite Blood Relative.

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Speaker 4: It is four pm June twenty sixth, nineteen forty nine.

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Will Bonner, proprietor of the General store at Stump Hill, Texas,

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is waiting on mc kennedy the dirt Fummer.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, if found your flying to bacon may anything ears, Yeah,

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Cartner's cigarettes, Yeah, how about making it a couple of

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sax tobacco what's the matter? Will my credit no good anymore?

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Speaker 1: Ma?

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Speaker 5: I think you're pulling your homes a little. Your bills

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run kind of high. You get your money, don't you

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hate a question.

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Speaker 3: Of getting in me?

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Speaker 5: You stand to make a good crump this year unless

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you have to pay out the better chance you'll have

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to get on your feet permanent without no credit.

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Speaker 3: Let me worry about it. Go ahead, wait down here here,

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that's all right? I got time. No, no, I'll take

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care of you, sir, Well you have stranger. Time ain't

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helping your sight in here?

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Speaker 1: Is it?

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Speaker 3: Uncle? Will Ben? Ben?

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Speaker 5: Dang it?

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Speaker 1: Boy?

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Speaker 3: You change? How do you like?

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Speaker 1: That?

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Speaker 3: Didn't make nice? More blood reledue? Earlier's there's conse's here? Well? Well,

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an seezer?

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Speaker 5: What is it we.

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Speaker 3: Fellow? Once you know you want to buy some perfume?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 3: Well you could have told him that. What would I

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do with Why?

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Speaker 5: It's your brother's boy, Ben, It's sure he is.

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Speaker 3: Stop tackling with you. You know about your paw. I

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know he's dead. He ain't glad to see you being

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almost for god, he happened last winter. The pneumonia. Yeah,

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we're trying to locate you, boy, but nobody knew where

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he was. Nobody would have wanted to know. I was

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in the Pennant Huntsville, m That's where I've been for

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four years.

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Speaker 6: In the prison.

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Speaker 3: Your Paul never said it wasn't nobody's business but mine.

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Oh well, Ben, I I guess we can talk that over. Leader.

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If you want to stay this, please you.

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Speaker 4: I'm asking you for nothing except what's coming to me.

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I just want you to buy out my paw share

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of the store and pay me off.

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Speaker 3: Ben. Your father never did have a share in the store.

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You only worked for me. But you trying to get

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away with Uncle Will. He told me what was going

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in where they want to move out here? But then

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you knew your Paul.

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Speaker 1: He always talked big, but he never did have a

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dime of his own.

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Speaker 3: You telling me about my own father. You know we

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ain't ruining him down. Boy. He he never harmed nobody better.

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Drunking big was just his week, Lou. I come to

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get what's mine? Do I get it up? Don't I? Ben?

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Speaker 5: Here's a beding a job waiting for you if you

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want them. You're a kinfolk and that makes you welcome.

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But I'm saying that there ain't nothing here that yours.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna pay me? You just hold on, you reckon.

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Speaker 1: I can still take care of myself. Maybe can maybe kan,

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I'll go away.

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Speaker 4: I'm staying around town and give you a chance to

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change your mind.

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Speaker 3: I'm warning you, I won't care what's mine if I

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have to tell you for it.

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Speaker 4: On the following morning, June twenty seventh, neighbors found will

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Bonna shot to death and his wife Liz, critically wounded

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and unconscious in the back room living quarters of this story.

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The sheriff called, with the assistance of a Texas Ranger.

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Ranger Jace Person was as signed to the case. Well

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that's the all of the story, just like I found it.

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Speaker 3: Jeez. He looked pretty down hearted. Sheriff Bonner a friend

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of yours. I knowed him all my life. He helped

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me get elected. Bodies in the back room. You want

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to see it? Yeah, you can stay here if you'd rather. No, No,

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I'll come.

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Speaker 1: I guess you noticed the way the safe was cracked

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and the door where the killer got in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, professional job, all right. I covered will Over with

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the sheet. Maybe I shouldn't have, but it's all right.

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Corner hasn't been here yet. Huh, No, he's on his

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way dead about six seven hours. How do you figure

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that gets just beginning to set in. You see a

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lot of them. You get to know nine o'clock. Now,

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that means it happened about two or three this morning. Huh,

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that's close to it. How about Bonner's wife, she's gonna

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pull through. Doc Woodson took her to the county hospital.

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He said, there's a little chance. You've got a deputy

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posted at the hospital and in case she comes to yep,

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he can take any statements. Sure, sure, if I got

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to talk to you a minute, Well, all.

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Speaker 5: Right, Jody come in farm. Had worked for Mac Kennedy

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on and off out a ranger sheriff.

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Speaker 3: What's on your mind? Jody? But I I just come

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to pick up some feet and Max pickup Grid. About

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what happened, I don know anything about.

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Speaker 5: It, not exactly. But I was in town with Mac

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yesterday afternoon. He come trust some supplies from Bonner. What time, ooh,

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about four o'clock. I wasn't in the store with him,

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but when he come out and we was driving back,

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Max said Bonnet had a fuss with somebody Fellows fretting

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to kill him.

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Speaker 3: He say who the fellow was.

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Speaker 5: No, but whoever it was, he took a swing at Boner.

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Mac had to grab him to stop a fight.

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Speaker 3: Where's Kennedy now? Well? He was out proud? Want to laugh.

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I won't be able to get him. Buy a phone. Man,

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Come on, Sheriff, let's get out there and talk to

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him dead. We will Bonnard dead, Yeah, and Liz is

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mighty close to joining him. Mac.

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Speaker 5: Cut the motor on your tractor. Yeah, Sheriff. Will should

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have told you about that fella. I should have called

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and told you myself after what he threatened to do

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to him. Too late for what anybody should have done.

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You know the man never saw him before, but I

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know who he is. Bonner's nephew fresh shout of Huntsville.

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I heard him say so, an ex con And you

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didn't say anything about it. Well, Sheriff, how could I

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know he'd do it? A blood relative? Wasn't myle Pharaoh?

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Speaker 4: Was it?

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Speaker 3: You know the man? If you saw him again, I'd

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know him any place better. Come into town with us,

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talk while we rhyme. Okay, Bonner mentioned his nephew's name, welly,

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he called him Ben he Will.

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Speaker 1: Bonner had a brother died last year.

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Speaker 3: Must have been his boy. We'll find out. On the

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way in the Stump Hill, Mat Kennedy told us the

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story of the threat and gave me a description of

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Ben Bonner. I put a shortwave radio call through the

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kt XA. You'n attended, kat request all units be alerted

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to look out for subject Ben Bonner, recently released from Huntsville.

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Subject wanted for questioning and murder of Will Bonner at

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Stump Hill. Top four Request special alert on all roads

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leading from Stump Hill. Subject may be leaving Aria on

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foot or by hitchhike. Top four Unit ten clear knt

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X house.

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Speaker 1: Really young Bonner didn't run for it, Jaz. He may

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be hiding out someplace nearby.

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Speaker 3: Not likely, Sheriff. If he killed his uncle, he'll go

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for distance. He killed him, all right, You can bet

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on that when a man's life's at stake, Kennedy, I

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don't bet Ben Bonner wasn't around Stump Hill. He pulled

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stakes and made a run for it, all right. We

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got the information from a woman in the crowd near

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the store when we got back to town. Her name

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was Sadie Waddle. She ran a rooming house. I ran

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all my rooms to extra for generally, because I.

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Speaker 7: Don't have to serve no meals that way with him

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eating where they're working, so naturally, I thought this fellow

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was one of their migratory hands.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I understand all that. Man. All I want

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to know is when Ben Bonner left your place.

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Speaker 7: Well, it must have been just around midnight last night.

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Everybody was in and sleeping in the house, was locked up,

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and well the phone hooked me up and.

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Speaker 3: It was for him, not Ben phone. Huh you know

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who called him?

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Speaker 5: Of course not.

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Speaker 7: I didn't know who was or nothing about him excepting

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his name was Ben.

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Speaker 3: Did you recognize the voice of the person who called? No, Well,

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please go ahead about the phone call. Well, I called

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him to the phone. That's all fine.

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Speaker 7: Time a night to be waking people, I told him.

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Speaker 3: Then he answered it.

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Speaker 1: Right after that he.

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Speaker 3: Lit up like the devil was after him. Do you

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hear any of the conversations?

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Speaker 7: I did not.

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Speaker 3: I mind my own business. Besides, all he said was hello.

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Speaker 7: After that, all the talking must have been done by

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whoever called him, because he never said another word, just

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listened a minute, then hung up and let out.

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Speaker 3: The phone ringing.

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Speaker 1: In the story, Jase I better get it.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, sir, Oh, thanks for your help. Missus waddall,

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I'm glad, I'm ou. I have to give it.

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Speaker 7: I might have been murdered mound sleep with an ex

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convict under my roof.

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Speaker 3: Ought to be some way we could tell him from

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other folks. A man who served his time can't be

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expected to carry a brand, ma'am. Besides, how did you

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know Ben Bonner's an next convict?

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Speaker 5: So did I know what?

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Speaker 3: It's all over town? It's Jace that calls for you

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right there, Sheriff, Thanks, ma'am. Excuse me? Who's calling your headquarters?

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Captain Stinson? Hello, Kevin, got some good news for you jays.

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The Highway Patrol has picked up Ben Potter. Fine, where'd

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they get him?

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Speaker 5: Almost rail passo patrol car was stopped at a railroad

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crossing waiting for a freight to get through.

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Speaker 3: They spotted him riding a nimpty flat freight. Huh. It's

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a good thing they saw him. If he made out

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pass so he'd been across the border into Warez and

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no time. Really he didn't make it. Bringing him back

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to stump Keill, now you have him there in a

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few hours. You getting the case against him. I seem

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to be getting plenty. You don't sound through. I don't know.

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You look up his record. What was on his last

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ticket to Huntsville? Uglary jas And that fits except for

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the killing this time. Yeah, it fits all right, like

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the executioner's glove. Stump Hill was five miles cross country

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from the nearest railroad spur. We had time before the

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highway patrol would be delivering Ben Bonner. We sent Kennedy

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back to his farm. I unloaded charcoal from a horse trailer,

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and the sheriff got his horse. We rode to the

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railroad tracks.

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Speaker 1: He was smart, Jason almost got away.

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Speaker 3: Lots of them almost get away. Sure, made a lot

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of distance in it. Don't know why you wanted to

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be sure. He came this way to get to the train.

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Just wanted to be certain. He cut through this five

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miles on foot proves he didn't hitchhike a fast ride

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and pick up a train further on down the line. Well,

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luck was with him for a while. He cut the

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only train he could have cut. You mean only one

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freight goes through here at night?

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Speaker 1: Yep, hotshot passenger clears first at about one am. Freight

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comes through about fifteen minutes later.

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Speaker 3: Close for the grade here where he jumped it. About

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one fifteen is the schedule for the freight. Then, huh,

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that's right, Let's get back to town. Come on, Chuck,

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you look like that train schedule means something, Jase.

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Speaker 5: It might.

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Speaker 3: Parner's report ought to be end by the time we

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get back to town. Hey, I see what you mean.

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Speaker 1: If Bonner was killed between two and three am, like

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you figured, it'll mean his nephew Ben was on that

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freight at the time the old man was killed, Parner.

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Speaker 3: Or had been completed. It was waiting at the Sheriff's

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office when we got back early.

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Speaker 5: Didn't miss but much, Jase. Here's the report, the time

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of day. What is it between one and two a m.

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Speaker 3: Then Ben Bonnard didn't kill his uncle. Even if he

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ran the five miles across country. His track showed us

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he walked, he couldn't have made it in time to

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catch that freight. Doesn't look that way. Bullets from Bonner's

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body have been sent through to Austin. We may get

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a lead from ballistics. I'm gonna do some more checking

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around town on them.

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Speaker 1: In just second, Jason Share speaking oh, good good.

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Speaker 3: She did. Huh no, no, U say right there? Goodbye?

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Speaker 1: Well, Jace, looks like there's been a mistake someplace.

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Speaker 3: That was my deputy.

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Speaker 1: At the county hospital, Liz Bonner regained consciousness for a

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few seconds.

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Speaker 3: What she's saying?

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Speaker 1: She said her and her husband were shot by their

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nephew Ben.

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Speaker 2: You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring

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Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson. We continue with the

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night's case Blood Relative, an authentic story from the files

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of the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 3: The Highway Patrol brought Ben Bonner back to Stump Hill

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and unloaded him at the local jail, where the sheriff

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and I questioned it.

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Speaker 1: But I didn't kill him. I tell you didn't know

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he was dead till now. Who said you was gonna

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kill him? You said it in front of the witness.

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Speaker 3: Man is the difference between saying and doing? If you

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had nothing to do with it, why'd you run away?

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Of course? Somebody called me up last night.

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Speaker 4: The room in the house late was a man said

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he was a friend in one of the warning the

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sheriff was going to pick me up.

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Speaker 1: A threatening uncle will you scary easy, don't you?

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Speaker 3: But your life I do, mister.

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Speaker 1: I just pulled four years at Huntsville and I had enough.

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Speaker 3: I don't want no more.

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Speaker 4: Maybe I was tough when I went to Uncle Will yesterday,

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but last night when I got that call, I was

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scarce sick.

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Speaker 3: And you don't know who called you? No, No, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it wasn't somebody who served time with letting

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you know he was here to help you with the job.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 1: Look, you gotta believe me. This is a murderer. You

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can't send me up for it.

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Speaker 3: Just because I shot off my mouth. That ain't evidence.

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Speaker 5: Ben.

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Speaker 3: There's more than that. Your aunt Liz didn't die. She

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came to at the hospital. She says it was you

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who gunned her and her husband. That's a dirty lie.

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Speaker 4: Look if I did that, if I shot them and

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robbed the store, what was I doing on a freight?

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Speaker 3: What did I do with the money. I ain't gonna

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say anymore. I ain't gonna talk to I see a lawyer.

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That's youre right. We told you that in the beginning,

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all right, Sheriff, Yes, you can lock him up again.

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Go on, go ahead, ranger, police. I didn't do it.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the fellow who told you I threatened Uncle Will

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didn't tell you everything. Maybe you want to ask him

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why there was odd and when I come into the store.

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Speaker 3: All right, Ben, all right, well what do you think case?

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I don't know. Let's get outside.

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Speaker 1: If he did have an accomplish, the other fellow might

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be carting the loot and the gun might.

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Speaker 3: Be I'll see later, Sheriff. I'm driving over to the

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hospital at the county seat. I want to talk to

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his aunt, Liz Bonner, Missus Bonner. The doctor will only

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let me stay a minute. Well, shot Will?

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Speaker 5: Just getting up?

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Speaker 3: Who shot him? Missus Bonner? Then then, ungrateful wanted to

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help him. How did it happen?

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Speaker 6: It was a noise in the store woke us up?

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Well cold, said who's there? Then he got up, went

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put on the lights, then shot him.

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Speaker 3: Did he get the lights on? Did you ever see

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your nephew? No, but it was him, he said he'd

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do it.

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Speaker 6: It was him.

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Speaker 3: If you didn't see him, did he say anything? Did

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you hear his voice and recognize him?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: He just shot Will. I screamed, and that's all. But

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you didn't see Ben or recognize his voice, no, but

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he said he would. There couldn't be anybody else. I

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think you're wrong, man, I think it could be. I

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burned up the road back to Stump Hill and got

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the sheriff. I wanted to make another check at the

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store and find out a few things about Mac kennedy. Dog.

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Speaker 1: Honey, jeez, you're sending your dogs at the wrong tree.

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Mac Kennedy's been Will's friend for a year.

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Speaker 3: I just asked if Kennedy had ever been in trouble.

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Speaker 1: Never. He's honest, god peran dirt farmer, and that's all.

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Speaker 3: What kind of shape is he in financially?

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Speaker 1: Well, oh, Jase, A man don't have to be a

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criminal just because he's down on his luck. Max's crops

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have been bad.

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Speaker 3: Sure, if I'm just asking a few questions, that's all. Well,

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I'm sorry, Jayce, I reckon Max in hawk up to

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his neck plays and all his equipment as mortgage. How

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come he can afford a hired hand? You mean, Jody, Oh,

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he just drifts in and out. Ain't much of a worker,

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but he's all Mac needs. Migrates in in the spring for.

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Speaker 1: Planting season, then out again in the fall after harvest.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't work for nothing, does he?

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Speaker 1: Mac pays him right off when he makes his crop

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from Selsey.

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Speaker 3: That the way he pays everybody. It's the only time

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he ever had any cash. Why just wondering did Mac

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buy here on credit from Bonner? Well? I guess so.

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Why you find something in the ledger? Come take a look.

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Seems to be a page torn out. The book has

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kept in alphabetical order. Missing page is in the case

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if there was a charge page in here for Kennedy,

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it'd be right here. Now you've got something I can't fight, Jace.

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What a setup? An x Colm threatens to kill a

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man makes it perfect for somebody else to do the

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job and set the jailbird up for a frank Come on, Sheriff,

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let's get out to Kennedy's place again. Only this trip

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we won't be asking questions about Ben Bonner. There's one

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thing still bothering me, Jace, Mat Kennedy. He's never been

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in trouble, so.

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Speaker 1: How come we both spotted the marks of a professional

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knob knocker on the burger?

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Speaker 3: And it's been bothering me too. The more I think

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of it, the more I wonder why tore that charge

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page out of the ledger. Why do something that would

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point right at him when he had somebody else all

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set up to take the fall. Just beating the bill

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wouldn't make the chance worthwhile, Not with murder, it wouldn't.

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Ktxaity out of ten. Oh, this may be the ballistics report, Jason,

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Unit ten, go ahead, kt XA lap.

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Speaker 8: Report completed on bullets US and the slang of Will Butler.

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Thirty eight kalaba probably Smith and Wesson Police.

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Speaker 3: Special ten to four. Unit ten Claire kdx A austin

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a minute, KTXA stand by, please ATXA standing by this matter.

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Jon just got an idea something that didn't fit before

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at hand. Who works for Kennedy? That Jody? What's his

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last name? Jody, let's see it. It's Pelham, Jody Pelham. Why,

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I'll tell you in a minute. You there, kt X

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at this unit requests quick check on subject Jody Pelham.

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Repeat Jody Pellham, Urgent ten four, Get back to you

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with information soon as possible. Unit ten Claire Kenny x

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ay often.

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Speaker 1: Yeeh you figuring Jody helped make Kennedy to pull this job?

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Speaker 3: Maybe or maybe Jody did it on his own. I

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want to know if he's got a record, What swisch

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you're thinking to him? He was waiting outside Bonner's store

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for Kennedy when Ben walked in yesterday and made his threats.

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Speaker 1: Well, sure, he admitted that Kennedy told him about Ben

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when he come out and he'd drove on back to

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the farm.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, But when Jody came into town the next morning

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and came to tell us about the threats, he pretended

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he didn't know too much, just knew that old Will

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Bonnard been threatened, couldn't say who made the threats. Well,

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I don't get what you're driving at, Joe. If Kennedy

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told him, he must have told him the whole story

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about the threats coming from Bonner's nephew, a nephew just

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gotten out of prison. That'd be the logical way to

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tell it. And that's the way Kennedy did did tell it.

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But Jody was anxious not to seem to know too much. Hey, sure,

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I see what you mean. Kennedy wasn't in town this

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morning until we went out and brought me. Yeah, but

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when we got back, everybody in town knew that the

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man we were looking for was Bonner's nephew, and that

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he was an ex khan. Sadie Waddles told us that.

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Speaker 1: Only wound it could have come from with Jody. He

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spread it around while we were out getting Kennedy.

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Speaker 3: When we get to the farm, draw him out. Don't

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pounce on him until I get an answer on him

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from Austin. I hope it's the right, an't she? It

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may save Mac Kennedy's life. It was dark and we

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reached the farmhouse. There was a light on him the house,

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but the pickup truck wasn't in sight in the open garage.

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We left my car around in the back of the

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house and en up on the porch. Oh he'll hold

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your horses.

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Speaker 5: Oh sure, ranger, I thought it was Jody coming back

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with the pickup.

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Speaker 3: Where'd he go?

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Speaker 5: He drove up north to Edgeville this afternoon, said he

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wanted to get something.

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Speaker 3: You ought to be back soon.

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Speaker 1: Well, aren't you gonna ask us in?

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Speaker 3: Mac? Sure? Sure thing? Make yourself at home.

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Speaker 5: Un there's stand you got Bonner's nephew today heard a

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couple of women chewing about it on the party line.

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Speaker 3: He got him temporarily. What do you mean temporarily? He

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didn't kill anybody, Mac, You had an argument with Bonner yesterday?

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What about I reckon? That's my business, yours and Bonner's.

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But he's dead now, so that makes it my business. Better?

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Speaker 5: Talk up, Mac, Well, I've been running up a big bill.

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Will was cutting me down a little. You admit you

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owed him money. Why wouldn't I admit it? I pay

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my bills any an sways otherwise as a liar.

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Speaker 1: Nobody is saying otherwise.

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Speaker 3: Mac. You keep a gun around here anyplace?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: What kind?

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Speaker 5: Smith and Wasson thirty eight? It's right there on the

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mantel over the fireplace.

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Speaker 3: I'll get it, Jase, Oh, don't wipe off any prints.

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Stick a pencil in the muzzle and lift it that way. Ok,

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pencil won't go in Gay, something jamming it. Let me see,

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I have to worry about prints on that outside has

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been white clean with an oil rag.

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Speaker 1: Looks like paper jammed in there.

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Speaker 3: Must soon find out. Take these shells out, poke the

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pencil through there.

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Speaker 1: Why is Max's charge page from the ledger?

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Speaker 5: What are you trying to pull?

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Speaker 3: Make it easy, Mac, We're not. After you smell this

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gun and look at it, Sheriff. It was used, then reloaded,

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but never cleaned. That gun hasn't been touched in years. Mac.

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This gun killed Will Bonnard almost killed his wife last night.

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Jody Pelham did it after you told him about Bonner's nephew.

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Speaker 1: But why would he tear out that page and plant

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it here.

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Speaker 3: So he could use Mac here to give himself a

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double cover up. He made the call to the rooming

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house and got Ben Bonner to run, But he knew

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if Ben was caught any place and could set up

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an alibi, there'd be a second search. That's why he

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tore out the page and planted it here on Mac.

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I'm sure, glad you know it wasn't me. If it

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was you, you'd have burned the page.

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Speaker 5: That dirty little hey, there he comes.

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Speaker 3: Now that's the pickup. I want to help us nail

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him all. I'd like to blow his brains out of

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this a better way. I di him feel safe here.

481
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Let me put these cuffs on you quick what I've

482
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done back in the mantle, Sheriff. But are you sure

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the junkie is not.

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Speaker 1: Boy?

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Speaker 3: I didn't know anybody was here, mag, heck was the matter?

486
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What are you doing with those things? On? What's your guess? Jody?

487
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What's in that bag?

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Speaker 5: You're carried what I used to pick me up A

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bottle of package Stone Edgeville.

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Speaker 3: What you use for money, you don't get credit on liquor? Well,

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mag Mac, he paid me some wages this morning. Oh

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I get it. I kind of wondered where he got

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the money, now, you know? Huh.

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Speaker 5: Well, when I got up last night and found he

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was going to I saw have got the wondering this morning.

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Speaker 3: You shut up man, all right, Sheriff, I guess we

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can take him in. You better come along the make

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a statement. Jody, sure, Sure. I hate to do a

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thing like this to a friend, but I guess he

500
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deserves it. Don't know, Bonner like he did. Yeah, I

501
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thought you'd feel that way. Let's go. You might as

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well admit you fired the gun, Mac a die Fenleman.

503
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Test will prove you did. What kind of test is

504
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that man fires a gun? The nitrate from the powder

505
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gets into the pores of his hands. Chemical application shows

506
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it up. Well, he's washed his hand since last night.

507
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I reckon, Oh, Washington won't get it out. Stays for

508
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a couple of days. You fired a gun recently, Jody, No, No,

509
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Then we make the same test on your hand. It

510
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will show you the difference. Well, you don't have to

511
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do that. I don't understand that kind of stuff anyway,

512
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it's too bad. I thought you might like to see

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how we work. Get in watch him, Sheriff. All right,

514
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Austin ought to have that information I requested before, Sheriff. Yeah,

515
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this might bore you. Jody, you tend to k t XA.

516
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This unit back in service, been waiting for you have

517
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information you're inquested on subject? Jody Pelham, what's that?

518
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Speaker 8: Two years Huntsville bargery, three years Louisiana State ptitentry, burgery

519
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and safe.

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Speaker 3: Cracking ten four unit ten clear any exit? Austin shut

521
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this car. You got me get out of here, watching

522
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sharpon making use his gun. Judy, you can rot. Never

523
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mind that mac here. Take these keys and put the

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cuffs on the right man, Sheriff. We might as well

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have him there. He'll be wearing them a lot until

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he reaches the death cell. At Huntsville.

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Speaker 4: Jody Pelham was tried and convicted for the Wanton murder

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of Will Bunner on the morning of December sixth, nineteen

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forty nine, at Huntsville Penitentiary.

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Speaker 3: His sentence was carried out death and the jov and

531
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now here again is the star of our show, Joel McCrae. Folks,

532
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Tales of the Texas Rangers is moving to a new time.

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You won't hear us next Sunday, but the week after

534
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that we'll be back just an hour and a half

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00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:27,519
later than usual on NBC, right after Theater Guild. So

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we'll see you in two weeks on Sunday, November twenty sixth,

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and I hope you'll be listening. Good night, good night, Joel.

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See you one week from this coming Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Remember, friends, as Joel told you, Tales of the Texas

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Rangers will come to you an hour and a half later,

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immediately following Theater Guild, beginning next Sunday. At this time

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you'll hear head of Hopper's Fine Program. The week after next,

543
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November twenty sixth, Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson will

544
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be with you again.

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Speaker 3: A week from Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Joel McCray and another authentic reenactment of a case from

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the files.

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Speaker 3: Of the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: Joel McCray is currently seen starring in the MGM production

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Stars in My Crown. Tonight's cast included Tony Barrett, Bill Johnstone,

551
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,720
Jodeval Virginia, Greg Parley Bear, and Byron Kine.

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Speaker 3: This story was transcribed and adapted by Joel Murcott, and

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the program was.

554
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Speaker 2: Produced and directed by Stacy Keach. One week from next Sunday,

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Tales of the Texas Rangers will be back with you

556
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immediately following Theater Guild. Consult your local radio schedule for time.

557
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This is Hal give me speaking.

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Speaker 3: Three chimes mean good times on NBC

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm