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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Transcribed presenting Joel McCrae as Jace Pearson in Tales of
the Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers, authentic stories
from their official piles Texas more than two hundred and
(00:24):
sixty thousand square miles and fifty men who make up the.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Most famous and oldest law enforcement party.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
In North America.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Now from the piles of the Texas Rangers come these stories.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Based on fact only.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Names, states, and places are fictitious for obvious reason.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
The events themselves are a matter of record.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Case for tonite clean up.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Several years ago, the town of Kilman, Texas, boasted a
population of slightly under three thousand inhabitants until a wildcat
gushes started a fabulous.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
New oil boom.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
In a matter of months, the population rose to twelve
thousand as drillers, roughnecks and other field personnel poured in
and behind them like vultures came the horde of racketeers, gamblers,
and drifters. But even organized vice was not profitable enough
for the boss of the crime syndicate, Frankie Gennaro. Gennaro
started to move in on the oil business itself.
Speaker 8 (01:56):
Sure Paul has a lot of stunts.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yeah, Frankie in the shack with lie.
Speaker 8 (02:00):
What if we've been getting from him?
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Perhaps got the figures?
Speaker 9 (02:03):
Yeah, he's got four wells in production. We've been getting
two hundred bells a day.
Speaker 8 (02:08):
To watch his bafe. He's still getting plenty.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
He choke the wells down, says he won't pay off anymore, and.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
I will say about that. You better come into her.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
Okay, finger, I'm knock over it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Hey, what's the idea for I standing here?
Speaker 10 (02:26):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (02:27):
Idea?
Speaker 11 (02:27):
Paul, Hey, you've had some kind of misunderstanding with my boys.
Speaker 12 (02:33):
There's normal understanding, Gennaro. You're just not getting any more
oil from my wells. I'm not taking any more threats
from you or your ten horned friends.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
What's what you're saying.
Speaker 12 (02:41):
I'll say what I want. I'll not only say it
to you, I'll say it to the law. It's got
a little trigger, Paul, shoot soft to.
Speaker 9 (02:48):
Me money, Get out, Get out of here before I
fit this pipeer inch.
Speaker 13 (02:52):
Over your head.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
Hey, I'm shutting.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Very frank Let me go.
Speaker 13 (02:58):
He's got a name.
Speaker 14 (02:59):
I'm having her.
Speaker 9 (03:04):
Oh he clipped me with that branch.
Speaker 11 (03:07):
How they want to go against such this? I'll teach
the other operators not to get smart. Come on Earth,
let's get out of here.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
The death of Joe Powell sealed the lips of other
frightened oil operators, and they said nothing as Frankie Gennaro
continued to exact tribute from the smaller private companies. But
Powell's murder aroused special interest of the Texas Rangers. Captain
Stinson sent for Ranger Jace Pearson.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
You know what's been happening in Killman since the oil
boom started?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Jace.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
I've heard. I've got Rangers in the town, of course,
good men, but they're too well known. We're being blocked
all the way by people who won't talk or who
are afraid to talk.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I've never worked at Kilmen District. I'm not known there.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
That's why I sent for you. I want Kilman cleaned up,
starting with Joe Powell's murder. But I'm a man wearing
a badge. Won't stand a chance. You want me to
work without one, That's right, Jase, But not alone. We
got a new man just transferred into the company, Steve Clark.
You can work together.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
You better brief me on the power and all.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
We've got is in the next room and have a look.
Here's some photographs taken at the murder scene.
Speaker 15 (04:24):
Hm stabbed in the back, a belt and shirt twisted.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Though, Paul must have put up a fight before he
went down.
Speaker 13 (04:32):
He fought, all right.
Speaker 15 (04:33):
Look up his wrench, Yeah, and the bloodstains and a
few matted hairs on it. It's the same wrench that
was next to the body, and the photos the same one.
Paul must have hit somebody with it before he was
killed in it looks that way. That means two or
more men ganged up on him. He dropped one with
a wrench and then the other one stabbed him.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
That's the way I see it.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
And blood on the wrench been typed.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Yeah, here's a report from the lamb at all.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
To type brown hair, Caucasian male.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Mycrometer measurements are there too, And that's all we've got, Jess.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
How about a list of undesirables hanging out and killming?
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Oh yeah, I got that too. Here mostly at teddy crooks,
gamblers and musclemen. Our boys run a few out and
new ones come in.
Speaker 15 (05:25):
Must be one man at the top, though usually is,
But which one? And a few possibilities on your list?
Speaker 16 (05:31):
Here?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
This one, stuts Tracy.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
No, No, it's not big enough to be given the orders.
Does he know you by sight?
Speaker 13 (05:39):
No?
Speaker 15 (05:39):
I just know a few of these names by reputation
and photos.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Now here's another battle herb infield.
Speaker 15 (05:46):
Yeah, I heard about him too, plenty supposed to be
a real vinegaron.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
It's tougher than the back end of a shooting gallery.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yeah, and he's not smart enough to cover up for himself.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
The only other possible boss I can see is this one,
Frankie Neal.
Speaker 15 (06:03):
You got lots of arrests and a couple of indictments,
No convictions on the surfaces, records clean.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
He always has an alibi and it always stands up.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yes, I better get started right.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
We'll go over to the barracks and I'll introduce.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
You to Steve Clark.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
You want to change your clothes.
Speaker 15 (06:20):
Anyhow, Yeah, The first job is to locate keen in.
You find out who's making the wheels turn. We can
put our badges on again and move in with a horse.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
The whole company will be standing by. You better warn
the rangers in town not to let on. They know
me well, they've been warned. You'll be treated just like
a stranger. You have anything to report, contact me directly,
but be careful, and you better leave your car outside
the town and just meandering on horses.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Cow polks.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Yeah, just a couple of wandering cow polks.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I met Steep Clark.
Speaker 15 (07:01):
We dressed like a couple of cow pokes and parked
our car outside of Kilmen.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
It was almost midnight when we rode in.
Speaker 15 (07:08):
Town was sprawled all over the map, dotted with trailers
and crude shacks thrown together from the ken and old
packing crates.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Despite the hour, everything was going full blast.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
Sure it's booming, Jase.
Speaker 15 (07:20):
Yeah, hotail down the ways looks especially lively.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
But that isn't legal liquor they're taking on around here.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
Yeah, I bet there is much of anything here that
is legal.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
A bunch of oil trucks coming through. You better get
out of the way, get over, charpo, come on.
Speaker 15 (07:38):
It seems to me that it's kind of late for
him to be haul and oil ought to be a
daytime operation.
Speaker 12 (07:44):
It might be a shortage of trucks, Jash. There wasn't
ask to be hauled, no pipelines or the refineries yet.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
I think it might be hot oil.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Maybe we don't know. Why Joe Powell was killed.
Speaker 15 (07:54):
But if somebody had been stealing his oil and Powell
found out about it, we'd have a pretty good motive.
Speaker 12 (07:59):
Yeah, if those trucks are hauling stolen oil, they're being
pretty open about it.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Oh whoa boy listen to that racket?
Speaker 15 (08:09):
Yeah, being pretty open about everything around there.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Come on, Clark, let's get us a room.
Speaker 15 (08:16):
I want to call the captain and find out about
these night riding trucks. Any plan we had about staying
at the hotel was cut Shark by the desk clerk.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
That wasn't a room available in the town.
Speaker 15 (08:34):
We hung around for about an hour before we found
a rancher who told us we could bunk down in
the loft of its barn outside of the town.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
Beating that mess up isn't gonna be easy, Jason.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
It's gonna be even tougher than it looks Clark. I
notice what happened when the sheriff and one of the
rangers they know walked in.
Speaker 12 (08:50):
Yeah, all the game and stopped five minutes before they
got there, and all the liquor disappeared. Whoever's running that
place knew they were coming.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
I don't wonder our men haven't been able to get
any place.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
We could have stopped that place from operating. Chase, we
saw what was going on.
Speaker 15 (09:03):
I wouldn't do any good to show a badge and
shut down one spot. We gotta shut them all first,
we gotta hook them all together.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
Yeah, I guess you're right. Look over there roadside phone
boot by that gas station. You're still gonna call Captain Stinson?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Yeah, it's a good spot. Station's blow.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
I'll take the horses back off the road and away.
Speaker 15 (09:29):
I got through the Captain Stinson at his home, and
what he had to say about the trucks wasn't encouraging.
Speaker 14 (09:34):
Yes, Jeeves, we had reports on the trucks we run
every night.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Have our men ever stopped any of them?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yes, but they seemed to be all right. Jeez.
Speaker 14 (09:42):
They have receipts for everything they carrying, and the trucks
are properly licensed.
Speaker 15 (09:46):
I still can't see why they're running at night.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Neither can I, but there's no law against it.
Speaker 15 (09:51):
Hasn't the Commission set a limit on the number of
barrels each welcome pumping a day.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Is each will is allowed.
Speaker 14 (09:56):
Three hundred barrels a day as long as the present
pressure who.
Speaker 15 (10:00):
Have the operator has been accounting for that much oil
each day.
Speaker 14 (10:03):
Yes, the commission keeps a careful chick. Operators report production
of three hundred a day. The trucking company receipts shoe
hauled you three hundred a day, and the figures at
the refinery is tally too.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
It's a three way check. Jeez, I don't see how
they compete it.
Speaker 15 (10:18):
I'm still convinced that Powell's death has something to do
with hot oil, and I can't help.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
You there, Jas. It's sorting your lap.
Speaker 15 (10:25):
I'm hoping to match the hair the lab found on
that wrench power used, but I need a motive to
narrow down the field.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Twelve thousand people in town.
Speaker 15 (10:32):
Make a lot of suspects, or do the best you can.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I will.
Speaker 15 (10:36):
I'm sending you a list of names men we spotted
running gambling games and selling liquor at the hotel. We'll
have to let them run for a while till we
move in with a big broom.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
We raised dust whenever you were ready.
Speaker 15 (10:53):
Three days I left Steve Clark wandering around town spotting
the rackets while I rode through the oil field at night,
striking up casual conversations with the pumpers. Wherever I saw
when the night riding trucks load up and leave.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Hardy where Hardy a little bit off your trail?
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Ain't you a coppol.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Just riding around wishing some of his landa's mine, and.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
We all wishing the same thing.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
They're just gonna have a doughnut, a little coffee, he
want to Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
If your friends on the truck didn't drink it all.
Speaker 11 (11:26):
And it's they're always in too much of a hurry. Yeah,
you can tie a horse to the derek there, he'll
be all right.
Speaker 15 (11:33):
Thanks, hey on, thanks, Yeah, at a funny hour for
making oil pickups?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
What makes the horse so late?
Speaker 13 (11:45):
You?
Speaker 8 (11:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
They always take a full load.
Speaker 11 (11:48):
Uh huh A hundred barrels a clip.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
That's a full tank.
Speaker 15 (11:54):
Truck and field storage tanks hold a thousand barrels each,
don't they?
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Uh huh?
Speaker 13 (12:01):
What don't it? No?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Thanks?
Speaker 15 (12:10):
I checked with a few more pumpers, then rode out
to the barn where Clark and I were bunking.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I woke him up.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Oh oh oh, voted Chase.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
What time is it almost six? What'd you find out?
Speaker 8 (12:21):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Stretch here they have got another flock of names. You
can stand down to the captain here.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (12:29):
Yeah, we got just about every small timehood staked out
everything but the headman, Chase.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
I'm not so sure there is a head man.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
There's gotta be.
Speaker 15 (12:39):
All the racketeers stick to their own game and their
own part of town. They're all protected by the same musclemen.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
Yeah, so, so.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
They belong to an organization.
Speaker 15 (12:47):
Otherwise they'd be fighting among themselves, trying to move in
on each other.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Yeah, I didn't think of that.
Speaker 15 (12:53):
And dipping a finger in the oil business here too,
I'd swear to it.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
And that's big. We find a man on top of
that as a King Kennedy entire.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Operation, well, I'll keep looking around.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
No, no, let the town go for a while.
Speaker 15 (13:06):
From now on, we'll concentrate on the wells. When we
get the man responsible for killing Powell, a whole thing
will tumble like a house of cards.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Beginning one week from tomorrow, that's Sunday.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
October eight.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Tales of the Texas Rangers will be heard at a
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one week from tomorrow. Now we continue with tonight's case
clean Up, an authentic story from the files of the
Texas Rangers.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
We staked ourselves out of Powell's wells for two days.
Speaker 15 (14:05):
We kept check around the clock on every load of
oil it was hauled away, watching from a distance.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
It was a dead end watch.
Speaker 12 (14:13):
It checks out jays four wells three hundred varls each
per day, twelve hundred varl total.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
And that's what they've hauled away.
Speaker 15 (14:19):
Yeah, but since we've been here, nothing's been hauled from
Powell's wells.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
At night.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
Yeah, you're gonna keep watching them.
Speaker 15 (14:24):
Just for the night so we can measure the flow
from the wells. You can keep the pumper busy for
a while at nine o'clock while I run a tape
gauge into the storage tank.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
We'll have to check them again later and.
Speaker 15 (14:33):
I'll wander up and keep the pumper busy around three am.
Then you can make the second check. We compare our figures,
and we don't know if those wells are really choked
for three hundred barrels each or if they're pumping more
in the legal quota. Ok is, let's hope it works.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
We made the check, but we didn't have to do
much figuring.
Speaker 15 (14:59):
The wells were on the No, those three hundred barrels
a day each, not a drop more.
Speaker 12 (15:05):
Ah, that's it is, And the refinery reports show that
it's all going through.
Speaker 9 (15:10):
There's no hot oil to be accounted for.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Well, it was a thought. Let's get the horses and
the turn in.
Speaker 12 (15:15):
Yeah, guess pole just happened to brush somebody the wrong way. Yeah,
at oral ago with a hell plenty too bad.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Hey, wait a minute, it's a car coming.
Speaker 13 (15:26):
Hey.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Yeah, if you turn up the road tow that.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Rigging over The rigging isn't lit. Nobody's working there with
a dry hole.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Get ahold.
Speaker 17 (15:34):
Yeah, his lights will sweep this way when he turns.
They stopped at the dry hole, all right. Yeah, and look,
howls pumpers walking across the field to meet him. Yeah,
they're going up to the knowledge house on the rig.
It's a funny place to be holding a meeting at
this time of ninety. It's a since they don't want
to be seen that. Pumper knows more, and he told us,
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come on, what's the plan. Yes, maybe we can slip
under the plank the rigging without them seeings. We can
get under the knowledge house. We may learn a few
things through the floorboards, crept through the money channel that
(16:16):
drained into.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
The slush pit.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
We got under the knowledge house. We were hidden, but
we could hear them.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
Start making pickups again the borrow I here, why not?
Lets you think you're gonna pick I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know power keys the jokes before before the before
his accident.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
Yeah, all right, so how can I give you any
or well, we're only.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Pumping regular quoters.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
Have the chokes changed again, so they pump a little
like I can't not without miss Palett.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Okay, I'm working for her now.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Maybe you didn't hear me.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I said change a choke. Oh I'm a freid stunt.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
Must be stunts, Tracy Jason.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yeah, don't you look at me like the sus You
know I'm on the spot.
Speaker 10 (16:57):
Listen you, we've got the operators in this big you're
lined up. We don't intend to have any trouble with
a wise guy humper.
Speaker 13 (17:05):
No, wait a minute, stops, wait a minute, what what what?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
What do you have just to make you think that's
only a sample? Maybe you'd like what Paul got.
Speaker 13 (17:16):
I don't talk like that. I'll do what you say.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Just tell me what you want me to do.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
I've already told you the trucks will roll tomorrow night. Yeah,
down this and fun, don't forget Yeah tomorrow.
Speaker 17 (17:31):
He knows what happened to Paul Jase. Let's grab him.
He no, stay down, He's not that heap man. And
I wonder why we haven't been seeing him around. Wish
I could have gotten a look at his face. His
voice sounded familiar.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Man, you've seen munkle shots something and the photos we
have here.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
A fella with the broken nose.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
That's right. Have you seen him around?
Speaker 16 (17:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
I think I have. Humper's leaving.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
All right?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
How about it?
Speaker 5 (17:58):
You've seen stunts, I wanted to say.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
After nor at the hotel, he was talking to Frankie Gennaro.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
And that's the first time either of us has seen
him since we've been here.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
I heard him talking to Gennaro.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
He said he'd been up to Big d in Dallas.
What was he up there for? Well, that wasn't mentioned.
Speaker 9 (18:11):
They didn't talk much. All I know is that Stutch
just got back.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
He'd been gone two weeks.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Come on, we can get out of here now gone
two weeks?
Speaker 10 (18:22):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
In other words, since Powell got killed?
Speaker 9 (18:25):
Yeah, what do you make out of that?
Speaker 8 (18:26):
Jason?
Speaker 15 (18:27):
Maybe he doesn't know just something about Powell's murder. I
got a hunt he was in on it. Powell clipped
one of his attackers with that pipe wrench. Remember, must
have left the mark.
Speaker 12 (18:35):
And if Stut's had that mark, he wouldn't hang around
and give people a chance to notice it.
Speaker 15 (18:38):
Because Eddie two weeks had just to be about long
enough for a scar that he'l over. We've got to
get a sample of Stutt's hair to match with a
hair sample's lamb got off that wrench.
Speaker 9 (18:47):
But how do we get that?
Speaker 15 (18:48):
You can get our hands on a comb or brush
anything he's used on his head. First, we gotta find
him bad. He may have headed back to the hotel.
That's a favorite hangar. Now we'll try it on the
way into town. I want to call it captain. Yeah,
come on, come on, goead, what are you gonna call
cap'n Pall find out who owns the trucks haul in
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the oil and what refinery they're going to see if
we can hook the ownership up with any of the
people we've been watching here. Why because records have been
falsified to cover.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
That hot oil.
Speaker 15 (19:20):
We find out who's changing them, and we'll know who
Stuts is working for and who killed Powell.
Speaker 9 (19:24):
Jay's hot oil won't prove murder.
Speaker 13 (19:26):
No.
Speaker 15 (19:27):
Once we link Stuts as an accomplice in the murder,
I got a feeling he'll squeal like a pig caught.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Under a gate.
Speaker 15 (19:39):
I made my call to Captain Stintson. He arranged to
have the trucks followed the ownership check. Then Clark and
I headed for the hotel, where business was going on
as usual.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
There is Jas at the counter using it as a bob.
Speaker 15 (19:53):
Uh curb Enfield and Frankie Gennaro. There's a trio of
the Ward and Princetow would.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Love to have.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
Well, maybe he'll get him the.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Well what do we do?
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Just wait around until Stets combs his hair.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Look on the steward beside him. Huh oh, he's head.
Speaker 13 (20:08):
Is it is?
Speaker 9 (20:09):
That's the one he was wearing when I saw him
this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Good.
Speaker 15 (20:12):
There'll be enough hair strands, and there are little clippings
in the band to tell us what we want to know.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Jase, how do we get it?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
And I call for a drinking crowd and you just
grab it from the fade.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Want me to take it back to the.
Speaker 15 (20:22):
Board now, there's a small airfield near the next time,
get it over there and call the Austin Lab and
have it picked up. They can report to Captain Stinson
when I call him in the morning. He should have
enough for us to start dropping the net.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I've got the lab report, Geez, Scots Tracy is the
man paul In with that? Rachel right?
Speaker 16 (20:45):
Good?
Speaker 5 (20:45):
You get a line on the truck and Company and
the refinery he is you like it?
Speaker 14 (20:49):
The trunk and Company has owned under an Elias by
her Enfield and his wife Good, and the refinery is
owned by a woman.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
We checked on her. Jeez, she's Franky Grenierro's girlfriend.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
That does it? When are you coming in?
Speaker 14 (21:02):
The whole company is standing by right now, ready to.
Speaker 15 (21:05):
Road then come ahead and throw up roadblocks on the way.
An awful lot of people are gonna want to leave
here in a hurry.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
We're ready to comb the town base.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
We've got a section for Clark and me.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Take your choice, and you know who I am.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Good?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
The rest of the men have their assignments, memes you supplied.
Speaker 18 (21:36):
Listen, you people up, all of you now, most of
you are decent folks.
Speaker 13 (21:42):
Go home and stay home.
Speaker 18 (21:44):
The streets may not be safe for the next couple
of hours, but by tonight you'll have your town by.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
We use the hotel for a jail. All right, let's cool.
Two men in there, you're surrounded. Come out with your
hands up.
Speaker 13 (22:12):
All right, come on, get moment, all of you. I'm
forgetting the wall. And don't anybody read for a gun.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
Anybody else won't try that.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
All right, that's on your feet.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
What do you cor folks want?
Speaker 9 (22:42):
We're not cor folks. We're Texas Rangers.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Rangers, but get up, Get up.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
You're coming over to the hotel lobby. We'll tell you
all about it.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Oh that's quite a hole.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Jeez.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yeah, I can't locate herb Enfield and Frankie Gennaro.
Speaker 15 (23:06):
Clark's holding Stuts Tracy in that side room, though he
might know where the others are. You got the photos
of the hair samples lab matched?
Speaker 16 (23:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (23:13):
Here good, I'll show these to Stuts. They should convince him.
He say anything yet, Clark, he's.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Not a puzz I'm not gonna say anything either.
Speaker 15 (23:28):
Stuts, I got something to show you. Ever seen anything
like this before? Take a look at this photograph?
Speaker 13 (23:35):
What is it?
Speaker 15 (23:36):
Just a couple of hairs. One on the left came
from your hat. We borrowed it last night. What's idea?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
The hair on the right is just like it, exactly
like it.
Speaker 15 (23:47):
That came from a bloody wrench we found beside the
body of Joe Powell.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Paul hit you with that wrench, Stuts, and then.
Speaker 15 (23:52):
You killed him, huh us never even near that hair,
and the scar on your head proves you were.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
But I didn't kill him. You were there. You know
who did. I was not dot. I didn't see who
I'm on, Stut. I was with you.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I've been feeling and Frankie Gennaro.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Yeah, oh he'll kill me. You're gonna kill me.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Gennaro is the boss. Then, yeah, he's got to hide
out someplace.
Speaker 9 (24:19):
Where is it?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
No, he'll kill me, I said, where is it?
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Yeah, you gotta protect me.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
There's there's a cabin, a passive red seatar the other
side of the oil field.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
That's where he's been living.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
He'll have a clear view of the road up there.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Jason, we won't use the road. We're right up from
behind his Enfield there too.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Yeah, they're always together, Chase.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
They might not even know we moved in on the town.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
They'll know soon.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
Yeah, there's a cabin, Chase, pretty fancy.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
It ought to be I plenty out of this town.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
Yeah, guy's running dry for him now though. Hey, somebody
around the side of the cabin there in Hemlock.
Speaker 15 (25:06):
It's Gennaro in a nice silk robe. He's in for
a change of wardrobe. He isn't gonna lie.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
He's getting up. Chase.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
You sees us. Yeah, you're wanted in town.
Speaker 8 (25:19):
That's Lacey, send you for me?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Huh oh yeah, yeah he did Enfield too.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Anything wrong in town?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
You see anything wrong?
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Clark?
Speaker 9 (25:34):
No go, I thought everything was fine.
Speaker 11 (25:36):
Hey, that's wants a cent town sent these follows out
to tell us.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
I've seen you to a round before, haven't I.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Hey, what's that on your shirt?
Speaker 13 (25:51):
Couple?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Oh that's just a Texas Ranger badge? Come on, both
of you. You're going at a dude shot.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
You fellas mind telling me what you think you've got
on me.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Well, let's start with the killing of Joe Powell.
Speaker 11 (26:11):
I can prove I was someplace else when Paul was killed.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Herban Stuts and I were playing cards with three other men.
Speaker 9 (26:18):
All night long.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Not this time, Janetta.
Speaker 15 (26:20):
I mean, we've already proven where Stuts was and he's
made a full confession.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
There'll be no alibis this time. Don't move, Gennaro, I got.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
We don't want to fight.
Speaker 15 (26:34):
Couldn't fool around with a gun. Herb, knife in the
back is your specialty.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Glad to see you know that I didn't kill Paul.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Sure, Gennaro, you're the boy with the brains. You don't
do the work you order it.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
That's something you can't prove.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
No, you don't think Herb is gonna take all the blame,
do you.
Speaker 9 (26:55):
You're not gonna set me up tonight, Lawyer.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I can understand that I never saw a fellow and
needed one more.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
All right, Get moved, Frankie, Gennaro, and Herb Enfield were
sentenced to life terms at Huntsville. Stuts Tracy was given
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fifty years, and lesser offenders and the Kilmen cleanup were
given sentences of from one to five years.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Those who were released without being.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Charged left the town of Kilmen quickly.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
And quietly, the cleanup was complete.
Speaker 16 (27:52):
And now here again is the star of our show,
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Speaker 4 (01:03):
Case for tonite clean up.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Several years ago, the town of Kilman, Texas, boasted a
population of slightly under three thousand inhabitants until a wildcat
gushes started a fabulous.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
New oil boom.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
In a matter of months, the population rose to twelve
thousand as drillers, roughnecks and other field personnel poured in
and behind them like vultures came the horde of racketeers, gamblers,
and drifters. But even organized vice was not profitable enough
for the boss of the crime syndicate, Frankie Gennaro. Gennaro
started to move in on the oil business itself.
Speaker 8 (01:56):
Sure Paul has a lot of stunts.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yeah, Frankie in the shack with lie.
Speaker 8 (02:00):
What if we've been getting from him?
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Perhaps got the figures?
Speaker 9 (02:03):
Yeah, he's got four wells in production. We've been getting
two hundred bells a day.
Speaker 8 (02:08):
To watch his bafe. He's still getting plenty.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
He choke the wells down, says he won't pay off anymore, and.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
I will say about that. You better come into her.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
Okay, finger, I'm knock over it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Hey, what's the idea for I standing here?
Speaker 10 (02:26):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (02:27):
Idea?
Speaker 11 (02:27):
Paul, Hey, you've had some kind of misunderstanding with my boys.
Speaker 12 (02:33):
There's normal understanding, Gennaro. You're just not getting any more
oil from my wells. I'm not taking any more threats
from you or your ten horned friends.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
What's what you're saying.
Speaker 12 (02:41):
I'll say what I want. I'll not only say it
to you, I'll say it to the law. It's got
a little trigger, Paul, shoot soft to.
Speaker 9 (02:48):
Me money, Get out, Get out of here before I
fit this pipeer inch.
Speaker 13 (02:52):
Over your head.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
Hey, I'm shutting.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Very frank Let me go.
Speaker 13 (02:58):
He's got a name.
Speaker 14 (02:59):
I'm having her.
Speaker 9 (03:04):
Oh he clipped me with that branch.
Speaker 11 (03:07):
How they want to go against such this? I'll teach
the other operators not to get smart. Come on Earth,
let's get out of here.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
The death of Joe Powell sealed the lips of other
frightened oil operators, and they said nothing as Frankie Gennaro
continued to exact tribute from the smaller private companies. But
Powell's murder aroused special interest of the Texas Rangers. Captain
Stinson sent for Ranger Jace Pearson.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
You know what's been happening in Killman since the oil
boom started?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Jace.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
I've heard. I've got Rangers in the town, of course,
good men, but they're too well known. We're being blocked
all the way by people who won't talk or who
are afraid to talk.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
I've never worked at Kilmen District. I'm not known there.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
That's why I sent for you. I want Kilman cleaned up,
starting with Joe Powell's murder. But I'm a man wearing
a badge. Won't stand a chance. You want me to
work without one, That's right, Jase, But not alone. We
got a new man just transferred into the company, Steve Clark.
You can work together.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
You better brief me on the power and all.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
We've got is in the next room and have a look.
Here's some photographs taken at the murder scene.
Speaker 15 (04:24):
Hm stabbed in the back, a belt and shirt twisted.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Though, Paul must have put up a fight before he
went down.
Speaker 13 (04:32):
He fought, all right.
Speaker 15 (04:33):
Look up his wrench, Yeah, and the bloodstains and a
few matted hairs on it. It's the same wrench that
was next to the body, and the photos the same one.
Paul must have hit somebody with it before he was
killed in it looks that way. That means two or
more men ganged up on him. He dropped one with
a wrench and then the other one stabbed him.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
That's the way I see it.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
And blood on the wrench been typed.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Yeah, here's a report from the lamb at all.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
To type brown hair, Caucasian male.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Mycrometer measurements are there too, And that's all we've got, Jess.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
How about a list of undesirables hanging out and killming?
Speaker 7 (05:14):
Oh yeah, I got that too. Here mostly at teddy crooks,
gamblers and musclemen. Our boys run a few out and
new ones come in.
Speaker 15 (05:25):
Must be one man at the top, though usually is,
But which one? And a few possibilities on your list?
Speaker 16 (05:31):
Here?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
This one, stuts Tracy.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
No, No, it's not big enough to be given the orders.
Does he know you by sight?
Speaker 13 (05:39):
No?
Speaker 15 (05:39):
I just know a few of these names by reputation
and photos.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Now here's another battle herb infield.
Speaker 15 (05:46):
Yeah, I heard about him too, plenty supposed to be
a real vinegaron.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
It's tougher than the back end of a shooting gallery.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Yeah, and he's not smart enough to cover up for himself.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
The only other possible boss I can see is this one,
Frankie Neal.
Speaker 15 (06:03):
You got lots of arrests and a couple of indictments,
No convictions on the surfaces, records clean.
Speaker 7 (06:09):
He always has an alibi and it always stands up.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Yes, I better get started right.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
We'll go over to the barracks and I'll introduce.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
You to Steve Clark.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
You want to change your clothes.
Speaker 15 (06:20):
Anyhow, Yeah, The first job is to locate keen in.
You find out who's making the wheels turn. We can
put our badges on again and move in with a horse.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
The whole company will be standing by. You better warn
the rangers in town not to let on. They know
me well, they've been warned. You'll be treated just like
a stranger. You have anything to report, contact me directly,
but be careful, and you better leave your car outside
the town and just meandering on horses.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Cow polks.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Yeah, just a couple of wandering cow polks.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
I met Steep Clark.
Speaker 15 (07:01):
We dressed like a couple of cow pokes and parked
our car outside of Kilmen.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
It was almost midnight when we rode in.
Speaker 15 (07:08):
Town was sprawled all over the map, dotted with trailers
and crude shacks thrown together from the ken and old
packing crates.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Despite the hour, everything was going full blast.
Speaker 9 (07:19):
Sure it's booming, Jase.
Speaker 15 (07:20):
Yeah, hotail down the ways looks especially lively.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
But that isn't legal liquor they're taking on around here.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
Yeah, I bet there is much of anything here that
is legal.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
A bunch of oil trucks coming through. You better get
out of the way, get over, charpo, come on.
Speaker 15 (07:38):
It seems to me that it's kind of late for
him to be haul and oil ought to be a
daytime operation.
Speaker 12 (07:44):
It might be a shortage of trucks, Jash. There wasn't
ask to be hauled, no pipelines or the refineries yet.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
I think it might be hot oil.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Maybe we don't know. Why Joe Powell was killed.
Speaker 15 (07:54):
But if somebody had been stealing his oil and Powell
found out about it, we'd have a pretty good motive.
Speaker 12 (07:59):
Yeah, if those trucks are hauling stolen oil, they're being
pretty open about it.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Oh whoa boy listen to that racket?
Speaker 15 (08:09):
Yeah, being pretty open about everything around there.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Come on, Clark, let's get us a room.
Speaker 15 (08:16):
I want to call the captain and find out about
these night riding trucks. Any plan we had about staying
at the hotel was cut Shark by the desk clerk.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
That wasn't a room available in the town.
Speaker 15 (08:34):
We hung around for about an hour before we found
a rancher who told us we could bunk down in
the loft of its barn outside of the town.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
Beating that mess up isn't gonna be easy, Jason.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
It's gonna be even tougher than it looks Clark. I
notice what happened when the sheriff and one of the
rangers they know walked in.
Speaker 12 (08:50):
Yeah, all the game and stopped five minutes before they
got there, and all the liquor disappeared. Whoever's running that
place knew they were coming.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
I don't wonder our men haven't been able to get
any place.
Speaker 9 (09:00):
We could have stopped that place from operating. Chase, we
saw what was going on.
Speaker 15 (09:03):
I wouldn't do any good to show a badge and
shut down one spot. We gotta shut them all first,
we gotta hook them all together.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
Yeah, I guess you're right. Look over there roadside phone
boot by that gas station. You're still gonna call Captain Stinson?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Yeah, it's a good spot. Station's blow.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
I'll take the horses back off the road and away.
Speaker 15 (09:29):
I got through the Captain Stinson at his home, and
what he had to say about the trucks wasn't encouraging.
Speaker 14 (09:34):
Yes, Jeeves, we had reports on the trucks we run
every night.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Have our men ever stopped any of them?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Yes, but they seemed to be all right. Jeez.
Speaker 14 (09:42):
They have receipts for everything they carrying, and the trucks
are properly licensed.
Speaker 15 (09:46):
I still can't see why they're running at night.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Neither can I, but there's no law against it.
Speaker 15 (09:51):
Hasn't the Commission set a limit on the number of
barrels each welcome pumping a day.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Is each will is allowed.
Speaker 14 (09:56):
Three hundred barrels a day as long as the present
pressure who.
Speaker 15 (10:00):
Have the operator has been accounting for that much oil
each day.
Speaker 14 (10:03):
Yes, the commission keeps a careful chick. Operators report production
of three hundred a day. The trucking company receipts shoe
hauled you three hundred a day, and the figures at
the refinery is tally too.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
It's a three way check. Jeez, I don't see how
they compete it.
Speaker 15 (10:18):
I'm still convinced that Powell's death has something to do
with hot oil, and I can't help.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
You there, Jas. It's sorting your lap.
Speaker 15 (10:25):
I'm hoping to match the hair the lab found on
that wrench power used, but I need a motive to
narrow down the field.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
Twelve thousand people in town.
Speaker 15 (10:32):
Make a lot of suspects, or do the best you can.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I will.
Speaker 15 (10:36):
I'm sending you a list of names men we spotted
running gambling games and selling liquor at the hotel. We'll
have to let them run for a while till we
move in with a big broom.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
We raised dust whenever you were ready.
Speaker 15 (10:53):
Three days I left Steve Clark wandering around town spotting
the rackets while I rode through the oil field at night,
striking up casual conversations with the pumpers. Wherever I saw
when the night riding trucks load up and leave.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Hardy where Hardy a little bit off your trail?
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Ain't you a coppol.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Just riding around wishing some of his landa's mine, and.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
We all wishing the same thing.
Speaker 11 (11:20):
They're just gonna have a doughnut, a little coffee, he
want to Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
If your friends on the truck didn't drink it all.
Speaker 11 (11:26):
And it's they're always in too much of a hurry. Yeah,
you can tie a horse to the derek there, he'll
be all right.
Speaker 15 (11:33):
Thanks, hey on, thanks, Yeah, at a funny hour for
making oil pickups?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
What makes the horse so late?
Speaker 13 (11:45):
You?
Speaker 8 (11:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
They always take a full load.
Speaker 11 (11:48):
Uh huh A hundred barrels a clip.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
That's a full tank.
Speaker 15 (11:54):
Truck and field storage tanks hold a thousand barrels each,
don't they?
Speaker 8 (11:59):
Uh huh?
Speaker 13 (12:01):
What don't it? No?
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Thanks?
Speaker 15 (12:10):
I checked with a few more pumpers, then rode out
to the barn where Clark and I were bunking.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I woke him up.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
Oh oh oh, voted Chase.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
What time is it almost six? What'd you find out?
Speaker 8 (12:21):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Stretch here they have got another flock of names. You
can stand down to the captain here.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (12:29):
Yeah, we got just about every small timehood staked out
everything but the headman, Chase.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
I'm not so sure there is a head man.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
There's gotta be.
Speaker 15 (12:39):
All the racketeers stick to their own game and their
own part of town. They're all protected by the same musclemen.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
Yeah, so, so.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
They belong to an organization.
Speaker 15 (12:47):
Otherwise they'd be fighting among themselves, trying to move in
on each other.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Yeah, I didn't think of that.
Speaker 15 (12:53):
And dipping a finger in the oil business here too,
I'd swear to it.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
And that's big. We find a man on top of
that as a King Kennedy entire.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Operation, well, I'll keep looking around.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
No, no, let the town go for a while.
Speaker 15 (13:06):
From now on, we'll concentrate on the wells. When we
get the man responsible for killing Powell, a whole thing
will tumble like a house of cards.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson.
Speaker 7 (13:32):
Beginning one week from tomorrow, that's Sunday.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
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Texas Rangers.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
We staked ourselves out of Powell's wells for two days.
Speaker 15 (14:05):
We kept check around the clock on every load of
oil it was hauled away, watching from a distance.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
It was a dead end watch.
Speaker 12 (14:13):
It checks out jays four wells three hundred varls each
per day, twelve hundred varl total.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
And that's what they've hauled away.
Speaker 15 (14:19):
Yeah, but since we've been here, nothing's been hauled from
Powell's wells.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
At night.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
Yeah, you're gonna keep watching them.
Speaker 15 (14:24):
Just for the night so we can measure the flow
from the wells. You can keep the pumper busy for
a while at nine o'clock while I run a tape
gauge into the storage tank.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
We'll have to check them again later and.
Speaker 15 (14:33):
I'll wander up and keep the pumper busy around three am.
Then you can make the second check. We compare our figures,
and we don't know if those wells are really choked
for three hundred barrels each or if they're pumping more
in the legal quota. Ok is, let's hope it works.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
We made the check, but we didn't have to do
much figuring.
Speaker 15 (14:59):
The wells were on the No, those three hundred barrels
a day each, not a drop more.
Speaker 12 (15:05):
Ah, that's it is, And the refinery reports show that
it's all going through.
Speaker 9 (15:10):
There's no hot oil to be accounted for.
Speaker 5 (15:12):
Well, it was a thought. Let's get the horses and
the turn in.
Speaker 12 (15:15):
Yeah, guess pole just happened to brush somebody the wrong way. Yeah,
at oral ago with a hell plenty too bad.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Hey, wait a minute, it's a car coming.
Speaker 13 (15:26):
Hey.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Yeah, if you turn up the road tow that.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Rigging over The rigging isn't lit. Nobody's working there with
a dry hole.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Get ahold.
Speaker 17 (15:34):
Yeah, his lights will sweep this way when he turns.
They stopped at the dry hole, all right. Yeah, and look,
howls pumpers walking across the field to meet him. Yeah,
they're going up to the knowledge house on the rig.
It's a funny place to be holding a meeting at
this time of ninety. It's a since they don't want
to be seen that. Pumper knows more, and he told us,
(15:56):
come on, what's the plan. Yes, maybe we can slip
under the plank the rigging without them seeings. We can
get under the knowledge house. We may learn a few
things through the floorboards, crept through the money channel that
(16:16):
drained into.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
The slush pit.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
We got under the knowledge house. We were hidden, but
we could hear them.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
Start making pickups again the borrow I here, why not?
Lets you think you're gonna pick I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You know power keys the jokes before before the before
his accident.
Speaker 9 (16:34):
Yeah, all right, so how can I give you any
or well, we're only.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Pumping regular quoters.
Speaker 10 (16:40):
Have the chokes changed again, so they pump a little
like I can't not without miss Palett.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Okay, I'm working for her now.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Maybe you didn't hear me.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I said change a choke. Oh I'm a freid stunt.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
Must be stunts, Tracy Jason.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Yeah, don't you look at me like the sus You
know I'm on the spot.
Speaker 10 (16:57):
Listen you, we've got the operators in this big you're
lined up. We don't intend to have any trouble with
a wise guy humper.
Speaker 13 (17:05):
No, wait a minute, stops, wait a minute, what what what?
Speaker 4 (17:09):
What do you have just to make you think that's
only a sample? Maybe you'd like what Paul got.
Speaker 13 (17:16):
I don't talk like that. I'll do what you say.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Just tell me what you want me to do.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
I've already told you the trucks will roll tomorrow night. Yeah,
down this and fun, don't forget Yeah tomorrow.
Speaker 17 (17:31):
He knows what happened to Paul Jase. Let's grab him.
He no, stay down, He's not that heap man. And
I wonder why we haven't been seeing him around. Wish
I could have gotten a look at his face. His
voice sounded familiar.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Man, you've seen munkle shots something and the photos we
have here.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
A fella with the broken nose.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
That's right. Have you seen him around?
Speaker 16 (17:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
I think I have. Humper's leaving.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
All right?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
How about it?
Speaker 5 (17:58):
You've seen stunts, I wanted to say.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
After nor at the hotel, he was talking to Frankie Gennaro.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
And that's the first time either of us has seen
him since we've been here.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
I heard him talking to Gennaro.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
He said he'd been up to Big d in Dallas.
What was he up there for? Well, that wasn't mentioned.
Speaker 9 (18:11):
They didn't talk much. All I know is that Stutch
just got back.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
He'd been gone two weeks.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Come on, we can get out of here now gone
two weeks?
Speaker 10 (18:22):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
In other words, since Powell got killed?
Speaker 9 (18:25):
Yeah, what do you make out of that?
Speaker 8 (18:26):
Jason?
Speaker 15 (18:27):
Maybe he doesn't know just something about Powell's murder. I
got a hunt he was in on it. Powell clipped
one of his attackers with that pipe wrench. Remember, must
have left the mark.
Speaker 12 (18:35):
And if Stut's had that mark, he wouldn't hang around
and give people a chance to notice it.
Speaker 15 (18:38):
Because Eddie two weeks had just to be about long
enough for a scar that he'l over. We've got to
get a sample of Stutt's hair to match with a
hair sample's lamb got off that wrench.
Speaker 9 (18:47):
But how do we get that?
Speaker 15 (18:48):
You can get our hands on a comb or brush
anything he's used on his head. First, we gotta find
him bad. He may have headed back to the hotel.
That's a favorite hangar. Now we'll try it on the
way into town. I want to call it captain. Yeah,
come on, come on, goead, what are you gonna call
cap'n Pall find out who owns the trucks haul in
(19:09):
the oil and what refinery they're going to see if
we can hook the ownership up with any of the
people we've been watching here. Why because records have been
falsified to cover.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
That hot oil.
Speaker 15 (19:20):
We find out who's changing them, and we'll know who
Stuts is working for and who killed Powell.
Speaker 9 (19:24):
Jay's hot oil won't prove murder.
Speaker 13 (19:26):
No.
Speaker 15 (19:27):
Once we link Stuts as an accomplice in the murder,
I got a feeling he'll squeal like a pig caught.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Under a gate.
Speaker 15 (19:39):
I made my call to Captain Stintson. He arranged to
have the trucks followed the ownership check. Then Clark and
I headed for the hotel, where business was going on
as usual.
Speaker 9 (19:50):
There is Jas at the counter using it as a bob.
Speaker 15 (19:53):
Uh curb Enfield and Frankie Gennaro. There's a trio of
the Ward and Princetow would.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Love to have.
Speaker 9 (19:59):
Well, maybe he'll get him the.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Well what do we do?
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Just wait around until Stets combs his hair.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Look on the steward beside him. Huh oh, he's head.
Speaker 13 (20:08):
Is it is?
Speaker 9 (20:09):
That's the one he was wearing when I saw him
this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Good.
Speaker 15 (20:12):
There'll be enough hair strands, and there are little clippings
in the band to tell us what we want to know.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Jase, how do we get it?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
And I call for a drinking crowd and you just
grab it from the fade.
Speaker 9 (20:21):
Want me to take it back to the.
Speaker 15 (20:22):
Board now, there's a small airfield near the next time,
get it over there and call the Austin Lab and
have it picked up. They can report to Captain Stinson
when I call him in the morning. He should have
enough for us to start dropping the net.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
I've got the lab report, Geez, Scots Tracy is the
man paul In with that? Rachel right?
Speaker 16 (20:45):
Good?
Speaker 5 (20:45):
You get a line on the truck and Company and
the refinery he is you like it?
Speaker 14 (20:49):
The trunk and Company has owned under an Elias by
her Enfield and his wife Good, and the refinery is
owned by a woman.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
We checked on her. Jeez, she's Franky Grenierro's girlfriend.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
That does it? When are you coming in?
Speaker 14 (21:02):
The whole company is standing by right now, ready to.
Speaker 15 (21:05):
Road then come ahead and throw up roadblocks on the way.
An awful lot of people are gonna want to leave
here in a hurry.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
We're ready to comb the town base.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
We've got a section for Clark and me.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Take your choice, and you know who I am.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Good?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
The rest of the men have their assignments, memes you supplied.
Speaker 18 (21:36):
Listen, you people up, all of you now, most of
you are decent folks.
Speaker 13 (21:42):
Go home and stay home.
Speaker 18 (21:44):
The streets may not be safe for the next couple
of hours, but by tonight you'll have your town by.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
We use the hotel for a jail. All right, let's cool.
Two men in there, you're surrounded. Come out with your
hands up.
Speaker 13 (22:12):
All right, come on, get moment, all of you. I'm
forgetting the wall. And don't anybody read for a gun.
Speaker 9 (22:29):
Anybody else won't try that.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
All right, that's on your feet.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
What do you cor folks want?
Speaker 9 (22:42):
We're not cor folks. We're Texas Rangers.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Rangers, but get up, Get up.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
You're coming over to the hotel lobby. We'll tell you
all about it.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Oh that's quite a hole.
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Jeez.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yeah, I can't locate herb Enfield and Frankie Gennaro.
Speaker 15 (23:06):
Clark's holding Stuts Tracy in that side room, though he
might know where the others are. You got the photos
of the hair samples lab matched?
Speaker 16 (23:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 15 (23:13):
Here good, I'll show these to Stuts. They should convince him.
He say anything yet, Clark, he's.
Speaker 7 (23:25):
Not a puzz I'm not gonna say anything either.
Speaker 15 (23:28):
Stuts, I got something to show you. Ever seen anything
like this before? Take a look at this photograph?
Speaker 13 (23:35):
What is it?
Speaker 15 (23:36):
Just a couple of hairs. One on the left came
from your hat. We borrowed it last night. What's idea?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
The hair on the right is just like it, exactly
like it.
Speaker 15 (23:47):
That came from a bloody wrench we found beside the
body of Joe Powell.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Paul hit you with that wrench, Stuts, and then.
Speaker 15 (23:52):
You killed him, huh us never even near that hair,
and the scar on your head proves you were.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
But I didn't kill him. You were there. You know
who did. I was not dot. I didn't see who
I'm on, Stut. I was with you.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I've been feeling and Frankie Gennaro.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Yeah, oh he'll kill me. You're gonna kill me.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Gennaro is the boss. Then, yeah, he's got to hide
out someplace.
Speaker 9 (24:19):
Where is it?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
No, he'll kill me, I said, where is it?
Speaker 8 (24:23):
Yeah, you gotta protect me.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
There's there's a cabin, a passive red seatar the other
side of the oil field.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
That's where he's been living.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
He'll have a clear view of the road up there.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Jason, we won't use the road. We're right up from
behind his Enfield there too.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Yeah, they're always together, Chase.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
They might not even know we moved in on the town.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
They'll know soon.
Speaker 9 (24:54):
Yeah, there's a cabin, Chase, pretty fancy.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
It ought to be I plenty out of this town.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
Yeah, guy's running dry for him now though. Hey, somebody
around the side of the cabin there in Hemlock.
Speaker 15 (25:06):
It's Gennaro in a nice silk robe. He's in for
a change of wardrobe. He isn't gonna lie.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
He's getting up. Chase.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
You sees us. Yeah, you're wanted in town.
Speaker 8 (25:19):
That's Lacey, send you for me?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Huh oh yeah, yeah he did Enfield too.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Anything wrong in town?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
You see anything wrong?
Speaker 8 (25:33):
Clark?
Speaker 9 (25:34):
No go, I thought everything was fine.
Speaker 11 (25:36):
Hey, that's wants a cent town sent these follows out
to tell us.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
I've seen you to a round before, haven't I.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Hey, what's that on your shirt?
Speaker 13 (25:51):
Couple?
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Oh that's just a Texas Ranger badge? Come on, both
of you. You're going at a dude shot.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
You fellas mind telling me what you think you've got
on me.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Well, let's start with the killing of Joe Powell.
Speaker 11 (26:11):
I can prove I was someplace else when Paul was killed.
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Herban Stuts and I were playing cards with three other men.
Speaker 9 (26:18):
All night long.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
Not this time, Janetta.
Speaker 15 (26:20):
I mean, we've already proven where Stuts was and he's
made a full confession.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
There'll be no alibis this time. Don't move, Gennaro, I got.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
We don't want to fight.
Speaker 15 (26:34):
Couldn't fool around with a gun. Herb, knife in the
back is your specialty.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Glad to see you know that I didn't kill Paul.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Sure, Gennaro, you're the boy with the brains. You don't
do the work you order it.
Speaker 8 (26:49):
That's something you can't prove.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
No, you don't think Herb is gonna take all the blame,
do you.
Speaker 9 (26:55):
You're not gonna set me up tonight, Lawyer.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I can understand that I never saw a fellow and
needed one more.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
All right, Get moved, Frankie, Gennaro, and Herb Enfield were
sentenced to life terms at Huntsville. Stuts Tracy was given
(27:27):
fifty years, and lesser offenders and the Kilmen cleanup were
given sentences of from one to five years.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Those who were released without being.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
Charged left the town of Kilmen quickly.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
And quietly, the cleanup was complete.
Speaker 16 (27:52):
And now here again is the star of our show,
Joel McCrae.
Speaker 15 (27:56):
Folks, here's a special announcement I think you'll be interested in.
You'll next hear tales of the Texas Rangers beginning Sunday,
one week from tomorrow. Yes, we're moving to a brand
new time on Sundays, beginning Sunday, October eighth. I hope
you'll make get a point to hear us at our
new time beginning in just eight days. Good night, folks,
(28:18):
See you next Sunday.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
A week from Sunday, Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment
of a case from the files out the Texas Rangers.
(28:45):
Joel McCrae is currently seen starring in the MGM production
Stars in My Crown. Tonight's cast included Tony Barrett, Lou Krugman,
Paul Freeze, Tom McKee, Herb Ellis, and Byron Kane. This
story was transcribed and adapted by by Joel Murcott, and
the program was produced and directed by Stacy Keach. This
is hell give me speaking and reminding you to be
(29:08):
with us again at our new time one week from tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Sunday, October eighth.
Speaker 8 (29:24):
Three Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC. Next Saturday, at
this time, Dennis Day returns to the air.
Speaker 11 (29:32):
Dennis Day's comedy is always refreshing because he appears so
timid and bewildered.
Speaker 12 (29:37):
But one thing that doesn't bewildered Dennis is how to
sing a popular ballad or rhythmical Nowaday, So.
Speaker 11 (29:42):
For comedy and songs, it's Dennis Day at this time
next Saturday. That day also marks the return of The
Judy Canova Show, and tomorrow Phil Harris and Alice Faye
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