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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCrae in Tales of
the Texas Rangers. Tonight Transcribe from Hollywood another authentic reenactment
of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers.
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Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger
Chase Pearson, Texas more than two hundred and sixty thousand
square miles and fifty men who make up the most
famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America. Now
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from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories
based on fact only named states and papers artictisures for
obvious reasons, the events themselves are a matter of record.
Case for Tonight joy Ride.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It is nine forty pm December third, nineteen forty six.
The small town of Purty, Texas is quiet and ready
to sleep as a car turns off the state Highway
and into the main street. At the wheel of the
car is a pimply faced youth. Beside him a young
girl at cross jill behind us.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
No, I kept ride on the highway.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Were you still jump your best?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Well?
Speaker 6 (01:38):
He was tagging us.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
I thought it might be the highway with true you are.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Getting chicken in chit chuck, I ain't.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Fixing to go back, no reform school.
Speaker 7 (01:43):
Had to all stop worrying.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
This car I ain't even reported stolen yet.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
You saw the owner go into the movie, didn't.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
Chick okay, ruby okay?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Signed joy ride? Well, we was going to have sun.
He ain't got anything to drink. I ain't got any money,
didn't have no car either when we started.
Speaker 8 (02:01):
He ain't like you used to be chunk.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Well, you used to have lots of food.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Then you turn yell up.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Don't you gonna call me?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
That's I I ain't got a gun, that's all.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I got one? Chuck right here my purse.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Would you get.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Splitted it from home? And whateverence on that queer. I
got it long as I got it, m so we
could start off a head chuck he sign, I see it.
Can hardly have a draw ride or something to drink.
It's late they roll up the sidewalks in a town
like this.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
The place must be cold, it.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Was cloth of sign. Wouldn't be late gonna stop her?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Ain't you sure I'm gonna stop?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
See storekeeper still as you seem through the windows, counting
up money from this cash register.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Have a real party with something to drinking, some.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Money, stay here, keep them more to running.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
End of the gun.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Now I wanna come in with you. I can handle
a gun. You crazy?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
You suppose he's got a gun?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Chuck, He's an old man.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
He wouldn't dare to do nothing.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Come on, Chuck, we can't just sit here.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
You better not get rattled.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Let's talk.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Your comment are an?
Speaker 7 (03:08):
All right, I'm coming, but be careful.
Speaker 9 (03:11):
No one's wanted to shut up.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, oh howdy, Holly, Well, just fixing the clothes.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Heard your car pull up outside.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
I thought it was my old lady coming to get me.
Speaker 10 (03:26):
Uh what can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (03:27):
I'd like to sit for that bonded berman.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Oh you would?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Eh?
Speaker 10 (03:32):
How old are you son?
Speaker 8 (03:33):
Twenty one?
Speaker 10 (03:35):
Nineteen?
Speaker 7 (03:35):
It'd be closer, wouldn't it?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Maybe a year less than that for your lady friend
here said I was twenty one. Alright, boy, we will
say you're twenty one, and we'll also say that I'm
closed for the night.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Now you can just run along.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Well, I ain't running any place, miss.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Now, you just get what where'd you get that?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Guck? I made it out, old little top stupid? He
told you what we want.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
It's on the top show. Get up on the stool
and get it all right.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yes, they're getting nervous with that thing.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Get the money out of the register.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Chucks, you ain't gonna be happy about this when you'll
see the inside of a jail.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Thanks for telling us, because here's something you ain't gonna
be happy about.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You kill him? I know.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Come on, we gotta get out of here where we
come from. Got a couple of bottle Royal.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You're crazy, You're sayin't you, Chuck, get a bottle?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
What if you like?
Speaker 9 (04:54):
Chuck always wondered.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
The body of Malcolm Barnes, proprietor of the liquor store,
was discovered by his wife less than five minutes after
the killing. Sheriff Frank Carporan was summoned. He immediately phoned
for the help of the Texas Ranger. Ranger Jase Pearson
was a sign arriving at the scene of the crime
at one a m. There's a ranger coming through, folks.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Audi, Frank oh Audy Jays.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
I was hoping they'd send you. Here's about it.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
He the owner of the store.
Speaker 10 (05:39):
Yeah, mountain bonds wife Ronal, just like he is at
about ten or ten.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
Usually closed just fourteen. She'd always come pick him up
in their car. Doc figured it couldn't happen more in
just a few minutes before.
Speaker 10 (05:50):
She got here.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
Where's the doc drove oversee about the funeral partner party
will be taken there for autops and one would finish
a hat, everything photographed, cash registered, Uh huh, shot through
the back three times.
Speaker 10 (06:06):
Watch out for that broken glass.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
Yeah, I'm watching. They sure smellows all bottle smashed alcohol
drives up fast. Yeah, left big stain rings though, puddled
right out to here before it dried out. Any of
your deputies or anybody pick up any of those bottles
that are cracked or broken.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
No, I got here right after missus bond, and nobody's
touched the thing.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Why well, floor spotted past those stain marks.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
Looked toward the door.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
String of small spots like something been carried that way,
dripping Jase. I was careful to see that nothing was touched,
that nobody stepped in where the liquorment still the spots
might be a break for us, then, because somebody carried
a bottle out of here, it must have been cracked
and leaking.
Speaker 10 (06:46):
Mean they killed him and grabbed it up.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
That's right. If it mark this floor had marked the
walk outside too small.
Speaker 10 (06:51):
Let's take a look. Spots run right to the door, right.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
Lucky at till the deputies to keep everybody off the
side of the place. Yeah, can't for where you step.
Run a flashlight along the sidewalk here.
Speaker 10 (07:01):
It's been mighty dry around here. Jas dust surface on
the ground.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
That'll help us. It's here all right. Look little craters
in the dust, dried out hollow.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
Yeah, if they want to go a few feet, mark's
in right here at the curb.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
It tells us something. Whoever was carrying that bottle got
into a car. They weren't on foot. Tied facts aren't
gonna help us mess upm all around from carse driving
in and out. I wish our killer had been on foot, Frank,
Why I had the point to somebody who came from
close by somebody in the town car. Doesn't rule that out,
but it sure broadens the field. I'm gonna call Austin
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have a lab crew sent in. We're lucky. They might
lift a fingerprint or something for us to work on.
Speaker 10 (07:39):
It's a good idea phone and store over there.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Uh huh, you.
Speaker 10 (07:48):
Got anything in mind for us while we're waiting.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
Yeah, after I call Austin, I want to check with
local officers in every town around here. I'm pretty sure
the killer took liquor, and if he took it, he's
gonna drink it. We'll check on every case of drunk
driving the turns up tonight in this county. Lights burned
in the liquor store all through the night as the
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lab crew checked. Meanwhile, the sheriff and I covered more
than two hundred miles by car investigating drunk driving cases
reported by local constables and highway patrolmen.
Speaker 10 (08:25):
Sons come up, Jesus.
Speaker 11 (08:28):
Were sure spid night running into blind alleys.
Speaker 10 (08:31):
One of those drivers we saw could have been anywhere
near Perty at the time of killing.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Well, alibis all checked out. Maybe the lab crew will
have a lead for us when we get back to
the liquor store. Didn't you get some kind of report
on the short wave before while I was dozing, I
kind of remember you talking, Yeah, in order to phone
headquarters for a ballistic report. Barnes was killed by a
thirty eight police special.
Speaker 10 (08:52):
Well, that's our first lead.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
We need more than that before we un ktxa go ahead.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Highway Patrol Unit one O nine requests Unit ten to
proceed the junction of Ranch Road two three and State
Highway one nine west of Bartonville to examine stolen car recovered.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
At that point.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Ten four. Does Unit one O nine think stolen vehicle
may have connection with this unit's current investigation of murder?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Unit one O nine reports liquor bottles found an abandoned vehicle.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Ten four Unit ten heading for rendezvous with one O
nine immediately, will keep you informed. Ten four Unit ten
Claire guy exhaust old tight Frank got us swing around.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
My focus of a break better be we need a
highway patrol.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Unit one O nine was Tommy Manuelo's unit. We spotted
his car and he flagged us down near the junction
of the Ranch Road. The stolen carde located was parked
off the road, small grove of trees.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
I found it just for a sun up chase. I
was making the turn off. My headlines reflected on the chrome.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
Just badly saw it.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Then when I checked the license number was on a
hot car sheet. Number came over by short wave last night.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
Now what time last night this car was reported stolen?
Speaker 7 (10:16):
I got the flash little after eleven o'clock.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
On was killed before ten.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
I know, but this car could have been missing from
eight o'clock.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
On only went to a picture show about then.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
Car was gone when it came out.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Where was the car taken from Tommy Bartonville only four
miles from here on the state.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
About sixty miles and made a pretty Jason.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Yeah, but if the car was taken an eight o'clock
or a little after, the thief had plenty of time
to drive to Purty before ten o'clock. KTXA said, you
found some liquor bottles in the car tummy. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I'll show you.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Hey, uh empty fifth on the floor in the front seat,
and there's one half empty down the back.
Speaker 10 (10:48):
I'll opened the back drill.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
Hm, I'm a tax seal on. That bottle isn't even broken.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
No, I didn't notice. Eh oh, I.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Could have emptied half of it without break making the
ceiling and pulling the car.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
The bottle must be cracked, staying around her on the
floor mat where it's been leaking.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
That's what we've been looking for. Jason.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Yeah, picked the bottle up, Frank, don't touch the glass.
Left it with your fingers pinched around the tack stamp,
right grip sel, right ship out of the bottom. Wonder
why I didn't all empty? What have the bottle been
standing up instead of lying flat? It emptied down until
the liquor was even with the place. The bottle was
cracked and it couldn't run anymore until you picked it up.
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Might get some prints off of it, or maybe the
empty bottle in the front seat. We can try so,
since you're not gonna get any from the steering wheel, No,
I noticed that right away.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
Uh not with a cloth cover on a wheel.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Might get something from the dashboard of the inner.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Door handled, but I don't know. Not often you pick
up good prints on the car.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
There's a piece of cleansing tissue on the floor there.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
Yeah, it looks like lipstick. Stay on it, That's what
it is.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Another little thing on the floor mat here h gold bothered. Yeah,
lipstick is kind of a light shade.
Speaker 10 (12:00):
Could have been a woman in this two Jason.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Probably a blonde, of course, said Bobby pin And a
tissue might company the owner's wife or is girl. I
doubt that you.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
I'll come Tommy, the owner the colored man jee.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
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We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
tonight's case joy Ride, an authentic story from the files
of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
I put out a call for the lab crew to
meet us at the stolen car. When they finished checking
the liquor store at Purdy, they joined us. Within two hours,
nothing had been found at the store that would help us,
and it didn't take long to realize that we weren't
going to get any evidence from the car. The bottles either.
Speaker 10 (13:36):
Doesn't look like they're gonna find anything, Jason here.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
They don't. Won't be their fault. No point in our
hanging around here.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
I want to drive back to thirty now.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
I think we do better if we drove into Bartonville.
Because the car it was stolen from Bartonville then brought
back here to us Spout only four miles away from
where it was taken. Figures that whoever stole it must
live nearby. The car would have been left someplace else.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
Yeah, I'll go along with that. Let's try button though. Good.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
We're gonna leave you fellas you find anything. Let us
know by short wave right along. You can try to
run down that lipstick and bobby pin gave Tommy Manuello
the tissue the lipstick smear. I've been sent through to Austin.
They've established the lipstick friend by chemical analysis. They'll also
check on the manufacturer of the bobby pins.
Speaker 10 (14:18):
Figure to Dick Long to get a report.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
Well, not long, Tommy may have it by the time
we get into town. Maybe at the courthouse.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
You got a plan match out.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Yeah, it won't be too many places handling lipstick and
bobby pins. We get the brand names. Tommy and I
can check the stores and see if salesgirls remember any
women who use that shade, the lipstick or the pins.
Would I do Check into the hotel and get some sleep. No,
we got one more thing to look for the gun
that killed Barnes. Check with a constable and get a
list of anybody he knows who might own a thirty
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eight police special.
Speaker 10 (14:48):
Yeah, that might uncover something.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
They have some records of people who had guns like
that being picked up on minor charges in the past.
It's worth checking. We matched the bullet that killed Barnes.
We can make some work for a twelve man. Jerry
Tommy Manuelo had the information on the lipstick and bobby
pin examined by the Austin Lab. We started the check
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of drug stores and general merchandise outlets that carried the items.
We couldn't get any concrete information from sales girls or clerks.
Where another dug store on the next corner.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Jason, you know some of these sas clerks don't seem
to have very long memoris.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
She can't blame them. Things were tracing her. Both cheap items.
Girl on her feet all day, gets so she can't
remember much except bunions. I guess you're right.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I sure hope the sheriff is doing better, and well,
I hope so too.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Hey, Tommy, wait up, hold it, Tommy, here comes Frank.
Speaker 10 (15:42):
Now I'm in tracking you for twenty minutes.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
You finished checking already? Yeah.
Speaker 11 (15:48):
When I come across something I think we are looking
to right away, Jace. There's a fellow named Jim Hammer.
Filed a report with a constable last night, just poor midnight,
said a gun been stolen from his house thirty eight
police Fay.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Isn't that what Bonds was killed with?
Speaker 10 (16:01):
You? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Get any information on this Jim Hammer?
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Yeah, I sure did.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
He's not watching around the cattle pans. Hold the auction
barn told the constably he'd missed a gun when he
was getting ready to go to work last night.
Speaker 10 (16:12):
Couldn't find it in the drawer he keeps it in.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
You get a Hammer's address, yeah, two fourteen off Spruce. Temmy,
you keep checking the stores. We'll meet you at the
courthouse later, right, Jee, All right, Frank, I left my
car on Main Street.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
Let's go.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Yeah, I like to talk to Jim Hammer.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Hain't home, you know, we can find him over to
the auction barn.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Maybe I thought he was the night watchman over there.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, he goes there during the day sometimes when need
to say, there.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Was auction in the fasternoon.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
You look kind of young.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
You're not his wife or eh nommy's daughter. Rubie Hammer
st five o'clock.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
Jeez, thought probably be over my now.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
Yeah, you expect your father come home to eat.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
No, you probably spend some time chatting around the barn
and maybe get hisself some grub in town, correct work.
Speaker 10 (17:12):
I see.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
I guess we might as well go with the auction barn, Frank.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
What'd you want to see my father by?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Is it something about some stolen cattle or something like that?
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Yeah, something like that. Thanks miss bye.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
Bye ruby Light.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You messed my father. Thanks?
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Where's the auction barne west end of town? Jim Hammer
wasn't hard to find. He was pointed out to us
talking to cattleman who bought stock at the auction and
were waiting for a chance to load their purchases on
their trucks at the end of a shoot. We called
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him off to the side.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Yeah, sure, were here. What can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (18:02):
COUNCILO says you had a gun stolen from your home
last night, bump.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Fools had gun wasn't stone tall, and I just didn't
look sharpen though last night. Found it this afternoon, but
in a different draw from where I usually keep.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
It, after got your carrying right there in your houster.
Yeah you mean to say you just took a look
in one drawer last night for coming to work and
reported that gun stone without being sure? Well, there was
shoe last night.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Where can I just do overlook at That's all?
Speaker 8 (18:26):
It's pretty hard to overlook a thirty eight police special.
It couldn't look very hard when oh but empty the bureau. Eh.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
I was in a hurry to get to work. I
guess I just be'mitted, that's all. Ain't no reason for
you to jump on them.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
Man, you reported to the constable when you thought the
gun was missing. Now how come you didn't let him
know you'd found it?
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Well, fools, I should do didn't think it was no
rush said, what's the harm?
Speaker 10 (18:47):
It's my gun?
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Amy, let's have it. Well, sure, don't you pull it?
Just turn around, I'll take it myself.
Speaker 10 (18:53):
Hey, it was you shad turn around.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Once you fire this gun? Last hammer?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I can't even remember last time. Ain't had no cold
to fire.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
It haven't huh smell, that's Frank.
Speaker 10 (19:11):
It's been used all right, not long ago. You're crazy.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
I tell you I ain't fired that gun any more.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Somebody has you better come with us, Come away with
you to the courthouse, Hammer, So we check on a
few things. Kay Cone walk a liquor store on her name.
Barnes was killed last night and pretty shot three times
through the back by a thirty eight police special.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Are you trying to frame me for something? I was
nowhere near Prody last night.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
We know you filed a report with the constable around midnight, Hammer,
But where were you between nine and eleven o'clock last night?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
I was home sleeping. My daughter can tell you that.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
We go ahead, Hammer, What are you stopping for?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Well, my daughter wasn't, Homer. Just remember she went on
buck shaving the.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
Club and nobody saw you doing those hours.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Huh, No, nobody, but it was Homer. Tell you you
gotta believe me that gunn ain't been fired.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
If we're wrong, you've got nothing to worry about comorrow.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
Yeah, get that gun to your lab.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
Jeshul to fly to Austin, goes down about forty five minutes.
Good boys and ballistics can test fire it and check
the slug with the ones taken out of barns. If
this is the murder weapon, they'll tell us.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I tell you it can't be.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Our lab doesn't make any mistakes. Hammer. If you're telling
the truth, there's a little test you can volunteer to take.
We have a lab crew working there by. Right now.
I'll give you a die Phenelman test. What's just a
matter of pouring a chemically treated wax on your hand.
When they peel it off, it'll show traces of night trate.
If you fired a gun recently, I.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Heard you.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Now, I'd like to hear it from a lab man,
just to be sure. We got the gun on the
night plane to Austin. The stolen card been brought into
a garage in town. We waited for the lab crew
to finish with it and had one of the men
go to work on Hammer's hands. By ten pm we
had the answers, two answers that didn't fit each other.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
What are you keeping me here for? You heard what
the lab man said, My hands are clean. Was no
night put on him?
Speaker 8 (21:00):
It doesn't settle everything. Hammer. While he had you in
the next room going over your hands. I had a
phone report from Austin on your gun. You'd better talk off, Hammer.
Your gun's been identified as a murder weapon. Nice a
lot you want in bed? At ten o'clock last night,
you went purdy driving a stolen corn.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
There was a woman with you.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Hey saw you run around with any blond women?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
The only blond woman I ever run around with was
my wife. She died six years ago. That gug was
missing from my house last night. Somebody must have taken it.
Didn't put it back again? Oh sure, my hands was thing,
wasn't he out?
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Jay? Oh?
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Tommy almost forgot about you find anything coming?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
His priving time store was closed when I got to it,
But I got the address of the woman who works
the cosmetic Hamra when I have to see it. They
handle the lipstick and pens we've been checking on. She
gave me the names of a few women that you
remembers to buy both.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
His list read off the name of Jays. Maybe if
Hammer's girlfriend is listed, deal, admit he knows it.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
And one name on here he'll admit to knowing. All right, Yes,
what you see that's what I know. It's your daughter,
Ruby Hammer h the sheriff, and I drove Hammer back
to his house, but Ruby wasn't there and waited around
looking through the house.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Of course, she tried to put it on to me
and now's my daughter? Are you crazy? She's only eighteen
years old.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Was she with you last night? No, she was out
on a date with who what the house?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Should I know? All I know is she wouldn't get
into no trouble like this.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
I've heard that same speech in a hundred cart rooms.
Hammer yees, come here, man, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (22:29):
What is it, guir of cootonuts closet? Smell?
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Hmm? You keep any liquor in the house? Hammer?
Speaker 9 (22:36):
No, never or something else?
Speaker 10 (22:39):
Gase photograph?
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Yeah, Hammer's daughter and some boy.
Speaker 10 (22:43):
Let me see that again.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
I know this kid, the boy I sent him to
reform school three years ago.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
His name's Chuck Allenby.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Or was the charge against him something that fits this case,
like a glove automobile there?
Speaker 5 (22:55):
And my daughter wouldn't go out with nobody like that.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
Of course, not Hammer. She just got a habit opposing
pictures with people. She wouldn't go out with. I'm gonna
get my car outside, Frank, and we would sit down
and wait for Ruby's date to bring her home.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
Somebody's coming down the street, Chase.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Yeah, I hear 'em. After midnight. I think you're at work, Hammer,
and may come in, so keep quiet, hear me? You
hear me? Yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
They're coming in.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Yeah, quiet, I have to come into the hall. They
won't see us in the living room of the lights office.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I can't see us.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
And ripping on a lone.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
You ain't stand long enough and need the like and
what all of you haven't stay?
Speaker 6 (23:40):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
What's the good having money? They ain't gonna spend any
other spend it?
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Wait a while?
Speaker 10 (23:45):
Why do you got a job?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
I spend the money?
Speaker 10 (23:47):
People gonna wonder where I got it?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
All right? Why you don't wait?
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Don't set me to wait.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
I can go out with somebody else. You know, somebody
who's got a car every night, or who ait a price.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
To get don't move anybody? That means you charming all
that door?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
What are they doing after him?
Speaker 10 (24:07):
Was he you stay out of that?
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Hammer?
Speaker 10 (24:08):
Couldn't stay out of trouble? Could you? Chuck?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I didn't do let me gold?
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Still, that's quite a roll of bills you had in
your pocket boy. I found out money where the cash
register over in pretty after you killed an old man.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
So that's why you wanted my father's gune.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
What kill him? Ruby?
Speaker 5 (24:28):
If he had my gun? You kill him?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Last night? He won the barry just for fun, he said.
Then he stole a car, made me go with him
over the party. He let me park some place.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
He walked away, and then after a while he come
back with some risky I didn't drink none of it,
but he did want.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
To keep quiet and say he didn't park near the store.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
No, he walked from where he let me. I didn't
even know what he do?
Speaker 8 (24:52):
You line, Ruby? When old man was killed, whoever gun
dam ran out of the store with a dripping bottle
and got into a car not more than ten feet
from thenton got him.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
You really see that he's sion.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Ruby's only a little girl.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
You can prove his zions. Give him the same test
you give me.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
On his hands.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I can't well that pull.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Wax on your hands. You can tell if you fire.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
A gunby I'm back there.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
Get away from that stove, Ruby, Ruby, I'm away from there.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Why you do it?
Speaker 10 (25:25):
Ruby?
Speaker 8 (25:26):
What you do it today? That hammer?
Speaker 7 (25:28):
You got any butter, get it fast, doesn't move.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
I won't try not, but you do. In the kitchen
here and pulled the lid off the cook stove and
jammed their hand into the hoey gold.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Here's a but here's your butter.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Thanks man can fix that burn. A little of this
ruby Dot can fix it for you better. Later on
at the jails.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Chuck Allenby and ruby Hammer were found guilty of the
murder of storekeeper Barnes Allendee, who turned state's witness, was
sentenced to a thirty year.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
Term at Huntsville.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Ruby Hammer pulled fifty years in the women's prison at Gory.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
And now here again. It's the star of our show,
Joel McCrae. Folks. Tonight marks the concluding performance for a
while at least of Tales of the Texas Rangers. We've
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Speaker 1 (27:20):
Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactmentif case from the Miles
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night's case included Tony Barrett, Sam Edwards, Reggie Webber, John Frank,
Barney Phillip, and Bill Johnstone. This story was transcribed and
adapted by Joel Murcott, and the program.
Speaker 8 (28:00):
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Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger
Chase Pearson, Texas more than two hundred and sixty thousand
square miles and fifty men who make up the most
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from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories
based on fact only named states and papers artictisures for
obvious reasons, the events themselves are a matter of record.
Case for Tonight joy Ride.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It is nine forty pm December third, nineteen forty six.
The small town of Purty, Texas is quiet and ready
to sleep as a car turns off the state Highway
and into the main street. At the wheel of the
car is a pimply faced youth. Beside him a young
girl at cross jill behind us.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
No, I kept ride on the highway.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Were you still jump your best?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Well?
Speaker 6 (01:38):
He was tagging us.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
I thought it might be the highway with true you are.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Getting chicken in chit chuck, I ain't.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Fixing to go back, no reform school.
Speaker 7 (01:43):
Had to all stop worrying.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
This car I ain't even reported stolen yet.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
You saw the owner go into the movie, didn't.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
Chick okay, ruby okay?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Signed joy ride? Well, we was going to have sun.
He ain't got anything to drink. I ain't got any money,
didn't have no car either when we started.
Speaker 8 (02:01):
He ain't like you used to be chunk.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Well, you used to have lots of food.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Then you turn yell up.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Don't you gonna call me?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
That's I I ain't got a gun, that's all.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I got one? Chuck right here my purse.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Would you get.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Splitted it from home? And whateverence on that queer. I
got it long as I got it, m so we
could start off a head chuck he sign, I see it.
Can hardly have a draw ride or something to drink.
It's late they roll up the sidewalks in a town
like this.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
The place must be cold, it.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Was cloth of sign. Wouldn't be late gonna stop her?
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Ain't you sure I'm gonna stop?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
See storekeeper still as you seem through the windows, counting
up money from this cash register.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Have a real party with something to drinking, some.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Money, stay here, keep them more to running.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
End of the gun.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Now I wanna come in with you. I can handle
a gun. You crazy?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
You suppose he's got a gun?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Chuck, He's an old man.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
He wouldn't dare to do nothing.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Come on, Chuck, we can't just sit here.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
You better not get rattled.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Let's talk.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Your comment are an?
Speaker 7 (03:08):
All right, I'm coming, but be careful.
Speaker 9 (03:11):
No one's wanted to shut up.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, oh howdy, Holly, Well, just fixing the clothes.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Heard your car pull up outside.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
I thought it was my old lady coming to get me.
Speaker 10 (03:26):
Uh what can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (03:27):
I'd like to sit for that bonded berman.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Oh you would?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Eh?
Speaker 10 (03:32):
How old are you son?
Speaker 8 (03:33):
Twenty one?
Speaker 10 (03:35):
Nineteen?
Speaker 7 (03:35):
It'd be closer, wouldn't it?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Maybe a year less than that for your lady friend
here said I was twenty one. Alright, boy, we will
say you're twenty one, and we'll also say that I'm
closed for the night.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Now you can just run along.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Well, I ain't running any place, miss.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Now, you just get what where'd you get that?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Guck? I made it out, old little top stupid? He
told you what we want.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
It's on the top show. Get up on the stool
and get it all right.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Yes, they're getting nervous with that thing.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Get the money out of the register.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Chucks, you ain't gonna be happy about this when you'll
see the inside of a jail.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Thanks for telling us, because here's something you ain't gonna
be happy about.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You kill him? I know.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Come on, we gotta get out of here where we
come from. Got a couple of bottle Royal.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You're crazy, You're sayin't you, Chuck, get a bottle?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
What if you like?
Speaker 9 (04:54):
Chuck always wondered.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
The body of Malcolm Barnes, proprietor of the liquor store,
was discovered by his wife less than five minutes after
the killing. Sheriff Frank Carporan was summoned. He immediately phoned
for the help of the Texas Ranger. Ranger Jase Pearson
was a sign arriving at the scene of the crime
at one a m. There's a ranger coming through, folks.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Audi, Frank oh Audy Jays.
Speaker 10 (05:35):
I was hoping they'd send you. Here's about it.
Speaker 8 (05:38):
He the owner of the store.
Speaker 10 (05:39):
Yeah, mountain bonds wife Ronal, just like he is at
about ten or ten.
Speaker 8 (05:44):
Usually closed just fourteen. She'd always come pick him up
in their car. Doc figured it couldn't happen more in
just a few minutes before.
Speaker 10 (05:50):
She got here.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
Where's the doc drove oversee about the funeral partner party
will be taken there for autops and one would finish
a hat, everything photographed, cash registered, Uh huh, shot through
the back three times.
Speaker 10 (06:06):
Watch out for that broken glass.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
Yeah, I'm watching. They sure smellows all bottle smashed alcohol
drives up fast. Yeah, left big stain rings though, puddled
right out to here before it dried out. Any of
your deputies or anybody pick up any of those bottles
that are cracked or broken.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
No, I got here right after missus bond, and nobody's
touched the thing.
Speaker 8 (06:28):
Why well, floor spotted past those stain marks.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
Looked toward the door.
Speaker 8 (06:33):
String of small spots like something been carried that way,
dripping Jase. I was careful to see that nothing was touched,
that nobody stepped in where the liquorment still the spots
might be a break for us, then, because somebody carried
a bottle out of here, it must have been cracked
and leaking.
Speaker 10 (06:46):
Mean they killed him and grabbed it up.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
That's right. If it mark this floor had marked the
walk outside too small.
Speaker 10 (06:51):
Let's take a look. Spots run right to the door, right.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
Lucky at till the deputies to keep everybody off the
side of the place. Yeah, can't for where you step.
Run a flashlight along the sidewalk here.
Speaker 10 (07:01):
It's been mighty dry around here. Jas dust surface on
the ground.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
That'll help us. It's here all right. Look little craters
in the dust, dried out hollow.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
Yeah, if they want to go a few feet, mark's
in right here at the curb.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
It tells us something. Whoever was carrying that bottle got
into a car. They weren't on foot. Tied facts aren't
gonna help us mess upm all around from carse driving
in and out. I wish our killer had been on foot, Frank,
Why I had the point to somebody who came from
close by somebody in the town car. Doesn't rule that out,
but it sure broadens the field. I'm gonna call Austin
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have a lab crew sent in. We're lucky. They might
lift a fingerprint or something for us to work on.
Speaker 10 (07:39):
It's a good idea phone and store over there.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
Uh huh, you.
Speaker 10 (07:48):
Got anything in mind for us while we're waiting.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
Yeah, after I call Austin, I want to check with
local officers in every town around here. I'm pretty sure
the killer took liquor, and if he took it, he's
gonna drink it. We'll check on every case of drunk
driving the turns up tonight in this county. Lights burned
in the liquor store all through the night as the
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lab crew checked. Meanwhile, the sheriff and I covered more
than two hundred miles by car investigating drunk driving cases
reported by local constables and highway patrolmen.
Speaker 10 (08:25):
Sons come up, Jesus.
Speaker 11 (08:28):
Were sure spid night running into blind alleys.
Speaker 10 (08:31):
One of those drivers we saw could have been anywhere
near Perty at the time of killing.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Well, alibis all checked out. Maybe the lab crew will
have a lead for us when we get back to
the liquor store. Didn't you get some kind of report
on the short wave before while I was dozing, I
kind of remember you talking, Yeah, in order to phone
headquarters for a ballistic report. Barnes was killed by a
thirty eight police special.
Speaker 10 (08:52):
Well, that's our first lead.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
We need more than that before we un ktxa go ahead.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Highway Patrol Unit one O nine requests Unit ten to
proceed the junction of Ranch Road two three and State
Highway one nine west of Bartonville to examine stolen car recovered.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
At that point.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Ten four. Does Unit one O nine think stolen vehicle
may have connection with this unit's current investigation of murder?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Unit one O nine reports liquor bottles found an abandoned vehicle.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
Ten four Unit ten heading for rendezvous with one O
nine immediately, will keep you informed. Ten four Unit ten
Claire guy exhaust old tight Frank got us swing around.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
My focus of a break better be we need a
highway patrol.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Unit one O nine was Tommy Manuelo's unit. We spotted
his car and he flagged us down near the junction
of the Ranch Road. The stolen carde located was parked
off the road, small grove of trees.
Speaker 7 (10:02):
I found it just for a sun up chase. I
was making the turn off. My headlines reflected on the chrome.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
Just badly saw it.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Then when I checked the license number was on a
hot car sheet. Number came over by short wave last night.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
Now what time last night this car was reported stolen?
Speaker 7 (10:16):
I got the flash little after eleven o'clock.
Speaker 10 (10:18):
On was killed before ten.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
I know, but this car could have been missing from
eight o'clock.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
On only went to a picture show about then.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
Car was gone when it came out.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Where was the car taken from Tommy Bartonville only four
miles from here on the state.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
About sixty miles and made a pretty Jason.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Yeah, but if the car was taken an eight o'clock
or a little after, the thief had plenty of time
to drive to Purty before ten o'clock. KTXA said, you
found some liquor bottles in the car tummy. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I'll show you.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Hey, uh empty fifth on the floor in the front seat,
and there's one half empty down the back.
Speaker 10 (10:48):
I'll opened the back drill.
Speaker 8 (10:50):
Hm, I'm a tax seal on. That bottle isn't even broken.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
No, I didn't notice. Eh oh, I.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Could have emptied half of it without break making the
ceiling and pulling the car.
Speaker 8 (11:01):
The bottle must be cracked, staying around her on the
floor mat where it's been leaking.
Speaker 10 (11:06):
That's what we've been looking for. Jason.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Yeah, picked the bottle up, Frank, don't touch the glass.
Left it with your fingers pinched around the tack stamp,
right grip sel, right ship out of the bottom. Wonder
why I didn't all empty? What have the bottle been
standing up instead of lying flat? It emptied down until
the liquor was even with the place. The bottle was
cracked and it couldn't run anymore until you picked it up.
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Might get some prints off of it, or maybe the
empty bottle in the front seat. We can try so,
since you're not gonna get any from the steering wheel, No,
I noticed that right away.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
Uh not with a cloth cover on a wheel.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Might get something from the dashboard of the inner.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Door handled, but I don't know. Not often you pick
up good prints on the car.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
There's a piece of cleansing tissue on the floor there.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
Yeah, it looks like lipstick. Stay on it, That's what
it is.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Another little thing on the floor mat here h gold bothered. Yeah,
lipstick is kind of a light shade.
Speaker 10 (12:00):
Could have been a woman in this two Jason.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Probably a blonde, of course, said Bobby pin And a
tissue might company the owner's wife or is girl. I
doubt that you.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
I'll come Tommy, the owner the colored man jee.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
In just a moment We will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
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Speaker 7 (12:58):
That's later today for Tellmer the Great.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Storry Paul Douglas, presented by Theater Guild all the Air.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
tonight's case joy Ride, an authentic story from the files
of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
I put out a call for the lab crew to
meet us at the stolen car. When they finished checking
the liquor store at Purdy, they joined us. Within two hours,
nothing had been found at the store that would help us,
and it didn't take long to realize that we weren't
going to get any evidence from the car. The bottles either.
Speaker 10 (13:36):
Doesn't look like they're gonna find anything, Jason here.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
They don't. Won't be their fault. No point in our
hanging around here.
Speaker 10 (13:42):
I want to drive back to thirty now.
Speaker 8 (13:44):
I think we do better if we drove into Bartonville.
Because the car it was stolen from Bartonville then brought
back here to us Spout only four miles away from
where it was taken. Figures that whoever stole it must
live nearby. The car would have been left someplace else.
Speaker 10 (13:56):
Yeah, I'll go along with that. Let's try button though. Good.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
We're gonna leave you fellas you find anything. Let us
know by short wave right along. You can try to
run down that lipstick and bobby pin gave Tommy Manuello
the tissue the lipstick smear. I've been sent through to Austin.
They've established the lipstick friend by chemical analysis. They'll also
check on the manufacturer of the bobby pins.
Speaker 10 (14:18):
Figure to Dick Long to get a report.
Speaker 8 (14:19):
Well, not long, Tommy may have it by the time
we get into town. Maybe at the courthouse.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
You got a plan match out.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Yeah, it won't be too many places handling lipstick and
bobby pins. We get the brand names. Tommy and I
can check the stores and see if salesgirls remember any
women who use that shade, the lipstick or the pins.
Would I do Check into the hotel and get some sleep. No,
we got one more thing to look for the gun
that killed Barnes. Check with a constable and get a
list of anybody he knows who might own a thirty
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eight police special.
Speaker 10 (14:48):
Yeah, that might uncover something.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
They have some records of people who had guns like
that being picked up on minor charges in the past.
It's worth checking. We matched the bullet that killed Barnes.
We can make some work for a twelve man. Jerry
Tommy Manuelo had the information on the lipstick and bobby
pin examined by the Austin Lab. We started the check
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of drug stores and general merchandise outlets that carried the items.
We couldn't get any concrete information from sales girls or clerks.
Where another dug store on the next corner.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Jason, you know some of these sas clerks don't seem
to have very long memoris.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
She can't blame them. Things were tracing her. Both cheap items.
Girl on her feet all day, gets so she can't
remember much except bunions. I guess you're right.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I sure hope the sheriff is doing better, and well,
I hope so too.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Hey, Tommy, wait up, hold it, Tommy, here comes Frank.
Speaker 10 (15:42):
Now I'm in tracking you for twenty minutes.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
You finished checking already? Yeah.
Speaker 11 (15:48):
When I come across something I think we are looking
to right away, Jace. There's a fellow named Jim Hammer.
Filed a report with a constable last night, just poor midnight,
said a gun been stolen from his house thirty eight
police Fay.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Isn't that what Bonds was killed with?
Speaker 10 (16:01):
You? Yeah?
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Get any information on this Jim Hammer?
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Yeah, I sure did.
Speaker 8 (16:05):
He's not watching around the cattle pans. Hold the auction
barn told the constably he'd missed a gun when he
was getting ready to go to work last night.
Speaker 10 (16:12):
Couldn't find it in the drawer he keeps it in.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
You get a Hammer's address, yeah, two fourteen off Spruce. Temmy,
you keep checking the stores. We'll meet you at the
courthouse later, right, Jee, All right, Frank, I left my
car on Main Street.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
Let's go.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Yeah, I like to talk to Jim Hammer.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Hain't home, you know, we can find him over to
the auction barn.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Maybe I thought he was the night watchman over there.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, he goes there during the day sometimes when need
to say, there.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Was auction in the fasternoon.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
You look kind of young.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
You're not his wife or eh nommy's daughter. Rubie Hammer
st five o'clock.
Speaker 10 (17:00):
Jeez, thought probably be over my now.
Speaker 8 (17:02):
Yeah, you expect your father come home to eat.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
No, you probably spend some time chatting around the barn
and maybe get hisself some grub in town, correct work.
Speaker 10 (17:12):
I see.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
I guess we might as well go with the auction barn, Frank.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
What'd you want to see my father by?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Is it something about some stolen cattle or something like that?
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Yeah, something like that. Thanks miss bye.
Speaker 10 (17:24):
Bye ruby Light.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
You messed my father. Thanks?
Speaker 8 (17:35):
Where's the auction barne west end of town? Jim Hammer
wasn't hard to find. He was pointed out to us
talking to cattleman who bought stock at the auction and
were waiting for a chance to load their purchases on
their trucks at the end of a shoot. We called
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him off to the side.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Yeah, sure, were here. What can I do for you?
Speaker 8 (18:02):
COUNCILO says you had a gun stolen from your home
last night, bump.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Fools had gun wasn't stone tall, and I just didn't
look sharpen though last night. Found it this afternoon, but
in a different draw from where I usually keep.
Speaker 8 (18:14):
It, after got your carrying right there in your houster.
Yeah you mean to say you just took a look
in one drawer last night for coming to work and
reported that gun stone without being sure? Well, there was
shoe last night.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
Where can I just do overlook at That's all?
Speaker 8 (18:26):
It's pretty hard to overlook a thirty eight police special.
It couldn't look very hard when oh but empty the bureau. Eh.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
I was in a hurry to get to work. I
guess I just be'mitted, that's all. Ain't no reason for
you to jump on them.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
Man, you reported to the constable when you thought the
gun was missing. Now how come you didn't let him
know you'd found it?
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Well, fools, I should do didn't think it was no
rush said, what's the harm?
Speaker 10 (18:47):
It's my gun?
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Amy, let's have it. Well, sure, don't you pull it?
Just turn around, I'll take it myself.
Speaker 10 (18:53):
Hey, it was you shad turn around.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Once you fire this gun? Last hammer?
Speaker 5 (19:01):
I can't even remember last time. Ain't had no cold
to fire.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
It haven't huh smell, that's Frank.
Speaker 10 (19:11):
It's been used all right, not long ago. You're crazy.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
I tell you I ain't fired that gun any more.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Somebody has you better come with us, Come away with
you to the courthouse, Hammer, So we check on a
few things. Kay Cone walk a liquor store on her name.
Barnes was killed last night and pretty shot three times
through the back by a thirty eight police special.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Are you trying to frame me for something? I was
nowhere near Prody last night.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
We know you filed a report with the constable around midnight, Hammer,
But where were you between nine and eleven o'clock last night?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
I was home sleeping. My daughter can tell you that.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
We go ahead, Hammer, What are you stopping for?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Well, my daughter wasn't, Homer. Just remember she went on
buck shaving the.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
Club and nobody saw you doing those hours.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Huh, No, nobody, but it was Homer. Tell you you
gotta believe me that gunn ain't been fired.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
If we're wrong, you've got nothing to worry about comorrow.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
Yeah, get that gun to your lab.
Speaker 8 (20:01):
Jeshul to fly to Austin, goes down about forty five minutes.
Good boys and ballistics can test fire it and check
the slug with the ones taken out of barns. If
this is the murder weapon, they'll tell us.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I tell you it can't be.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Our lab doesn't make any mistakes. Hammer. If you're telling
the truth, there's a little test you can volunteer to take.
We have a lab crew working there by. Right now.
I'll give you a die Phenelman test. What's just a
matter of pouring a chemically treated wax on your hand.
When they peel it off, it'll show traces of night trate.
If you fired a gun recently, I.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Heard you.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Now, I'd like to hear it from a lab man,
just to be sure. We got the gun on the
night plane to Austin. The stolen card been brought into
a garage in town. We waited for the lab crew
to finish with it and had one of the men
go to work on Hammer's hands. By ten pm we
had the answers, two answers that didn't fit each other.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
What are you keeping me here for? You heard what
the lab man said, My hands are clean. Was no
night put on him?
Speaker 8 (21:00):
It doesn't settle everything. Hammer. While he had you in
the next room going over your hands. I had a
phone report from Austin on your gun. You'd better talk off, Hammer.
Your gun's been identified as a murder weapon. Nice a
lot you want in bed? At ten o'clock last night,
you went purdy driving a stolen corn.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
There was a woman with you.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Hey saw you run around with any blond women?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
The only blond woman I ever run around with was
my wife. She died six years ago. That gug was
missing from my house last night. Somebody must have taken it.
Didn't put it back again? Oh sure, my hands was thing,
wasn't he out?
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Jay? Oh?
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Tommy almost forgot about you find anything coming?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
His priving time store was closed when I got to it,
But I got the address of the woman who works
the cosmetic Hamra when I have to see it. They
handle the lipstick and pens we've been checking on. She
gave me the names of a few women that you
remembers to buy both.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
His list read off the name of Jays. Maybe if
Hammer's girlfriend is listed, deal, admit he knows it.
Speaker 8 (21:52):
And one name on here he'll admit to knowing. All right, Yes,
what you see that's what I know. It's your daughter,
Ruby Hammer h the sheriff, and I drove Hammer back
to his house, but Ruby wasn't there and waited around
looking through the house.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Of course, she tried to put it on to me
and now's my daughter? Are you crazy? She's only eighteen
years old.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Was she with you last night? No, she was out
on a date with who what the house?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Should I know? All I know is she wouldn't get
into no trouble like this.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
I've heard that same speech in a hundred cart rooms.
Hammer yees, come here, man, Yeah.
Speaker 10 (22:29):
What is it, guir of cootonuts closet? Smell?
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Hmm? You keep any liquor in the house? Hammer?
Speaker 9 (22:36):
No, never or something else?
Speaker 10 (22:39):
Gase photograph?
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Yeah, Hammer's daughter and some boy.
Speaker 10 (22:43):
Let me see that again.
Speaker 8 (22:45):
I know this kid, the boy I sent him to
reform school three years ago.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
His name's Chuck Allenby.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Or was the charge against him something that fits this case,
like a glove automobile there?
Speaker 5 (22:55):
And my daughter wouldn't go out with nobody like that.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
Of course, not Hammer. She just got a habit opposing
pictures with people. She wouldn't go out with. I'm gonna
get my car outside, Frank, and we would sit down
and wait for Ruby's date to bring her home.
Speaker 10 (23:15):
Somebody's coming down the street, Chase.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
Yeah, I hear 'em. After midnight. I think you're at work, Hammer,
and may come in, so keep quiet, hear me? You
hear me? Yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
They're coming in.
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Yeah, quiet, I have to come into the hall. They
won't see us in the living room of the lights office.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I can't see us.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
And ripping on a lone.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
You ain't stand long enough and need the like and
what all of you haven't stay?
Speaker 6 (23:40):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
What's the good having money? They ain't gonna spend any
other spend it?
Speaker 6 (23:44):
Wait a while?
Speaker 10 (23:45):
Why do you got a job?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
I spend the money?
Speaker 10 (23:47):
People gonna wonder where I got it?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
All right? Why you don't wait?
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Don't set me to wait.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
I can go out with somebody else. You know, somebody
who's got a car every night, or who ait a price.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
To get don't move anybody? That means you charming all
that door?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
What are they doing after him?
Speaker 10 (24:07):
Was he you stay out of that?
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Hammer?
Speaker 10 (24:08):
Couldn't stay out of trouble? Could you? Chuck?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I didn't do let me gold?
Speaker 8 (24:12):
Still, that's quite a roll of bills you had in
your pocket boy. I found out money where the cash
register over in pretty after you killed an old man.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
So that's why you wanted my father's gune.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
What kill him? Ruby?
Speaker 5 (24:28):
If he had my gun? You kill him?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Last night? He won the barry just for fun, he said.
Then he stole a car, made me go with him
over the party. He let me park some place.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
He walked away, and then after a while he come
back with some risky I didn't drink none of it,
but he did want.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
To keep quiet and say he didn't park near the store.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
No, he walked from where he let me. I didn't
even know what he do?
Speaker 8 (24:52):
You line, Ruby? When old man was killed, whoever gun
dam ran out of the store with a dripping bottle
and got into a car not more than ten feet
from thenton got him.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
You really see that he's sion.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Ruby's only a little girl.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
You can prove his zions. Give him the same test
you give me.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
On his hands.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I can't well that pull.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
Wax on your hands. You can tell if you fire.
Speaker 7 (25:11):
A gunby I'm back there.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
Get away from that stove, Ruby, Ruby, I'm away from there.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Why you do it?
Speaker 10 (25:25):
Ruby?
Speaker 8 (25:26):
What you do it today? That hammer?
Speaker 7 (25:28):
You got any butter, get it fast, doesn't move.
Speaker 8 (25:32):
I won't try not, but you do. In the kitchen
here and pulled the lid off the cook stove and
jammed their hand into the hoey gold.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Here's a but here's your butter.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Thanks man can fix that burn. A little of this
ruby Dot can fix it for you better. Later on
at the jails.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Chuck Allenby and ruby Hammer were found guilty of the
murder of storekeeper Barnes Allendee, who turned state's witness, was
sentenced to a thirty year.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
Term at Huntsville.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Ruby Hammer pulled fifty years in the women's prison at Gory.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
And now here again. It's the star of our show,
Joel McCrae. Folks. Tonight marks the concluding performance for a
while at least of Tales of the Texas Rangers. We've
really enjoyed bringing these stories to you and hope that
someday we'll be back with you again. To NBC and
its affiliated stations, the Colonel Homer Garrison, Junior Chief of
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the Texas Rangers, to Captain M. T. Lonewolf Gonzales, our
technical advisor, and to all the Texas Rangers and members
of the Department of public safety are great for thanks,
and we're particularly grateful to those of you who've taken
the time to send us your cards and letters. After all,
they are the only sure way of telling that you
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liked our show. Thanks folks, Thanks a lot, Good night
you have dropped her.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactmentif case from the Miles
Out Lubeck The Breakers. Joel McCrae will soon be seen
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starring in the Universal International Technicolor production Cattle Drive. The
night's case included Tony Barrett, Sam Edwards, Reggie Webber, John Frank,
Barney Phillip, and Bill Johnstone. This story was transcribed and
adapted by Joel Murcott, and the program.
Speaker 8 (28:00):
Is produced and directed by Stacey Peak.
Speaker 10 (28:04):
This is how give me speaking.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
And you enjoy the very best the radio. Be sure
that you die and write write the very best to Medio. Morning,
Noon and Night is from this station, Morning, Noon and
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