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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Transcribed presenting Joel McCrae as Jace Pearson in Tales of
the Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers, authentic stories
from their official files. Texas more than two hundred and
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sixty thousand square.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Miles and fifty men who make up.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
The most famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America.
Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these
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stories based on fact.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Only named states and places are big vicious for obvious reason.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The events themselves are a matter of record.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Hey sport Tonight, living death.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It is two am on the morning of October third,
nineteen forty eight. A man stands in the brush on
the American side of the Rio Grande, watching another man
waiting rapidly across the river.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
From the Mexican side.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Come on, come on, hurry up.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Say you're green, Say you're gream. Where are you over here?
And shut up?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I almost fall in.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Never mind, you're crazy wearing a white sombreil with that moon.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
What is the harm? Said your grin. Nobody seid the ego.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
But you don't be too sure that somebody followed me
down here.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
I don't know whether I shook him or not they
bought a patrol. No, Hi, Jacko, maybe you got the package.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You see right here?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Twenty ounce If.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Here's your money, two hundred ounce, four thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Oh, grass will be another shipman next week.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I know.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
I'll mate you here again on the twelfth, same time
and be a little.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
More all right to Mico, someone does follow you?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Quiet sun camp over there. He's moving this way.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You'll have to crawl through that clear and first, and.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
The moon's right on it.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
If you going to use a gun, what.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Do you think I got it for?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Keep quiet.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
There.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
He is coming into the moonlight.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, and he doesn't see it, just.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Like sitting dark.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You hear him? Yeah, it looks like I didn't meet him.
Good now, Yeah, that's better. Grab his leg, saying, your
leg and get him out of this clear and into
the brush. Longer takes to find him, the better.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Sell your career. We shouldn't admit this place again. You
will not be safe, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Drop me here.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
No, we can't use this place again.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
He'll be too high.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
It must be better across the river. Where do we
meet next time?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Next time? Use our old crossing nearly heat us I
get lost fast.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
The body of the slain man was discovered, but for
two months there was no clue to point to his killer.
And then suddenly another man was shot to death on
the streets of a small town in West Texas, and
Captain Stinson of the Texas Rangers radio ranger Jace Pearson.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
To meet him at the County Morgue Bodies on this
slab Jays shot right through the hind I cap'n here And.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Here's our ballistics report, forty five caliber slug. Look at
the Martins on this photo of it. All right, now,
look at this ballistics photo. This is a report on
the slug they took out of the man who was
killed near the border two months ago.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, see what you mean? Boat slugs came from the
same gun. Mm hmm. Autopsy report on this man completed yet.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Being typed up. We'll have it in a minute. Clyde
Mooney is waiting for it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Mooney, was he here?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I sent for both of you.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Mooney worked on the border killing since it's tied up
with his second killing, and I thought you'd better tackle
it together.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Suits me.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Fine, you got some special reason for wanting to see
the autopsy report, Jez.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, Look at the body. Mark's on the left forearm
look like the kind we usually find on drug addicts. Well,
we're known a second. Here's Clyde. Now, Hi, Jez Hardy, Clyde,
good to see you, boy.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I heard you Talkin's like, come in, Jase, you hit
it all right. Here's the autopsy report. Man was a
drug addict.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
He's probably just as well off dead. The bullet ties
this one right up with your border case, Clyde. Yes,
we're both after the same killer.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
I've been hunting wet bags for two months trying to
find the man who was toting the gun.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
No slugs came from nail shoe boys want to see here?
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Okay, okay, Well let's get out of here.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Then. Any identification on this man we just saw, Cavin.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Hones seeing was dressed like a hubo. Doesn't fit any
of the descriptions on missing person's reports either.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Might help a lot if we knew who he was.
I can't see this killing as a job done by
a wetback.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Why not, Jason? Was somebody sneaking across the border.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Tracks weren't clear by the time the body was found
down there, but there were.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Tracks both your cars in back near mind. Yeah, yeah,
all right, Jase, go ahead with you a theory.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well, a wet back sneaking into the country to earn
a few dollars working is usually two poured on a gun,
unless he's carrying something across with him. You thinking of
those hypomarks, Jeez, it adds up to me. Narcotic smuggling
might be man.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Was killed in my territory could have been shot because
he spotted somebody crossing with the stuff.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Well, that's possible. But how about the dead man we
just left. He wasn't shot near the border.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It looked like he was down and out. Had the habit,
but not the price. I tried to get some narcotics
by threatening to expose the peddler. I'll buy that, Jace.
How about you cried.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Best bet I've had so far?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
All right, Jace, were you playing on starting back along
the border?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
What my area?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
No killing was made? That spot too hot for him.
They'll go back to some old crossing that's cooled off.
I know a few, and you probably know a few.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Well, yeah, place west of Laredo. Then there's a Devil's
River that's been quietly.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Yeah, in the castle On area, and the Big Bend
up through Lahita's and Redford.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It's a big border. Yeah. So the sooner we get started,
the more of it we can cover.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
You're dragging a double trailer, Jay, Suppose I load my
horse in with charcoal.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
We'll use one car.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Good, let's go. Mooneye and I covered the old smuggler
crossings one by one. The weeks passed and we hadn't
found anything by the time we reached the Big Bend.
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We were riding the river near Lahitas getting kind of late.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Jase, we have to make camp turn in.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, you might as well quit this spot tomorrow. I'm
going toward Redford as a good campsite ahead clearing near
that plump of Honeymansky.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
You got eyes like a cat.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
We can make radio contact when you get back to
the car tomorrow. Cap may have something for us.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, what was it?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
He said?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
He check on.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Narcotic possession cases, trying to pin down areas where the
drug traffic seems to be the heaviest. Man who's smuggling
narcotics must be picking up for a central distributor.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
It could be just a small operator.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
A small operator's business would warrant the risk across the border.
Whoever makes the pickup is working for a boss.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Well, why couldn't he be the distributor making his own pickup?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
A big boy? Play it safe, stick somebody else's neck out,
not his own. Here we are chart.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Yeah, if you want to get the bed rolls off, Jase,
I'll strike a fire, get some chuck cooking.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Now, let's get there and eat cold.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Why we're moving out of here tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'd like to watch one more night. It's too quiet
here and been reports of any trouble in this section
in almost three years. We haven't even spotted a wetback trail. Okay,
no fire as well. Let the horses drink before we
humble them. Come on, Charco, Come on, boy, I want
to rub Charco's legs down the night. Let your gea
has been cutting them up.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Yeah, I got a few nasty scratches myself, had a
boy drink up.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
You looking for something over there, Jason.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, let the horses go for a second. Come here,
bring a flashlight.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Slight? Depressions in this mud? Bang? Just barely some.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Flash the light? Yeah, they were tracks, all right, Not
much left though.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Something else here, piece of paper half buried must have
been stepped on.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Brown looks like that brown stick of paper they used.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
To seal packages.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Oh, this is the kind of paper a bank uses
to wrap money. Look traces a blue on hair from
an inkstand. Yeah, can you read it? Oh? Maybe the
lab at Austin can Anybody who tore a band from
a packet of money in this spot must have been
counting it.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah, this isn't exactly a business neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Let's take out boy. We found some kind of a
crossing and it may be the one we're looking for.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
We didn't dare move out of the area.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
We took turns, sleeping and keeping horses out of sight
as much as possible. At night, we crept out along
the river, moving slowly undercover, five nights loud. Jeez, Maybe
they won't cross again the same spots I know a
mile above or below us, and we'd never even see them.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
We found tracks and a couple of places along here,
and they might what. Oh, one of our horses thought
we had something for a minute climb.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
That isn't one of ours. It's coming from the wrong direction.
Put your head on the ground. I don't have to
I can hear him coming now. Can't be our horses.
They're humbled on the one we hear is moving free.
Come on, don't show yourself on the river side. That's
where his contact will come from.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Coming. Now, there's something moving in the water.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Out there a few hundred yards down. Our horses would
have to be up the other way. We'll have to
try it on foot. We haven't time to go back
and get mom.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
They make a fast pass, we'll never get there in time. Anyhow.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We'll have to risk a little noise and moving horse
will cover our approach until he stops.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Step it up.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
The contact is across to this side by now I
can't see him out there anymore. Wait. Wait, the horse
is stopping too.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You here, so you're come on, give you this stuff.
Here's the money.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
They're not wasting any time, Jason.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Now let's go.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Se are hold you going diego?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Run here, boy, look at the water of the river.
Speaker 8 (11:08):
Takes stop the hart.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Home on that water. You get him fined?
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Yeah, he shot at close range, Jason, I had to
kill him.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
We got to leave him. Get after that rider.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Let's get to the horses right.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Only we've been fifty yards closer to him. Back there, Jace,
he went out of the ridge.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Jump ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
We can pick up his trail up there.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I could swear I hit him when I fired.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I hope you did. Arcuttic traffic's the filthiest thing on earth.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Oh, here's the ridge chase.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Oh boy, oh, oh Chaco boy.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, look where we have to track. A skeet and
greaseful ground as hard as rock.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Won't be much of a trail here, Jas.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
It'll take us ours to cut back and forward looking
for soft spots.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
No time for that, get off. It's going to be
too bad if I didn't hit him. A blood trails
our only chance.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, they'll find another contact for narcotics across the border, Sure.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
They will, unless we get to the man we're after.
He's the only one who can lead us to the
ring on this side of the border, and we've got
to get to him before he gets rid of that package.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
As Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Today mark's our first Sunday broadcast, and we sincerely hope
that all our old friends who listen to us on
Saturday night we'll be with us at this new Sunday time. Also,
we extend a Cordi'll welcome to our new listeners and
hope that you will be with us every Sunday at
this time. Now we continue with tonight's case, Living Death,
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an authentic story from the files of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
We combed the ground for a blood trail, and we
found it, not much, but enough to follow. It led
through the Mesquite Greasewood. But the rider knew the country.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
He'd been weaving.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Through the roughest spots.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
He's a smart one.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Jase, slowing us down all the way, got a.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Good hour on us by now, and.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
An hour's too long. He's probably just using that horse
to get to a car someplace.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
We can't waste any more time trail cutting them now.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
He must have headed for cover someplace to take care
of that wound. General direction seems to be northeast. We'll
have to gamble on it. Okay, that's right, get up jury.
After two miles we reached the road and picked up
the trail again. We had horse tracks to follow now,
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and they led to a dilapidated barn near a run
down ranch house. He was here all right, replied blooding
the hay in his torn cloth, ripped a piece off
his shirt to make a bandage. He knew this spot
and headed right for it. Must have been here before.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Yeah, but we're still way behind him. Main road's only
a mile or so from here.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
He's got into his car, but now a ranch house
is dark. To wake him up. Im either seen something
or heard something.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Leave the horses here, okay? His place sure has gone
to see Jason.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
A big house falling apart.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Fences sagging.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
No.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Stock must have been a nice ranch once.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Though, isn't anymore. Gets his living from the earth. You'd
think you'd take better care of it.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
There's a house.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Over and up, Hey, wake up in there?
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Texas Rangers, ma'am, we'd like to talk to you just
a minute. It was an electric power line to the house.
But when she opened the door, she was carrying a candle.
The inside of the house was almost barren.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
We're looking for? A rider came through here tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
He stopped in your barn. You see her hair anything? No,
I didn't you rent out a horse to anybody?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
A horse range.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
If I had a horse, i'd have sold him for
food from my kid's sorry we have to bother you, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
It's all right.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
What difference is make you know anybody around?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Who?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Ma'am? Would you mind holding your candle over the mantle
of this fireplace?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Why, Jace, that picture.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Was the photograph of the man. The face was younger,
full and healthier than when we'd seen at last, but
there was no doubt about who it had been.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Jase, that's the picture of the man we saw with
the cat, the body and the morgue.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Take it easy, man, because Mama, I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
When when did the same him? You can't be daddy Candy.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I'm afraid he is man. He will help us a
lot if you'll tell us who he was.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Jack brandite O, my poor kid.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Oh why didn't you report him missing?
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Because he left me two years ago? He sold and
lost everything we owned.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
He was sick.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
That's crazy, acting like a madman. I don't know why
I didn't do anything. You'd never been like.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
That before you got any idea of what started it.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
A friend of his.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Jack was all right.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
He was a good husband and father till they took
up a Virgil Green. Then they spent more time with
him than he did with us. He must have been
gambling or something. We had a good place here, then
it was all gone.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
This isn't gonna be easy to take, ma'am. Your husband
wasn't a gambler. He was a drug addict.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Oh tell me.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
I begged him to go to a dounctive and he would.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
When did you see him last?
Speaker 8 (17:43):
I told you two years ago, when Virgil Green left it,
Jack left right after him.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
You've seen this Virgil Green since then? No, you know
where Green went after he left here?
Speaker 8 (17:53):
No, but it must have been Gino. I got a
couple of letters from Jack came from there, and then
he stopped right not even the word is kid man.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I hate to leave you like this, but we'll see
if we can get you some help later on.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
Nothing can help anymore, not for me, but I beg
for my kid.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
You won't have to, you will hear from us. Come on, clide.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
We gotta get the boy your gun to her husband, Chase.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
We gotta get more than one. We gotta get them all,
loll ring. There'll be a hundred more like her husband, Diane,
slower and worse than he did.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
You think this Virgil Green is a link. He must be.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
It's the cards we've been playing. Jack Prent has been
raised money to buy from Green, threatened to expose him,
and Green killed him.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Then he killed a man near the border too.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Gotta try to pick up Green at Chino ing this place.
It's a fair bet. He's a man we've been chasing.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah, Charo, oh boy, taking him is gonna be a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
We can't take him, not until we find out if
he still has that package. You better knock on these
ponies until we get to our car.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, we got to the car before we headed for Chino.
I put in a phone call the Captain Stinson.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
All right, jeez, I'll have a ranger plane pick up
that bank wrapper and send it to the lab.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
It may be a bank in Chino. Oh, i'd fitch
with a few other things.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
My checkup show is a heavy drug traffic in and
around the Chino area, and the time where a.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Prentice was killed.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It only sixty miles from Chino. Good and narrows it down.
See if you can dig up a Chino address on
Virgil Green while we're driving up there. He's only two
hours ahead of us. We can burn up road. We
may reach there almost as soon as he does. Let
you know by radio. Jeez, I'll hit Forcino myself. Thanks, Captain,
we'll see you there. We were less than an hour
(20:06):
out of Chino when our short wave came through with
Green's address KTXA to Unit ten, Unit ten to KTXA
go ahead.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Address is subject Virgil Green is Greendale Ranch, State Highway
three nine, fourteen miles west of Chino. Got it any
report from lab On bank money rapper stamp on money.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Wraper restored by Austin.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Lab money at packet came from Chino State Bank, Corner
Maine and Crockett.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
In Gino ten for Unit ten Claire kady x A Austin.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
It's all we need.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Jace, Yeah, we can get Green in sight before he
unloads that package. It was dark when we reached the
Greendale Ranch outside of Chino. We made up time on
Green's head start because we saw a car and horse
trailer pull into the ranch just ahead of us. A
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man got out of the car and limped up to
the house, and he was carrying a package.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Walks like a man's been shot in the leg.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Jace, yeah, don't turn in after him going past the ranch.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Okay, where do you want to stop.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Where we'd watch the house and keep the car shielded.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Well, there was some heavy brush on the other side
of the road just across from Green's place.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
All right, turn around and go back and keep an
eye on him from there. Kept a watch on Green's
house all night, but nobody showed to pick up the package.
The next morning, Green came out and got into his car.
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We followed him in the Chino.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
He's pulling into a parking space up near the next corner. Jason, Yeah,
slow down, getting out. He's got the package all right,
sticking out of his pocket.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Park here quick. He's going into that building on the corner.
Come on before we lose him. Hey, the street signs
Main and Crockett.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
And he went in there Jaschinos State Bank. That's where
the money rapper came from.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Don't go in, just walk around the corner. We can
look through the bank windows.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Itself. Anyways, there he is, Jase, last counter the rear
of the bank.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Safe deposit boxes, going through the rail end of the vault.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Let's have a box. He's gonna plant the stuff here.
We gonna grab him no when he comes out, but
he won't have it on him.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Then we got enough on him. We can pick him
up anytime. You gotta stay with that package until we
know who gets it next.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Hey, he wasn't in there long. He's coming out.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You know, package isn't in his pocket. Now, all right,
get out of sign.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
There, guys.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
He's in there just long enough to open up the
box and drop it. Yeah, you've seen the package. Now
drift around to the front of the bank. See that
nobody leaves that vault with it unless you follow him. Okay,
where are you going to meet the captain and get
a court order to open that vault?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
We got the order, then we wait until the bank
closed and the employees were out. We got the president
of the bank at his home and took him back
to open the vault.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
Actics most distressing, gentlemen, Oh, come in please, all right?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Which boxes greens for twenty one?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Right here?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I want to open it for us? Of course, way
it's empty.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
That couldn't you have made a mistake?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Ranger?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
No cry? Are you sure that package wasn't taken out?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Positive? Jase.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
I watched every single person went enter out till the
bank closed.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Our order covers the rest of these boxes, doesn't it.
Captain cheers. All right, let's open them all. We found
what we were after, but not the way we expected
to find it. The stuff was there, all right, but
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it had been split up into smaller quantities. Owners of
these boxes must be names you have on your lest
of dope peddlers, then, Captain, I'll check that on the
bank records.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yeah, how'd this stuff gets split up? Green wasn't in
here long enough to do it, or he couldn't have
done it.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
His key'd only give him access to his own box.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I have to be done by somebody with a set
of duplicate keys, somebody working here.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
That's impossible. To the head cash you and I have
duplicate keys.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Were you in the vault after the bank closed?
Speaker 5 (24:38):
No, say, I haven't been in here all day, that's truth, Jase.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I could see him through the window and then they
had Cashier's our boy. He's the distributor and a pretty
clever distribution scheme too. No direct contact, and it has
access to the vault after the guard has left. If
he's handled those packets, there'll be fingerprints on him. What's
his name and where does he live?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
His name is August.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Weber's got a big ranch over near a strayl.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
On Highway thirty nine. And I know how he got
it now.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
He said he was making money on investments.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Investments, he made a black market in human souls. Come on, Clyde,
let's get him and Virgil Green. We found the house,
an elaborate building on a fine ranch. There was another
car in the driveway when we pulled up.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Hey, Jason, that car in front.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Of the place, and we're in luck. The car virtual
Green was driving light around the side of the house
by that French door. Maybe they didn't hear us drive
in good.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Let's slip up on that side of the porch and
find out might be able to take him easy, and
don't count on it. Cold blooded killer like Green, he'd
keep on killing as long as he has a gun.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
He slipped up to.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
The French door was locked and we couldn't see through it,
but their voices drifted out through an open window. Tell
you wherever my legs.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
In fact, I gotta see a doctor, hat him and
put a bullet wood you want me to die, I.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Could put a boot in you too. Let me know
when you want to try tell a little killer myself.
Green and I haven't swallow about it.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Nobody's caught me. Eh alright, cried, Let's kick a hole
in this door.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Don't move me yet.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Don't.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Clyde, you've hurt that.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
You're hit too, Jason, blood on your head, just in there.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Come on, I'll get you to a hospital.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
How about how about.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Them leave them for the corner.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
They're both dead.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
The gun found beside the body of Virgil Green proved
to be the murder weapon the rangers had been seeking.
Now Kuttik's peddlers having safe deposit boxes at the Chino
State Bank were rounded up, and they admitted they had
been supplied by August Webber. They were tried and sentenced.
The traffic in Living Death was halted. And here again,
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it's the star of our show.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Joel McCrae, a friend of mine, returned recently from a
visit to Texas. While he was there, he'd seen a
Texas Ranger, and he asked his host, a rancher, what
the requirements were for a man who wanted to be around.
The host looked thoughtful for a moment and said, well,
I'd say if a man could ride like a Mexican trail,
like an Indian shoot, like a tennesseean fight like the Devil,
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he might have a chance to get in. I hope
you'll be with us again next week, same time, same station,
Good Night next week.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a case from
the files of Not Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae is currently
seen starring in the MGM production Stars.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
In My Crown.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Tonight's cast included Tony Barrett, Barney Phillips, Larry Dobkin, Byron Kin,
Ken Harvey, and Lilyan Bias. This story was transcribed and
adapted by Joel Murcott, and the program was produced into
directed by Stacy Keach.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
This is Hell, Give Me Speaking, Three Chimes Mean Good
Times on nbc
Speaker 6 (29:21):
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Transcribed presenting Joel McCrae as Jace Pearson in Tales of
the Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers, authentic stories
from their official files. Texas more than two hundred and
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sixty thousand square.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Miles and fifty men who make up.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
The most famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America.
Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these
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stories based on fact.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Only named states and places are big vicious for obvious reason.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The events themselves are a matter of record.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Hey sport Tonight, living death.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It is two am on the morning of October third,
nineteen forty eight. A man stands in the brush on
the American side of the Rio Grande, watching another man
waiting rapidly across the river.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
From the Mexican side.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Come on, come on, hurry up.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Say you're green, Say you're gream. Where are you over here?
And shut up?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I almost fall in.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Never mind, you're crazy wearing a white sombreil with that moon.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
What is the harm? Said your grin. Nobody seid the ego.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
But you don't be too sure that somebody followed me
down here.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
I don't know whether I shook him or not they
bought a patrol. No, Hi, Jacko, maybe you got the package.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
You see right here?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Twenty ounce If.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Here's your money, two hundred ounce, four thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Oh, grass will be another shipman next week.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I know.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
I'll mate you here again on the twelfth, same time
and be a little.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
More all right to Mico, someone does follow you?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Quiet sun camp over there. He's moving this way.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
You'll have to crawl through that clear and first, and.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
The moon's right on it.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
If you going to use a gun, what.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Do you think I got it for?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Keep quiet.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
There.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
He is coming into the moonlight.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, and he doesn't see it, just.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Like sitting dark.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
You hear him? Yeah, it looks like I didn't meet him.
Good now, Yeah, that's better. Grab his leg, saying, your
leg and get him out of this clear and into
the brush. Longer takes to find him, the better.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Sell your career. We shouldn't admit this place again. You
will not be safe, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Drop me here.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
No, we can't use this place again.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
He'll be too high.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
It must be better across the river. Where do we
meet next time?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Next time? Use our old crossing nearly heat us I
get lost fast.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
The body of the slain man was discovered, but for
two months there was no clue to point to his killer.
And then suddenly another man was shot to death on
the streets of a small town in West Texas, and
Captain Stinson of the Texas Rangers radio ranger Jace Pearson.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
To meet him at the County Morgue Bodies on this
slab Jays shot right through the hind I cap'n here And.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Here's our ballistics report, forty five caliber slug. Look at
the Martins on this photo of it. All right, now,
look at this ballistics photo. This is a report on
the slug they took out of the man who was
killed near the border two months ago.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, see what you mean? Boat slugs came from the
same gun. Mm hmm. Autopsy report on this man completed yet.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Being typed up. We'll have it in a minute. Clyde
Mooney is waiting for it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Mooney, was he here?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I sent for both of you.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
Mooney worked on the border killing since it's tied up
with his second killing, and I thought you'd better tackle
it together.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Suits me.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Fine, you got some special reason for wanting to see
the autopsy report, Jez.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, Look at the body. Mark's on the left forearm
look like the kind we usually find on drug addicts. Well,
we're known a second. Here's Clyde. Now, Hi, Jez Hardy, Clyde,
good to see you, boy.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I heard you Talkin's like, come in, Jase, you hit
it all right. Here's the autopsy report. Man was a
drug addict.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
He's probably just as well off dead. The bullet ties
this one right up with your border case, Clyde. Yes,
we're both after the same killer.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
I've been hunting wet bags for two months trying to
find the man who was toting the gun.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
No slugs came from nail shoe boys want to see here?
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Okay, okay, Well let's get out of here.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Then. Any identification on this man we just saw, Cavin.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Hones seeing was dressed like a hubo. Doesn't fit any
of the descriptions on missing person's reports either.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Might help a lot if we knew who he was.
I can't see this killing as a job done by
a wetback.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Why not, Jason? Was somebody sneaking across the border.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Tracks weren't clear by the time the body was found
down there, but there were.
Speaker 7 (05:25):
Tracks both your cars in back near mind. Yeah, yeah,
all right, Jase, go ahead with you a theory.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well, a wet back sneaking into the country to earn
a few dollars working is usually two poured on a gun,
unless he's carrying something across with him. You thinking of
those hypomarks, Jeez, it adds up to me. Narcotic smuggling
might be man.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Was killed in my territory could have been shot because
he spotted somebody crossing with the stuff.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Well, that's possible. But how about the dead man we
just left. He wasn't shot near the border.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It looked like he was down and out. Had the habit,
but not the price. I tried to get some narcotics
by threatening to expose the peddler. I'll buy that, Jace.
How about you cried.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Best bet I've had so far?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
All right, Jace, were you playing on starting back along
the border?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
What my area?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
No killing was made? That spot too hot for him.
They'll go back to some old crossing that's cooled off.
I know a few, and you probably know a few.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
Well, yeah, place west of Laredo. Then there's a Devil's
River that's been quietly.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Yeah, in the castle On area, and the Big Bend
up through Lahita's and Redford.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It's a big border. Yeah. So the sooner we get started,
the more of it we can cover.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
You're dragging a double trailer, Jay, Suppose I load my
horse in with charcoal.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
We'll use one car.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Good, let's go. Mooneye and I covered the old smuggler
crossings one by one. The weeks passed and we hadn't
found anything by the time we reached the Big Bend.
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We were riding the river near Lahitas getting kind of late.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Jase, we have to make camp turn in.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, you might as well quit this spot tomorrow. I'm
going toward Redford as a good campsite ahead clearing near
that plump of Honeymansky.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
You got eyes like a cat.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
We can make radio contact when you get back to
the car tomorrow. Cap may have something for us.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Yeah, what was it?
Speaker 5 (07:23):
He said?
Speaker 4 (07:23):
He check on.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Narcotic possession cases, trying to pin down areas where the
drug traffic seems to be the heaviest. Man who's smuggling
narcotics must be picking up for a central distributor.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
It could be just a small operator.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
A small operator's business would warrant the risk across the border.
Whoever makes the pickup is working for a boss.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Well, why couldn't he be the distributor making his own pickup?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
A big boy? Play it safe, stick somebody else's neck out,
not his own. Here we are chart.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Yeah, if you want to get the bed rolls off, Jase,
I'll strike a fire, get some chuck cooking.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Now, let's get there and eat cold.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Why we're moving out of here tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
I'd like to watch one more night. It's too quiet
here and been reports of any trouble in this section
in almost three years. We haven't even spotted a wetback trail. Okay,
no fire as well. Let the horses drink before we
humble them. Come on, Charco, Come on, boy, I want
to rub Charco's legs down the night. Let your gea
has been cutting them up.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Yeah, I got a few nasty scratches myself, had a
boy drink up.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
You looking for something over there, Jason.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, let the horses go for a second. Come here,
bring a flashlight.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Slight? Depressions in this mud? Bang? Just barely some.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
Flash the light? Yeah, they were tracks, all right, Not
much left though.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Something else here, piece of paper half buried must have
been stepped on.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Brown looks like that brown stick of paper they used.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
To seal packages.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Oh, this is the kind of paper a bank uses
to wrap money. Look traces a blue on hair from
an inkstand. Yeah, can you read it? Oh? Maybe the
lab at Austin can Anybody who tore a band from
a packet of money in this spot must have been
counting it.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah, this isn't exactly a business neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Let's take out boy. We found some kind of a
crossing and it may be the one we're looking for.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
We didn't dare move out of the area.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
We took turns, sleeping and keeping horses out of sight
as much as possible. At night, we crept out along
the river, moving slowly undercover, five nights loud. Jeez, Maybe
they won't cross again the same spots I know a
mile above or below us, and we'd never even see them.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
We found tracks and a couple of places along here,
and they might what. Oh, one of our horses thought
we had something for a minute climb.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
That isn't one of ours. It's coming from the wrong direction.
Put your head on the ground. I don't have to
I can hear him coming now. Can't be our horses.
They're humbled on the one we hear is moving free.
Come on, don't show yourself on the river side. That's
where his contact will come from.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Coming. Now, there's something moving in the water.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Out there a few hundred yards down. Our horses would
have to be up the other way. We'll have to
try it on foot. We haven't time to go back
and get mom.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
They make a fast pass, we'll never get there in time. Anyhow.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We'll have to risk a little noise and moving horse
will cover our approach until he stops.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Step it up.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
The contact is across to this side by now I
can't see him out there anymore. Wait. Wait, the horse
is stopping too.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You here, so you're come on, give you this stuff.
Here's the money.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
They're not wasting any time, Jason.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Now let's go.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Se are hold you going diego?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Run here, boy, look at the water of the river.
Speaker 8 (11:08):
Takes stop the hart.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Home on that water. You get him fined?
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Yeah, he shot at close range, Jason, I had to
kill him.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
We got to leave him. Get after that rider.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Let's get to the horses right.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Only we've been fifty yards closer to him. Back there, Jace,
he went out of the ridge.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Jump ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
We can pick up his trail up there.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I could swear I hit him when I fired.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I hope you did. Arcuttic traffic's the filthiest thing on earth.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Oh, here's the ridge chase.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Oh boy, oh, oh Chaco boy.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, look where we have to track. A skeet and
greaseful ground as hard as rock.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Won't be much of a trail here, Jas.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
It'll take us ours to cut back and forward looking
for soft spots.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
No time for that, get off. It's going to be
too bad if I didn't hit him. A blood trails
our only chance.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Yeah, they'll find another contact for narcotics across the border, Sure.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
They will, unless we get to the man we're after.
He's the only one who can lead us to the
ring on this side of the border, and we've got
to get to him before he gets rid of that package.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
As Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Today mark's our first Sunday broadcast, and we sincerely hope
that all our old friends who listen to us on
Saturday night we'll be with us at this new Sunday time. Also,
we extend a Cordi'll welcome to our new listeners and
hope that you will be with us every Sunday at
this time. Now we continue with tonight's case, Living Death,
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an authentic story from the files of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
We combed the ground for a blood trail, and we
found it, not much, but enough to follow. It led
through the Mesquite Greasewood. But the rider knew the country.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
He'd been weaving.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Through the roughest spots.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
He's a smart one.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Jase, slowing us down all the way, got a.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Good hour on us by now, and.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
An hour's too long. He's probably just using that horse
to get to a car someplace.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
We can't waste any more time trail cutting them now.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
He must have headed for cover someplace to take care
of that wound. General direction seems to be northeast. We'll
have to gamble on it. Okay, that's right, get up jury.
After two miles we reached the road and picked up
the trail again. We had horse tracks to follow now,
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and they led to a dilapidated barn near a run
down ranch house. He was here all right, replied blooding
the hay in his torn cloth, ripped a piece off
his shirt to make a bandage. He knew this spot
and headed right for it. Must have been here before.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Yeah, but we're still way behind him. Main road's only
a mile or so from here.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
He's got into his car, but now a ranch house
is dark. To wake him up. Im either seen something
or heard something.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Leave the horses here, okay? His place sure has gone
to see Jason.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
A big house falling apart.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Fences sagging.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
No.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Stock must have been a nice ranch once.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Though, isn't anymore. Gets his living from the earth. You'd
think you'd take better care of it.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
There's a house.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Over and up, Hey, wake up in there?
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Who is it?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Texas Rangers, ma'am, we'd like to talk to you just
a minute. It was an electric power line to the house.
But when she opened the door, she was carrying a candle.
The inside of the house was almost barren.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
What do you want?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
We're looking for? A rider came through here tonight.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
He stopped in your barn. You see her hair anything? No,
I didn't you rent out a horse to anybody?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
A horse range.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
If I had a horse, i'd have sold him for
food from my kid's sorry we have to bother you, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
It's all right.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
What difference is make you know anybody around?
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Who?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Ma'am? Would you mind holding your candle over the mantle
of this fireplace?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Why, Jace, that picture.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Was the photograph of the man. The face was younger,
full and healthier than when we'd seen at last, but
there was no doubt about who it had been.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Jase, that's the picture of the man we saw with
the cat, the body and the morgue.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Take it easy, man, because Mama, I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
When when did the same him? You can't be daddy Candy.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I'm afraid he is man. He will help us a
lot if you'll tell us who he was.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Jack brandite O, my poor kid.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Oh why didn't you report him missing?
Speaker 8 (16:49):
Because he left me two years ago? He sold and
lost everything we owned.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
He was sick.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
That's crazy, acting like a madman. I don't know why
I didn't do anything. You'd never been like.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
That before you got any idea of what started it.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
A friend of his.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Jack was all right.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
He was a good husband and father till they took
up a Virgil Green. Then they spent more time with
him than he did with us. He must have been
gambling or something. We had a good place here, then
it was all gone.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
This isn't gonna be easy to take, ma'am. Your husband
wasn't a gambler. He was a drug addict.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Oh tell me.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
I begged him to go to a dounctive and he would.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
When did you see him last?
Speaker 8 (17:43):
I told you two years ago, when Virgil Green left it,
Jack left right after him.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
You've seen this Virgil Green since then? No, you know
where Green went after he left here?
Speaker 8 (17:53):
No, but it must have been Gino. I got a
couple of letters from Jack came from there, and then
he stopped right not even the word is kid man.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I hate to leave you like this, but we'll see
if we can get you some help later on.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
Nothing can help anymore, not for me, but I beg
for my kid.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
You won't have to, you will hear from us. Come on, clide.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
We gotta get the boy your gun to her husband, Chase.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
We gotta get more than one. We gotta get them all,
loll ring. There'll be a hundred more like her husband, Diane,
slower and worse than he did.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
You think this Virgil Green is a link. He must be.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
It's the cards we've been playing. Jack Prent has been
raised money to buy from Green, threatened to expose him,
and Green killed him.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Then he killed a man near the border too.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Gotta try to pick up Green at Chino ing this place.
It's a fair bet. He's a man we've been chasing.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Yeah, Charo, oh boy, taking him is gonna be a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
We can't take him, not until we find out if
he still has that package. You better knock on these
ponies until we get to our car.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, we got to the car before we headed for Chino.
I put in a phone call the Captain Stinson.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
All right, jeez, I'll have a ranger plane pick up
that bank wrapper and send it to the lab.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
It may be a bank in Chino. Oh, i'd fitch
with a few other things.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
My checkup show is a heavy drug traffic in and
around the Chino area, and the time where a.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Prentice was killed.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
It only sixty miles from Chino. Good and narrows it down.
See if you can dig up a Chino address on
Virgil Green while we're driving up there. He's only two
hours ahead of us. We can burn up road. We
may reach there almost as soon as he does. Let
you know by radio. Jeez, I'll hit Forcino myself. Thanks, Captain,
we'll see you there. We were less than an hour
(20:06):
out of Chino when our short wave came through with
Green's address KTXA to Unit ten, Unit ten to KTXA
go ahead.
Speaker 9 (20:16):
Address is subject Virgil Green is Greendale Ranch, State Highway
three nine, fourteen miles west of Chino. Got it any
report from lab On bank money rapper stamp on money.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Wraper restored by Austin.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Lab money at packet came from Chino State Bank, Corner
Maine and Crockett.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
In Gino ten for Unit ten Claire kady x A Austin.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
It's all we need.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Jace, Yeah, we can get Green in sight before he
unloads that package. It was dark when we reached the
Greendale Ranch outside of Chino. We made up time on
Green's head start because we saw a car and horse
trailer pull into the ranch just ahead of us. A
(21:03):
man got out of the car and limped up to
the house, and he was carrying a package.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Walks like a man's been shot in the leg.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Jace, yeah, don't turn in after him going past the ranch.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Okay, where do you want to stop.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Where we'd watch the house and keep the car shielded.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Well, there was some heavy brush on the other side
of the road just across from Green's place.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
All right, turn around and go back and keep an
eye on him from there. Kept a watch on Green's
house all night, but nobody showed to pick up the package.
The next morning, Green came out and got into his car.
(21:45):
We followed him in the Chino.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
He's pulling into a parking space up near the next corner. Jason, Yeah,
slow down, getting out. He's got the package all right,
sticking out of his pocket.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Park here quick. He's going into that building on the corner.
Come on before we lose him. Hey, the street signs
Main and Crockett.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
And he went in there Jaschinos State Bank. That's where
the money rapper came from.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Don't go in, just walk around the corner. We can
look through the bank windows.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Itself. Anyways, there he is, Jase, last counter the rear
of the bank.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Safe deposit boxes, going through the rail end of the vault.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Let's have a box. He's gonna plant the stuff here.
We gonna grab him no when he comes out, but
he won't have it on him.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Then we got enough on him. We can pick him
up anytime. You gotta stay with that package until we
know who gets it next.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Hey, he wasn't in there long. He's coming out.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
You know, package isn't in his pocket. Now, all right,
get out of sign.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
There, guys.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
He's in there just long enough to open up the
box and drop it. Yeah, you've seen the package. Now
drift around to the front of the bank. See that
nobody leaves that vault with it unless you follow him. Okay,
where are you going to meet the captain and get
a court order to open that vault?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
We got the order, then we wait until the bank
closed and the employees were out. We got the president
of the bank at his home and took him back
to open the vault.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
Actics most distressing, gentlemen, Oh, come in please, all right?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Which boxes greens for twenty one?
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Right here?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I want to open it for us? Of course, way
it's empty.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
That couldn't you have made a mistake?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Ranger?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
No cry? Are you sure that package wasn't taken out?
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Positive? Jase.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
I watched every single person went enter out till the
bank closed.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Our order covers the rest of these boxes, doesn't it.
Captain cheers. All right, let's open them all. We found
what we were after, but not the way we expected
to find it. The stuff was there, all right, but
(24:10):
it had been split up into smaller quantities. Owners of
these boxes must be names you have on your lest
of dope peddlers, then, Captain, I'll check that on the
bank records.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yeah, how'd this stuff gets split up? Green wasn't in
here long enough to do it, or he couldn't have
done it.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
His key'd only give him access to his own box.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
I have to be done by somebody with a set
of duplicate keys, somebody working here.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
That's impossible. To the head cash you and I have
duplicate keys.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Were you in the vault after the bank closed?
Speaker 5 (24:38):
No, say, I haven't been in here all day, that's truth, Jase.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
I could see him through the window and then they
had Cashier's our boy. He's the distributor and a pretty
clever distribution scheme too. No direct contact, and it has
access to the vault after the guard has left. If
he's handled those packets, there'll be fingerprints on him. What's
his name and where does he live?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
His name is August.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Weber's got a big ranch over near a strayl.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
On Highway thirty nine. And I know how he got
it now.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
He said he was making money on investments.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Investments, he made a black market in human souls. Come on, Clyde,
let's get him and Virgil Green. We found the house,
an elaborate building on a fine ranch. There was another
car in the driveway when we pulled up.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Hey, Jason, that car in front.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
Of the place, and we're in luck. The car virtual
Green was driving light around the side of the house
by that French door. Maybe they didn't hear us drive
in good.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Let's slip up on that side of the porch and
find out might be able to take him easy, and
don't count on it. Cold blooded killer like Green, he'd
keep on killing as long as he has a gun.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
He slipped up to.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
The French door was locked and we couldn't see through it,
but their voices drifted out through an open window. Tell
you wherever my legs.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
In fact, I gotta see a doctor, hat him and
put a bullet wood you want me to die, I.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Could put a boot in you too. Let me know
when you want to try tell a little killer myself.
Green and I haven't swallow about it.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Nobody's caught me. Eh alright, cried, Let's kick a hole
in this door.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Don't move me yet.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Don't.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Clyde, you've hurt that.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
You're hit too, Jason, blood on your head, just in there.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Come on, I'll get you to a hospital.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
How about how about.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Them leave them for the corner.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
They're both dead.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
The gun found beside the body of Virgil Green proved
to be the murder weapon the rangers had been seeking.
Now Kuttik's peddlers having safe deposit boxes at the Chino
State Bank were rounded up, and they admitted they had
been supplied by August Webber. They were tried and sentenced.
The traffic in Living Death was halted. And here again,
(27:47):
it's the star of our show.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Joel McCrae, a friend of mine, returned recently from a
visit to Texas. While he was there, he'd seen a
Texas Ranger, and he asked his host, a rancher, what
the requirements were for a man who wanted to be around.
The host looked thoughtful for a moment and said, well,
I'd say if a man could ride like a Mexican trail,
like an Indian shoot, like a tennesseean fight like the Devil,
(28:13):
he might have a chance to get in. I hope
you'll be with us again next week, same time, same station,
Good Night next week.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a case from
the files of Not Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae is currently
seen starring in the MGM production Stars.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
In My Crown.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Tonight's cast included Tony Barrett, Barney Phillips, Larry Dobkin, Byron Kin,
Ken Harvey, and Lilyan Bias. This story was transcribed and
adapted by Joel Murcott, and the program was produced into
directed by Stacy Keach.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
This is Hell, Give Me Speaking, Three Chimes Mean Good
Times on nbc
Speaker 6 (29:21):
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