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Speaker 2: Case Fortnite, Blood Harvest.
Speaker 4: It is a moonless midnight, September sixteenth, nineteen forty seven.
A truck without lights is parked in a cultivated field
several miles from Fairvale, Texas.
Speaker 2: In the darkness.
Speaker 4: Two men are perspiring freely because they load bells of
seasoned l foulful under the truck.
Speaker 5: How many more we got to go, slim fifteen twenty,
It's all now, we can get it all on here.
Speaker 2: Then this will be the landsload.
Speaker 6: It suits me fine, they soony, get off the place
with it better?
Speaker 2: Come on, whooa take it easy, will you, slim? How
about time out for a smoke?
Speaker 6: Smoke you wanta your mind shrunk? Oh or a half
mile from the house. And besides, you said Mullin was asleep.
Speaker 2: Look, don't give me an argument.
Speaker 6: All right, all right, but I'm moving more than two
hundred bales and stuff tonight. I'm gonna arrest for a minute.
You don't like it to load the rest out yourself, Okay,
don't get hot about it. I'm just as tired as
you are. Sit on a running board. Yeah, Mulletin' su're
gonna be surprised when he gets to a look at
this field tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure is what do we get for this stuff?
Speaker 6: About thirty dollars a time, ain't bad bound a clear
almost two hundred bucks a piece. Yeah, could make more
in that running a couple ahead of cattle without working
up the pigswort though, Sure, smart guy, run cattle and
get picked up and center the pin. Maybe there ain't
as much money in our falfa. But one thing about it,
there ain't no brand marks on the baills either. Nobody
can say it ain't yours once you're getting the clear
with it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you got a point.
Speaker 6: Think Mullin's liberals suspicion you when he finds his field
stripped tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Oh not a chance.
Speaker 6: I'm an old war buddy, and he saw me taking
a sleep until before we and in the night.
Speaker 2: At least he thinks he's saw me take it.
Speaker 6: It's a good thing he ain't seeing you take this,
alf Alfa.
Speaker 2: You lose your job for sure after tomorrow.
Speaker 6: I can afford to lose it the farm working for
minutes for horses.
Speaker 2: Hey, come on, we rested long enough. I want to
get you away from here. Okay, Now give me that pitchfork.
Speaker 6: I'll push those last two veils back and make more
room on the table. Here is I got a real surprise.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow's matteresting. There's something moving here. I don't hear nothing
there it is again. Maybe it's Mulling. Maybe he woke up,
get quadrant.
Speaker 4: He's on this.
Speaker 2: It is him. Better ask me. I can see the
outline of the truck. Slim. I gotta start up and
get out of hill. Woke up and you wanna snow
him up the house? So filo in the truck, can
come with me quick to go to jail ladio full. No,
I'll slide along behind the truck. You'll stay here until
it comes up to you. Yeah, but I turned you. Oh,
I talk off fast. It's me you mulling, Harry Trent
trying to you lost trace?
Speaker 4: What are you doing to my field in the middle
of the night with a truck full of miles?
Speaker 2: Ouf uh west Lam, Wait around to I didn't run
any place. Moment, move there's a pitchfork you'll feel against
your ribs. Just march back to the house. Were you
gonna do to him? Slim?
Speaker 6: I gotta len him my bottle of sleeping pills and
seats with that he takes an overdose of them. It's nice,
cleaning quiet that I did. Be great, Slim if i'd
hold still for it. But I ain't about to hold still.
Speaker 2: Got Slim put some trap. I call that fort mully mullin.
Speaker 6: Here's something you don't have to hold still?
Speaker 2: Forth what you'll hold still this time?
Speaker 7: You killed him?
Speaker 6: You killed him?
Speaker 2: Shut up? Stop that, shut up? We can run, Slim.
Will you do nothing?
Speaker 6: Jut that load out of here and solid likely planned
and keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 2: If your own all shut it for you.
Speaker 4: Just before dawn of the next morning, a hound from
a neighboring farm came across the body of Robert Mullin.
It's baying attracted its master, who called the sheriff. The
sheriff requested aid from the Texas Rangers. Ranger adjacent person
was a sign.
Speaker 8: There's a body ranger. Black hond dog over there came
across it this morning. Set up A holler owner heard
her note she'd find something.
Speaker 2: Come around and see which one owns the dog.
Speaker 8: Fella in the macaroon, Sam Richards and Farmer joins us
one along the east fence were the other two men,
Harry Trent Farmer on the noise is his and Slim Fireman.
Slim worked his place with Mullin. They was buddies in
the war or something. You want to talk to him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, in a minute. Anybody touched that pitch for.
Speaker 8: Nope, not even me yet. I figured it must be
the murder weapon. Blood all over the prongs, hard to read.
Prince Office handler.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mark's on the body show. Mullen was jabbed twice.
Speaker 8: Once would have been plenty. I sent for the JP,
but I don't think we need an inquest to tag
this as murder.
Speaker 2: Now, so you'll have to order a medical examination to
establish the time of death. Moan felt kind of funny.
Left leg bending under him. Well there's a reason for that.
Speaker 8: Pull up the pants leg and go see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he explains it all right, artificial leg in some
kind of an accident.
Speaker 8: If you can call Okanawa an accident. You get the
beach there with the first Marines lost a leg and
an I left eyes glass.
Speaker 2: You could have picked an easier life than farm. Did
he have any family?
Speaker 8: Sister Ellie lives over Holdsville, I guess, so we'll have
to bring her the news, and you.
Speaker 2: Could call the local minister at Holdsville. He can tell
her better than you can. We can drive over and
see her later and find out if she knows anything.
Speaker 8: It's a good idea I'll tell to these other fellas now, Okay,
they don't seem to know much.
Speaker 2: So they may know when Mullen was last seen alive.
This Nottingen. The man gets pitched forth to death out
in his own fields.
Speaker 8: The seers ranger Jase Pearson Benger, This is Sam Richardson,
how Harry Trent Slim firman, I know you.
Speaker 2: Richardson the sheriff tells me your dog found the body.
That's right.
Speaker 6: It must have been about four am. I was just
getting out of bed when I heard her, so I
come and running.
Speaker 2: You always run out and investigate when you hear one
of your hounds baying.
Speaker 6: Nope, that black hound of mind's a good one, and
I ain't never heard of dogs hound off like she did.
Speaker 2: I see, when did you see Mullen last alive? Yesterday morning?
Speaker 6: Past each other along the fence and said, howdy, how about.
Speaker 2: You, mister Trent. I hadn't seen him for a couple
of days, Reckon Slim here saw him last? And how
about it? Well, sure, Reckon, I did. Last night. We
ate and then I turned in early. Then this happened
during the night. Must as far as I know, Why
would Mullin come out to this field at night? I
don't know.
Speaker 6: I didn't even know he'd left the house until Richardson
here come foun him on a door and woke me
up this morning after he found the body.
Speaker 2: He lived right on the place. Slim, how come you
didn't hear Richardson's dog?
Speaker 6: Oh sleeping kind of heavy? I took a sleep until
last night. Must have knocked me out good. Had a
rough day yesterday.
Speaker 2: What do you mean rough?
Speaker 6: Well, all the extra chawes loading the alfalfa from this
field onto the truck.
Speaker 2: I was wondering, how come there were so few bales
from such a big cutting.
Speaker 6: Well, Mullin had a buyer for most of it, I
reckon anyhow he caught it off and I see the
tire tracks.
Speaker 2: Any idea who he sold it to? He didn't say.
Speaker 8: Think somebody paid him for the stuff then came back
to rob him with the money.
Speaker 2: Jays could be sheriff, except that Mullen made the robin
mighty convenient by coming out into this field at night.
When we learned why he came out here, we'll be
learning a lot. After a while, the Justice of the
piece showed up and took charge of the body. The
sheriff made his call to the Minister Holdspell so he
could break the news to my own sister. He gave
her a couple of hours to get a grip, and
then drove over to Seer.
Speaker 9: He was only a year last Sunday, spending the day
with playing with the baby and arguing with Dan.
Speaker 2: Who's Dan, I husband? What were they arguing about?
Speaker 9: Hut, I didn't mean a real argument. Politics costill living.
You know how men get talking.
Speaker 2: No, he did take it easy. All that's your brother's
picture of the fireplace, isn't it. Yes, in his uniform,
just before.
Speaker 9: He went overseas in the war, before he was hurt.
Speaker 2: Anybody you know of who might gain anything by having
your brother out of the way. No, he never made
any enemy.
Speaker 8: Yes, it was robbery, like we figured before, Jayson. No
money on him and none in the house that we
can find.
Speaker 2: I'd have had time to bank the crop money yesterday.
We can check that with a bank.
Speaker 8: Might as well go, then, Elly, you shouldn't be here
alone at a time like this.
Speaker 2: The minister's coming back later. What do you call Dan?
Have him come home from work.
Speaker 8: He's await for.
Speaker 10: A few days on a business trip.
Speaker 2: Away on a business trip. Huh. Who's he working for?
Speaker 9: He's buying selling for hapt and Speed and Grain company.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about me. I'll be all right.
Speaker 8: If there's anything I can do, just holler buy Aley.
Speaker 2: Goodbye, man, goodbye.
Speaker 10: You gotta find out to kill my brother. You can't
let him get away with it.
Speaker 2: We'll try not to. Ma'am.
Speaker 8: I never thought how her husband's job might fit into this.
Speaker 2: Buying and selling feeding grain.
Speaker 8: Huh, well and sold at Alfalfa. Most likely he sell
it to It would be his own brother in law.
Speaker 2: Something we're gonna check on. Hop in he'll put out
a radio pickup for him. Oh, we'll drive over to
the hat and Feed and Grain. They don't know where
he is. We'll pick him up ourselves. Hatton's Feed and
Green Company told us the area that Mullen's brother in
law Dan was working. He caught up to him next
morning making a selling stop at a dairy farm.
Speaker 8: That must be Dan's car there by the barn hat
and Company amble morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's find him there.
Speaker 8: He is other end of the barn, leaning on a stall.
Must be the owner he's talking to. Call him down here.
We don't have to. He sees this coming this way.
Speaker 2: Now, watch out for any sudden moves, just in case.
NAUGHTI sheriff do it for me. Ranger, and I'd like
a word with you, Reckon. It's about Ellie's brother. You
heard about it, huh, got on my car radio this morning.
I called Elie a little while ago. She told me,
you've been a see her couple stops. I just got
a make around here and then I'm heading for home.
When did you see Mullin? Last two days ago? When
I started out on this trip, you stopped by his place.
That's right, social caller, business business made a bit on
his alfalfa.
Speaker 6: We just about finished sweating, ready to be hauled for storage.
Speaker 2: How'd you pay him for it? By cash or company check?
I didn't pay him for it, Ranger. He said it
wasn't for sale. You better be sure that, Dan, What
do you mean? He means that that alfalfa was sold
and moved just before Mullin was killed the same day
you stopped there. Whoever told you that's a lie?
Speaker 8: It's no life, Dan.
Speaker 2: We saw it with our own eyes.
Speaker 8: Everything was hauled from there except maybe a dozen bails.
Speaker 2: I don't care what you saw.
Speaker 6: I know that alfalfa wasn't for sale to me or
anybody else.
Speaker 2: Or makes you so sure of that? I'll tell you
what makes me so sure, and you can check it
with the bank.
Speaker 6: Bob told me he'd meet arrangement for a bank loaned
to by twenty headed dairy cattle.
Speaker 2: That's why.
Speaker 6: I'm sure he was getting them in next month, and
he needed that alfalfa for winter forage.
Speaker 2: He couldn't as not to anybody.
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Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson. We continue now with
tonight's case, blood harvest and authentic story from the files
of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2: Mullin's bank verified the loan for buying the dairy. Heard
unless he changed his mind suddenly, Mullen wouldn't have sold
the feet and been needing for his own stock. Sheriff
and I headed back for Mullen's farm.
Speaker 8: We'll see slimmer ound in the place.
Speaker 2: Maybe into the funeral home. Let's take a look at
the barn.
Speaker 8: We've looked at the barn before, Jays. No way, we
could miss a couple hundred bills alfathers.
Speaker 2: No, but we might have missed something we weren't looking
for the last time. Just look up.
Speaker 8: You see the lofts almost empty. He didn't need much
fordge with just one horse to feed.
Speaker 2: I'm looking for fordge. Here's what I'm interested in. Just
a bunch of scrap lumber and a keg of nails,
just about what he needed to build stalls for that dairy.
Heard Mullen was too far ahead with his plans to
change his mind. If you ask me, sure looks sad boy, right,
Mullin keep his hay truck and vehicle shed out back. Yeah,
come on, what do you want to say, jays the
truck that Slim said he and Mullin loaded that alfalfon.
Looks like the shed is lock. I know it isn't,
mister Wooden, peg stuck through the lock. Ratchet. We can
pull it, no, help me roll it back. There's a truck.
That's the only truck he's got. Yep. If this truck
was used to haul out falfa bales, they must have
been tighter than any bales I've ever seen. Look at
that truck bed clean as a whistle, not a straw
on the floor. And sure this is the truck that
was loaded out in that field. You can't be sure
of that just because the bed is clean, But I
can be sure by the tires. Look at him, treads
worn down, almost smooth. The tire marks we saw in
the field were well marked. Plenty of tread Hey, that's right,
they were Come on, take Mullin's horse from the barn,
throw a saddle one, I'll get shark all out of
my trailer and we'll take a little ride. We're too
out to the fields first, where I can make a
plastic cast of that tire tread truck was loaded heavy
impression was deep enough to hold. Why can't we drive out?
And I don't want to cut across the neighboring farms too,
and see if we can find any matching treads in
other fields. See the ground better as we move on horseback.
This is easy to.
Speaker 8: Drive around to the farms and check the tires on
the trucks like we did here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't want to be seen doing that.
We scare the man where after he might run before
we get to him.
Speaker 8: Okay, I'll have this nack right in a minute. If
you're right, jas Slim ferryman has been lying about moving
the Yeah, easyboy, we'll.
Speaker 2: Find out if he was lying. We'll explain why Mullin
was out to that field at night, because it'll mean
that the crop was being stolen at night and he
was killed when he saw who was stealing it.
Speaker 8: How long does it take that cast to dry? Jason
I'll be ready in a minute. There will be a
lot of truck tires with that same tread.
Speaker 2: Sure with this piece, I'm making a cast of as
a cut mark across part of the tread. Oh, I see,
find that same mark again someplace else. We can make
another cast and use for evidence. Here. This is right now,
how's that share? Good? Clear impression? Jays, come on, let's ride.
We checked the neighboring farms. Sam Richardson's place was clear,
and so were the two others. And we cut through
the north fence to Mullem's farm and end of the
acreage owned by Harry Trent.
Speaker 8: Looks like Trent moves his alfalfa crop too. Jay's fields
are clear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where's a farmhouse on the side of that patch
of trees? Yes, mother, keep us covered. Keep your eyes
on the ground. By hey, hold it, hold it? What
is it? Nothing? Tractor marks there? Not what we're looking for. Well,
let's keep going. Hey, there's quite a bit of straw
on the ground over to the right, Sheriff, let's move
that way.
Speaker 8: Yeah, probably tread had his pail stack there.
Speaker 2: Uh, he's sure dead. That's what we're looking for. Ooh ooh, Chark.
Speaker 8: Oh easy, kind of dim, Jason. But to the same tread.
Speaker 2: All right, it looks like the same cut mark in
the tread. I'm gonna make another cast, and after dark
we can slip in and take a look at Trent's
barn and his truck. Uh. He slipped back that night.
Trent's truck tires were the ones we were looking for.
Heavy duty. We went from the vehicle shed to the barn.
Speaker 7: Pretty dark, knight, jeez, hardly see it here either. Yeah,
I see enough to find what I want. It's the
ladder to the left here, it is all right. I'm
gonna climb up.
Speaker 2: Give me your flashlight. Anything up there, just a few
bales I can. Trent sold most of his alfalfa crop too.
Speaker 8: Even if he had Mullen's crop here, no way we
could prove it.
Speaker 2: That's where you're wrong, Sheriff. If Trent had it, we're
gonna prove it. We cleared the farm without being spotted,
got to my car and drop back to town. Robert
Mullen's wake had just ended at the funeral home as
we pulled up at the Sheriff's office.
Speaker 8: We didn't have to be so careful out of Trent's place.
Jase there he is going toward his car. Was to
come in to pay his respect. He just came out
of the door of that cafe. Oh look who's in
there at the counter, Slim fireman.
Speaker 2: We could use some coffee.
Speaker 10: Come on, we'll hold the sheriff and ranger.
Speaker 2: How's a corfee?
Speaker 10: Christ turn it and it'll fling the spoon right.
Speaker 2: Back at you. That's our strong enough for all right?
And if we said we'd use slim, help yourself. Yeah,
got a line on who killed Malin? Yet too bad?
Muller never mentioned the name of the man he was
selling that alfalfa too now too bad? You think he
might have mentioned it to one of the neighbors, Sam
Richardson maybe, or Harry Trent. No, No, I don't. I
don't think so. This isn't likely a man who doesn't
tell his plans to an old buddy living right in
the same house with him. I guess he wouldn't tell anybody.
Speaker 10: Yeah, here's you have have a sheriff a stranger.
Speaker 2: You and Mullan go all through the war together, No,
just part of it.
Speaker 4: M h.
Speaker 2: Where'd you meet South Pacific? Uh? No?
Speaker 6: Here in the States. I was a wardman at the
General Hospital. Oh and you weren't in action together. No,
I see, I thought you were a real close friend
who says we would don't take it easy.
Speaker 2: Nobody said so. I just meant you you weren't as
close as buddies are when they're under fire together. We
were plenty close, and don't let nobody tell you different.
Mullin was the best friend I ever had. See.
Speaker 6: Sure, when you get the guy who killed him, I'd
I like to be there to watch when they strapped
the rat in the electric chair.
Speaker 2: I know just how you feel. I'll do my best
to arrange that for you.
Speaker 6: And here's your money made fast. I'm going back to
the farm and get some sleep. If I can't, hardly
had any senses happened and it's too bad. Maybe you
ought to take one of your sleeping pills.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, maybe I will. Good Night the night, Shriff night, Slim.
You sure rattle his te jays.
Speaker 8: He was pretty frank a body's service record.
Speaker 2: Though only because he knew I could check it if
he lied. Let's skip this coffee. I want to see
Ellie and her husband Dan. Ellie and Dan were keeping
a lonesome night digit beside the body of Robert Mullen.
He beckoned Dan outside, what is it? I won't leave
Ellie alone too long. I'm afraid you'll have to leave
her alone for a while if you want to help
us spring the trap on the man who killed your
brother in law. You know who did it, I think,
so I need your help to prove it. You gotta
help her. What do you want? How much acreags? Did
Mullin have an alfalfa? Look like? Seven or eight acres? H? Right?
You know? How much? Is it? New? About two tons
of an acre? Sixteen times? All told? That's a good
yield for this year. He took good care of his land. Why,
I'll tell you in a minute, sheriff, we saw trents
alfalfa acreage. I'd say he'd cut about six acres, But
you don't have to say about six acres, is right?
How do you know I've bought trans alfalfa craft from
my company? Good? How much? Almost twelve tons? Same acre
you is Bob Mullin's twelve tons? Are you sure that's all?
Of course? I'm sure a feed and grain companies keep
a record of everybody they purchased from. Sure, and a
lots to be identified. I mean, are they tagged or
are stored in such a way you could tell who
they were brought from? Yeah, they are. What are you
having at Jays final proof? To break Trent down? Dan,
I want you to come with me, get one of
the bales Trents sold to your company. Then we're gonna
wake up every other feeding grain buyer in the county
to see if he sold any more than twelve tons.
He got what we were After day after Mullen was killed,
Trent had sold an additional fifteen tons to another company
almost fifty miles away. He got a sample bail and
brought it back to the Sheriff's office. Hey, put it
down here, Dan.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so Trent did sell.
Speaker 2: More of it, fifteen tons more.
Speaker 8: We'll see how you can tell this bail from the
other one.
Speaker 2: You can when you weigh him. Trent's bales average one
hundred and ten pounds to the bail on his own stuff.
The bales in this second batch are tighter, packed about
one hundred and forty pounds to the bail. Hey wait
a minute, Ranger, there's something else different too. I just
noticed look at the wire on the bales.
Speaker 6: Looks the same to me, maybe, but you're not as
used to seeing baling wire as I am. Wire on
the bails Trent sold me is sixteen gauge wire on
this other bailer's fourteen gauge five.
Speaker 2: Mullen always used fourteen gauge. Come on, Sheriff, let's get
Trent and make him talk. Once he opens up, we'll
see where Slim Ferreman fits Jase.
Speaker 8: I see the pictures player as you do now.
Speaker 2: But how are we going to prove that.
Speaker 8: This second batch of alfalfa was stolen from Mullen's place.
Speaker 2: We don't have to prove it. Trent's the one who
has to do the proven. We do things big in Texas.
But he's the first man who ever sold twenty seven
tons of alfalfa from six acres. Let's go. It was
still dark when we turned in the road to Trent's farmhouse,
and the light went on inside. As we came to
a stop. Trent came to the door.
Speaker 6: Oh, oh, too far, sir, I heard a car.
Speaker 2: Huh you thought it was somebody else?
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I didn't know who it was.
Speaker 2: Oh I thought you might be expecting Slim Fairman. No,
why would swim come here, take a few lessons in farming,
maybe so you could show him how to raise twenty
seven tons of alfalfa on six acres.
Speaker 8: You must have raised that much, Trent, because you sold
that much.
Speaker 2: The fifteen tons of it belonged to Mullen. He bailed
heavier and used fourteen gage wire while you used six.
I bought Mullins crop.
Speaker 8: Why would he sell it to you instead of his
brother in law Dan?
Speaker 2: I mean I haled it for him.
Speaker 5: He thought the price would be better someplace.
Speaker 2: Else, not enough to all at fifty miles. And besides,
you made that sale yesterday after Mullen was killed.
Speaker 5: Now I have to do it. I was in a trap.
If I told you about it, Slim would have killed me.
Speaker 2: Did he kill Mullen? Were you and I witness?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I saw him do it. I never touched
my Slim now. I thought you were him when you
drove up. He's coming here this morning. I got to
check for Mullin's halfalf and Slim was gonna pick it
up and take it someplace for cash.
Speaker 2: There's a car coming now, Jason Handcuff turned to the door.
Know with that closet quick right?
Speaker 10: I didn't gut up.
Speaker 2: Come on, Sheriff. Slim won't stop. He'll see my cars.
He makes the turn for the house.
Speaker 5: He saw it.
Speaker 2: He's turning around.
Speaker 11: Get his tires. That stopped him. He's running for chase.
We're off to that side. The car's shielding him right.
Stop running, Slim. You can't beat a bullet.
Speaker 2: He tucked into the boot.
Speaker 10: Chase from the.
Speaker 2: Side and keep the door covered.
Speaker 5: I'm going in after him.
Speaker 2: Gray of dawn was washing me across the sky, but
the barn was in deep shadow.
Speaker 7: I slipped him along the sidewalk and moved slowly toward
the stalls.
Speaker 2: I didn't see what came at me. I just sensed
it hurling through the air, and I threw myself to
the side, hit the ground and fired. You're right, yeah,
he threw that sickle at me from the stall. I
didn't see him. I don't even know how I hit him.
I just felt it coming and fired. Mighty good, aid
he's dead, so is Bob Mullin. Let's get Trent and
take him in.
Speaker 4: For his complicity in the robbery and murder of Robert Mullen.
Harry Trent was sentenced to Huntsville Penitentiary for fifty.
Speaker 1: And here again is the star of our show, Joe McCrae,
with another interesting story about the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2: The equipment of a Texas Ranger includes a pair of
six guns, a rifle, a shotgun, and other weapons, not
to mention his horse, horse, trailer, automobile, and scientific crime
detection apparatus. However, there's been a fictional addition to the
equipment as the result of motion pictures, an addition that
has the Rangers scratching their heads. Ruefully, it came to
the attention of one Ranger recently as he passed two
small boys on a street. The small fry turned to
stare at him. The ranger got quite a shock when
he heard one of them say, shucks, he ain't a
real Texas Ranger. He ain't got a guitar. Well, such
is the influence of modern fiction. But fortunately the criminals
know the truth. When they see a real Texas Ranger,
they don't look for a guitar. They look for the
quickest means of transportation. They want distance, not music. Good night, folks,
See you next week.
Speaker 6: Next week.
Speaker 1: Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a case from
the Files of that Texas Rangers. Joel McCray is currently
seen starring in the Universal International Technicolor production Frenchie. Tonight's
cast included Tony Barrett, Lou Truchman, Herb Bigrant, Tom Tully,
Williams Herbert, Betty Moran, and G. G.
Speaker 2: Pearson.
Speaker 1: This story was transcribed and adapted by Joel Murcott, and
the program was produced and directed by Stacy keach Al given.
Speaker 4: Speaking Free Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC. Here's news
of two outstanding musical events. This Saturday, January twenty seventh,
ar Turno Toscanini begins the first of a new series
with the NBC Symphony, and starting Monday, January twenty ninth,
the Boston Pops Orchestra will be heard in a new
Monday Evening concert series. They call Infantile Paralysis, the Visible Crippler.
It strikes without mercy any place, anywhere. You can fight
him with your dimes and dollars, though, send them today
to your local March of Dimes headquarters. Join the nineteen
fifty one March of Dimes. Remember Attuno Toscanini once again
conducts the Symphony next Saturday on NBCO