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

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the Texas Rangers Tonight, transcribed from Hollywood. Another authentic reenactment

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of a case from the Files of the Texas Rangers.

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Tales from 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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Speaker 2: Square miles and fifty men who make up.

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Speaker 1: The most famous and oldest law enforcement.

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Speaker 3: Body in North America.

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Speaker 1: Now from the files of the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: From these stories based on fact only, names, dates, and place,

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this is our pictations more obvious reasons they.

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Speaker 1: Events themselves are a matter of records.

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Speaker 2: Case Fortnite, Blood Harvest.

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Speaker 4: It is a moonless midnight, September sixteenth, nineteen forty seven.

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A truck without lights is parked in a cultivated field

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several miles from Fairvale, Texas.

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Speaker 2: In the darkness.

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Speaker 4: Two men are perspiring freely because they load bells of

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seasoned l foulful under the truck.

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Speaker 5: How many more we got to go, slim fifteen twenty,

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It's all now, we can get it all on here.

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Speaker 2: Then this will be the landsload.

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Speaker 6: It suits me fine, they soony, get off the place

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with it better?

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Speaker 2: Come on, whooa take it easy, will you, slim? How

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about time out for a smoke?

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Speaker 6: Smoke you wanta your mind shrunk? Oh or a half

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mile from the house. And besides, you said Mullin was asleep.

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Speaker 2: Look, don't give me an argument.

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Speaker 6: All right, all right, but I'm moving more than two

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hundred bales and stuff tonight. I'm gonna arrest for a minute.

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You don't like it to load the rest out yourself, Okay,

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don't get hot about it. I'm just as tired as

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you are. Sit on a running board. Yeah, Mulletin' su're

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gonna be surprised when he gets to a look at

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this field tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sure is what do we get for this stuff?

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Speaker 6: About thirty dollars a time, ain't bad bound a clear

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almost two hundred bucks a piece. Yeah, could make more

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in that running a couple ahead of cattle without working

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up the pigswort though, Sure, smart guy, run cattle and

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get picked up and center the pin. Maybe there ain't

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as much money in our falfa. But one thing about it,

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there ain't no brand marks on the baills either. Nobody

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can say it ain't yours once you're getting the clear

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with it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you got a point.

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Speaker 6: Think Mullin's liberals suspicion you when he finds his field

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stripped tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Oh not a chance.

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Speaker 6: I'm an old war buddy, and he saw me taking

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a sleep until before we and in the night.

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Speaker 2: At least he thinks he's saw me take it.

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Speaker 6: It's a good thing he ain't seeing you take this,

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alf Alfa.

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Speaker 2: You lose your job for sure after tomorrow.

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Speaker 6: I can afford to lose it the farm working for

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minutes for horses.

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Speaker 2: Hey, come on, we rested long enough. I want to

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get you away from here. Okay, Now give me that pitchfork.

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Speaker 6: I'll push those last two veils back and make more

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room on the table. Here is I got a real surprise.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow's matteresting. There's something moving here. I don't hear nothing

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there it is again. Maybe it's Mulling. Maybe he woke up,

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get quadrant.

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Speaker 4: He's on this.

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Speaker 2: It is him. Better ask me. I can see the

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outline of the truck. Slim. I gotta start up and

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get out of hill. Woke up and you wanna snow

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him up the house? So filo in the truck, can

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come with me quick to go to jail ladio full. No,

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I'll slide along behind the truck. You'll stay here until

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it comes up to you. Yeah, but I turned you. Oh,

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I talk off fast. It's me you mulling, Harry Trent

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trying to you lost trace?

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Speaker 4: What are you doing to my field in the middle

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of the night with a truck full of miles?

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Speaker 2: Ouf uh west Lam, Wait around to I didn't run

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any place. Moment, move there's a pitchfork you'll feel against

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your ribs. Just march back to the house. Were you

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gonna do to him? Slim?

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Speaker 6: I gotta len him my bottle of sleeping pills and

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seats with that he takes an overdose of them. It's nice,

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cleaning quiet that I did. Be great, Slim if i'd

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hold still for it. But I ain't about to hold still.

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Speaker 2: Got Slim put some trap. I call that fort mully mullin.

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Speaker 6: Here's something you don't have to hold still?

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Speaker 2: Forth what you'll hold still this time?

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Speaker 7: You killed him?

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Speaker 6: You killed him?

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Speaker 2: Shut up? Stop that, shut up? We can run, Slim.

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Will you do nothing?

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Speaker 6: Jut that load out of here and solid likely planned

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and keep your mouth shut.

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Speaker 2: If your own all shut it for you.

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Speaker 4: Just before dawn of the next morning, a hound from

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a neighboring farm came across the body of Robert Mullin.

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It's baying attracted its master, who called the sheriff. The

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sheriff requested aid from the Texas Rangers. Ranger adjacent person

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was a sign.

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Speaker 8: There's a body ranger. Black hond dog over there came

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across it this morning. Set up A holler owner heard

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her note she'd find something.

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Speaker 2: Come around and see which one owns the dog.

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Speaker 8: Fella in the macaroon, Sam Richards and Farmer joins us

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one along the east fence were the other two men,

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Harry Trent Farmer on the noise is his and Slim Fireman.

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Slim worked his place with Mullin. They was buddies in

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the war or something. You want to talk to him?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, in a minute. Anybody touched that pitch for.

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Speaker 8: Nope, not even me yet. I figured it must be

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the murder weapon. Blood all over the prongs, hard to read.

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Prince Office handler.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Mark's on the body show. Mullen was jabbed twice.

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Speaker 8: Once would have been plenty. I sent for the JP,

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but I don't think we need an inquest to tag

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this as murder.

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Speaker 2: Now, so you'll have to order a medical examination to

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establish the time of death. Moan felt kind of funny.

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Left leg bending under him. Well there's a reason for that.

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Speaker 8: Pull up the pants leg and go see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he explains it all right, artificial leg in some

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kind of an accident.

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Speaker 8: If you can call Okanawa an accident. You get the

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beach there with the first Marines lost a leg and

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an I left eyes glass.

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Speaker 2: You could have picked an easier life than farm. Did

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he have any family?

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Speaker 8: Sister Ellie lives over Holdsville, I guess, so we'll have

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to bring her the news, and you.

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Speaker 2: Could call the local minister at Holdsville. He can tell

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her better than you can. We can drive over and

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see her later and find out if she knows anything.

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Speaker 8: It's a good idea I'll tell to these other fellas now, Okay,

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they don't seem to know much.

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Speaker 2: So they may know when Mullen was last seen alive.

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This Nottingen. The man gets pitched forth to death out

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in his own fields.

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Speaker 8: The seers ranger Jase Pearson Benger, This is Sam Richardson,

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how Harry Trent Slim firman, I know you.

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Speaker 2: Richardson the sheriff tells me your dog found the body.

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That's right.

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Speaker 6: It must have been about four am. I was just

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getting out of bed when I heard her, so I

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come and running.

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Speaker 2: You always run out and investigate when you hear one

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of your hounds baying.

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Speaker 6: Nope, that black hound of mind's a good one, and

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I ain't never heard of dogs hound off like she did.

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Speaker 2: I see, when did you see Mullen last alive? Yesterday morning?

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Speaker 6: Past each other along the fence and said, howdy, how about.

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Speaker 2: You, mister Trent. I hadn't seen him for a couple

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of days, Reckon Slim here saw him last? And how

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about it? Well, sure, Reckon, I did. Last night. We

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ate and then I turned in early. Then this happened

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during the night. Must as far as I know, Why

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would Mullin come out to this field at night? I

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don't know.

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Speaker 6: I didn't even know he'd left the house until Richardson

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here come foun him on a door and woke me

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up this morning after he found the body.

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Speaker 2: He lived right on the place. Slim, how come you

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didn't hear Richardson's dog?

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Speaker 6: Oh sleeping kind of heavy? I took a sleep until

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last night. Must have knocked me out good. Had a

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rough day yesterday.

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Speaker 2: What do you mean rough?

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Speaker 6: Well, all the extra chawes loading the alfalfa from this

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field onto the truck.

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Speaker 2: I was wondering, how come there were so few bales

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from such a big cutting.

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Speaker 6: Well, Mullin had a buyer for most of it, I

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reckon anyhow he caught it off and I see the

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tire tracks.

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Speaker 2: Any idea who he sold it to? He didn't say.

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Speaker 8: Think somebody paid him for the stuff then came back

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to rob him with the money.

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Speaker 2: Jays could be sheriff, except that Mullen made the robin

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mighty convenient by coming out into this field at night.

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When we learned why he came out here, we'll be

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learning a lot. After a while, the Justice of the

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piece showed up and took charge of the body. The

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sheriff made his call to the Minister Holdspell so he

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could break the news to my own sister. He gave

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her a couple of hours to get a grip, and

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then drove over to Seer.

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Speaker 9: He was only a year last Sunday, spending the day

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with playing with the baby and arguing with Dan.

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Speaker 2: Who's Dan, I husband? What were they arguing about?

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Speaker 9: Hut, I didn't mean a real argument. Politics costill living.

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You know how men get talking.

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Speaker 2: No, he did take it easy. All that's your brother's

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picture of the fireplace, isn't it. Yes, in his uniform,

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just before.

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Speaker 9: He went overseas in the war, before he was hurt.

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Speaker 2: Anybody you know of who might gain anything by having

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your brother out of the way. No, he never made

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any enemy.

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Speaker 8: Yes, it was robbery, like we figured before, Jayson. No

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money on him and none in the house that we

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can find.

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Speaker 2: I'd have had time to bank the crop money yesterday.

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We can check that with a bank.

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Speaker 8: Might as well go, then, Elly, you shouldn't be here

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alone at a time like this.

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Speaker 2: The minister's coming back later. What do you call Dan?

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Have him come home from work.

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Speaker 8: He's await for.

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Speaker 10: A few days on a business trip.

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Speaker 2: Away on a business trip. Huh. Who's he working for?

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Speaker 9: He's buying selling for hapt and Speed and Grain company.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry about me. I'll be all right.

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Speaker 8: If there's anything I can do, just holler buy Aley.

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Speaker 2: Goodbye, man, goodbye.

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Speaker 10: You gotta find out to kill my brother. You can't

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let him get away with it.

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Speaker 2: We'll try not to. Ma'am.

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Speaker 8: I never thought how her husband's job might fit into this.

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Speaker 2: Buying and selling feeding grain.

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Speaker 8: Huh, well and sold at Alfalfa. Most likely he sell

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it to It would be his own brother in law.

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Speaker 2: Something we're gonna check on. Hop in he'll put out

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a radio pickup for him. Oh, we'll drive over to

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the hat and Feed and Grain. They don't know where

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he is. We'll pick him up ourselves. Hatton's Feed and

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Green Company told us the area that Mullen's brother in

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law Dan was working. He caught up to him next

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morning making a selling stop at a dairy farm.

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Speaker 8: That must be Dan's car there by the barn hat

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and Company amble morning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's find him there.

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Speaker 8: He is other end of the barn, leaning on a stall.

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Must be the owner he's talking to. Call him down here.

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We don't have to. He sees this coming this way.

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Speaker 2: Now, watch out for any sudden moves, just in case.

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NAUGHTI sheriff do it for me. Ranger, and I'd like

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a word with you, Reckon. It's about Ellie's brother. You

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heard about it, huh, got on my car radio this morning.

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I called Elie a little while ago. She told me,

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you've been a see her couple stops. I just got

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a make around here and then I'm heading for home.

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When did you see Mullin? Last two days ago? When

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I started out on this trip, you stopped by his place.

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That's right, social caller, business business made a bit on

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his alfalfa.

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Speaker 6: We just about finished sweating, ready to be hauled for storage.

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Speaker 2: How'd you pay him for it? By cash or company check?

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I didn't pay him for it, Ranger. He said it

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wasn't for sale. You better be sure that, Dan, What

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do you mean? He means that that alfalfa was sold

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and moved just before Mullin was killed the same day

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you stopped there. Whoever told you that's a lie?

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Speaker 8: It's no life, Dan.

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Speaker 2: We saw it with our own eyes.

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Speaker 8: Everything was hauled from there except maybe a dozen bails.

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Speaker 2: I don't care what you saw.

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Speaker 6: I know that alfalfa wasn't for sale to me or

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anybody else.

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Speaker 2: Or makes you so sure of that? I'll tell you

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what makes me so sure, and you can check it

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with the bank.

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Speaker 6: Bob told me he'd meet arrangement for a bank loaned

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to by twenty headed dairy cattle.

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Speaker 2: That's why.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure he was getting them in next month, and

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he needed that alfalfa for winter forage.

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Speaker 2: He couldn't as not to anybody.

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

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Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson. We continue now with

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tonight's case, blood harvest and authentic story from the files

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of the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: Mullin's bank verified the loan for buying the dairy. Heard

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unless he changed his mind suddenly, Mullen wouldn't have sold

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the feet and been needing for his own stock. Sheriff

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and I headed back for Mullen's farm.

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Speaker 8: We'll see slimmer ound in the place.

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Speaker 2: Maybe into the funeral home. Let's take a look at

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the barn.

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Speaker 8: We've looked at the barn before, Jays. No way, we

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could miss a couple hundred bills alfathers.

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Speaker 2: No, but we might have missed something we weren't looking

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for the last time. Just look up.

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Speaker 8: You see the lofts almost empty. He didn't need much

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fordge with just one horse to feed.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking for fordge. Here's what I'm interested in. Just

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a bunch of scrap lumber and a keg of nails,

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just about what he needed to build stalls for that dairy.

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Heard Mullen was too far ahead with his plans to

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change his mind. If you ask me, sure looks sad boy, right,

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Mullin keep his hay truck and vehicle shed out back. Yeah,

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come on, what do you want to say, jays the

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truck that Slim said he and Mullin loaded that alfalfon.

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Looks like the shed is lock. I know it isn't,

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mister Wooden, peg stuck through the lock. Ratchet. We can

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pull it, no, help me roll it back. There's a truck.

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That's the only truck he's got. Yep. If this truck

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was used to haul out falfa bales, they must have

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been tighter than any bales I've ever seen. Look at

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that truck bed clean as a whistle, not a straw

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on the floor. And sure this is the truck that

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was loaded out in that field. You can't be sure

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of that just because the bed is clean, But I

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can be sure by the tires. Look at him, treads

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worn down, almost smooth. The tire marks we saw in

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the field were well marked. Plenty of tread Hey, that's right,

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they were Come on, take Mullin's horse from the barn,

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throw a saddle one, I'll get shark all out of

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my trailer and we'll take a little ride. We're too

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out to the fields first, where I can make a

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plastic cast of that tire tread truck was loaded heavy

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impression was deep enough to hold. Why can't we drive out?

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And I don't want to cut across the neighboring farms too,

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and see if we can find any matching treads in

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other fields. See the ground better as we move on horseback.

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This is easy to.

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Speaker 8: Drive around to the farms and check the tires on

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the trucks like we did here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't want to be seen doing that.

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We scare the man where after he might run before

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we get to him.

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Speaker 8: Okay, I'll have this nack right in a minute. If

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you're right, jas Slim ferryman has been lying about moving

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the Yeah, easyboy, we'll.

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Speaker 2: Find out if he was lying. We'll explain why Mullin

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was out to that field at night, because it'll mean

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that the crop was being stolen at night and he

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was killed when he saw who was stealing it.

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Speaker 8: How long does it take that cast to dry? Jason

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I'll be ready in a minute. There will be a

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lot of truck tires with that same tread.

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Speaker 2: Sure with this piece, I'm making a cast of as

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a cut mark across part of the tread. Oh, I see,

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find that same mark again someplace else. We can make

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another cast and use for evidence. Here. This is right now,

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how's that share? Good? Clear impression? Jays, come on, let's ride.

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We checked the neighboring farms. Sam Richardson's place was clear,

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and so were the two others. And we cut through

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the north fence to Mullem's farm and end of the

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acreage owned by Harry Trent.

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Speaker 8: Looks like Trent moves his alfalfa crop too. Jay's fields

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are clear.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, where's a farmhouse on the side of that patch

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of trees? Yes, mother, keep us covered. Keep your eyes

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on the ground. By hey, hold it, hold it? What

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is it? Nothing? Tractor marks there? Not what we're looking for. Well,

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let's keep going. Hey, there's quite a bit of straw

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on the ground over to the right, Sheriff, let's move

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that way.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, probably tread had his pail stack there.

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Speaker 2: Uh, he's sure dead. That's what we're looking for. Ooh ooh, Chark.

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Speaker 8: Oh easy, kind of dim, Jason. But to the same tread.

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Speaker 2: All right, it looks like the same cut mark in

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the tread. I'm gonna make another cast, and after dark

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we can slip in and take a look at Trent's

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barn and his truck. Uh. He slipped back that night.

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Trent's truck tires were the ones we were looking for.

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Heavy duty. We went from the vehicle shed to the barn.

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Speaker 7: Pretty dark, knight, jeez, hardly see it here either. Yeah,

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I see enough to find what I want. It's the

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ladder to the left here, it is all right. I'm

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gonna climb up.

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Speaker 2: Give me your flashlight. Anything up there, just a few

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bales I can. Trent sold most of his alfalfa crop too.

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Speaker 8: Even if he had Mullen's crop here, no way we

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could prove it.

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Speaker 2: That's where you're wrong, Sheriff. If Trent had it, we're

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gonna prove it. We cleared the farm without being spotted,

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got to my car and drop back to town. Robert

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Mullen's wake had just ended at the funeral home as

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we pulled up at the Sheriff's office.

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Speaker 8: We didn't have to be so careful out of Trent's place.

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Jase there he is going toward his car. Was to

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come in to pay his respect. He just came out

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of the door of that cafe. Oh look who's in

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there at the counter, Slim fireman.

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Speaker 2: We could use some coffee.

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Speaker 10: Come on, we'll hold the sheriff and ranger.

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Speaker 2: How's a corfee?

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Speaker 10: Christ turn it and it'll fling the spoon right.

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Speaker 2: Back at you. That's our strong enough for all right?

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And if we said we'd use slim, help yourself. Yeah,

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got a line on who killed Malin? Yet too bad?

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Muller never mentioned the name of the man he was

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selling that alfalfa too now too bad? You think he

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might have mentioned it to one of the neighbors, Sam

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Richardson maybe, or Harry Trent. No, No, I don't. I

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don't think so. This isn't likely a man who doesn't

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tell his plans to an old buddy living right in

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the same house with him. I guess he wouldn't tell anybody.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, here's you have have a sheriff a stranger.

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Speaker 2: You and Mullan go all through the war together, No,

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just part of it.

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Speaker 4: M h.

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Speaker 2: Where'd you meet South Pacific? Uh? No?

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Speaker 6: Here in the States. I was a wardman at the

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General Hospital. Oh and you weren't in action together. No,

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I see, I thought you were a real close friend

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who says we would don't take it easy.

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Speaker 2: Nobody said so. I just meant you you weren't as

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close as buddies are when they're under fire together. We

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were plenty close, and don't let nobody tell you different.

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Mullin was the best friend I ever had. See.

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Speaker 6: Sure, when you get the guy who killed him, I'd

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I like to be there to watch when they strapped

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the rat in the electric chair.

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Speaker 2: I know just how you feel. I'll do my best

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to arrange that for you.

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Speaker 6: And here's your money made fast. I'm going back to

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the farm and get some sleep. If I can't, hardly

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had any senses happened and it's too bad. Maybe you

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ought to take one of your sleeping pills.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, maybe I will. Good Night the night, Shriff night, Slim.

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You sure rattle his te jays.

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Speaker 8: He was pretty frank a body's service record.

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Speaker 2: Though only because he knew I could check it if

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he lied. Let's skip this coffee. I want to see

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Ellie and her husband Dan. Ellie and Dan were keeping

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a lonesome night digit beside the body of Robert Mullen.

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He beckoned Dan outside, what is it? I won't leave

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Ellie alone too long. I'm afraid you'll have to leave

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her alone for a while if you want to help

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us spring the trap on the man who killed your

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brother in law. You know who did it, I think,

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so I need your help to prove it. You gotta

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help her. What do you want? How much acreags? Did

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Mullin have an alfalfa? Look like? Seven or eight acres? H? Right?

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You know? How much? Is it? New? About two tons

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of an acre? Sixteen times? All told? That's a good

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yield for this year. He took good care of his land. Why,

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I'll tell you in a minute, sheriff, we saw trents

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alfalfa acreage. I'd say he'd cut about six acres, But

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you don't have to say about six acres, is right?

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How do you know I've bought trans alfalfa craft from

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my company? Good? How much? Almost twelve tons? Same acre

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you is Bob Mullin's twelve tons? Are you sure that's all?

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Of course? I'm sure a feed and grain companies keep

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a record of everybody they purchased from. Sure, and a

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lots to be identified. I mean, are they tagged or

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are stored in such a way you could tell who

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they were brought from? Yeah, they are. What are you

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having at Jays final proof? To break Trent down? Dan,

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I want you to come with me, get one of

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the bales Trents sold to your company. Then we're gonna

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wake up every other feeding grain buyer in the county

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to see if he sold any more than twelve tons.

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He got what we were After day after Mullen was killed,

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Trent had sold an additional fifteen tons to another company

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almost fifty miles away. He got a sample bail and

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brought it back to the Sheriff's office. Hey, put it

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down here, Dan.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, so Trent did sell.

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Speaker 2: More of it, fifteen tons more.

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Speaker 8: We'll see how you can tell this bail from the

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other one.

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Speaker 2: You can when you weigh him. Trent's bales average one

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hundred and ten pounds to the bail on his own stuff.

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The bales in this second batch are tighter, packed about

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one hundred and forty pounds to the bail. Hey wait

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a minute, Ranger, there's something else different too. I just

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noticed look at the wire on the bales.

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Speaker 6: Looks the same to me, maybe, but you're not as

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used to seeing baling wire as I am. Wire on

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the bails Trent sold me is sixteen gauge wire on

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this other bailer's fourteen gauge five.

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Speaker 2: Mullen always used fourteen gauge. Come on, Sheriff, let's get

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Trent and make him talk. Once he opens up, we'll

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see where Slim Ferreman fits Jase.

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Speaker 8: I see the pictures player as you do now.

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Speaker 2: But how are we going to prove that.

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Speaker 8: This second batch of alfalfa was stolen from Mullen's place.

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Speaker 2: We don't have to prove it. Trent's the one who

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has to do the proven. We do things big in Texas.

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But he's the first man who ever sold twenty seven

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tons of alfalfa from six acres. Let's go. It was

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still dark when we turned in the road to Trent's farmhouse,

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and the light went on inside. As we came to

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a stop. Trent came to the door.

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Speaker 6: Oh, oh, too far, sir, I heard a car.

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Speaker 2: Huh you thought it was somebody else?

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Speaker 5: No, no, no, I didn't know who it was.

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Speaker 2: Oh I thought you might be expecting Slim Fairman. No,

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why would swim come here, take a few lessons in farming,

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maybe so you could show him how to raise twenty

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seven tons of alfalfa on six acres.

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Speaker 8: You must have raised that much, Trent, because you sold

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that much.

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Speaker 2: The fifteen tons of it belonged to Mullen. He bailed

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heavier and used fourteen gage wire while you used six.

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I bought Mullins crop.

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Speaker 8: Why would he sell it to you instead of his

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brother in law Dan?

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Speaker 2: I mean I haled it for him.

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Speaker 5: He thought the price would be better someplace.

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Speaker 2: Else, not enough to all at fifty miles. And besides,

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you made that sale yesterday after Mullen was killed.

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Speaker 5: Now I have to do it. I was in a trap.

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If I told you about it, Slim would have killed me.

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Speaker 2: Did he kill Mullen? Were you and I witness?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I saw him do it. I never touched

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my Slim now. I thought you were him when you

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drove up. He's coming here this morning. I got to

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check for Mullin's halfalf and Slim was gonna pick it

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up and take it someplace for cash.

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Speaker 2: There's a car coming now, Jason Handcuff turned to the door.

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Know with that closet quick right?

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Speaker 10: I didn't gut up.

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Speaker 2: Come on, Sheriff. Slim won't stop. He'll see my cars.

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He makes the turn for the house.

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Speaker 5: He saw it.

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Speaker 2: He's turning around.

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Speaker 11: Get his tires. That stopped him. He's running for chase.

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We're off to that side. The car's shielding him right.

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Stop running, Slim. You can't beat a bullet.

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Speaker 2: He tucked into the boot.

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Speaker 10: Chase from the.

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Speaker 2: Side and keep the door covered.

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Speaker 5: I'm going in after him.

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Speaker 2: Gray of dawn was washing me across the sky, but

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the barn was in deep shadow.

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Speaker 7: I slipped him along the sidewalk and moved slowly toward

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the stalls.

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Speaker 2: I didn't see what came at me. I just sensed

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it hurling through the air, and I threw myself to

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the side, hit the ground and fired. You're right, yeah,

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he threw that sickle at me from the stall. I

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didn't see him. I don't even know how I hit him.

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I just felt it coming and fired. Mighty good, aid

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he's dead, so is Bob Mullin. Let's get Trent and

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take him in.

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Speaker 4: For his complicity in the robbery and murder of Robert Mullen.

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Harry Trent was sentenced to Huntsville Penitentiary for fifty.

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Speaker 1: And here again is the star of our show, Joe McCrae,

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with another interesting story about the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: The equipment of a Texas Ranger includes a pair of

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six guns, a rifle, a shotgun, and other weapons, not

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to mention his horse, horse, trailer, automobile, and scientific crime

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detection apparatus. However, there's been a fictional addition to the

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equipment as the result of motion pictures, an addition that

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has the Rangers scratching their heads. Ruefully, it came to

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the attention of one Ranger recently as he passed two

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small boys on a street. The small fry turned to

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stare at him. The ranger got quite a shock when

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he heard one of them say, shucks, he ain't a

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real Texas Ranger. He ain't got a guitar. Well, such

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is the influence of modern fiction. But fortunately the criminals

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know the truth. When they see a real Texas Ranger,

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they don't look for a guitar. They look for the

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quickest means of transportation. They want distance, not music. Good night, folks,

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See you next week.

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Speaker 6: Next week.

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Speaker 1: Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a case from

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the Files of that Texas Rangers. Joel McCray is currently

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seen starring in the Universal International Technicolor production Frenchie. Tonight's

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cast included Tony Barrett, Lou Truchman, Herb Bigrant, Tom Tully,

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Williams Herbert, Betty Moran, and G. G.

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Speaker 2: Pearson.

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Speaker 1: This story was transcribed and adapted by Joel Murcott, and

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the program was produced and directed by Stacy keach Al given.

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Speaker 4: Speaking Free Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC. Here's news

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of two outstanding musical events. This Saturday, January twenty seventh,

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ar Turno Toscanini begins the first of a new series

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with the NBC Symphony, and starting Monday, January twenty ninth,

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the Boston Pops Orchestra will be heard in a new

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Monday Evening concert series. They call Infantile Paralysis, the Visible Crippler.

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It strikes without mercy any place, anywhere. You can fight

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him with your dimes and dollars, though, send them today

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to your local March of Dimes headquarters. Join the nineteen

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fifty one March of Dimes. Remember Attuno Toscanini once again

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conducts the Symphony next Saturday on NBCO