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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 1 (01:56):
And now from the piles of the Texas Rangers, the
case called round Trip.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It is a Thursday evening in May nineteen forty six
in the city of Houston, Texas, and a shabby travel
agency near the waterfront. Several people are sitting on benches
ranged around the walls of the poorly lighted room.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
A little past eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
A man and speaks a few words to the cluff,
then walks toward one of.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
The men at the other end of the room.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Your name, Dave Hobart, got you?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
The fella's gotten up the wigle.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
It's ryme. You got your baggage ready?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Yeah, I guess it's one two Kay.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
West car, I'm front. Okay.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
You know, I was beginning to think maybe you weren't coming.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
I got delayed.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
Truss the miner is a pharmis spring with kid at
toy fire engine for his birthday. We got all about it,
so most of the stories were closed. I had an
awful time finding that fire engine, but I got it.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
I hope you didn't mind waiting too much, and.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Not as long as you got here. I don't feel
like spend another night of Houston.
Speaker 8 (02:59):
I tell you this, your come, Yeah, I don't get
in this site and try it over. Just wear your
two k's on top of those newspapers in the back.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Seat, all right, Hey, what you doing with all those papers?
Speaker 8 (03:12):
Oh? I'm a bundle carrier for two papers, run.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
The regular rock between here and Waco. I just take
passengers long, pick.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Up a few weeks and bucks h bundle canyons say,
pretty good money?
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Huh a living? Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Hey where you gone if there isn't no way to
the Waco road down?
Speaker 8 (03:30):
I know, got another passenger to pick up down at
the end of the block if he hasn't got tired
of waiting.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Left you working down here in Houston.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I've been looking for a job. It's got back in
Germany a few months ago, Army, Yeah, no good jobs
right now. Guys who got back first took them off.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
I reckon that's the other passenger over there. Hey, Hey,
you the fella that's going up tort Waco.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, hey, sure, it took your time getting here.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Where a mind to put these two suitcases? How long?
Just throw 'em on top of his newspapers and back.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I I know there was gonna be a card in
your car.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
I waited to take him the train in the morning.
Don't worry, we'll get you where you're going.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
Oh, FoST your dogs like coffee.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
They usually stop a couple of times on the way.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
That's okay, sure, Oh as you don't make too many stuff.
Speaker 8 (04:24):
Been driving his night rap ten years now. The only
thing I don't like bonnet. Don't give me enough time
with my wife and kid either. You fella's married.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Uh, how about you?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Now? I'm in the Merchant Marine seeing lots of girls
and lots of country running them worth Mary, need to.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Change your mind one of these days. Nothing like it
having a wife and kid to go home to. You
know something, I take passengers on his run almost every night.
Make an extra five.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
Picks bucks, and every cent of that money goes into
a special account here mark for sending my.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Boy to college.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
So yep, my wife and me, we made up our minds.
He's not gonna carry newspapers for eleven We're giving him
the beast education, we can get front.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well, well, sometimes even when you've been to school, you
got trouble making leving.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Not my kid, he is really gonna be something.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Got a holme wheeler thinks.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
When you okay, I wanna show you a picture of
m' got my wallet.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Let's get this.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Rubber band off here a alright, I got the wheel now.
See if you don't think he's the finest kid you
ever te eyes on it. Oh, bring it over a
post at the dashboard line.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Well what do you think of it? Good looking boy?
Speaker 9 (05:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Hey on, miss thanks, I might hold the wheel again
every time my wallet gets footing him in trouble getting
his picture back then, and.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
You shouldn't carry so much money on.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Got to this collection day? Uh huh you uh, I'll
take the wheel down.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
For me to say you collected all that money just
in news standing.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Oh you'd be surprised. Our minds up in which was
all mine?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
And I'll flat as dell.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
Yeah sure he is at age twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
The next morning, a highway employee cutting grass alongside the
road ten miles south of coald That, Texas, found the
body of a man lying in the ditch. There were
two bullet wounds in his head. When the sheriff arrived,
he immediately recognized the man as Robert Dixon of Waco.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
The sheriff requested.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Assistance from the Texas Rangers, and his nine twenty five
ranger jas Pearson, pulled up in his car.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
Send for idiot killed out, He chair out.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
He jay out, He's right down here.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
I understand you knew this, fella.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Yeah, I knew Bob Dixon was finding managern't want to
meat and it's a body jays and the jew happening
on when he had a newspaper bundle out between Houston
and Waco.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
I used to see him and diners along the road.
He was a great coffee drinker like me. We ain't
got to be pretty good friends, meeting like that every
week or so. Uh.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
He located the kuy he was driving.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
I thought it was found about fifteen minutes ago, but
it turned out to be a false alarm where I
checked his pocket get empty, Queen, pretty clare case of robbery.
Bullet centered his head on the right side when he's
powder burns means he was shout at close range. Yeah,
I figured was somebody who was riding with him?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Was he inhabit of picking up people.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
I had some kind of arrangement with a travel agencies
down in Houston hust to carry a passenger too.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
With him almost every night.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
And we better check with those agencies if they can
tell us who rode with Dixon last night. As far
as I know about those places, sometimes they keep a
record of customer's names, and sometimes they don't.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Right now, it's the only lead we've got. It sounds
like Mike call how to see what they want now?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Dick was always talking about his wife and kids.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Never seen a man's a probably family. I'd sure like
to get my hands on the one who did this.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
KTXA he attended KTXA Go Ahead kt XA.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Registered to Robert Dixon of Waco, has been located by
Highway patrol near a farm road for two three miles south.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Of Kobe.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Ten four unit ten player.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Kiddy exhausted, Huh, I LL give you something to go on.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Yeah, let's get over there. The Highway patrol was waiting
for us on Farm Road forty two. Dixon's car was
about fifty yards in the road, half covered with brush.
Sheriff and I walked forward.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
It, but it looks like he started to hide the
car and didn't change his mind.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Uh huh, help me pull his brush aside? Will your share?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Now?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I can't help one.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
And why he picked this pot to leave it seems
to me either district close of.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
The town or else pick the place where it wouldn't
have been found so quick.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Well, there's one reason he might have left it here.
There's blood on the front seat. You mean, because there's
so much of it. Yeah, probably got panicky when he
got close to town.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Decided to walk.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Through it the way that townds logical days, but it
still don't bring as much closer to know one who
did it. And we'll bring a lamb crew to go
over the car for prints. Maybe wait a minute, one
smarter and slip a paper above the sun risor here,
you know, anything innertant could be pick up Dave Hobart
at Tima's Travel Agency, Thursday, eight pm.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Geez, that is something.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Yeah, here's tracks going toward the road.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
More why if he just hike tail for towns? Who's
he ditched the car?
Speaker 7 (09:33):
That's funny?
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Mm tracks turn into that bride.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Now why would he go up this way? That don't
make geez? Next to that rock.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Man rather jacket and a parakhaki trousers.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
No doubt about there being. Here's look at the blood
stains on 'em.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
And have to shed these right after he left the car.
That means he probably had other clothes with him. You know,
I don't go through the pocket there and not if
he left anything in him, but uh, you never can tell.
There was nothing in the crowd side of the jacket. Uh,
several pennies looks like they had been the party for
quite a while.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
And hey, here's a.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Suburb bus ticket if Colby to Houston, any date on
the back this kind of bird.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
See if I can make it up here?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, May fourteenth, the forty sixth.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Well that was too deep.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
Sounds like the man we're looking for could live right
here in Kolby. Well this Dave Hobart, the fellow whose
name was on that slip of paper in the car
you reckon.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
He's the one that killed Dixon.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
We won't know that till we find him. We decided
that the best way to locate Dave Hobart was to
check all post offices in the area.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
We didn't have to look far.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
The postmaster Colby told us an ex soldier but that name,
lived on a farm with his parents twelve miles.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
South of town.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
The farmhouse was about a mile off the main highway,
not far from the spot where Dixon's body.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Had been found.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
When we arrived at the house, it was something chump
in the wood to a shed and I reckon, he's
a fellow we're looking for.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Could be your name? Dave Hobart?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Why?
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Yeah, come, I do boy, first thing you can do
to drop that egg? What's all that's about?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Robert? Okay?
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Were you in Houston last night?
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Why? We asked the question, were you in Houston?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:26):
When'd you go down? Man?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
What Tuesday?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
More?
Speaker 7 (11:28):
When did you come back last night? U? Now paid
the man? Gimme rye through the Thomas Travel Agency.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
That you know, I told you we'd asked the question.
This man you rode with, did he have newspapers in
the back of his car? Well?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
What if it did?
Speaker 8 (11:42):
He was robbed and killed last night by somebody riding
with him?
Speaker 7 (11:45):
And it was okay.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
When I got out of the car side there was
another guy with him.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Who was he?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
How should I know? You gotta do better than that, Hobart?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
You have a gun?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
The only gun I had I had was one Uncle
Sam gimme.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
I was so glad to give it back to him.
Why were you in Houston because I was looking job?
Did you find one had a fuel offers to men
but it didn't take him?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Cause they didn't pay?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
A robin and killing says more? Huh.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Now you look, chef, I didn't kill this guy. You
find that other fellow in the car, and you've got
your killer?
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Oh by you say you were in the army.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Yeah, and I reckon you got some more khaki trousers
like the ones you got on, And I reckon you're wrong.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
It is the only pair got left.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
You ever own a leather jacket? No, we'll check and
find out if you're telling the truth.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Well, go on check.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
How'd you get into Houston on Tuesday?
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Cold to rane?
Speaker 8 (12:29):
You sure you didn't take the bus from Kobe?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Why would I go back there to take it? This
is twelve miles close to the Houston. You might have
been in town that morning, then you'd have got on there.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
I wasn't in.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Tire, And what's taking a bus got to do with this?
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Anyhow?
Speaker 8 (12:41):
I found a canceled bus ticket from Kobe to Houston
that we're pretty sure the killer used.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
It's dated Tuesday, the day you went to Houston.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Look, you got the wrong man.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
I'm telling maybe so that you're coming along with us anyhow,
Oh what too to the bus station in Kobe.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
Maybe somebody there I'll remember.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
If they sold you a ticket. We arrived in Kobe
a little past noon. The bus station was located in
a restaurant across from the court house.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Through the window, we could see a heavy set.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Woman sitting at the cash register eating a large piece
of pie. The sheriff said she ran both the restaurant
and the bus stations to hobot inside going in over.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
All, right, honey, let me ask do for you, Hoidy
Maggie arrange and I'd like to ask you some questions.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
You don't mind, I don't mind.
Speaker 10 (13:30):
Hey, sure if you were reading any of my hot
Raspberry pie.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
I don't believe that.
Speaker 10 (13:33):
Oh it's mighty good if I do, think so.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Let me cut your boy not right now, thanks.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
Singer, I gotta do this. Raspberries and seeds, keep getting
my teeth put your fellas.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Want to know you're the only one who sells the
bus tickets here.
Speaker 10 (13:46):
Yeah, and ever somebody takes the nose, you buy one.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Did you ever see this boy before.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
Who listened kind of shiny? He looked up her head, Sonny.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Let me get a look at me, good looking boy? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Uh re can I see him a few times? Did
you tell him about ticket to Houston on Tuesday?
Speaker 10 (14:03):
It's past tuesday?
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Uh huh?
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Well that was the mighty true day. Only sold three
poor tickets, just.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
One of them was to Houston. Did this boy here
by it?
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Oh no, I don't reckon he.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Did you see?
Speaker 8 (14:16):
I told you a rest a minute, Hobart, You remember
who did buy it?
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Ma'am?
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Well, let me see you just got to organize myself
here a minute. Oh as two Fuggy's right after I eat?
Oh yeah, I remember it was the gym nail bout.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
The ticket, Jim Mail days. If he's mixed up on
this at all, he's army.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
I'll makes you so sure.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
Well, I've none remember since he was a kid, got
caught forging checks when he was fifteen, been up for
everything from vacancy to horse left. You still got to
be sure the ticket we found is the one that
was sold to Mail.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Ma'am. You keep a record of the serial numbers on
the tickets yoursell.
Speaker 10 (14:51):
Yeah, my book on that shelf behind me?
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Mind looking up the number of that ticket you sold Tuesday?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Oh all right, I didn't he No, Mayo was back
in town. Thought he was in the Merchant Marine.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
That have been between ships.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Other fellow Ni Carwood and Is said he was in
the Merchant.
Speaker 10 (15:06):
Here here we are.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
How you got the ticket?
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Chef right in his envelope.
Speaker 10 (15:13):
Tuesday, may Where's James Jeff Kobe t Houston? Take at
number three five.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Four born outside tickets? Say?
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Chef says Mayo was one or after look Jase three
five four four.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
In just the moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
We are seven million smart people in this country. Are
you one of them?
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Every payday, seven million people save a total of one
hundred and forty million dollars. Mister, that's a lot of
money in anybody's buck.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Who are these people that save all that?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Dull millionaires, big executives. Nope, They're just average people. But
they're smart. They know the only sure way to save
is to do it systematically. Every payday, and they know
there's no safer, better way to do so than by
buying United States Defense bonds through the payroll savings plan
where they work, or the bond a month plan where
they bank. How those savings steadily mount up two because
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they go in to improved Series E defense bonds, but
now pay three percent interest compounded semi annually when.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Held to maturity.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Why don't you join the millions of smart people building
their future now with regular investments in defense bonds. They're
now even better.
Speaker 9 (16:39):
Now.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
The second act of Tails.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story round trip.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
We released Dave Hobart, then went to the house in
Kobe where Jim Mayo's parents lived. They said he'd gone
to Houston Tuesday in the not been home since We
put out in atb on him and station to deputy
at his house. Then we started checking Seamen's hiring halls
in the Fort Cities, hoping to pick up a lead
on his whereabouts. We worked along the coast from Galveston
and on Saturday morning we walked up the stairs by
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hiring all of Corpus Christie.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
I'm getting discouraged.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Jase could be he didn't even come near one to
be hiring hall.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
He used to me shipping out to be the first
thing you try to do.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Well. I sure hope that this factory gonna.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
Tell us something. Weddow, what's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Dan?
Speaker 7 (17:41):
You're not figuring the ship out? I am. We like
some information from him. Whow it's the box ship. You
got the right man. You remember seeing a man named Jim
Mayo in here, m reckon fall.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
When was he in here last? Yesterday? J uh huh,
he happened to know where we can find him?
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Mmw reckons not do mind telling us?
Speaker 8 (18:00):
I think they sent him on to the John Duncan yesterday.
She's bound through the canal for Honolulu. You make sure
that yeah, MC card file here. Uh he's a fireman
water tender. You know, got a lot of calls.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Lately fireman water tenders. Uh huh ah. Here here's his card.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Wain't a minute matter. I gave you Jansom long information.
Mayo's not on the John Duncan.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Well, that's relief. Glad we don't have to go all
the way to Honolulu for 'em.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
No Mayo signed on to the Humphrey Victory left last night.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Where was she bound? Swimy seas?
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Yeah, Victoria, Brazil. I called headquarters and informed them that
Mail was on a ship headed for Brazil. It was
decided that he should be arrested when his ship arrived
in Victoria. Clarence was made with the Brazilian government through
the American embassy in Rio. The Sheriff and I were
detailed to make the arrest and bring the prisoner back.
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We boarded a plane and flew to Victoria in the
morning of the second of June, not quite three weeks
after Robert Dixon was killed. The ship on which Mayo
was working draft anchor for quarantine just outside the Victoria Harbor.
Together with Lieutenant Dolatto, the Brazilian police, the Sheriff and.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
I rode out towards the ship and the harbor patrol on.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
All belong Jason, I can make opperpations.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
The people standing along the rail now, yeah, it looks
at the braid on his hat, I'd say. The fellow
standing by the gangways, Captain Dryer, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
I should saying you're that's all that has been tray
fast for you.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
I bought the ship.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
He's been in radio contact with the captain and this
some mile.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Yeah, sure he does not have word that you have coming.
Unless the radio operator is a special friend, there is
no I won't.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Do him much good if he does know. He's boxed
up on there like a every good plan in time.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
I thank you of Poston, sing you. Oh the sheriff
means to be hired for mayor to get off the ship.
Oh well here we are, let's get aboard.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Well one of there's things, bob and runa.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Hope it old brick for that, get all the old
ships making it all right?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Sheriff, Yeah, and I just two of him.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Come after This guy.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
On a horse is a ranger sitting a dry captain's
lieutenant Dolato and the sheriff Alton I do. I gotta
admit this is a new experience having a ranger and
sheriff board my ship in the farm port. And it's
not exactly running the mail for us either, I suppose not,
but I followed your instruction.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
The ranger mayor.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Doesn't have any idea you're after him?
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Where is he now? On watching the engine room?
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Well, maybe it'd be a good idea to clear the
other man out of there before we go down after him.
They could get hurt if he makes trouble. Or don't
worry about that, sheriff she if engineer tells me male's
on junky watch, that means he's down there alone. Did
he take us the engine room entrance?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (20:37):
This way? How'd you get him back to the street.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Now we've already booked passage on the Goodman Victory. She's
stay on her new arms at midnight.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Goodman. That's just like this one.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
She didn't got a brick.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
We got one of the cabin and set up for mail.
Uh here we are want.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Me to go down with you if you don't mind,
we'd rather have you and the lieutenant stay here. We'll
pick him up along.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Okay, but lot thanks.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
He went.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
He gee, were flash.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
In the face.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
I don't the hall man who.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Worked down here? I reckon you get used to anything?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Yeah, there he is between those boilers, but he's back
to us.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Were working on something at that table.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
He's us now get ready in the state.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
He tried to deathline on us boiler.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, well there is my old friend the share got.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
A ranger with you too, Huh.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
He fell us a little far from home, ain't you.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
We've come to get you.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
Mail me for what so we can take you back
to the state he wanted for the murder of Robert Dixon.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I don't even know anybody by that name.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
You rode with him from Houston to Kobe on the
night of May sixteenth. We think you robbed and killed him.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
You don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
You're innocent. You have a chance to prove it back
in Texas. Come on, Mail, I'll be crazy.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
I'm not going anywhere with you.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
This is Brazil.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
What's that got to do with it.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
I don't my right.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
You've got no authority to rest me here.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
It's all been taken care of the Brazilian police officer.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Up above the captains.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Now let's get going. Oh yeah, okay, that's the way
you want.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
Just sack him in the Tippe's up that rotter.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
That's better.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
I get moving. We got a long trip ahead of it.
We put Mail aboard the ship that was to take
us back to the States and lock him in a cabin.
The tenant, Dolado stayed in the passageway outside the cabin
to guarden while the sheriff and I went to the
dock office to place an overseas called Austin.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
I informed headquarters that we had.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
Arrested Mayo and we're sailing with him that night. It
was nearly five in the afternoon when we walked across
the dock back to the ship's gangway. Stevid Orris were
loading the last of the cargo aboard.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Too bad.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
You couldn't get a real good connection when you talk
to Austin.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Then, and I think they understood what I had to say.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Uh, look at those sacks of coffee going aboard, hundreds up,
there's an old coffee drinker like you happy just look
at him.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Well, at least I know we won't run out of
it on the trip home.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
She's mate said we should be in New Orleans in
ten days.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
I'll be glad that he takes us again.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Too far away to shoot me. It's been a long haul.
It's not over yet.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
See the lieutenant sicked himself up real comfortable from there,
dose favor and holes.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Yeah, we got through.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
How's the prisoner, lex guid Stanyard not they founded from him?
Speaker 8 (23:27):
I think maybe he's sleepy once be pretty warm in
there with that porthole course where can the order to
take him off.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
For a while, Jeep, that's about time from has some food.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
Anyhow, you have the key, Lieutenant, see hearing you out
of sen yards.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I'll get him dreeched.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
I would be sorry to.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
See your ghost sting yard. It's been a pleasure to
work with you.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Thank what's wrong.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
The porthole has been Jimmy open. Mayo's gone.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Lieutenant Dolato immediately notified his headquarters of the prisoner's escaped.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
The bridge.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
Million police threw a cordon around the city. Jeff and
I started checking along the waterfront out a trace of
mail by Devin.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
That evening, we'd worked well into the center.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Of town and we're walking down the street toward the.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
First of five or six dimly lighted cafe.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Now I'm beginning to think we're not gonna find him.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
In any of these places, And then we might have
slipped through the police and haven't gotten into the jungle
he has.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
It's going to be tough finding him again.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Oh beasy for mal either if he doesn't get into
that jungle before long.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
If you wished he never got away, Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
Let's check this by sheriff, and they don't seem to
be in here.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
No, that's going and check? Oh kill captain, wren't you
the sheriff, sit down and join me? Thank you, but
I'm afraid we're having time.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Well we'll make it again, Jame. You two had to
make that long trip down here for nothing, for nothing?
Were sure you released your prisoner?
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Didn't he you escaped? Captain? Escape?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Why?
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Just saw him walking around town?
Speaker 8 (24:54):
I thought sure you decided to let him go when
you said, couldn't have been more than five minutes ago.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Poked his head in here, looked around and took off.
You remember which way you went? I'm not sure, but
I think he went on down the street. Could be
in one of those other bars. Gee, let's find out. Thanks, Captain,
don't mention it.
Speaker 9 (25:08):
I hope you got up with him.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Expires just a couple of doors down.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Mayo. Sure got a lot of nerves.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Walking around the open like this, But that's the way
he always was.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Everything's out there, huh.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
In this cafage to at the bank.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I don't buy back Mayo's setting a table bigger's line.
Come on, you must have been figured on a big
even looking I those beer models on the table in
front of them.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
I think you see you watch yourself moving in. Yeah,
Jase's picking up a beer.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Models.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Don't come any close to Angel He spotty like justus.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
You get near me, I'm gonna use it on careful Jesus.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Yeah, I said, keep away, keep away.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
On the chemin. Come on, mail and now you will
see about stops. Guy, get up yet day You're right.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Get yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And if I ever handing it out about you committing
that murder, Mayo, I've lost them. Now what are you
talking about?
Speaker 9 (26:10):
Come in and why did you try us?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Keith?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Question that?
Speaker 9 (26:12):
But I told you that's innocent. I got my constitutional right.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Constitution says you're entitled with trial by jury.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
And that's just what you're gonna get. Come on, in
just a.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Moment, we will tell you the results of the case
you have just heard.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
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Speaker 2 (27:52):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
You Mayo would return to the United States without further incident.
Textboot testified that the revolver identified as Mao's was the
one which killed Robert Dickson.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Dave Hobart, the head soldier in.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
The news carriers car declared that Mayo was the man
who had written with him and Dick Jim. Mayo was
found guilty of murder with malice and sentenced to sixty
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Speaker 1 (28:21):
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Speaker 1 (01:56):
And now from the piles of the Texas Rangers, the
case called round Trip.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It is a Thursday evening in May nineteen forty six
in the city of Houston, Texas, and a shabby travel
agency near the waterfront. Several people are sitting on benches
ranged around the walls of the poorly lighted room.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
A little past eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
A man and speaks a few words to the cluff,
then walks toward one of.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
The men at the other end of the room.
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Your name, Dave Hobart, got you?
Speaker 3 (02:27):
The fella's gotten up the wigle.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
It's ryme. You got your baggage ready?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Yeah, I guess it's one two Kay.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
West car, I'm front. Okay.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
You know, I was beginning to think maybe you weren't coming.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
I got delayed.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
Truss the miner is a pharmis spring with kid at
toy fire engine for his birthday. We got all about it,
so most of the stories were closed. I had an
awful time finding that fire engine, but I got it.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
I hope you didn't mind waiting too much, and.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Not as long as you got here. I don't feel
like spend another night of Houston.
Speaker 8 (02:59):
I tell you this, your come, Yeah, I don't get
in this site and try it over. Just wear your
two k's on top of those newspapers in the back.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Seat, all right, Hey, what you doing with all those papers?
Speaker 8 (03:12):
Oh? I'm a bundle carrier for two papers, run.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
The regular rock between here and Waco. I just take
passengers long, pick.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Up a few weeks and bucks h bundle canyons say,
pretty good money?
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Huh a living? Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Hey where you gone if there isn't no way to
the Waco road down?
Speaker 8 (03:30):
I know, got another passenger to pick up down at
the end of the block if he hasn't got tired
of waiting.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Left you working down here in Houston.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I've been looking for a job. It's got back in
Germany a few months ago, Army, Yeah, no good jobs
right now. Guys who got back first took them off.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
I reckon that's the other passenger over there. Hey, Hey,
you the fella that's going up tort Waco.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, hey, sure, it took your time getting here.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Where a mind to put these two suitcases? How long?
Just throw 'em on top of his newspapers and back.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I I know there was gonna be a card in
your car.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
I waited to take him the train in the morning.
Don't worry, we'll get you where you're going.
Speaker 9 (04:16):
Oh, FoST your dogs like coffee.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
They usually stop a couple of times on the way.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
That's okay, sure, Oh as you don't make too many stuff.
Speaker 8 (04:24):
Been driving his night rap ten years now. The only
thing I don't like bonnet. Don't give me enough time
with my wife and kid either. You fella's married.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Uh, how about you?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Now? I'm in the Merchant Marine seeing lots of girls
and lots of country running them worth Mary, need to.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Change your mind one of these days. Nothing like it
having a wife and kid to go home to. You
know something, I take passengers on his run almost every night.
Make an extra five.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
Picks bucks, and every cent of that money goes into
a special account here mark for sending my.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Boy to college.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
So yep, my wife and me, we made up our minds.
He's not gonna carry newspapers for eleven We're giving him
the beast education, we can get front.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well, well, sometimes even when you've been to school, you
got trouble making leving.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Not my kid, he is really gonna be something.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Got a holme wheeler thinks.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
When you okay, I wanna show you a picture of
m' got my wallet.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Let's get this.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Rubber band off here a alright, I got the wheel now.
See if you don't think he's the finest kid you
ever te eyes on it. Oh, bring it over a
post at the dashboard line.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
Well what do you think of it? Good looking boy?
Speaker 9 (05:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (05:39):
Hey on, miss thanks, I might hold the wheel again
every time my wallet gets footing him in trouble getting
his picture back then, and.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
You shouldn't carry so much money on.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Got to this collection day? Uh huh you uh, I'll
take the wheel down.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
For me to say you collected all that money just
in news standing.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Oh you'd be surprised. Our minds up in which was
all mine?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
And I'll flat as dell.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
Yeah sure he is at age twenty.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
The next morning, a highway employee cutting grass alongside the
road ten miles south of coald That, Texas, found the
body of a man lying in the ditch. There were
two bullet wounds in his head. When the sheriff arrived,
he immediately recognized the man as Robert Dixon of Waco.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
The sheriff requested.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Assistance from the Texas Rangers, and his nine twenty five
ranger jas Pearson, pulled up in his car.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
Send for idiot killed out, He chair out.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
He jay out, He's right down here.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
I understand you knew this, fella.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Yeah, I knew Bob Dixon was finding managern't want to
meat and it's a body jays and the jew happening
on when he had a newspaper bundle out between Houston
and Waco.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
I used to see him and diners along the road.
He was a great coffee drinker like me. We ain't
got to be pretty good friends, meeting like that every
week or so. Uh.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
He located the kuy he was driving.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
I thought it was found about fifteen minutes ago, but
it turned out to be a false alarm where I
checked his pocket get empty, Queen, pretty clare case of robbery.
Bullet centered his head on the right side when he's
powder burns means he was shout at close range. Yeah,
I figured was somebody who was riding with him?
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Was he inhabit of picking up people.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
I had some kind of arrangement with a travel agencies
down in Houston hust to carry a passenger too.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
With him almost every night.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
And we better check with those agencies if they can
tell us who rode with Dixon last night. As far
as I know about those places, sometimes they keep a
record of customer's names, and sometimes they don't.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (07:41):
Right now, it's the only lead we've got. It sounds
like Mike call how to see what they want now?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Dick was always talking about his wife and kids.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Never seen a man's a probably family. I'd sure like
to get my hands on the one who did this.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
KTXA he attended KTXA Go Ahead kt XA.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Registered to Robert Dixon of Waco, has been located by
Highway patrol near a farm road for two three miles south.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Of Kobe.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Ten four unit ten player.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Kiddy exhausted, Huh, I LL give you something to go on.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Yeah, let's get over there. The Highway patrol was waiting
for us on Farm Road forty two. Dixon's car was
about fifty yards in the road, half covered with brush.
Sheriff and I walked forward.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
It, but it looks like he started to hide the
car and didn't change his mind.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Uh huh, help me pull his brush aside? Will your share?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Now?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I can't help one.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
And why he picked this pot to leave it seems
to me either district close of.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
The town or else pick the place where it wouldn't
have been found so quick.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
Well, there's one reason he might have left it here.
There's blood on the front seat. You mean, because there's
so much of it. Yeah, probably got panicky when he
got close to town.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Decided to walk.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Through it the way that townds logical days, but it
still don't bring as much closer to know one who
did it. And we'll bring a lamb crew to go
over the car for prints. Maybe wait a minute, one
smarter and slip a paper above the sun risor here,
you know, anything innertant could be pick up Dave Hobart
at Tima's Travel Agency, Thursday, eight pm.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Geez, that is something.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Yeah, here's tracks going toward the road.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
More why if he just hike tail for towns? Who's
he ditched the car?
Speaker 7 (09:33):
That's funny?
Speaker 8 (09:33):
Mm tracks turn into that bride.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Now why would he go up this way? That don't
make geez? Next to that rock.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Man rather jacket and a parakhaki trousers.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
No doubt about there being. Here's look at the blood
stains on 'em.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
And have to shed these right after he left the car.
That means he probably had other clothes with him. You know,
I don't go through the pocket there and not if
he left anything in him, but uh, you never can tell.
There was nothing in the crowd side of the jacket. Uh,
several pennies looks like they had been the party for
quite a while.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
And hey, here's a.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Suburb bus ticket if Colby to Houston, any date on
the back this kind of bird.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
See if I can make it up here?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, May fourteenth, the forty sixth.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Well that was too deep.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
Sounds like the man we're looking for could live right
here in Kolby. Well this Dave Hobart, the fellow whose
name was on that slip of paper in the car
you reckon.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
He's the one that killed Dixon.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
We won't know that till we find him. We decided
that the best way to locate Dave Hobart was to
check all post offices in the area.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
We didn't have to look far.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
The postmaster Colby told us an ex soldier but that name,
lived on a farm with his parents twelve miles.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
South of town.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
The farmhouse was about a mile off the main highway,
not far from the spot where Dixon's body.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Had been found.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
When we arrived at the house, it was something chump
in the wood to a shed and I reckon, he's
a fellow we're looking for.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
Could be your name? Dave Hobart?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Why?
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Yeah, come, I do boy, first thing you can do
to drop that egg? What's all that's about?
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Robert? Okay?
Speaker 7 (11:19):
Were you in Houston last night?
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Why? We asked the question, were you in Houston?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:26):
When'd you go down? Man?
Speaker 5 (11:27):
What Tuesday?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
More?
Speaker 7 (11:28):
When did you come back last night? U? Now paid
the man? Gimme rye through the Thomas Travel Agency.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
That you know, I told you we'd asked the question.
This man you rode with, did he have newspapers in
the back of his car? Well?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
What if it did?
Speaker 8 (11:42):
He was robbed and killed last night by somebody riding
with him?
Speaker 7 (11:45):
And it was okay.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
When I got out of the car side there was
another guy with him.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Who was he?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
How should I know? You gotta do better than that, Hobart?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
You have a gun?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
The only gun I had I had was one Uncle
Sam gimme.
Speaker 8 (11:56):
I was so glad to give it back to him.
Why were you in Houston because I was looking job?
Did you find one had a fuel offers to men
but it didn't take him?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Cause they didn't pay?
Speaker 5 (12:05):
A robin and killing says more? Huh.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Now you look, chef, I didn't kill this guy. You
find that other fellow in the car, and you've got
your killer?
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Oh by you say you were in the army.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
Yeah, and I reckon you got some more khaki trousers
like the ones you got on, And I reckon you're wrong.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
It is the only pair got left.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
You ever own a leather jacket? No, we'll check and
find out if you're telling the truth.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Well, go on check.
Speaker 8 (12:26):
How'd you get into Houston on Tuesday?
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Cold to rane?
Speaker 8 (12:29):
You sure you didn't take the bus from Kobe?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Why would I go back there to take it? This
is twelve miles close to the Houston. You might have
been in town that morning, then you'd have got on there.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
I wasn't in.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Tire, And what's taking a bus got to do with this?
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Anyhow?
Speaker 8 (12:41):
I found a canceled bus ticket from Kobe to Houston
that we're pretty sure the killer used.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
It's dated Tuesday, the day you went to Houston.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Look, you got the wrong man.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
I'm telling maybe so that you're coming along with us anyhow,
Oh what too to the bus station in Kobe.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
Maybe somebody there I'll remember.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
If they sold you a ticket. We arrived in Kobe
a little past noon. The bus station was located in
a restaurant across from the court house.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Through the window, we could see a heavy set.
Speaker 8 (13:11):
Woman sitting at the cash register eating a large piece
of pie. The sheriff said she ran both the restaurant
and the bus stations to hobot inside going in over.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
All, right, honey, let me ask do for you, Hoidy
Maggie arrange and I'd like to ask you some questions.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
You don't mind, I don't mind.
Speaker 10 (13:30):
Hey, sure if you were reading any of my hot
Raspberry pie.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
I don't believe that.
Speaker 10 (13:33):
Oh it's mighty good if I do, think so.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Let me cut your boy not right now, thanks.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
Singer, I gotta do this. Raspberries and seeds, keep getting
my teeth put your fellas.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Want to know you're the only one who sells the
bus tickets here.
Speaker 10 (13:46):
Yeah, and ever somebody takes the nose, you buy one.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Did you ever see this boy before.
Speaker 10 (13:51):
Who listened kind of shiny? He looked up her head, Sonny.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Let me get a look at me, good looking boy? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Uh re can I see him a few times? Did
you tell him about ticket to Houston on Tuesday?
Speaker 10 (14:03):
It's past tuesday?
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Uh huh?
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Well that was the mighty true day. Only sold three
poor tickets, just.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
One of them was to Houston. Did this boy here
by it?
Speaker 10 (14:13):
Oh no, I don't reckon he.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Did you see?
Speaker 8 (14:16):
I told you a rest a minute, Hobart, You remember
who did buy it?
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Ma'am?
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Well, let me see you just got to organize myself
here a minute. Oh as two Fuggy's right after I eat?
Oh yeah, I remember it was the gym nail bout.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
The ticket, Jim Mail days. If he's mixed up on
this at all, he's army.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
I'll makes you so sure.
Speaker 8 (14:38):
Well, I've none remember since he was a kid, got
caught forging checks when he was fifteen, been up for
everything from vacancy to horse left. You still got to
be sure the ticket we found is the one that
was sold to Mail.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Ma'am. You keep a record of the serial numbers on
the tickets yoursell.
Speaker 10 (14:51):
Yeah, my book on that shelf behind me?
Speaker 7 (14:54):
Mind looking up the number of that ticket you sold Tuesday?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Oh all right, I didn't he No, Mayo was back
in town. Thought he was in the Merchant Marine.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
That have been between ships.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Other fellow Ni Carwood and Is said he was in
the Merchant.
Speaker 10 (15:06):
Here here we are.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
How you got the ticket?
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Chef right in his envelope.
Speaker 10 (15:13):
Tuesday, may Where's James Jeff Kobe t Houston? Take at
number three five.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
Four born outside tickets? Say?
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Chef says Mayo was one or after look Jase three
five four four.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
In just the moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
We are seven million smart people in this country. Are
you one of them?
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Every payday, seven million people save a total of one
hundred and forty million dollars. Mister, that's a lot of
money in anybody's buck.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Who are these people that save all that?
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Dull millionaires, big executives. Nope, They're just average people. But
they're smart. They know the only sure way to save
is to do it systematically. Every payday, and they know
there's no safer, better way to do so than by
buying United States Defense bonds through the payroll savings plan
where they work, or the bond a month plan where
they bank. How those savings steadily mount up two because
(16:20):
they go in to improved Series E defense bonds, but
now pay three percent interest compounded semi annually when.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Held to maturity.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Why don't you join the millions of smart people building
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Speaker 9 (16:39):
Now.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
The second act of Tails.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story round trip.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
We released Dave Hobart, then went to the house in
Kobe where Jim Mayo's parents lived. They said he'd gone
to Houston Tuesday in the not been home since We
put out in atb on him and station to deputy
at his house. Then we started checking Seamen's hiring halls
in the Fort Cities, hoping to pick up a lead
on his whereabouts. We worked along the coast from Galveston
and on Saturday morning we walked up the stairs by
(17:20):
hiring all of Corpus Christie.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
I'm getting discouraged.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Jase could be he didn't even come near one to
be hiring hall.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
He used to me shipping out to be the first
thing you try to do.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Well. I sure hope that this factory gonna.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
Tell us something. Weddow, what's on your mind?
Speaker 9 (17:40):
Dan?
Speaker 7 (17:41):
You're not figuring the ship out? I am. We like
some information from him. Whow it's the box ship. You
got the right man. You remember seeing a man named Jim
Mayo in here, m reckon fall.
Speaker 8 (17:51):
When was he in here last? Yesterday? J uh huh,
he happened to know where we can find him?
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Mmw reckons not do mind telling us?
Speaker 8 (18:00):
I think they sent him on to the John Duncan yesterday.
She's bound through the canal for Honolulu. You make sure
that yeah, MC card file here. Uh he's a fireman
water tender. You know, got a lot of calls.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
Lately fireman water tenders. Uh huh ah. Here here's his card.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Wain't a minute matter. I gave you Jansom long information.
Mayo's not on the John Duncan.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Well, that's relief. Glad we don't have to go all
the way to Honolulu for 'em.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
No Mayo signed on to the Humphrey Victory left last night.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Where was she bound? Swimy seas?
Speaker 8 (18:39):
Yeah, Victoria, Brazil. I called headquarters and informed them that
Mail was on a ship headed for Brazil. It was
decided that he should be arrested when his ship arrived
in Victoria. Clarence was made with the Brazilian government through
the American embassy in Rio. The Sheriff and I were
detailed to make the arrest and bring the prisoner back.
(19:01):
We boarded a plane and flew to Victoria in the
morning of the second of June, not quite three weeks
after Robert Dixon was killed. The ship on which Mayo
was working draft anchor for quarantine just outside the Victoria Harbor.
Together with Lieutenant Dolatto, the Brazilian police, the Sheriff and.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
I rode out towards the ship and the harbor patrol on.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
All belong Jason, I can make opperpations.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
The people standing along the rail now, yeah, it looks
at the braid on his hat, I'd say. The fellow
standing by the gangways, Captain Dryer, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
I should saying you're that's all that has been tray
fast for you.
Speaker 8 (19:31):
I bought the ship.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
He's been in radio contact with the captain and this
some mile.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Yeah, sure he does not have word that you have coming.
Unless the radio operator is a special friend, there is
no I won't.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Do him much good if he does know. He's boxed
up on there like a every good plan in time.
Speaker 8 (19:46):
I thank you of Poston, sing you. Oh the sheriff
means to be hired for mayor to get off the ship.
Oh well here we are, let's get aboard.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Well one of there's things, bob and runa.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Hope it old brick for that, get all the old
ships making it all right?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Sheriff, Yeah, and I just two of him.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Come after This guy.
Speaker 8 (20:04):
On a horse is a ranger sitting a dry captain's
lieutenant Dolato and the sheriff Alton I do. I gotta
admit this is a new experience having a ranger and
sheriff board my ship in the farm port. And it's
not exactly running the mail for us either, I suppose not,
but I followed your instruction.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
The ranger mayor.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Doesn't have any idea you're after him?
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Where is he now? On watching the engine room?
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Well, maybe it'd be a good idea to clear the
other man out of there before we go down after him.
They could get hurt if he makes trouble. Or don't
worry about that, sheriff she if engineer tells me male's
on junky watch, that means he's down there alone. Did
he take us the engine room entrance?
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (20:37):
This way? How'd you get him back to the street.
Speaker 8 (20:41):
Now we've already booked passage on the Goodman Victory. She's
stay on her new arms at midnight.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Goodman. That's just like this one.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
She didn't got a brick.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
We got one of the cabin and set up for mail.
Uh here we are want.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Me to go down with you if you don't mind,
we'd rather have you and the lieutenant stay here. We'll
pick him up along.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Okay, but lot thanks.
Speaker 9 (21:03):
He went.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
He gee, were flash.
Speaker 9 (21:05):
In the face.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
I don't the hall man who.
Speaker 7 (21:07):
Worked down here? I reckon you get used to anything?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Yeah, there he is between those boilers, but he's back
to us.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
Were working on something at that table.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
He's us now get ready in the state.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
He tried to deathline on us boiler.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Yeah, well there is my old friend the share got.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
A ranger with you too, Huh.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
He fell us a little far from home, ain't you.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
We've come to get you.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
Mail me for what so we can take you back
to the state he wanted for the murder of Robert Dixon.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I don't even know anybody by that name.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
You rode with him from Houston to Kobe on the
night of May sixteenth. We think you robbed and killed him.
Speaker 6 (21:43):
You don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
You're innocent. You have a chance to prove it back
in Texas. Come on, Mail, I'll be crazy.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
I'm not going anywhere with you.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
This is Brazil.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
What's that got to do with it.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
I don't my right.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
You've got no authority to rest me here.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
It's all been taken care of the Brazilian police officer.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Up above the captains.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Now let's get going. Oh yeah, okay, that's the way
you want.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
Just sack him in the Tippe's up that rotter.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
That's better.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
I get moving. We got a long trip ahead of it.
We put Mail aboard the ship that was to take
us back to the States and lock him in a cabin.
The tenant, Dolado stayed in the passageway outside the cabin
to guarden while the sheriff and I went to the
dock office to place an overseas called Austin.
Speaker 7 (22:35):
I informed headquarters that we had.
Speaker 8 (22:36):
Arrested Mayo and we're sailing with him that night. It
was nearly five in the afternoon when we walked across
the dock back to the ship's gangway. Stevid Orris were
loading the last of the cargo aboard.
Speaker 9 (22:47):
Too bad.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
You couldn't get a real good connection when you talk
to Austin.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
Then, and I think they understood what I had to say.
Speaker 8 (22:52):
Uh, look at those sacks of coffee going aboard, hundreds up,
there's an old coffee drinker like you happy just look
at him.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Well, at least I know we won't run out of
it on the trip home.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
She's mate said we should be in New Orleans in
ten days.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
I'll be glad that he takes us again.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Too far away to shoot me. It's been a long haul.
It's not over yet.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
See the lieutenant sicked himself up real comfortable from there,
dose favor and holes.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Yeah, we got through.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
How's the prisoner, lex guid Stanyard not they founded from him?
Speaker 8 (23:27):
I think maybe he's sleepy once be pretty warm in
there with that porthole course where can the order to
take him off.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
For a while, Jeep, that's about time from has some food.
Speaker 8 (23:35):
Anyhow, you have the key, Lieutenant, see hearing you out
of sen yards.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I'll get him dreeched.
Speaker 8 (23:41):
I would be sorry to.
Speaker 6 (23:42):
See your ghost sting yard. It's been a pleasure to
work with you.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Thank what's wrong.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
The porthole has been Jimmy open. Mayo's gone.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Lieutenant Dolato immediately notified his headquarters of the prisoner's escaped.
Speaker 7 (23:59):
The bridge.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
Million police threw a cordon around the city. Jeff and
I started checking along the waterfront out a trace of
mail by Devin.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
That evening, we'd worked well into the center.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Of town and we're walking down the street toward the.
Speaker 7 (24:10):
First of five or six dimly lighted cafe.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Now I'm beginning to think we're not gonna find him.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
In any of these places, And then we might have
slipped through the police and haven't gotten into the jungle
he has.
Speaker 7 (24:20):
It's going to be tough finding him again.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Oh beasy for mal either if he doesn't get into
that jungle before long.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
If you wished he never got away, Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
Let's check this by sheriff, and they don't seem to
be in here.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
No, that's going and check? Oh kill captain, wren't you
the sheriff, sit down and join me? Thank you, but
I'm afraid we're having time.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Well we'll make it again, Jame. You two had to
make that long trip down here for nothing, for nothing?
Were sure you released your prisoner?
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Didn't he you escaped? Captain? Escape?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Why?
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Just saw him walking around town?
Speaker 8 (24:54):
I thought sure you decided to let him go when
you said, couldn't have been more than five minutes ago.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Poked his head in here, looked around and took off.
You remember which way you went? I'm not sure, but
I think he went on down the street. Could be
in one of those other bars. Gee, let's find out. Thanks, Captain,
don't mention it.
Speaker 9 (25:08):
I hope you got up with him.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Expires just a couple of doors down.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Mayo. Sure got a lot of nerves.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Walking around the open like this, But that's the way
he always was.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
Everything's out there, huh.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
In this cafage to at the bank.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I don't buy back Mayo's setting a table bigger's line.
Come on, you must have been figured on a big
even looking I those beer models on the table in
front of them.
Speaker 7 (25:31):
I think you see you watch yourself moving in. Yeah,
Jase's picking up a beer.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Models.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Don't come any close to Angel He spotty like justus.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
You get near me, I'm gonna use it on careful Jesus.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
Yeah, I said, keep away, keep away.
Speaker 9 (25:51):
On the chemin. Come on, mail and now you will
see about stops. Guy, get up yet day You're right.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Get yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
And if I ever handing it out about you committing
that murder, Mayo, I've lost them. Now what are you
talking about?
Speaker 9 (26:10):
Come in and why did you try us?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Keith?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Question that?
Speaker 9 (26:12):
But I told you that's innocent. I got my constitutional right.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (26:17):
Constitution says you're entitled with trial by jury.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
And that's just what you're gonna get. Come on, in
just a.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Moment, we will tell you the results of the case
you have just heard.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
For the Republicans, it's Eisenhower and Nixon. For the Democrats,
it's still a race to see who will come out
ahead in party favor.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
This week is all important for the Democratic Party as
they hold a national convention in Chicago, and you'll want
to hear every history.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Making development direct from the convention beginning tomorrow on this station.
NBC's news staff and technical crew more than three hundred
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in Convention Hall, in Candidate's headquarters, and in NBC's own
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Speaker 6 (27:26):
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Speaker 4 (27:27):
Cottonborn, Richard Harkness, and dozens of others will bring you
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on NBC. Now the conclusion of tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
You Mayo would return to the United States without further incident.
Textboot testified that the revolver identified as Mao's was the
one which killed Robert Dickson.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Dave Hobart, the head soldier in.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
The news carriers car declared that Mayo was the man
who had written with him and Dick Jim. Mayo was
found guilty of murder with malice and sentenced to sixty
years in Huntsville's An Adventuri.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Textork Joel McCrae, and another authentic reenactment.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Of the case from the Files Down, but Texas.
Speaker 9 (28:27):
Bringers Technical Advisor with Captain M. T.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Lone Wolf Conflates of the Texas Rangers. This story was
transcribed and adapted by Charles E. Israel, and the program
was produced and directed by Stacy Keith.
Speaker 9 (29:00):
Tales of the.
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