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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yes, Pales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae's ranger
Chase Pearson, another authentic reenactment of the case transcribed from
the Piles of the Texas Rangers. Names, dates, and places
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in the following story are fictitious for obvious reasons. The
events themselves are a matter of records.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
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the tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called Jailbird.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
On October eighth, nineteen thirty nine, Jim Hackett, serving a
life term from robbery and murder, escape from a Texas
State prison farm. He was assisted in his escape by
a woman believed to be his wife. A state wide
man hunt was carried on by all law enforcement bodies.
Just after dark two days later, in the town of
Oak Bluff, Texas, a woman climbed the stairs to a
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room above a hardware store.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
That you tam.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, hurry up, get in here sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
What took you so long?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
They run out of ham had to send out for you.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
You should have got something else. How many times I
got to tell you not to hang around outside, but you.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Wanted ham out about your cheese or something else. You'd
have got so like you did yesterday. I didn't want
you to j.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
You talked too much you may let le I give.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You, Jim, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Taking all over?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I think somebody's seen me. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
When I was in the cafe waiting for your sandwich?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Is this man he kept looking at me?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
He didn't have no badge and.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Nothing could have been one of them constables?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Did he tell you?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I came that he as quick as I could turn.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Out the light?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
What fir?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Turn it out? What you're gonna do?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I'm gonna pull the shade and take a look.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Here's a man out there standing across the street. Come
on over here, either.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
One, let me see the face away from that window.
How can I see?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
If you don't be talking and look?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Either one that was in that cafe.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, he's a cop.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You good in their you.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
And that blond hair yours?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Maybe I would have died. I could die back real quick.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Too late.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Now you should have thowt that for.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I don't know yet. I gotta figure Jim.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Coming down the street. Them two men, Yeah, he ain't.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
No doubt about them being cops either, Cheffing, one of
his boys.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Well maybe it ain't.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
After you gotta get out of here.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Come on, come on, will you.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
We're gonna take our stuff along.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
You crazy?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Come on?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
No, wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
All right, let's go that way. We're going out the
back the way. Happen so loud. We'll make it down
to Fishkip. You don't fish.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You don't leave me in here.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
You were talking so loud. Come on, give me your hand.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Come on, wait a minute, I want to close the
window if I keep going on right behind him?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
All right, we'll move move Will.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
You let me alone with you?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Okay, now let's see him.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Huh coming around the corner.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Why are you? Come on?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You kill him?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You killed one less after us? Pick up your feet.
Come on.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
The couple ran on, leaving Constable Simmons dead in the
alley behind the hardware store. Shortly afterward, a witness reported
seeing a man in a woman jump into a car
stop for a traffic signal and force the single occupant
to drive off at highest speed. All police units within
one hundred mile radius.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Were immediately alerted.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Fifteen minutes later, Texas Ranges Jas Pearson and Clay Morgan
approached a highway junction twenty miles south of Oak Bluff.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
There's a main road up ahead.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Jase theft said they were heading this way and set
up a roadblock at the junction.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Pick them up. If they try to pass, I reckon.
They could have turned off before they got this far off, maybe,
but it's more likely they'd try to get as much
distance as they can between them and Oak Bluff. The
main road's the best clay car coming up that highway now, Yeah,
sure looks like them.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Oh they must be doing ninety Hang on, there they go.
They're really hit it afray.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We're not going to be able to keep up with them.
Horse trailer slows us down too much.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, this upgrade doesn't help any So wish I could
draw a few rifle shots at it.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
And you can't risk it, not with that other man
in the car.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Who were losing them. Jason, they're already over the top
of the hill. I better get hold a headquarters.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
You and at ten dec.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Kt x A Unit ten go ahead, Unit.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Ten his unit pursuing car believed to contain Hackett and
his wife direction south along the state road two nine
to two ten to four.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Unit fourteen approaching your position from north will informed that unit.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
To set up block ten four Unit ten Claire KDX
with fourteen waiting for him down the road.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I don't feel so bad about.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
That getting out of sight, and they probably saw us
coming after him, though. Take a good look down every
side road we passed, Clay, just in case they decide
to turn off, Jason.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
There they are halfway down the hill.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, didn't get as far ahead as I thought.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Look at him weavings. They had a blowout or something.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I think we're gaining a little.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
They're not gonna make that curve up ahead, Jason.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
They're going off the road over the embankment.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Keep on your toes when we stop it.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Doubt if anybody's gonna walk away from that wreck.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
For God was with him, he probably got it too.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
There's the car in that Keelly, don't see anybody around.
They must all still be in the car and get
down through here. Yeah over there, Clay, huh by, that
mesquite bright way down.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Handsome man.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
It's been thrown clear when the car turned over.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It's not Hacket's second. That's the fellow that owned the car.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
He dead. Yeah, Hey, Jason, it's a matter this fella
didn't get killed on the wreck.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
He's been shot.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Let's get over to that car. Watch him.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Anybody's inside, can't be much left him.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
You better be sure.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Careful of broken glass. Uh huh, not in here.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Uh gotta look at that. But that hand throttle hey
pulled out all the way. That's why the car was
weeping before it went off the road. There's nobody in
it but a dead man.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
If you figure Hackett and his wife got out, pulled
out the throttle, then just let the car go.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Probably I would to come for while. We gained on
him coming over the hill.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And they're bound to be around here somewhere on foot.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah, let's go see if we can pick up a trail.
We went back to our car and notified the headquarters
of one of the happened, and we unloaded our horses
and began combing the area. At noon the next day,
a rancher five miles west of the scene of the
wreck informed us that two of his horses had been
stolen the night before. We figured that Hackett and his
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wife had gotten away. We drove to the lab at
Austin and started going over the articles taken from the
room in Oak Bluff where the fugitives had been hiding.
Our first break was a crumpled sheet of paper which
had been removed from the wastebasket. It was the beginning
of a letter in Hackett's handwriting to a man named Lynn.
It had been discarded because of an ink blood. The
gist of the letter was for Lynn to meet Hackett,
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but it didn't say when or where. We felt this
could be a lead, so Clay phoned the warden at
the pen to find out about Hackett's prison associates.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Uh huh, yeah, spell that last name again with you. Okay,
I've got it now, Thank you so long, warden.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Any luck?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, maybe a man named Lynn. Jeter was Hacketts seal
made for neother two years.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
He's still in the pen.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
No, oh, finish his full term of US six months ago.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Let's see what the files say about him.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's a pretty long chance jas Hackett my not have
rewritten that letter, and it could be he.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Didn't send it.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Men like hack It don't write letters too often, and
they do, it's usually.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
For some special purpose.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I'd say it's fairly likely he sent the letter.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And yeah, it's way to try.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Anyhow, Let's see Jeter's file ought to be done a
little further.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I sure, hope we turn up something that gives us
a lead to hacke it.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Uh huh oh, here we are pull his fireclay yeager
jeans h Here it is Jeter Land and stake it
over at the table. Yeah, it's a nice bat folger
whoever he is.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
This boy's no beginner, neither's Hacke.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It probably got a lot in common.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Here's a mug shot off in Jason. Looks like he
wanted to chew up the camera.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah, turn the page. See what kind of a record
he has?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Sixteen arrest five convictions.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Let me see it a second. This should be somehow
which Uh he's lived at the same place for the
past twenty years when he wasn't in ja oh.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Just outside puller Jason.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
If he doesn't know anything about Hackett, we might have
trouble making him talk.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Hey, look at this under the march. Refuse to talk.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Refuse to talk, no voluntary statement.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
He's still at home. Maybe we shouldn't try to make
him talk. What do you figure to do watch len
Jeter's place without his knowing we're there. If he is
taken off to meet Hackett, we want to be right
after him. We contacted the sheriff at Fuller, Texas and
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told him what we had in mind. Then we drove
out to lend Jeter's place. It was a rundown house
at the foot of a hill just off the main highway.
We took up a position on top of the hill
where we could watch the house without being seen. After
an hour, we saw Jeter come out of the house
and begin shopping wood. For the next two days, he
made no effort to leave his property. Clay and I
watched during the day, and the sheriff's deputies took over
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at night. Toward noon of the third day, we lay
on the brow of the hill watching Jeter move around
his backyard and.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Sure gets hot out here around the middle of the day.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I'll beg give him to think.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Maybe he never got hackets letter Jason, Mum, maybe not.
He doesn't do anything but hang around the house because
even go out from groceries.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
And keep watching. It's gotta go somewhere sooner or later. Yeah,
but when that's what we'll have to wait and find out.
We don't know when Hackett.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Wants to meet him, you know, that's just since he's
not in any hurry to go anywhere today.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
It could be blocking up the wrong tree, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
M Jeter's I only lead to Hacket one way or another,
and we got to stay close to him.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Yeah, I reckon, you're right, Hey, here's a chair out
the gates. Wait, gotta keep a lowd Sheriff.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Oh yeah, still nothing. Huh ye're not here and your
deputy take over again to night Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, sure, gee, I just don't Hey, what's that.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Jeter usually got some target practice about this time of day?
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Uh, Like I was saying, I can't see why you
don't let me go down there and pick him up.
I've had him in town before, I reckon, But I
mean the three of us we could make him talk.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
You didn't seem to have too much luck making him
talk the last few times you took him in. It
could be with three of us he'd be even more
close mouth.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
I admit he's tough and he don't do much talking,
But you fellows could sit out here a month without
getting any place.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Sheriff's right, Jess, maybe we should take him me.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Okay, I sure wish there was some way to say
this lead in case he doesn't talk, So I but
I don't know what he did be Wait a minute,
I got an idea, Clay. Suppose you take Lynn Jeter
in alone. I don't get you, Jess, Sheriff, can you
fix me up with an old suit back in town?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We're sure, Jas, but what for?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
We're gonna do a little play act and all of
us when I change clothes, I want you to lock
me up. I'm gonna be one of the toughest gunman
in Texas, and you and Claire are gonna treat me
just that way. Well, you got in mind, you bring
Lynn Jeter in and put him in a cell with me.
Maybe after we've been together a while, he and I
have a nice friendly little talk.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I don't know, Jase, if.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
He ever finds out you're a Ranger, we're finished him.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
It's a chance. We'll have to take if the sheriff
and in our play and go pick up Len Jeter.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
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New York. And now back to Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story Jailbird.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
After I changed closed, the sheriff locked me in an
empty cell at the county jail. Two hours later, I
was still there alone. It was pretty evident Lyn Jeter
hadn't talked. Then I heard the outer door open and
close playing. The sheriff came along the corridor with Jeter on.
I stood close to the cell door and waited.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Look, I tell you got no right put me in here.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I ain't done nothing to come on. You do not
keep moving.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You got no right to lock mel.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
We're not through talking to you.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I'll tell you something, Copper.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Even if I knew what Jim Hackett was, you wouldn't
get nothing out of me.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Maybe you'll change your mind.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Lucky enough, Chef you Infinity, get back of the cell door.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
What for now?
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Look, Finity, we don't want no more trouble out of you.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Move back.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I ain't gonna sell with nobody. You put me in
a settle loan.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
The house is full.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You'll take what you get.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
No worry, Jeter. You'll get along with Finity here. He's
just like you, only worse. I don't want a pen
of selle with nobody.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I don't want you in here with me, neither.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Get in there, Jeter and you, Infinity, you're coming with us.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
You're gonna let me out now, not yet.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
We find somebody might have seen you rob that liquor store.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Nobody's seen me rob nothing. Come on, Infinity, why don't
you come get me?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Well you warn hold it, Jeff. Now look, Finity, you've
already given us a lot of trouble.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Don't make it worse for yourself.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You're gonna come quiet, all right?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Wait a minute, Hey, you in there, keep off that
bottom bunk. It belongs to me.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You paid for it. Just stay off it.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Find Johnny when I come back on.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Come on, take your hands off me, all right, Finnity,
Come on, let's said, take your hands off. What's the
cups on him? Share that'll keep you from getting two
fishy dirty cops. Come on, get moving.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You're gonna make me talk. You better start thinking again.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
We don't need no talk.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Now.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
We got a witness, witness who you're trying to get.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Keep your mouse shot, Tinnity. I've heard just about enough
out of you.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
You haven't heard nothing yet. I told you by par
keep your hands off me.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Keep moving.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Pretty smart ranger, which there were just one of.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You here, I'd show them on, Infinity, we don't want any.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
More trouble from you.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I reckon you can relax now. I play.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, forgot myself for a second. Boy, you tough almost
had me food.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
And I still have to convince Jeter you get anything
out of them, not a word.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Jeez, you were right about that.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
You search his place. Nothing.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
But what's the next move.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I'll stay in the sheriff's office for half an hour
and you can take me back to Jeter. When Clay
and the sheriff took me back to the cell, I
could see Jeter was curious. I said nothing to him.
About an hour. I sat on the bunk, ignoring him.
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For another thirty minutes, I paced around the cell. Jeter
watched me constantly. Several times he started to speak, and
then thought better of it. Finally he couldn't stand it
any longer.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Where are you fromt.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You finny?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
You talking to me?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah? I asked where he was front.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
A special place. I've been all over m.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I ain't seeing you around this part of the country.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Four, don't reckon you have watchin for They say I
knocked over a liquor store. What did you? I'm sure?
Ask a lot of questions. Brother.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
You know, for a while I wasn't sure. I was
thinking you was a cop.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
That's funny. I was thinking the same thing about you.
You know something, I still think you are.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You think I'm a cop?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Wouldn't be the first time they put one in my
cell trying to make me talk.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You're crazy, I know, cop.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah, that's what they always say. They ain't not gonna
get anything out of me.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Hey, friendly, you got it off.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
You're wasting your time. Go on, rattle the bar, tell
your pals to come and get you on you sho
hanging around here.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Look you ever hear Jim Hackett? Maybe, well, I'm a
friend of his. That ought to tell you I ain't
no cop.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Anybody can say he's a friend of Jim Hackett? Where
you live?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I got a place right outside town?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I bet you have.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
What are you?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Deputy ranger? What are you?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
And none of 'em?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
You see that place of mine? You know, wasn't no
cops house.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I don't reckon I care about seeing it now. Let
me be brother, I got some thinking to do. We
sat in silence for the rest of the afternoon. A
little before six, the sheriff took me out of my cell.
Jeter was to be released an hour later and taken
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to the bus station. I went over there ahead of time,
bought a newspaper and sat on a bench in full
view of the entrance, and waited. At seven fifteen, Jeter
came in. I pretended not to see him. He walked
over to where I was sitting and stood looking at me.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Oh, phinny see that sprung you?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Huh oh it's you. What are you doing tailing me?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I ain't telling you? And nobody else here let me out?
I'm going home?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Is that right? Go on?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Beat it, Copper, finnedy for the last time. I ain't
no cop, he said, they let you out. Yeah, I'll come.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
They didn't take you home.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
They didn't have no car, hand to give me a bus.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Fans there.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
You ought to get a better story in that, Copper,
and now beat it. I want to read my paper.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Look, Finnity, way you head.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
You like to know, wouldn't you? Okay, Copper, I'll tell
you go on to Oklahoma City. You're gonna make.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Something out of that bus for the north. Don't leave
will eight tomorrow morning.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
I just found that out. I reckon. I can kill
time till then. I just as soon do it alone.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I won't show you something, findy what I just won't
prove I ain't no cop.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
How about you coming out of my place.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I'll feed you, give you a flop for the night.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I'm okay right here. Besides, I gotta go to Oklahoma
City in the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
The bus comes in here long for Hey, you can catch.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You near my place? How about it?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Well, okay, I got my toa lose. I reckon, If
you're gonna keep tailing me, you might as well feed me.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, you blieve me? Now?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yeah, don't look like a CoP's place.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
And it ain't won't.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Getting a light.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I ain't some quiet out around here.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
It's okay, it ain't no cops place.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Now, don't reckon it is you will like bacon eggs?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Sure, and I'll fix you.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
So huh uh?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
What you faking of doing? Oklahoma?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
See, that's my business?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
You know? Vndit the you?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Okay, that's scared me. You know how to keep your
mouth shutting? That's something I like sixteen times there home
May and I never spend nothing, not once. You and me,
we we like maybe so on out here I wanna
talk to you. Well, I'm putting the bacon on ste
What about I got an idea you will got something
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special to doing Oklahoma.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Seeing nothing special. It's going up to take a look around.
Maybe they pick up a buck or two.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, I kind of figured that. How about come along
with me tomorrow. I can see you get some real
dough doing what. Remember I told you I was a
find of Jim Hacke.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Uh, him and his wife.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
They got something real big round up.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
It won't be a a What kind of job is it?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I ain't sure. I think it's a refinery payroll? Jim
said it was close to quarter a millionaire.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
You wanna come along cut in on it?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I didn't know how I could have want me in
on it.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Look fandy, Jimmy was selling mats to get anything I'd do?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Is okay?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
With Jim Hackett staying around here about a hundred miles hour,
he's kind of hot right now.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Him and his wife are hiding out the shack down there.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
The time he pulling out in the morning.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I figured on getting the five o'clock bus. Ain't many
people around that out of the morning. I gotta make
sure there ain't no cops telling me, Well, how about it?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Let me think it over. I'll let you know before
morning before we turned in for the night, I agreed
to go with Jeter and work on the job with
Jim Hackett. We got up at four the next morning
and took the five o'clock bus south.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Jeter kept a sharp lookout for police who.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Might be following. I knew Clay would be on our
trail and hope he'd stay far enough behind to avoid
being seen by Jeter. He did toward noon. Jeter's suspicion
was relaxed. After an hour layover in a place called
Snake River, we got on a local bus which took
us ten miles out of town. We walked another three
miles along a dirt road a little before two o'clock
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side of the shack, halfway up a hill.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Well there, shit, I shack up ahead.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, don't look like anybody's there.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Somebody's there. Jim's good at covering his tracks. Probably got
the car hit away something. And do you know where
this place was? Jim wrote me a letter, give me
a map on how to find it.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
So many burn as soon as I knew how to
get it.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
When he sends you this letter two three days ago,
and it seem as I read something about him being
in the scrape. The past couple of days. I'm sure
he hasn't changed his plans.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Nah, Jim, and make up his mind to do something,
he does it. All the cops in the world can't
stop him. You know, we'll be glad to see him.
I reckon he'd be pretty glad to see.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Put your hands up.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Huh, Jim, put the gunaways?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
It is me.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Uh yeah, Well you're lucky I didn't plug. You've seen
two guys come up to him and thought you was cops.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Who's this friend of mine?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I didn't tell you to bring no friends.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
How by letting us come in? Jim, come off, all right?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
What's south?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
She went for Grubb?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
That' kind of dangerous.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
You're pretty easy to spot.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
She dyed her hair, and you let me worry about
her being seen? Sure, jee, who are you mister?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I told you he's a friend of mine.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
My name's Kennedy.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Well, I don't care what your name is.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
What are you doing here, Oh, Jim, don't be that way.
I brought Frennedy here because I figured you could use
extra man.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
By the need of the man, I'd have told you
me and Sealing you can handle this job easy.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
We don't need nobody else. That's the way to feel
about her recon. I'll be moving along. I never stay
where I'm not going.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
You ain't going no place, not till I tell you
my love shut up.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I didn't know this guy's all right, It's okay.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
He was in a clank with me.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
How long you know them?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Well? Since yesterday? But yesterday you crazy luck.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
You can use me. I'll be glad to stay. You
know me. I'm moving along.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You can use them.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Jimmy's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You should have hurt them, talk them cops over the
county locker.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
You don't take nothing from nobody. How about you using them?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
We ain't using them, and I ain't letting them leave
here and spill it.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
All over the country where I'm hiding out. You don't
have to worry about that, mister. I'm not the talking kind.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
That's right, Jimmy, ain't. You don't have to worry about Philly.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I gotta get rid of him now, I wait him,
get up.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
You get over in that corner. Well, I figure out
what I'm gonna do, sure, and I'll wait.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Come in. What do you want? You got a gun?
N put your hands over your head. I want to
make sure I told you I didn't have a gun, Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
But they were young, you too, Teeter, Finnedy was this
all five?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
My name is not Finnity. You're both under arrest a cop.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I knew it, but he can't be up.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
You stupid corn around and keep your hands up, keep
them up.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
You got no sense, Jeter.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
A quarter of a million bucks right in our hands,
and you got to bring.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
A cop here?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
How do I nobody?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
If you are to watch who you take up with.
Somebody should have told him that before he took up
with you. Hackett. All right, you two get movement.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
You have just heard.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
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Speaker 3 (26:43):
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Speaker 2 (26:44):
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Speaker 3 (27:01):
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Speaker 2 (27:02):
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Speaker 3 (27:12):
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And now back to the conclusion of today's tales of
the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Ranger Clay Morgan apprehended sal Hackett on her way back
to the shack where she and her husband had been hiding.
She was sentenced to twenty years at the women's prison
at gory Len. Jeeter received a thirty year term f
obstructing justice and conspiring to commit armed robbery. Jim Hackett
was found guilty of murder with malice and died in
the electric chair at Huntsville.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
This is Joel McCrae. There are a good many stories
that the Rangers tell about some of the so called
bad men they've picked up over the years. They tell
about one in particular, whose bark was truly worse than
his bite. The story goes that this so called batman
came into a saloon one night, flourishing a pair of
pistols and ordered all the people over in a corner,
saying that he was the roughest toughest man in the
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whole state of Texas. He then sat down, still pointing
his guns at the frightened customers, and ordered the bartender
to bring him a drink. What do you have, sir,
asked the bartender, Bring me a glass of milk. He replied, milk,
said the bartender for the roughest toughest man in the
state of Texas. Well, Anne answered the bad men put
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it in a dirty glass. So long, folks, see you
next week.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Next week Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a
case from the files of the Texas Rangers Technical advisor
(29:21):
was Captain Mt. Lone Wolf Gonzales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
This story was.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Transcribed and adapted by Charles d Israel, and the program
is produced and directed by Stacy keach Hal Gidney speaking.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Next, it's The Chase on NBC
Yes, Pales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae's ranger
Chase Pearson, another authentic reenactment of the case transcribed from
the Piles of the Texas Rangers. Names, dates, and places
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events themselves are a matter of records.
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Speaker 1 (02:00):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called Jailbird.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
On October eighth, nineteen thirty nine, Jim Hackett, serving a
life term from robbery and murder, escape from a Texas
State prison farm. He was assisted in his escape by
a woman believed to be his wife. A state wide
man hunt was carried on by all law enforcement bodies.
Just after dark two days later, in the town of
Oak Bluff, Texas, a woman climbed the stairs to a
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room above a hardware store.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
That you tam.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, hurry up, get in here sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
What took you so long?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
They run out of ham had to send out for you.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
You should have got something else. How many times I
got to tell you not to hang around outside, but you.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Wanted ham out about your cheese or something else. You'd
have got so like you did yesterday. I didn't want
you to j.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
You talked too much you may let le I give.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You, Jim, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Taking all over?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I think somebody's seen me. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
When I was in the cafe waiting for your sandwich?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Is this man he kept looking at me?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
He didn't have no badge and.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Nothing could have been one of them constables?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Did he tell you?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I came that he as quick as I could turn.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Out the light?
Speaker 6 (03:15):
What fir?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Turn it out? What you're gonna do?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I'm gonna pull the shade and take a look.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Here's a man out there standing across the street. Come
on over here, either.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
One, let me see the face away from that window.
How can I see?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
If you don't be talking and look?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Either one that was in that cafe.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah, he's a cop.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You good in their you.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
And that blond hair yours?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Maybe I would have died. I could die back real quick.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Too late.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Now you should have thowt that for.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
I don't know yet. I gotta figure Jim.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Coming down the street. Them two men, Yeah, he ain't.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
No doubt about them being cops either, Cheffing, one of
his boys.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Well maybe it ain't.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
After you gotta get out of here.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Come on, come on, will you.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
We're gonna take our stuff along.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
You crazy?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Come on?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
No, wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
All right, let's go that way. We're going out the
back the way. Happen so loud. We'll make it down
to Fishkip. You don't fish.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
You don't leave me in here.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
You were talking so loud. Come on, give me your hand.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Come on, wait a minute, I want to close the
window if I keep going on right behind him?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
All right, we'll move move Will.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
You let me alone with you?
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Okay, now let's see him.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Huh coming around the corner.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Why are you? Come on?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
You kill him?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You killed one less after us? Pick up your feet.
Come on.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
The couple ran on, leaving Constable Simmons dead in the
alley behind the hardware store. Shortly afterward, a witness reported
seeing a man in a woman jump into a car
stop for a traffic signal and force the single occupant
to drive off at highest speed. All police units within
one hundred mile radius.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Were immediately alerted.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Fifteen minutes later, Texas Ranges Jas Pearson and Clay Morgan
approached a highway junction twenty miles south of Oak Bluff.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
There's a main road up ahead.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Jase theft said they were heading this way and set
up a roadblock at the junction.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Pick them up. If they try to pass, I reckon.
They could have turned off before they got this far off, maybe,
but it's more likely they'd try to get as much
distance as they can between them and Oak Bluff. The
main road's the best clay car coming up that highway now, Yeah,
sure looks like them.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Oh they must be doing ninety Hang on, there they go.
They're really hit it afray.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We're not going to be able to keep up with them.
Horse trailer slows us down too much.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, this upgrade doesn't help any So wish I could
draw a few rifle shots at it.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
And you can't risk it, not with that other man
in the car.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Who were losing them. Jason, they're already over the top
of the hill. I better get hold a headquarters.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
You and at ten dec.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Kt x A Unit ten go ahead, Unit.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Ten his unit pursuing car believed to contain Hackett and
his wife direction south along the state road two nine
to two ten to four.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Unit fourteen approaching your position from north will informed that unit.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
To set up block ten four Unit ten Claire KDX
with fourteen waiting for him down the road.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I don't feel so bad about.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
That getting out of sight, and they probably saw us
coming after him, though. Take a good look down every
side road we passed, Clay, just in case they decide
to turn off, Jason.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
There they are halfway down the hill.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yeah, didn't get as far ahead as I thought.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Look at him weavings. They had a blowout or something.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I think we're gaining a little.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
They're not gonna make that curve up ahead, Jason.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
They're going off the road over the embankment.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Keep on your toes when we stop it.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
Doubt if anybody's gonna walk away from that wreck.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
For God was with him, he probably got it too.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
There's the car in that Keelly, don't see anybody around.
They must all still be in the car and get
down through here. Yeah over there, Clay, huh by, that
mesquite bright way down.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Handsome man.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
It's been thrown clear when the car turned over.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It's not Hacket's second. That's the fellow that owned the car.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
He dead. Yeah, Hey, Jason, it's a matter this fella
didn't get killed on the wreck.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
He's been shot.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Let's get over to that car. Watch him.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Anybody's inside, can't be much left him.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
You better be sure.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Careful of broken glass. Uh huh, not in here.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Uh gotta look at that. But that hand throttle hey
pulled out all the way. That's why the car was
weeping before it went off the road. There's nobody in
it but a dead man.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
If you figure Hackett and his wife got out, pulled
out the throttle, then just let the car go.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Probably I would to come for while. We gained on
him coming over the hill.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And they're bound to be around here somewhere on foot.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah, let's go see if we can pick up a trail.
We went back to our car and notified the headquarters
of one of the happened, and we unloaded our horses
and began combing the area. At noon the next day,
a rancher five miles west of the scene of the
wreck informed us that two of his horses had been
stolen the night before. We figured that Hackett and his
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wife had gotten away. We drove to the lab at
Austin and started going over the articles taken from the
room in Oak Bluff where the fugitives had been hiding.
Our first break was a crumpled sheet of paper which
had been removed from the wastebasket. It was the beginning
of a letter in Hackett's handwriting to a man named Lynn.
It had been discarded because of an ink blood. The
gist of the letter was for Lynn to meet Hackett,
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but it didn't say when or where. We felt this
could be a lead, so Clay phoned the warden at
the pen to find out about Hackett's prison associates.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Uh huh, yeah, spell that last name again with you. Okay,
I've got it now, Thank you so long, warden.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Any luck?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, maybe a man named Lynn. Jeter was Hacketts seal
made for neother two years.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
He's still in the pen.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
No, oh, finish his full term of US six months ago.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Let's see what the files say about him.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
It's a pretty long chance jas Hackett my not have
rewritten that letter, and it could be he.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Didn't send it.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Men like hack It don't write letters too often, and
they do, it's usually.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
For some special purpose.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I'd say it's fairly likely he sent the letter.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And yeah, it's way to try.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Anyhow, Let's see Jeter's file ought to be done a
little further.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I sure, hope we turn up something that gives us
a lead to hacke it.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Uh huh oh, here we are pull his fireclay yeager
jeans h Here it is Jeter Land and stake it
over at the table. Yeah, it's a nice bat folger
whoever he is.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
This boy's no beginner, neither's Hacke.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It probably got a lot in common.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Here's a mug shot off in Jason. Looks like he
wanted to chew up the camera.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Yeah, turn the page. See what kind of a record
he has?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Sixteen arrest five convictions.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Let me see it a second. This should be somehow
which Uh he's lived at the same place for the
past twenty years when he wasn't in ja oh.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Just outside puller Jason.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
If he doesn't know anything about Hackett, we might have
trouble making him talk.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Hey, look at this under the march. Refuse to talk.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Refuse to talk, no voluntary statement.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
He's still at home. Maybe we shouldn't try to make
him talk. What do you figure to do watch len
Jeter's place without his knowing we're there. If he is
taken off to meet Hackett, we want to be right
after him. We contacted the sheriff at Fuller, Texas and
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told him what we had in mind. Then we drove
out to lend Jeter's place. It was a rundown house
at the foot of a hill just off the main highway.
We took up a position on top of the hill
where we could watch the house without being seen. After
an hour, we saw Jeter come out of the house
and begin shopping wood. For the next two days, he
made no effort to leave his property. Clay and I
watched during the day, and the sheriff's deputies took over
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at night. Toward noon of the third day, we lay
on the brow of the hill watching Jeter move around
his backyard and.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Sure gets hot out here around the middle of the day.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I'll beg give him to think.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Maybe he never got hackets letter Jason, Mum, maybe not.
He doesn't do anything but hang around the house because
even go out from groceries.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
And keep watching. It's gotta go somewhere sooner or later. Yeah,
but when that's what we'll have to wait and find out.
We don't know when Hackett.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Wants to meet him, you know, that's just since he's
not in any hurry to go anywhere today.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
It could be blocking up the wrong tree, you know.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
M Jeter's I only lead to Hacket one way or another,
and we got to stay close to him.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Yeah, I reckon, you're right, Hey, here's a chair out
the gates. Wait, gotta keep a lowd Sheriff.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Oh yeah, still nothing. Huh ye're not here and your
deputy take over again to night Sheriff.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, sure, gee, I just don't Hey, what's that.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Jeter usually got some target practice about this time of day?
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Uh, Like I was saying, I can't see why you
don't let me go down there and pick him up.
I've had him in town before, I reckon, But I
mean the three of us we could make him talk.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
You didn't seem to have too much luck making him
talk the last few times you took him in. It
could be with three of us he'd be even more
close mouth.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
I admit he's tough and he don't do much talking,
But you fellows could sit out here a month without
getting any place.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Sheriff's right, Jess, maybe we should take him me.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Okay, I sure wish there was some way to say
this lead in case he doesn't talk, So I but
I don't know what he did be Wait a minute,
I got an idea, Clay. Suppose you take Lynn Jeter
in alone. I don't get you, Jess, Sheriff, can you
fix me up with an old suit back in town?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We're sure, Jas, but what for?
Speaker 4 (12:36):
We're gonna do a little play act and all of
us when I change clothes, I want you to lock
me up. I'm gonna be one of the toughest gunman
in Texas, and you and Claire are gonna treat me
just that way. Well, you got in mind, you bring
Lynn Jeter in and put him in a cell with me.
Maybe after we've been together a while, he and I
have a nice friendly little talk.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I don't know, Jase, if.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
He ever finds out you're a Ranger, we're finished him.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
It's a chance. We'll have to take if the sheriff
and in our play and go pick up Len Jeter.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
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Speaker 1 (14:30):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story Jailbird.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
After I changed closed, the sheriff locked me in an
empty cell at the county jail. Two hours later, I
was still there alone. It was pretty evident Lyn Jeter
hadn't talked. Then I heard the outer door open and
close playing. The sheriff came along the corridor with Jeter on.
I stood close to the cell door and waited.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Look, I tell you got no right put me in here.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
I ain't done nothing to come on. You do not
keep moving.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
You got no right to lock mel.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
We're not through talking to you.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I'll tell you something, Copper.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Even if I knew what Jim Hackett was, you wouldn't
get nothing out of me.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Maybe you'll change your mind.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Lucky enough, Chef you Infinity, get back of the cell door.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
What for now?
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Look, Finity, we don't want no more trouble out of you.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Move back.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I ain't gonna sell with nobody. You put me in
a settle loan.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
The house is full.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
You'll take what you get.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
No worry, Jeter. You'll get along with Finity here. He's
just like you, only worse. I don't want a pen
of selle with nobody.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I don't want you in here with me, neither.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
Get in there, Jeter and you, Infinity, you're coming with us.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
You're gonna let me out now, not yet.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
We find somebody might have seen you rob that liquor store.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Nobody's seen me rob nothing. Come on, Infinity, why don't
you come get me?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Well you warn hold it, Jeff. Now look, Finity, you've
already given us a lot of trouble.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Don't make it worse for yourself.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You're gonna come quiet, all right?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
Wait a minute, Hey, you in there, keep off that
bottom bunk. It belongs to me.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You paid for it. Just stay off it.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Find Johnny when I come back on.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Come on, take your hands off me, all right, Finnity,
Come on, let's said, take your hands off. What's the
cups on him? Share that'll keep you from getting two
fishy dirty cops. Come on, get moving.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You're gonna make me talk. You better start thinking again.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
We don't need no talk.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Now.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
We got a witness, witness who you're trying to get.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Keep your mouse shot, Tinnity. I've heard just about enough
out of you.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
You haven't heard nothing yet. I told you by par
keep your hands off me.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Keep moving.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Pretty smart ranger, which there were just one of.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You here, I'd show them on, Infinity, we don't want any.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
More trouble from you.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
I reckon you can relax now. I play.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, forgot myself for a second. Boy, you tough almost
had me food.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
And I still have to convince Jeter you get anything
out of them, not a word.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Jeez, you were right about that.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
You search his place. Nothing.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
But what's the next move.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
I'll stay in the sheriff's office for half an hour
and you can take me back to Jeter. When Clay
and the sheriff took me back to the cell, I
could see Jeter was curious. I said nothing to him.
About an hour. I sat on the bunk, ignoring him.
(17:17):
For another thirty minutes, I paced around the cell. Jeter
watched me constantly. Several times he started to speak, and
then thought better of it. Finally he couldn't stand it
any longer.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Where are you fromt.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You finny?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
You talking to me?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah? I asked where he was front.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
A special place. I've been all over m.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
I ain't seeing you around this part of the country.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Four, don't reckon you have watchin for They say I
knocked over a liquor store. What did you? I'm sure?
Ask a lot of questions. Brother.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
You know, for a while I wasn't sure. I was
thinking you was a cop.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
That's funny. I was thinking the same thing about you.
You know something, I still think you are.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You think I'm a cop?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Wouldn't be the first time they put one in my
cell trying to make me talk.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You're crazy, I know, cop.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah, that's what they always say. They ain't not gonna
get anything out of me.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Hey, friendly, you got it off.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
You're wasting your time. Go on, rattle the bar, tell
your pals to come and get you on you sho
hanging around here.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Look you ever hear Jim Hackett? Maybe, well, I'm a
friend of his. That ought to tell you I ain't
no cop.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Anybody can say he's a friend of Jim Hackett? Where
you live?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I got a place right outside town?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I bet you have.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
What are you?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Deputy ranger? What are you?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
And none of 'em?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
You see that place of mine? You know, wasn't no
cops house.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
I don't reckon I care about seeing it now. Let
me be brother, I got some thinking to do. We
sat in silence for the rest of the afternoon. A
little before six, the sheriff took me out of my cell.
Jeter was to be released an hour later and taken
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to the bus station. I went over there ahead of time,
bought a newspaper and sat on a bench in full
view of the entrance, and waited. At seven fifteen, Jeter
came in. I pretended not to see him. He walked
over to where I was sitting and stood looking at me.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Oh, phinny see that sprung you?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Huh oh it's you. What are you doing tailing me?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
I ain't telling you? And nobody else here let me out?
I'm going home?
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Is that right? Go on?
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Beat it, Copper, finnedy for the last time. I ain't
no cop, he said, they let you out. Yeah, I'll come.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
They didn't take you home.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
They didn't have no car, hand to give me a bus.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Fans there.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
You ought to get a better story in that, Copper,
and now beat it. I want to read my paper.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Look, Finnity, way you head.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
You like to know, wouldn't you? Okay, Copper, I'll tell
you go on to Oklahoma City. You're gonna make.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Something out of that bus for the north. Don't leave
will eight tomorrow morning.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
I just found that out. I reckon. I can kill
time till then. I just as soon do it alone.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I won't show you something, findy what I just won't
prove I ain't no cop.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
How about you coming out of my place.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
I'll feed you, give you a flop for the night.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I'm okay right here. Besides, I gotta go to Oklahoma
City in the morning.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
The bus comes in here long for Hey, you can catch.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You near my place? How about it?
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Well, okay, I got my toa lose. I reckon, If
you're gonna keep tailing me, you might as well feed me.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Yeah, you blieve me? Now?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Yeah, don't look like a CoP's place.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
And it ain't won't.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Getting a light.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
I ain't some quiet out around here.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
It's okay, it ain't no cops place.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Now, don't reckon it is you will like bacon eggs?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Sure, and I'll fix you.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
So huh uh?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
What you faking of doing? Oklahoma?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
See, that's my business?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
You know? Vndit the you?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Okay, that's scared me. You know how to keep your
mouth shutting? That's something I like sixteen times there home
May and I never spend nothing, not once. You and me,
we we like maybe so on out here I wanna
talk to you. Well, I'm putting the bacon on ste
What about I got an idea you will got something
(21:36):
special to doing Oklahoma.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Seeing nothing special. It's going up to take a look around.
Maybe they pick up a buck or two.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, I kind of figured that. How about come along
with me tomorrow. I can see you get some real
dough doing what. Remember I told you I was a
find of Jim Hacke.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Uh, him and his wife.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
They got something real big round up.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
It won't be a a What kind of job is it?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I ain't sure. I think it's a refinery payroll? Jim
said it was close to quarter a millionaire.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
You wanna come along cut in on it?
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I didn't know how I could have want me in
on it.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Look fandy, Jimmy was selling mats to get anything I'd do?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Is okay?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
With Jim Hackett staying around here about a hundred miles hour,
he's kind of hot right now.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Him and his wife are hiding out the shack down there.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
The time he pulling out in the morning.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I figured on getting the five o'clock bus. Ain't many
people around that out of the morning. I gotta make
sure there ain't no cops telling me, Well, how about it?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Let me think it over. I'll let you know before
morning before we turned in for the night, I agreed
to go with Jeter and work on the job with
Jim Hackett. We got up at four the next morning
and took the five o'clock bus south.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Jeter kept a sharp lookout for police who.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Might be following. I knew Clay would be on our
trail and hope he'd stay far enough behind to avoid
being seen by Jeter. He did toward noon. Jeter's suspicion
was relaxed. After an hour layover in a place called
Snake River, we got on a local bus which took
us ten miles out of town. We walked another three
miles along a dirt road a little before two o'clock
(23:11):
side of the shack, halfway up a hill.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Well there, shit, I shack up ahead.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, don't look like anybody's there.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Somebody's there. Jim's good at covering his tracks. Probably got
the car hit away something. And do you know where
this place was? Jim wrote me a letter, give me
a map on how to find it.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
So many burn as soon as I knew how to
get it.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
When he sends you this letter two three days ago,
and it seem as I read something about him being
in the scrape. The past couple of days. I'm sure
he hasn't changed his plans.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Nah, Jim, and make up his mind to do something,
he does it. All the cops in the world can't
stop him. You know, we'll be glad to see him.
I reckon he'd be pretty glad to see.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Put your hands up.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Huh, Jim, put the gunaways?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
It is me.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Uh yeah, Well you're lucky I didn't plug. You've seen
two guys come up to him and thought you was cops.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Who's this friend of mine?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I didn't tell you to bring no friends.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
How by letting us come in? Jim, come off, all right?
Speaker 3 (24:12):
What's south?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
She went for Grubb?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
That' kind of dangerous.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
You're pretty easy to spot.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
She dyed her hair, and you let me worry about
her being seen? Sure, jee, who are you mister?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I told you he's a friend of mine.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
My name's Kennedy.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Well, I don't care what your name is.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
What are you doing here, Oh, Jim, don't be that way.
I brought Frennedy here because I figured you could use
extra man.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
By the need of the man, I'd have told you
me and Sealing you can handle this job easy.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
We don't need nobody else. That's the way to feel
about her recon. I'll be moving along. I never stay
where I'm not going.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
You ain't going no place, not till I tell you
my love shut up.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
I didn't know this guy's all right, It's okay.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
He was in a clank with me.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
How long you know them?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Well? Since yesterday? But yesterday you crazy luck.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
You can use me. I'll be glad to stay. You
know me. I'm moving along.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You can use them.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Jimmy's okay.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You should have hurt them, talk them cops over the
county locker.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
You don't take nothing from nobody. How about you using them?
Speaker 5 (25:08):
We ain't using them, and I ain't letting them leave
here and spill it.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
All over the country where I'm hiding out. You don't
have to worry about that, mister. I'm not the talking kind.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
That's right, Jimmy, ain't. You don't have to worry about Philly.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
I gotta get rid of him now, I wait him,
get up.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
You get over in that corner. Well, I figure out
what I'm gonna do, sure, and I'll wait.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Come in. What do you want? You got a gun?
N put your hands over your head. I want to
make sure I told you I didn't have a gun, Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
But they were young, you too, Teeter, Finnedy was this
all five?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
My name is not Finnity. You're both under arrest a cop.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
I knew it, but he can't be up.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
You stupid corn around and keep your hands up, keep
them up.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
You got no sense, Jeter.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
A quarter of a million bucks right in our hands,
and you got to bring.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
A cop here?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
How do I nobody?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
If you are to watch who you take up with.
Somebody should have told him that before he took up
with you. Hackett. All right, you two get movement.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
You have just heard.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Throughout the remainder of the day, NBC will bring you
more great entertainment to brighten your listening. The First Nighter,
starring Barbar Latti and Olan Soult, will bring you an
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And now back to the conclusion of today's tales of
the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Ranger Clay Morgan apprehended sal Hackett on her way back
to the shack where she and her husband had been hiding.
She was sentenced to twenty years at the women's prison
at gory Len. Jeeter received a thirty year term f
obstructing justice and conspiring to commit armed robbery. Jim Hackett
was found guilty of murder with malice and died in
the electric chair at Huntsville.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
This is Joel McCrae. There are a good many stories
that the Rangers tell about some of the so called
bad men they've picked up over the years. They tell
about one in particular, whose bark was truly worse than
his bite. The story goes that this so called batman
came into a saloon one night, flourishing a pair of
pistols and ordered all the people over in a corner,
saying that he was the roughest toughest man in the
(28:22):
whole state of Texas. He then sat down, still pointing
his guns at the frightened customers, and ordered the bartender
to bring him a drink. What do you have, sir,
asked the bartender, Bring me a glass of milk. He replied, milk,
said the bartender for the roughest toughest man in the
state of Texas. Well, Anne answered the bad men put
(28:44):
it in a dirty glass. So long, folks, see you
next week.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Next week Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a
case from the files of the Texas Rangers Technical advisor
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was Captain Mt. Lone Wolf Gonzales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
This story was.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Transcribed and adapted by Charles d Israel, and the program
is produced and directed by Stacy keach Hal Gidney speaking.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
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