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the Texas Rangers Tonight transcribe from Hollywood another authentic reenactment
of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers.
Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger
Jase Pearson, Texas more than two hundred and sixty thousand
square miles and fifty men will make up the most
famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America. Now
from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories
based on fact only.
Speaker 3: Name, states, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.
Speaker 2: The events themselves are a matter of record.
Speaker 3: Case for Tonite Blood Relative.
Speaker 4: It is four pm June twenty sixth, nineteen forty nine.
Will Bonner, proprietor of the General store at Stump Hill, Texas,
is waiting on mc kennedy the dirt Fummer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if found your flying to bacon may anything ears, Yeah,
Cartner's cigarettes, Yeah, how about making it a couple of
sax tobacco what's the matter? Will my credit no good anymore?
Speaker 1: Ma?
Speaker 5: I think you're pulling your homes a little. Your bills
run kind of high. You get your money, don't you
hate a question.
Speaker 3: Of getting in me?
Speaker 5: You stand to make a good crump this year unless
you have to pay out the better chance you'll have
to get on your feet permanent without no credit.
Speaker 3: Let me worry about it. Go ahead, wait down here here,
that's all right? I got time. No, no, I'll take
care of you, sir, Well you have stranger. Time ain't
helping your sight in here?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 3: Uncle? Will Ben? Ben?
Speaker 5: Dang it?
Speaker 1: Boy?
Speaker 3: You change? How do you like?
Speaker 1: That?
Speaker 3: Didn't make nice? More blood reledue? Earlier's there's conse's here? Well? Well,
an seezer?
Speaker 5: What is it we.
Speaker 3: Fellow? Once you know you want to buy some perfume?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Well you could have told him that. What would I
do with Why?
Speaker 5: It's your brother's boy, Ben, It's sure he is.
Speaker 3: Stop tackling with you. You know about your paw. I
know he's dead. He ain't glad to see you being
almost for god, he happened last winter. The pneumonia. Yeah,
we're trying to locate you, boy, but nobody knew where
he was. Nobody would have wanted to know. I was
in the Pennant Huntsville, m That's where I've been for
four years.
Speaker 6: In the prison.
Speaker 3: Your Paul never said it wasn't nobody's business but mine.
Oh well, Ben, I I guess we can talk that over. Leader.
If you want to stay this, please you.
Speaker 4: I'm asking you for nothing except what's coming to me.
I just want you to buy out my paw share
of the store and pay me off.
Speaker 3: Ben. Your father never did have a share in the store.
You only worked for me. But you trying to get
away with Uncle Will. He told me what was going
in where they want to move out here? But then
you knew your Paul.
Speaker 1: He always talked big, but he never did have a
dime of his own.
Speaker 3: You telling me about my own father. You know we
ain't ruining him down. Boy. He he never harmed nobody better.
Drunking big was just his week, Lou. I come to
get what's mine? Do I get it up? Don't I? Ben?
Speaker 5: Here's a beding a job waiting for you if you
want them. You're a kinfolk and that makes you welcome.
But I'm saying that there ain't nothing here that yours.
Speaker 3: You're gonna pay me? You just hold on, you reckon.
Speaker 1: I can still take care of myself. Maybe can maybe kan,
I'll go away.
Speaker 4: I'm staying around town and give you a chance to
change your mind.
Speaker 3: I'm warning you, I won't care what's mine if I
have to tell you for it.
Speaker 4: On the following morning, June twenty seventh, neighbors found will
Bonna shot to death and his wife Liz, critically wounded
and unconscious in the back room living quarters of this story.
The sheriff called, with the assistance of a Texas Ranger.
Ranger Jace Person was as signed to the case. Well
that's the all of the story, just like I found it.
Speaker 3: Jeez. He looked pretty down hearted. Sheriff Bonner a friend
of yours. I knowed him all my life. He helped
me get elected. Bodies in the back room. You want
to see it? Yeah, you can stay here if you'd rather. No, No,
I'll come.
Speaker 1: I guess you noticed the way the safe was cracked
and the door where the killer got in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, professional job, all right. I covered will Over with
the sheet. Maybe I shouldn't have, but it's all right.
Corner hasn't been here yet. Huh, No, he's on his
way dead about six seven hours. How do you figure
that gets just beginning to set in. You see a
lot of them. You get to know nine o'clock. Now,
that means it happened about two or three this morning. Huh,
that's close to it. How about Bonner's wife, she's gonna
pull through. Doc Woodson took her to the county hospital.
He said, there's a little chance. You've got a deputy
posted at the hospital and in case she comes to yep,
he can take any statements. Sure, sure, if I got
to talk to you a minute, Well, all.
Speaker 5: Right, Jody come in farm. Had worked for Mac Kennedy
on and off out a ranger sheriff.
Speaker 3: What's on your mind? Jody? But I I just come
to pick up some feet and Max pickup Grid. About
what happened, I don know anything about.
Speaker 5: It, not exactly. But I was in town with Mac
yesterday afternoon. He come trust some supplies from Bonner. What time, ooh,
about four o'clock. I wasn't in the store with him,
but when he come out and we was driving back,
Max said Bonnet had a fuss with somebody Fellows fretting
to kill him.
Speaker 3: He say who the fellow was.
Speaker 5: No, but whoever it was, he took a swing at Boner.
Mac had to grab him to stop a fight.
Speaker 3: Where's Kennedy now? Well? He was out proud? Want to laugh.
I won't be able to get him. Buy a phone. Man,
Come on, Sheriff, let's get out there and talk to
him dead. We will Bonnard dead, Yeah, and Liz is
mighty close to joining him. Mac.
Speaker 5: Cut the motor on your tractor. Yeah, Sheriff. Will should
have told you about that fella. I should have called
and told you myself after what he threatened to do
to him. Too late for what anybody should have done.
You know the man never saw him before, but I
know who he is. Bonner's nephew fresh shout of Huntsville.
I heard him say so, an ex con And you
didn't say anything about it. Well, Sheriff, how could I
know he'd do it? A blood relative? Wasn't myle Pharaoh?
Speaker 4: Was it?
Speaker 3: You know the man? If you saw him again, I'd
know him any place better. Come into town with us,
talk while we rhyme. Okay, Bonner mentioned his nephew's name, welly,
he called him Ben he Will.
Speaker 1: Bonner had a brother died last year.
Speaker 3: Must have been his boy. We'll find out. On the
way in the Stump Hill, Mat Kennedy told us the
story of the threat and gave me a description of
Ben Bonner. I put a shortwave radio call through the
kt XA. You'n attended, kat request all units be alerted
to look out for subject Ben Bonner, recently released from Huntsville.
Subject wanted for questioning and murder of Will Bonner at
Stump Hill. Top four Request special alert on all roads
leading from Stump Hill. Subject may be leaving Aria on
foot or by hitchhike. Top four Unit ten clear knt
X house.
Speaker 1: Really young Bonner didn't run for it, Jaz. He may
be hiding out someplace nearby.
Speaker 3: Not likely, Sheriff. If he killed his uncle, he'll go
for distance. He killed him, all right, You can bet
on that when a man's life's at stake, Kennedy, I
don't bet Ben Bonner wasn't around Stump Hill. He pulled
stakes and made a run for it, all right. We
got the information from a woman in the crowd near
the store when we got back to town. Her name
was Sadie Waddle. She ran a rooming house. I ran
all my rooms to extra for generally, because I.
Speaker 7: Don't have to serve no meals that way with him
eating where they're working, so naturally, I thought this fellow
was one of their migratory hands.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I understand all that. Man. All I want
to know is when Ben Bonner left your place.
Speaker 7: Well, it must have been just around midnight last night.
Everybody was in and sleeping in the house, was locked up,
and well the phone hooked me up and.
Speaker 3: It was for him, not Ben phone. Huh you know
who called him?
Speaker 5: Of course not.
Speaker 7: I didn't know who was or nothing about him excepting
his name was Ben.
Speaker 3: Did you recognize the voice of the person who called? No, Well,
please go ahead about the phone call. Well, I called
him to the phone. That's all fine.
Speaker 7: Time a night to be waking people, I told him.
Speaker 3: Then he answered it.
Speaker 1: Right after that he.
Speaker 3: Lit up like the devil was after him. Do you
hear any of the conversations?
Speaker 7: I did not.
Speaker 3: I mind my own business. Besides, all he said was hello.
Speaker 7: After that, all the talking must have been done by
whoever called him, because he never said another word, just
listened a minute, then hung up and let out.
Speaker 3: The phone ringing.
Speaker 1: In the story, Jase I better get it.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, sir, Oh, thanks for your help. Missus waddall,
I'm glad, I'm ou. I have to give it.
Speaker 7: I might have been murdered mound sleep with an ex
convict under my roof.
Speaker 3: Ought to be some way we could tell him from
other folks. A man who served his time can't be
expected to carry a brand, ma'am. Besides, how did you
know Ben Bonner's an next convict?
Speaker 5: So did I know what?
Speaker 3: It's all over town? It's Jace that calls for you
right there, Sheriff, Thanks, ma'am. Excuse me? Who's calling your headquarters?
Captain Stinson? Hello, Kevin, got some good news for you jays.
The Highway Patrol has picked up Ben Potter. Fine, where'd
they get him?
Speaker 5: Almost rail passo patrol car was stopped at a railroad
crossing waiting for a freight to get through.
Speaker 3: They spotted him riding a nimpty flat freight. Huh. It's
a good thing they saw him. If he made out
pass so he'd been across the border into Warez and
no time. Really he didn't make it. Bringing him back
to stump Keill, now you have him there in a
few hours. You getting the case against him. I seem
to be getting plenty. You don't sound through. I don't know.
You look up his record. What was on his last
ticket to Huntsville? Uglary jas And that fits except for
the killing this time. Yeah, it fits all right, like
the executioner's glove. Stump Hill was five miles cross country
from the nearest railroad spur. We had time before the
highway patrol would be delivering Ben Bonner. We sent Kennedy
back to his farm. I unloaded charcoal from a horse trailer,
and the sheriff got his horse. We rode to the
railroad tracks.
Speaker 1: He was smart, Jason almost got away.
Speaker 3: Lots of them almost get away. Sure, made a lot
of distance in it. Don't know why you wanted to
be sure. He came this way to get to the train.
Just wanted to be certain. He cut through this five
miles on foot proves he didn't hitchhike a fast ride
and pick up a train further on down the line. Well,
luck was with him for a while. He cut the
only train he could have cut. You mean only one
freight goes through here at night?
Speaker 1: Yep, hotshot passenger clears first at about one am. Freight
comes through about fifteen minutes later.
Speaker 3: Close for the grade here where he jumped it. About
one fifteen is the schedule for the freight. Then, huh,
that's right, Let's get back to town. Come on, Chuck,
you look like that train schedule means something, Jase.
Speaker 5: It might.
Speaker 3: Parner's report ought to be end by the time we
get back to town. Hey, I see what you mean.
Speaker 1: If Bonner was killed between two and three am, like
you figured, it'll mean his nephew Ben was on that
freight at the time the old man was killed, Parner.
Speaker 3: Or had been completed. It was waiting at the Sheriff's
office when we got back early.
Speaker 5: Didn't miss but much, Jase. Here's the report, the time
of day. What is it between one and two a m.
Speaker 3: Then Ben Bonnard didn't kill his uncle. Even if he
ran the five miles across country. His track showed us
he walked, he couldn't have made it in time to
catch that freight. Doesn't look that way. Bullets from Bonner's
body have been sent through to Austin. We may get
a lead from ballistics. I'm gonna do some more checking
around town on them.
Speaker 1: In just second, Jason Share speaking oh, good good.
Speaker 3: She did. Huh no, no, U say right there? Goodbye?
Speaker 1: Well, Jace, looks like there's been a mistake someplace.
Speaker 3: That was my deputy.
Speaker 1: At the county hospital, Liz Bonner regained consciousness for a
few seconds.
Speaker 3: What she's saying?
Speaker 1: She said her and her husband were shot by their
nephew Ben.
Speaker 2: You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson. We continue with the
night's case Blood Relative, an authentic story from the files
of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 3: The Highway Patrol brought Ben Bonner back to Stump Hill
and unloaded him at the local jail, where the sheriff
and I questioned it.
Speaker 1: But I didn't kill him. I tell you didn't know
he was dead till now. Who said you was gonna
kill him? You said it in front of the witness.
Speaker 3: Man is the difference between saying and doing? If you
had nothing to do with it, why'd you run away?
Of course? Somebody called me up last night.
Speaker 4: The room in the house late was a man said
he was a friend in one of the warning the
sheriff was going to pick me up.
Speaker 1: A threatening uncle will you scary easy, don't you?
Speaker 3: But your life I do, mister.
Speaker 1: I just pulled four years at Huntsville and I had enough.
Speaker 3: I don't want no more.
Speaker 4: Maybe I was tough when I went to Uncle Will yesterday,
but last night when I got that call, I was
scarce sick.
Speaker 3: And you don't know who called you? No, No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it wasn't somebody who served time with letting
you know he was here to help you with the job.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: Look, you gotta believe me. This is a murderer. You
can't send me up for it.
Speaker 3: Just because I shot off my mouth. That ain't evidence.
Speaker 5: Ben.
Speaker 3: There's more than that. Your aunt Liz didn't die. She
came to at the hospital. She says it was you
who gunned her and her husband. That's a dirty lie.
Speaker 4: Look if I did that, if I shot them and
robbed the store, what was I doing on a freight?
Speaker 3: What did I do with the money. I ain't gonna
say anymore. I ain't gonna talk to I see a lawyer.
That's youre right. We told you that in the beginning,
all right, Sheriff, Yes, you can lock him up again.
Go on, go ahead, ranger, police. I didn't do it.
Speaker 1: Maybe the fellow who told you I threatened Uncle Will
didn't tell you everything. Maybe you want to ask him
why there was odd and when I come into the store.
Speaker 3: All right, Ben, all right, well what do you think case?
I don't know. Let's get outside.
Speaker 1: If he did have an accomplish, the other fellow might
be carting the loot and the gun might.
Speaker 3: Be I'll see later, Sheriff. I'm driving over to the
hospital at the county seat. I want to talk to
his aunt, Liz Bonner, Missus Bonner. The doctor will only
let me stay a minute. Well, shot Will?
Speaker 5: Just getting up?
Speaker 3: Who shot him? Missus Bonner? Then then, ungrateful wanted to
help him. How did it happen?
Speaker 6: It was a noise in the store woke us up?
Well cold, said who's there? Then he got up, went
put on the lights, then shot him.
Speaker 3: Did he get the lights on? Did you ever see
your nephew? No, but it was him, he said he'd
do it.
Speaker 6: It was him.
Speaker 3: If you didn't see him, did he say anything? Did
you hear his voice and recognize him?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: He just shot Will. I screamed, and that's all. But
you didn't see Ben or recognize his voice, no, but
he said he would. There couldn't be anybody else. I
think you're wrong, man, I think it could be. I
burned up the road back to Stump Hill and got
the sheriff. I wanted to make another check at the
store and find out a few things about Mac kennedy. Dog.
Speaker 1: Honey, jeez, you're sending your dogs at the wrong tree.
Mac Kennedy's been Will's friend for a year.
Speaker 3: I just asked if Kennedy had ever been in trouble.
Speaker 1: Never. He's honest, god peran dirt farmer, and that's all.
Speaker 3: What kind of shape is he in financially?
Speaker 1: Well, oh, Jase, A man don't have to be a
criminal just because he's down on his luck. Max's crops
have been bad.
Speaker 3: Sure, if I'm just asking a few questions, that's all. Well,
I'm sorry, Jayce, I reckon Max in hawk up to
his neck plays and all his equipment as mortgage. How
come he can afford a hired hand? You mean, Jody, Oh,
he just drifts in and out. Ain't much of a worker,
but he's all Mac needs. Migrates in in the spring for.
Speaker 1: Planting season, then out again in the fall after harvest.
Speaker 3: He doesn't work for nothing, does he?
Speaker 1: Mac pays him right off when he makes his crop
from Selsey.
Speaker 3: That the way he pays everybody. It's the only time
he ever had any cash. Why just wondering did Mac
buy here on credit from Bonner? Well? I guess so.
Why you find something in the ledger? Come take a look.
Seems to be a page torn out. The book has
kept in alphabetical order. Missing page is in the case
if there was a charge page in here for Kennedy,
it'd be right here. Now you've got something I can't fight, Jace.
What a setup? An x Colm threatens to kill a
man makes it perfect for somebody else to do the
job and set the jailbird up for a frank Come on, Sheriff,
let's get out to Kennedy's place again. Only this trip
we won't be asking questions about Ben Bonner. There's one
thing still bothering me, Jace, Mat Kennedy. He's never been
in trouble, so.
Speaker 1: How come we both spotted the marks of a professional
knob knocker on the burger?
Speaker 3: And it's been bothering me too. The more I think
of it, the more I wonder why tore that charge
page out of the ledger. Why do something that would
point right at him when he had somebody else all
set up to take the fall. Just beating the bill
wouldn't make the chance worthwhile, Not with murder, it wouldn't.
Ktxaity out of ten. Oh, this may be the ballistics report, Jason,
Unit ten, go ahead, kt XA lap.
Speaker 8: Report completed on bullets US and the slang of Will Butler.
Thirty eight kalaba probably Smith and Wesson Police.
Speaker 3: Special ten to four. Unit ten Claire kdx A austin
a minute, KTXA stand by, please ATXA standing by this matter.
Jon just got an idea something that didn't fit before
at hand. Who works for Kennedy? That Jody? What's his
last name? Jody, let's see it. It's Pelham, Jody Pelham. Why,
I'll tell you in a minute. You there, kt X
at this unit requests quick check on subject Jody Pelham.
Repeat Jody Pellham, Urgent ten four, Get back to you
with information soon as possible. Unit ten Claire Kenny x
ay often.
Speaker 1: Yeeh you figuring Jody helped make Kennedy to pull this job?
Speaker 3: Maybe or maybe Jody did it on his own. I
want to know if he's got a record, What swisch
you're thinking to him? He was waiting outside Bonner's store
for Kennedy when Ben walked in yesterday and made his threats.
Speaker 1: Well, sure, he admitted that Kennedy told him about Ben
when he come out and he'd drove on back to
the farm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But when Jody came into town the next morning
and came to tell us about the threats, he pretended
he didn't know too much, just knew that old Will
Bonnard been threatened, couldn't say who made the threats. Well,
I don't get what you're driving at, Joe. If Kennedy
told him, he must have told him the whole story
about the threats coming from Bonner's nephew, a nephew just
gotten out of prison. That'd be the logical way to
tell it. And that's the way Kennedy did did tell it.
But Jody was anxious not to seem to know too much. Hey, sure,
I see what you mean. Kennedy wasn't in town this
morning until we went out and brought me. Yeah, but
when we got back, everybody in town knew that the
man we were looking for was Bonner's nephew, and that
he was an ex khan. Sadie Waddles told us that.
Speaker 1: Only wound it could have come from with Jody. He
spread it around while we were out getting Kennedy.
Speaker 3: When we get to the farm, draw him out. Don't
pounce on him until I get an answer on him
from Austin. I hope it's the right, an't she? It
may save Mac Kennedy's life. It was dark and we
reached the farmhouse. There was a light on him the house,
but the pickup truck wasn't in sight in the open garage.
We left my car around in the back of the
house and en up on the porch. Oh he'll hold
your horses.
Speaker 5: Oh sure, ranger, I thought it was Jody coming back
with the pickup.
Speaker 3: Where'd he go?
Speaker 5: He drove up north to Edgeville this afternoon, said he
wanted to get something.
Speaker 3: You ought to be back soon.
Speaker 1: Well, aren't you gonna ask us in?
Speaker 3: Mac? Sure? Sure thing? Make yourself at home.
Speaker 5: Un there's stand you got Bonner's nephew today heard a
couple of women chewing about it on the party line.
Speaker 3: He got him temporarily. What do you mean temporarily? He
didn't kill anybody, Mac, You had an argument with Bonner yesterday?
What about I reckon? That's my business, yours and Bonner's.
But he's dead now, so that makes it my business. Better?
Speaker 5: Talk up, Mac, Well, I've been running up a big bill.
Will was cutting me down a little. You admit you
owed him money. Why wouldn't I admit it? I pay
my bills any an sways otherwise as a liar.
Speaker 1: Nobody is saying otherwise.
Speaker 3: Mac. You keep a gun around here anyplace?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What kind?
Speaker 5: Smith and Wasson thirty eight? It's right there on the
mantel over the fireplace.
Speaker 3: I'll get it, Jase, Oh, don't wipe off any prints.
Stick a pencil in the muzzle and lift it that way. Ok,
pencil won't go in Gay, something jamming it. Let me see,
I have to worry about prints on that outside has
been white clean with an oil rag.
Speaker 1: Looks like paper jammed in there.
Speaker 3: Must soon find out. Take these shells out, poke the
pencil through there.
Speaker 1: Why is Max's charge page from the ledger?
Speaker 5: What are you trying to pull?
Speaker 3: Make it easy, Mac, We're not. After you smell this
gun and look at it, Sheriff. It was used, then reloaded,
but never cleaned. That gun hasn't been touched in years. Mac.
This gun killed Will Bonnard almost killed his wife last night.
Jody Pelham did it after you told him about Bonner's nephew.
Speaker 1: But why would he tear out that page and plant
it here.
Speaker 3: So he could use Mac here to give himself a
double cover up. He made the call to the rooming
house and got Ben Bonner to run, But he knew
if Ben was caught any place and could set up
an alibi, there'd be a second search. That's why he
tore out the page and planted it here on Mac.
I'm sure, glad you know it wasn't me. If it
was you, you'd have burned the page.
Speaker 5: That dirty little hey, there he comes.
Speaker 3: Now that's the pickup. I want to help us nail
him all. I'd like to blow his brains out of
this a better way. I di him feel safe here.
Let me put these cuffs on you quick what I've
done back in the mantle, Sheriff. But are you sure
the junkie is not.
Speaker 1: Boy?
Speaker 3: I didn't know anybody was here, mag, heck was the matter?
What are you doing with those things? On? What's your guess? Jody?
What's in that bag?
Speaker 5: You're carried what I used to pick me up A
bottle of package Stone Edgeville.
Speaker 3: What you use for money, you don't get credit on liquor? Well,
mag Mac, he paid me some wages this morning. Oh
I get it. I kind of wondered where he got
the money, now, you know? Huh.
Speaker 5: Well, when I got up last night and found he
was going to I saw have got the wondering this morning.
Speaker 3: You shut up man, all right, Sheriff, I guess we
can take him in. You better come along the make
a statement. Jody, sure, Sure. I hate to do a
thing like this to a friend, but I guess he
deserves it. Don't know, Bonner like he did. Yeah, I
thought you'd feel that way. Let's go. You might as
well admit you fired the gun, Mac a die Fenleman.
Test will prove you did. What kind of test is
that man fires a gun? The nitrate from the powder
gets into the pores of his hands. Chemical application shows
it up. Well, he's washed his hand since last night.
I reckon, Oh, Washington won't get it out. Stays for
a couple of days. You fired a gun recently, Jody, No, No,
Then we make the same test on your hand. It
will show you the difference. Well, you don't have to
do that. I don't understand that kind of stuff anyway,
it's too bad. I thought you might like to see
how we work. Get in watch him, Sheriff. All right,
Austin ought to have that information I requested before, Sheriff. Yeah,
this might bore you. Jody, you tend to k t XA.
This unit back in service, been waiting for you have
information you're inquested on subject? Jody Pelham, what's that?
Speaker 8: Two years Huntsville bargery, three years Louisiana State ptitentry, burgery
and safe.
Speaker 3: Cracking ten four unit ten clear any exit? Austin shut
this car. You got me get out of here, watching
sharpon making use his gun. Judy, you can rot. Never
mind that mac here. Take these keys and put the
cuffs on the right man, Sheriff. We might as well
have him there. He'll be wearing them a lot until
he reaches the death cell. At Huntsville.
Speaker 4: Jody Pelham was tried and convicted for the Wanton murder
of Will Bunner on the morning of December sixth, nineteen
forty nine, at Huntsville Penitentiary.
Speaker 3: His sentence was carried out death and the jov and
now here again is the star of our show, Joel McCrae. Folks,
Tales of the Texas Rangers is moving to a new time.
You won't hear us next Sunday, but the week after
that we'll be back just an hour and a half
later than usual on NBC, right after Theater Guild. So
we'll see you in two weeks on Sunday, November twenty sixth,
and I hope you'll be listening. Good night, good night, Joel.
See you one week from this coming Sunday.
Speaker 2: Remember, friends, as Joel told you, Tales of the Texas
Rangers will come to you an hour and a half later,
immediately following Theater Guild, beginning next Sunday. At this time
you'll hear head of Hopper's Fine Program. The week after next,
November twenty sixth, Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson will
be with you again.
Speaker 3: A week from Sunday.
Speaker 2: Joel McCray and another authentic reenactment of a case from
the files.
Speaker 3: Of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2: Joel McCray is currently seen starring in the MGM production
Stars in My Crown. Tonight's cast included Tony Barrett, Bill Johnstone,
Jodeval Virginia, Greg Parley Bear, and Byron Kine.
Speaker 3: This story was transcribed and adapted by Joel Murcott, and
the program was.
Speaker 2: Produced and directed by Stacy Keach. One week from next Sunday,
Tales of the Texas Rangers will be back with you
immediately following Theater Guild. Consult your local radio schedule for time.
This is Hal give me speaking.
Speaker 3: Three chimes mean good times on NBC
Speaker 1: Mm hmm