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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCrae in Tales of
the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
From Hollywood.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Another authentic reenactment of the case transcribed from the files
of the Texas Rangers Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel mccary's ranger Jase Pearson, Texas more than two hundred
and sixty thousand square miles and fifty men who make
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up the most famous oldest law enforcement body in North America.
Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these
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stories based on fact only.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Names, dates and place.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Are fictitious for object reasons they avounced themselves are a
matter of records.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Case for Tonight Wild Crop.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
It is seven thirty PM a Saturday night in October
nineteen forty seven, in the fields near Borrowville, West Texas.
Two men stand in the darkness beneath the cluster of
Utton Willows.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
What'd you say? We're right away?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Later?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I only want to take a few dress later, I.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Said, stick the button Knight back.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
In your pocket.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
All right, Wady, you don't have to get count about it.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Then.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Don't make me tell you things twice? What time is it?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I don't know?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
You got my watch, long is everything else?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
You act right tonight? I may give it back to you.
You sure Jennings comes this way?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Of course, I'm sure. Path through here is the shortest
way from the range to my house.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
What time would your sister expect?
Speaker 7 (01:59):
Night?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Between seven thirty and eighty That's when he always comes.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
We'll make him a little late tonight. We'll make him
nice and pretty for you can't keep him away from her,
but maybe I can.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I've had a lot of good it going, do you?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
What do you mean by that crack?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
She don't like you, and you know it.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
You like me when I'm up before Jennings drifted in there?
Speaker 6 (02:18):
What's so hot about a stinking cow poke?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Don't ask me as sis you getting smart?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
But I'm just telling you, well, maybe you better stop
telling me that you wanna give up smoking.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I can get it someplace else from who you not.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Only don't know where to get the stuff, you wouldn't
have the money to buy it.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I could do it all.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah, there a lot of ham smokers say that you
need marijuana and I need.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Your sister, And don't forget it.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
You just like you.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Somebody's coming up.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
He's yeah, names must be He's the only one that
comes this way right. Other things go the other way
to town and the ranch pick up.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
I can remember what I told you to do, Like
I said.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Hey, what are many things you're putting on your hands?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Brass knuckles?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Look, you said you was just gonna fight.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
That's all about you?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Could you got then things?
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Let me worry about that.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I shouldn't be quiet.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Good hear you? Alright, go get him off their horse?
Speaker 7 (03:19):
Jenny's. Oh boy, who's asked me?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Bud?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (03:26):
Why right here?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I wanna talk to you.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Alright, stay had both.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It looks like you've been waiting here for me.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
I have her.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Where do you think you're going?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Jenny's.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
That's kind of a set of question anybody I'm gonna
call on your sister.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
And you're thinking, ain't what it should be?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Why don't you grow?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Uh? I told you to stay away.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Ma.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
I just wait for her to tell me that.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Now. I'm'na tell you something.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
If you ever again lay a hand on her for
singing mad like, I gotta hunt you at once. I'm
gonna have you talking cop me from here to Houston.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
You wanna start something, but if you want.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Marriage, brother, i'd kick your tea. Oh kid, why don't
you grow up? Your sister's a big girl. We're gonna
get married soon. It may gonna be in the same family,
whether we.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Like it or not.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I love it.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I'm not gonna hurt her.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
You're doing right, you in because you aren't even gonna
see her anymore. It's starting right now, and.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
You think you're gonna stop me, buddy, it's your chance
to stop trying.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
That suits me, you snaky little.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You love me.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Janus? Why yeah, me, toody, he cut my mouth, kill me?
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Come on, I got more.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Something on your head.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
I got just crazy. Indeed, he's treading her mouth.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Stop wanting help me pick him up from standing gains that?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
What for?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
You want to run under the sheriff? Stand him up there?
We started this, let's finish it.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
The body of Pete Jennings was discovered the following day
when other ranch hands started the search for him after
finding his horse grazing while fully sat.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
The sheriff was summoned and he.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
In turn requested the immediate aid of a Texas ranger.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Ranger Jace Pearson was a.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Sign bodies in there. Button will was right ahead. Jase,
A couple of my deputies are.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
There with it. Did to tell him not to Tom Brown.
They're experienced.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Man, good when't you say? The Ranchan saw Jennings last
last night, had his chuck with him, then rode out
night riding.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
What for?
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Oh, he wasn't working.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
He was only ready to see a girl.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Then going steady with Mary Adams. He always go carding
on a horse.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well, he didn't have no car.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Besides the ranch road to the atom places no bargain reckon.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
It was the easiest way for him to get that see. Uh,
those youre man. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I staked around the grave keep people out. The face
was kind of crowded this morning when the JP was here.
Look like they shoot everybody off out.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
He fellas it right in.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Through here, Jase.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yah, there's a little path and I see it.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Right there.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Ooh ooh ooh charge old. Not very pleasant to look at.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
No, when we first come out here this morning, I
thought maybe it was an accident, maybe his horse show him,
or he hit a branch or something. No one look
around here kills that idea.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
And I know dead leaves on the ground, no rocks, nothing.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
He could have hit that hard whatever his face met
up with was plenty hard flesh laid open to the bones.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
John Nose smashed. Any of the other ranch hands ride
this way last night? Nope? Are you sure about that?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I checked all but one of 'em rode into town
on the pickup.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I know where they all were.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Uh, surely the statements later he said one hand stay, Yeah,
but he never left the bunk. Ho you make sure
that I didn't have to, Jase, he's in bed with
a broken leg. He's been there too weak.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I guess we can count him out.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Then, any money on the body, No, but this house
it pays once a month, on the fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
That's two days off.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Cop.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Folks all figure to be broke. Be a big surprise
if they weren't.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
The whole fight must have taken place right around here,
in a circle about ten feet.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Why my leaves are all ground apart. Other patches haven't
been disturbed much.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
They wait a second.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Another spot over here, Yeah, not much here, not like
the other spot. A couple of leaves. There's staying here.
I'd be blood pretty.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Far from the body. Jace.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Leaves over there stained a lot more.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, I know. You find any signs of pony tracks
around the grove too many.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Most of the ranch hands were around here this morning
when the body was found. They were all mounted. Then
I brought my boys in too, and I guess that
would wipe out any tracks that might have been around.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
We'll have a look to make sure it couldn't be helped. Jake, Oh,
I know that Sheriff I wasn't being critical. Where they're
going to go over the body?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
At the funeral home in Bouraville, medical examiners waiting for
us to bring the body in.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
To have somebody move it in on.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
A buckboard, and I sent for one good. I want
to get a couple of jars from my saddle bags. Jar. Yeah,
I want to take samples of those steamed leaves.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Around the body and in that other spot. Go while
from both places. So takes at least two men to
make a fight.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Sheriff, No rule says that one of them has to
do all the bleeding. I packed the samples of bloody
leaves and got them off to the Austin Lamb by plane.
The medical examiner's autopsy on Jennings's body showed that Jennings
had been beaten to death with an object or objects
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of metallic hardness. The sheriff and I left the examination
room and we came around the side of the funeral home.
We looked through the glass window. Two people were in
the waiting room, a man and a woman. A woman
was crying. Who were they through the window? There?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Mary Adams and her brother Bud.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
She's the one you sat beat. Jennings was on his
way to see when he got killed. Yeah, you wanna.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Talk to her.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Might be able to give us a motive for the killing.
We need one badly. She looks pretty broken up, I know,
but this can't wait. Murders like this.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Cool off too quickly unless you just stay right on him.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I can't fight that. Come on, you gotta get a
hold of yourself.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
How did Bud Mary?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
How the share? Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
This?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Here's ranger peers eh, Jason's Mary Adams and her brother Buddy.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Ma'am like to ask you a few questions.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Man, Look, I know you got a job to the ranger,
But do you have to talk to her now?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Do you think I would if it wasn't necessary?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Well, you see the ship.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
She's here eat Jennings is and in very good shape
either Bud. Mary may give us the help we need
to get the man who filled him.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
She can tell you what's want?
Speaker 7 (10:02):
No later, No, it's he so I.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Thought, I I'm nice.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
What talk to him now?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
When can I see him?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Why do I have to wait here?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Well, it'll be Why yet Mary the doctor had to
look him over first.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
That maybe you better just touch usk and him go on? No,
one go no, I I I don't.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Want to stay here. But he wanna know if Pete
Jennings have any trouble with anybody you know about, ma'am?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I mean, was there bad blood between him and anybody?
He well, no, he was a quiet seller. He ever
in any trouble with the law anything like that?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
You mean, not that he ever told you about it?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Don't you start that again.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
But just a minute, ma'am, what do you mean by that?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Bud?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Then?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Why'd you say talker? I told you it was nothing.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
She just never liked Pete, that's all.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh, least that now?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Why can't you leave him alone?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Nothing against him? I just didn't want him hanging around you,
that's all.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Maybe you were better. Excuse me, sheriff.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Maybe this isn't the time to talk to miss Adams.
After all, we'll wait until later, alright if you say so.
Ge sorry to bother you, ma'am, come on the sheriff.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Now, what was the idea of that?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Jee thought you wanted to talk to her.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I think i'd rather talk to her brother bad. Yeah,
he seems to know something that she can or won't
tell us. He might talk more freely if she isn't
around to argue with him.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
He's looking at now he Jesus argue. Signal him to
come out. Alright, he got it.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
He's coming now, and it's walk down away so she
can't see us.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
You signal me to come out.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I wanted to get you away from your sister, keep
him upsetting her any further.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Oh you gonna say in there about Pete Jennings, Oh,
I don't know he's dead.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Don't seem right to talk.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Musta been some reason you objected to him seeing Mary.
Would you want your sister taking up with a strange
cow folk that just drifted him from nowhere? Cower folks
are always drifting. That doesn't mean there's anything.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Wrong with him. Why they tallent he was a cow polp.
You didn't beat when Mary used to go out with him.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I know why he's okay.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You never heard of him getting in any trouble.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Did you?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Well?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
No, why you keep suggesting that Jennings had been in trouble? Uh?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
All I know is he sure could have been.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You've got a reason for thinking so way he acted.
You always seem scared about what?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
How should I know?
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Scared?
Speaker 5 (12:33):
That's all? But a few times he asked me if
I'd ever seen a tall dark filling around town? Stranger?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
He ever ask anybody else about that? I don't know,
not all I was to it?
Speaker 7 (12:44):
Why did he ask you?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Especially?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I don't know what can you?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I guess it was because, well, I work on and
off at the paint store and there the continental trailer
wears deep on him. Maybe he figured that I'd notice
people getting off the buses.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Do you think he was afraid somebody was after him?
Is that it? You figured out?
Speaker 7 (13:01):
That's why I never wanted him around and married?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
There was something wrong?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You ever tell him how you felt? Yeah? I told
him what they say, told him to mind my own business.
Oh did you?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Whatn't much else I could do? Was it?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
I can bury old enough to.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Pick a home?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Bows you and Jennings ever have a fight.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Not where were you last night between seven and eight o'clock?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Me?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh, let me see, yeah, oh ah, I was at
White's place.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I thought you said this fellow White he was a
cow folk. He got a place of his own.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah, Jay, he stopped punching cattle about a year ago,
bought a small place way out but Rocky Mason.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Land out there isn't worth much. Still he wants have
saved his money.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
No, he he just hid it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Lucky wants gambling. Look, I told you all I knew.
I better get back to my sister. Alright, go ahead,
you boys, take a set of fingerprints from Jennings's body, Sheriff. Yeah, boy,
I wanna shoot a copy of him through the Austin
and there at my office. You think Jennings manahatta record
might have whether he had one or not.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
We will have to check back on him as far.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
As we can, looking for what the tall dark man
that Bud says Jennings is so worried about.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
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Speaker 2 (14:41):
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Speaker 3 (15:03):
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
tonight's case Wild Crop, an authentic story from the files
of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I spent the next day drifting around the countryside asking
questions about Jennings. Anybody who had known him had the
same answer, A nice quiet fella. Got a few other
interesting bits of information too, before I got back to
the Sheriff's office at about sundown.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Oh body, Jay, Jeff, and he didn't come in for me.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yeah, about an hour ago, just after you called me
from the Saunders Ranch. I called back, but they said
you'd left.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
What you got the reports from Austin. I wrote everything
down here. You were right about that blood good thing.
You took a couple of samples from that ground out there.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Yeah, one type A that matches the medical examiners typing
on Jennings.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
The other sample was type Oh too bad.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
He wasn't the other way around. Typo was very common.
He other report doesn't help much.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Fingerprint check. Yeah, Jennings didn't have a record.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Didn't seem to be running from anything either. Report says
he wrote the friends on his last job place where
he worked before he came here, and asked him to
pass his a dress around and have people write to
him here. Sure left himself wide opened to be followed
by that tall dark man. Yeah, there wasn't any tall
dark man.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You sound pretty sure.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I was sure before I ever read this report.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Man Crandell runs the newsstand in the Best People. Yeah,
he was one of the people I saw today. Jennings
used to buy his tobacco there. Crandell liked him. They
were pretty friendly. Crandell was right there to see every bust.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
That came in. Jennings. Ever asked him about a stranger.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
No, never asked anybody else I could find either, never
asked anybody but Bud Adams. Funny, he should ask the
one person who didn't like him.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, mighty funny to your.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Knowledge, Sheriffs, Bud Adams ever been in the hospital around here?
Why to old Jase must have been in one in
the army though, Come home with a medical dischart.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Fine, that'll do.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Operator.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Hello, operator, I.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Want a long distance Please get me Texas Ranger Headquarters,
cam Maybury, Austin, Yes.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Sir, one moment.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Please where are you at?
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Jase?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
A check of Bud's army record.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I want to get his blood type.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Austin dug up the answer in the hour. Bud Adams
was blood type.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Oh it's fitn't It wasn't enough to grab him, but
it wasn't enough to take us out to the Adams
place for a few more questions.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Mary Adams was there, more.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Composed than she'd been at the funeral parlor. And somebody
else was there too, Whitey Talmage.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
We were introduced. Glad to meet you, Ranger.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Thanks your brother around this Adams.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
He went out to the shedding back a while ago.
I don't know what to keep him so long?
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Well, he said he had something to fix. Oh, uh, reckon?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
You want to talk to these people?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Mary?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I I just stopped by to tell you how sorry
I am about the way things turned out for you. Thanks, right,
don't rush off on our account. White Bud's the one
we want to seizure.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Stay part well, you can go through the house and
out the back a hunt.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Come on, dude, Oh uh, Whitey, mister tallmadge. Yeah, I
understand you used to be a cow folk. Yeah, you
ever riding the rodeo p at Ebileen Abilene, no kind
of thought.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I saw you up there once a fella named Whitey
rode for a ranch from this section. Looks something like
you Wasn't me understand You got your own place now?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
That it beats riding for somebody else. It should does,
And Bud told us about it today. Oh, must have
taken you about ten years to save that much money
on a cow folk, sally.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yeah, it was rough going.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Yeah, I get to talking about spreads and I forget
what I came here for.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Come on, Sheriff, Oh.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
You flushed something there, Jason, And maybe not, Bud said
White he bought his place with gambling money, and where
a law man. Maybe White he didn't wanna admit that
to us.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
And what'd you wrote him for? If he used to
go with a girl. He's moving back into the picture.
Mighty fast.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Here's your old carriage head.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
A short dark in here, a lighter match nobody here? No,
that was less than a minute ago. Is that a
back door? Yeah? Figured he ducked out there. Maybe we
can catch him.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
No, I'll let him think we wanna chase him, or
to drop that match and write another one.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
What are you sniffing at?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Still?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
A little smoke in here?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
So old Bud was smoking a cigarette? Yeah, old jacket
on the hook here? Wonder if tears it is?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I haven't seen him word recently.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
M on and off?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Good dow'st the match. I want gonna take this with me.
What poor to send through to the lab at Austin?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Well, what you gonna have him look for?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Man's cigarettes generally leave a few crumbs in the seams
of his pockets. I'm kind of curious about the brand
that Bud smokes.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Must be the cheapest brand.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
From the smell of a smoke in here, That's why
I was smelling. If I'm right, Sheriff, it's not cheap.
It's expensive in more ways than one. That smoke smells
like marijuana.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I shipped the jacket through to Austin.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
On the nightplane, and we had a telephone report shortly
before dawn. The back of greens and Bud's pockets showed
traces of cannabis sativa, the hemple from which marijuana.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Has made you look like you struggle? Je I did that?
Was it marijuana? No doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Man who smokes that stuff could turn killer.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
In a minute. We better pick that out on what charge?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Possession of narcotic?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Not enough for that, Bud could say. Other people wore
the jacket. You mean we gotta sit here and let
a hophead get away with murder. No, we're going to
the source. Find out where he got the stuff. Well,
there's none of it growing around here. He must be
getting it from across the border, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Where do you figure this spread?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Whitey Talmage brought up near Rocky Mesa. Was there a
house on the land, No, he had to build himself
a place reckon He shock's the only one up there.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Sure, it's the only one the land. There's dirt cheap.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Because it's no good for grazing, no good for cattle,
and you can't raise a crop on it. Only thing
that would grow up there is a weed, and that's
what marijuana is, a weed. I should have wondered why
a copple could buy land up there?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
What are we waiting for it?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Come on, I'm tring a double horse trailer on my car.
You can load your pony in the charcoal and drive
us close to Rocky Masa's.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
We can get and the ponies can pick us up
to White he spread? What where your ponies?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Def jasus is rough country?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Which why is the price? No, we'll have to comb
part ride around the Mesa.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
It's near the base.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Someplace must be over there, Claire after the right.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
See the smoke coming up. Whitey must be home if
he's got a fire going.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
We ought to be dist in time for breakfast, and
he won't feel much like feeding us. The cut over
this wave quite better footing for the pony, All right,
ship you know the.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Sheriff? What case that's no cooking fire. Look look at
all that smoke.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
There's a regular cloud of it.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
What do you make of that? White he got scared?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I think his crop's going up and smoke before we
can get to it. Come on, found leather up start.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
That ain't in sheriff? What is it fresh tracks.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Here.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Look, two horses came this far and then turned back
toward the MESA. Now, why look in the direction we
came from and you will see why roads in clear
view from this point our car shows right down the
slope between no rocks. Bud must have come back here
with Whitey last night.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
They were riding down this morning and spotted us.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Might have seen is taking the horses out of the trailer.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Come on, let's see if we can save anything from
that fire. Get up, charge the airfot come on.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Took them a little time to ride back and fire.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
That stuff used to can't be far off.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
There can be a million miles off if we can't
get some evidence to pin on him. Hey, there they
are now where over to the right past the smoke
on the pony see them?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Yeah, but what do we do now?
Speaker 4 (23:31):
You had for the fire. If you can get a
pump of that stuff it isn't completely burnt, grab it,
then come after him.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Well where are you going after him? Come on, chuck?
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
They saw me coming and they split up. I had
to make a fast decision. I had a feeling they
were both in on the murder of Jennings, but all
we had on them was a marijuana charge.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I cut after Budd.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
He was my best bet for one reason. Growers like
Whitey Calmets might not smoke the stuff, but I knew
Bud did.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
And the ones who smoke it are the shake is.
I caught him just before he reached the road.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Better ain't in but rain in, boy.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I'll stop you with a bullet.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
And stop that poney.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Better get off with your hands over your head.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
I ain't got a gun.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Just keep them up anyhow, I stand still wide.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
They got your cigarette, I.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Ain't got any. I'll tell you I ain't got any.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
No. What are these you know? To smoke? The kind
they sell in stores?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
These look kind of homemade, the whitest white. He would
have burned them like everything else is burning back there.
But you couldn't resist sneaking a few, could you. Why'd
you chase me? Why don't you go out to him?
I'll tell you why, because there was somebody else's blood
on the ground, besides Jenny's type old blood.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
You're tight.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
No, you killed him, but no, you know, give me
them a cigarette.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
They gotta have it, or you gotta have them.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
But you couldn't buy them could you not enough money?
Kind of a deal that you make? White? He promised
your lifetime supply for killing Jennings so he could have
your sister.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
I didn't not even do it.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I suppose you didn't smoke this stuff either. Wait me alone?
Why don't you let me a rolle?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Seen it in your eyes the first time I saw you, White.
He's gonna be free. He's burned everything we had on him.
He'll be all right. But you're going to jail for possession, Bud.
And whether we convict you or not, you're gonna stand
trial for murdering Jenny. Your blood was found on that
ground too, Your blood. Why did you love me?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Why he did it?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Don't lie?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
You hit him with something hard? What he was? Why?
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Why didn't want killing?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Why he was just little? Feed him on his hand,
all right, Bud? Right you hear that, Sheriff. I assured didn't.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Everything was burned up out there, Jason, I grabbed what
a clue?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
That's all right, we won't need the marijuana charge. Hold him.
I'll meet you later where we left the car. You're
going after friding?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Yeah? He cuts off over the Mason when they split
down there that's all big Ben hunt right over the wold.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
He's hiding for the book.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
All a sheriff.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I'll make sure he never gets there.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Upside Yep, it was up to the horses, and I
had the best.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I raked the chackle all the way.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Once I picked up the trail, a clear trail in
the mixture of alcali and sand. In less than an hour,
I had a dust cloud to follow, and I saw
White and.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
The ponies through the haze. The pony stumbled, almost fell White.
He went off. He ran for a couple of mesquite
and dropped behind him.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Oh boy, I smart.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
You gotta say that, Whitey.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
If you're a smart, you surrender.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I'll make a good deal. Fire, I got some do
almost a dumb Maybe you found the lean back there.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Maybe you didn't take your money. Let's call it even.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
You're for getting another little childe, Whitey, you killed a man?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Why so quiet?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Don't you want to make a deal on that one? Am?
I bud spilled it all. Brass knuckles an't going to
do you any good now. If I killed one man,
I'll tell you as soon as I deliver you to
the ward and at Huntsville or the County Morgue. I'll
take your fack, Whitey, because I'm common for you. Looks
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like you put yourself a low crime.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Mister with Whitey talentage dead.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
But Adams entered a plea of guilty of murder in
the second degree on July eighth, nineteen forty eight. He
was sentenced to the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or
a term of.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Fifty is.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Next week.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
McClay and another authentic re enactment if case from.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
The files of that that the Break.
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Case for Tonight Wild Crop.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
It is seven thirty PM a Saturday night in October
nineteen forty seven, in the fields near Borrowville, West Texas.
Two men stand in the darkness beneath the cluster of
Utton Willows.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
What'd you say? We're right away?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Later?
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I only want to take a few dress later, I.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
Said, stick the button Knight back.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
In your pocket.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
All right, Wady, you don't have to get count about it.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Then.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Don't make me tell you things twice? What time is it?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I don't know?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
You got my watch, long is everything else?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
You act right tonight? I may give it back to you.
You sure Jennings comes this way?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Of course, I'm sure. Path through here is the shortest
way from the range to my house.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
What time would your sister expect?
Speaker 7 (01:59):
Night?
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Between seven thirty and eighty That's when he always comes.
Speaker 6 (02:04):
We'll make him a little late tonight. We'll make him
nice and pretty for you can't keep him away from her,
but maybe I can.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
I've had a lot of good it going, do you?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
What do you mean by that crack?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
She don't like you, and you know it.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
You like me when I'm up before Jennings drifted in there?
Speaker 6 (02:18):
What's so hot about a stinking cow poke?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Don't ask me as sis you getting smart?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
But I'm just telling you, well, maybe you better stop
telling me that you wanna give up smoking.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I can get it someplace else from who you not.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Only don't know where to get the stuff, you wouldn't
have the money to buy it.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I could do it all.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah, there a lot of ham smokers say that you
need marijuana and I need.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Your sister, And don't forget it.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
You just like you.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Somebody's coming up.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
He's yeah, names must be He's the only one that
comes this way right. Other things go the other way
to town and the ranch pick up.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
I can remember what I told you to do, Like
I said.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Hey, what are many things you're putting on your hands?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Brass knuckles?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Look, you said you was just gonna fight.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
That's all about you?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Could you got then things?
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Let me worry about that.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I shouldn't be quiet.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Good hear you? Alright, go get him off their horse?
Speaker 7 (03:19):
Jenny's. Oh boy, who's asked me?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Bud?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (03:26):
Why right here?
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I wanna talk to you.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Alright, stay had both.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It looks like you've been waiting here for me.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
I have her.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Where do you think you're going?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Jenny's.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
That's kind of a set of question anybody I'm gonna
call on your sister.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
And you're thinking, ain't what it should be?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Why don't you grow?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Uh? I told you to stay away.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Ma.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
I just wait for her to tell me that.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Now. I'm'na tell you something.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
If you ever again lay a hand on her for
singing mad like, I gotta hunt you at once. I'm
gonna have you talking cop me from here to Houston.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
You wanna start something, but if you want.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Marriage, brother, i'd kick your tea. Oh kid, why don't
you grow up? Your sister's a big girl. We're gonna
get married soon. It may gonna be in the same family,
whether we.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Like it or not.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I love it.
Speaker 6 (04:19):
I'm not gonna hurt her.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
You're doing right, you in because you aren't even gonna
see her anymore. It's starting right now, and.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
You think you're gonna stop me, buddy, it's your chance
to stop trying.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
That suits me, you snaky little.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You love me.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Janus? Why yeah, me, toody, he cut my mouth, kill me?
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Come on, I got more.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Something on your head.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
I got just crazy. Indeed, he's treading her mouth.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Stop wanting help me pick him up from standing gains that?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
What for?
Speaker 6 (05:01):
You want to run under the sheriff? Stand him up there?
We started this, let's finish it.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
The body of Pete Jennings was discovered the following day
when other ranch hands started the search for him after
finding his horse grazing while fully sat.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
The sheriff was summoned and he.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
In turn requested the immediate aid of a Texas ranger.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Ranger Jace Pearson was a.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Sign bodies in there. Button will was right ahead. Jase,
A couple of my deputies are.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
There with it. Did to tell him not to Tom Brown.
They're experienced.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Man, good when't you say? The Ranchan saw Jennings last
last night, had his chuck with him, then rode out
night riding.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
What for?
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Oh, he wasn't working.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
He was only ready to see a girl.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Then going steady with Mary Adams. He always go carding
on a horse.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well, he didn't have no car.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Besides the ranch road to the atom places no bargain reckon.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
It was the easiest way for him to get that see. Uh,
those youre man. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I staked around the grave keep people out. The face
was kind of crowded this morning when the JP was here.
Look like they shoot everybody off out.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
He fellas it right in.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Through here, Jase.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yah, there's a little path and I see it.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Right there.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Ooh ooh ooh charge old. Not very pleasant to look at.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
No, when we first come out here this morning, I
thought maybe it was an accident, maybe his horse show him,
or he hit a branch or something. No one look
around here kills that idea.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
And I know dead leaves on the ground, no rocks, nothing.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
He could have hit that hard whatever his face met
up with was plenty hard flesh laid open to the bones.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
John Nose smashed. Any of the other ranch hands ride
this way last night? Nope? Are you sure about that?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I checked all but one of 'em rode into town
on the pickup.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I know where they all were.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Uh, surely the statements later he said one hand stay, Yeah,
but he never left the bunk. Ho you make sure
that I didn't have to, Jase, he's in bed with
a broken leg. He's been there too weak.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I guess we can count him out.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Then, any money on the body, No, but this house
it pays once a month, on the fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
That's two days off.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Cop.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Folks all figure to be broke. Be a big surprise
if they weren't.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
The whole fight must have taken place right around here,
in a circle about ten feet.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Why my leaves are all ground apart. Other patches haven't
been disturbed much.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
They wait a second.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Another spot over here, Yeah, not much here, not like
the other spot. A couple of leaves. There's staying here.
I'd be blood pretty.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Far from the body. Jace.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Leaves over there stained a lot more.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, I know. You find any signs of pony tracks
around the grove too many.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Most of the ranch hands were around here this morning
when the body was found. They were all mounted. Then
I brought my boys in too, and I guess that
would wipe out any tracks that might have been around.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
We'll have a look to make sure it couldn't be helped. Jake, Oh,
I know that Sheriff I wasn't being critical. Where they're
going to go over the body?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
At the funeral home in Bouraville, medical examiners waiting for
us to bring the body in.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
To have somebody move it in on.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
A buckboard, and I sent for one good. I want
to get a couple of jars from my saddle bags. Jar. Yeah,
I want to take samples of those steamed leaves.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Around the body and in that other spot. Go while
from both places. So takes at least two men to
make a fight.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Sheriff, No rule says that one of them has to
do all the bleeding. I packed the samples of bloody
leaves and got them off to the Austin Lamb by plane.
The medical examiner's autopsy on Jennings's body showed that Jennings
had been beaten to death with an object or objects
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of metallic hardness. The sheriff and I left the examination
room and we came around the side of the funeral home.
We looked through the glass window. Two people were in
the waiting room, a man and a woman. A woman
was crying. Who were they through the window? There?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Mary Adams and her brother Bud.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
She's the one you sat beat. Jennings was on his
way to see when he got killed. Yeah, you wanna.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Talk to her.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Might be able to give us a motive for the killing.
We need one badly. She looks pretty broken up, I know,
but this can't wait. Murders like this.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Cool off too quickly unless you just stay right on him.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
I can't fight that. Come on, you gotta get a
hold of yourself.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
How did Bud Mary?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
How the share? Uh?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
This?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Here's ranger peers eh, Jason's Mary Adams and her brother Buddy.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Ma'am like to ask you a few questions.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Man, Look, I know you got a job to the ranger,
But do you have to talk to her now?
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Do you think I would if it wasn't necessary?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Well, you see the ship.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
She's here eat Jennings is and in very good shape
either Bud. Mary may give us the help we need
to get the man who filled him.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
She can tell you what's want?
Speaker 7 (10:02):
No later, No, it's he so I.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Thought, I I'm nice.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
What talk to him now?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
When can I see him?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Why do I have to wait here?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Well, it'll be Why yet Mary the doctor had to
look him over first.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
That maybe you better just touch usk and him go on? No,
one go no, I I I don't.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Want to stay here. But he wanna know if Pete
Jennings have any trouble with anybody you know about, ma'am?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I mean, was there bad blood between him and anybody?
He well, no, he was a quiet seller. He ever
in any trouble with the law anything like that?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
You mean, not that he ever told you about it?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Don't you start that again.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
But just a minute, ma'am, what do you mean by that?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Bud?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Then?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Why'd you say talker? I told you it was nothing.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
She just never liked Pete, that's all.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh, least that now?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Why can't you leave him alone?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Nothing against him? I just didn't want him hanging around you,
that's all.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Maybe you were better. Excuse me, sheriff.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Maybe this isn't the time to talk to miss Adams.
After all, we'll wait until later, alright if you say so.
Ge sorry to bother you, ma'am, come on the sheriff.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Now, what was the idea of that?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Jee thought you wanted to talk to her.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I think i'd rather talk to her brother bad. Yeah,
he seems to know something that she can or won't
tell us. He might talk more freely if she isn't
around to argue with him.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
He's looking at now he Jesus argue. Signal him to
come out. Alright, he got it.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
He's coming now, and it's walk down away so she
can't see us.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
You signal me to come out.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I wanted to get you away from your sister, keep
him upsetting her any further.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Oh you gonna say in there about Pete Jennings, Oh,
I don't know he's dead.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Don't seem right to talk.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Musta been some reason you objected to him seeing Mary.
Would you want your sister taking up with a strange
cow folk that just drifted him from nowhere? Cower folks
are always drifting. That doesn't mean there's anything.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Wrong with him. Why they tallent he was a cow polp.
You didn't beat when Mary used to go out with him.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I know why he's okay.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
You never heard of him getting in any trouble.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Did you?
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Well?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
No, why you keep suggesting that Jennings had been in trouble? Uh?
Speaker 5 (12:23):
All I know is he sure could have been.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
You've got a reason for thinking so way he acted.
You always seem scared about what?
Speaker 5 (12:31):
How should I know?
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Scared?
Speaker 5 (12:33):
That's all? But a few times he asked me if
I'd ever seen a tall dark filling around town? Stranger?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
He ever ask anybody else about that? I don't know,
not all I was to it?
Speaker 7 (12:44):
Why did he ask you?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Especially?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I don't know what can you?
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I guess it was because, well, I work on and
off at the paint store and there the continental trailer
wears deep on him. Maybe he figured that I'd notice
people getting off the buses.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Do you think he was afraid somebody was after him?
Is that it? You figured out?
Speaker 7 (13:01):
That's why I never wanted him around and married?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
There was something wrong?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You ever tell him how you felt? Yeah? I told
him what they say, told him to mind my own business.
Oh did you?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Whatn't much else I could do? Was it?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
I can bury old enough to.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Pick a home?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Bows you and Jennings ever have a fight.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Of course.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Not where were you last night between seven and eight o'clock?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Me?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Oh, let me see, yeah, oh ah, I was at
White's place.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
I thought you said this fellow White he was a
cow folk. He got a place of his own.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah, Jay, he stopped punching cattle about a year ago,
bought a small place way out but Rocky Mason.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Land out there isn't worth much. Still he wants have
saved his money.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
No, he he just hid it.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Lucky wants gambling. Look, I told you all I knew.
I better get back to my sister. Alright, go ahead,
you boys, take a set of fingerprints from Jennings's body, Sheriff. Yeah, boy,
I wanna shoot a copy of him through the Austin
and there at my office. You think Jennings manahatta record
might have whether he had one or not.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
We will have to check back on him as far.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
As we can, looking for what the tall dark man
that Bud says Jennings is so worried about.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
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Speaker 3 (15:03):
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
tonight's case Wild Crop, an authentic story from the files
of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
I spent the next day drifting around the countryside asking
questions about Jennings. Anybody who had known him had the
same answer, A nice quiet fella. Got a few other
interesting bits of information too, before I got back to
the Sheriff's office at about sundown.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Oh body, Jay, Jeff, and he didn't come in for me.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Yeah, about an hour ago, just after you called me
from the Saunders Ranch. I called back, but they said
you'd left.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
What you got the reports from Austin. I wrote everything
down here. You were right about that blood good thing.
You took a couple of samples from that ground out there.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Yeah, one type A that matches the medical examiners typing
on Jennings.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
The other sample was type Oh too bad.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
He wasn't the other way around. Typo was very common.
He other report doesn't help much.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Fingerprint check. Yeah, Jennings didn't have a record.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Didn't seem to be running from anything either. Report says
he wrote the friends on his last job place where
he worked before he came here, and asked him to
pass his a dress around and have people write to
him here. Sure left himself wide opened to be followed
by that tall dark man. Yeah, there wasn't any tall
dark man.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
You sound pretty sure.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
I was sure before I ever read this report.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
You know.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Man Crandell runs the newsstand in the Best People. Yeah,
he was one of the people I saw today. Jennings
used to buy his tobacco there. Crandell liked him. They
were pretty friendly. Crandell was right there to see every bust.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
That came in. Jennings. Ever asked him about a stranger.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
No, never asked anybody else I could find either, never
asked anybody but Bud Adams. Funny, he should ask the
one person who didn't like him.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, mighty funny to your.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Knowledge, Sheriffs, Bud Adams ever been in the hospital around here?
Why to old Jase must have been in one in
the army though, Come home with a medical dischart.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Fine, that'll do.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Operator.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Hello, operator, I.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Want a long distance Please get me Texas Ranger Headquarters,
cam Maybury, Austin, Yes.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Sir, one moment.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Please where are you at?
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Jase?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
A check of Bud's army record.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I want to get his blood type.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Austin dug up the answer in the hour. Bud Adams
was blood type.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Oh it's fitn't It wasn't enough to grab him, but
it wasn't enough to take us out to the Adams
place for a few more questions.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Mary Adams was there, more.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Composed than she'd been at the funeral parlor. And somebody
else was there too, Whitey Talmage.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
We were introduced. Glad to meet you, Ranger.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Thanks your brother around this Adams.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
He went out to the shedding back a while ago.
I don't know what to keep him so long?
Speaker 6 (17:56):
Well, he said he had something to fix. Oh, uh, reckon?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
You want to talk to these people?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Mary?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I I just stopped by to tell you how sorry
I am about the way things turned out for you. Thanks, right,
don't rush off on our account. White Bud's the one
we want to seizure.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Stay part well, you can go through the house and
out the back a hunt.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Come on, dude, Oh uh, Whitey, mister tallmadge. Yeah, I
understand you used to be a cow folk. Yeah, you
ever riding the rodeo p at Ebileen Abilene, no kind
of thought.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
I saw you up there once a fella named Whitey
rode for a ranch from this section. Looks something like
you Wasn't me understand You got your own place now?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
That it beats riding for somebody else. It should does,
And Bud told us about it today. Oh, must have
taken you about ten years to save that much money
on a cow folk, sally.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Yeah, it was rough going.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Yeah, I get to talking about spreads and I forget
what I came here for.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Come on, Sheriff, Oh.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
You flushed something there, Jason, And maybe not, Bud said
White he bought his place with gambling money, and where
a law man. Maybe White he didn't wanna admit that
to us.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
And what'd you wrote him for? If he used to
go with a girl. He's moving back into the picture.
Mighty fast.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Here's your old carriage head.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
A short dark in here, a lighter match nobody here? No,
that was less than a minute ago. Is that a
back door? Yeah? Figured he ducked out there. Maybe we
can catch him.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
No, I'll let him think we wanna chase him, or
to drop that match and write another one.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
What are you sniffing at?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Still?
Speaker 2 (19:45):
A little smoke in here?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
So old Bud was smoking a cigarette? Yeah, old jacket
on the hook here? Wonder if tears it is?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I haven't seen him word recently.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
M on and off?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Good dow'st the match. I want gonna take this with me.
What poor to send through to the lab at Austin?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Well, what you gonna have him look for?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
Man's cigarettes generally leave a few crumbs in the seams
of his pockets. I'm kind of curious about the brand
that Bud smokes.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Must be the cheapest brand.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
From the smell of a smoke in here, That's why
I was smelling. If I'm right, Sheriff, it's not cheap.
It's expensive in more ways than one. That smoke smells
like marijuana.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I shipped the jacket through to Austin.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
On the nightplane, and we had a telephone report shortly
before dawn. The back of greens and Bud's pockets showed
traces of cannabis sativa, the hemple from which marijuana.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Has made you look like you struggle? Je I did that?
Was it marijuana? No doubt about it.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
Man who smokes that stuff could turn killer.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
In a minute. We better pick that out on what charge?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Possession of narcotic?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Not enough for that, Bud could say. Other people wore
the jacket. You mean we gotta sit here and let
a hophead get away with murder. No, we're going to
the source. Find out where he got the stuff. Well,
there's none of it growing around here. He must be
getting it from across the border, I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Where do you figure this spread?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Whitey Talmage brought up near Rocky Mesa. Was there a
house on the land, No, he had to build himself
a place reckon He shock's the only one up there.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Sure, it's the only one the land. There's dirt cheap.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Because it's no good for grazing, no good for cattle,
and you can't raise a crop on it. Only thing
that would grow up there is a weed, and that's
what marijuana is, a weed. I should have wondered why
a copple could buy land up there?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
What are we waiting for it?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Come on, I'm tring a double horse trailer on my car.
You can load your pony in the charcoal and drive
us close to Rocky Masa's.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
We can get and the ponies can pick us up
to White he spread? What where your ponies?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Def jasus is rough country?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Which why is the price? No, we'll have to comb
part ride around the Mesa.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
It's near the base.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Someplace must be over there, Claire after the right.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
See the smoke coming up. Whitey must be home if
he's got a fire going.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
We ought to be dist in time for breakfast, and
he won't feel much like feeding us. The cut over
this wave quite better footing for the pony, All right,
ship you know the.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Sheriff? What case that's no cooking fire. Look look at
all that smoke.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
There's a regular cloud of it.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
What do you make of that? White he got scared?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I think his crop's going up and smoke before we
can get to it. Come on, found leather up start.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
That ain't in sheriff? What is it fresh tracks.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Here.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Look, two horses came this far and then turned back
toward the MESA. Now, why look in the direction we
came from and you will see why roads in clear
view from this point our car shows right down the
slope between no rocks. Bud must have come back here
with Whitey last night.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
They were riding down this morning and spotted us.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Might have seen is taking the horses out of the trailer.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Come on, let's see if we can save anything from
that fire. Get up, charge the airfot come on.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
Took them a little time to ride back and fire.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
That stuff used to can't be far off.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
There can be a million miles off if we can't
get some evidence to pin on him. Hey, there they
are now where over to the right past the smoke
on the pony see them?
Speaker 7 (23:29):
Yeah, but what do we do now?
Speaker 4 (23:31):
You had for the fire. If you can get a
pump of that stuff it isn't completely burnt, grab it,
then come after him.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Well where are you going after him? Come on, chuck?
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Yea.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
They saw me coming and they split up. I had
to make a fast decision. I had a feeling they
were both in on the murder of Jennings, but all
we had on them was a marijuana charge.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I cut after Budd.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
He was my best bet for one reason. Growers like
Whitey Calmets might not smoke the stuff, but I knew
Bud did.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
And the ones who smoke it are the shake is.
I caught him just before he reached the road.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Better ain't in but rain in, boy.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I'll stop you with a bullet.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
And stop that poney.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Better get off with your hands over your head.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
I ain't got a gun.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Just keep them up anyhow, I stand still wide.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
They got your cigarette, I.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Ain't got any. I'll tell you I ain't got any.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
No. What are these you know? To smoke? The kind
they sell in stores?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
These look kind of homemade, the whitest white. He would
have burned them like everything else is burning back there.
But you couldn't resist sneaking a few, could you. Why'd
you chase me? Why don't you go out to him?
I'll tell you why, because there was somebody else's blood
on the ground, besides Jenny's type old blood.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
You're tight.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
No, you killed him, but no, you know, give me
them a cigarette.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
They gotta have it, or you gotta have them.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
But you couldn't buy them could you not enough money?
Kind of a deal that you make? White? He promised
your lifetime supply for killing Jennings so he could have
your sister.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
I didn't not even do it.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I suppose you didn't smoke this stuff either. Wait me alone?
Why don't you let me a rolle?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Seen it in your eyes the first time I saw you, White.
He's gonna be free. He's burned everything we had on him.
He'll be all right. But you're going to jail for possession, Bud.
And whether we convict you or not, you're gonna stand
trial for murdering Jenny. Your blood was found on that
ground too, Your blood. Why did you love me?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Why he did it?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Don't lie?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
You hit him with something hard? What he was? Why?
Speaker 7 (25:31):
Why didn't want killing?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Why he was just little? Feed him on his hand,
all right, Bud? Right you hear that, Sheriff. I assured didn't.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Everything was burned up out there, Jason, I grabbed what
a clue?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
That's all right, we won't need the marijuana charge. Hold him.
I'll meet you later where we left the car. You're
going after friding?
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Yeah? He cuts off over the Mason when they split
down there that's all big Ben hunt right over the wold.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
He's hiding for the book.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
All a sheriff.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I'll make sure he never gets there.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Upside Yep, it was up to the horses, and I
had the best.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I raked the chackle all the way.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Once I picked up the trail, a clear trail in
the mixture of alcali and sand. In less than an hour,
I had a dust cloud to follow, and I saw
White and.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
The ponies through the haze. The pony stumbled, almost fell White.
He went off. He ran for a couple of mesquite
and dropped behind him.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Oh boy, I smart.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
You gotta say that, Whitey.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
If you're a smart, you surrender.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I'll make a good deal. Fire, I got some do
almost a dumb Maybe you found the lean back there.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Maybe you didn't take your money. Let's call it even.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
You're for getting another little childe, Whitey, you killed a man?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Why so quiet?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Don't you want to make a deal on that one? Am?
I bud spilled it all. Brass knuckles an't going to
do you any good now. If I killed one man,
I'll tell you as soon as I deliver you to
the ward and at Huntsville or the County Morgue. I'll
take your fack, Whitey, because I'm common for you. Looks
(27:22):
like you put yourself a low crime.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
Mister with Whitey talentage dead.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
But Adams entered a plea of guilty of murder in
the second degree on July eighth, nineteen forty eight. He
was sentenced to the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or
a term of.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Fifty is.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Next week.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
McClay and another authentic re enactment if case from.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
The files of that that the Break.
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