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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae's ranger Jase Pearson.
Another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the files
of the Texas Rangers. Names, dates, and places in the
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following story are fictitious for obvious reasons.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
The events themselves are a.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Matter of records.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
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Adventure with the tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called Little Sister.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
It is a Thursday afternoon in September nineteen forty seven,
four miles east of Winston, Texas.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
A seventeen year old girl gets off a bus.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
She wears a cheap red satin dress, spike heel pat
and leather shoes, and carries an imitation alligator suitcase. She
trudges up a dirt road to a ramshackle house in
the yard. A younger girl is pouring slops from a
bucket into a pig trough.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Oh poor good?
Speaker 8 (02:39):
Hid you know?
Speaker 9 (02:40):
Who are you?
Speaker 7 (02:42):
How come you know my name?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
How do you like that?
Speaker 7 (02:44):
The kid don't even know her own sisters?
Speaker 10 (02:46):
Huh? Really?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Soon?
Speaker 11 (02:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (02:51):
Only the ain't Billy soon?
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Now that's a hick name. You just call me Billy.
You changed your hair used to be brown.
Speaker 9 (02:57):
I fixed it up a little.
Speaker 10 (02:58):
You like it?
Speaker 11 (02:59):
Baby?
Speaker 10 (03:00):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Real thirty. I ain't the only one's changed, and I
left here three years ago. He was a scrowny little kid.
You sure filled out. I'm fifteen now and you could
pass for eighteen. Yeah, but they didn't think he was
my team.
Speaker 9 (03:16):
First, Paul, I drunk somewhere.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
I reckon, he ain't been home in there a week.
Speaker 9 (03:20):
Yeah, he's the one.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Ain't changed nothing.
Speaker 9 (03:23):
But you get them pigs.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Paul steal 'em. She stole us out. She had a
litter philly soup billy billy. That dress you got on nice,
ain't it sure looks pretty? You reckon? I could touch it.
Speaker 12 (03:36):
It's just one sure, baby, you touch it all you want.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Oh, Fields is smooth.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
I bought it in no Oklahoma City.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
You been all the way up there. I've been lots
of places since I left here.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
I got myself married.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Too, married. Where's your husband him? I walked out on him.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
He was a no good bum, just like Paul.
Speaker 13 (03:55):
Oh as, Sure he's a pretty dress you got Yeah, yuh, don't.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Give me the creeps.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
It's just like I did three years ago.
Speaker 11 (04:05):
Even smells the same.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Where'd you come back for to fetch you me? What
part you're gonna help me.
Speaker 12 (04:12):
We're gonna make a lot of money, you and me.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
How I tell you all about it later.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
First we going in town.
Speaker 10 (04:18):
And get you a new dress.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
You gonna buy me a dress like the one you got.
That'll be just the beginning.
Speaker 12 (04:25):
Baby, You're gonna have ten dresses as soon as we
knock over a few movie houses. Movie houses? What you
talking about? You'll see what I mean. Come on, baby,
we got a lot of things to do for tonight.
Speaker 13 (04:44):
How you feeling, you know, thinking the stomach? Reckon, I'm
scared so sure.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
I was scared too first time I pulled a job.
You'll get over it. Don't go so fast, I can't
walk good?
Speaker 9 (04:54):
This how you who'll get used to 'em?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Baby?
Speaker 9 (04:56):
And that dress shoe makes you look great?
Speaker 7 (04:58):
You pass the nineteen? You remember everything I told you?
Reckon so Philly soon he told you?
Speaker 9 (05:05):
Look at calling me Billy too?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Uh Philly. Suppose somebody sees me that knows me?
Speaker 9 (05:10):
Get it?
Speaker 12 (05:11):
You're forty miles away from Wednesday, anyhow, nobody'd know you're
not dressed. Okay, that's the movie house. You going up
to the ticket window.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
You gonna be right behind me now where you say yeah,
don't you look back at me or nothing.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
Don't even let it on, you know me. I won't
fuck it.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Going, Philly, suppose to catch you ain't gonna get close
to us.
Speaker 9 (05:32):
I've done this so many times I could work at
my sleep.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
But suppose when I ask her for change, she's gone
how many times? I gotta tell you she ain't gonna
have change. Manager comes out every half hour or so
and get some money and puts it in a safe
and I stop moving.
Speaker 13 (05:45):
Okay, Billy, one ticket, that's a fast place.
Speaker 10 (05:52):
Oh don't you have nothing smaller than That's all I got.
I ain't got changed for twenty dollars, bear, I'd call
a manager. That's bob, I need change.
Speaker 14 (06:00):
With one dollar bill?
Speaker 11 (06:02):
Yes, you bring it right down. You wanna step aside
and up? The lady behind you?
Speaker 10 (06:06):
Get hushed?
Speaker 13 (06:08):
One?
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Please?
Speaker 11 (06:10):
Thanks?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Here, y'are?
Speaker 11 (06:16):
Thanks?
Speaker 10 (06:18):
How can you wanna talk about?
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Some I do for you? Man?
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Yeah, leave that safe open and put your hands up
for this is a stick up buster mark.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
You can't get up with it.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Now, give me the money out of that safe and
don't try nothing funny.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
I'll blow your head off.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And I look moving alright.
Speaker 12 (06:41):
Oh yeah, you get over in that corner and turn
your back.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh what are you gonna do?
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Just get over there and turn around. That's right, this
is what I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 14 (06:56):
This and one more.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
They could keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 10 (07:02):
For a while.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
Send in your room in the love, Come on, baby,
let's hope he.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Ain't you gonna way not jam mind.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
The robbery was discovered a few minutes after the departure
of the two girls. The deputy sheriff of that area
was summoned and assistance was requested from the Texas Rangers.
Forty minutes after the crime was reported, Rangers Jason Pearson
and Clay Morgan reached the theater.
Speaker 14 (07:37):
Report did the cash he could tell us about it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It's probably her talking about people just inside. That's thrue
here evening, ma'am. You's the cashier here.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
Well, yes, I am, ranging and I'm telling you everything
that happened. It was terrible. It was just terrible. Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He's the deputy around man, wasn't no.
Speaker 10 (07:54):
He and he took pull mister Bob down at the hospital.
But I can tell you all about it, just the
way it happened.
Speaker 11 (07:58):
I was the only one seen him bothing.
Speaker 10 (07:59):
I just tell these people here. I was in a
ticket booth, and if you.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Don't mind, maybe we'd better go someplace a little more private.
Speaker 11 (08:05):
Oh well, we could go up to mister Bob's office.
No reckon, he'd mine.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That'll be fine. I'd like to see the office anyhow.
Speaker 10 (08:11):
It was just an awful ranger, the nerve of them
two little hussies.
Speaker 14 (08:15):
How'd you know it was two of 'em?
Speaker 9 (08:16):
Well, I seen him.
Speaker 10 (08:16):
The one went in, and when she come out, the
two of 'em went off together, for I might have
been killed.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yes, ma'am, everything in this office been left just as
it was.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
Well that there was a few people in here before
the deputy come. We had to get poor mister Bob
out here, you know, uh huh.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Take a look around place, see if you can find anything. Okay,
you get a good look at both these girls, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
I sure did, ranger, i'd know 'em any play.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Suppose you tell me what they looked like.
Speaker 9 (08:42):
Well, all, a little one.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
She was the one come up to the window first
and give them the twenty dollar bill.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
She had a loud green dress, and she's.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
All painted up like a well and you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, how old would you say?
Speaker 7 (08:52):
She was, well, not very old, sixteen seventeen at the most.
Speaker 10 (08:56):
I remember wondering how she come to have a twenty
dollar bill.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Mmm.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
The other one was older?
Speaker 9 (09:00):
I reckon she was.
Speaker 11 (09:00):
She was real hard looking, and she had blonde hair.
Of course it wasn't natural blond. I could tell that
right away.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Anything else you could remember about them, well, no.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
Except they looked a little bit alike, not counting.
Speaker 11 (09:10):
The older ones. Died high, of course, not much around ja.
Speaker 14 (09:13):
Some bloodstains over the corner. Manager must have taken quite
a rap on the head.
Speaker 11 (09:16):
Oh he did, poor mister Bob. And he come to
He looked so awful, like a walk in ghost. Of
course it wasn't walking, but that's the way he looked.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Uh. Do you remember which direction the girls took when
they left the theater?
Speaker 11 (09:26):
Indeed I do. They went down to a Grossman's drug store.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Thanks. You have a key to this office, ma'am?
Speaker 10 (09:31):
Why?
Speaker 11 (09:31):
Yes, downstairs? My first, you.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Mind getting it. We'd like to lock the room up
till we get a lab crew here.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Alright, Ranger, you uh, Charlotte, ain't nothing else you wanna
ask me?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Not right now, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
Oh, well, I'll be right back in just a minute.
Speaker 14 (09:44):
Uh, she'll sure have something to talk about for a while.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, what do.
Speaker 14 (09:47):
You wanna do after we close off the room, Jays
check the area around the theater.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Uh huh. Somebody might've seen the girls when they left here.
Maybe they haven't had a chance to get too far
away yet. We didn't have to check far. News the
robbery had gotten around. A witness who had been standing
outside the drug store's positive he'd seen the girls drive
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away in a blue four door sedan. The record showed
that a car that description had been reported stolen from
a service station in Winston at five that afternoon. We
were fairly sure this was the getaway car and alerted
all units. Following morning, we took statements from witnesses, including
the injured theater manager. Two pm, we received word that
the car had been found parked on a side street
in Farrell, Texas, sixty miles away. We went there and
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began looking over the car. Clay, come here and take
a look. What find Jason? Lubrication sticker on the door frame.
Car was greased yesterday and Winston phenomena read thirty two fifty.
Then they only put one hundred and two miles on
the car after they stole it.
Speaker 14 (10:52):
It's just one hundred miles back to Winston. Didn't make
any side trips.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I reckon not see what you can find here in front, Clay,
I'll go over the backseat.
Speaker 14 (10:58):
Right, blond hair stuck in this poestry hair cigarette but
on the floor, have lipstick on it to start a
cosmetic factory.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
No doubt about it. Now, this was their getaway car, right.
Speaker 14 (11:13):
Young punks. That cashier at the theater was right. They
did have a lot of nerve, probably more nerve than brains.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh no, it's pretty slick timing to catch the manager
while they had the safe open. Well, there's not much
back here. You nearly finished, Yeah, just about as soon
as I checked his Hey, jessh, here's some string and
see it? M way, it's not It looks like it
was around the box.
Speaker 11 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (11:35):
Could have been something these kids were carrying when they
got into the car.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, well, let's get over at the hotel and start
asking questions.
Speaker 14 (11:43):
You figure they might have stayed here in town last night.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I don't know, but that's something we're gonna find out.
We went to the hotel. Nobody answering the girl's description
and registered there. We drove back toward Winston, checking motels
along the way, five miles from the place where the
car was abandon We got our break. The owner of
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the Half Moon Motel, a man named Jensen, told us
the girls had been there the night before.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
You stepped his way, Ranges, I got your card in
the office. I wrote the license number down myself.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Time the girls check in last night?
Speaker 9 (12:20):
Yes, long about midnight.
Speaker 11 (12:22):
He woke me up.
Speaker 13 (12:24):
They did.
Speaker 9 (12:24):
Course, in this business, you get woke up in.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
There every night.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
Uh huh. Let me see. You get the cards right
here in this box here.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
You know, I don't like to be nosy, but these
gals done something wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
They might be the ones who held up a movie
theater last night.
Speaker 11 (12:39):
He's it.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
Well, you know, I kind of thought that Bond girl
was no good?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
What made you think that?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
You're the kind of talk she was using? And I
could smell liquor on her ten foot away cheap stuff.
Speaker 11 (12:50):
It was two.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Uh you find their card yet, mister Jensen?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Ooh, yes, whom here it is Helen and Agnes Wilson.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Probably using phony names.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Jason.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, but the license number on this card's the same
as the one on the stolen car. You show us
the room where the girls slept last night, mister Jensen.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
Yeah, he'd be glad to Rangey you just come along.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
They had cabin three to try across the way. You
know that blonde she talked like she's been around, but
the little one was shoot, I wouldn't think.
Speaker 9 (13:27):
She'd been nowhere.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
The way she was gawking and fidging around in that
flashy green dress she was wearing. And when I took
him to the cabin, she ran right to the mirror
and started looking at herself, just like she hadn't had
the dress long.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Hm a wea, uh uh?
Speaker 11 (13:46):
What's the matter?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Angy? You cleaned the room up.
Speaker 14 (13:49):
Oh, gotta keep him clean.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
The fella had the business for me, wasn't so particular.
Had to have the exterminators out here three times.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Why'd you put the trash she took out of this room,
mister Jensen?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Well, there's one box it's out here. See there, it's
down the corner of the next cabin. The other one's
backed by the incinerator. My wife was fixing to burn it.
I'll see if I can stop it.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Thanks, Come on, Clay. We'll go through this box.
Speaker 14 (14:12):
In the meantime, put a minute, raises, I'll empty a
Jason Boy the things people throw away shoots blushes combs. Hey,
look at this cardboard box with an old shirt and
pair of jeans inside.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And wait a minute, let me see that. Remember the
wrapping string you found in the car was noted just
about right to fit around this box.
Speaker 14 (14:34):
Yeah, and these old clothes about the size of kidmke wear.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Something else under this tissue paper irice tag size twelve
six ninety five might have been.
Speaker 14 (14:44):
Addressed and closed the box a second chase. There's a
name printed on the outside.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Morrison's Department, Stirre, Winston.
Speaker 14 (14:51):
Well, the car was stolen in Winston. If this box
did belong to the girls, seems like they spent a
little bit of time there.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, I recommend that to get over there ourselves in
sorry ranges.
Speaker 9 (14:59):
My wife's already burned it at a box case.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That's all right, mister Jensen. I think we found what
we want. In fact, it might be just what we want.
In a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
We will continue with Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as ranger Chase Pearson.
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Speaker 1 (16:36):
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story, little sister.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It was late in the evening when we arrived in Winston.
We checked into the hotel, and at nine the next
morning we headed for Morrison's department store. Inquiries proved that
the price tag we found in the motel trash box
had come from a dress purchased in the store. The
manager directed us to a Miss Daisy Riddell, who ran
the dress department. We waited while she finished with a customer.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Here's your change, missus Darby. I'm sure you like your dress. Goodbye.
Speaker 10 (17:16):
I'm sorry I kept you waiting, Rangers, but it's Saturday,
you know, we're.
Speaker 11 (17:19):
All so busy on Saturday.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
All right, miss Radell, just call me miss Daisy.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Everybody in town does.
Speaker 11 (17:25):
Or what can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
The manager said, this price tag came from your department.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
Well, let me see M. Sixth ninety five.
Speaker 10 (17:34):
Yes, that's ours, one of our less expensive numbers.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
We think a young girl were looking for bought it here.
We thought you might be able to help us.
Speaker 11 (17:41):
Oh, do you have any idea when you bought it?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
We're pretty sure it was Thursday.
Speaker 10 (17:45):
Man, Thursday, Well, let me see, that was day before yesterday?
Speaker 11 (17:50):
Even what color the drins.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Was it was probably green green?
Speaker 11 (17:54):
Would you step over here with me? Raindol.
Speaker 12 (17:57):
We don't sell many of these six ninety five model fact,
we've had a dreadful time selling them. Between you and me,
I don't know whatever possessed mister Morrison to buy them.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Was it a dress like this one?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Uh? We've never seen the dress, but I think it'd
be a brighter green.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
You know, well, I see now what about this one?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 14 (18:19):
Yeah, that looks more like our girl speed, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Uh huh, it's in pretty well with the descriptions we've heard.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Well, and I think I could help you, Ringel Well.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I certainly appreciated miss Daisy.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
She came in Thursday afternoon, around three thurday.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
I think it was with our sister. You remember their names, man, well,
yes I do. It's Simpson.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
The younger one's Bunah, and the older ones uh oh,
now let me see it's uh Billy Sue.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I think did the sister have blonde hair?
Speaker 11 (18:46):
Bleached blonde?
Speaker 10 (18:47):
She was so particular about the dress she picked out
for the younger girl, and you should have seen the
thing she was wearing.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
You know these girls pretty well?
Speaker 14 (18:55):
Well.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
I knew their mother when she was alive, she'd come
into the stall once in a while.
Speaker 14 (18:59):
Her father still well, I wouldn't know.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
I would be surprised if he'd killed himself with drink.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You have any idea where their house is?
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Well, family used to live here in town, but it
seems to me I've heard they live out on one
of the hills near town. Now I don't know just where, though.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Would you know anybody who might be able to give
us a lead on where the girls have gone gone?
Speaker 11 (19:21):
My rangers? Pause, I know they're still around.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
What makes you think that the little one view Na,
she was in here yesterday just before closing time. She
bought Yes, ma'am, well she bought an undergarment, so they
must still be around.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Uh huh, Well, thanks very much, Mistasia.
Speaker 10 (19:41):
I hope I've been able to help you some rangers,
I think you have, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Let's go play. We checked with the sheriff's office and
learned that the Simpsons lived on a hill overlooking the
main highway, four miles east of Winston. We drove there
and went up to the door.
Speaker 14 (20:03):
Must be somebody inside, Jay, Smoke's coming out the chimney.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, stand Claire, When I opened the door of that
blonde might get ideas about using their guns.
Speaker 14 (20:15):
Yeah, that's empty.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Uh huh.
Speaker 14 (20:17):
Somebody's been eating though. Looks like they left in the
middle of the meal.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And one plate could have been the father maybe then
I wonder where he could have hit.
Speaker 14 (20:26):
Jay's out that window.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
M I don't see anything. She just stuck behind that shed.
Speaker 14 (20:31):
I think it was the little one.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Come on, let's go out the back.
Speaker 14 (20:37):
Don't see it going up the hill. She must still
be back of that shed.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You'll not come on out here, alright, play he's turned
around that way. I'll take this side, okay, bay.
Speaker 14 (20:53):
Stap me.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
She gets your bad in the arm going back to
the car. I'll take care you stay away from me.
Speaker 14 (21:01):
Sure you don't want me to stick around.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
You know you better get something on that armm man.
Speaker 14 (21:04):
All right, be careful, Jay, she's a mean one.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, give me that PITCHFORKA don't.
Speaker 14 (21:12):
Give it an.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Oh, you made me tam with dread.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
You shouldn't be so handy with pitchforks. Get rid of
that right now.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Dress? You make me terrible, pretty dress?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Where's your sister Buna? Where's Billy Sue?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Here?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You're going into town?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Wait come on, I going, I going nowhere?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yes you are. If I have to carry, put me down,
Put me down in a minute. As soon as I
help you over to the car. We drove Buna back
to town and sent a man to cover the Simpson
the house in case Billy Sue showed up. As soon
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as Clay had his arm checked by a doctor, we
took Buna to a quiet office in the county courthouse
and began questioning her. We convinced her we knew she
and her sister had held up the movie theater. When
she realized that her sister was free and she alone
would be punished, her resentment toward Billy Sue began growing.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Dirty Billy Sue, she got me into this.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Where is she, Buna?
Speaker 10 (22:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Dirty Billy Sue went.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
Out and left me once she went out.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
On you morning after we stole the money from the
movie house. Told me I was gonna have ten dresses
just like this. One didn't run out on me?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Why did she do that?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
And I kind of had dirty Tim And then for him,
we'd still be.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
Together, not having a new dresses.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Who's Tim?
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Some friend of Billy Sue's husband. We see him and fall.
Speaker 13 (22:44):
Right after we.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Got rid of the car we had.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
She planned to meet him there.
Speaker 13 (22:48):
No, she just run into him, went off a nut
about him. They got half drunk, and Billy Sue told
Tim she wanted him.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
To work with us.
Speaker 13 (22:55):
He said he wasn't gonna work with no kid like me,
And and he drove me back to Wednesday, And then
Billy Sue made me.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Get out, I mean around Winston.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Now I don't know Reckon.
Speaker 13 (23:04):
He took off someplace. They're still half drunk. What you
gonna do with me? You gonna put me in jail?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
No, you're gonna be sent someplace you should have been
a long time ago, to school.
Speaker 13 (23:14):
School. I don't wanna go to no school, only dirty
Billy Sue.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
She got me in it.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Did she better not come around me again.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Before you ran into Tim? Did Billy Sue have any
ideas about the next movie? How she were gonna hit?
Speaker 13 (23:26):
Yeah, he's gonna get a big one Sunday night, a
real big one.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Billy Sue figured we'd get close to three hundred dollars.
Speaker 14 (23:33):
Where was this Overdogden?
Speaker 7 (23:35):
It's gonna be easy.
Speaker 14 (23:37):
There's a lot of movie houses in Ogden. Which one
was she talking?
Speaker 7 (23:40):
About She said, it was the biggest one in town.
Speaker 13 (23:42):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
I know.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
You gonna catch Billy Sue.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I hope so, Buna, I hope.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
You do too.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
I hope you catch her in that dirty tim bolts
of them. Good.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
All right, bunaw rang Jamal gonna take you over to
the Sheriff's office. You'll be staying there till they come
from the school to pick you up.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Heye, won't let me wear my dress at that school.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
They'll give you another dress.
Speaker 13 (24:04):
Yeah, I know, some kind of uniform. This u's only
real dress I have had shows pretty for it.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Got all tore off, put out in all points, bulleting
on Billy Sue and her male companion. Then we drove
to Ogden and checked the movie theaters. The largest was
the Real The next day, Sunday. As soon as the
theater opened at one pm, we began to set our trap.
We stationed a deputy share outside the theater, and we
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instructed the cashier on what to do, and asked the
manager to stay away from the entrance and out of sight.
Clay and I sat alone in the manager's office and waited.
Nothing happened all afternoon. A few minutes before the last
show started that evening, we were still waiting. She's ten
fifteen jsh cash. You had due to close the ticket
booths in twenty minutes. It's still time for Billy Sue
and her boyfriend to turn up. You sure you've got
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that safe fixed so you can open it easy? Yeah?
Speaker 14 (25:00):
You know, Jase, I've been thinking maybe we shouldn't have
let the cash here, you know, on this deal, she
might tip 'em off by acting kind of nervous.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Deputy of grabbinge before they get away. And I hope
they go through with a job though, and then get
a good clear case against this girl. We're still not
sure she's gonna show no, but I could be it.
I'll get it.
Speaker 14 (25:19):
Yeah, Uh huh, Hold on second, there's man to take
it window. Jase gave the cash here under dollar bill.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Tell her say the manager be down with a change.
Speaker 14 (25:28):
Tell him the manager come right down. It looks like
we might see Billy Sue any second now.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Uh huh? You ready with the safe?
Speaker 14 (25:35):
Yeah, you better grab it quick when she comes in.
I'm gonna feel like a shooting gallery with my back
face and that gun at hers.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I'll give you the word when to open the safe.
Be sure you make plenty of noise doing it. Read
she's coming open the safe.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
We can hands up, give me that gun, give me good,
Give it to me.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Losyr Tilly Sue. Now let's go down stairs. I want
to meet your boyfriend.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
My name me Philly, Sue is Billy.
Speaker 14 (26:03):
Well, whatever it is, let's get going.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
How do you know I was going to hit this place?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
We had an idea, you would I know?
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Was that no good sister of my buna? She come
and told you?
Speaker 11 (26:14):
Didn't she?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Never mind? Who told us?
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Shutting the fool with her?
Speaker 9 (26:16):
Kid like that.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
Almost have been increased.
Speaker 14 (26:18):
You were crazy, all right? The day you shot a
Robin Movie houses.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Yeah we got yes.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Yeah, I think maybe you better put on these prices.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
No good, little bun she done this.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
I should have known be taken a chance with her.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, next time you have a chance. Let's hope you
really know better.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
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Speaker 5 (27:09):
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Speaker 4 (27:10):
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Speaker 5 (27:34):
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Speaker 4 (27:35):
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to the conclusion of today's Texas Rangers have been.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard. Hewn and Billy Sue Simpson was sent
to the State School for Girls. On Billy Sue's eighteenth birthday,
she was transferred to Gory Women's Prison to begin a
seven year term for armed robbery and assault. Tim Walsh,
the man who assisted in the attempted hold up of
the rial theater, received.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
A prescribed jail term.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
The father of the two girls was located and received
a sentence for child abandonment and negligence. Next week, Joe
McCrae and another authentic reenactment of the case from the
files of Buck Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Joel McCay will soon be seen in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Story, a Warner Brothers release.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Virginia Gregg played the part of Billy Sue Simpson and
Buna Simpson was Marion Richmond. Clay Morgan was played by Herbellus.
Others in the cast were Betty lou Gerson, Tony Barrett,
and Howard McNair.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Technical advisor was Captain M. T.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Longwolf Gonzales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
This story was transcribed and adapted by Charles E.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Israel and the program was produced and directed by Stacy
Keach Hal Gidney
Speaker 5 (29:43):
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Another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the files
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
The events themselves are a.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
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Speaker 4 (00:53):
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Speaker 5 (01:49):
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Speaker 4 (01:50):
Adventure with the tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called Little Sister.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
It is a Thursday afternoon in September nineteen forty seven,
four miles east of Winston, Texas.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
A seventeen year old girl gets off a bus.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
She wears a cheap red satin dress, spike heel pat
and leather shoes, and carries an imitation alligator suitcase. She
trudges up a dirt road to a ramshackle house in
the yard. A younger girl is pouring slops from a
bucket into a pig trough.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Oh poor good?
Speaker 8 (02:39):
Hid you know?
Speaker 9 (02:40):
Who are you?
Speaker 7 (02:42):
How come you know my name?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
How do you like that?
Speaker 7 (02:44):
The kid don't even know her own sisters?
Speaker 10 (02:46):
Huh? Really?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Soon?
Speaker 11 (02:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (02:51):
Only the ain't Billy soon?
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Now that's a hick name. You just call me Billy.
You changed your hair used to be brown.
Speaker 9 (02:57):
I fixed it up a little.
Speaker 10 (02:58):
You like it?
Speaker 11 (02:59):
Baby?
Speaker 10 (03:00):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Real thirty. I ain't the only one's changed, and I
left here three years ago. He was a scrowny little kid.
You sure filled out. I'm fifteen now and you could
pass for eighteen. Yeah, but they didn't think he was
my team.
Speaker 9 (03:16):
First, Paul, I drunk somewhere.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
I reckon, he ain't been home in there a week.
Speaker 9 (03:20):
Yeah, he's the one.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Ain't changed nothing.
Speaker 9 (03:23):
But you get them pigs.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Paul steal 'em. She stole us out. She had a
litter philly soup billy billy. That dress you got on nice,
ain't it sure looks pretty? You reckon? I could touch it.
Speaker 12 (03:36):
It's just one sure, baby, you touch it all you want.
Speaker 7 (03:40):
Oh, Fields is smooth.
Speaker 9 (03:41):
I bought it in no Oklahoma City.
Speaker 7 (03:43):
You been all the way up there. I've been lots
of places since I left here.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
I got myself married.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Too, married. Where's your husband him? I walked out on him.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
He was a no good bum, just like Paul.
Speaker 13 (03:55):
Oh as, Sure he's a pretty dress you got Yeah, yuh, don't.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Give me the creeps.
Speaker 9 (04:03):
It's just like I did three years ago.
Speaker 11 (04:05):
Even smells the same.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Where'd you come back for to fetch you me? What
part you're gonna help me.
Speaker 12 (04:12):
We're gonna make a lot of money, you and me.
Speaker 9 (04:14):
How I tell you all about it later.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
First we going in town.
Speaker 10 (04:18):
And get you a new dress.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
You gonna buy me a dress like the one you got.
That'll be just the beginning.
Speaker 12 (04:25):
Baby, You're gonna have ten dresses as soon as we
knock over a few movie houses. Movie houses? What you
talking about? You'll see what I mean. Come on, baby,
we got a lot of things to do for tonight.
Speaker 13 (04:44):
How you feeling, you know, thinking the stomach? Reckon, I'm
scared so sure.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
I was scared too first time I pulled a job.
You'll get over it. Don't go so fast, I can't
walk good?
Speaker 9 (04:54):
This how you who'll get used to 'em?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Baby?
Speaker 9 (04:56):
And that dress shoe makes you look great?
Speaker 7 (04:58):
You pass the nineteen? You remember everything I told you?
Reckon so Philly soon he told you?
Speaker 9 (05:05):
Look at calling me Billy too?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Uh Philly. Suppose somebody sees me that knows me?
Speaker 9 (05:10):
Get it?
Speaker 12 (05:11):
You're forty miles away from Wednesday, anyhow, nobody'd know you're
not dressed. Okay, that's the movie house. You going up
to the ticket window.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
You gonna be right behind me now where you say yeah,
don't you look back at me or nothing.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
Don't even let it on, you know me. I won't
fuck it.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Going, Philly, suppose to catch you ain't gonna get close
to us.
Speaker 9 (05:32):
I've done this so many times I could work at
my sleep.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
But suppose when I ask her for change, she's gone
how many times? I gotta tell you she ain't gonna
have change. Manager comes out every half hour or so
and get some money and puts it in a safe
and I stop moving.
Speaker 13 (05:45):
Okay, Billy, one ticket, that's a fast place.
Speaker 10 (05:52):
Oh don't you have nothing smaller than That's all I got.
I ain't got changed for twenty dollars, bear, I'd call
a manager. That's bob, I need change.
Speaker 14 (06:00):
With one dollar bill?
Speaker 11 (06:02):
Yes, you bring it right down. You wanna step aside
and up? The lady behind you?
Speaker 10 (06:06):
Get hushed?
Speaker 13 (06:08):
One?
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Please?
Speaker 11 (06:10):
Thanks?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Here, y'are?
Speaker 11 (06:16):
Thanks?
Speaker 10 (06:18):
How can you wanna talk about?
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Some I do for you? Man?
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Yeah, leave that safe open and put your hands up
for this is a stick up buster mark.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
You can't get up with it.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
Now, give me the money out of that safe and
don't try nothing funny.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
I'll blow your head off.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And I look moving alright.
Speaker 12 (06:41):
Oh yeah, you get over in that corner and turn
your back.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Oh what are you gonna do?
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Just get over there and turn around. That's right, this
is what I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 14 (06:56):
This and one more.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
They could keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 10 (07:02):
For a while.
Speaker 9 (07:10):
Send in your room in the love, Come on, baby,
let's hope he.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
Ain't you gonna way not jam mind.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
The robbery was discovered a few minutes after the departure
of the two girls. The deputy sheriff of that area
was summoned and assistance was requested from the Texas Rangers.
Forty minutes after the crime was reported, Rangers Jason Pearson
and Clay Morgan reached the theater.
Speaker 14 (07:37):
Report did the cash he could tell us about it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
It's probably her talking about people just inside. That's thrue
here evening, ma'am. You's the cashier here.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
Well, yes, I am, ranging and I'm telling you everything
that happened. It was terrible. It was just terrible. Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He's the deputy around man, wasn't no.
Speaker 10 (07:54):
He and he took pull mister Bob down at the hospital.
But I can tell you all about it, just the
way it happened.
Speaker 11 (07:58):
I was the only one seen him bothing.
Speaker 10 (07:59):
I just tell these people here. I was in a
ticket booth, and if you.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Don't mind, maybe we'd better go someplace a little more private.
Speaker 11 (08:05):
Oh well, we could go up to mister Bob's office.
No reckon, he'd mine.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That'll be fine. I'd like to see the office anyhow.
Speaker 10 (08:11):
It was just an awful ranger, the nerve of them
two little hussies.
Speaker 14 (08:15):
How'd you know it was two of 'em?
Speaker 9 (08:16):
Well, I seen him.
Speaker 10 (08:16):
The one went in, and when she come out, the
two of 'em went off together, for I might have
been killed.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yes, ma'am, everything in this office been left just as
it was.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
Well that there was a few people in here before
the deputy come. We had to get poor mister Bob
out here, you know, uh huh.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Take a look around place, see if you can find anything. Okay,
you get a good look at both these girls, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
I sure did, ranger, i'd know 'em any play.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Suppose you tell me what they looked like.
Speaker 9 (08:42):
Well, all, a little one.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
She was the one come up to the window first
and give them the twenty dollar bill.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
She had a loud green dress, and she's.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
All painted up like a well and you know what
I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, how old would you say?
Speaker 7 (08:52):
She was, well, not very old, sixteen seventeen at the most.
Speaker 10 (08:56):
I remember wondering how she come to have a twenty
dollar bill.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Mmm.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
The other one was older?
Speaker 9 (09:00):
I reckon she was.
Speaker 11 (09:00):
She was real hard looking, and she had blonde hair.
Of course it wasn't natural blond. I could tell that
right away.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Anything else you could remember about them, well, no.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
Except they looked a little bit alike, not counting.
Speaker 11 (09:10):
The older ones. Died high, of course, not much around ja.
Speaker 14 (09:13):
Some bloodstains over the corner. Manager must have taken quite
a rap on the head.
Speaker 11 (09:16):
Oh he did, poor mister Bob. And he come to
He looked so awful, like a walk in ghost. Of
course it wasn't walking, but that's the way he looked.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Uh. Do you remember which direction the girls took when
they left the theater?
Speaker 11 (09:26):
Indeed I do. They went down to a Grossman's drug store.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Thanks. You have a key to this office, ma'am?
Speaker 10 (09:31):
Why?
Speaker 11 (09:31):
Yes, downstairs? My first, you.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Mind getting it. We'd like to lock the room up
till we get a lab crew here.
Speaker 10 (09:36):
Alright, Ranger, you uh, Charlotte, ain't nothing else you wanna
ask me?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Not right now, ma'am.
Speaker 10 (09:41):
Oh, well, I'll be right back in just a minute.
Speaker 14 (09:44):
Uh, she'll sure have something to talk about for a while.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, what do.
Speaker 14 (09:47):
You wanna do after we close off the room, Jays
check the area around the theater.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Uh huh. Somebody might've seen the girls when they left here.
Maybe they haven't had a chance to get too far
away yet. We didn't have to check far. News the
robbery had gotten around. A witness who had been standing
outside the drug store's positive he'd seen the girls drive
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away in a blue four door sedan. The record showed
that a car that description had been reported stolen from
a service station in Winston at five that afternoon. We
were fairly sure this was the getaway car and alerted
all units. Following morning, we took statements from witnesses, including
the injured theater manager. Two pm, we received word that
the car had been found parked on a side street
in Farrell, Texas, sixty miles away. We went there and
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began looking over the car. Clay, come here and take
a look. What find Jason? Lubrication sticker on the door frame.
Car was greased yesterday and Winston phenomena read thirty two fifty.
Then they only put one hundred and two miles on
the car after they stole it.
Speaker 14 (10:52):
It's just one hundred miles back to Winston. Didn't make
any side trips.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I reckon not see what you can find here in front, Clay,
I'll go over the backseat.
Speaker 14 (10:58):
Right, blond hair stuck in this poestry hair cigarette but
on the floor, have lipstick on it to start a
cosmetic factory.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
No doubt about it. Now, this was their getaway car, right.
Speaker 14 (11:13):
Young punks. That cashier at the theater was right. They
did have a lot of nerve, probably more nerve than brains.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh no, it's pretty slick timing to catch the manager
while they had the safe open. Well, there's not much
back here. You nearly finished, Yeah, just about as soon
as I checked his Hey, jessh, here's some string and
see it? M way, it's not It looks like it
was around the box.
Speaker 11 (11:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 14 (11:35):
Could have been something these kids were carrying when they
got into the car.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, well, let's get over at the hotel and start
asking questions.
Speaker 14 (11:43):
You figure they might have stayed here in town last night.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I don't know, but that's something we're gonna find out.
We went to the hotel. Nobody answering the girl's description
and registered there. We drove back toward Winston, checking motels
along the way, five miles from the place where the
car was abandon We got our break. The owner of
(12:07):
the Half Moon Motel, a man named Jensen, told us
the girls had been there the night before.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
You stepped his way, Ranges, I got your card in
the office. I wrote the license number down myself.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Time the girls check in last night?
Speaker 9 (12:20):
Yes, long about midnight.
Speaker 11 (12:22):
He woke me up.
Speaker 13 (12:24):
They did.
Speaker 9 (12:24):
Course, in this business, you get woke up in.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
There every night.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
Uh huh. Let me see. You get the cards right
here in this box here.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
You know, I don't like to be nosy, but these
gals done something wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
They might be the ones who held up a movie
theater last night.
Speaker 11 (12:39):
He's it.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
Well, you know, I kind of thought that Bond girl
was no good?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
What made you think that?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
You're the kind of talk she was using? And I
could smell liquor on her ten foot away cheap stuff.
Speaker 11 (12:50):
It was two.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Uh you find their card yet, mister Jensen?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Ooh, yes, whom here it is Helen and Agnes Wilson.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Probably using phony names.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Jason.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, but the license number on this card's the same
as the one on the stolen car. You show us
the room where the girls slept last night, mister Jensen.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
Yeah, he'd be glad to Rangey you just come along.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
They had cabin three to try across the way. You
know that blonde she talked like she's been around, but
the little one was shoot, I wouldn't think.
Speaker 9 (13:27):
She'd been nowhere.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
The way she was gawking and fidging around in that
flashy green dress she was wearing. And when I took
him to the cabin, she ran right to the mirror
and started looking at herself, just like she hadn't had
the dress long.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Hm a wea, uh uh?
Speaker 11 (13:46):
What's the matter?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Angy? You cleaned the room up.
Speaker 14 (13:49):
Oh, gotta keep him clean.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
The fella had the business for me, wasn't so particular.
Had to have the exterminators out here three times.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Why'd you put the trash she took out of this room,
mister Jensen?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Well, there's one box it's out here. See there, it's
down the corner of the next cabin. The other one's
backed by the incinerator. My wife was fixing to burn it.
I'll see if I can stop it.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Thanks, Come on, Clay. We'll go through this box.
Speaker 14 (14:12):
In the meantime, put a minute, raises, I'll empty a
Jason Boy the things people throw away shoots blushes combs. Hey,
look at this cardboard box with an old shirt and
pair of jeans inside.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And wait a minute, let me see that. Remember the
wrapping string you found in the car was noted just
about right to fit around this box.
Speaker 14 (14:34):
Yeah, and these old clothes about the size of kidmke wear.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Something else under this tissue paper irice tag size twelve
six ninety five might have been.
Speaker 14 (14:44):
Addressed and closed the box a second chase. There's a
name printed on the outside.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Morrison's Department, Stirre, Winston.
Speaker 14 (14:51):
Well, the car was stolen in Winston. If this box
did belong to the girls, seems like they spent a
little bit of time there.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah, I recommend that to get over there ourselves in
sorry ranges.
Speaker 9 (14:59):
My wife's already burned it at a box case.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That's all right, mister Jensen. I think we found what
we want. In fact, it might be just what we want.
In a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
We will continue with Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as ranger Chase Pearson.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
In the armed forces of our country.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Today, forty thousand women are working side by side with
the young men of our country, filling important, highly specialized
jobs of all kinds to complete the great defense structure
we are building to guard our country's freedom. Seventy two
thousand more women are needed in all branches of the
service by the middle of the year. Women play an
important part in the work of all our American armed forces.
(15:53):
The Air Force, for example, has discovered that nearly three
quarters of its different jobs can be done by women,
and the women in uniform holds up proud position, absolutely
equal with men in pay, benefits, and opportunities for.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Training and travel.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
The requirements she must be between the ages of eighteen
and thirty four, in good health, and without dependent children.
Young women with college degrees or the equivalent may qualify
for officers commissions. Registered nurses and medical specialists also receive.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Commissions and are urgently needed.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
If you can qualify, you'll be doing a service to
your country and yourself by enlisting now in the American
Armed Forces. And how back to tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story, little sister.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
It was late in the evening when we arrived in Winston.
We checked into the hotel, and at nine the next
morning we headed for Morrison's department store. Inquiries proved that
the price tag we found in the motel trash box
had come from a dress purchased in the store. The
manager directed us to a Miss Daisy Riddell, who ran
the dress department. We waited while she finished with a customer.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Here's your change, missus Darby. I'm sure you like your dress. Goodbye.
Speaker 10 (17:16):
I'm sorry I kept you waiting, Rangers, but it's Saturday,
you know, we're.
Speaker 11 (17:19):
All so busy on Saturday.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
All right, miss Radell, just call me miss Daisy.
Speaker 9 (17:24):
Everybody in town does.
Speaker 11 (17:25):
Or what can I do for you?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
The manager said, this price tag came from your department.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
Well, let me see M. Sixth ninety five.
Speaker 10 (17:34):
Yes, that's ours, one of our less expensive numbers.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
We think a young girl were looking for bought it here.
We thought you might be able to help us.
Speaker 11 (17:41):
Oh, do you have any idea when you bought it?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
We're pretty sure it was Thursday.
Speaker 10 (17:45):
Man, Thursday, Well, let me see, that was day before yesterday?
Speaker 11 (17:50):
Even what color the drins.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Was it was probably green green?
Speaker 11 (17:54):
Would you step over here with me? Raindol.
Speaker 12 (17:57):
We don't sell many of these six ninety five model fact,
we've had a dreadful time selling them. Between you and me,
I don't know whatever possessed mister Morrison to buy them.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Was it a dress like this one?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Uh? We've never seen the dress, but I think it'd
be a brighter green.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
You know, well, I see now what about this one?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 14 (18:19):
Yeah, that looks more like our girl speed, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Uh huh, it's in pretty well with the descriptions we've heard.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Well, and I think I could help you, Ringel Well.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
I certainly appreciated miss Daisy.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
She came in Thursday afternoon, around three thurday.
Speaker 11 (18:32):
I think it was with our sister. You remember their names, man, well,
yes I do. It's Simpson.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
The younger one's Bunah, and the older ones uh oh,
now let me see it's uh Billy Sue.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I think did the sister have blonde hair?
Speaker 11 (18:46):
Bleached blonde?
Speaker 10 (18:47):
She was so particular about the dress she picked out
for the younger girl, and you should have seen the
thing she was wearing.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
You know these girls pretty well?
Speaker 14 (18:55):
Well.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
I knew their mother when she was alive, she'd come
into the stall once in a while.
Speaker 14 (18:59):
Her father still well, I wouldn't know.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
I would be surprised if he'd killed himself with drink.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You have any idea where their house is?
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Well, family used to live here in town, but it
seems to me I've heard they live out on one
of the hills near town. Now I don't know just where, though.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Would you know anybody who might be able to give
us a lead on where the girls have gone gone?
Speaker 11 (19:21):
My rangers? Pause, I know they're still around.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
What makes you think that the little one view Na,
she was in here yesterday just before closing time. She
bought Yes, ma'am, well she bought an undergarment, so they
must still be around.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Uh huh, Well, thanks very much, Mistasia.
Speaker 10 (19:41):
I hope I've been able to help you some rangers,
I think you have, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Let's go play. We checked with the sheriff's office and
learned that the Simpsons lived on a hill overlooking the
main highway, four miles east of Winston. We drove there
and went up to the door.
Speaker 14 (20:03):
Must be somebody inside, Jay, Smoke's coming out the chimney.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, stand Claire, When I opened the door of that
blonde might get ideas about using their guns.
Speaker 14 (20:15):
Yeah, that's empty.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Uh huh.
Speaker 14 (20:17):
Somebody's been eating though. Looks like they left in the
middle of the meal.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And one plate could have been the father maybe then
I wonder where he could have hit.
Speaker 14 (20:26):
Jay's out that window.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
M I don't see anything. She just stuck behind that shed.
Speaker 14 (20:31):
I think it was the little one.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Come on, let's go out the back.
Speaker 14 (20:37):
Don't see it going up the hill. She must still
be back of that shed.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You'll not come on out here, alright, play he's turned
around that way. I'll take this side, okay, bay.
Speaker 14 (20:53):
Stap me.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
She gets your bad in the arm going back to
the car. I'll take care you stay away from me.
Speaker 14 (21:01):
Sure you don't want me to stick around.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
You know you better get something on that armm man.
Speaker 14 (21:04):
All right, be careful, Jay, she's a mean one.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Yeah, give me that PITCHFORKA don't.
Speaker 14 (21:12):
Give it an.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Oh, you made me tam with dread.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
You shouldn't be so handy with pitchforks. Get rid of
that right now.
Speaker 7 (21:24):
Dress? You make me terrible, pretty dress?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Where's your sister Buna? Where's Billy Sue?
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Here?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
You're going into town?
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Wait come on, I going, I going nowhere?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yes you are. If I have to carry, put me down,
Put me down in a minute. As soon as I
help you over to the car. We drove Buna back
to town and sent a man to cover the Simpson
the house in case Billy Sue showed up. As soon
(22:02):
as Clay had his arm checked by a doctor, we
took Buna to a quiet office in the county courthouse
and began questioning her. We convinced her we knew she
and her sister had held up the movie theater. When
she realized that her sister was free and she alone
would be punished, her resentment toward Billy Sue began growing.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Dirty Billy Sue, she got me into this.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Where is she, Buna?
Speaker 10 (22:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (22:23):
Dirty Billy Sue went.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
Out and left me once she went out.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
On you morning after we stole the money from the
movie house. Told me I was gonna have ten dresses
just like this. One didn't run out on me?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Why did she do that?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
And I kind of had dirty Tim And then for him,
we'd still be.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
Together, not having a new dresses.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Who's Tim?
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Some friend of Billy Sue's husband. We see him and fall.
Speaker 13 (22:44):
Right after we.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Got rid of the car we had.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
She planned to meet him there.
Speaker 13 (22:48):
No, she just run into him, went off a nut
about him. They got half drunk, and Billy Sue told
Tim she wanted him.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
To work with us.
Speaker 13 (22:55):
He said he wasn't gonna work with no kid like me,
And and he drove me back to Wednesday, And then
Billy Sue made me.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Get out, I mean around Winston.
Speaker 9 (23:02):
Now I don't know Reckon.
Speaker 13 (23:04):
He took off someplace. They're still half drunk. What you
gonna do with me? You gonna put me in jail?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
No, you're gonna be sent someplace you should have been
a long time ago, to school.
Speaker 13 (23:14):
School. I don't wanna go to no school, only dirty
Billy Sue.
Speaker 9 (23:19):
She got me in it.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Did she better not come around me again.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Before you ran into Tim? Did Billy Sue have any
ideas about the next movie? How she were gonna hit?
Speaker 13 (23:26):
Yeah, he's gonna get a big one Sunday night, a
real big one.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Billy Sue figured we'd get close to three hundred dollars.
Speaker 14 (23:33):
Where was this Overdogden?
Speaker 7 (23:35):
It's gonna be easy.
Speaker 14 (23:37):
There's a lot of movie houses in Ogden. Which one
was she talking?
Speaker 7 (23:40):
About She said, it was the biggest one in town.
Speaker 13 (23:42):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
I know.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
You gonna catch Billy Sue.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I hope so, Buna, I hope.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
You do too.
Speaker 7 (23:48):
I hope you catch her in that dirty tim bolts
of them. Good.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
All right, bunaw rang Jamal gonna take you over to
the Sheriff's office. You'll be staying there till they come
from the school to pick you up.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Heye, won't let me wear my dress at that school.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
They'll give you another dress.
Speaker 13 (24:04):
Yeah, I know, some kind of uniform. This u's only
real dress I have had shows pretty for it.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Got all tore off, put out in all points, bulleting
on Billy Sue and her male companion. Then we drove
to Ogden and checked the movie theaters. The largest was
the Real The next day, Sunday. As soon as the
theater opened at one pm, we began to set our trap.
We stationed a deputy share outside the theater, and we
(24:35):
instructed the cashier on what to do, and asked the
manager to stay away from the entrance and out of sight.
Clay and I sat alone in the manager's office and waited.
Nothing happened all afternoon. A few minutes before the last
show started that evening, we were still waiting. She's ten
fifteen jsh cash. You had due to close the ticket
booths in twenty minutes. It's still time for Billy Sue
and her boyfriend to turn up. You sure you've got
(24:57):
that safe fixed so you can open it easy? Yeah?
Speaker 14 (25:00):
You know, Jase, I've been thinking maybe we shouldn't have
let the cash here, you know, on this deal, she
might tip 'em off by acting kind of nervous.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Deputy of grabbinge before they get away. And I hope
they go through with a job though, and then get
a good clear case against this girl. We're still not
sure she's gonna show no, but I could be it.
I'll get it.
Speaker 14 (25:19):
Yeah, Uh huh, Hold on second, there's man to take
it window. Jase gave the cash here under dollar bill.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Tell her say the manager be down with a change.
Speaker 14 (25:28):
Tell him the manager come right down. It looks like
we might see Billy Sue any second now.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Uh huh? You ready with the safe?
Speaker 14 (25:35):
Yeah, you better grab it quick when she comes in.
I'm gonna feel like a shooting gallery with my back
face and that gun at hers.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I'll give you the word when to open the safe.
Be sure you make plenty of noise doing it. Read
she's coming open the safe.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
We can hands up, give me that gun, give me good,
Give it to me.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Losyr Tilly Sue. Now let's go down stairs. I want
to meet your boyfriend.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
My name me Philly, Sue is Billy.
Speaker 14 (26:03):
Well, whatever it is, let's get going.
Speaker 7 (26:07):
How do you know I was going to hit this place?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
We had an idea, you would I know?
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Was that no good sister of my buna? She come
and told you?
Speaker 11 (26:14):
Didn't she?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Never mind? Who told us?
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Shutting the fool with her?
Speaker 9 (26:16):
Kid like that.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
Almost have been increased.
Speaker 14 (26:18):
You were crazy, all right? The day you shot a
Robin Movie houses.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Yeah we got yes.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Yeah, I think maybe you better put on these prices.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
No good, little bun she done this.
Speaker 7 (26:34):
I should have known be taken a chance with her.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, next time you have a chance. Let's hope you
really know better.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Later today you'll find more great entertainment all lined up
for you on this NBC station. Be sure to hear
the First Nighter starring Barbara Lundy and Olin Soulay in a.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Light comedy drama.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Then it stars in Khaki and Blue featuring talented members
of the Armed Forces with a well known guest MC
and be sure to hear the hilarious Phil Harris and
Alice Fay Show featuring the comedy addicts of Frankie Ramley,
Julius Abruzzio and Brother William. Remember too, that Theater Guild
on the Air will bring you Dear Brutus starring Madeline Carroll,
David Nibben, and Angela Lansbury. Today's Theater Guild on the
(27:32):
airplay is a delightful fantasy.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
That's sure to please you.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Yes, Sunday is fun Day on NBC because of the
many fine shows sent you away to add to your
listening pleasure. Later tonight, you want to hear Jack Parr
and the sixty four Dollars Question as Jack asks the
questions and gives away the money. So remember for fine
entertainment all the rest of the day. Stay tuned to
this station of the NBC Radio Network. And now back
(27:57):
to the conclusion of today's Texas Rangers have been.
Speaker 6 (28:09):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard. Hewn and Billy Sue Simpson was sent
to the State School for Girls. On Billy Sue's eighteenth birthday,
she was transferred to Gory Women's Prison to begin a
seven year term for armed robbery and assault. Tim Walsh,
the man who assisted in the attempted hold up of
the rial theater, received.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
A prescribed jail term.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
The father of the two girls was located and received
a sentence for child abandonment and negligence. Next week, Joe
McCrae and another authentic reenactment of the case from the
files of Buck Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Joel McCay will soon be seen in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Story, a Warner Brothers release.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Virginia Gregg played the part of Billy Sue Simpson and
Buna Simpson was Marion Richmond. Clay Morgan was played by Herbellus.
Others in the cast were Betty lou Gerson, Tony Barrett,
and Howard McNair.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Technical advisor was Captain M. T.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Longwolf Gonzales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
This story was transcribed and adapted by Charles E.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Israel and the program was produced and directed by Stacy
Keach Hal Gidney
Speaker 5 (29:43):
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