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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae's ranger Chase Pearson,
another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the Piles
of the Texas Rangers. Names, dates, and places in the
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following story are fixtitious for obvious reasons. The events themselves
are a matter of records.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Before we bring you today's story of the Texas Rangers,
let's talk a moment with Bill Harris and Alice Fay
during a break in the rehearsal for today's Bill Harris
Alis Fay Show.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Thank you, Bill Foreman.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
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Speaker 2 (01:44):
Thank you, Phil Harris and Alice Faye. And now here's
today's adventure of the Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called the Iceman.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
It is three am on September seventeenth, nineteen forty eight,
in a farmhouse nine miles north of Rayner, Texas. Helen
Dry awakes from a sound sleep, raises herself on the
railbow and listens for a moment. Then she leans across
and taps her husband, berging down the shoulder.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Wake up, all right, I which man?
Speaker 8 (02:32):
Somebody downstairs? Oh yeah no, Let in the kitchen. Yeah
yeah here, Now I'm going down there. I can't let him, Toney,
can't just call the ship. Don't you give me chances?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Please? I will. Maybe you're right where the dickens. Therefore
where I pray, give me the sheriff quick.
Speaker 8 (03:05):
Here.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
If boll speaking, I'm care if this is didn't dry her.
If I have to talk out, I can't hear you.
Speaker 8 (03:10):
There's a burglar in my house.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Oh you say this one?
Speaker 8 (03:13):
You can't try her Farm Road twenty two. Man's down
in my kitchen or knock it out there right away.
He's coming on the hole. Do it s thing?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I think he's hitting upstairs chair. Don't try to snop me. Mom,
get there as quick as a cat. He's just coming
up here.
Speaker 8 (03:27):
We do o. Dam can't you sleeping out? You?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Whatever happened? Don't bulls you're not going.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
No, no, no money? An he gone, Yearney, He's gone.
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Did you see what it looked like? Noble? It was
too dar.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
The sheriff reached the Drive farmhouse twenty minutes after the
departure of the intruder. He found missus Dry in a
state of hysteria and sent her upstairs with her husband.
After a cursory investigation, he immediately contacted the Texas Rangers
and requested assistance. Ranger jas Pearson was assigned, arriving on
the scene at four twenty five am.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
The sheriff led him directly to the kitchen. Hey, you
see what I mean, Jayson. Yeah, I'm glad you called
the sheriff. Looks like it might be the one we've
been after a long time. I kind of figured it was.
He broke into the kitchen and raided the ice box first.
I can't get over that eating the family's food before
he tackles a job.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I mean, he's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It's one of the things that's made him so hard
to catch and see if he's left another one of
his trademarks. You looking for anything special, Jase.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
I've found it.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
What is it? Anthony uses to trip the latch on
the screen door, pushes an ice pick through the screen.
Does he always carry that ice pick with him?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Far as we know he does? Cat Stinson over to headquarters,
calls him.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
The iceman ice man or No, I sure don't relish
having him in my county. Afraid you have him around
town for one more night anyhow well, I would make
you say that it's part of his Amo always hits
two nights in a row in the same area. Pick's
houses pretty far from town, and the second place is
always on the opposite side of town from the one
he worked the night before. It shouldn't be hard to
nab in it. That's what we've thought for over a
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year now. We even know a couple of other interesting
things about him. He never enters a house where there's
a dog, and he wears gloves on the job. And
even knowing this, we haven't been able to catch him.
So you haven't men get any fingerprints on him?
Speaker 9 (06:01):
Man?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Huh? Yeah, I'm sure wish somebody'd at least get a
look at him.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
We've learned a lot about him.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Since he's been operating, but we still don't have any
idea what he looks like. Well, maybe the dryers can
tell us something. She ought to be feeling better by now.
In just a second. It's just on the floor. You
have a piece of paper, handy I can use to
sweep some of it of. Well, here's a sheet out
of a note. But add to the trick. Uh huh, thanks, yeah,
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I thought, so what is it? I'd say it was snuff,
So would I, mister dryer use it? Nope? Ted smoked cigar.
And it looks like we've just discovered another one of
the iceman's habits and every time we do, we get
just a little bit closer to catching him. I sure,
hope you're right.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Let's go up and see if the dryers can tell
us anything.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
This dryer was right jumpy when I got here. Not
much wonder either if she was the one first hurt
y moving around in the kitchen. Much money to get
here over eighty dollars ted had just been to the bank.
All right, if the ranger and me come in sure
calling in here got anything to help you? I we
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think so. How you feeling now? I'm his dryer?
Speaker 8 (07:13):
Oh it's still looking shaky.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I don't think I'll have a sleep atgain night the
way he came right to this room. Now, hoy, honey,
it's all over. I'm still so sure. Yeah, sure, don't
you and a sheriff want to sit down?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Ranger and no, thanks, would just be a few minutes more.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I've been thinking since it happened. Maybe I did wrong
not trying to stop him here. Lucky you didn't, mister dryer.
A couple of people have tried. He's pretty handy, with
a nice picky carries. Has he killed anybody? But he's
coming closed. He gets cornered. He's like a weasel. You
seem to know a lot about this fella. We never
laid eyes on him. Well, then that's not hard ked.
Our man's been operating for over a year in different
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parts of Texas, and the rangers got a good idea
of his m.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
O amo modus operandi.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It's a pattern habitual criminals follow on a job, almost
like a signature. But what we really needed some description
of the man himself. I wish we could help you,
but it was right dock in our room and he
didn't use a flashlight.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
Well, I saw a shadow when he crossed in front
of the.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Window, so did I, honey, But that's not what the
ranger wants. Yeah, we appreciate you trying anyhow, What do
you figure we ought to do next? Jee be light
in a few minutes. We'll see if there are any
tracks to follow outside. I won't stand much chance of
catching up with him this lee, I know we might
get a line on something almost as important the direction
he took when he left here. As soon as it
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was light enough for trailing, we went outside.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Back of the house.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
We found a spot where the thief had rested on
the ground prior to the burglary. Near the front door,
we discovered tracks leading southeast across the fields. I unloaded
charcoal from the trailer, and the sheriff borrowed a horse
from mister dryer.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Tracks were easy to follow. After about three miles we
pulled up.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Oh boy, yeah, what do you make of that? Jason
looks like he stopped to rest again. Way the brushes crushed.
I'd say it spent quite a while here. Yeah, And
I don't figure why would a man who just broke
into a house stop so close to the place you off.
Could have been waiting for something. How far is the
main highway from here? We're pretty close, just over that ride.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Let's see if the tracks lead there. Come on.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
If you're right about he is waiting for something, it
could be he's got a partner with the car meets
him on the highway at some special time. Maybe, But
our iceman strikes me more as the type would work alone.
Tracks look like they're gonna lead right onto the highway
Jason supposed to do. Where do we go from there?
Ye see, if he crossed the road. If he did,
might give us some indication to where he was heading.
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And if he didn't, that's something we'll have to try
and figure out. Oh, go chuck, eh tracks stop at
the highway, all.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Right, uh huh. Take a look over here, But.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Jase, it's a snuff box. Looks like it's been run.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Over by a car U something heavier.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Sureff, we just might have the answer to one of
the biggest problems about our man. What's that transportation? How
he gets back into town after a job. I don't
follow you, geez, come on back here. And these marks
in the gravel, Yeah, what.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Do they look like to you?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well, they could be tire mark fromdal wheels, double spurret
of gravel where they started off, and up there where
the snuff box was. You can see where the front
wheels turned. Do you figure he might have been picked
up by a truck. It's a little too long for
a truck. Could have been one of those big trailer jobs,
you know, then the rear wheels wouldn't have traction. No,
I got a hunch it was a bus that picked
our friend. Well, there is a bus due in town
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from this direction at four point fifty, and make it
pass here around four thirty, just right for the iceman
to make it. You mean he might plan his jobs
around bus schedule.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
It's possible. Can we better try to locate the driver
who brought in that bus.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
That shouldn't be too hard. Drivers all change at Rainer
and we're going to get into town. See if you
remembers picking up a passenger at this spot, Hey, Ja,
could really be onto something. We've got a few other
angles to check before we're sure, but if they pan out,
we got just one more detail in the Iceman's mo
and this might be the one that trips him up.
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We reached the Continental Trailways bus depot eight that morning
and located the driver who had brought in the four
to fifty bus. He remembered picking up a single passager
eight miles from Rainer, but was unable to describe him.
I left the sheriff in the depot restaurant and called Austin.
Twenty minutes later I had the information I needed. I
joined the sheriff at the restaurant counter. Grab his heat, Jason,
I already just some eggs and coffee, told Gride keep
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him Hofer.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
You got here.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Thanks, hey, miss, you can bring the rangers order. Now
find out anything from Moskin plenty. Every job the Iceman's
pulled has been at the time and place where he
could have used a bus to get back to town. Hey,
then we are onto something.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Yeah, and we're going to try to take advantage of
it tonight.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Thanks miss Hey Jase, how do you figure to work it?
According to the iceman's m he'll pick a house south
of Rainer tonight. We can be sure it'll be somewhere
not too far from the main highway out of town.
You reckon, we can get him when he tries to
board the inbound bus.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
We're gonna try. I checked the schedule.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
The early morning bus from the south gets to Rainer
at five oh six. We'll be tailing it all the
way in. It sounds like it might work. How far
out do you want to pick it up? Fifteen miles
out to do it, but we'll make it twenty just
to be safe. Twenty miles we'd have to be out
on the highway at four. I reckon. We ought to
leave here about three.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I'm better go catch a few hours sleep now, Sheriff,
I don't think we'll get much tonight. At three the
next morning, the sheriff and I drove south on the
highway out of Rainer. Was still dark when We picked
up the inbound bus at four seventeen am. We tailed
it for five miles without seeing anyone. Ten miles from
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town and still no results. The seven mile mark, the
sheriff leaned forward in his seat. Hey, Jace, Yeah, can
you get a little over the right.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
You think you see somebody?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I'm not sure?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
How about now?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, that's better. Yeah. Up at the top of the
next hill, the bus headlines just caught him. Stand at
the side of the road. They hold on, Sheriff, We're
going around the bus. Then we're gonna roll you see
you now, Yeah, stay on your toes. And in case
he makes a break when we stop.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Right case, if you get close to him, watch out
for that ice pig.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I'll try not to get that close. Get ready, Well
can you beat that? A woman?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
I already kick myself. She had me fool too.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
There ought to be some kind of law against women
wearing slacks reckon. She works in the aircraft. Planned. Now
we let the bus pass us again. He might still
be between here and town. What do we do We
don't spot him, turn around come out again as another
bus do At nine oh three, We'll pick it up
at the same place and tail it. He's gotta be
around here somewhere, and we're gonna find him.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
The bus we were.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Following picked up no more passengers on the way town.
We repeated the procedure with a nine zero three bus,
still no results. A little before ten that morning, the
sheriff and I walked into his office. I swear I
don't understand it, Jess, I just don't understand it. How
come he didn't show one.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
And beats me sheriff for a year or more.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Man operates a certain way, picks off two houses and
two consecutive nights.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Maybe I was all wrong about that bus routine. No,
I don't think so. Once you figure his pattern, it's
laid out too clear. Couldn't be only coincidence about his
robbing houses near the main highway just an hour or
so before a bus passes, I guess not. But if
taken a bus into town is part of his Amoh
where was he? No robbery recorded last night? Could be
he decided to lay low for a night or two.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
It doesn't figure either.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
He wasn't scared the night before, made an eighty dollars
hall from the driers and never even knew they were
awake and looks like he might have cleared out. What
are your plans now, Jason, I reckon, I better start
back to headquarters. Cap says he's got enough work lined
up to keep me busy a month, and I'm sure
sorry it didn't pan. I sort of had my heart
set on helping to Hawley in that little weasel.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
H keep in touch with a sheriff.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
If you hear anything, give us a shore wheel, Jason,
thanks for everything, along sheriff. Sheriff home, Yeah, well you
me wait a minute, jas, oh jas call me, yeah,
come here all right now, give me that again. I
see sure, okay, we'll handle it. So on, what's up?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Reckon?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Captain Tents don't have to get along without you for
another day. I don't think you'll want to leave now anyhow.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Our man did hit last night? Robbed an old fellow
named Earl Sweeze. He's ten miles south of town.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Man.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
I guess I was wrong about that bus routine after all.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Maybe, but I got an idea last night with something
new for your ice man. He stole the old man's car,
used it for his getaway.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
I don't know what made him break his mo like that,
I reckon.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
He had to get away fast. Do you mean he
stabbed old man Squeezey with his ice.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
In just a moment.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
We will continue with Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson.
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Speaker 6 (17:22):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story the Iceman.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
We left immediately for Earl Squeezee's farmhouse. On the way,
the sheriff told me as much of the story as
he'd heard over the phone. The old man had surprised
the intruder and struggled with him before he was stabbed
twice in the shoulder. When we pulled up to the house,
the doctor was just leaving. He informed us that mister
Sweezee was not badly hurt and was waiting for us.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Well, Sheriff, come come in you too, Ranger.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Thanks mister Sweezey.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Okay, Earl, you shouldn't be walking around with that bad
childer now, Sheriff, don't you be talking like that doctor
telling me this staying but they'd be more to this
staying bed And the dog said you did lose some blood,
and I've got a lot more.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
It takes more than a nice pick to be letting
all the blood out of all earls.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Sweeze.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
We'd like to ask you a few questions about what
happened last.
Speaker 10 (18:12):
Night, and I expect to be wanting to hear the
whole thing, just the way the card I'm coming to
the kitchen with me. I want to show you just
the way things was when I surprised it.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Oh, we can stay right here for now, mister Sweeze.
I think you'd be more comfortable now.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
Don't be smiling the excitement from your ranger. I've been
looking forward to telling you about this ever since you
let me know you was on your way out.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Will you be coming with me? You fought with the
burglary in the kitchen? That I did, I was up
to be a bid sleeping sound? Did you please? When I
heard the rafting and shuffling down here?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
What time was this, mister sweezee.
Speaker 10 (18:42):
I wouldn't be known exactly a ranger, but I had
a feeling for some time after two or four o'clock.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Uh huh, here we are.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
I've left everything the way it was, except that I've
cleaned up a little bit of blood.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
It wasn't afforded. You put up quite a fight at that,
didn't you.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
I'm proud to say I did. I hadn't been for
that eye I speak. He was so fond of Wieldon.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
It had been a different story altogether.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
What happened after you heard him down here, mister Sweezee?
Oh yes, well, I come down the stairs easy like.
And when he got to the kitchen door, what do
you suppose I seen his fellow door?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
He was probably eating.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Ah, somebody already told you about it. And now, mister Sweezee,
that's the way this man operates. Breaks into a house, eats,
and then takes whatever money you can find.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Is that so?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Now?
Speaker 10 (19:27):
Well, I'll be quick about telling you the rest, stranger.
I could just make out this fella sitting at the
table eating. I give a good run on a jumping
before you know it, with his fighting like two wildcats.
And then he put this ice picking my shoulder. Next
thing you remember, I come to him. It was bright daylight.
I got up when I made it over to Hank
Flower's farm.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Don't you have a phone here? Never felt the need
of one till now, Shadow did you get a look
at the man while you were fighting.
Speaker 10 (19:50):
Well, now, Ranger, that's hard to say. I seen him
and I didn't. What with this being so dark and all, Well,
could you describe him?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Well?
Speaker 10 (19:58):
The most second says about the size of him. He
was about my height and quick quick. Oh he's quick
as a scare draft. There's something else I forgot? What's that,
mister sweezee gys gys. I expect that was the only
part of his face I really seen me. Eyes looked
at you the way up Bobcat does when you get
him cornered.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
You think you'd be able to identify him if you
saw him?
Speaker 10 (20:19):
As I said, I seen him and I didn't, But
I'm thinking I could identify him.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
We heard in town he stole your car? Is that true?
It is?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
And I'm glad you asked me.
Speaker 10 (20:28):
Range ives almost forgetting to give you the license number.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Guy, I gotta reach out.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Thanks. That'll be all for now, and you better take
it easy for a while with that shoulder.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Oh, don't be worried about me.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
I'll be ready whenever you need me again.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I hope that'll be soon, mister Sweezee.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
The quote out of Tracer on mister Sweezey's car. Around
noon of the third day. The car was found covered
with brush off a small dirt road near Route one.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Nighty. We were checking the area when I received.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
A radio call KTXA to Unit ten. Unit ten to KTXA,
go ahead, KTXA.
Speaker 11 (21:06):
Iceman has been located through a standard m check in
town of Delaney. Reported breaking and entering during early hours
this morning.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Delaney. That's fifty miles north of here. Huh ten four does
KTXA no exact location of crime with reference to center
of Delaney house.
Speaker 11 (21:23):
Belongs to a pry in endless location twelve miles east.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Of town ten four. This unit will proceed immediately to Delaney.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Unit ten Player ten for KDXS. He's already hit east
of town, should be west for his second strike.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Want a tailor bus again to Night's share.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
If it means another crack at this iceman, you just
crime stop me. Let's get a rolling Jason.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
In Delaney.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
We checked the bus schedules and learned there was a
Continental Trailway's local inbound from the west at four fifty seven.
By four, he intercepted the bus and started tailing it
toward town at four twenty five. We spotted a man
standing at the side of the road a quarter mile
ahead of the bus, and passed the bus and pulled
up ten yards from the man, keeping him in our headlights.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
He made no attempt to run.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
As we got out of the car, I saw him
throw something open the brush.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Git.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Yeah, stay where you are, mister. I want to talk
to you. The bus's coming. I gotta get in town.
Wave the bus on, Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Sure, look what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I gotta get on that bus. You'll give you a
ride into town. You've got no right to do this.
What's your name, George Tag? Where do you live? I
don't have to tell you nothing.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I asked you where you live? I want an answer, Dallas.
What are you doing out here tonight?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Maybe I've been visiting friend? Your friend have a name?
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Look, you've got no business asking me questions like RISCMB shriff.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah, you keep your hands off me.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Shut up.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah, looks like the beginning of payer Jason. Box of snuff,
wallet full of money, and a pair of cotton gloves.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Want to use these gloves in my gloves? Got a
right to use me anywhere?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I won't. You are to learn the law a little better.
I suppose you go get that ice pick you just
threw away. I don't know what you're talking about. See
if you can find it here, I'll find it if
it's the last thing I do. And look, how long
are you going to stand out here asking me questions?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
So we're finished? Where were you tonight? Told you before
visiting friend who maybe I can't take?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Maybe she got a husband, Jason?
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Find it? Yes, sharp fan shine here? How many houses
you break into with this Tiger? I never saw that
for I don't think i'd claim it either if I'd
stabbed as many people with it as you have. You're
wasting your time. You promised me right into town.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Am I going to get it?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Yeah? But not to the town you think You're going
to get a ride A long way back to a
town called Rainer. We arrived in rain around ten that morning.
We locked Tagger in the county jail and contacted mister Sweetseey.
We told him we wanted him to make an identification
and arranged to have.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
A special show up in the cell block. Tiger and
five of them and were to be presented to him
in the hope that he could identify the man who'd
entered his house. Come on in, got the six of
him over there in one second.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Fine, this will be fine enough, mister sweezee. Wait here
while the sheriff brings them in out.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I'll have my poy in a second. Ranger.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
If I'm not able to identify this man, do you
have enough on him to send him away?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Anyhow? Maybe without identification, a good lawyer could get him off.
All right, Olliah, come on out of there, Come on
and stop talking. My form a straight line in front
of the cell. Get moving, alien, We get a little
closer now, mister sweezee.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Maybe these men look familiar to you.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I'm not able to say for a certain ranger.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Just take your time.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
That one started from the left. I might be him
you now, the next man step out, How about it,
mister sweeze. Maybe if he was to talk.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Anything specially, you want to hear him say.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Maybe if he was to say, I'll get you. That's
what he said when he was fighting.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I mean here, you say i'll get you.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Look what is is?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Say it?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I'll get you. Maybe if he was to whisper, that's
the way he says.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
When I heard him whisper those same words, I.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Don't know how you heard the ranger whisper. I get you,
mister sweezy, A ranger. I can't be sure. I just
wouldn't want to be.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Saying oh thanks anyhow, sheriff.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Look, wait a minute, what is it?
Speaker 10 (25:27):
I was just remembering in the fight the other night,
just before he put the ice pick in my shoulder,
I had a hold of him and I scratched the
back of his neck.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Are you sure it wasn't.
Speaker 10 (25:35):
I almost forgetten. If that's the man, he'll have the
mac of my fingernails across the scruff of his neck.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
All right, you turn around.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Look what you're trying to?
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Turn around?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
You can't make me do nothing out of all it
is him.
Speaker 10 (25:47):
That's what he got in his eyes, just saying I
know them is any place? It's him?
Speaker 7 (25:50):
For sures you turn.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Let's get back in that.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I said in the sad.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Fuck it up it.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Light it all you want, Tagger. It's gonna take Maren
and ice pick to get through that door.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
You have just heard.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Hello, friends, this is Jack Parr. I'll be with you
later this evening with a sixty four dollars question. But
right now, I'd like to remind you by some of
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Speaker 6 (27:38):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
On November seventeenth, nineteen forty eight, George Taggo was tried
in Therena County Court.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
On duel charges of colonious assault and burglary.
Speaker 12 (27:49):
He was convicted and sentenced to twenty three years in
Huntsville Benituentuary. Next week, Jole McCrae and another authentic reenact
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Speaker 6 (28:33):
Technical advisor was Captain M. T. Lone Wolf Gonzalez of
the Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed and adapted by
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Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae's ranger Chase Pearson,
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are a matter of records.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Before we bring you today's story of the Texas Rangers,
let's talk a moment with Bill Harris and Alice Fay
during a break in the rehearsal for today's Bill Harris
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Speaker 3 (01:00):
Thank you, Bill Foreman.
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Speaker 2 (01:44):
Thank you, Phil Harris and Alice Faye. And now here's
today's adventure of the Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called the Iceman.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
It is three am on September seventeenth, nineteen forty eight,
in a farmhouse nine miles north of Rayner, Texas. Helen
Dry awakes from a sound sleep, raises herself on the
railbow and listens for a moment. Then she leans across
and taps her husband, berging down the shoulder.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Wake up, all right, I which man?
Speaker 8 (02:32):
Somebody downstairs? Oh yeah no, Let in the kitchen. Yeah
yeah here, Now I'm going down there. I can't let him, Toney,
can't just call the ship. Don't you give me chances?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Please? I will. Maybe you're right where the dickens. Therefore
where I pray, give me the sheriff quick.
Speaker 8 (03:05):
Here.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
If boll speaking, I'm care if this is didn't dry her.
If I have to talk out, I can't hear you.
Speaker 8 (03:10):
There's a burglar in my house.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Oh you say this one?
Speaker 8 (03:13):
You can't try her Farm Road twenty two. Man's down
in my kitchen or knock it out there right away.
He's coming on the hole. Do it s thing?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I think he's hitting upstairs chair. Don't try to snop me. Mom,
get there as quick as a cat. He's just coming
up here.
Speaker 8 (03:27):
We do o. Dam can't you sleeping out? You?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Whatever happened? Don't bulls you're not going.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
No, no, no money? An he gone, Yearney, He's gone.
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Did you see what it looked like? Noble? It was
too dar.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
The sheriff reached the Drive farmhouse twenty minutes after the
departure of the intruder. He found missus Dry in a
state of hysteria and sent her upstairs with her husband.
After a cursory investigation, he immediately contacted the Texas Rangers
and requested assistance. Ranger jas Pearson was assigned, arriving on
the scene at four twenty five am.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
The sheriff led him directly to the kitchen. Hey, you
see what I mean, Jayson. Yeah, I'm glad you called
the sheriff. Looks like it might be the one we've
been after a long time. I kind of figured it was.
He broke into the kitchen and raided the ice box first.
I can't get over that eating the family's food before
he tackles a job.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I mean, he's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
It's one of the things that's made him so hard
to catch and see if he's left another one of
his trademarks. You looking for anything special, Jase.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
I've found it.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
What is it? Anthony uses to trip the latch on
the screen door, pushes an ice pick through the screen.
Does he always carry that ice pick with him?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Far as we know he does? Cat Stinson over to headquarters,
calls him.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
The iceman ice man or No, I sure don't relish
having him in my county. Afraid you have him around
town for one more night anyhow well, I would make
you say that it's part of his Amo always hits
two nights in a row in the same area. Pick's
houses pretty far from town, and the second place is
always on the opposite side of town from the one
he worked the night before. It shouldn't be hard to
nab in it. That's what we've thought for over a
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year now. We even know a couple of other interesting
things about him. He never enters a house where there's
a dog, and he wears gloves on the job. And
even knowing this, we haven't been able to catch him.
So you haven't men get any fingerprints on him?
Speaker 9 (06:01):
Man?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Huh? Yeah, I'm sure wish somebody'd at least get a
look at him.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
We've learned a lot about him.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Since he's been operating, but we still don't have any
idea what he looks like. Well, maybe the dryers can
tell us something. She ought to be feeling better by now.
In just a second. It's just on the floor. You
have a piece of paper, handy I can use to
sweep some of it of. Well, here's a sheet out
of a note. But add to the trick. Uh huh, thanks, yeah,
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I thought, so what is it? I'd say it was snuff,
So would I, mister dryer use it? Nope? Ted smoked cigar.
And it looks like we've just discovered another one of
the iceman's habits and every time we do, we get
just a little bit closer to catching him. I sure,
hope you're right.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Let's go up and see if the dryers can tell
us anything.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
This dryer was right jumpy when I got here. Not
much wonder either if she was the one first hurt
y moving around in the kitchen. Much money to get
here over eighty dollars ted had just been to the bank.
All right, if the ranger and me come in sure
calling in here got anything to help you? I we
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think so. How you feeling now? I'm his dryer?
Speaker 8 (07:13):
Oh it's still looking shaky.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I don't think I'll have a sleep atgain night the
way he came right to this room. Now, hoy, honey,
it's all over. I'm still so sure. Yeah, sure, don't
you and a sheriff want to sit down?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Ranger and no, thanks, would just be a few minutes more.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I've been thinking since it happened. Maybe I did wrong
not trying to stop him here. Lucky you didn't, mister dryer.
A couple of people have tried. He's pretty handy, with
a nice picky carries. Has he killed anybody? But he's
coming closed. He gets cornered. He's like a weasel. You
seem to know a lot about this fella. We never
laid eyes on him. Well, then that's not hard ked.
Our man's been operating for over a year in different
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parts of Texas, and the rangers got a good idea
of his m.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
O amo modus operandi.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It's a pattern habitual criminals follow on a job, almost
like a signature. But what we really needed some description
of the man himself. I wish we could help you,
but it was right dock in our room and he
didn't use a flashlight.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
Well, I saw a shadow when he crossed in front
of the.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Window, so did I, honey, But that's not what the
ranger wants. Yeah, we appreciate you trying anyhow, What do
you figure we ought to do next? Jee be light
in a few minutes. We'll see if there are any
tracks to follow outside. I won't stand much chance of
catching up with him this lee, I know we might
get a line on something almost as important the direction
he took when he left here. As soon as it
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was light enough for trailing, we went outside.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Back of the house.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
We found a spot where the thief had rested on
the ground prior to the burglary. Near the front door,
we discovered tracks leading southeast across the fields. I unloaded
charcoal from the trailer, and the sheriff borrowed a horse
from mister dryer.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Tracks were easy to follow. After about three miles we
pulled up.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Oh boy, yeah, what do you make of that? Jason
looks like he stopped to rest again. Way the brushes crushed.
I'd say it spent quite a while here. Yeah, And
I don't figure why would a man who just broke
into a house stop so close to the place you off.
Could have been waiting for something. How far is the
main highway from here? We're pretty close, just over that ride.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Let's see if the tracks lead there. Come on.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
If you're right about he is waiting for something, it
could be he's got a partner with the car meets
him on the highway at some special time. Maybe, But
our iceman strikes me more as the type would work alone.
Tracks look like they're gonna lead right onto the highway
Jason supposed to do. Where do we go from there?
Ye see, if he crossed the road. If he did,
might give us some indication to where he was heading.
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And if he didn't, that's something we'll have to try
and figure out. Oh, go chuck, eh tracks stop at
the highway, all.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Right, uh huh. Take a look over here, But.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Jase, it's a snuff box. Looks like it's been run.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Over by a car U something heavier.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Sureff, we just might have the answer to one of
the biggest problems about our man. What's that transportation? How
he gets back into town after a job. I don't
follow you, geez, come on back here. And these marks
in the gravel, Yeah, what.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Do they look like to you?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well, they could be tire mark fromdal wheels, double spurret
of gravel where they started off, and up there where
the snuff box was. You can see where the front
wheels turned. Do you figure he might have been picked
up by a truck. It's a little too long for
a truck. Could have been one of those big trailer jobs,
you know, then the rear wheels wouldn't have traction. No,
I got a hunch it was a bus that picked
our friend. Well, there is a bus due in town
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from this direction at four point fifty, and make it
pass here around four thirty, just right for the iceman
to make it. You mean he might plan his jobs
around bus schedule.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
It's possible. Can we better try to locate the driver
who brought in that bus.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
That shouldn't be too hard. Drivers all change at Rainer
and we're going to get into town. See if you
remembers picking up a passenger at this spot, Hey, Ja,
could really be onto something. We've got a few other
angles to check before we're sure, but if they pan out,
we got just one more detail in the Iceman's mo
and this might be the one that trips him up.
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We reached the Continental Trailways bus depot eight that morning
and located the driver who had brought in the four
to fifty bus. He remembered picking up a single passager
eight miles from Rainer, but was unable to describe him.
I left the sheriff in the depot restaurant and called Austin.
Twenty minutes later I had the information I needed. I
joined the sheriff at the restaurant counter. Grab his heat, Jason,
I already just some eggs and coffee, told Gride keep
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him Hofer.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
You got here.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Thanks, hey, miss, you can bring the rangers order. Now
find out anything from Moskin plenty. Every job the Iceman's
pulled has been at the time and place where he
could have used a bus to get back to town. Hey,
then we are onto something.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Yeah, and we're going to try to take advantage of
it tonight.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Thanks miss Hey Jase, how do you figure to work it?
According to the iceman's m he'll pick a house south
of Rainer tonight. We can be sure it'll be somewhere
not too far from the main highway out of town.
You reckon, we can get him when he tries to
board the inbound bus.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
We're gonna try. I checked the schedule.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
The early morning bus from the south gets to Rainer
at five oh six. We'll be tailing it all the
way in. It sounds like it might work. How far
out do you want to pick it up? Fifteen miles
out to do it, but we'll make it twenty just
to be safe. Twenty miles we'd have to be out
on the highway at four. I reckon. We ought to
leave here about three.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I'm better go catch a few hours sleep now, Sheriff,
I don't think we'll get much tonight. At three the
next morning, the sheriff and I drove south on the
highway out of Rainer. Was still dark when We picked
up the inbound bus at four seventeen am. We tailed
it for five miles without seeing anyone. Ten miles from
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town and still no results. The seven mile mark, the
sheriff leaned forward in his seat. Hey, Jace, Yeah, can
you get a little over the right.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
You think you see somebody?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I'm not sure?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
How about now?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, that's better. Yeah. Up at the top of the
next hill, the bus headlines just caught him. Stand at
the side of the road. They hold on, Sheriff, We're
going around the bus. Then we're gonna roll you see
you now, Yeah, stay on your toes. And in case
he makes a break when we stop.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Right case, if you get close to him, watch out
for that ice pig.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I'll try not to get that close. Get ready, Well
can you beat that? A woman?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
I already kick myself. She had me fool too.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
There ought to be some kind of law against women
wearing slacks reckon. She works in the aircraft. Planned. Now
we let the bus pass us again. He might still
be between here and town. What do we do We
don't spot him, turn around come out again as another
bus do At nine oh three, We'll pick it up
at the same place and tail it. He's gotta be
around here somewhere, and we're gonna find him.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
The bus we were.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Following picked up no more passengers on the way town.
We repeated the procedure with a nine zero three bus,
still no results. A little before ten that morning, the
sheriff and I walked into his office. I swear I
don't understand it, Jess, I just don't understand it. How
come he didn't show one.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
And beats me sheriff for a year or more.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Man operates a certain way, picks off two houses and
two consecutive nights.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Maybe I was all wrong about that bus routine. No,
I don't think so. Once you figure his pattern, it's
laid out too clear. Couldn't be only coincidence about his
robbing houses near the main highway just an hour or
so before a bus passes, I guess not. But if
taken a bus into town is part of his Amoh
where was he? No robbery recorded last night? Could be
he decided to lay low for a night or two.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
It doesn't figure either.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
He wasn't scared the night before, made an eighty dollars
hall from the driers and never even knew they were
awake and looks like he might have cleared out. What
are your plans now, Jason, I reckon, I better start
back to headquarters. Cap says he's got enough work lined
up to keep me busy a month, and I'm sure
sorry it didn't pan. I sort of had my heart
set on helping to Hawley in that little weasel.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
H keep in touch with a sheriff.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
If you hear anything, give us a shore wheel, Jason,
thanks for everything, along sheriff. Sheriff home, Yeah, well you
me wait a minute, jas, oh jas call me, yeah,
come here all right now, give me that again. I
see sure, okay, we'll handle it. So on, what's up?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Reckon?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Captain Tents don't have to get along without you for
another day. I don't think you'll want to leave now anyhow.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Our man did hit last night? Robbed an old fellow
named Earl Sweeze. He's ten miles south of town.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
Man.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
I guess I was wrong about that bus routine after all.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Maybe, but I got an idea last night with something
new for your ice man. He stole the old man's car,
used it for his getaway.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
I don't know what made him break his mo like that,
I reckon.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
He had to get away fast. Do you mean he
stabbed old man Squeezey with his ice.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
In just a moment.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
We will continue with Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
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Speaker 6 (17:22):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story the Iceman.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
We left immediately for Earl Squeezee's farmhouse. On the way,
the sheriff told me as much of the story as
he'd heard over the phone. The old man had surprised
the intruder and struggled with him before he was stabbed
twice in the shoulder. When we pulled up to the house,
the doctor was just leaving. He informed us that mister
Sweezee was not badly hurt and was waiting for us.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Well, Sheriff, come come in you too, Ranger.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Thanks mister Sweezey.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Okay, Earl, you shouldn't be walking around with that bad
childer now, Sheriff, don't you be talking like that doctor
telling me this staying but they'd be more to this
staying bed And the dog said you did lose some blood,
and I've got a lot more.
Speaker 10 (18:07):
It takes more than a nice pick to be letting
all the blood out of all earls.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Sweeze.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
We'd like to ask you a few questions about what
happened last.
Speaker 10 (18:12):
Night, and I expect to be wanting to hear the
whole thing, just the way the card I'm coming to
the kitchen with me. I want to show you just
the way things was when I surprised it.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Oh, we can stay right here for now, mister Sweeze.
I think you'd be more comfortable now.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
Don't be smiling the excitement from your ranger. I've been
looking forward to telling you about this ever since you
let me know you was on your way out.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Will you be coming with me? You fought with the
burglary in the kitchen? That I did, I was up
to be a bid sleeping sound? Did you please? When I
heard the rafting and shuffling down here?
Speaker 5 (18:40):
What time was this, mister sweezee.
Speaker 10 (18:42):
I wouldn't be known exactly a ranger, but I had
a feeling for some time after two or four o'clock.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Uh huh, here we are.
Speaker 10 (18:49):
I've left everything the way it was, except that I've
cleaned up a little bit of blood.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
It wasn't afforded. You put up quite a fight at that,
didn't you.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
I'm proud to say I did. I hadn't been for
that eye I speak. He was so fond of Wieldon.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
It had been a different story altogether.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
What happened after you heard him down here, mister Sweezee?
Oh yes, well, I come down the stairs easy like.
And when he got to the kitchen door, what do
you suppose I seen his fellow door?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
He was probably eating.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Ah, somebody already told you about it. And now, mister Sweezee,
that's the way this man operates. Breaks into a house, eats,
and then takes whatever money you can find.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Is that so?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Now?
Speaker 10 (19:27):
Well, I'll be quick about telling you the rest, stranger.
I could just make out this fella sitting at the
table eating. I give a good run on a jumping
before you know it, with his fighting like two wildcats.
And then he put this ice picking my shoulder. Next
thing you remember, I come to him. It was bright daylight.
I got up when I made it over to Hank
Flower's farm.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Don't you have a phone here? Never felt the need
of one till now, Shadow did you get a look
at the man while you were fighting.
Speaker 10 (19:50):
Well, now, Ranger, that's hard to say. I seen him
and I didn't. What with this being so dark and all, Well,
could you describe him?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Well?
Speaker 10 (19:58):
The most second says about the size of him. He
was about my height and quick quick. Oh he's quick
as a scare draft. There's something else I forgot? What's that,
mister sweezee gys gys. I expect that was the only
part of his face I really seen me. Eyes looked
at you the way up Bobcat does when you get
him cornered.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
You think you'd be able to identify him if you
saw him?
Speaker 10 (20:19):
As I said, I seen him and I didn't, But
I'm thinking I could identify him.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
We heard in town he stole your car? Is that true?
It is?
Speaker 3 (20:27):
And I'm glad you asked me.
Speaker 10 (20:28):
Range ives almost forgetting to give you the license number.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Guy, I gotta reach out.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Thanks. That'll be all for now, and you better take
it easy for a while with that shoulder.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Oh, don't be worried about me.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
I'll be ready whenever you need me again.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I hope that'll be soon, mister Sweezee.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
The quote out of Tracer on mister Sweezey's car. Around
noon of the third day. The car was found covered
with brush off a small dirt road near Route one.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Nighty. We were checking the area when I received.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
A radio call KTXA to Unit ten. Unit ten to KTXA,
go ahead, KTXA.
Speaker 11 (21:06):
Iceman has been located through a standard m check in
town of Delaney. Reported breaking and entering during early hours
this morning.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Delaney. That's fifty miles north of here. Huh ten four does
KTXA no exact location of crime with reference to center
of Delaney house.
Speaker 11 (21:23):
Belongs to a pry in endless location twelve miles east.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Of town ten four. This unit will proceed immediately to Delaney.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Unit ten Player ten for KDXS. He's already hit east
of town, should be west for his second strike.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Want a tailor bus again to Night's share.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
If it means another crack at this iceman, you just
crime stop me. Let's get a rolling Jason.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
In Delaney.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
We checked the bus schedules and learned there was a
Continental Trailway's local inbound from the west at four fifty seven.
By four, he intercepted the bus and started tailing it
toward town at four twenty five. We spotted a man
standing at the side of the road a quarter mile
ahead of the bus, and passed the bus and pulled
up ten yards from the man, keeping him in our headlights.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
He made no attempt to run.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
As we got out of the car, I saw him
throw something open the brush.
Speaker 8 (22:16):
Git.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Yeah, stay where you are, mister. I want to talk
to you. The bus's coming. I gotta get in town.
Wave the bus on, Sheriff.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Sure, look what you're doing.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
I gotta get on that bus. You'll give you a
ride into town. You've got no right to do this.
What's your name, George Tag? Where do you live? I
don't have to tell you nothing.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I asked you where you live? I want an answer, Dallas.
What are you doing out here tonight?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Maybe I've been visiting friend? Your friend have a name?
Speaker 7 (22:42):
Look, you've got no business asking me questions like RISCMB shriff.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah, you keep your hands off me.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Shut up.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah, looks like the beginning of payer Jason. Box of snuff,
wallet full of money, and a pair of cotton gloves.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Want to use these gloves in my gloves? Got a
right to use me anywhere?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I won't. You are to learn the law a little better.
I suppose you go get that ice pick you just
threw away. I don't know what you're talking about. See
if you can find it here, I'll find it if
it's the last thing I do. And look, how long
are you going to stand out here asking me questions?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
So we're finished? Where were you tonight? Told you before
visiting friend who maybe I can't take?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Maybe she got a husband, Jason?
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Find it? Yes, sharp fan shine here? How many houses
you break into with this Tiger? I never saw that
for I don't think i'd claim it either if I'd
stabbed as many people with it as you have. You're
wasting your time. You promised me right into town.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Am I going to get it?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Yeah? But not to the town you think You're going
to get a ride A long way back to a
town called Rainer. We arrived in rain around ten that morning.
We locked Tagger in the county jail and contacted mister Sweetseey.
We told him we wanted him to make an identification
and arranged to have.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
A special show up in the cell block. Tiger and
five of them and were to be presented to him
in the hope that he could identify the man who'd
entered his house. Come on in, got the six of
him over there in one second.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
Fine, this will be fine enough, mister sweezee. Wait here
while the sheriff brings them in out.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I'll have my poy in a second. Ranger.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
If I'm not able to identify this man, do you
have enough on him to send him away?
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Anyhow? Maybe without identification, a good lawyer could get him off.
All right, Olliah, come on out of there, Come on
and stop talking. My form a straight line in front
of the cell. Get moving, alien, We get a little
closer now, mister sweezee.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Maybe these men look familiar to you.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I'm not able to say for a certain ranger.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Just take your time.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
That one started from the left. I might be him
you now, the next man step out, How about it,
mister sweeze. Maybe if he was to talk.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Anything specially, you want to hear him say.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Maybe if he was to say, I'll get you. That's
what he said when he was fighting.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I mean here, you say i'll get you.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Look what is is?
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Say it?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I'll get you. Maybe if he was to whisper, that's
the way he says.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
When I heard him whisper those same words, I.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Don't know how you heard the ranger whisper. I get you,
mister sweezy, A ranger. I can't be sure. I just
wouldn't want to be.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Saying oh thanks anyhow, sheriff.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Look, wait a minute, what is it?
Speaker 10 (25:27):
I was just remembering in the fight the other night,
just before he put the ice pick in my shoulder,
I had a hold of him and I scratched the
back of his neck.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Are you sure it wasn't.
Speaker 10 (25:35):
I almost forgetten. If that's the man, he'll have the
mac of my fingernails across the scruff of his neck.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
All right, you turn around.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Look what you're trying to?
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Turn around?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
You can't make me do nothing out of all it
is him.
Speaker 10 (25:47):
That's what he got in his eyes, just saying I
know them is any place? It's him?
Speaker 7 (25:50):
For sures you turn.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Let's get back in that.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I said in the sad.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Fuck it up it.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Light it all you want, Tagger. It's gonna take Maren
and ice pick to get through that door.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
You have just heard.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Hello, friends, this is Jack Parr. I'll be with you
later this evening with a sixty four dollars question. But
right now, I'd like to remind you by some of
the other great shows this evening on the NBC Radio Network.
In just a few minutes, you'll hear the Big Show
with Pulah Bankhead and a big array of guest stars,
and of course Meredith Wilson will be on hand to
direct the Big Show orchestra and chorus. You will hear
ninety minutes of scintillating comedy and music today on the
(26:51):
Big Show. And then right after the Big Show, stick
around for the Phil Harris Alice Fay Show with Frankie Rimley,
Julius Abruzzio, Brother William, and the Harris Household.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
It's a program that's sure to please you.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
Later today, Theater Guild on the Air will bring you
stars from Hollywood and Broadway in an exciting Broadway play.
And right after Theater Guild on the Air, I'll be
back with a pocketful of money and the sixty four
dollars question.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
I'll be talking to a lot.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Of contestants tonight, and maybe you'll hear one of your neighbors.
So why not stay tuned right now to the NBC
for a whole evening of great entertainment. I'll be looking
for you in our radio audience tonight. And now let's
get back to the tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
On November seventeenth, nineteen forty eight, George Taggo was tried
in Therena County Court.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
On duel charges of colonious assault and burglary.
Speaker 12 (27:49):
He was convicted and sentenced to twenty three years in
Huntsville Benituentuary. Next week, Jole McCrae and another authentic reenact
the case from the Pile Dove The Texas Rangers. Joel
(28:23):
McCrae will soon be seen in San Francisco Story, a
Warner Brothers release. The cast included Tony Barrett, Lillian Baia,
Whitfield Connor, and Parley Bear.
Speaker 6 (28:33):
Technical advisor was Captain M. T. Lone Wolf Gonzalez of
the Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed and adapted by
Charles E. Israel and the program is produced and directed
by Stacy Keath hel get Me Speaking.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
Next, The Big Show brings you ninety minutes of drama,
comedy and music on NBC.
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