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Speaker 1 (00:08):
The Pails of the Texas Ranger, starring Joel McCrae as.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Ranger Chase Pearson.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Another authentic reenactment of Case transcribe from the Piles of
the Texas Rangers. Names, dates, and places in the following
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
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Speaker 3 (00:50):
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They're now even better. Now back to tales of the
Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers that
can case called Alibi.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
It is approximately ten am on Wednesday morning, July seventeenth,
nineteen forty eight. A large truck carrying sheep is traveling
at a moderate speed along Highway twenty eight leading into Bankroft, Texas.
The driver of the truck squints his eyes against the
glare of the morning sun, while his sleeping companion stirs
uneasily in the blazing heat.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh yeah, darn pool, get by me.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Travel at that's speed in this heat. You blow tire
for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well what's the matager ah?
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Tourists always in a hurry to get no place? Must
been doing seven places?
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Who said all that car that just passed us going
like the devil? Open your eyes and take a look.
There they go just over that rise over here.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh oh man, goo is hot.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
How do you know you've been asleep since the sun?
Come up?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Say you sore about losing the toys last night.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
I ain't sore about losing last night so much so.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
We've been trucking together for over six months and I
ain't one once. Boy, it's got this sunrise shit. While
you just snooze away, peaceful as out of it, chucks,
I won't have any eyes last.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Well, it's it'll make you feel better. The next place
will come to. Let stop and I'll buy you a beer.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Okay, I could stand something to with my whistle. This
heat is awful.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
I'm far away from the next town bank crossed, about
ten miles up. But we can stop the Deacons. That's
his place down there on the ride.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, man, look at those shade trees or the sheep
will go over that.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
By the time we were cooling these tires too. Hey,
Dad wasn't blowing the road hot as dead.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And I know what you mean, Deacons. I ain't never
been here before. He heah ooh, I feel like I've.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Been driving for a week.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And think the sheep will be all right?
Speaker 8 (03:56):
Sure, they'll go for that shade just where the only
ones around. Ain't nobody here, Deacon's probably around summers. Let's
it down here at the county deck. Deacon.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Hey, that's funny. Somebody has been here. Look at him
to bottles at the end of the country.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Now maybe he's out back.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Yeah, it could be with his chickens. Decide the coldest beer.
Old Deacon's got eggs here the size of bowling balls.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Might have pretty big chickens.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Do Vegas and Texas?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We do?
Speaker 6 (04:31):
You suppose you went to I'm dying thirst?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Hey, why don't we help ourselves? The beer's right over
there and refrigerator.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
I wouldn't wanna do that. Deacon might not like deacon.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Hey, deacon, you got a couple cash customers. I ain't
gonna sit here all day. I'm gonna get me up here.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
I reckon the deacon. Little body bring me up.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Hold, yeah, right off the ice. Just wait there.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
What's matter Jim?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Chuck? Huh? Chuck him here?
Speaker 6 (04:58):
What's matter of?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
What is that door in the storeroom on the floor?
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Huh? Good lord, it's a deacon.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No wonder he couldn't hear it. She's heading crushed to
a pulp.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Don't touch him.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
What do we do?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Better? Call a share Come on, there's a phone out front.
Speaker 9 (05:21):
As soon as Sheriff George Hoffer of Bankrupt County received
the truck driver's call.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
He immediately requested the assistance of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Ranger Jase Piarston was a.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Signed to the case and arrived at the scene of
the crime about an hour later. Jelly, all right, but
I howdy g hello, Sheriff Ranger Pearson lifted Chuck Roberts
and Jim Patrick.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
They're the ones that do on the body.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Howdy, alright, I'll know, Ranger. That's your truck outside with
the sheep in it. Yes, sir, we're trying anxious get
along too. I've already talked to him. Jason, is there
anything you want to ask him? Yeah, in a few minutes.
Why don't you men wait over there? It won't be long, okay,
ye look at the body share. Yeah, it's out back
in the storeroom or fella. He sure took an awful bee.
That's the door over there, a jace before you go
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out there on the shore something.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
What's that shaff over here?
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Cash drawers partly opened.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Uh cleaned out? All right?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
You men touched this cash register?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh, Ranger, We ain't touched nothing. Just a phone only
called the sheriff. Okay, well, there's the motive sheriff robbery
kind of business the deacon did here. He couldn't have
had more than fifteen or twenty dollars in nothing.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It's a lot of money to some people.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah. How about those beer bottles down at the end
of the counter with a yours sir? Hmm, golden box,
Like the deacon had a thirsty customer. Jase, Look here
by the refrigerator. Isn't that a bloodstain?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Sure is?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
What do you make of that? It looks like the
deacon might have been slugged right here. If the man
who was drinking that golden box was sitting at the counter,
he could have done it when the deacon had his
back turned. Yet he wasn't hit as the bottle. There'd
be some broken glass around. Wouldn't have to be a bottle,
could have been anything. Come on, let's take a look
at the body. And there's some blood over the door. Yeah,
the body's right behind his barrel.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Sure did take a beaton, didn't he.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah. I figured it must have happened last night around
closing time, else he'd have been found before this. The
deacon do much morning business over a little bit didn't
amount to a hill of beans. Night time seems more logical. Yeah,
I think so. I wonder if they cleaned his pockets
out too. I don't know answer, but I have a look.
Find anything, Jay and a few coins, some keys, that's all. Uh, Sheriff,
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what's the matter, Sheriff, get on that phone and call
an ambulance. Why deacon, he's still alive. The deacon remained unconscious.
His condition was critical. X rays showed he had sustained
triple fractures of the skull. After the lab crew arrived
and went over to the store for additional clues, the
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sheriff and I started checking on people known to be
Deacon's customers.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
The next morning, we were still looking for a leave.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Who's next on the list? Sheriff, And let me see.
There's Dodie Carson Randrew two twenty.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
That's about a half.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Mile further on. You know him? Yeah, but he couldn't
have done it.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
He's an old fellaw, he ain't got the strength to
break an egg.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Chefy x A ten Yeah, ten.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Un attended KTXA go ahead, colab.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
Reports and leap finger print taine and Deacon's cafe belonging
to one John Sampson, aged thirty four, five beat ten,
one hundred and ninety five pounds, brown hair, of brown eyes,
ruddy complexion, released Huntsville Penitentiary January this year after serving
two of a three year sentence with perkery subject. I
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employed his ranch hand, plying, d Lynch, you have a sentity.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Ten four no other traffic unit ten player other traffic
dxal h.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I'm Sampson. What's the matter? You know him?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Names Smith? I I think we pulled him in a
couple of months ago brawl in a pool half I
remember ray, Oh yeah, he's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Where's the Flying b located?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Sheriff, It's west to Hear, about ten miles past the
Deacon hang on. Fifteen minutes later we arrived in the
ranch yard of the Flying Bee. The foreman told us
that John Sampson was out riding fence. I got charcoal
out of the trailer while the sheriff borrowed a horse
and we headed to the area where Sampson was supposed
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to be. Foreman said he ought to be just over
this ride. Yeah, oh there he is. Where over there
for that muskee? Come on, Turky he's heated. Jason, Yeah, ooh, ooh, ooh,
hotted you. John Sampson Yeah, Why ranger here wants to
ask you a couple of questions. What was on your mind?
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You ever stopped by the Deacons on Highway twenty eight,
Jacans about ten miles down the road from here. Oh
leftly sharre I go in there some time? How often?
I don't know? Once in a while. You in that
Tuesday night around closing time Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Let's see day before yesterday?
Speaker 6 (10:05):
No, I wasn't in there?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Where were it? I was it? I was in town?
Where in town? Say?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yes? Answer the rangers questions? Sam, all right, Tuesday night,
I was at the Easy eighth there all night? Where's
that as the bear parlor in the pool? Whom Jason
away is? Uh huh?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
You say you were there all night?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Samson? Sure? Just told you.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Don't.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
They stopped serving bear at midnight?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
All right? So what the pool tables stay open?
Speaker 6 (10:26):
They saw food there?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What's wrong with that? He's right, Jason, the joint don't close.
You must have come back to the range sometimes I
did after daybreak? You shoot pool all night? We had
a little game going.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Who's week?
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Coming the boys and me.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And you didn't stop by the Deacons on your way
back to the range?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Oh it was closed. When was the last time you
were at the Deacon?
Speaker 9 (10:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Monday night, I think, don't you know?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I know it was Monday night. I had a beer
in there. You sure it wasn't Tuesday? Oh, it wasn't Tuesday.
It was Monday. Why what do you want to know?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
For?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Kind of beer do you drink?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Samson?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
What kind?
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Well?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I don't know, any cop, do you ever drink golden balls? Sometimes?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Better come along with us.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I ain't going nowhere. I gotta finish checking this fat
You get on your horse.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I ain't done nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Why Tuesday night somebody beat up the deacon and robbed
and nearly killed him. What's that got to do with me? Plenty?
We found your fingerprints all over the place. We took
Samson in and checked his alibi. The manager at the
Easy Ag said he had been there on Tuesday night
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and had left near daybreak. It seemed like the man
was telling the truth, but we didn't want to release
Samson until we had a talk with a deacon. We
called the hospital and learned that he was still unconscious.
We went back to the Sheriff's office. Samson was getting impatient. Hey,
how much longer are you guys gonna keep me here?
Just until we check on a few things.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I listen, I know my rights.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You're gonna keep me here? You gotta book me.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
We will in the time.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Come on, what manager of the pool room told you?
Speaker 9 (11:52):
I was that?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
What more?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
You want better witness?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
What's the matter with him? How do we know he's
not covering up for you? He's no angel. You know
I've had him in here before too. Kind of that
you're holding? Take it easy, Samson. If you're in the clear,
you've got nothing to worry about.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Who said I was worried?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Excuse me, jes. You guys think you're fooling with some
dumb bunny or something. If you're so innocent, Samson, why
are you giving us so much static? I'll vetoes.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Either you've got to book me or turn my loose.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
It's as simple as that.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
You got anything more important to do?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That's my bid? All right, Sampson, I got a deputy outside.
We'll be glad to entertain you for a while. What
I mean by that, you'll see, Look, I want to
get out of here. You will if you're telling the truth.
And that's what we're gonna find out. Right now.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
What was that phone call?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Share the hospital? The deacons regained consciousness. It's the lucky
break for us. Je Yeah, if you identify Samson, we
can wrap it up this afternoon. I sure hope. So,
of course, Doc says he's still pretty weak. Might not
take the question. Here's your room on twenty one, Deacon,
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can you hear me?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
M his eyes?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Rope? Man, Deacon?
Speaker 10 (13:06):
Who's that?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I'm Ranger Pearson. This is Sheriff Hopper used to meet you. What, Deacon,
you know me? George Hopper Hoffer? Oh yeah, sure tell me.
Do you know a man by the name of John Sampson?
Who Sampson? John Sampson? He stops in your place from
time to time. Oh yeah, nice fella, you're knowing that.
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What'd you say? Your name was? Pearson?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Ranger Pearson?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Oh yeah, Pearson? You come about the eggs?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Eggs? What do you mean, Deacon?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Those was bad eggs, mister Pearson. I can't have that.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
You should have kindled those eggs.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
What's he talking about?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
S sh I got good customers, mister Pearson. You show
me three dozen bad egg can't have that? Looky, I
show you.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I wait a minute, Deacon, don't try to get up.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
I've been not here on the porch long and now
I want assure you they made.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Right back in the stone.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Now, Deacon, you stay here. We'll talk to you later.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, you do that, Come on shore. No more battle.
What is the matter with him, Jae, He's lost his memory.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joe McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
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the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story alibi.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
With the deacon suffering from loss of memory, we knew
there was only one thing to do. Release John Sampson.
We went back to the Sheriff's office and asked the
deputy to bring him down from his cell. Now it's
about time. What's the big idea of locking me up? Oh?
Pipe down all right, Joe, I'll take overthings ranch. Look,
what do you think you're kidding?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
You ain't got nothing on me right now, we haven't.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
What's the matter? Ranger? Did the deacon die? Would it
make you feel better?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Wouldn't make any difference at all?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I got an alibi and you know it. All right, Samson,
You're free to go, but if we want you again,
you better be around. Yeah, and remember this if you
did do it, we'll get you sooner or later. You're
a two time loser and still our number one suspect.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
So what you can't prove nothing?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Go ahead book me, But if you do, I'll sue
you for false arrest. Now what do you know about that?
Speaker 9 (16:39):
Gone back to your ranch?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
But I'm warning you. Set one foot out of this
county and we'll pick you up the past.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
You won't know what passed.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Ain't going no place. Don't worry, I'll be seated.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
He's so sure himself, man too sure. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Well, what do we do now? Wait a morning, I
guess then I want to have another talk with a
deacon and Jace. Wuld he expect to gain to that?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Maybe if we just keep asking him questions about anything,
we might pick up an angle to go on, he
might remember something. Suppose it's worth a try right now,
I only hope. The next morning, Sheriff Offer and I
went back to the hospital. There we learned the deacon
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had improved to the point of taking nourishment, though he
was still suffering from loss of memory. Even with the
odds against us, we had to try once more. Deacon
uh oh, oh, you remember me? Range a person?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Seems I do a senior someplace. We were here yesterday, yesterday, yesterday.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I'm sorry, I I I don't know you.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
I I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Don't you remember anything?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Lord, I can't seem to make any sense out of anything.
Something's happened.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Look, Deacon, you got a store on the highway.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
No, not me, mister, I think you're wrong.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Sure you have, Deacon.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You and Mary. Anne's trying it about seventeen years ago, Marriad?
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Marriad?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Who was that chet?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Three years ago? Mary?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Look, look, mister, you gotta help me.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
You gotta help me. We're trying to I can't remember
my head.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
I what happened in my head?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Tuesday night?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Somebody came into your store and robbed you and beat
you up.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Me someone been left to me, Yes, Deacon, tuesday night,
I don't remember. I can't remember. Well, Deacon, Look, maybe
you'll remember something if you'll just answer a few questions.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Why try to help me, mister, please try.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
We will.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Do you remember where you live?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, I got a half you know where he got back?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Sat back out back of whatcon? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
It's behind your store? Remember your store.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
My store, Yeah, yeah, my store.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Now, Deacon, I want you to tell me everything that
you do from the time you get up in the
morning until you go to bed.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Can you remember that?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Yeah? Yeah, I remember. Let's see, I get up, I'll
fixed breakfast.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Wait, wait a minute, you've skipped over a lot there.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Yes, Deacon, not so fast. What time do you get up?
Do you know?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Early daybreak?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Every day?
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Every day.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
I feed the chickens, open the store.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Wait a minute, you're getting the head again. I'm sorry. Now,
what's the next thing you do after you get up?
Speaker 6 (19:58):
A shave?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Well, anything else?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Calendar? I set the calendar.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Set your calendar? What kind of calendar?
Speaker 7 (20:06):
A little desk model on him rolland gives the day
and the day sim a bureau top bro.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Did you set it Tuesday?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Tuesday?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:14):
It was raining Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, I said it. Hey, Jase, he's right, he's remembering.
It did rain early Tuesday morning.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Now Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I said it then too, it was.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
A nice morning.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I wait a minute, Deacon, not Wednesday. You couldn't have
said it then, No, I said, it wasn't raining Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
You reckon? He did?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I don't know, Deacon, Are you sure you set your
calendar Wednesday? Oh, it's set my calendar every day, samell.
Don't you believe me? You gotta believe me. Sure, Deacon,
we believe you. I'm try and sleep now. I'll see
you later. If he did set his calendar Wednesday morning,
you know what that means you You bet I do.
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Sampson could have been at the easy Age Tuesday night,
but he's gonna have to have another alibi for Wednesday morning.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Come on, let's see if we're on the right track.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Forty five minutes later, the sheriff and I pulled up
to the deacon's house behind the roadside store. In the
top of the dresser, we found the calendar. The deacon
was right, It was set for Wednesday, July seventeenth. From there,
we went straight out to the ranch where Sampson worked.
It wasn't around and no one had seen him on
our way into town. We sent out on APB to
pick him up.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Then we headed for the easy A school room.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Well, I don't see him anywhere to you. You know,
the manager's not around either. Let's ask the waiter.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Waiter been waiting a minute?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Oh hotti, sheriff Ranger what can I do for you?
You know a fellow name of Samson who hangs out here. Uh,
Sampson don't seem to recollect. You ought to know him.
He's here a lot huh oh, Oh, you mean the
one that works out to fly and b that's him.
Uh yeah, I see him in here time to time.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Was he here last night or this morning?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It's hard to say. Hey, lots people here last night?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Was Samson here?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
You fellas looking for him? Look where you quit stole him?
I was just answering.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Come on, mister, if you know, you better tell us.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Well, it seems to me he was here Wednesday night.
I think that's not what we asked you.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Wait a minute, sheriff. What was he doing here Wednesday night?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Oh? Just hanging around? He broke most of the time.
Did you have any money Wednesday night? Well, he seemed to.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
How do you know did he spend much?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
He lost most of us? But do you mean lost
most of it? And now, don't get me wrong, sheriff. Hey, Charlie,
get that money off the table. We don't allow gambling
in here. And you know it. Oh, I see what
was it? You was asking ranger about Samson? He almost
killed a man you know where he is, almost killed
him man, Samson did. That's right. Oh, so that's what
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you're here for. Did you expect us for something else?
Look sheriff, don't get me wrong. Wednesday night there was
a little crap game here. Samson was in on it.
Why don't you come about that crap here? Well, not exactly, sheriff.
I mean, well, it started in here. As soon as
I saw it, I told him to break it up. Manager,
don't allow that sort of goings on. Samson was in
on it. Well, now, now that's what that's what I
was gonna tell you. A few minutes after I told
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him to quit that, they moved out back into the alley. Well,
now that exactly in here. But it still don't look good.
So the managers happened out to break it up again.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Then't what happened?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Well, this Samson got kind of mad. That's how I
figured he was losing. He didn't want to quit, did he. Well, finally,
after told him about three times, you know how much
he lost about twenty bucks a reckon? He sure was, man,
twenty bucks huh, probably every cent of it? This Deacons, Oh,
I ain't saying that he lost all of it because
he come in here earlier today and broke a five.
How long ago was that? About half an hour? Bought
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a dozen bottles of beer and laughed. Where'd he go?
You know? The only place I know would be his girl?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Where does she live?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Over the dry goods store on Banner Street. We called
for a stake out on the fool haul in. Kate
Sampson returned, picked up a search warrant, and headed to
the dry goods store on Ventnor Street. I mean there
it is. Yeah, I see a better park around the corner,
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and he won't be able to see our car here.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Let's hope he's up there. Yeah, and those must be
the steps.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Going up the side of the building. Say, are looks
like only one apartment up here? Yeah, and there's only
one door.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Hunts a break? Somebody's coming?
Speaker 10 (24:38):
Whosiyah?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Police officers? What do you want? Open the door?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Man?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Look, I was sleeping.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
I'm sorry to disturb you. Mind if we come in,
we sure do.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I told you I was sleeping this time of day,
I sleep late. Better. Let us in, Lady. We got
a search warrant for what we're looking for, John Sampson,
We ain't here we think he is. I ain't seen
him in a wee.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Sure you can look sleep yourself.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
What's your name?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Man, The name's Molly. You say you've been asleep?
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Right?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
What's this empty beer bottle doing here?
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Ain't no law.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Against beer in this county. I drank it before I
went to sleep. Why bottles still cold? And it's Sampson's brand, sheriff. Yeah,
he must be up here, No he ain't. What's the
back of this door, Hey, that's my bedroom.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
You can't go in thy house.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Sorry. Man had a closet there, Yeah, I just my clothes.
And if that's all, stand back, sheriff, I'm gonna open
it all right, Samson, you almost got your girl that time.
Come out of there. We'll blat out. Throw your gun
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out first, okay, okay, thirty, I'll put your hands out
in front of you. Come on, that's right. Put the
cuffs on him.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Right, Yeah, she did it, didn't she?
Speaker 10 (26:02):
She turned me in.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
Oh shut up, you've got him ranging I get him
out of here too.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Terminal at Sampson. He's not getting off either. What did
I do? There's a law in this state against harboring
a criminal. Come on, you two let's go in just
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a moment, we will tell you the results of the
case you have just heard.
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and now.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Here are the results of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
John Sampson was found guilty of robbery by assault.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
With intent to murder on October.
Speaker 9 (27:50):
Eleventh, nineteen forty eighty was sentenced to ninety nine years
in the State Penitentiary at Huntsville. Molly Andrews was given
two years and the Women's Prison at Gory obstructing justice
as prescribed in Article three thirty eight of the Texas.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
State Penal Code.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Ladies and gentlemen, we hope you and your friends will
be listening to our show next week. There are two
reasons we are asking you to be tuned in. First
because the case is a very interesting one, and second
because it will be the last performance for a while
at least of Tales of the Texas Rangers. We hope
you've enjoyed this series of authentic stories and that you'll
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make it a point to be with us for our
last show next week.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Thank you next week.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Joe McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a case from
the files of the Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae is currently
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cast included Tony Barrett, Paul Freese, Herb Bigrant, Parley Beard, Dan.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Rist and Buddy lou Gerson.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Technical advisor was Captain Mt. Lonewolf Gonzales of the Texas Rangers.
This story was transcribed and adapted by Arthur Brown Jr.
And the program is produced and directed by Stacy Keach.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
This is Hell, Give Me Speaking, Keep Jones for the
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The Pails of the Texas Ranger, starring Joel McCrae as.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Ranger Chase Pearson.
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Another authentic reenactment of Case transcribe from the Piles of
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Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers that
can case called Alibi.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
It is approximately ten am on Wednesday morning, July seventeenth,
nineteen forty eight. A large truck carrying sheep is traveling
at a moderate speed along Highway twenty eight leading into Bankroft, Texas.
The driver of the truck squints his eyes against the
glare of the morning sun, while his sleeping companion stirs
uneasily in the blazing heat.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Oh yeah, darn pool, get by me.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Travel at that's speed in this heat. You blow tire
for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Well what's the matager ah?
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Tourists always in a hurry to get no place? Must
been doing seven places?
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Who said all that car that just passed us going
like the devil? Open your eyes and take a look.
There they go just over that rise over here.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh oh man, goo is hot.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
How do you know you've been asleep since the sun?
Come up?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Say you sore about losing the toys last night.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
I ain't sore about losing last night so much so.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
We've been trucking together for over six months and I
ain't one once. Boy, it's got this sunrise shit. While
you just snooze away, peaceful as out of it, chucks,
I won't have any eyes last.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Well, it's it'll make you feel better. The next place
will come to. Let stop and I'll buy you a beer.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
Okay, I could stand something to with my whistle. This
heat is awful.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
I'm far away from the next town bank crossed, about
ten miles up. But we can stop the Deacons. That's
his place down there on the ride.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, man, look at those shade trees or the sheep
will go over that.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
By the time we were cooling these tires too. Hey,
Dad wasn't blowing the road hot as dead.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
And I know what you mean, Deacons. I ain't never
been here before. He heah ooh, I feel like I've.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Been driving for a week.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And think the sheep will be all right?
Speaker 8 (03:56):
Sure, they'll go for that shade just where the only
ones around. Ain't nobody here, Deacon's probably around summers. Let's
it down here at the county deck. Deacon.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Hey, that's funny. Somebody has been here. Look at him
to bottles at the end of the country.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Now maybe he's out back.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Yeah, it could be with his chickens. Decide the coldest beer.
Old Deacon's got eggs here the size of bowling balls.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Might have pretty big chickens.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Do Vegas and Texas?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We do?
Speaker 6 (04:31):
You suppose you went to I'm dying thirst?
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Hey, why don't we help ourselves? The beer's right over
there and refrigerator.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
I wouldn't wanna do that. Deacon might not like deacon.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Hey, deacon, you got a couple cash customers. I ain't
gonna sit here all day. I'm gonna get me up here.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
I reckon the deacon. Little body bring me up.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Hold, yeah, right off the ice. Just wait there.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
What's matter Jim?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Chuck? Huh? Chuck him here?
Speaker 6 (04:58):
What's matter of?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
What is that door in the storeroom on the floor?
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Huh? Good lord, it's a deacon.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No wonder he couldn't hear it. She's heading crushed to
a pulp.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Don't touch him.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
What do we do?
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Better? Call a share Come on, there's a phone out front.
Speaker 9 (05:21):
As soon as Sheriff George Hoffer of Bankrupt County received
the truck driver's call.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
He immediately requested the assistance of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Ranger Jase Piarston was a.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Signed to the case and arrived at the scene of
the crime about an hour later. Jelly, all right, but
I howdy g hello, Sheriff Ranger Pearson lifted Chuck Roberts
and Jim Patrick.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
They're the ones that do on the body.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Howdy, alright, I'll know, Ranger. That's your truck outside with
the sheep in it. Yes, sir, we're trying anxious get
along too. I've already talked to him. Jason, is there
anything you want to ask him? Yeah, in a few minutes.
Why don't you men wait over there? It won't be long, okay,
ye look at the body share. Yeah, it's out back
in the storeroom or fella. He sure took an awful bee.
That's the door over there, a jace before you go
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out there on the shore something.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
What's that shaff over here?
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Cash drawers partly opened.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Uh cleaned out? All right?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
You men touched this cash register?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Oh, Ranger, We ain't touched nothing. Just a phone only
called the sheriff. Okay, well, there's the motive sheriff robbery
kind of business the deacon did here. He couldn't have
had more than fifteen or twenty dollars in nothing.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It's a lot of money to some people.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah. How about those beer bottles down at the end
of the counter with a yours sir? Hmm, golden box,
Like the deacon had a thirsty customer. Jase, Look here
by the refrigerator. Isn't that a bloodstain?
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Sure is?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
What do you make of that? It looks like the
deacon might have been slugged right here. If the man
who was drinking that golden box was sitting at the counter,
he could have done it when the deacon had his
back turned. Yet he wasn't hit as the bottle. There'd
be some broken glass around. Wouldn't have to be a bottle,
could have been anything. Come on, let's take a look
at the body. And there's some blood over the door. Yeah,
the body's right behind his barrel.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Sure did take a beaton, didn't he.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah. I figured it must have happened last night around
closing time, else he'd have been found before this. The
deacon do much morning business over a little bit didn't
amount to a hill of beans. Night time seems more logical. Yeah,
I think so. I wonder if they cleaned his pockets
out too. I don't know answer, but I have a look.
Find anything, Jay and a few coins, some keys, that's all. Uh, Sheriff,
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what's the matter, Sheriff, get on that phone and call
an ambulance. Why deacon, he's still alive. The deacon remained unconscious.
His condition was critical. X rays showed he had sustained
triple fractures of the skull. After the lab crew arrived
and went over to the store for additional clues, the
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sheriff and I started checking on people known to be
Deacon's customers.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
The next morning, we were still looking for a leave.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Who's next on the list? Sheriff, And let me see.
There's Dodie Carson Randrew two twenty.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
That's about a half.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Mile further on. You know him? Yeah, but he couldn't
have done it.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
He's an old fellaw, he ain't got the strength to
break an egg.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Chefy x A ten Yeah, ten.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Un attended KTXA go ahead, colab.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
Reports and leap finger print taine and Deacon's cafe belonging
to one John Sampson, aged thirty four, five beat ten,
one hundred and ninety five pounds, brown hair, of brown eyes,
ruddy complexion, released Huntsville Penitentiary January this year after serving
two of a three year sentence with perkery subject. I
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employed his ranch hand, plying, d Lynch, you have a sentity.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Ten four no other traffic unit ten player other traffic
dxal h.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I'm Sampson. What's the matter? You know him?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Names Smith? I I think we pulled him in a
couple of months ago brawl in a pool half I
remember ray, Oh yeah, he's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Where's the Flying b located?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Sheriff, It's west to Hear, about ten miles past the
Deacon hang on. Fifteen minutes later we arrived in the
ranch yard of the Flying Bee. The foreman told us
that John Sampson was out riding fence. I got charcoal
out of the trailer while the sheriff borrowed a horse
and we headed to the area where Sampson was supposed
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to be. Foreman said he ought to be just over
this ride. Yeah, oh there he is. Where over there
for that muskee? Come on, Turky he's heated. Jason, Yeah, ooh, ooh, ooh,
hotted you. John Sampson Yeah, Why ranger here wants to
ask you a couple of questions. What was on your mind?
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You ever stopped by the Deacons on Highway twenty eight,
Jacans about ten miles down the road from here. Oh
leftly sharre I go in there some time? How often?
I don't know? Once in a while. You in that
Tuesday night around closing time Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Let's see day before yesterday?
Speaker 6 (10:05):
No, I wasn't in there?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Where were it? I was it? I was in town?
Where in town? Say?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yes? Answer the rangers questions? Sam, all right, Tuesday night,
I was at the Easy eighth there all night? Where's
that as the bear parlor in the pool? Whom Jason
away is? Uh huh?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
You say you were there all night?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Samson? Sure? Just told you.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Don't.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
They stopped serving bear at midnight?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
All right? So what the pool tables stay open?
Speaker 6 (10:26):
They saw food there?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What's wrong with that? He's right, Jason, the joint don't close.
You must have come back to the range sometimes I
did after daybreak? You shoot pool all night? We had
a little game going.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Who's week?
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Coming the boys and me.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
And you didn't stop by the Deacons on your way
back to the range?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Oh it was closed. When was the last time you
were at the Deacon?
Speaker 9 (10:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Monday night, I think, don't you know?
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I know it was Monday night. I had a beer
in there. You sure it wasn't Tuesday? Oh, it wasn't Tuesday.
It was Monday. Why what do you want to know?
Speaker 6 (10:53):
For?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Kind of beer do you drink?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Samson?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
What kind?
Speaker 6 (10:57):
Well?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
I don't know, any cop, do you ever drink golden balls? Sometimes?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Better come along with us.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I ain't going nowhere. I gotta finish checking this fat
You get on your horse.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I ain't done nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Why Tuesday night somebody beat up the deacon and robbed
and nearly killed him. What's that got to do with me? Plenty?
We found your fingerprints all over the place. We took
Samson in and checked his alibi. The manager at the
Easy Ag said he had been there on Tuesday night
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and had left near daybreak. It seemed like the man
was telling the truth, but we didn't want to release
Samson until we had a talk with a deacon. We
called the hospital and learned that he was still unconscious.
We went back to the Sheriff's office. Samson was getting impatient. Hey,
how much longer are you guys gonna keep me here?
Just until we check on a few things.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I listen, I know my rights.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You're gonna keep me here? You gotta book me.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
We will in the time.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Come on, what manager of the pool room told you?
Speaker 9 (11:52):
I was that?
Speaker 7 (11:52):
What more?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
You want better witness?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
What's the matter with him? How do we know he's
not covering up for you? He's no angel. You know
I've had him in here before too. Kind of that
you're holding? Take it easy, Samson. If you're in the clear,
you've got nothing to worry about.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Who said I was worried?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Excuse me, jes. You guys think you're fooling with some
dumb bunny or something. If you're so innocent, Samson, why
are you giving us so much static? I'll vetoes.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Either you've got to book me or turn my loose.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
It's as simple as that.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
You got anything more important to do?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
That's my bid? All right, Sampson, I got a deputy outside.
We'll be glad to entertain you for a while. What
I mean by that, you'll see, Look, I want to
get out of here. You will if you're telling the truth.
And that's what we're gonna find out. Right now.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
What was that phone call?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Share the hospital? The deacons regained consciousness. It's the lucky
break for us. Je Yeah, if you identify Samson, we
can wrap it up this afternoon. I sure hope. So,
of course, Doc says he's still pretty weak. Might not
take the question. Here's your room on twenty one, Deacon,
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can you hear me?
Speaker 6 (13:02):
M his eyes?
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Rope? Man, Deacon?
Speaker 10 (13:06):
Who's that?
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I'm Ranger Pearson. This is Sheriff Hopper used to meet you. What, Deacon,
you know me? George Hopper Hoffer? Oh yeah, sure tell me.
Do you know a man by the name of John Sampson?
Who Sampson? John Sampson? He stops in your place from
time to time. Oh yeah, nice fella, you're knowing that.
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What'd you say? Your name was? Pearson?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Ranger Pearson?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Oh yeah, Pearson? You come about the eggs?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Eggs? What do you mean, Deacon?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Those was bad eggs, mister Pearson. I can't have that.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
You should have kindled those eggs.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
What's he talking about?
Speaker 6 (13:48):
S sh I got good customers, mister Pearson. You show
me three dozen bad egg can't have that? Looky, I
show you.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I wait a minute, Deacon, don't try to get up.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
I've been not here on the porch long and now
I want assure you they made.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Right back in the stone.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Now, Deacon, you stay here. We'll talk to you later.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, you do that, Come on shore. No more battle.
What is the matter with him, Jae, He's lost his memory.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joe McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
If you want your child to have the best elementary
schooling you can give him, won't you get a pencil
and paper to take down the address I'm going to
give you at the end of this message. Unless we
start preparing now, in a few years, our public schools
will be as behind the times as the Little Red Schoolhouse.
Because of the huge increase in our birth rate during
and after the last war. It's estimated that by nineteen
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fifty six there will be some seven million more children
in elementary schools than there are now.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
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Speaker 1 (15:45):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story alibi.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
With the deacon suffering from loss of memory, we knew
there was only one thing to do. Release John Sampson.
We went back to the Sheriff's office and asked the
deputy to bring him down from his cell. Now it's
about time. What's the big idea of locking me up? Oh?
Pipe down all right, Joe, I'll take overthings ranch. Look,
what do you think you're kidding?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
You ain't got nothing on me right now, we haven't.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
What's the matter? Ranger? Did the deacon die? Would it
make you feel better?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Wouldn't make any difference at all?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I got an alibi and you know it. All right, Samson,
You're free to go, but if we want you again,
you better be around. Yeah, and remember this if you
did do it, we'll get you sooner or later. You're
a two time loser and still our number one suspect.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
So what you can't prove nothing?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Go ahead book me, But if you do, I'll sue
you for false arrest. Now what do you know about that?
Speaker 9 (16:39):
Gone back to your ranch?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
But I'm warning you. Set one foot out of this
county and we'll pick you up the past.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
You won't know what passed.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Ain't going no place. Don't worry, I'll be seated.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
He's so sure himself, man too sure. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Well, what do we do now? Wait a morning, I
guess then I want to have another talk with a
deacon and Jace. Wuld he expect to gain to that?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Maybe if we just keep asking him questions about anything,
we might pick up an angle to go on, he
might remember something. Suppose it's worth a try right now,
I only hope. The next morning, Sheriff Offer and I
went back to the hospital. There we learned the deacon
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had improved to the point of taking nourishment, though he
was still suffering from loss of memory. Even with the
odds against us, we had to try once more. Deacon
uh oh, oh, you remember me? Range a person?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Seems I do a senior someplace. We were here yesterday, yesterday, yesterday.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I'm sorry, I I I don't know you.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
I I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Don't you remember anything?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Lord, I can't seem to make any sense out of anything.
Something's happened.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Look, Deacon, you got a store on the highway.
Speaker 6 (18:08):
No, not me, mister, I think you're wrong.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Sure you have, Deacon.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You and Mary. Anne's trying it about seventeen years ago, Marriad?
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Marriad?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Who was that chet?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Three years ago? Mary?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Look, look, mister, you gotta help me.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
You gotta help me. We're trying to I can't remember
my head.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
I what happened in my head?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Tuesday night?
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Somebody came into your store and robbed you and beat
you up.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Me someone been left to me, Yes, Deacon, tuesday night,
I don't remember. I can't remember. Well, Deacon, Look, maybe
you'll remember something if you'll just answer a few questions.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Why try to help me, mister, please try.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
We will.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Do you remember where you live?
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, I got a half you know where he got back?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Sat back out back of whatcon? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
It's behind your store? Remember your store.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
My store, Yeah, yeah, my store.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Now, Deacon, I want you to tell me everything that
you do from the time you get up in the
morning until you go to bed.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Can you remember that?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
Yeah? Yeah, I remember. Let's see, I get up, I'll
fixed breakfast.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Wait, wait a minute, you've skipped over a lot there.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Yes, Deacon, not so fast. What time do you get up?
Do you know?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Early daybreak?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Every day?
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Every day.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
I feed the chickens, open the store.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Wait a minute, you're getting the head again. I'm sorry. Now,
what's the next thing you do after you get up?
Speaker 6 (19:58):
A shave?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Well, anything else?
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Calendar? I set the calendar.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Set your calendar? What kind of calendar?
Speaker 7 (20:06):
A little desk model on him rolland gives the day
and the day sim a bureau top bro.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Did you set it Tuesday?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Tuesday?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (20:14):
It was raining Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, I said it. Hey, Jase, he's right, he's remembering.
It did rain early Tuesday morning.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Now Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I said it then too, it was.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
A nice morning.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I wait a minute, Deacon, not Wednesday. You couldn't have
said it then, No, I said, it wasn't raining Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
You reckon? He did?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I don't know, Deacon, Are you sure you set your
calendar Wednesday? Oh, it's set my calendar every day, samell.
Don't you believe me? You gotta believe me. Sure, Deacon,
we believe you. I'm try and sleep now. I'll see
you later. If he did set his calendar Wednesday morning,
you know what that means you You bet I do.
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Sampson could have been at the easy Age Tuesday night,
but he's gonna have to have another alibi for Wednesday morning.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Come on, let's see if we're on the right track.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Forty five minutes later, the sheriff and I pulled up
to the deacon's house behind the roadside store. In the
top of the dresser, we found the calendar. The deacon
was right, It was set for Wednesday, July seventeenth. From there,
we went straight out to the ranch where Sampson worked.
It wasn't around and no one had seen him on
our way into town. We sent out on APB to
pick him up.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Then we headed for the easy A school room.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Well, I don't see him anywhere to you. You know,
the manager's not around either. Let's ask the waiter.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Waiter been waiting a minute?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Oh hotti, sheriff Ranger what can I do for you?
You know a fellow name of Samson who hangs out here. Uh,
Sampson don't seem to recollect. You ought to know him.
He's here a lot huh oh, Oh, you mean the
one that works out to fly and b that's him.
Uh yeah, I see him in here time to time.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Was he here last night or this morning?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
It's hard to say. Hey, lots people here last night?
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Was Samson here?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
You fellas looking for him? Look where you quit stole him?
I was just answering.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Come on, mister, if you know, you better tell us.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Well, it seems to me he was here Wednesday night.
I think that's not what we asked you.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Wait a minute, sheriff. What was he doing here Wednesday night?
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Oh? Just hanging around? He broke most of the time.
Did you have any money Wednesday night? Well, he seemed to.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
How do you know did he spend much?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
He lost most of us? But do you mean lost
most of it? And now, don't get me wrong, sheriff. Hey, Charlie,
get that money off the table. We don't allow gambling
in here. And you know it. Oh, I see what
was it? You was asking ranger about Samson? He almost
killed a man you know where he is, almost killed
him man, Samson did. That's right. Oh, so that's what
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you're here for. Did you expect us for something else?
Look sheriff, don't get me wrong. Wednesday night there was
a little crap game here. Samson was in on it.
Why don't you come about that crap here? Well, not exactly, sheriff.
I mean, well, it started in here. As soon as
I saw it, I told him to break it up. Manager,
don't allow that sort of goings on. Samson was in
on it. Well, now, now that's what that's what I
was gonna tell you. A few minutes after I told
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him to quit that, they moved out back into the alley. Well,
now that exactly in here. But it still don't look good.
So the managers happened out to break it up again.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Then't what happened?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Well, this Samson got kind of mad. That's how I
figured he was losing. He didn't want to quit, did he. Well, finally,
after told him about three times, you know how much
he lost about twenty bucks a reckon? He sure was, man,
twenty bucks huh, probably every cent of it? This Deacons, Oh,
I ain't saying that he lost all of it because
he come in here earlier today and broke a five.
How long ago was that? About half an hour? Bought
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a dozen bottles of beer and laughed. Where'd he go?
You know? The only place I know would be his girl?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Where does she live?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Over the dry goods store on Banner Street. We called
for a stake out on the fool haul in. Kate
Sampson returned, picked up a search warrant, and headed to
the dry goods store on Ventnor Street. I mean there
it is. Yeah, I see a better park around the corner,
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and he won't be able to see our car here.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Let's hope he's up there. Yeah, and those must be
the steps.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Going up the side of the building. Say, are looks
like only one apartment up here? Yeah, and there's only
one door.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Hunts a break? Somebody's coming?
Speaker 10 (24:38):
Whosiyah?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Police officers? What do you want? Open the door?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Man?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Look, I was sleeping.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
I'm sorry to disturb you. Mind if we come in,
we sure do.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I told you I was sleeping this time of day,
I sleep late. Better. Let us in, Lady. We got
a search warrant for what we're looking for, John Sampson,
We ain't here we think he is. I ain't seen
him in a wee.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Sure you can look sleep yourself.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
What's your name?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Man, The name's Molly. You say you've been asleep?
Speaker 8 (25:09):
Right?
Speaker 2 (25:10):
What's this empty beer bottle doing here?
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Ain't no law.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Against beer in this county. I drank it before I
went to sleep. Why bottles still cold? And it's Sampson's brand, sheriff. Yeah,
he must be up here, No he ain't. What's the
back of this door, Hey, that's my bedroom.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
You can't go in thy house.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Sorry. Man had a closet there, Yeah, I just my clothes.
And if that's all, stand back, sheriff, I'm gonna open
it all right, Samson, you almost got your girl that time.
Come out of there. We'll blat out. Throw your gun
(25:48):
out first, okay, okay, thirty, I'll put your hands out
in front of you. Come on, that's right. Put the
cuffs on him.
Speaker 6 (26:00):
Right, Yeah, she did it, didn't she?
Speaker 10 (26:02):
She turned me in.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
Oh shut up, you've got him ranging I get him
out of here too.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Terminal at Sampson. He's not getting off either. What did
I do? There's a law in this state against harboring
a criminal. Come on, you two let's go in just
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a moment, we will tell you the results of the
case you have just heard.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
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in a home, or a factory or a forest. More
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Many more are injured, and more than seven hundred million
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Speaker 2 (27:14):
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Defective wiring and electrical equipment. Use only those cleaning fluids
which will not burn. And finally, be careful with matches.
Keep them out of the reach of small children. You
can't afford to gamble with fire. The odds are against
you every time. Now back to Tales of the Texas Rangers,
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and now.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Here are the results of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
John Sampson was found guilty of robbery by assault.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
With intent to murder on October.
Speaker 9 (27:50):
Eleventh, nineteen forty eighty was sentenced to ninety nine years
in the State Penitentiary at Huntsville. Molly Andrews was given
two years and the Women's Prison at Gory obstructing justice
as prescribed in Article three thirty eight of the Texas.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
State Penal Code.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Ladies and gentlemen, we hope you and your friends will
be listening to our show next week. There are two
reasons we are asking you to be tuned in. First
because the case is a very interesting one, and second
because it will be the last performance for a while
at least of Tales of the Texas Rangers. We hope
you've enjoyed this series of authentic stories and that you'll
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make it a point to be with us for our
last show next week.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Thank you next week.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Joe McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a case from
the files of the Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae is currently
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seen in San Francisco story of Warner Brothers release. The
cast included Tony Barrett, Paul Freese, Herb Bigrant, Parley Beard, Dan.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Rist and Buddy lou Gerson.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Technical advisor was Captain Mt. Lonewolf Gonzales of the Texas Rangers.
This story was transcribed and adapted by Arthur Brown Jr.
And the program is produced and directed by Stacy Keach.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
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