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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Before we bring you today's story of the Texas Rangers,
let's talk a moment with Bill Harris and Alice Fay
during a break in the rehearsal for today's Phil Harris
Allis Fay Show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Thank you, Bill Foreman.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
You know, folks, I welcome this opportunity to talk with
you about the great lineup of stellar entertainment in store
for you this evening right here on NBC. Right after
Tales of the Texas Rangers, Taruna bank Kid will bring
you all of her darling guest stars on the Big Show.
And I know that she has some of your favorite
entertainers with her today, and I hope you'll listen to
the Big Show.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And then right after.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Tallula and her guests, it's time for my show, The
Shower Show.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You could be right.
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Our show, The Phil Harris Alice Fay Show with Frankie Ramley, Brother,
William Julius Sabruzzio, and Little Alison Phillips.
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And don't forget the Theater Guild on the Air, Phil.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
That's right immediately following our show, you'll hear your favorite
stars of Hollywood and Broadway in great plays on Theater
Guild on the Air. So we hope you'll stay tuned
right here to NBC. Thank you, Phil Harris and Alice Fay.
And now here's today's adventure of the Tales of the
Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCrae
(01:11):
as Ranger Chase Pearson, another authentic reenactment of a case
transcribed from the piles of the Texas Rangers. Name, states
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and places in the following story are fictitious for obvious reasons.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
The events themselves are.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
A matter of records.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
In just a moment, we return you to Tales of
the Texas Rangers and today's thriller episode starring Joel McCrae.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called Cold Blood.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It is seven thirty on the night of April twenty second,
nineteen thirty five. In a shack in a poor section
of Lundy and East Texas town, A young widow feeds
her baby. As the room grows dark. He gets up
and crosses to an oil lamp on the table.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Now you hush, honey, don't you be crying. We'll have
us a nice bright lighting just a minute there, dear,
I told you i'd get rid of the shadow.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Who's there is? Eli?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Nellie?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Open up quick, Ela, but you don't have the farm
all the weeknine.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Don't stand talking, Nelly.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Let me in.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Lock it, lock the door.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Ela. You're hurt. You got yourself in trouble.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Ain't you let me sit down? I gotta wrist wrist, Nellie,
put out the.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Light alrighty, lies, what kind of trouble you in him?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I run all the way from the farm, all the way.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I'm your sister, Eli. I gotta write to know what kind.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Of trouble Nellie. I'm scared, Nelly. I'm scared bed.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Oh honey, don't you said right there? I'm gonna get
some water and wash the blood off your face.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Do all right the lamb.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Don't you worry. There's some light from the street. I
see pretty good in the dark.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Anyhow, rush baby, I'm busy now, and this will hurt
something lying there.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
You're a good sister, Nillie. He always was a good sister.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Still you're gonna tell me about miss Dean.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
She dead, Miss Dean. Mister Dean, say I kill her?
He come down to my shed, say miss Dean dead,
and I kill her? Say my Colt was in the
room where she's dead.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
He beat me.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yelly, No, he's all right. I tripped him. He fell
on the floor and I run away all the way
from the farm.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I run.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Now, you ought to go to this I can't you
know that I go in.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Then I gotta hide first.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
What good's that gonna do. They'll get you, they'll get
your shirt.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Got to hide a few days they don't find me.
Maybe I can get out of the state.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Then they'll never.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Find they'll find you. Who are you figuring on hiding?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
You know that old shack in this small place we
used to play.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
When we was kids.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
It ain't good enough. They'll find you, sure, but you're right.
You gotta hide, and you gotta have food.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Nellie.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
This compan You ain't asking me yet.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Okay, it's a long for brandness and smoke meat. It
ain't much, but he'll keep it going.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Still, Nellie, you ain't to ask me if I did
kill miss I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Have to ask you.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Lie.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You are my brother, and that's all I need to know.
If you're gonna hide, you better get out of you.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah, you're looking before mall let him come.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
They ain't gonna hear nothing from me. You be careful,
You'll be awful.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Careful I will. Maybe when I get away, I can
write you. Let you know where you.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Don't write me nothing, You hear nothing?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Go ahead now so soon.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Godless sheriff was notified by Ralph Dean, a farmer, that
his wife had been murdered. He hurried to the scene
of the crime and then requested assistance from the Texas Rangers.
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Shortly past ten pm, rangers Jase Pearson and Clay Morgan
arrived at the Dean farmhouse. The sheriff met them at
their car. Howdy, Sheriff, Howdy boy?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
How bought it? In the bedroom? I left everything just
like it was. Her husband's still around.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, he was going to take off, but I figured
you'd want to talk to him. He's waiting in the
front room. Now, come on, where'd he want to take
off for?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Noh, you know how he is. Jase Dean says it
was his hired hand killed his wife.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
He's boiling mad. He wants to God looking for the
boy himself. What's the hired hand's name? I Wilbur been
the Dean near five years. We haven't been able to
locate him since murder, Ralph, Ralph, there's Ranker Pearson and
ranger Morgan. I do, mister Dan, sorry to hear about
your wife. Yeah, man, your hair rangers, maybe you can
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talk some sense into the shore. Now you look at here,
Ron'll look here, Sheriff, I told you want to call
you Eli Wilbur kill my wife? What are you waiting for?
Whin's you gotta pussey? Are tracking him down? Because I'm
handling this my own way, Ralph, your way may be
paying around like this. Why he's probably minds away by now.
He's gotta be killed. I'll tell you just the way,
kill my wife.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
If he's guilty, will get him.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You'll get him. I'm telling you one thing, Sheriff. If
that boy ain't taking care of I'm gonna see you
ain't a late to the game. Listen here, Ralph, he
ninety taken frets from you and no nobody else, just
some man at both of here, Sheriff, take play.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Into the bedroom where you can have a look at
the body. I want to ask mister Dean a few questions,
all right, jeez, right through here today? Yeah, what makes
you think Eli killed your wife?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Mister Dean think I know he's coaching here in it
rip can have pieces still in Nettle's hands.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
She she must Yes, she's dead. She's dead, Ranger, I
find you find your wife's body.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Oh about six gonna come in from the fields and
we're now pulling stumps till in.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Wasn't Eli with you? No played sick today, But I
don't mean know nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Did Ali come into the house off? And of course
no when when I called him? Thanks, mister Dean, that'll
be off. Now you're gonna get the sheriff to organize
that pussy.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I won't be necessary, and.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I'm gonna organize one of my own. I've got these
friends here. That boy ain't gonna get away with us.
We're gonna catch you. When you'll let ours handless. We'll
get the person who killed your wife. Alright, Ranger, there's
no log again. He's taking a little trip into the
swamps to hunt gaiters.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Is here. Take my advice, mister Dean, don't in there
with a law. Yeah, she was strangled. Jesse must have
put up quite a fight from the look of the room. Uh.
These bruises on her neck are pretty bad, and who
put them there must have had strong fingers. Yeah, I've
had a good look around. Aside from that coach she's holding,
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there's not much in the way of evidence.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
The coat belongs to boy, all right, and I'd say
it looks mighty bad for him.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
He can't get far away and put out a bulletin
on him.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
If he's gone into those swamps, all the bulletins in
the world ain't gonna do no good.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Has he got any relatives in town?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
A sister Nellie Johnson, my deputy, was there early this evening.
She wouldn't tell him nothing. Don't believe you'll get much
information from her. We'd try, like anyhow, Come on play, yes.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You, Nellie Johnson, Yes, we like to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Well, come in, sir, you too, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
We're looking for your brother, Nelly. Can you tell us
where he is.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
He didn't do it, mister Ranger. I know I didn't
kill miss Dean.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now do you know missus Dean was killed?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Nellie a gentleman who worked for the sheriff. He come
here early tonight looking for Eli. Say miss Dean was dead.
I told him Eli didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Maybe he didn't, but he shouldn't have run away.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
If he run away, it's only cause he's scared.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Have you seen Eli and I no, sir, I.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Ain't seen him for a full week to stay out
to miss Dean's pa.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Do you have any idea where he might be hiding?
Oh no, Sir, I can't say as a do, Nellie.
If Eli killed missus Dean, we're gonna catch him. He'll
be punished for what he did. But if he's innocent,
we're gonna protect him. You understand that, don't you? Yes, sir,
then you know we have to find him. We can't
help him if we don't.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Mister Ranger, you got to believe what I say. I
don't know where Eli is. I just don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You're sure he wasn't here earlier this evening? Oh yes, sir,
I'm real sure, Nellie. He's two spots over the table leg.
You know what they are?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I no, sir, I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Know their fresh bloodstains, Nelly. You want to tell us
how they got there?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Well, sir?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Oh yes, sir, I remember now when I was fixing supper, I'll.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Come a finger.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Where'd you cut your finger?
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Show us I or mister Range.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And please, if you didn't cut your finger, somebody else
must have left those blood spots. He was here tonight.
It wasn't Nellie. Eli was here, mister me. Why don't
you tell us what you know? It'll be better all
the way around.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
I don't want him to get hurt, my baby brother.
I know he didn't do nothing. I don't want him
to get hurt.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
He won't get hurt, Nelly. We can promise you that
he was here. Wasn't he?
Speaker 8 (10:44):
Yes, yes, he was here when about seven point thirty,
just have to be run from the phone.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Why to run away?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
He found out Miss.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Dean was dead and he was scared of missus Dean,
scared the people in town.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Do something to him.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
You know where he is now?
Speaker 8 (11:01):
Yes, a time in the shack and the stop place
we called Old Marcus and shack.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Oh please, mister Ranger. Don't let nothing happen to Eli.
Don't let nothing happen to him.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Don't worry, Nellie. We'll see Eli gets a fair deal
all the way through. By the way, how'd he get hurt? Hurt?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
He must have been bleeding when he came here. How
did it happen?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You won't tell, mister Dean, I told you.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Just tell us how it happened, Nelly.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Wel, sir, Missus Dean, come after Eli, say kill miss Dean.
He beat Eli. Make Eli's face bleed?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
All right, Nelly, thanks?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You know Jayce, she must have been telling the truth
about how Eli got hurt. But it could be missus
Jean scratching while they were struggling.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I don't think so. There would have been skin on
her fingernails and there wasn't. But if Jean did beat
up Eli, it means.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
He saw him after the murder.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Uh huh he did. It's something he forgot to tell me.
Maybe you I have not to talk with him. We
will after we pick up Eli. Let's find out how
to get the moccasin shack. The sheriff wasn't in his office,
but his deputy told us how to reach the shack.
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Nelly and described. We drove to the edge of town,
unloaded our horses from the trailer, and rode toward the swamp.
We reached it about nine that morning and started in.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Shouldn't be farm out, Jason, there's the three oaks in
the will of the deputy told us about uh uh.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Shack ought to be about one hundred yards in from here.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Not exactly the kind of place i'd like to spend
a vacation.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Well, I never heard anybody advertisement as a resort. But
fool chart, fool player. Listen. He sounds like we're not
the only ones out after l this morning. Yeah, reckoned
Dean didn't take my advice. After all, let's get going.
I could mean a lot of trouble. At least. They
don't seem to know where Eli is. Let's hope we do.
We've got a hunch Nelly was telling the truth. If
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Eli hasn't heard those dogs and taken all deeper into
the swamp, we ought to find you, it.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Won't take us long to know, says, that's shack full tarky.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Play. He's gotta make a break yet looks empty. J Yeah,
I thought it was at first too. Huh. This peaks
rock flooring. Alright, Eli, come up out of there.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
You're arranged to Thank God? Oh, thank God.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Well I'll be under the floor.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Please please don't let them please.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Nobody's gonna get you, Eli. You're coming back to town.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
With me there listening. Nothing I got to say. I
see him the whole night.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
They got double crawl up Eli.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yes, please don't let him work Instead, they won't have
killed me. I know they won't have killed me.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
If anybody's gonna get you, you'll have to get us first.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
None of us would knowingly betray our country or endanger
our loved ones and homes. Yet each of us betrays
all these when we are tolerant of or don't fight
back at group prejudice. When we stand for such hate,
we're doing the very thing that communists want us to do.
They'd like to see is divided Christian against jew white
neighbor against colored neighbor, or native born against foreign born.
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If our enemies could divide all the small groups that
make up this country, then we would be weak and
could be easily overcome. Now as probably never before. We
need to be united as an example to our allis
who look to us for hope, and as a warning
to our enemies that we are truly a United States
of America. Work for understanding, except or reject people on
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their individual worth, refuse to listen to or spread room
against a race or religion, Speak up wherever you are
against prejudice, and now back to tales of the Texas Rangers.
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Story, Cold Blood. We got to Eli out of the
shack and ont of my horse. As we started for town,
we could hear the sound of dogs and men getting closer.
When we reached solid ground and came into a clearing,
we saw them ranged across the path we had to take.
There were eight of them on horses, with Dean at
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their head. A group of men was silent as we
stopped at the edge of the clearing, thirty yards away
from them. They look pretty mean, jays.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
They're all armed and we'll be going to get me.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Make it easy, Eli, what do you say, jes We'll
go through. Walk your horse slow and don't say anything
unless they speak to us. Eli, there's a fight. Something
happens to our horse. Stay close to me, you reckon.
They'll be crazy enough to try anything. It'll belong to
we find out you got chucky. Don't know ifact they're
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gonna move, Jesson, maybe not.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Good morning Rangers. Morning, mister Dean. If you don't mind,
we'd like to get past. Sure, sure, you got start
this house. Since we all met out here, we have
a nice friendly talk. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned it,
because I want to have a talk with you right now.
I'm a little busy. Yeah, got yourself a prisoner.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I see.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
We didn't do so good, Nerve huh, whole night at
it and we're empty handed, too bad.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
If you and your friends get out of the way,
we'd like to get our man back to town.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And strike you would what the hell would be if
we helped you? Be ashamed of he got away after
you took so much trouble getting him. We'll manage all right, Ranger,
open up there for the Rangers boys. Thanks, and then
what I said about that talk. We'll be out to
see you this afternoon, sure, anytime. And Ranger, Yeah, just
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make sure that boy there gets a kind of trial
he deserved.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I believe he will. Now. It was past noon when
we got Eli back to town and into a cell.
It was still scared, but recovered enough to eat a
good sized meal. At one o'clock we went up to
question him. Sheriff led Clay and me along to the
cell block.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
One thing, you can be sure, Eli is going to
get all the attention we can give him. He's the
only prisoner we've got now. Probably better that way. Don't
know what Deana's gang might try. They Am Clay told
me you had a little trouble on the way.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
But I don't expect him to cry much.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Now, bunch of blow hard all the same. I wouldn't
like to ben Eli they had caught him out in
that swamp. Yeah that's different. But here in the lock up,
me and my deputy on me job.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I'll be down the.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Carter holler when you want me.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Thanks, sir, Hello Eline. You feel better now, yes, sir,
much better. I'm not so scared now good. We just
want to ask you a few questions, yes, sir, he like,
did you kill missus Dean?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
No, sir, your coat was found in her hands, mister Ranger.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I don't know how come my coke got in his
Dean's hands, but I didn't kill her.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Did you tell mister Dean you were sick yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Sick?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
No, sir, I'd never been sick of day in my life.
Mister Dean said that you told him you were.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Wonder how come you said that? He knowed I wasn't sick.
Sent me out in the field with the mule, told
me the pull stumps, and you went out there, Yes, sir,
I was out there all afternoon. Come in told evening
mister Dean with you. No, sir, he stayed into the
house saying this Dean, she don't feel so good. She
didn't sound like she was sick, though.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I don't mean.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I come up to the house after lunch to find
out what I got to do the rest of the day.
I hear Miss Dean talking pretty loud to mister Dean.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Did you hear what she was saying? No, sir, I
don't listen much no more miss Dean. She always speaks
right sharp to mister Dean. Jay uh huh, Eli, When
did you see mister Dean.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Last when he come to my check after I come
in from the field.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Why did he come to see her?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Because Miss Dean was dead? Mister Dean say I'd done it.
He wouldn't listen to nothing. I didn't kill miss Dean,
I swear I didn't.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Did anybody else see you out in the field yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Well, no, sir, don't reckon. Nobody did Eli? Where you're
working all afternoon?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Yes, sir, I was working the whole. No, Sah, I
forgot I quit one once.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
What for?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I stopped to kill me a rattler you was? There
was a big rattler curled up in the sun next
to her stump. I didn't see him till the mules squeel.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Then I picked up a rock and let fly killed
him right off.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Did you leave the snake line where you killed him?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Yes, sir, I got no use for no rattler dead
or live.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Eli, This is important. I want you to tell me
exactly where you killed that rattlesnake.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Well, sir, it was someplace in mister Dean's northfield. But
so much happened since you just did it, I don't click.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Just where, reckon, we'll have to stage our own private
snake hunt. Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Some folks says bad luck to kill a rattler, mister
ranger appears like mine already started. Don't worry, Eli, killing
that rattler might bring you more good luck than anything
you ever did.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
We found the dead rattler where Eli said he'd kill it,
in Dean's north field. We took the remains of the
snake with us, figuring our lab could tell us approximately
how long it had been dead, and we decided to
call our hand with Dean's, but he wasn't home. We
headed for town. It was five point twenty when we
pulled up in front of the Sheriff's office. He was
standing outside. I could tell something was wrong even before
he reached the cover.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Kase tell me I was just gonna call your headquarters and.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Have him get you pots on the radio. What's wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Somebody just broke in the jail. It took Eli away,
who was a sheriff.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
That's just it.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Jason don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I'd swear it was Ralph Dean and his but I
don't know how that happened. Well, everything was quiet. There
wasn't even nothing you could feel in town like you
sometimes can. I went home for supper and left my
deputy here. They broke in then, yep, got my deputy
just he was coming down and taking Eli's supper, slugged
him and.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Got the keys.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Didn't didn't get a look.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
At I never shouldn't left, and you couldn't have known.
I think we've got to do now. Somebody off excited
about it? Why, Attorney Matthews.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I've been trying to cause what is a journey Because
my brother said, the boy, what about him?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
They got him scutting nothing but.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Scum rafting the rest of his CRY's crazy, sheriff from Crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Where were they heading?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
It was our cutting wood back in my place home
riding passed, got the boy the czy.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They're going away from town, past your place.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Probably Graham Woods. Jason, I'm on, sheriff.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Show us where it is. The sheriff overhead, and we followed.
When we got as far as we could by road,
we unloaded the horses and the sheriff pointed out Graham Woods.
Clay and I started out. Five minutes later. We're entering
the woods. It's just getting dark as we picked up
the trail tracks seem to lead right into the woolfs chair. Yeah,
(22:06):
or we're not too late.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
At least we won't have any trouble getting the ones.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Who did it. That's not enough. You gotta say that
boy's life. Oh were the last?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, we're right in the supposed we can and make
the rest of it on foot. Wouldn't it be faster
if we went all the way on horses.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, the hear us coming, they'll kill you, lie and
take off before we get there, and they're probably too
busy to hear anything.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It won't take the chance. Slack will be close enough,
polar flanks less so easy playing me.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I didn't kill me, you gotta.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I didn't like the boys day right right?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Fuck?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It's uh huh for me, likeness.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
But I'll tell you I didn't kill this.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Why we going in my whet her hands? Take a
run away?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
See?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Thanks enough for me? What about you?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Boy?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Don't tell me?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Don't tell me.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
You got your room ready?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Let's take him?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Play all this?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
All of you drop those guns, I said, drop those guns.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
That's better.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
All of you stay where you are.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I'm tell you I play. Get him down off that horse?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Right all right, rangers, you stopped your what for?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
He's gonna die anyhow. He never had a chance to
prove his innocence.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Steam He's had many righty, you killed my wife.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I'm not so sure of that.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
You found his coat, Nestl's hands, What more do you want?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
It could be I didn't leave that coat.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Ranger? Let me see your hands, dean?
Speaker 7 (23:50):
What for?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Let me see him? Now? The backs? Why don't you
get those bruises.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
On your knuckles? There from pulling stump yesterday. They didn't
get bruised from beating up Eli.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
You're crazy. Ain't never beat him up.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Maybe wait until Eli came in from work, accused him
of killing your wife, beat him up and let him
get away so you could get your gang of hoodlums
after him. Nice shall lie?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I never seen Eli. I was working in the fields
all afternoon.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Hello, Eli says he was the only one working in
the fields.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yes, Oh he's doing.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Hey, well, whose word are you gonna take?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
We might be able to prove Eli was in the fields. Oh,
he said he killed a rattlesnake.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
We found it where he said it would be if
our lamb says it was killed yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It's pretty good proof.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You're trying to railroad me.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
You know better than that. But you got to prove
where you were yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
What I gotta prove anything?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Poor? Because if you don't, you got a murder charge
against you for killing your wife.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Yeah, he's that point.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
You're gonna stand here and let him take against this wall.
The only side I'm taking is the law of Texas.
Come on, you're going back to town.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
I ain't going nowhere, I said come on, get up,
all right, get up, You're gonna get something you tried
to keep elive from heaven, a fair trial.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Go on, Eli, yes, sir, you walk with me.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
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Speaker 4 (26:48):
And now here are the results in the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
Laboratory investigation of the Rattlesnake uphill Eli Wilders's story. Faced
with this and other evidence, Ralph Dean confessed to killing
his wife after violent quarrel over money. The seven men
who assisted in the attempted lynching were tried before a
jury of citizens of their own.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Copy and given prescribed jail tones.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
Dean, convicted of murder, was sentenced to life imprisonment at Lunsville.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
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Speaker 5 (27:19):
Kole McCrae and another authoric reenactment of a case from
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Speaker 4 (27:49):
Technical advisor was Captain M. T.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Lonewolf Gonzales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
This story was transcribed and adapted by Charles E.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
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And now here's today's adventure of the Tales of the
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(01:11):
as Ranger Chase Pearson, another authentic reenactment of a case
transcribed from the piles of the Texas Rangers. Name, states
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and places in the following story are fictitious for obvious reasons.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
The events themselves are.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
A matter of records.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
In just a moment, we return you to Tales of
the Texas Rangers and today's thriller episode starring Joel McCrae.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called Cold Blood.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It is seven thirty on the night of April twenty second,
nineteen thirty five. In a shack in a poor section
of Lundy and East Texas town, A young widow feeds
her baby. As the room grows dark. He gets up
and crosses to an oil lamp on the table.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Now you hush, honey, don't you be crying. We'll have
us a nice bright lighting just a minute there, dear,
I told you i'd get rid of the shadow.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Who's there is? Eli?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Nellie?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Open up quick, Ela, but you don't have the farm
all the weeknine.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Don't stand talking, Nelly.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Let me in.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Lock it, lock the door.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Ela. You're hurt. You got yourself in trouble.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Ain't you let me sit down? I gotta wrist wrist, Nellie,
put out the.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Light alrighty, lies, what kind of trouble you in him?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
I run all the way from the farm, all the way.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I'm your sister, Eli. I gotta write to know what kind.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Of trouble Nellie. I'm scared, Nelly. I'm scared bed.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Oh honey, don't you said right there? I'm gonna get
some water and wash the blood off your face.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Do all right the lamb.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Don't you worry. There's some light from the street. I
see pretty good in the dark.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Anyhow, rush baby, I'm busy now, and this will hurt
something lying there.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
You're a good sister, Nillie. He always was a good sister.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Still you're gonna tell me about miss Dean.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
She dead, Miss Dean. Mister Dean, say I kill her?
He come down to my shed, say miss Dean dead,
and I kill her? Say my Colt was in the
room where she's dead.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
He beat me.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yelly, No, he's all right. I tripped him. He fell
on the floor and I run away all the way
from the farm.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I run.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Now, you ought to go to this I can't you
know that I go in.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Then I gotta hide first.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
What good's that gonna do. They'll get you, they'll get
your shirt.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Got to hide a few days they don't find me.
Maybe I can get out of the state.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Then they'll never.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Find they'll find you. Who are you figuring on hiding?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
You know that old shack in this small place we
used to play.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
When we was kids.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
It ain't good enough. They'll find you, sure, but you're right.
You gotta hide, and you gotta have food.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
Nellie.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
This compan You ain't asking me yet.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Okay, it's a long for brandness and smoke meat. It
ain't much, but he'll keep it going.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Still, Nellie, you ain't to ask me if I did
kill miss I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Have to ask you.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Lie.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You are my brother, and that's all I need to know.
If you're gonna hide, you better get out of you.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah, you're looking before mall let him come.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
They ain't gonna hear nothing from me. You be careful,
You'll be awful.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Careful I will. Maybe when I get away, I can
write you. Let you know where you.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Don't write me nothing, You hear nothing?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Go ahead now so soon.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Godless sheriff was notified by Ralph Dean, a farmer, that
his wife had been murdered. He hurried to the scene
of the crime and then requested assistance from the Texas Rangers.
(05:29):
Shortly past ten pm, rangers Jase Pearson and Clay Morgan
arrived at the Dean farmhouse. The sheriff met them at
their car. Howdy, Sheriff, Howdy boy?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
How bought it? In the bedroom? I left everything just
like it was. Her husband's still around.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, he was going to take off, but I figured
you'd want to talk to him. He's waiting in the
front room. Now, come on, where'd he want to take
off for?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Noh, you know how he is. Jase Dean says it
was his hired hand killed his wife.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
He's boiling mad. He wants to God looking for the
boy himself. What's the hired hand's name? I Wilbur been
the Dean near five years. We haven't been able to
locate him since murder, Ralph, Ralph, there's Ranker Pearson and
ranger Morgan. I do, mister Dan, sorry to hear about
your wife. Yeah, man, your hair rangers, maybe you can
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talk some sense into the shore. Now you look at here,
Ron'll look here, Sheriff, I told you want to call
you Eli Wilbur kill my wife? What are you waiting for?
Whin's you gotta pussey? Are tracking him down? Because I'm
handling this my own way, Ralph, your way may be
paying around like this. Why he's probably minds away by now.
He's gotta be killed. I'll tell you just the way,
kill my wife.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
If he's guilty, will get him.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You'll get him. I'm telling you one thing, Sheriff. If
that boy ain't taking care of I'm gonna see you
ain't a late to the game. Listen here, Ralph, he
ninety taken frets from you and no nobody else, just
some man at both of here, Sheriff, take play.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Into the bedroom where you can have a look at
the body. I want to ask mister Dean a few questions,
all right, jeez, right through here today? Yeah, what makes
you think Eli killed your wife?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Mister Dean think I know he's coaching here in it
rip can have pieces still in Nettle's hands.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
She she must Yes, she's dead. She's dead, Ranger, I
find you find your wife's body.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Oh about six gonna come in from the fields and
we're now pulling stumps till in.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Wasn't Eli with you? No played sick today, But I
don't mean know nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Did Ali come into the house off? And of course
no when when I called him? Thanks, mister Dean, that'll
be off. Now you're gonna get the sheriff to organize
that pussy.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I won't be necessary, and.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I'm gonna organize one of my own. I've got these
friends here. That boy ain't gonna get away with us.
We're gonna catch you. When you'll let ours handless. We'll
get the person who killed your wife. Alright, Ranger, there's
no log again. He's taking a little trip into the
swamps to hunt gaiters.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Is here. Take my advice, mister Dean, don't in there
with a law. Yeah, she was strangled. Jesse must have
put up quite a fight from the look of the room. Uh.
These bruises on her neck are pretty bad, and who
put them there must have had strong fingers. Yeah, I've
had a good look around. Aside from that coach she's holding,
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there's not much in the way of evidence.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
The coat belongs to boy, all right, and I'd say
it looks mighty bad for him.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
He can't get far away and put out a bulletin
on him.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
If he's gone into those swamps, all the bulletins in
the world ain't gonna do no good.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Has he got any relatives in town?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
A sister Nellie Johnson, my deputy, was there early this evening.
She wouldn't tell him nothing. Don't believe you'll get much
information from her. We'd try, like anyhow, Come on play, yes.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
You, Nellie Johnson, Yes, we like to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Well, come in, sir, you too, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
We're looking for your brother, Nelly. Can you tell us
where he is.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
He didn't do it, mister Ranger. I know I didn't
kill miss Dean.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now do you know missus Dean was killed?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Nellie a gentleman who worked for the sheriff. He come
here early tonight looking for Eli. Say miss Dean was dead.
I told him Eli didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Maybe he didn't, but he shouldn't have run away.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
If he run away, it's only cause he's scared.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Have you seen Eli and I no, sir, I.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Ain't seen him for a full week to stay out
to miss Dean's pa.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Do you have any idea where he might be hiding?
Oh no, Sir, I can't say as a do, Nellie.
If Eli killed missus Dean, we're gonna catch him. He'll
be punished for what he did. But if he's innocent,
we're gonna protect him. You understand that, don't you? Yes, sir,
then you know we have to find him. We can't
help him if we don't.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Mister Ranger, you got to believe what I say. I
don't know where Eli is. I just don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You're sure he wasn't here earlier this evening? Oh yes, sir,
I'm real sure, Nellie. He's two spots over the table leg.
You know what they are?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I no, sir, I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Know their fresh bloodstains, Nelly. You want to tell us
how they got there?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Well, sir?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Oh yes, sir, I remember now when I was fixing supper, I'll.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Come a finger.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Where'd you cut your finger?
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Show us I or mister Range.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
And please, if you didn't cut your finger, somebody else
must have left those blood spots. He was here tonight.
It wasn't Nellie. Eli was here, mister me. Why don't
you tell us what you know? It'll be better all
the way around.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
I don't want him to get hurt, my baby brother.
I know he didn't do nothing. I don't want him
to get hurt.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
He won't get hurt, Nelly. We can promise you that
he was here. Wasn't he?
Speaker 8 (10:44):
Yes, yes, he was here when about seven point thirty,
just have to be run from the phone.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Why to run away?
Speaker 3 (10:52):
He found out Miss.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
Dean was dead and he was scared of missus Dean,
scared the people in town.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Do something to him.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
You know where he is now?
Speaker 8 (11:01):
Yes, a time in the shack and the stop place
we called Old Marcus and shack.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Oh please, mister Ranger. Don't let nothing happen to Eli.
Don't let nothing happen to him.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Don't worry, Nellie. We'll see Eli gets a fair deal
all the way through. By the way, how'd he get hurt? Hurt?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
He must have been bleeding when he came here. How
did it happen?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
You won't tell, mister Dean, I told you.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Just tell us how it happened, Nelly.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Wel, sir, Missus Dean, come after Eli, say kill miss Dean.
He beat Eli. Make Eli's face bleed?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
All right, Nelly, thanks?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You know Jayce, she must have been telling the truth
about how Eli got hurt. But it could be missus
Jean scratching while they were struggling.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I don't think so. There would have been skin on
her fingernails and there wasn't. But if Jean did beat
up Eli, it means.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
He saw him after the murder.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Uh huh he did. It's something he forgot to tell me.
Maybe you I have not to talk with him. We
will after we pick up Eli. Let's find out how
to get the moccasin shack. The sheriff wasn't in his office,
but his deputy told us how to reach the shack.
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Nelly and described. We drove to the edge of town,
unloaded our horses from the trailer, and rode toward the swamp.
We reached it about nine that morning and started in.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Shouldn't be farm out, Jason, there's the three oaks in
the will of the deputy told us about uh uh.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Shack ought to be about one hundred yards in from here.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Not exactly the kind of place i'd like to spend
a vacation.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Well, I never heard anybody advertisement as a resort. But
fool chart, fool player. Listen. He sounds like we're not
the only ones out after l this morning. Yeah, reckoned
Dean didn't take my advice. After all, let's get going.
I could mean a lot of trouble. At least. They
don't seem to know where Eli is. Let's hope we do.
We've got a hunch Nelly was telling the truth. If
(12:54):
Eli hasn't heard those dogs and taken all deeper into
the swamp, we ought to find you, it.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Won't take us long to know, says, that's shack full tarky.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Play. He's gotta make a break yet looks empty. J Yeah,
I thought it was at first too. Huh. This peaks
rock flooring. Alright, Eli, come up out of there.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
You're arranged to Thank God? Oh, thank God.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Well I'll be under the floor.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Please please don't let them please.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Nobody's gonna get you, Eli. You're coming back to town.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
With me there listening. Nothing I got to say. I
see him the whole night.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
They got double crawl up Eli.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yes, please don't let him work Instead, they won't have
killed me. I know they won't have killed me.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
If anybody's gonna get you, you'll have to get us first.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
None of us would knowingly betray our country or endanger
our loved ones and homes. Yet each of us betrays
all these when we are tolerant of or don't fight
back at group prejudice. When we stand for such hate,
we're doing the very thing that communists want us to do.
They'd like to see is divided Christian against jew white
neighbor against colored neighbor, or native born against foreign born.
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If our enemies could divide all the small groups that
make up this country, then we would be weak and
could be easily overcome. Now as probably never before. We
need to be united as an example to our allis
who look to us for hope, and as a warning
to our enemies that we are truly a United States
of America. Work for understanding, except or reject people on
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their individual worth, refuse to listen to or spread room
against a race or religion, Speak up wherever you are
against prejudice, and now back to tales of the Texas Rangers.
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Story, Cold Blood. We got to Eli out of the
shack and ont of my horse. As we started for town,
we could hear the sound of dogs and men getting closer.
When we reached solid ground and came into a clearing,
we saw them ranged across the path we had to take.
There were eight of them on horses, with Dean at
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their head. A group of men was silent as we
stopped at the edge of the clearing, thirty yards away
from them. They look pretty mean, jays.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
They're all armed and we'll be going to get me.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Make it easy, Eli, what do you say, jes We'll
go through. Walk your horse slow and don't say anything
unless they speak to us. Eli, there's a fight. Something
happens to our horse. Stay close to me, you reckon.
They'll be crazy enough to try anything. It'll belong to
we find out you got chucky. Don't know ifact they're
(16:14):
gonna move, Jesson, maybe not.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Good morning Rangers. Morning, mister Dean. If you don't mind,
we'd like to get past. Sure, sure, you got start
this house. Since we all met out here, we have
a nice friendly talk. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned it,
because I want to have a talk with you right now.
I'm a little busy. Yeah, got yourself a prisoner.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I see.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
We didn't do so good, Nerve huh, whole night at
it and we're empty handed, too bad.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
If you and your friends get out of the way,
we'd like to get our man back to town.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
And strike you would what the hell would be if
we helped you? Be ashamed of he got away after
you took so much trouble getting him. We'll manage all right, Ranger,
open up there for the Rangers boys. Thanks, and then
what I said about that talk. We'll be out to
see you this afternoon, sure, anytime. And Ranger, Yeah, just
(17:15):
make sure that boy there gets a kind of trial
he deserved.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I believe he will. Now. It was past noon when
we got Eli back to town and into a cell.
It was still scared, but recovered enough to eat a
good sized meal. At one o'clock we went up to
question him. Sheriff led Clay and me along to the
cell block.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
One thing, you can be sure, Eli is going to
get all the attention we can give him. He's the
only prisoner we've got now. Probably better that way. Don't
know what Deana's gang might try. They Am Clay told
me you had a little trouble on the way.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
But I don't expect him to cry much.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Now, bunch of blow hard all the same. I wouldn't
like to ben Eli they had caught him out in
that swamp. Yeah that's different. But here in the lock up,
me and my deputy on me job.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I'll be down the.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Carter holler when you want me.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Thanks, sir, Hello Eline. You feel better now, yes, sir,
much better. I'm not so scared now good. We just
want to ask you a few questions, yes, sir, he like,
did you kill missus Dean?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
No, sir, your coat was found in her hands, mister Ranger.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I don't know how come my coke got in his
Dean's hands, but I didn't kill her.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Did you tell mister Dean you were sick yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Sick?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
No, sir, I'd never been sick of day in my life.
Mister Dean said that you told him you were.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Wonder how come you said that? He knowed I wasn't sick.
Sent me out in the field with the mule, told
me the pull stumps, and you went out there, Yes, sir,
I was out there all afternoon. Come in told evening
mister Dean with you. No, sir, he stayed into the
house saying this Dean, she don't feel so good. She
didn't sound like she was sick, though.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
I don't mean.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I come up to the house after lunch to find
out what I got to do the rest of the day.
I hear Miss Dean talking pretty loud to mister Dean.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Did you hear what she was saying? No, sir, I
don't listen much no more miss Dean. She always speaks
right sharp to mister Dean. Jay uh huh, Eli, When
did you see mister Dean.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Last when he come to my check after I come
in from the field.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Why did he come to see her?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Because Miss Dean was dead? Mister Dean say I'd done it.
He wouldn't listen to nothing. I didn't kill miss Dean,
I swear I didn't.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Did anybody else see you out in the field yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Well, no, sir, don't reckon. Nobody did Eli? Where you're
working all afternoon?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Yes, sir, I was working the whole. No, Sah, I
forgot I quit one once.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
What for?
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I stopped to kill me a rattler you was? There
was a big rattler curled up in the sun next
to her stump. I didn't see him till the mules squeel.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Then I picked up a rock and let fly killed
him right off.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Did you leave the snake line where you killed him?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Yes, sir, I got no use for no rattler dead
or live.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Eli, This is important. I want you to tell me
exactly where you killed that rattlesnake.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Well, sir, it was someplace in mister Dean's northfield. But
so much happened since you just did it, I don't click.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Just where, reckon, we'll have to stage our own private
snake hunt. Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Some folks says bad luck to kill a rattler, mister
ranger appears like mine already started. Don't worry, Eli, killing
that rattler might bring you more good luck than anything
you ever did.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
We found the dead rattler where Eli said he'd kill it,
in Dean's north field. We took the remains of the
snake with us, figuring our lab could tell us approximately
how long it had been dead, and we decided to
call our hand with Dean's, but he wasn't home. We
headed for town. It was five point twenty when we
pulled up in front of the Sheriff's office. He was
standing outside. I could tell something was wrong even before
he reached the cover.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Kase tell me I was just gonna call your headquarters and.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Have him get you pots on the radio. What's wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Somebody just broke in the jail. It took Eli away,
who was a sheriff.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
That's just it.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Jason don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I'd swear it was Ralph Dean and his but I
don't know how that happened. Well, everything was quiet. There
wasn't even nothing you could feel in town like you
sometimes can. I went home for supper and left my
deputy here. They broke in then, yep, got my deputy
just he was coming down and taking Eli's supper, slugged
him and.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Got the keys.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Didn't didn't get a look.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
At I never shouldn't left, and you couldn't have known.
I think we've got to do now. Somebody off excited
about it? Why, Attorney Matthews.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I've been trying to cause what is a journey Because
my brother said, the boy, what about him?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
They got him scutting nothing but.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Scum rafting the rest of his CRY's crazy, sheriff from Crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Where were they heading?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
It was our cutting wood back in my place home
riding passed, got the boy the czy.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
They're going away from town, past your place.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Probably Graham Woods. Jason, I'm on, sheriff.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Show us where it is. The sheriff overhead, and we followed.
When we got as far as we could by road,
we unloaded the horses and the sheriff pointed out Graham Woods.
Clay and I started out. Five minutes later. We're entering
the woods. It's just getting dark as we picked up
the trail tracks seem to lead right into the woolfs chair. Yeah,
(22:06):
or we're not too late.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
At least we won't have any trouble getting the ones.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Who did it. That's not enough. You gotta say that
boy's life. Oh were the last?
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, we're right in the supposed we can and make
the rest of it on foot. Wouldn't it be faster
if we went all the way on horses.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, the hear us coming, they'll kill you, lie and
take off before we get there, and they're probably too
busy to hear anything.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
It won't take the chance. Slack will be close enough,
polar flanks less so easy playing me.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I didn't kill me, you gotta.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I didn't like the boys day right right?
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Fuck?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
It's uh huh for me, likeness.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
But I'll tell you I didn't kill this.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Why we going in my whet her hands? Take a
run away?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
See?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Thanks enough for me? What about you?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Boy?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Don't tell me?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Don't tell me.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
You got your room ready?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Let's take him?
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Play all this?
Speaker 4 (23:17):
All of you drop those guns, I said, drop those guns.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
That's better.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
All of you stay where you are.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I'm tell you I play. Get him down off that horse?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Right all right, rangers, you stopped your what for?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
He's gonna die anyhow. He never had a chance to
prove his innocence.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Steam He's had many righty, you killed my wife.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I'm not so sure of that.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
You found his coat, Nestl's hands, What more do you want?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
It could be I didn't leave that coat.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Ranger? Let me see your hands, dean?
Speaker 7 (23:50):
What for?
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Let me see him? Now? The backs? Why don't you
get those bruises.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
On your knuckles? There from pulling stump yesterday. They didn't
get bruised from beating up Eli.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
You're crazy. Ain't never beat him up.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Maybe wait until Eli came in from work, accused him
of killing your wife, beat him up and let him
get away so you could get your gang of hoodlums
after him. Nice shall lie?
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I never seen Eli. I was working in the fields
all afternoon.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Hello, Eli says he was the only one working in
the fields.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yes, Oh he's doing.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Hey, well, whose word are you gonna take?
Speaker 2 (24:23):
We might be able to prove Eli was in the fields. Oh,
he said he killed a rattlesnake.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
We found it where he said it would be if
our lamb says it was killed yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
It's pretty good proof.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
You're trying to railroad me.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
You know better than that. But you got to prove
where you were yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
What I gotta prove anything?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Poor? Because if you don't, you got a murder charge
against you for killing your wife.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Yeah, he's that point.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
You're gonna stand here and let him take against this wall.
The only side I'm taking is the law of Texas.
Come on, you're going back to town.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
I ain't going nowhere, I said come on, get up,
all right, get up, You're gonna get something you tried
to keep elive from heaven, a fair trial.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Go on, Eli, yes, sir, you walk with me.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
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Speaker 4 (26:48):
And now here are the results in the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
Laboratory investigation of the Rattlesnake uphill Eli Wilders's story. Faced
with this and other evidence, Ralph Dean confessed to killing
his wife after violent quarrel over money. The seven men
who assisted in the attempted lynching were tried before a
jury of citizens of their own.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Copy and given prescribed jail tones.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
Dean, convicted of murder, was sentenced to life imprisonment at Lunsville.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
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Speaker 5 (27:19):
Kole McCrae and another authoric reenactment of a case from
the files of the TEXTA Bringers. The cast included Tony Barrett,
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Vivian Baber, Bob Davis, Parley, Bear Herbellus, and Bill Johnstone.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Technical advisor was Captain M. T.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Lonewolf Gonzales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
This story was transcribed and adapted by Charles E.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Israel, and The program was produced and directed by Stacy
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