August 24, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCrae in Tales of
the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
From Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the files
of the Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson, Texas more than two
hundred and sixty thousand square miles and fifty men who
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make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body
in North America. Now from the files of the Texas
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Rangers come these stories based on fact.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Lonely names, dates.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
And places are fictitious or obvious reasons. The events themselves
are a mapper up records case fort Tonight the Blowoff.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It is approximately eleven pm June sixteenth, nineteen forty seven.
Aaron Cortwright is watering the gravel apron of his mobile
gas station at the intersection of a farm road and
Highway seventy five, a few miles south of Glenwood, Texas.
A car drives up to the pumps. Yeah, howdy, folks,
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howdy fell her up? You bet you.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You got a telephone here? Yep, over in the office there,
better try that call again. Belle. Okay, it's me a second.
Coil up this hose. I'll be right with you. Yeah, ready,
that ain't it? Uh? Yeah? Yeah, sure? Here we are,
uh phil a rough you see? Yeah it was special
Yoh shorry, mister truck busted the handle off the hand
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prop on special regular. Be all right, I got no choice,
have I my cousin about empty taking kind of a chance,
won't you? Why what do you mean? Yeah? I was
about to close up. Next station is better than thirty
miles away aheading. No, we made it. That's what counts. Look,
can't you hurry it up? Oh? Sure, shure me? Hey
what she doing in there? Hey? Hey, you get away
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from that cash draw mind her us hope this gun?
Employ your head off. I shove that non luin of
the tank. You ain't getting my money? You take it right,
I will, y, that's gonna count. Get the car quick,
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you dummy me want you to go for it so soon?
For I didn't get a chance to get any gas
in the tank.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
You had plenty of time to get dance. I know
you're gonna stand there, Gabbin and say, now what do
we do?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Try to make it through the next station?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
What a spot to bishop a smart opera.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Shut up, we did that? Don't help. I'll think of something. Well,
that's the end of the gas. How far would come
ten eleven miles? Let's plague us at ride and get
out of here and leave the car. Wouldn't that be smart?
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Like leaving our calling cards? Pinder that stiff back there?
This buggy's ours? Don't forget?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Can we take the license plates off? And did you
miss something?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh? Why does a woman have to be so dumb
as a motor number? You can't get rid of that?
Come on, pile up. Wait a minute, I got an idea.
But know how we'll get some gas. I'll dig us
in all our way. No, no, we're gonna play it smart.
We're gonna catch a ride back to that filling station
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and discus a murder.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You appreciate the rid duke. Yeah, lights still on the
cars around, don't look like anybody's been here.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well you can't tell. It's been over a half phone. Hey,
we're in luck. It's working out just right. Nobody has
been here. He's lying just like we left him. There's
some gays cans do. Let's put one full of get
out here. We can't do that. Why not, cause the
guy had picked us up and dumpist out across the
highway to remember us. Sure you said we were coming
back to keep dad. I said, we're coming back to
discover a murder. We're gonna act like law abiding citizens.
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I get in there telephone for the law. You were
deliberately trying to get us, then, I'm trying to keep
us out of the chair. I get in there on
that phone quick. Here comes a couple of cars, go on,
what are you doing here? Unless a dead man here?
I I think he's been shocked. My I's inside calling
the police. We've already been notified. I'm sure proved it
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blended with a man in that car behind me, just
came into town to report it. Oh well, this is terrible, Sheriff,
I hold up. You suppose probably ask you why to
step out here? Oh sure, sure of course. Obell you
got the telephone. The sheriff's here, I say, the sheriff's here.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Oh somebody else report this?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah? Uh, this is missus bishop sheriff. Howdy man, how
long you tube been here? For? Just a few minutes.
I got here just before you did. Where's your car?
Ten eleven miles down the line ran out of gas
down there. You get a lift up here? Yeah, Charlie, Yeah, Charlie.
Is everything here just like it was when you drove
in and discovered the body? Well, seems like cheff near
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as I can tell any signed these folks around when
you stopped. Nobody was wrong, said poor Jim, laying on
his face and all that blood. Never see these folks before. No,
can't say ada. Okay, did you touch anything here as
to Bishop that? Uh? Gas holes hanging on hooked there
at the pump body of course, not, Sheriff. We just
discovered the body and tried to notify authorities. How about you,
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miss Bishop? Oh no, but just a telephone all right?
You can go back inside now to be more comfortable.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Man, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Ship afraid I am.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
A little shaky.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Look Sheriff has been quite a shock to We couldn't
we get some gas and right back to our car
so we can be on our way. I'm afraid enough.
I'm going to poon for the rangers. You will have
to stay till they get here.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
In response to Sheriff Prude's call, Ranger Jace Pearson was
assigned to the case.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Within two hours. He had carefully gone over the available
information and evidence. All right, mister Bishop, I guess that'll
be all the questions for now. But before you and
your wife leave, i'd like to have your full name
and address in case we want to contact you later. Oh,
glad to Ranger. Here it is how my driver's license here,
John Bishop, nine eighty West Tamila Street, Corsicanna. That's a
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shady rest. We have an apartment. You're headed away from Corsicana. Now,
only you be well. I I've got an appointment in
Houston tomorrow, but a job, but we'll be back home
oh day after tomorrow. Anything we can do, Ranger, just
let us know. Thanks. You've both been very helpful. Sheriff
had his deputy over there. Get your tin of gas.
He'll run you down to your car. Oh, it's mighty
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nice of you, Sheriff, glad to help out. Buy missus Bishop,
buy Ranger. Thanks again? Good night. All right, decent folks. Yee,
you sure seemed to be But the nasty case. Nothing
to go on, not much apparently, but maybe we can
turn something up. Got an idea, jeez, uh huh. First off,
I'm going to Radio Austin for the lab crew. Have
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him scour this place from top to bottom. The lab
crew went over Jim Courtwright's station with a fine toothed comb.
While I waited for the lab report, I spent most
of the next day searching the area for someone might
have seen a car or suspicious action near the station
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the night before. I drew a complete blank and went
back to the Sheriff's office. High Sheriff, Oh, hello, Jayce,
thought you were never coming back find anything. Now. Nobody
seems to have been traveling Highway seventy five last night.
Lab boys didn't hit any jackbody either. Here's the air report
just came in. Lab figures like we did that there
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was quite a scuffle before the shots were fired. But
don't mean much. No, but something in this fingerprint report, Mike,
mean those matching prints found on the telephone receiver in
the cash drawer. Uh huh. Austin didn't have any record
on whoever made him, so what good does that do?
The report says they were fresh. These prints don't match
the ones taken from the body, so they aren't court rights.
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Hey wait a minute, Sheriff. When you arrived at Courtwright's station,
Missus Bishop was at the telephone, wasn't she Yeah, she
was trying to call me. Well, then she was the
last person to use the phone before those prints were pulled.
What do you suppose that's her print on the phone.
If it is, I'd sure like to know what it's
duplicate was doing on Courtwright's cash drawer. Yeah aah, And
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Bishop said himself he was on his way down to
Houston to see about a job if he was unemployed
and broke, I'll sure be a motive. I think we'd
better run up the Corsicana tomorrow and sort of welcome
mister and missus Bishop when they get back from Houston.
Late the next afternoon, Sheriff Prewitt and I rolled down
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a quiet Corsicana street to the address John Bishop had
given us. Shady rest turned out to be a shabby
rooming house set next to a wide we'd grown lot.
I'll buy you a new Winchester if this deal pans out, Jason,
let's hope it costs your sheriff and you better knock again. Yeah,
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good afternoon, ma'am. This is Sheriff Prewitt of Glenwood and
i'm Ranger Pearson.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Hay, I'm ethel Hastings, Miss Ethel Hastings, I'm their owner here.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
How do you do, Miss Hastings? I wonder if you
could give us a little.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Information, Well maybe what you want to know.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
We understand. Mister and missus John Bishop are do back
from Houston this afternoon. We were wondering if they've arrived yet.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
You mean Duke and bail Bishop. Huh, they have not
arrived and they're.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Not gone to What makes you so sure?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Because I evicted them.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's what evicted them when they.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
For yesterday morning, Well.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
That's the morning the same day the cord Right thing
took place. Jacks. Yeah, Oh, why were they evicted? Ma'am?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Well, I'm patient and I'm long suffering, but I'm a
woman alone in this world, and I have to look
out for my own interests. That tire's been living off
me half the winter and all spring, and there just
had to be an end to it.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Non payment to rent, eh, would you say they were broke?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Well, if they wasn't, they sure had it hit good?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Any idea where they were going to perdition?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I'll guarantee that. The way the two of them are
lolled around all the time, drinking and turning down offers
for honest work.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Or what I meant was did they leave a forwarding address?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
No, but they'll be sending me one as soon as
they locate. You can count all night.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You've seem pretty sure, ma'am. I am.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
They only had one thing of any value, beat up
old trunk that they tried to sneak out to their
car the way they hollered when I locked it up
for the background. It must be worth something. I told
them they could send for it when they had my money.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Do you mind if we look at this trunk?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Well, now, I don't wanna do nothing wrong, but there's
the law with me. I guess it'd be all right,
wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I think so, Miss Hastings.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
But the didn't come right this way with me?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
What uh moder rifle you want? Jase? Looks like I
might be buying you on.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Just be dying to look at this trunk myself. What's
in the world those two could have? It was that valuable?
So it's right in the storeroom here. That's it right there.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Opener up, sheriff. Let's see what's inside. Hm. There's nothing
in the trunk except something wrapped in that old shirt.
Let's see what it is. Can you beat that cow?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Bring up quick, getting out of here, Get.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
It out of here. Not calm yourself, ma'am. It isn't
what it looks like. It looks like a jug of
alcohol to me with a baby in it, a baby
with two heads.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Oh my heart, my heart, words, my mines, and I
gonna have my menuy ezy, ma'am, you're all right.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
That's a side show gadget, just a rubber doll made
to look like the real thing. You mean it's a
fake chase. Sure, I've seen him in theatrical supply house catalogs,
all sorts and sizes. Mummies too, freake well.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I might have known it. Anything that pair had to
be no good. I suppose it don't have much value,
does it, Ranger?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Do you? I'm afraid not not unless you want to
join a side show.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Ranger. I' have you to know why. I'm a respectable woman.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And you've been a very helpful one too, Miss Hastings. Thanks.
Come on, ser that bottle is the blamest thing I
ever saw. Jess, what do you suppose the Bishop's had
it for? I bet they wish they had it. Now
you in the moon for a few days of traveling.
Anything that will bring us up with the bishops. Good thing.
We know where to start looking for them. Do weeks
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living in a cheap rooming house, running out of money
towards spring, refusing jobs and faked up exhibit they tried
to sneak out with them. Jeff, you and I are
going hunting for carnivals in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
We will continue with Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
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Speaker 1 (14:14):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
tonight's case The Blowoff, an authentic story from the files
of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Working from published carnival routes. Sheriff Pruitt and I tracked
down one show after another without finding any trace of
Duke Bishop and his wife. No showman's organization had ever
heard of him. We were beginning to lose hope. Ay
the time we arrived at Rocky Pass, where a carnival
company was working the annual Rocky County Fair, dull in case.
Did you ever see such a jam? Carnivals are fine there,
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that's what they're for now. Personally, I'm about bet up
with him, and it looks like we're going to draw
a blanket here too. No sign of a two headed baby.
We haven't checked that side show over there yet another one?
Do we have to? We're getting kind of old to
me now to this looks like a pit layout? Is
that good? And it'll be the likeliest place for our
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pair to be working one of those fake baby exhibits
if that's what they went back to. What do you
mean a pit layout? Hey? Pit shows? They call them
a lot of acts and exhibits under one top one
admission for the bunch. They use pits instead of platforms
to separate the performance from the audience. What a business?
Come on? Let's see if this show's got anything to
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interest the old garry.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
A simple of marbels, every guy that you here before
the edification of main pact.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Something the facts. Hey Mester, you need Mester? You mean
me wages mine? Stepping down here a moment. I'd like
to ask you a couple of questions.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Eas didn'ty Range a fourth week without delay? All right,
step right up to the window, folks, the little lady
would be happy to take your money. Twoty two bet
twenty five chase and quote.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
A part of it. Oh, what can I do for you?
Gentlemen of the law. Sheriff and I are looking for
a husband and wife team. We have reason to believe
are working a show like this Range. It's one of
the puzzles of my long and checking career. WI Minions
of the law and ceased upon hounding us hard working Connie's.
This is the first case I've ever had to investigate
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in the show business. Mister, I hope it's the last.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
A commendable Sentamon Sheriff, very commend them.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
If people were looking for probably operates some kind of
an exhibit with what they claim is a two headed
baby and a job alcohol. Yeah, Hopscotches. Huh of co'se
that hopscotches their nut regular guide in the wild, Connie
cript Is keep switching from one show to another. They'd
be the kind to using that ancient sucker eat anything
like that. With this show a faith you can order
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out of a supply house by the doesn't with this
show absolutely nut ranging hop out in this tent. You've
got a lot of freak natural phenomena. Sheriff, one needs
your meats, all right, all right? Have you got a
two headed baby in there and not even a one
headed one? But there are some husband and will teams.
Now is just step over here with me. You look
them over for yourself. Go ahead, Sheriff, follow him. You
might as well be sure. Yeah, right over here range.
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Excuse me, folks, excuse me now, Sheriff. We have his error.
The world's heaviest human body, she replies to Calary intake
of ten normal addams. I'm afraid she's not the one
we're looking dead all right. Right over here next is
her husband, the sawid swallow. We're not invested in him either. Hell,
I don't rush yourself, sheareff. Don't rush? Be sure? Look
that the bishops weren't performers. They operated an exhibit. What
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did you say do and bel Bishop? You know I'm
uh why no, no the name mean anything to you? No, nothing,
nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
And now these gentleman over here is Sipentina the rubber woman.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Wait a minute, what's that over there? Aware through that
doorway under the banner that says see and believe for that?
That's the blow off. Now if you just said, all
be in such a hurry, Minster, what's a blow off?
It's well, it's an air of attraction for which there's
a next admission charge. Kind of come on, man, I
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suppose you could put it that way, Sheriff. Just what
is this added attraction? Kind of a shaker a woman
without a hair alive? Uh? Merely a cheap illusion. Gentlemen,
we'll take a look just the same. Come on, sheriff.
Oh ladies and gentlemen, this unfortunate woman sitting before you
on this chair. There he is, Sheriff, there's Bishop. Well
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I'll be dying. Jeez. That's Parker said. There's no head
business was in the loser. Look at them pipes and
wires and stuff beating into her neck and she's moving.
That must be Bishop's wife. You don't think he's seen
a sha Come on to this little lady. What's dying?
Just about sixty seconds? Hey, well not quite. The rangers
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keeps Claire. Folks. They're dumping out on the tent chase.
The canvas is loose here out this way, cal don't
see him. Jason had a sheriff into the crowd out
in the midway. Come on, hold it, Bishop, Too many
people here to risk gunfay. You gotta be trampful.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Yeah, watch if he's going to fire chase. They're heading
on the bottom up.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, I see him. We lost them, Jason, and they
can hide in here all night with so many cars
jammed together. Our ears are better than our eyes than
a spot like this. Hear anything? Not yet? Hey, what's that?
There goes a car, But it ain't the one they had.
It probably stole this one. But it's them all right.
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They're heading right for the fairground fence.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, and they're gonna go through it.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Over to our car.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Quit time we drive through the auto gate, there'll be
long gone.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
We aren't driving through the auto gat.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
He I think you can hit that Holy Maiden the fence, Jase,
watch me try race yourself.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Cool, just like thread and the needle. Keep your eyes
open for them while I get on the radio. Unit
ten to KTXA Unit ten to KTXA ad x A
Unit ten go ahead. Unit ten. Unit ten is pursuing
a green new model four door Nash Sedan southbound on
Highway two eight five, two miles south of Rocky Pass.
Cars presumed stolen. The occupants are wanted for murder. Unit
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ten requests roadblocks on all possible avenues of escape from
this area. Well he ten kd X A Austin. Although
we drove a top speed, the pursuit ended at a
ranger roadblock fifty miles south of Rocky Pass. Units at
the roadblock had not seen the described car, so we
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knew Duke and belt Bishop had turned off on some
tributary road before they reached the barricade. We turned back
on Highway two eight five to search for them. There's
a farm road I was talking about up ahead, Chase.
They could have taken it. Yeah, pretty sparsely settled country
out west of here. Take a look, Sheriff, tie je.
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I'll check it. See anything, Sheriff. This looks like a
Jase Fresh tire tract.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Somebody made an.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Awful fast turn off the highway. The direction of traveler
is right too.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Maybe our luck's changing, Sheriff. Let's find out a road
sure getting rough?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, let's begin to get dark. We don't get a
line on that fair pretty soon. Jase to meet dodge
us old together. I don't think so, Sheriff. They've been
giving us a bad time, and they may give us
a worse one. But the Department's got this whole area isolated.
Before we're through. We may wish we had your trailer
in our horses. Yeah, I was thinking of that too,
kat x A Unit ten that's us. It ain't x
A unit yeah. Unit ten to kt x A go ahead.
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Highway Patrol Unit four O two reports contact with subjects
car eleven miles west of Highway two eight five. Second
dirt road to left off of farm road nine seven
to one. Subjects maintain any excessive speed on nearly impassable road.
Unit four oh two requests backing if we passed the
second dirt road to the left yet, Sheriff, No, we
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looks like one at the bottom of this hill. Yeah,
ten to four. Unit ten approaching turn off the farm
road nine to seven to one now ree laid Unit
four Row two were coming behind him, Unit ten clear
ten four kady xus.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Hang on, Sheriff, looks like a bad turn. The dust
has settled, but you can still smell in the air.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah, the highway patrol car gotta be just up ahead,
and he's right behind Bishop and his wife. How's your shooting? Nine?
Pretty terrible, Jay, but I could do with a little practice.
You're apt to get it and reach my rifle out
of the back seat. All right, get a shot, Sheriff.
Try for the tires. If they don't, then try for
the best target you can get.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Okay, Jase.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Have to smell of dust in the air. Now you
can see it, Jace, Look up. The rule is dead
ending track. Keep right on at the brush so away.
What are you stopping for? You see something? Look that
little gully the highway patrol car. I'm inside. Watch yourself, Sheriff.
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Keep that rifle ready. No sign of the other car.
It's tracks. Keep right on through the brush. Here, give
me your hand with this top door. Gotta get the
patrolman out of there. Let me get his feet easy now, Sheriff,
Lift him out the flat. Why give him on a stretcher.
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Now down on this patch of grass, easy, bad off, Jason. Yeah,
some abrasions and probably a mild concussion, and you got
a nasty lump on the side of his head. The
many words, What do we do, Jess, I'm gonna radio
for an ambulance to pick him up. Then we'll have
to stay here and wait for it. It's too dark
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to do much tracking in this brush. Anyway, we'll night
it here. By morning we're gonna have us those horses
you were wishing we'd brought along. The highway patrolman was
not seriously injured. During the night, our horses were towed
into us, and by sunrise the sheriff and I were
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in the saddle working toward other mounted rangers, closing in
on Duke and bell Bishop on the opposite side. We
found their card much later in the day followed their
tracks to a small dilapidated ranch house. Oh oh, sharky,
oh boy. Yeah, somebody's home there. Smoke's in the chimney. Yeah.
But listen, Sheriff, you mean that old Kyle talking. Yeah,
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what's it sound like she's saying? She sounds like somebody
forgot the milker this morning and would a rancher, forget
something like that. What are you driving at? Suppose somebody
put the rancher out of commission so he couldn't take
care of the cow. And a minute ago I was
ready to ride right up to that front door. I
leave the horses here and work the rest of the
way on foot. It's going to be Ticklar's business. If
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they're in there, they probably got their hands and they
have a gun in the house, and I got a
hunch they may try to bluff it out till we
actually bust in on 'em. You take the front door,
I'll cut around to the back. Whichever way they break,
then we'll have them. We'll better have a signal so
I know when to rush the front. Jeez, we'll make
your rush if you hear a shot or if I holler,
whichever's first. Good luck. Same to you, sheriff. We'll both
need it. Approaching that house without cover or real knowledge
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of what lay behind the doors is the kind of
work officers do only because it's part of their jobs.
Death is close and they know it. I told you
to stay by those back windows. Maybe just ranges all
around you gotta get out of here. Yeah, maybe we
better not to get it. You take the back way
off of you stay right way. Yeah, come on out
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in front with you. No, I want a cag You're
like a couple lying there in the corner. Now out
on the front. Poor hit that sheriff kicking the arm here,
you get your arms around this poor cusco. Keep you
out of mischief. Fisher pulled him behind that water. Try
I'll flush him out.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Bishop.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
I'm giving you a chance. I'm out from behind there
with your hands up. You hear me, Come and get me, Ranger, Okay,
I will. Did he give up Chase? I'm braid he did.
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Sheriff permanently.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Duly tried in the county courts at Glenwood, Texas. Belle
Bishop was found guilty as an accessory in the murder
of Jim Courtwright. Her sentence fifty years in the women's
prison at Gory.
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Next week.
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Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a case from
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The cast included Tony Barrett, Eddie Marr, Gerald Moore, Betty
Luca Gjerson, S. Begley, and Jeanette Nolan. Technical advisor was
Captain M. T. Longewolf Gonzales of the Texas Rangers. This
story was transcribed and adapted.
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Another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the files
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Rangers come these stories based on fact.
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Lonely names, dates.
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And places are fictitious or obvious reasons. The events themselves
are a mapper up records case fort Tonight the Blowoff.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
It is approximately eleven pm June sixteenth, nineteen forty seven.
Aaron Cortwright is watering the gravel apron of his mobile
gas station at the intersection of a farm road and
Highway seventy five, a few miles south of Glenwood, Texas.
A car drives up to the pumps. Yeah, howdy, folks,
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howdy fell her up? You bet you.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You got a telephone here? Yep, over in the office there,
better try that call again. Belle. Okay, it's me a second.
Coil up this hose. I'll be right with you. Yeah, ready,
that ain't it? Uh? Yeah? Yeah, sure? Here we are,
uh phil a rough you see? Yeah it was special
Yoh shorry, mister truck busted the handle off the hand
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prop on special regular. Be all right, I got no choice,
have I my cousin about empty taking kind of a chance,
won't you? Why what do you mean? Yeah? I was
about to close up. Next station is better than thirty
miles away aheading. No, we made it. That's what counts. Look,
can't you hurry it up? Oh? Sure, shure me? Hey
what she doing in there? Hey? Hey, you get away
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from that cash draw mind her us hope this gun?
Employ your head off. I shove that non luin of
the tank. You ain't getting my money? You take it right,
I will, y, that's gonna count. Get the car quick,
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you dummy me want you to go for it so soon?
For I didn't get a chance to get any gas
in the tank.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
You had plenty of time to get dance. I know
you're gonna stand there, Gabbin and say, now what do
we do?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Try to make it through the next station?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
What a spot to bishop a smart opera.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Shut up, we did that? Don't help. I'll think of something. Well,
that's the end of the gas. How far would come
ten eleven miles? Let's plague us at ride and get
out of here and leave the car. Wouldn't that be smart?
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Like leaving our calling cards? Pinder that stiff back there?
This buggy's ours? Don't forget?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Can we take the license plates off? And did you
miss something?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh? Why does a woman have to be so dumb
as a motor number? You can't get rid of that?
Come on, pile up. Wait a minute, I got an idea.
But know how we'll get some gas. I'll dig us
in all our way. No, no, we're gonna play it smart.
We're gonna catch a ride back to that filling station
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and discus a murder.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You appreciate the rid duke. Yeah, lights still on the
cars around, don't look like anybody's been here.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well you can't tell. It's been over a half phone. Hey,
we're in luck. It's working out just right. Nobody has
been here. He's lying just like we left him. There's
some gays cans do. Let's put one full of get
out here. We can't do that. Why not, cause the
guy had picked us up and dumpist out across the
highway to remember us. Sure you said we were coming
back to keep dad. I said, we're coming back to
discover a murder. We're gonna act like law abiding citizens.
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I get in there telephone for the law. You were
deliberately trying to get us, then, I'm trying to keep
us out of the chair. I get in there on
that phone quick. Here comes a couple of cars, go on,
what are you doing here? Unless a dead man here?
I I think he's been shocked. My I's inside calling
the police. We've already been notified. I'm sure proved it
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blended with a man in that car behind me, just
came into town to report it. Oh well, this is terrible, Sheriff,
I hold up. You suppose probably ask you why to
step out here? Oh sure, sure of course. Obell you
got the telephone. The sheriff's here, I say, the sheriff's here.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Oh somebody else report this?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah? Uh, this is missus bishop sheriff. Howdy man, how
long you tube been here? For? Just a few minutes.
I got here just before you did. Where's your car?
Ten eleven miles down the line ran out of gas
down there. You get a lift up here? Yeah, Charlie, Yeah, Charlie.
Is everything here just like it was when you drove
in and discovered the body? Well, seems like cheff near
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as I can tell any signed these folks around when
you stopped. Nobody was wrong, said poor Jim, laying on
his face and all that blood. Never see these folks before. No,
can't say ada. Okay, did you touch anything here as
to Bishop that? Uh? Gas holes hanging on hooked there
at the pump body of course, not, Sheriff. We just
discovered the body and tried to notify authorities. How about you,
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miss Bishop? Oh no, but just a telephone all right?
You can go back inside now to be more comfortable.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Man, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Ship afraid I am.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
A little shaky.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Look Sheriff has been quite a shock to We couldn't
we get some gas and right back to our car
so we can be on our way. I'm afraid enough.
I'm going to poon for the rangers. You will have
to stay till they get here.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
In response to Sheriff Prude's call, Ranger Jace Pearson was
assigned to the case.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Within two hours. He had carefully gone over the available
information and evidence. All right, mister Bishop, I guess that'll
be all the questions for now. But before you and
your wife leave, i'd like to have your full name
and address in case we want to contact you later. Oh,
glad to Ranger. Here it is how my driver's license here,
John Bishop, nine eighty West Tamila Street, Corsicanna. That's a
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shady rest. We have an apartment. You're headed away from Corsicana. Now,
only you be well. I I've got an appointment in
Houston tomorrow, but a job, but we'll be back home
oh day after tomorrow. Anything we can do, Ranger, just
let us know. Thanks. You've both been very helpful. Sheriff
had his deputy over there. Get your tin of gas.
He'll run you down to your car. Oh, it's mighty
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nice of you, Sheriff, glad to help out. Buy missus Bishop,
buy Ranger. Thanks again? Good night. All right, decent folks. Yee,
you sure seemed to be But the nasty case. Nothing
to go on, not much apparently, but maybe we can
turn something up. Got an idea, jeez, uh huh. First off,
I'm going to Radio Austin for the lab crew. Have
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him scour this place from top to bottom. The lab
crew went over Jim Courtwright's station with a fine toothed comb.
While I waited for the lab report, I spent most
of the next day searching the area for someone might
have seen a car or suspicious action near the station
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the night before. I drew a complete blank and went
back to the Sheriff's office. High Sheriff, Oh, hello, Jayce,
thought you were never coming back find anything. Now. Nobody
seems to have been traveling Highway seventy five last night.
Lab boys didn't hit any jackbody either. Here's the air report
just came in. Lab figures like we did that there
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was quite a scuffle before the shots were fired. But
don't mean much. No, but something in this fingerprint report, Mike,
mean those matching prints found on the telephone receiver in
the cash drawer. Uh huh. Austin didn't have any record
on whoever made him, so what good does that do?
The report says they were fresh. These prints don't match
the ones taken from the body, so they aren't court rights.
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Hey wait a minute, Sheriff. When you arrived at Courtwright's station,
Missus Bishop was at the telephone, wasn't she Yeah, she
was trying to call me. Well, then she was the
last person to use the phone before those prints were pulled.
What do you suppose that's her print on the phone.
If it is, I'd sure like to know what it's
duplicate was doing on Courtwright's cash drawer. Yeah aah, And
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Bishop said himself he was on his way down to
Houston to see about a job if he was unemployed
and broke, I'll sure be a motive. I think we'd
better run up the Corsicana tomorrow and sort of welcome
mister and missus Bishop when they get back from Houston.
Late the next afternoon, Sheriff Prewitt and I rolled down
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a quiet Corsicana street to the address John Bishop had
given us. Shady rest turned out to be a shabby
rooming house set next to a wide we'd grown lot.
I'll buy you a new Winchester if this deal pans out, Jason,
let's hope it costs your sheriff and you better knock again. Yeah,
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good afternoon, ma'am. This is Sheriff Prewitt of Glenwood and
i'm Ranger Pearson.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Hay, I'm ethel Hastings, Miss Ethel Hastings, I'm their owner here.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
How do you do, Miss Hastings? I wonder if you
could give us a little.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Information, Well maybe what you want to know.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
We understand. Mister and missus John Bishop are do back
from Houston this afternoon. We were wondering if they've arrived yet.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
You mean Duke and bail Bishop. Huh, they have not
arrived and they're.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Not gone to What makes you so sure?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Because I evicted them.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
That's what evicted them when they.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
For yesterday morning, Well.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
That's the morning the same day the cord Right thing
took place. Jacks. Yeah, Oh, why were they evicted? Ma'am?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Well, I'm patient and I'm long suffering, but I'm a
woman alone in this world, and I have to look
out for my own interests. That tire's been living off
me half the winter and all spring, and there just
had to be an end to it.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Non payment to rent, eh, would you say they were broke?
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Well, if they wasn't, they sure had it hit good?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Any idea where they were going to perdition?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I'll guarantee that. The way the two of them are
lolled around all the time, drinking and turning down offers
for honest work.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Or what I meant was did they leave a forwarding address?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
No, but they'll be sending me one as soon as
they locate. You can count all night.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You've seem pretty sure, ma'am. I am.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
They only had one thing of any value, beat up
old trunk that they tried to sneak out to their
car the way they hollered when I locked it up
for the background. It must be worth something. I told
them they could send for it when they had my money.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Do you mind if we look at this trunk?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Well, now, I don't wanna do nothing wrong, but there's
the law with me. I guess it'd be all right,
wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I think so, Miss Hastings.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
But the didn't come right this way with me?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
What uh moder rifle you want? Jase? Looks like I
might be buying you on.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Just be dying to look at this trunk myself. What's
in the world those two could have? It was that valuable?
So it's right in the storeroom here. That's it right there.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Opener up, sheriff. Let's see what's inside. Hm. There's nothing
in the trunk except something wrapped in that old shirt.
Let's see what it is. Can you beat that cow?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Bring up quick, getting out of here, Get.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
It out of here. Not calm yourself, ma'am. It isn't
what it looks like. It looks like a jug of
alcohol to me with a baby in it, a baby
with two heads.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Oh my heart, my heart, words, my mines, and I
gonna have my menuy ezy, ma'am, you're all right.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
That's a side show gadget, just a rubber doll made
to look like the real thing. You mean it's a
fake chase. Sure, I've seen him in theatrical supply house catalogs,
all sorts and sizes. Mummies too, freake well.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I might have known it. Anything that pair had to
be no good. I suppose it don't have much value,
does it, Ranger?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Do you? I'm afraid not not unless you want to
join a side show.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
Ranger. I' have you to know why. I'm a respectable woman.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
And you've been a very helpful one too, Miss Hastings. Thanks.
Come on, ser that bottle is the blamest thing I
ever saw. Jess, what do you suppose the Bishop's had
it for? I bet they wish they had it. Now
you in the moon for a few days of traveling.
Anything that will bring us up with the bishops. Good thing.
We know where to start looking for them. Do weeks
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living in a cheap rooming house, running out of money
towards spring, refusing jobs and faked up exhibit they tried
to sneak out with them. Jeff, you and I are
going hunting for carnivals in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
We will continue with Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson.
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Speaker 1 (14:14):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
tonight's case The Blowoff, an authentic story from the files
of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Working from published carnival routes. Sheriff Pruitt and I tracked
down one show after another without finding any trace of
Duke Bishop and his wife. No showman's organization had ever
heard of him. We were beginning to lose hope. Ay
the time we arrived at Rocky Pass, where a carnival
company was working the annual Rocky County Fair, dull in case.
Did you ever see such a jam? Carnivals are fine there,
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that's what they're for now. Personally, I'm about bet up
with him, and it looks like we're going to draw
a blanket here too. No sign of a two headed baby.
We haven't checked that side show over there yet another one?
Do we have to? We're getting kind of old to
me now to this looks like a pit layout? Is
that good? And it'll be the likeliest place for our
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pair to be working one of those fake baby exhibits
if that's what they went back to. What do you
mean a pit layout? Hey? Pit shows? They call them
a lot of acts and exhibits under one top one
admission for the bunch. They use pits instead of platforms
to separate the performance from the audience. What a business?
Come on? Let's see if this show's got anything to
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interest the old garry.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
A simple of marbels, every guy that you here before
the edification of main pact.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Something the facts. Hey Mester, you need Mester? You mean
me wages mine? Stepping down here a moment. I'd like
to ask you a couple of questions.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Eas didn'ty Range a fourth week without delay? All right,
step right up to the window, folks, the little lady
would be happy to take your money. Twoty two bet
twenty five chase and quote.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
A part of it. Oh, what can I do for you?
Gentlemen of the law. Sheriff and I are looking for
a husband and wife team. We have reason to believe
are working a show like this Range. It's one of
the puzzles of my long and checking career. WI Minions
of the law and ceased upon hounding us hard working Connie's.
This is the first case I've ever had to investigate
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in the show business. Mister, I hope it's the last.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
A commendable Sentamon Sheriff, very commend them.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
If people were looking for probably operates some kind of
an exhibit with what they claim is a two headed
baby and a job alcohol. Yeah, Hopscotches. Huh of co'se
that hopscotches their nut regular guide in the wild, Connie
cript Is keep switching from one show to another. They'd
be the kind to using that ancient sucker eat anything
like that. With this show a faith you can order
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out of a supply house by the doesn't with this
show absolutely nut ranging hop out in this tent. You've
got a lot of freak natural phenomena. Sheriff, one needs
your meats, all right, all right? Have you got a
two headed baby in there and not even a one
headed one? But there are some husband and will teams.
Now is just step over here with me. You look
them over for yourself. Go ahead, Sheriff, follow him. You
might as well be sure. Yeah, right over here range.
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Excuse me, folks, excuse me now, Sheriff. We have his error.
The world's heaviest human body, she replies to Calary intake
of ten normal addams. I'm afraid she's not the one
we're looking dead all right. Right over here next is
her husband, the sawid swallow. We're not invested in him either. Hell,
I don't rush yourself, sheareff. Don't rush? Be sure? Look
that the bishops weren't performers. They operated an exhibit. What
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did you say do and bel Bishop? You know I'm
uh why no, no the name mean anything to you? No, nothing,
nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
And now these gentleman over here is Sipentina the rubber woman.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Wait a minute, what's that over there? Aware through that
doorway under the banner that says see and believe for that?
That's the blow off. Now if you just said, all
be in such a hurry, Minster, what's a blow off?
It's well, it's an air of attraction for which there's
a next admission charge. Kind of come on, man, I
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suppose you could put it that way, Sheriff. Just what
is this added attraction? Kind of a shaker a woman
without a hair alive? Uh? Merely a cheap illusion. Gentlemen,
we'll take a look just the same. Come on, sheriff.
Oh ladies and gentlemen, this unfortunate woman sitting before you
on this chair. There he is, Sheriff, there's Bishop. Well
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I'll be dying. Jeez. That's Parker said. There's no head
business was in the loser. Look at them pipes and
wires and stuff beating into her neck and she's moving.
That must be Bishop's wife. You don't think he's seen
a sha Come on to this little lady. What's dying?
Just about sixty seconds? Hey, well not quite. The rangers
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keeps Claire. Folks. They're dumping out on the tent chase.
The canvas is loose here out this way, cal don't
see him. Jason had a sheriff into the crowd out
in the midway. Come on, hold it, Bishop, Too many
people here to risk gunfay. You gotta be trampful.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Yeah, watch if he's going to fire chase. They're heading
on the bottom up.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Yeah, I see him. We lost them, Jason, and they
can hide in here all night with so many cars
jammed together. Our ears are better than our eyes than
a spot like this. Hear anything? Not yet? Hey, what's that?
There goes a car, But it ain't the one they had.
It probably stole this one. But it's them all right.
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They're heading right for the fairground fence.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, and they're gonna go through it.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Over to our car.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Quit time we drive through the auto gate, there'll be
long gone.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
We aren't driving through the auto gat.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
He I think you can hit that Holy Maiden the fence, Jase,
watch me try race yourself.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Cool, just like thread and the needle. Keep your eyes
open for them while I get on the radio. Unit
ten to KTXA Unit ten to KTXA ad x A
Unit ten go ahead. Unit ten. Unit ten is pursuing
a green new model four door Nash Sedan southbound on
Highway two eight five, two miles south of Rocky Pass.
Cars presumed stolen. The occupants are wanted for murder. Unit
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ten requests roadblocks on all possible avenues of escape from
this area. Well he ten kd X A Austin. Although
we drove a top speed, the pursuit ended at a
ranger roadblock fifty miles south of Rocky Pass. Units at
the roadblock had not seen the described car, so we
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knew Duke and belt Bishop had turned off on some
tributary road before they reached the barricade. We turned back
on Highway two eight five to search for them. There's
a farm road I was talking about up ahead, Chase.
They could have taken it. Yeah, pretty sparsely settled country
out west of here. Take a look, Sheriff, tie je.
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I'll check it. See anything, Sheriff. This looks like a
Jase Fresh tire tract.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Somebody made an.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Awful fast turn off the highway. The direction of traveler
is right too.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Maybe our luck's changing, Sheriff. Let's find out a road
sure getting rough?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, let's begin to get dark. We don't get a
line on that fair pretty soon. Jase to meet dodge
us old together. I don't think so, Sheriff. They've been
giving us a bad time, and they may give us
a worse one. But the Department's got this whole area isolated.
Before we're through. We may wish we had your trailer
in our horses. Yeah, I was thinking of that too,
kat x A Unit ten that's us. It ain't x
A unit yeah. Unit ten to kt x A go ahead.
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Highway Patrol Unit four O two reports contact with subjects
car eleven miles west of Highway two eight five. Second
dirt road to left off of farm road nine seven
to one. Subjects maintain any excessive speed on nearly impassable road.
Unit four oh two requests backing if we passed the
second dirt road to the left yet, Sheriff, No, we
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looks like one at the bottom of this hill. Yeah,
ten to four. Unit ten approaching turn off the farm
road nine to seven to one now ree laid Unit
four Row two were coming behind him, Unit ten clear
ten four kady xus.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Hang on, Sheriff, looks like a bad turn. The dust
has settled, but you can still smell in the air.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah, the highway patrol car gotta be just up ahead,
and he's right behind Bishop and his wife. How's your shooting? Nine?
Pretty terrible, Jay, but I could do with a little practice.
You're apt to get it and reach my rifle out
of the back seat. All right, get a shot, Sheriff.
Try for the tires. If they don't, then try for
the best target you can get.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Okay, Jase.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Have to smell of dust in the air. Now you
can see it, Jace, Look up. The rule is dead
ending track. Keep right on at the brush so away.
What are you stopping for? You see something? Look that
little gully the highway patrol car. I'm inside. Watch yourself, Sheriff.
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Keep that rifle ready. No sign of the other car.
It's tracks. Keep right on through the brush. Here, give
me your hand with this top door. Gotta get the
patrolman out of there. Let me get his feet easy now, Sheriff,
Lift him out the flat. Why give him on a stretcher.
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Now down on this patch of grass, easy, bad off, Jason. Yeah,
some abrasions and probably a mild concussion, and you got
a nasty lump on the side of his head. The
many words, What do we do, Jess, I'm gonna radio
for an ambulance to pick him up. Then we'll have
to stay here and wait for it. It's too dark
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to do much tracking in this brush. Anyway, we'll night
it here. By morning we're gonna have us those horses
you were wishing we'd brought along. The highway patrolman was
not seriously injured. During the night, our horses were towed
into us, and by sunrise the sheriff and I were
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in the saddle working toward other mounted rangers, closing in
on Duke and bell Bishop on the opposite side. We
found their card much later in the day followed their
tracks to a small dilapidated ranch house. Oh oh, sharky,
oh boy. Yeah, somebody's home there. Smoke's in the chimney. Yeah.
But listen, Sheriff, you mean that old Kyle talking. Yeah,
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what's it sound like she's saying? She sounds like somebody
forgot the milker this morning and would a rancher, forget
something like that. What are you driving at? Suppose somebody
put the rancher out of commission so he couldn't take
care of the cow. And a minute ago I was
ready to ride right up to that front door. I
leave the horses here and work the rest of the
way on foot. It's going to be Ticklar's business. If
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they're in there, they probably got their hands and they
have a gun in the house, and I got a
hunch they may try to bluff it out till we
actually bust in on 'em. You take the front door,
I'll cut around to the back. Whichever way they break,
then we'll have them. We'll better have a signal so
I know when to rush the front. Jeez, we'll make
your rush if you hear a shot or if I holler,
whichever's first. Good luck. Same to you, sheriff. We'll both
need it. Approaching that house without cover or real knowledge
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of what lay behind the doors is the kind of
work officers do only because it's part of their jobs.
Death is close and they know it. I told you
to stay by those back windows. Maybe just ranges all
around you gotta get out of here. Yeah, maybe we
better not to get it. You take the back way
off of you stay right way. Yeah, come on out
(26:10):
in front with you. No, I want a cag You're
like a couple lying there in the corner. Now out
on the front. Poor hit that sheriff kicking the arm here,
you get your arms around this poor cusco. Keep you
out of mischief. Fisher pulled him behind that water. Try
I'll flush him out.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Bishop.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
I'm giving you a chance. I'm out from behind there
with your hands up. You hear me, Come and get me, Ranger, Okay,
I will. Did he give up Chase? I'm braid he did.
(26:54):
Sheriff permanently.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Duly tried in the county courts at Glenwood, Texas. Belle
Bishop was found guilty as an accessory in the murder
of Jim Courtwright. Her sentence fifty years in the women's
prison at Gory.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Next week.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a case from
the files of the Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae is currently
(27:50):
seen starring in the Universal International Technicolor production Cattle Drive.
The cast included Tony Barrett, Eddie Marr, Gerald Moore, Betty
Luca Gjerson, S. Begley, and Jeanette Nolan. Technical advisor was
Captain M. T. Longewolf Gonzales of the Texas Rangers. This
story was transcribed and adapted.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
By Tom Blackburn, and the program was.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Produced and directed by Stacy Keach.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
This is Hal Gidney speaking. It's the Silver Jubilee on
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NBC Today, It's The Big Show with guest stars including
Mary McCarty, Dame Clark, Martha Scott, Phil Foster, and your
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Jane Powell, John Lund, and Kenny Delmar. Keep tuned to
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