November 28, 2025 • 30 mins
Tales of the Texas Rangers was a western radio drama which ran on the NBC radio network from July 8, 1950 until September 14, 1952. The series was produced and directed by Stacy Keach Sr. He hired real life Texas Ranger Captain Manuel “Lone Wolf” Gonzaullas as the show’s advisor. Gonzaullas was able to provide realism and accuracy to the stories.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae's ranger Jase Pearson.
Another authentic reenactment of the case transcribes from the files
of the Texas Rangers. Names, dates, and places in the
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following story are fictitious for obvious reasons. The events themselves
are a matter of records.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
This week is filled with happy surprises for all radio listeners,
where it marks the return of the air for the
fall season of five of your favorite NBC radio programs.
Tuesday Evening, The Cavalcade of America will once again recreate
the interesting stories from our nation's history. Stars of Hollywood
and Broadway will portray historical roles each week on Cavalcade
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of America and Tuesday, Star will Be Lovely Joan Caulfield.
Wednesday evening, The Big Story returns to bring you the
adventure and thrilling experiences behind the headlines in America's newspapers.
And Thursday marks the return of two fine programs.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
First, It's The Roy Rogers.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Show, featuring new adventures in the wild and Wooly West.
Later Thursday, its Father Knows Best back on NBC with
Robert Young in the title role.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And Friday your hit Parade.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Returns with the top music of the land, as played
and sung by Gna Barto and his orchestra. So for
the finest and entertainment all week long, remember to hear
these wonderful shows. Aw today's tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
And now from the Fire of the Texas Rangers, the
case called Three Victims.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
It is five thirty on a Saturday afternoon in August
nineteen thirty five, eighteen miles south of the town of Horton,
in the hilly section of Texas. A young couple on
horseback rides with a brush to the crest of a
long sloping ridge. Let's pop up ahead, honey, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
I didn't think we'd ever make it.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Him, I'm tired. I, oh, maybe a little. I've had
one more razor say, down a road and across the field.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Over the creek.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
No, I've had nothing eating today, Tim, because you cheated
on the last one.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Cheater.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
That's a fine thing to say.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
It's true.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
I'd have uneasy if you haven't cheated and gone through
those cottonwoods.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Oh you know that, your judge as well as I.
Speaker 8 (02:48):
So I forgot about it, and it wasn't fair for
you to remember row.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Let's stop at second, Tim, Such a pretty view from here. Okay,
oh oh.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Oh, this is enough just tesday.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah, time makes use kills.
Speaker 9 (03:03):
It's just like a painting.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Maybe I used to ride out here Saturday afternoons.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Before we were married. Noah, And I also remember when
I had a work saturdays.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You ride out here with any giant.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You're not still Johnson, Ronnie?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Are you?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Kim May?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Of course yes, you ride tim alright, Sa running across
that field down there?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Hm? Where?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, I'm sure he's making time.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Not be kind teller who works for you every now
and then?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I believe it is a sure sure, that's Jo.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
It looks like he's running away from something.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I don't see anybody after. Maybe something copping down on
the road.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
We better go see.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Come on, honey, come on, not that way, he'll come
straight down his bank.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
It's quick, all right.
Speaker 8 (03:44):
Come on, come on?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
How you making it, honey, I'm just ti I'll park
from the tide of the road down there. Why all
those still people lying on the ground next to it?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Looks like a hurt.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
Come on, why don't just steal? You think I don't
hurry out?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, fellow comes down.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
The bot turned the card.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
To he's waving.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
I don't think he's gonna mad.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
It's falling Jim looking over the blood on his key.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
Oh he's just a kid.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
He can't be more than ninety the twenty.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
He's still three bs.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I don't think he even sees us.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Come on, fellow, he gotta get you to it.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Come on, come on, I'm healthy over the stone, Come on.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Give me.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Proper, all right?
Speaker 9 (04:29):
Okay, he's shot up and you reckon.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
It could have been josed maybe turned up the dust
getting out of here. What happens?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Fully runs here, he.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Rubs he's your woman, proper, he's shutting me out right up.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
Away him planning woman.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Over there and you.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
Can't do it?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
All right, honey, you stay here with him.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
We'll see if I can't help you.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
He never did anything bad, anything, What did he have?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
How do you better?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Ride over the times as quick as you can call
a sheriff. I'll have to say this fellow the hospital
in his car. When the sheriff was notified of the crime,
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he sent his deputies to the scene of the shooting
and requested assistance from Texas rangers. Then he drove to
the hospital to talk to the injured boy. The young
man identified himself as Henry Elman, but was in no
condition to give the sheriff a the tail account of
the killings. In the meantime, Ranger jas Pearson arrived at
the spot where the bodies were found and began questioning
Alice Duncan, who had returned after calling the sheriff.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Where was the boy when you first saw him, as Duncan.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
He was up this hill, about halfway between here and
the broom.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
But he was on his way back towards the road.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Oh, it must have been awful for him, seeing these
folks get shot and having to run away to keep
him being killed him.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
He looks like he was shot out even after he
ran away.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
How do you know that?
Speaker 7 (06:08):
When I was up there, I saw some bullet holes
in the trees. You or your husband hear any shots
before you got here?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
No, first we knew anything was wrong was when he
saw the colored sella running across him.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
You're sure he was coming from this direction?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (06:19):
Yeah, right from where the car was.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
You know his name, His.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
First name's Joe, but I don't know his last I'm
sure my husband does, though. Joe works for him sometime.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I think that'll be all for the time being, miss Duncan.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
And thanks, if it's all right, ran Joe everything.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
I'll wait for my husband and ride home with him.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
What's the matter man, nothing now, I seal Cander.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
You're a little pale. But I sit down over here
on this rock.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
Oh yes, I am feeling.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
A little sick. Oh this a sudden here.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
I looked at those bodies again.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Up How he had him see this way or that?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
It's reaction.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Sometimes it takes a while to hit you. I got
some water in a canteen in my car. Would you
like something?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
He'll be all right. So kicked for a minute.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
That boy the way when he found out he's folks
was dead, did I.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That awful cry?
Speaker 7 (07:08):
You don't have to talk about it anymore now, man, No, okay,
sheriff's car is coming and he's got your husband with him.
Excuse me him and not tease?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
How did gate? Hello, Sheriff. This is Kim Duncan.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Howdy, rad.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
I think you better look after your wife, mister Duncans.
She isn't feeling too well.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh well, then I'll take a right horse.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
She doesn't want to ride a horse back all on
my deputy take her home in the car to him, Oh,
I thank you. Jav's on his way out, Jason.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Did you talk to the boy in the house?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
So I tried found out his name was Henry Alman.
Only thing I could get out of him was a
man who robbed him was a negro. Young Alman was
really in the state. The doc finally had to give
him a Hypodermy. Who was that in your car? And
it could be our man.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Jays as the fellow the Duncan's were talking about.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah, Joe Conrad. Timnew where he lives, so I picked
him up at his house on the way out here.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Did you talk to him a little bit? He sure
tells a phony story personally, I think he's in this
thing after his heir. Now let's get him in a
town find out what he knows. The sheriff took Joe
cart right ahead in his car, and I'd followed on
the way into town.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I ready up for a lab man to check over
the scene of the shooting.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Joe was fingerpriended and photographed. Twenty minutes later, the sheriff
brought him into the office.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Go ahead, Joe, Yes.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Sit down, Yes, range your pears from one stash of
some questions, please, mister sheriff, I got a headache, I
got a real bad Where.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Were you between five and six this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Joe?
Speaker 7 (08:32):
I recognize home, sir.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Now wait a minute, you told me before.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You were at the car where the people were killed.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Please, my headaches. I'm back too.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I can't think. I'm so tired.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Where are you at the car?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Joe?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
What the was? Did you kill? Mister and missus allman lost?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
I didn't kill nobody.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Happened to be at the car Welsa.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
I was walking along this road and I hear shooting.
I run to see what it was. And when I
got to the car, seen two people laying on the.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Ground, look like this dead ranger. What you did then? Well?
I wanted to.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Call the police, so I run across the field and
mister Smith foss. That's about three miles from the car.
I know, mister Smith he got a phone or did
your car?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Now?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
So mister Smith, he went home?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
What you do? Then?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
I started running some more down toward the store near
where my house is.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I know that is the next phone.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
But you never did phone, did you?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Joe?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Now? Why not.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Well, I was cutting across the field, and when I
got almost down to the road, I hear Syreenes making
a big noise and a couple of cars coming along fast,
so I know that somebody had done already call the police.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Then you went back to your house and didn't bother
anymore about it. That right, Joe, Yes, sir, I had
to feed my home. I don't think you're telling us
the truth.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
I am telling the truth, mister Shepp.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I didn't kill nobody here Sleeve the second jail.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Miss Sleeve, Uh huh you.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Know what this spotty is on the corneyar cuff? Uh?
You know it's dried blood. I did get there.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I don't know, sir. Maybe when I've been over them
people to see if they he was bad, I might
have touched.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Some of the blood and you might have got it
on you when you killed him.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
I didn't kill him, I tell you.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I ain't.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Nobody can say I did.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Be your change your story. When that boy gets to
look at you there, boy, yeah, he wasn't killed, and
he'll be able to identify the man who shot his parents.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Mister Rangel, Please, I don't know what this is all about,
and my head's hurting. Bed. Let me get some sleep, please.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Sheriff, can you arrange your special lineup for tomorrow morning?
I record zough Henry Elman should be able to come
over by then. Joe, you anything else to tell us?
Also think it over. We'll talk to you again in
the morning. Early the following morning, we questioned Joe again.
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He still denied he had anything to do with the
robbery and double murder. At seven o'clock I called the hospital.
The doctor said Henry Elman was awake and would be
able to leave the hospital in thirty minutes. I asked
the sheriff to prepare for the lineup. Then I left
for the hospital. It was only three blocks in the
Sheriff's office, but I took my car to save Henry
the walk. I waited for him in a reception room.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
He was a slightly.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Built boy of twenty. His left arm was in a sling,
and his face was pale and drawn from the strain
he'd been through.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
The day before.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Ranger Pierson, that's right, how you feel in today?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Well? A little better, I think, the doctor said. The
bullet went through the fleshy part of my army said,
I'd only have to wear this sling.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
For a few days and it's fine.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
The doctor said, you thought you had the men who
held us up.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
We're not sure. We'd like you to make an identification.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Well, I'm not real certain I can identify him. He
must have gotten a pretty good look at him. Well,
yes I did, but everything happens so fast, and I'm
not sure i'd know him. I'll just do the best
you can. Well, i'm gonna get going. We'll there be
a lot of men to pick from, six or seven.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
We always like to have at least that many when
we used the lineup for identification.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Oh, go ahead, and I think I'm not sure I
can walk all the way over to the jay. Alright,
car is right out here. Oh thanks, ranging you think
it's nice, have you, Henry?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
I hate to bother you with a lot of questions,
but it's important to me know exactly what happened yesterday.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
You're the only one who can tell us. I try
not to think about it. When I think about it again,
an awful feeling inside.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
We can wait a little while before we ask anything.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
The lineup will be enough for one morning. No, maybe
it'd be better if I talk about it. I got
to talk about it sometime. I heard the car. Oh,
you get in for a Fraser. You make it all right? Yeah,
they can make it. H I never been in a
police car before, and it's interesting. What was it you
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wanted to know? Anything you can remember about yesterday? Well?
I came home yesterday from my job in the oil field.
I work in the place about fifty miles from here.
Uh huh. I thought Pop and Mama looked tired, so
I suggested we take a ride out in the country. Well,
we had a fine time popping laugh. We can talk
about it later if you want. Now, I wanted to
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show Pop and Mama and old Indian Grindstone, so we stopped.
We walked up the hill a little way, but it
wasn't there. I know the one you mean.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
It's about a mile from the place where your car
was kind of tough to find if you don't know
exactly where it is.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I hadn't been out there in three or four years.
When did you and your parents first see the man
when you came back to the car. Oh, yes, he
must have been hiding behind it. He jumped out waved
a gun at it.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Yeah, of any idea?
Speaker 4 (13:15):
What kind of a gun? It was Henry. No is
that important? Yeah, but don't worry about it. I laugh, man,
I'll be able to tell soon. As he digged some
of those slugs out of the tree. Oh well, the
man took all our money and then Poppy, he always
had a bad tempt. Papa started a fight with him.
Is that when he started shooting? Yeah? He he shot
Papa first and then Mama. I tried to stop him,
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and he shot me in the arm. I got scared
and ran home. Maybe I should have stayed and fought
with him.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
But did the sensible thing.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Here we are. I'm sorry I had to go to
all the trouble using your car just for a few blocks.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
There wasn't any trouble.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Did this man shoot at you all the time you ran? Yeah?
Some of the bullets came real close. I ran up
to the brush and hid. I'll find the brush. Did
you go all just into the edge of it and
had to come out after me? I would have run further,
but he he just shot up the hill, had me.
Then I saw him run away. Uh huh. I sure
hope you've got the man, Ranger. It can't bring Papa
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and Mama back, But I think the man who did
it should be plenty. He will be going in, Henry.
There's nobody in here. It's not just the room where
you wait.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
I'm in the line up in front of the holdover sell.
Make yourself comfortable. I'll be back in a minute. All right,
all set for the line up? Chair already, Jess.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
All right, your fellas on out. I'll bet Henry, how
have your fella's form a straight line at all? Right? Henry,
I'm feeling a little nervous. You'll be okay, Ah, And
your eye is no talking, looks straight ahead.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
It's far enough, Henry. I'll take a good look at
these men and him, the man who robbed you.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
That big man the second from me? And could I
hear him talk that about Joe? What's your full name?
Joe Cort? Right? Where do you live?
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Joe Farman?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
World on and two? And he's the one. He's the
water easy.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Again he kills but the Loma he killed them.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
In just a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
We will continue with Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joe McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Have you ever left home, locked the door behind you,
and had the uneasy feeling that you left a burning
cigarette behind, Better go back and check next time, because
every twenty seconds a fire breaks out in the United States.
Through carelessness, these fires kill eleven thousand persons each year
this figure for life or severely burned thousands more and
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destroy seven million.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Dollars worth of property.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Protect your home from fire following these simple safety precautions.
Don't smoke in bed or throw away lighted cigarettes. Clean
out closets, attics, basements, any place where old newspapers, magazines,
and inflammable materials are liable to accumulate. Repair defective electric
equipment and replace worn of frayed wiring. Use cleaning fluids
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that won't burn, and be careful with matches. Keep them
out of the reach of children. Fires in the home
your home can and must be prevented. Remember don't gamble
with fire. The odds are against you. And now the
second act of today's Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story three victims.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
It took nearly an hour after the lineup to Tom
Henry Elmand down enough to get his full statement. Man
picked up a copy of it and took it with
him to Austin. Henry told us his aunt was arriving
from out of town. He wanted to help over the
funeral arrangement, so we sent him home with one of
the deputies. Then we brought Joe Cotwright in for further questioning.
After four hours, we were getting nowhere. Joe, you'd make
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it a lot easier for everybody if you just told.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Us the truth.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I am telling the truth. I've been telling the truth
all along. I didn't kill nobody.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
How can you say that after Henry i'm an identified
you as the one who killed his parents, cause.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
He's the one that ain't telling the truth.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Where'd you put the money you took one of those people, Joe,
I've never took no money. I'm at begun. You hide
that the same place you put the money.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Mister, mister range it.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
You gotta believe me. I didn't steal no money, and
I didn't kill nobody.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I swear I didn't, all right, Joe, And I'm going
to force you to talk if you don't want to.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
If I knowed anything else about this, I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But there ain't nothing more.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
I can't slave.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I go.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Ranger person.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
That's a lab up on a store up the point.
I thought you were in Austin. I am back. I'll
come something fight here, James, come out.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Cheff and I will both be out. See in twenty minutes.
When we reached the place where the almonds had been killed,
we spotted Mitch halfway up the hill. We climbed the path.
Mitch stood at the edge of the clearing, looking into
the brush. He turned around as we approached him.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
Hey, this thing beats me.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
I can't figure it out.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
It's on your mind man.
Speaker 10 (18:34):
Well, according to Henry Alman's statement, he came up this
hill and hitting the brush must have been just about
where we were standing.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
It's right.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
He also said, the killer we're shooting up the hill
at him, Regga the wires.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
There are bullet holes and trees.
Speaker 10 (18:45):
All the way up the hill, six of them, five
on the way up, and one in that tree further
up behind this brush.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Bullets Hall came from Smith and Wesson thirty eighth.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
What do you get in there?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Well, take a look.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Down at the roads.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
How far would you.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Say it was from.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
There to this rush up here?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Maybe sixty feet sixty three to be exact. I measured
it now, I'll turn around. Look up the hill.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
See that tree behind the brush. It's twenty feet further
up the hill from where we're standing. One of the
bullets hit it. I measured the distance the bullet went
into the tree, the two and a half inches.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I'm sorry, Mitch, but this don't make much sense to me.
Speaker 10 (19:20):
Maybe well, in a minute, Jase, here's the smith and
Wesson thirty eight brought it back from Martin. He mine
shooting the slug into that tree.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Any special place.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
You want me to stand right here if he etches
the brush.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
But now he and the sheriff come with me. I
want to show you something. I wash you what you
were getting at.
Speaker 10 (19:40):
Henry Alman said, the killer fired at him from the road.
Like I told you, The bullet I found.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
In the tree went in two and a half inches.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Here's a hole.
Speaker 10 (19:49):
Maybe your bullet chase may sure how far it went
into the tree?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Were here? Here, here's this.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Two and a half inches.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
See what I mean? This year puts a different light
on things.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Oh gee, it means that the bullet Mitch first found
in this tree had to be fired from the same
place as I just fired. But that would have been
right at the place where Henry said he was riding. Yeah,
and if the killer was that close to Henry, he
wouldn't have left them alive. You mean Henry's been lying?
Beginning to look that way, But why something would have
to find out from Henry himself.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
That must be the only place I've had on the right,
Jayson one with a week on the door, I've been
thinking about it. If Henry was lying, there's only one Adragon. See,
he's the one who killed his parents. He can't be
sure of that yet, but he's gonna have a lot
of explaining to do.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Hell, there's only one thing that bothers me. Henry was
wounded two, just in the arm. Wouldn't be the first
time somebody shot himself trying.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
To cover up a cry of all things unbelievable though,
what could ever make a boy hate he's folks enough
to shoot him down in cold blood? If Henry did
do it?
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Dealing with a psychopath and a clever one, it's not
gonna be easy to get the proof we need.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Yees, Oh, what can I do for you? Rangel?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
We'd like to see Henry Elman.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Henry's done at the undertaking, and Foller, I think I'm
his aunt Can I help.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
You expect Henry homes soon?
Speaker 9 (21:18):
He said he'd be back at five o'clock.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
It's almost that now. Could we talk to you, ma'am alone?
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Why shouldn't they come in?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Oh, we've had so many people in all day. Everybody
feels so sorry for Henry, poor boy.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
Let's see. I think we can talk in the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yes, I'm afraid you'll find things a mass out here.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
People have been coming in since morning.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
Haven't had a chance to even do the breakfast dishes.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
That's all right. Now we'd like to ask you some
questions about Henry.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
It's something wrong.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Just a routine nature of this case means we have
to check every possible angle.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
Of course, I still haven't gotten over the shock.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Feel like I'm walking.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Around in a bad dream. Oh what did you want
to ask about Henry?
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Have you known the boil his life only since he
was fixed.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
That's when my sister and her husband adopted him.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Did he get along well with his parents as.
Speaker 9 (22:08):
Far as I know? I suppose they had the usual
family squabble.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
The Henry always have all the money he needed.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Well, if anything, I'd say, Will and my sister spoiled him.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
We always had plenty of spending money.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Uh huh, not cound the strain he's been under the
past couple of days.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Does he get upset very often?
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Well, I'm not around him too much, but I do
know once he tried to commit suicide when was there
about three years ago. The family was visiting me san Antone.
Henry shut himself in the garage.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
And started the car.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
We just found him in town. He said it was
an accident, but I never believed it.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Do you know if he's been depressed about anything since then?
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Well, he's been pretty disturbed about not finishing school.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Why didn't he finish?
Speaker 6 (22:50):
He went to the university for a couple of years,
but he wasn't a very good student. The dean persuaded
Will and my sister to take him out.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
How long ago was this boy?
Speaker 9 (22:59):
The year ago?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Henry wasn't the tall happy about it, And I don't
think he liked the job his father got for him
in order for here don't. Matter of fact, I heard
him phone his boss this morning and then tell him
he was quickness. Uh huh, ranger, there's something wrong.
Speaker 9 (23:13):
I think I've got a right to know what it is.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yes, ma'am, you have but I they told me that.
Oh hello Henry, Hello, ranger. Sure nice, if you sharp fire,
we wanna ask you a few more questions, Henry, Bot,
MoMA and Papa. What happened yesterday? That's right? Well, I
don't see what more you have to ask me. They
got the man who did it, maybe so, But we'd
(23:36):
like to have you come along with us anyhow Well,
I'm kind of busy now. The funerals tomorrow. You know,
I could talk to you later tonight, but it'd be
better after the funeral. And if the ranger wants you
to go, I haven't got firemantors. Ranger, why don't you
come back tomorrow night? Then I'll have plenty of time
to answer all your questions. I think you better come
along with us, Henry.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Now, we put Henry in the car and drove out
toward the place where his parents had been killed.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
When we reached the.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Edge of town, I could see him getting nervous, but
he said nothing until we began to drive along farm
Road one oh two.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
You wanted to ask me questions, Ranger, Why don't you
go ahead and ask him? Well? Why don't you ask me?
But I know where you're taking you're taking me out
to the place where marm and Papa were killed, aren't you? Well?
Speaker 8 (24:21):
Aren't did?
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Now? You just taking os you? Henry? Not fair to
bring me out here. I'm not well. I can't stand
a lot of screen. It's just not fair, all.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Right, Henry?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Get out? What for? He wants you to show us something? What?
Get out of the car, Henry, Well, you've got no
right to bring me out here. Rangers, the spot where
your corras pought yesterday is. And I've told you all.
I know you've got the murderer. Why do you keep
asking me questions?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Why did you run when the man chased you?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Why do you call him the man? You know his name?
It's that Joe Fellow. I pointed him out to you
and those other people, so him too. The ranger asked
your question, Henry, where'd you run? I told you that
up this hill?
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Show us just where you ran.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I don't know why I have.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
To do this, mom show us him all right?
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Was this way over here, toward this path?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Was he shooting at you all the time?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I'd told you he wasn't? He only started to shoot
after I ran up the hill up this path. You
know that come on, Henry, I'll have this.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
You take your hands off me.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
That's my soul was shot there.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
There's a man who killed Mom and Papa shot me too.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
I believe you're right about that.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Well, of course I'm wrong.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Come on, you're sure he didn't come up the hill
after yet?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Why do you ask that? Just answered the question. I've
already told you. You stayed down on the road and
shot at me up the hill.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Uh huh, Henry, Your mother and father took you out
of school last year, didn't they.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah, my father wanted me to work. I shouldn't have
left school if I owe it to the world to
finish my education. What were you studying? Physics? Everybody in
the university admired me. The professors said that I'd be
the world's most brilliant scientist someday. Why are we stopping here?
Speaker 7 (25:57):
This was as far as you went, wasn't it. And
you hit at the edge of the brush there.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
I can see how you were able to pick Joe
out of the lineup. What do you mean you had
a clear view of the road from here.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
I saw him closer than that when he shot Mom
and Papa, and when he put that bullet through my arm.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Never shot your parents, Henry?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
What are you talking about? I saw him, know you didn't.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Our lad proved that the bullet he found in the
tree up there had to be shot from where we're
standing right now. Oh what that moves that nobody shot
at you, that you stood here and shot unto that
tree yourself.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
I don't know what you do.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Who killed your parents, Henry?
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Now didn't you?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Didn't you? Henry?
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Thank you. I had to do it here. They took
me out of school.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
I had to do it.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Where'd you put the gun in?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Money? I buried them? Passed that big room? Take a look? Share, sure, Jie,
I killed.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
He should have known.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I had to go to school. Why did they take
me out? Let's go.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
I had to kill for a long time.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Now, I hated them.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
I hated them.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Come on, Henry, in just a moment, we will tell
you the results of the case you have just.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Heard here at NBC.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
We're all excited about the five great programs which return
from their summer vacations this week, and we know that
all radio listeners will be happy that many of their
favorite shows will once again be a regular part of
our program lineup. Listen to this list of top entertainment,
The Cavalcade of America, Big Story, the Roy Rogers show,
Father Knows Best, and Your Hit Parade. Tuesday, Joan Coldfield
(27:39):
will star on the Cavalcade of America dramatization of The
Patriot with Chestnut Curls.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Wednesday's Big Story.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Broadcast comes directly from the front pages of the Detroit
Free Press, and there's a story which will touch your heartstrings.
Tuesday Evening, Roy Rogers will tell the story that happened
when Trigger shoots the works and Robert Young returns to
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there's no place like home When Father Knows Best. And
(28:06):
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America's favorite popular music on Your Hit Parade. Make a
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Are the conclusion of Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Joe Cottwright was immediately released from jail. Henry Helman made
a full confession to the murder of his parents on
November twenty first, nineteen thirty five, he was given a.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Sanity trial in the Comedy Court, a six man journey
to cred him legally insane.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Henry Helman was committed to a state mental institution.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Next week.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Joe McCrae and another authentic reenactment of the case from
the files House that Nexit brings Joel McCrae is currently
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(29:43):
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Speaker 4 (29:53):
He'll give me speaking.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Tonight here the Hollywood Bowl Concert on NBC
Speaker 6 (30:08):
M
Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae's ranger Jase Pearson.
Another authentic reenactment of the case transcribes from the files
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(00:42):
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are a matter of records.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
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where it marks the return of the air for the
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And Thursday marks the return of two fine programs.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
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Speaker 2 (01:29):
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Speaker 3 (01:38):
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Speaker 2 (01:39):
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Speaker 1 (01:58):
And now from the Fire of the Texas Rangers, the
case called Three Victims.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
It is five thirty on a Saturday afternoon in August
nineteen thirty five, eighteen miles south of the town of Horton,
in the hilly section of Texas. A young couple on
horseback rides with a brush to the crest of a
long sloping ridge. Let's pop up ahead, honey, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
I didn't think we'd ever make it.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Him, I'm tired. I, oh, maybe a little. I've had
one more razor say, down a road and across the field.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Over the creek.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
No, I've had nothing eating today, Tim, because you cheated
on the last one.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Cheater.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
That's a fine thing to say.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
It's true.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
I'd have uneasy if you haven't cheated and gone through
those cottonwoods.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Oh you know that, your judge as well as I.
Speaker 8 (02:48):
So I forgot about it, and it wasn't fair for
you to remember row.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Let's stop at second, Tim, Such a pretty view from here. Okay,
oh oh.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Oh, this is enough just tesday.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah, time makes use kills.
Speaker 9 (03:03):
It's just like a painting.
Speaker 6 (03:05):
Maybe I used to ride out here Saturday afternoons.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Before we were married. Noah, And I also remember when
I had a work saturdays.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You ride out here with any giant.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
You're not still Johnson, Ronnie?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Are you?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Kim May?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Of course yes, you ride tim alright, Sa running across
that field down there?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Hm? Where?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, I'm sure he's making time.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Not be kind teller who works for you every now
and then?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I believe it is a sure sure, that's Jo.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
It looks like he's running away from something.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
I don't see anybody after. Maybe something copping down on
the road.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
We better go see.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Come on, honey, come on, not that way, he'll come
straight down his bank.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
It's quick, all right.
Speaker 8 (03:44):
Come on, come on?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
How you making it, honey, I'm just ti I'll park
from the tide of the road down there. Why all
those still people lying on the ground next to it?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
Looks like a hurt.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
Come on, why don't just steal? You think I don't
hurry out?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Yeah, fellow comes down.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
The bot turned the card.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
To he's waving.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
I don't think he's gonna mad.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
It's falling Jim looking over the blood on his key.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
Oh he's just a kid.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
He can't be more than ninety the twenty.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
He's still three bs.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I don't think he even sees us.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Come on, fellow, he gotta get you to it.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Come on, come on, I'm healthy over the stone, Come on.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Give me.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Proper, all right?
Speaker 9 (04:29):
Okay, he's shot up and you reckon.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
It could have been josed maybe turned up the dust
getting out of here. What happens?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Fully runs here, he.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Rubs he's your woman, proper, he's shutting me out right up.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
Away him planning woman.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Over there and you.
Speaker 8 (04:53):
Can't do it?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
All right, honey, you stay here with him.
Speaker 8 (04:56):
We'll see if I can't help you.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
He never did anything bad, anything, What did he have?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
How do you better?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Ride over the times as quick as you can call
a sheriff. I'll have to say this fellow the hospital
in his car. When the sheriff was notified of the crime,
(05:31):
he sent his deputies to the scene of the shooting
and requested assistance from Texas rangers. Then he drove to
the hospital to talk to the injured boy. The young
man identified himself as Henry Elman, but was in no
condition to give the sheriff a the tail account of
the killings. In the meantime, Ranger jas Pearson arrived at
the spot where the bodies were found and began questioning
Alice Duncan, who had returned after calling the sheriff.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Where was the boy when you first saw him, as Duncan.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
He was up this hill, about halfway between here and
the broom.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
But he was on his way back towards the road.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Oh, it must have been awful for him, seeing these
folks get shot and having to run away to keep
him being killed him.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
He looks like he was shot out even after he
ran away.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
How do you know that?
Speaker 7 (06:08):
When I was up there, I saw some bullet holes
in the trees. You or your husband hear any shots
before you got here?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
No, first we knew anything was wrong was when he
saw the colored sella running across him.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
You're sure he was coming from this direction?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (06:19):
Yeah, right from where the car was.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
You know his name, His.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
First name's Joe, but I don't know his last I'm
sure my husband does, though. Joe works for him sometime.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I think that'll be all for the time being, miss Duncan.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
And thanks, if it's all right, ran Joe everything.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
I'll wait for my husband and ride home with him.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
What's the matter man, nothing now, I seal Cander.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
You're a little pale. But I sit down over here
on this rock.
Speaker 9 (06:42):
Oh yes, I am feeling.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
A little sick. Oh this a sudden here.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
I looked at those bodies again.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Up How he had him see this way or that?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
It's reaction.
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Sometimes it takes a while to hit you. I got
some water in a canteen in my car. Would you
like something?
Speaker 4 (06:58):
He'll be all right. So kicked for a minute.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
That boy the way when he found out he's folks
was dead, did I.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
That awful cry?
Speaker 7 (07:08):
You don't have to talk about it anymore now, man, No, okay,
sheriff's car is coming and he's got your husband with him.
Excuse me him and not tease?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
How did gate? Hello, Sheriff. This is Kim Duncan.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Howdy, rad.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
I think you better look after your wife, mister Duncans.
She isn't feeling too well.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh well, then I'll take a right horse.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
She doesn't want to ride a horse back all on
my deputy take her home in the car to him, Oh,
I thank you. Jav's on his way out, Jason.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Did you talk to the boy in the house?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
So I tried found out his name was Henry Alman.
Only thing I could get out of him was a
man who robbed him was a negro. Young Alman was
really in the state. The doc finally had to give
him a Hypodermy. Who was that in your car? And
it could be our man.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Jays as the fellow the Duncan's were talking about.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah, Joe Conrad. Timnew where he lives, so I picked
him up at his house on the way out here.
Speaker 7 (07:53):
Did you talk to him a little bit? He sure
tells a phony story personally, I think he's in this
thing after his heir. Now let's get him in a
town find out what he knows. The sheriff took Joe
cart right ahead in his car, and I'd followed on
the way into town.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I ready up for a lab man to check over
the scene of the shooting.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
Joe was fingerpriended and photographed. Twenty minutes later, the sheriff
brought him into the office.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Go ahead, Joe, Yes.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Sit down, Yes, range your pears from one stash of
some questions, please, mister sheriff, I got a headache, I
got a real bad Where.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Were you between five and six this afternoon?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Joe?
Speaker 7 (08:32):
I recognize home, sir.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Now wait a minute, you told me before.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You were at the car where the people were killed.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Please, my headaches. I'm back too.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I can't think. I'm so tired.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Where are you at the car?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Joe?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
What the was? Did you kill? Mister and missus allman lost?
Speaker 5 (08:47):
I didn't kill nobody.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Happened to be at the car Welsa.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
I was walking along this road and I hear shooting.
I run to see what it was. And when I
got to the car, seen two people laying on the.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Ground, look like this dead ranger. What you did then? Well?
I wanted to.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Call the police, so I run across the field and
mister Smith foss. That's about three miles from the car.
I know, mister Smith he got a phone or did
your car?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Now?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
So mister Smith, he went home?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
What you do? Then?
Speaker 5 (09:15):
I started running some more down toward the store near
where my house is.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I know that is the next phone.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
But you never did phone, did you?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Joe?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Now? Why not.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Well, I was cutting across the field, and when I
got almost down to the road, I hear Syreenes making
a big noise and a couple of cars coming along fast,
so I know that somebody had done already call the police.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Then you went back to your house and didn't bother
anymore about it. That right, Joe, Yes, sir, I had
to feed my home. I don't think you're telling us
the truth.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
I am telling the truth, mister Shepp.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
I didn't kill nobody here Sleeve the second jail.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Miss Sleeve, Uh huh you.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Know what this spotty is on the corneyar cuff? Uh?
You know it's dried blood. I did get there.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I don't know, sir. Maybe when I've been over them
people to see if they he was bad, I might
have touched.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Some of the blood and you might have got it
on you when you killed him.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
I didn't kill him, I tell you.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I ain't.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Nobody can say I did.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Be your change your story. When that boy gets to
look at you there, boy, yeah, he wasn't killed, and
he'll be able to identify the man who shot his parents.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Mister Rangel, Please, I don't know what this is all about,
and my head's hurting. Bed. Let me get some sleep, please.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
Sheriff, can you arrange your special lineup for tomorrow morning?
I record zough Henry Elman should be able to come
over by then. Joe, you anything else to tell us?
Also think it over. We'll talk to you again in
the morning. Early the following morning, we questioned Joe again.
(10:44):
He still denied he had anything to do with the
robbery and double murder. At seven o'clock I called the hospital.
The doctor said Henry Elman was awake and would be
able to leave the hospital in thirty minutes. I asked
the sheriff to prepare for the lineup. Then I left
for the hospital. It was only three blocks in the
Sheriff's office, but I took my car to save Henry
the walk. I waited for him in a reception room.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
He was a slightly.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Built boy of twenty. His left arm was in a sling,
and his face was pale and drawn from the strain
he'd been through.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
The day before.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Ranger Pierson, that's right, how you feel in today?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Well? A little better, I think, the doctor said. The
bullet went through the fleshy part of my army said,
I'd only have to wear this sling.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
For a few days and it's fine.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
The doctor said, you thought you had the men who
held us up.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
We're not sure. We'd like you to make an identification.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Well, I'm not real certain I can identify him. He
must have gotten a pretty good look at him. Well,
yes I did, but everything happens so fast, and I'm
not sure i'd know him. I'll just do the best
you can. Well, i'm gonna get going. We'll there be
a lot of men to pick from, six or seven.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
We always like to have at least that many when
we used the lineup for identification.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Oh, go ahead, and I think I'm not sure I
can walk all the way over to the jay. Alright,
car is right out here. Oh thanks, ranging you think
it's nice, have you, Henry?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
I hate to bother you with a lot of questions,
but it's important to me know exactly what happened yesterday.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
You're the only one who can tell us. I try
not to think about it. When I think about it again,
an awful feeling inside.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
We can wait a little while before we ask anything.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
The lineup will be enough for one morning. No, maybe
it'd be better if I talk about it. I got
to talk about it sometime. I heard the car. Oh,
you get in for a Fraser. You make it all right? Yeah,
they can make it. H I never been in a
police car before, and it's interesting. What was it you
(12:32):
wanted to know? Anything you can remember about yesterday? Well?
I came home yesterday from my job in the oil field.
I work in the place about fifty miles from here.
Uh huh. I thought Pop and Mama looked tired, so
I suggested we take a ride out in the country. Well,
we had a fine time popping laugh. We can talk
about it later if you want. Now, I wanted to
(12:53):
show Pop and Mama and old Indian Grindstone, so we stopped.
We walked up the hill a little way, but it
wasn't there. I know the one you mean.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
It's about a mile from the place where your car
was kind of tough to find if you don't know
exactly where it is.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I hadn't been out there in three or four years.
When did you and your parents first see the man
when you came back to the car. Oh, yes, he
must have been hiding behind it. He jumped out waved
a gun at it.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Yeah, of any idea?
Speaker 4 (13:15):
What kind of a gun? It was Henry. No is
that important? Yeah, but don't worry about it. I laugh, man,
I'll be able to tell soon. As he digged some
of those slugs out of the tree. Oh well, the
man took all our money and then Poppy, he always
had a bad tempt. Papa started a fight with him.
Is that when he started shooting? Yeah? He he shot
Papa first and then Mama. I tried to stop him,
(13:36):
and he shot me in the arm. I got scared
and ran home. Maybe I should have stayed and fought
with him.
Speaker 7 (13:41):
But did the sensible thing.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Here we are. I'm sorry I had to go to
all the trouble using your car just for a few blocks.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
There wasn't any trouble.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Did this man shoot at you all the time you ran? Yeah?
Some of the bullets came real close. I ran up
to the brush and hid. I'll find the brush. Did
you go all just into the edge of it and
had to come out after me? I would have run further,
but he he just shot up the hill, had me.
Then I saw him run away. Uh huh. I sure
hope you've got the man, Ranger. It can't bring Papa
(14:11):
and Mama back, But I think the man who did
it should be plenty. He will be going in, Henry.
There's nobody in here. It's not just the room where
you wait.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
I'm in the line up in front of the holdover sell.
Make yourself comfortable. I'll be back in a minute. All right,
all set for the line up? Chair already, Jess.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
All right, your fellas on out. I'll bet Henry, how
have your fella's form a straight line at all? Right? Henry,
I'm feeling a little nervous. You'll be okay, Ah, And
your eye is no talking, looks straight ahead.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
It's far enough, Henry. I'll take a good look at
these men and him, the man who robbed you.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
That big man the second from me? And could I
hear him talk that about Joe? What's your full name?
Joe Cort? Right? Where do you live?
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Joe Farman?
Speaker 4 (15:05):
World on and two? And he's the one. He's the
water easy.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
Again he kills but the Loma he killed them.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
In just a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
We will continue with Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joe McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Have you ever left home, locked the door behind you,
and had the uneasy feeling that you left a burning
cigarette behind, Better go back and check next time, because
every twenty seconds a fire breaks out in the United States.
Through carelessness, these fires kill eleven thousand persons each year
this figure for life or severely burned thousands more and
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Speaker 3 (15:56):
Dollars worth of property.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Protect your home from fire following these simple safety precautions.
Don't smoke in bed or throw away lighted cigarettes. Clean
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and inflammable materials are liable to accumulate. Repair defective electric
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(16:19):
that won't burn, and be careful with matches. Keep them
out of the reach of children. Fires in the home
your home can and must be prevented. Remember don't gamble
with fire. The odds are against you. And now the
second act of today's Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story three victims.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
It took nearly an hour after the lineup to Tom
Henry Elmand down enough to get his full statement. Man
picked up a copy of it and took it with
him to Austin. Henry told us his aunt was arriving
from out of town. He wanted to help over the
funeral arrangement, so we sent him home with one of
the deputies. Then we brought Joe Cotwright in for further questioning.
After four hours, we were getting nowhere. Joe, you'd make
(17:16):
it a lot easier for everybody if you just told.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Us the truth.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I am telling the truth. I've been telling the truth
all along. I didn't kill nobody.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
How can you say that after Henry i'm an identified
you as the one who killed his parents, cause.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
He's the one that ain't telling the truth.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Where'd you put the money you took one of those people, Joe,
I've never took no money. I'm at begun. You hide
that the same place you put the money.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Mister, mister range it.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
You gotta believe me. I didn't steal no money, and
I didn't kill nobody.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I swear I didn't, all right, Joe, And I'm going
to force you to talk if you don't want to.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
If I knowed anything else about this, I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
But there ain't nothing more.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
I can't slave.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I go.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Ranger person.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
That's a lab up on a store up the point.
I thought you were in Austin. I am back. I'll
come something fight here, James, come out.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Cheff and I will both be out. See in twenty minutes.
When we reached the place where the almonds had been killed,
we spotted Mitch halfway up the hill. We climbed the path.
Mitch stood at the edge of the clearing, looking into
the brush. He turned around as we approached him.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
Hey, this thing beats me.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
I can't figure it out.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
It's on your mind man.
Speaker 10 (18:34):
Well, according to Henry Alman's statement, he came up this
hill and hitting the brush must have been just about
where we were standing.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
It's right.
Speaker 10 (18:40):
He also said, the killer we're shooting up the hill
at him, Regga the wires.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
There are bullet holes and trees.
Speaker 10 (18:45):
All the way up the hill, six of them, five
on the way up, and one in that tree further
up behind this brush.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Bullets Hall came from Smith and Wesson thirty eighth.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
What do you get in there?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Well, take a look.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Down at the roads.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
How far would you.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Say it was from.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
There to this rush up here?
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Maybe sixty feet sixty three to be exact. I measured
it now, I'll turn around. Look up the hill.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
See that tree behind the brush. It's twenty feet further
up the hill from where we're standing. One of the
bullets hit it. I measured the distance the bullet went
into the tree, the two and a half inches.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I'm sorry, Mitch, but this don't make much sense to me.
Speaker 10 (19:20):
Maybe well, in a minute, Jase, here's the smith and
Wesson thirty eight brought it back from Martin. He mine
shooting the slug into that tree.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Any special place.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
You want me to stand right here if he etches
the brush.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
But now he and the sheriff come with me. I
want to show you something. I wash you what you
were getting at.
Speaker 10 (19:40):
Henry Alman said, the killer fired at him from the road.
Like I told you, The bullet I found.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
In the tree went in two and a half inches.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Here's a hole.
Speaker 10 (19:49):
Maybe your bullet chase may sure how far it went
into the tree?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Were here? Here, here's this.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Two and a half inches.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
See what I mean? This year puts a different light
on things.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
Oh gee, it means that the bullet Mitch first found
in this tree had to be fired from the same
place as I just fired. But that would have been
right at the place where Henry said he was riding. Yeah,
and if the killer was that close to Henry, he
wouldn't have left them alive. You mean Henry's been lying?
Beginning to look that way, But why something would have
to find out from Henry himself.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
That must be the only place I've had on the right,
Jayson one with a week on the door, I've been
thinking about it. If Henry was lying, there's only one Adragon. See,
he's the one who killed his parents. He can't be
sure of that yet, but he's gonna have a lot
of explaining to do.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
Hell, there's only one thing that bothers me. Henry was
wounded two, just in the arm. Wouldn't be the first
time somebody shot himself trying.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
To cover up a cry of all things unbelievable though,
what could ever make a boy hate he's folks enough
to shoot him down in cold blood? If Henry did
do it?
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Dealing with a psychopath and a clever one, it's not
gonna be easy to get the proof we need.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Yees, Oh, what can I do for you? Rangel?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
We'd like to see Henry Elman.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Henry's done at the undertaking, and Foller, I think I'm
his aunt Can I help.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
You expect Henry homes soon?
Speaker 9 (21:18):
He said he'd be back at five o'clock.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
It's almost that now. Could we talk to you, ma'am alone?
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Why shouldn't they come in?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Oh, we've had so many people in all day. Everybody
feels so sorry for Henry, poor boy.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
Let's see. I think we can talk in the kitchen.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yes, I'm afraid you'll find things a mass out here.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
People have been coming in since morning.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
Haven't had a chance to even do the breakfast dishes.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
That's all right. Now we'd like to ask you some
questions about Henry.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
It's something wrong.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Just a routine nature of this case means we have
to check every possible angle.
Speaker 9 (21:53):
Of course, I still haven't gotten over the shock.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Feel like I'm walking.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Around in a bad dream. Oh what did you want
to ask about Henry?
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Have you known the boil his life only since he
was fixed.
Speaker 9 (22:04):
That's when my sister and her husband adopted him.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Did he get along well with his parents as.
Speaker 9 (22:08):
Far as I know? I suppose they had the usual
family squabble.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
The Henry always have all the money he needed.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Well, if anything, I'd say, Will and my sister spoiled him.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
We always had plenty of spending money.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Uh huh, not cound the strain he's been under the
past couple of days.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Does he get upset very often?
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Well, I'm not around him too much, but I do
know once he tried to commit suicide when was there
about three years ago. The family was visiting me san Antone.
Henry shut himself in the garage.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
And started the car.
Speaker 9 (22:39):
We just found him in town. He said it was
an accident, but I never believed it.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Do you know if he's been depressed about anything since then?
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Well, he's been pretty disturbed about not finishing school.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Why didn't he finish?
Speaker 6 (22:50):
He went to the university for a couple of years,
but he wasn't a very good student. The dean persuaded
Will and my sister to take him out.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
How long ago was this boy?
Speaker 9 (22:59):
The year ago?
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Henry wasn't the tall happy about it, And I don't
think he liked the job his father got for him
in order for here don't. Matter of fact, I heard
him phone his boss this morning and then tell him
he was quickness. Uh huh, ranger, there's something wrong.
Speaker 9 (23:13):
I think I've got a right to know what it is.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Yes, ma'am, you have but I they told me that.
Oh hello Henry, Hello, ranger. Sure nice, if you sharp fire,
we wanna ask you a few more questions, Henry, Bot,
MoMA and Papa. What happened yesterday? That's right? Well, I
don't see what more you have to ask me. They
got the man who did it, maybe so, But we'd
(23:36):
like to have you come along with us anyhow Well,
I'm kind of busy now. The funerals tomorrow. You know,
I could talk to you later tonight, but it'd be
better after the funeral. And if the ranger wants you
to go, I haven't got firemantors. Ranger, why don't you
come back tomorrow night? Then I'll have plenty of time
to answer all your questions. I think you better come
along with us, Henry.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Now, we put Henry in the car and drove out
toward the place where his parents had been killed.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
When we reached the.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Edge of town, I could see him getting nervous, but
he said nothing until we began to drive along farm
Road one oh two.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
You wanted to ask me questions, Ranger, Why don't you
go ahead and ask him? Well? Why don't you ask me?
But I know where you're taking you're taking me out
to the place where marm and Papa were killed, aren't you? Well?
Speaker 8 (24:21):
Aren't did?
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Now? You just taking os you? Henry? Not fair to
bring me out here. I'm not well. I can't stand
a lot of screen. It's just not fair, all.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Right, Henry?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Get out? What for? He wants you to show us something? What?
Get out of the car, Henry, Well, you've got no
right to bring me out here. Rangers, the spot where
your corras pought yesterday is. And I've told you all.
I know you've got the murderer. Why do you keep
asking me questions?
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Why did you run when the man chased you?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Why do you call him the man? You know his name?
It's that Joe Fellow. I pointed him out to you
and those other people, so him too. The ranger asked
your question, Henry, where'd you run? I told you that
up this hill?
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Show us just where you ran.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I don't know why I have.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
To do this, mom show us him all right?
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Was this way over here, toward this path?
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Was he shooting at you all the time?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I'd told you he wasn't? He only started to shoot
after I ran up the hill up this path. You
know that come on, Henry, I'll have this.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
You take your hands off me.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
That's my soul was shot there.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
There's a man who killed Mom and Papa shot me too.
Speaker 7 (25:21):
I believe you're right about that.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Well, of course I'm wrong.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Come on, you're sure he didn't come up the hill
after yet?
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Why do you ask that? Just answered the question. I've
already told you. You stayed down on the road and
shot at me up the hill.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
Uh huh, Henry, Your mother and father took you out
of school last year, didn't they.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Yeah, my father wanted me to work. I shouldn't have
left school if I owe it to the world to
finish my education. What were you studying? Physics? Everybody in
the university admired me. The professors said that I'd be
the world's most brilliant scientist someday. Why are we stopping here?
Speaker 7 (25:57):
This was as far as you went, wasn't it. And
you hit at the edge of the brush there.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
I can see how you were able to pick Joe
out of the lineup. What do you mean you had
a clear view of the road from here.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
I saw him closer than that when he shot Mom
and Papa, and when he put that bullet through my arm.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Never shot your parents, Henry?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
What are you talking about? I saw him, know you didn't.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Our lad proved that the bullet he found in the
tree up there had to be shot from where we're
standing right now. Oh what that moves that nobody shot
at you, that you stood here and shot unto that
tree yourself.
Speaker 8 (26:25):
I don't know what you do.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Who killed your parents, Henry?
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Now didn't you?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Didn't you? Henry?
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Thank you. I had to do it here. They took
me out of school.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
I had to do it.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
Where'd you put the gun in?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Money? I buried them? Passed that big room? Take a look? Share, sure, Jie,
I killed.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
He should have known.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
I had to go to school. Why did they take
me out? Let's go.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
I had to kill for a long time.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Now, I hated them.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
I hated them.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Come on, Henry, in just a moment, we will tell
you the results of the case you have just.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Heard here at NBC.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
We're all excited about the five great programs which return
from their summer vacations this week, and we know that
all radio listeners will be happy that many of their
favorite shows will once again be a regular part of
our program lineup. Listen to this list of top entertainment,
The Cavalcade of America, Big Story, the Roy Rogers show,
Father Knows Best, and Your Hit Parade. Tuesday, Joan Coldfield
(27:39):
will star on the Cavalcade of America dramatization of The
Patriot with Chestnut Curls.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Wednesday's Big Story.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Broadcast comes directly from the front pages of the Detroit
Free Press, and there's a story which will touch your heartstrings.
Tuesday Evening, Roy Rogers will tell the story that happened
when Trigger shoots the works and Robert Young returns to
the Anderson household to find that be it ever so humble,
there's no place like home When Father Knows Best. And
(28:06):
Friday Evening, Gaylambardo and his Orchestra will play and sing
America's favorite popular music on Your Hit Parade. Make a
note to hear all of these popular programs on NBC.
Are the conclusion of Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Joe Cottwright was immediately released from jail. Henry Helman made
a full confession to the murder of his parents on
November twenty first, nineteen thirty five, he was given a.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Sanity trial in the Comedy Court, a six man journey
to cred him legally insane.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Henry Helman was committed to a state mental institution.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Next week.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Joe McCrae and another authentic reenactment of the case from
the files House that Nexit brings Joel McCrae is currently
(29:22):
seen in San Francisco story, a Warner Brothers release. The
cast included Tony Barrett, Virginia, greg Bert Holland, Ken Christy,
Ernie Newton, and Roy Glenn. Technical advisor was Captain M. T.
Lonewolf Gonsales of the Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed
and adapted by Charles E. Israel, and the program was
(29:43):
produced and directed by Stacy Keach. Tales of the Texas
Rangers is heard overseas through the worldwide facilities of the
Armed Forces Radio Service.
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