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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCrae in Tales of
the Texas Rangers Tonight transcribed from Hollywood, another authentic reenactment
of a.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Case from the files.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Of the Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson, Texas more.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Than two hundred and sixty thousand.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Square miles and fifty men who make up the.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America.
Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these
(00:56):
stories based on fact on the named states and platy
particks vicious for omnious reasons they amoust themselves are a
matter of records. Case for Tonight, the White Suit.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
It is six am June twenty third, nineteen forty seven.
There is only one prisoner in the live Oak County
Jail is John Elliott Bascombe, a notorious and dangerous gunman.
In the ante room connecting the jail with the Sheriff's office,
Deputy George Keaton doses snoring at the end of a
long and uneventful knight's duty.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Met jobs, met Josh, oh oh, hell, Uncle Ben, You're
still here?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Yeah, that prosecute is always down.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
The hall was powerful dirty.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
If I'm ready to go along home now as soon
as I hang on my mouth, but I blew this
hair of coffee for you. Coffee, pull it here, This
is hot, jonah uh coffee, Uncle.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
Ben, you're an angel.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
I don't know about that, miss Jones. Ain't nobody else
feed my wings? Just put the pott and cup in
my closet when you're through. I'll take cabin when I
come on tonight.
Speaker 9 (02:24):
Sure's ink your uncle Ben, Eric, Hey, watch a minute
with you now, beast coom off?
Speaker 10 (02:32):
So was water?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Unt it over?
Speaker 8 (02:36):
Just steal me all the hold. I wouldn't give your
mouth for your plot.
Speaker 11 (02:40):
Man.
Speaker 9 (02:40):
It's building so old, it's a wondering. Doesn't all come apart?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Bath much of stock?
Speaker 12 (02:47):
All right on and I'll take it.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
Joe keep backs.
Speaker 10 (02:52):
Come, don't worry.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Jo go way and I come my feet down in
that water and stealing your bunk.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I'll see what's in the earth.
Speaker 9 (03:01):
Let's see what's wrong with it. You you're undershirts stopped
in the crane.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
Old lord it get away from that.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Sheriff crystals and discovered the bodies of his night deputy
in the courthouse janitor. When he came into his office
at eight o'clock, he immediately telephoned the Texas Rangers, and
a short time later, Ranger Jace Pearson arrived.
Speaker 8 (03:44):
Jane Piers, I am I glad to see.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
You quite a while, Sir Chase, is a bad train
anything involving Bascom? Is you got any line on him?
Speaker 10 (03:52):
In?
Speaker 13 (03:52):
No?
Speaker 9 (03:53):
Apparently slipped out of town of Foot. We don't even
know what direction he took.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Probably east up Rocky Valley. That's the quickest way into
open country. Ranger Harris was ordered out on this assignment with.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
Me, Oh, where is he?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I dropped him with the walkie talkie at two mile
Bridge on the way in. He's riding through the brush
now cutting for a trail. You know, to find out
pretty soon if Bascom's still afoot, and it isn't. The
highway patrols already closed the main roads into this area.
Soon as we get a localization, mounted units will move
in an attempt to close the gaps. We'll get him, Sheriff.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
I sure hope, so Chair's office holds speed. This is
Bob McDougall out on Route seven. A man just tole
my truck out of the field where I was working.
You got a description. I didn't get a very good
look at him.
Speaker 14 (04:34):
He was fear across the field, A medium sized fellow
wearing a pair of weight coveralls.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Edit toward predo. What kind of truck? A red half
turn pick up forty six model? Anything else?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Who identify it?
Speaker 8 (04:44):
It's kind of beat up.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Grill's broken out in front and that's enough.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
Whereasm?
Speaker 10 (04:48):
Do you know who it was?
Speaker 8 (04:49):
I think so?
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Would you better get in as soon as you can and.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
Find a theft report?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Just the same farmer's truck was stolen about eight miles out.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Of Root seven. It's basketm all right, jeez, white cover rolls,
jail suits. Sure show up. Come on my units out front.
We'll get this on the radio. As we roll racing
out of town on seven with my double horse trailer
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still coupled, our radioed all units to be on the
lookout for the truck, and I contacted Ranger Harris through
his walkie talkie and asked him to meet us at
two mile Bridge. He was there when we arrived, nice time,
and ed what's up? Jayse got a line on bascom.
Let's get your horse loaded in with charcoal. Okay, Bascom
is still a foot No, he grabbed himself a truck
(05:40):
about eight miles down the road.
Speaker 9 (05:41):
He would this size is clear, jayshatch your toes.
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Charcoal.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You got company and you go.
Speaker 11 (05:50):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I better bring a walkie talkie up front with you.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Ed, got it ready?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Now come on, Sheriff Olsen mean ranger, Harris.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Howdy, Sheriff, howdy ranger. So that's your walk to talk
he isn't.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
I don't know how much do it? Yeah? Pretty contact
all right, hangs right on the saddle.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
You can keep in touch with your headquarters with him
at Austin.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
No, no craft to range about five miles close to
the better strictly a field out the more scene.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
What's that? Maybe we can drive mister Bascombe right into
the roadblock at Dry Creek Crossroads.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
Well sounds like you've just made it.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, what's made out of gas?
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (06:52):
Filler up?
Speaker 8 (06:53):
See me my regular anything?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Filler up?
Speaker 8 (06:55):
You bitcha say?
Speaker 9 (07:02):
Isn't this old Bob McDougall's truck.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Yeah, I'm taking in the prado. Lord.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
He got all his repair work done at live ol not.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
This time hurried up with you. It's find a bubble over.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
On me hill.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
A pipe must have been mm.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
Old man, sure beats up a truck, don't. Yeah, be's
farmer in the county, but awful careless about the.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Shooters seems long. I'm all lining up. That's enough gas. Hey,
it's so old Kay. You must be in a hurry.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
I am gonna lose some time at Dry Yeah. Why,
law's got a roadblock at the crossroads for some reason.
Another boom, and everybody threw down at the seams of
their drawers.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Five and two tenths.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
That's one pretty charging away, smart mctenney.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
But let's see how far that gas catch.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
Radio operator, this is Jim Perry.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Get me the Dry Creek store quick.
Speaker 10 (08:06):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
That light's busy breaking on it. The highway Patrol's got
a roadblock there.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
I want to talk to one of the officers.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
That's an emergency car, A smart alect in.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Bob mcgogle's truck just clipped me for some gas.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
He was in too big a hurry to be honest,
and he deliberately took the wrong turn when I told
him there were offers.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Of the head.
Speaker 15 (08:21):
It's a Googles truck, a red one.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Sure everybody knows that truck a red pickup with a
mechanic and white coveralls driving.
Speaker 15 (08:27):
You're are road seven.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
What turn did the truck take?
Speaker 9 (08:30):
The crazy fool took off down the old big wash roll.
Tell a patrol that can box him in there the
road edge at the wash.
Speaker 15 (08:36):
You keep a watch on that road, mister Parrot. That's
the man they're looking for. It's Jack Basker. He broke
Jim and killed two minutes of the county seat this morning.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
Jack Basket, I can ring drug creek now?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Can't the xcity on the tenth?
Speaker 8 (08:57):
Ka't the xcity on a tent?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
At ten the KTXA go ahead KTXA.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Subject Jack Basco refused to pay for gasoline. He turned
south from Route seven at Perry's filling station.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
You have Vicinity next, Perry's down there at the foot
of the hill.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Ten to four, Unit ten approaching Perries now will keep
kt XA advised Unit ten player ten four kt x
A Austin.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
There's Jim Perry out in front, flagging is down now. Hush,
I just got held up there, we know for some gasoline.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
You know had the radio gym.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
That's the attorney took over there. Yeah, the Big Wash road?
How long ago?
Speaker 8 (09:34):
Maybe ten minutes?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Pretty good start on us, Jase. Yeah, the kind of
country there is down here. Let's don't let him get
any more. We found the red picked up abandoned in
the sandy bed of Big Wash, four miles from the
highway and radio the surrounding units. John Bascom's tracks led
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straight into broken c entry beyond the wash. He couldn't
go any further than the truck, and either can. We
looks like work for the horses from here on, Ed,
Let's get him out now.
Speaker 16 (10:09):
I'll give you a hand, Jeans, Easy boy, easy, So
got to got the walkie talkie.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Ed.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
We ought to be able to contact any units south
of Dry Creek with it pretty soon.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yeah, I believe you're right. Hey, you boys, leave me
a foot.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Jees huh, you can take the unit back, Sheriff. Maybe
join the highway patrol of Dry Creek. Bascom's headed southwest.
He probably figures to slip past the roadblocks.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
He might be making a wide detail over toward highway.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Limbs. Might be all set. Okay, anything else I can do?
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Yeah, keep your fingers crossed, and I will trail and
bask him in going to be any cinch for you boys.
He desperate, armed, and he knows his trails bridch.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I know, easy boy, a good measure. I don't like
the looks of those clouds over there. All we need
is a storm to wipe out what little sign he
may leave. Well, let's get started as here. Good honey,
Thanks sir.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson. And now we continue
with tonight's case, The White Suit, an authentic story from
the files of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
By four o'clock, Ed Harris and I were deep into
the rough country south of Big Wash.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
We'd continually cut.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Back and forth for Bascomb's tracks, finding them and losing
them again with slow work, covering five to his one one.
He steadily build up his lead on us.
Speaker 14 (12:03):
He was in fernally clever, take it easy, going down here, Jason,
This canyon wall, with any steeper would be hanging by
a collar.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oo oo charcoal.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
Hey, wait a minute of head, bull up? Whoa boy.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Now? Jason bask him. Didn't slide down here like we thought. No, Look,
there's the rock. He pushed over from the rim to
make the skid marks we've been following. See it's lava
like the cap on the rim, different from the rest
of the rock down here.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
So we've got to climb back to the top.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Had a sworn he started down here to cross this canyon.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That's what he wanted us to think, anything to cost
this time. Trouble is, we got to follow out every
one of these blind trails he's leaving us, any one
of them. May be the McCoy.
Speaker 14 (12:44):
Yeah, he'll be a California before we ever get out
of these bad lands.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And he isn't the California yet. Don't worry. He's working
as hard as we are.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Up charge, litt en up, Come on, Red Hawk, maybe
I could go, come on.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Watch it. Ad Ugh, what a climb. It's getting late.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I got that sun Jash, Yeah, Hey, that low sun
has got its advantages. Take a look at that slope
over there across.
Speaker 14 (13:13):
The canyon, that patch of sand past that big mesquite Yeah,
tracks footprints. Then Bascom did cross the canyon after all.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Probably someplace a little downstream.
Speaker 14 (13:22):
Jase, how come we didn't see those tracks when we
started down here from up before. He couldn't have made
them since then we aren't that close behind him. Oh
the tracks were there before, we just didn't see them.
Now the sun's blowing enough to throw longer shadows into
the Prince's boots.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Made thinks them twice as visible.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, we better start looking for a place to cross ourselves.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Now, let's find a little higher first. I'm worried about
that storm, the way it's filing up.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
That red horse Claus not getting black cage probably loaded
with static.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
So you better try to make radio contact with a
walkie talkie.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
While we can.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
We need to work from this high ground to get
through general call case. Yeah, yeah, I suppose you try
it now.
Speaker 14 (14:01):
Yeah, Unit nine oh two the unit and range Unit
nine oh two.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
The unit and range Unit.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Eight to Unit nine oh two, Go ahead, Unit nine
O two.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Oh boy, jes ooh charper.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Unit eight to Unit nine oh two, go ahead. Unit
nine oh two requests the location of Unit eight.
Speaker 11 (14:24):
Unit eight is.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
At the intersection of County five and the State eleven,
ten miles south of Dry Creek.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Then four, Unit eight is now too far north. Fugitives
still bearing toward Highway eleven, approximately twelve miles south and
east of Dry Creek.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
Suggests.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Unit eight moves south about five miles Unit eight ten four.
Unit nine oh two has had no direct contact with
fugitive but is following an identifiable trail. Will report any change,
Please relay to other units. Unit nine oh two.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
Player Unit eight ten four.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Look, Jason, Bask.
Speaker 14 (15:01):
You may stay on the other side of the canyon,
or he may double back to this side. Why don't
we save ourselves a lot of riding and split up
for a bit.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And I'll be a bad idea. I'll take the canyon floor.
It's sandy.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Tracks will be easy to spot there, and you can work.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Along this rim all right, but watch yourself ed, you'll
be in the open down.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Just let Bask him show himself once.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
That's all I want. Come on, red horse and going down.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Eat eating, see a kid to get to the bottom
before you start day.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Something about a man sharpens the hunter's senses. I sat
on the rim for long moments, watching in Harris descend
that canyon wall, feeling danger without being able to identify it.
Suddenly smoked blossom behind a rock in the opposite rim.
I saw Harris sag in his saddle before the horse
carried him out of sight him by distance.
Speaker 11 (15:52):
Came the lanking sound of a shark.
Speaker 10 (15:55):
Go charp, go bar, all right, a rock through the word.
Speaker 17 (16:13):
He's coverhead here.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
He was right up there, but he beat it.
Speaker 18 (16:28):
I think I hit him.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Those white cover offs make some target. I'll be realizing
that by now, and he'll really run. How bad are
you hit?
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Flesh? You won't clean?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Just above the old boy here, Help me get this
kerchief on it.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
I'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Pull your sleeve all the way. Yeah, he would pick
my left arm.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
How do you know?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I was a south wall and something. We may be
asking him right sudden? You okay? Now, yeah, I pick
up his trail on the rim. We'll have to watch sharp.
It's gonna try to keep that white suit out of sight.
Now only way this close to him. Come on right on,
show that charco.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Easy to them, more onto the top, come on out.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
Whoa.
Speaker 14 (17:22):
I had a fat chance of picking up anybody's trail here,
Jason heard of elephant's gonna cross this blue shade without.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
Leaving a trace.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Maybe and look here you see them? Yeah, and it's
the whole trail of them. As don't go after anything
in this country. They can't eat. I'd see what these
are having for supper? Here we are on this piece
of shell. Yeah, blood, and then I did nail them.
(17:49):
We got a wounded animal on our hands. Jason may
let go at us and behind any of these brush clumps.
And I don't think he's hurt so bad he won't
keep on running. There's just a few drops here. I'm
afraid you just that was pretty long rain, and it won't.
Speaker 14 (18:02):
Be the next time I get him in my sights.
I promise you that I owe him something for this arm.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Let's go probably headed for that big mesquite Yeah, he
would come on, red horse charcoal?
Speaker 12 (18:12):
Hey, hey, jee, what cot there? New pit's cover all?
He feel them all very cold.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Into that big tumba brush across the Claire.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Come on, let's go get it.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Hey, wait a minute, circle around below him, mad, make
a lot of racket like we're still together and hunting blind.
Maybe you can flush him back between those big rocks. Okay,
I'll try it, Jesh. I'll hide charcoal out behind the
side of him, and maybe you can rig up a
little surprise party for mister Bascom when he comes through.
But be careful.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
He won't give you a chance.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Don't give him one chance, that killer. Just let me
get my hands on him.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Come on, red horse, hit that.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Easy, charcoal, using we go this way. Oh oh boy,
the shade of this rock for you?
Speaker 8 (19:03):
Charcoal?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Easy now boy, whiet wire h head down, boy, sh
shut up, charcoal.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Craze said, you're what what do you want for? Texas Ranger?
Speaker 10 (19:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (19:28):
I got him?
Speaker 10 (19:30):
What is wrong there?
Speaker 8 (19:34):
What's he doing here?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Ask him? He said, you are he excuse brothering me
in these places? Nobody?
Speaker 8 (19:41):
I am a lonesome man. Mind my sheep. Did I
hear the coun two three times?
Speaker 13 (19:47):
When now a few minutes ago, I think maybe it's
my friend. Diego come from next valley. We've gone to
kill coyote. We have much trouble with coyote. Here sing
the way. I'm looking for coyotes. Your clothes. I'll go
to see if it's my friend. When this one hombry,
this very bad man is jump from the bush.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
He's gone.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Is very big pick, my class pick. Tell me not
to move when you run.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
I stand still till he's gone. Do not run to
which way he goes?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
How do I know? May Petro, I'm scared to tenth
all right, Pedro, forget about your clothes. You're a lucky
man to be alive. See, I knows she better get
some more clothes before that storm hits. You aren't exactly
dressed for bad weather. O A steady chark. Looks like
our surprise didn't come off. N Let's get moving before
(20:41):
Bascom builds up a lead on us again. Yeah, let's
go right horse, Harris and I picked up the trail
shortly ask him. Managed to stay ahead of us, using
a large bag of tricks to keep out of sight,
even if he couldn't shake us. When the sun set
(21:02):
behind towering thunderclouds, we were working our way down a
wide aaron belly, keeping some distance apart.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Hey say, share the tracks again, pick.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Them up charcoal. Yeah, ooh ooh boys, I heading right
down there in the valley. Precious daisies too.
Speaker 14 (21:21):
Yeah, no blow sand drifted into them at all. We
better try that general call again and to report opposition.
Look at the direction those tracks are taken. They've been
swinging that way.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
The last half hour.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Yeah, I noticed that hit it almost du eash.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Now Bascomb's pulling another big red herring on us. He
made for Highway eleven long enough for us to report
it and set up interception for him there, and then.
Speaker 14 (21:40):
He swings straight east for Highway thirteen.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
So that catches us with our units down, don't it.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Bascomb's gambling that it does. And I'll try the call
unit nine oh two to unit and range nine oh
two to unit and range nine oh two to.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
Unit and range W.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
It's no use, Jay, You can't raise anybody with too
far out.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Now whether it isn't helping him either on this lower ground,
looks like we're in for real soaking before night.
Speaker 14 (22:06):
Yeah, baskuom can't possibly be much ahead of us. Maybe
we can tree him before he gets through to the highway,
handle him on our own from here on.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You can't risk it in if he slips us and
gets through to make a ride with somebody or steal
another car, you'll be gone.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
And I guess here's where we separate. Then I'm kind
of out of the running with this year.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Bum Arm.
Speaker 14 (22:24):
Give me the walkie talking and I'll double back till
I'm in range of the units on Highway eleven again.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
That's good.
Speaker 8 (22:31):
It'll ride all right like that.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Anything special for the boys.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Ask him to request coverage on Highway thirteen all the
way to Preto. Keep trying till you get through. I'll
stick on his trail. I'll have a really indicating XA
in half an hour. As soon as you do, you
better head out toward dry creek and get that arm
look there. I'll wait till we've got bask him. Good luck, Jase,
same to you. Ahead, come on ye twenty minutes later
(22:59):
than he instructed, with cloud burst intensity bringing complete darkness,
not before John Bastu's tracks led me on an adobe
bench where sheep and new raising. He'd removed his boots here,
and his tracks blended with a maze of other bare
footprints left by Mexican sheepherders. I rode on slowly. Suddenly
a small rain drenched boy stepped out from the brush.
(23:20):
Charcoal nearly ran him down. Oh whoa charpo, steady ball.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Hey you're there, Hey boy, need y'all pay.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Ran like a frightened little rabbit. Light winked as the
door open and closed the door to an adobe shack.
So I approached. I saw the blinds were tightly drawn,
almost as though to prevent the leakage of any telltale
light from the candle burning dimmer inside.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
Ooh, charpo, who boy?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Over and up over an up Jenny, Who are you
Texas Ranger? I mean out of this rain. I want
to ask you some questions.
Speaker 15 (24:06):
Well, Senor, I cannot let you in. How how can
he seek?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
He's very sick and your boy just ran in here.
Speaker 15 (24:12):
He was going to look for him. Mamma, go storm,
she spaed. He frightened him, Senor.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
He gave me a turn for a minute.
Speaker 11 (24:21):
Two.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Look, I need little help me.
Speaker 15 (24:23):
I would do anything till the Texas Ranger trailing.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
A man, a very dangerous man. You must have passed
close to here about the time the rain began. Where
is he now?
Speaker 15 (24:31):
We have seen nothing? Want he told me nobody, Senor.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Maybe your husband did them anyway, I want out of this.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
Rain, Senor, No, you must not my husband.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
This woman was definitely afraid, but her eyes told me
she wasn't afraid of me, of the storm, perhaps of
the sickness in her house, or of the blanket wrapped
man lying on a bunk in the corner of the
room with his bare feet including toward me. The door
was thick. I pushed it inward as far as it
had done. Step quickly, please, gun off front of that
blanket and drop it. Baskom, the gun, Bascom, drop it,
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or I'll break your other arms.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Drop it.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You would be stubborn, Bassom. Now you really got something
to be sick about. Something I'm bleeding to death. You
won't get off that easy. We're saving you for the
electric chair. You got something I can use for bandages
in your This will do fine. He was holding a
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gun on you and the boy making you do what
he said. How could you know your real husband's a
sheep man, isn't he?
Speaker 15 (25:48):
He's working your problem?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Well, look at these bare feet sticking out here. You
ever see an honest to goodness sheep man with his
toes all crowded together from wearing cowboy boots that it
puts water on the heat. I'll need it to patch
him up enough to take him in.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
John Bascombe was tried in live Ol County and found
guilty of the murder of two men on the second
day of December nineteen forty seven at Huntsville Prison.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
His sentence was carried out death in the electric chair.
And now here again is the star of our show.
Joel McCrae. One of the pleasures afforded us. Here in
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this show is the large number of letters we received
asking for special information about the Texas Rangers. This week,
we received one an especially interesting letter which the writer
said she had heard of an official ranger's prayer and
inquired if such a prayer actually existed. It does. The
prayer was written by Captain Pierre Bernard Hill, chaplain of
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the Texas Rangers, and I should like you to hear it.
Oh God, whose end is justice, whose strength is all
our stay, be near and bless my mission as I
go forth today. Let wisdom guide my actions, Let courage
fill my heart, and help me Lord in every hour
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to do a ranger's part. Protect when danger threatens, Sustain
when trails are rough, Help me to keep my standard high,
and smile at each rebuff. When night comes down upon me.
I pray thee Lord be nigh, whether on lonely scout
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or camped under Texas sky, keep me O God in life,
and when my days shall end, for give my sins
and take me in for Jesus sake.
Speaker 11 (28:05):
Amen. Good night, folks, Good night.
Speaker 18 (28:25):
Next week Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a
case from the files of the Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae
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will soon be seen in the Universal International Technicolor production Frenchie.
Tonight's past included Tony Barrett, Herb Butterfields, Barney Phillips, Bill Johnstone,
Herb Ellis, and Lillian Bia.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
This or He was transcribed and adapted by Tom W. Blackburn,
and the program was.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Produced and directed by Stacy Keach.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
This is Hal Gibney.
Speaker 19 (29:08):
Speaking Three Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC. Tonight, Theater
Guild on the Air presents Judy Garland in the prize
winning novel Alice Adams, co starring Thomas Mitchell. Another Sunday
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Evening favorite is The sixty four Dollars Question, starring Jack Parr. Tomorrow,
on the Station of the Chimes, you'll hear Gordon McRae
as you're singing Master of Ceremonies on one of his
wonderful musical journeys.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Aboard the show Train.
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The Chimes are your invitation to the best in radio entertainment.
Be sure to hear Judy Garland next in Theater Guild
on NBC
The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCrae in Tales of
the Texas Rangers Tonight transcribed from Hollywood, another authentic reenactment
of a.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Case from the files.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Of the Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson, Texas more.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Than two hundred and sixty thousand.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Square miles and fifty men who make up the.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Most famous and 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 on the named states and platy
particks vicious for omnious reasons they amoust themselves are a
matter of records. Case for Tonight, the White Suit.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
It is six am June twenty third, nineteen forty seven.
There is only one prisoner in the live Oak County
Jail is John Elliott Bascombe, a notorious and dangerous gunman.
In the ante room connecting the jail with the Sheriff's office,
Deputy George Keaton doses snoring at the end of a
long and uneventful knight's duty.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Met jobs, met Josh, oh oh, hell, Uncle Ben, You're
still here?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (01:58):
Yeah, that prosecute is always down.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
The hall was powerful dirty.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
If I'm ready to go along home now as soon
as I hang on my mouth, but I blew this
hair of coffee for you. Coffee, pull it here, This
is hot, jonah uh coffee, Uncle.
Speaker 8 (02:13):
Ben, you're an angel.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
I don't know about that, miss Jones. Ain't nobody else
feed my wings? Just put the pott and cup in
my closet when you're through. I'll take cabin when I
come on tonight.
Speaker 9 (02:24):
Sure's ink your uncle Ben, Eric, Hey, watch a minute
with you now, beast coom off?
Speaker 10 (02:32):
So was water?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Unt it over?
Speaker 8 (02:36):
Just steal me all the hold. I wouldn't give your
mouth for your plot.
Speaker 11 (02:40):
Man.
Speaker 9 (02:40):
It's building so old, it's a wondering. Doesn't all come apart?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Bath much of stock?
Speaker 12 (02:47):
All right on and I'll take it.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
Joe keep backs.
Speaker 10 (02:52):
Come, don't worry.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
Jo go way and I come my feet down in
that water and stealing your bunk.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I'll see what's in the earth.
Speaker 9 (03:01):
Let's see what's wrong with it. You you're undershirts stopped
in the crane.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
Old lord it get away from that.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Sheriff crystals and discovered the bodies of his night deputy
in the courthouse janitor. When he came into his office
at eight o'clock, he immediately telephoned the Texas Rangers, and
a short time later, Ranger Jace Pearson arrived.
Speaker 8 (03:44):
Jane Piers, I am I glad to see.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
You quite a while, Sir Chase, is a bad train
anything involving Bascom? Is you got any line on him?
Speaker 10 (03:52):
In?
Speaker 13 (03:52):
No?
Speaker 9 (03:53):
Apparently slipped out of town of Foot. We don't even
know what direction he took.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Probably east up Rocky Valley. That's the quickest way into
open country. Ranger Harris was ordered out on this assignment with.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
Me, Oh, where is he?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I dropped him with the walkie talkie at two mile
Bridge on the way in. He's riding through the brush
now cutting for a trail. You know, to find out
pretty soon if Bascom's still afoot, and it isn't. The
highway patrols already closed the main roads into this area.
Soon as we get a localization, mounted units will move
in an attempt to close the gaps. We'll get him, Sheriff.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
I sure hope, so Chair's office holds speed. This is
Bob McDougall out on Route seven. A man just tole
my truck out of the field where I was working.
You got a description. I didn't get a very good
look at him.
Speaker 14 (04:34):
He was fear across the field, A medium sized fellow
wearing a pair of weight coveralls.
Speaker 8 (04:39):
Edit toward predo. What kind of truck? A red half
turn pick up forty six model? Anything else?
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Who identify it?
Speaker 8 (04:44):
It's kind of beat up.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Grill's broken out in front and that's enough.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
Whereasm?
Speaker 10 (04:48):
Do you know who it was?
Speaker 8 (04:49):
I think so?
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Would you better get in as soon as you can and.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
Find a theft report?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Just the same farmer's truck was stolen about eight miles out.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Of Root seven. It's basketm all right, jeez, white cover rolls,
jail suits. Sure show up. Come on my units out front.
We'll get this on the radio. As we roll racing
out of town on seven with my double horse trailer
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still coupled, our radioed all units to be on the
lookout for the truck, and I contacted Ranger Harris through
his walkie talkie and asked him to meet us at
two mile Bridge. He was there when we arrived, nice time,
and ed what's up? Jayse got a line on bascom.
Let's get your horse loaded in with charcoal. Okay, Bascom
is still a foot No, he grabbed himself a truck
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about eight miles down the road.
Speaker 9 (05:41):
He would this size is clear, jayshatch your toes.
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Charcoal.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
You got company and you go.
Speaker 11 (05:50):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I better bring a walkie talkie up front with you.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Ed, got it ready?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Now come on, Sheriff Olsen mean ranger, Harris.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Howdy, Sheriff, howdy ranger. So that's your walk to talk
he isn't.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
I don't know how much do it? Yeah? Pretty contact
all right, hangs right on the saddle.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
You can keep in touch with your headquarters with him
at Austin.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
No, no craft to range about five miles close to
the better strictly a field out the more scene.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
What's that? Maybe we can drive mister Bascombe right into
the roadblock at Dry Creek Crossroads.
Speaker 8 (06:47):
Well sounds like you've just made it.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, what's made out of gas?
Speaker 8 (06:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (06:52):
Filler up?
Speaker 8 (06:53):
See me my regular anything?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Filler up?
Speaker 8 (06:55):
You bitcha say?
Speaker 9 (07:02):
Isn't this old Bob McDougall's truck.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
Yeah, I'm taking in the prado. Lord.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
He got all his repair work done at live ol not.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
This time hurried up with you. It's find a bubble over.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
On me hill.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
A pipe must have been mm.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
Old man, sure beats up a truck, don't. Yeah, be's
farmer in the county, but awful careless about the.
Speaker 8 (07:27):
Shooters seems long. I'm all lining up. That's enough gas. Hey,
it's so old Kay. You must be in a hurry.
Speaker 9 (07:34):
I am gonna lose some time at Dry Yeah. Why,
law's got a roadblock at the crossroads for some reason.
Another boom, and everybody threw down at the seams of
their drawers.
Speaker 8 (07:47):
Five and two tenths.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
That's one pretty charging away, smart mctenney.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
But let's see how far that gas catch.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
Radio operator, this is Jim Perry.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Get me the Dry Creek store quick.
Speaker 10 (08:06):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
That light's busy breaking on it. The highway Patrol's got
a roadblock there.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
I want to talk to one of the officers.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
That's an emergency car, A smart alect in.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Bob mcgogle's truck just clipped me for some gas.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
He was in too big a hurry to be honest,
and he deliberately took the wrong turn when I told
him there were offers.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Of the head.
Speaker 15 (08:21):
It's a Googles truck, a red one.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
Sure everybody knows that truck a red pickup with a
mechanic and white coveralls driving.
Speaker 15 (08:27):
You're are road seven.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
What turn did the truck take?
Speaker 9 (08:30):
The crazy fool took off down the old big wash roll.
Tell a patrol that can box him in there the
road edge at the wash.
Speaker 15 (08:36):
You keep a watch on that road, mister Parrot. That's
the man they're looking for. It's Jack Basker. He broke
Jim and killed two minutes of the county seat this morning.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
Jack Basket, I can ring drug creek now?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Can't the xcity on the tenth?
Speaker 8 (08:57):
Ka't the xcity on a tent?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
At ten the KTXA go ahead KTXA.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Subject Jack Basco refused to pay for gasoline. He turned
south from Route seven at Perry's filling station.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
You have Vicinity next, Perry's down there at the foot
of the hill.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Ten to four, Unit ten approaching Perries now will keep
kt XA advised Unit ten player ten four kt x
A Austin.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
There's Jim Perry out in front, flagging is down now. Hush,
I just got held up there, we know for some gasoline.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
You know had the radio gym.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
That's the attorney took over there. Yeah, the Big Wash road?
How long ago?
Speaker 8 (09:34):
Maybe ten minutes?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Pretty good start on us, Jase. Yeah, the kind of
country there is down here. Let's don't let him get
any more. We found the red picked up abandoned in
the sandy bed of Big Wash, four miles from the
highway and radio the surrounding units. John Bascom's tracks led
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straight into broken c entry beyond the wash. He couldn't
go any further than the truck, and either can. We
looks like work for the horses from here on, Ed,
Let's get him out now.
Speaker 16 (10:09):
I'll give you a hand, Jeans, Easy boy, easy, So
got to got the walkie talkie.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Ed.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
We ought to be able to contact any units south
of Dry Creek with it pretty soon.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yeah, I believe you're right. Hey, you boys, leave me
a foot.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Jees huh, you can take the unit back, Sheriff. Maybe
join the highway patrol of Dry Creek. Bascom's headed southwest.
He probably figures to slip past the roadblocks.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
He might be making a wide detail over toward highway.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Limbs. Might be all set. Okay, anything else I can do?
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Yeah, keep your fingers crossed, and I will trail and
bask him in going to be any cinch for you boys.
He desperate, armed, and he knows his trails bridch.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I know, easy boy, a good measure. I don't like
the looks of those clouds over there. All we need
is a storm to wipe out what little sign he
may leave. Well, let's get started as here. Good honey,
Thanks sir.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jace Pearson. And now we continue
with tonight's case, The White Suit, an authentic story from
the files of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
By four o'clock, Ed Harris and I were deep into
the rough country south of Big Wash.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
We'd continually cut.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Back and forth for Bascomb's tracks, finding them and losing
them again with slow work, covering five to his one one.
He steadily build up his lead on us.
Speaker 14 (12:03):
He was in fernally clever, take it easy, going down here, Jason,
This canyon wall, with any steeper would be hanging by
a collar.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oo oo charcoal.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
Hey, wait a minute of head, bull up? Whoa boy.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Now? Jason bask him. Didn't slide down here like we thought. No, Look,
there's the rock. He pushed over from the rim to
make the skid marks we've been following. See it's lava
like the cap on the rim, different from the rest
of the rock down here.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
So we've got to climb back to the top.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Had a sworn he started down here to cross this canyon.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That's what he wanted us to think, anything to cost
this time. Trouble is, we got to follow out every
one of these blind trails he's leaving us, any one
of them. May be the McCoy.
Speaker 14 (12:44):
Yeah, he'll be a California before we ever get out
of these bad lands.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
And he isn't the California yet. Don't worry. He's working
as hard as we are.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Up charge, litt en up, Come on, Red Hawk, maybe
I could go, come on.
Speaker 8 (12:59):
Watch it. Ad Ugh, what a climb. It's getting late.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I got that sun Jash, Yeah, Hey, that low sun
has got its advantages. Take a look at that slope
over there across.
Speaker 14 (13:13):
The canyon, that patch of sand past that big mesquite Yeah,
tracks footprints. Then Bascom did cross the canyon after all.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Probably someplace a little downstream.
Speaker 14 (13:22):
Jase, how come we didn't see those tracks when we
started down here from up before. He couldn't have made
them since then we aren't that close behind him. Oh
the tracks were there before, we just didn't see them.
Now the sun's blowing enough to throw longer shadows into
the Prince's boots.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Made thinks them twice as visible.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yeah, we better start looking for a place to cross ourselves.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Now, let's find a little higher first. I'm worried about
that storm, the way it's filing up.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
That red horse Claus not getting black cage probably loaded
with static.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
So you better try to make radio contact with a
walkie talkie.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
While we can.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
We need to work from this high ground to get
through general call case. Yeah, yeah, I suppose you try
it now.
Speaker 14 (14:01):
Yeah, Unit nine oh two the unit and range Unit
nine oh two.
Speaker 8 (14:07):
The unit and range Unit.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Eight to Unit nine oh two, Go ahead, Unit nine
O two.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Oh boy, jes ooh charper.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Unit eight to Unit nine oh two, go ahead. Unit
nine oh two requests the location of Unit eight.
Speaker 11 (14:24):
Unit eight is.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
At the intersection of County five and the State eleven,
ten miles south of Dry Creek.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Then four, Unit eight is now too far north. Fugitives
still bearing toward Highway eleven, approximately twelve miles south and
east of Dry Creek.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
Suggests.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Unit eight moves south about five miles Unit eight ten four.
Unit nine oh two has had no direct contact with
fugitive but is following an identifiable trail. Will report any change,
Please relay to other units. Unit nine oh two.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
Player Unit eight ten four.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Look, Jason, Bask.
Speaker 14 (15:01):
You may stay on the other side of the canyon,
or he may double back to this side. Why don't
we save ourselves a lot of riding and split up
for a bit.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And I'll be a bad idea. I'll take the canyon floor.
It's sandy.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Tracks will be easy to spot there, and you can work.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Along this rim all right, but watch yourself ed, you'll
be in the open down.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Just let Bask him show himself once.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
That's all I want. Come on, red horse and going down.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Eat eating, see a kid to get to the bottom
before you start day.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Something about a man sharpens the hunter's senses. I sat
on the rim for long moments, watching in Harris descend
that canyon wall, feeling danger without being able to identify it.
Suddenly smoked blossom behind a rock in the opposite rim.
I saw Harris sag in his saddle before the horse
carried him out of sight him by distance.
Speaker 11 (15:52):
Came the lanking sound of a shark.
Speaker 10 (15:55):
Go charp, go bar, all right, a rock through the word.
Speaker 17 (16:13):
He's coverhead here.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
He was right up there, but he beat it.
Speaker 18 (16:28):
I think I hit him.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Those white cover offs make some target. I'll be realizing
that by now, and he'll really run. How bad are
you hit?
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Flesh? You won't clean?
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Just above the old boy here, Help me get this
kerchief on it.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
I'll be all right.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Pull your sleeve all the way. Yeah, he would pick
my left arm.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
How do you know?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I was a south wall and something. We may be
asking him right sudden? You okay? Now, yeah, I pick
up his trail on the rim. We'll have to watch sharp.
It's gonna try to keep that white suit out of sight.
Now only way this close to him. Come on right on,
show that charco.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Easy to them, more onto the top, come on out.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
Whoa.
Speaker 14 (17:22):
I had a fat chance of picking up anybody's trail here,
Jason heard of elephant's gonna cross this blue shade without.
Speaker 8 (17:28):
Leaving a trace.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Maybe and look here you see them? Yeah, and it's
the whole trail of them. As don't go after anything
in this country. They can't eat. I'd see what these
are having for supper? Here we are on this piece
of shell. Yeah, blood, and then I did nail them.
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We got a wounded animal on our hands. Jason may
let go at us and behind any of these brush clumps.
And I don't think he's hurt so bad he won't
keep on running. There's just a few drops here. I'm
afraid you just that was pretty long rain, and it won't.
Speaker 14 (18:02):
Be the next time I get him in my sights.
I promise you that I owe him something for this arm.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Let's go probably headed for that big mesquite Yeah, he
would come on, red horse charcoal?
Speaker 12 (18:12):
Hey, hey, jee, what cot there? New pit's cover all?
He feel them all very cold.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Into that big tumba brush across the Claire.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Come on, let's go get it.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Hey, wait a minute, circle around below him, mad, make
a lot of racket like we're still together and hunting blind.
Maybe you can flush him back between those big rocks. Okay,
I'll try it, Jesh. I'll hide charcoal out behind the
side of him, and maybe you can rig up a
little surprise party for mister Bascom when he comes through.
But be careful.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
He won't give you a chance.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Don't give him one chance, that killer. Just let me
get my hands on him.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Come on, red horse, hit that.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Easy, charcoal, using we go this way. Oh oh boy,
the shade of this rock for you?
Speaker 8 (19:03):
Charcoal?
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Easy now boy, whiet wire h head down, boy, sh
shut up, charcoal.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Craze said, you're what what do you want for? Texas Ranger?
Speaker 10 (19:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (19:28):
I got him?
Speaker 10 (19:30):
What is wrong there?
Speaker 8 (19:34):
What's he doing here?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Ask him? He said, you are he excuse brothering me
in these places? Nobody?
Speaker 8 (19:41):
I am a lonesome man. Mind my sheep. Did I
hear the coun two three times?
Speaker 13 (19:47):
When now a few minutes ago, I think maybe it's
my friend. Diego come from next valley. We've gone to
kill coyote. We have much trouble with coyote. Here sing
the way. I'm looking for coyotes. Your clothes. I'll go
to see if it's my friend. When this one hombry,
this very bad man is jump from the bush.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
He's gone.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Is very big pick, my class pick. Tell me not
to move when you run.
Speaker 8 (20:14):
I stand still till he's gone. Do not run to
which way he goes?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
How do I know? May Petro, I'm scared to tenth
all right, Pedro, forget about your clothes. You're a lucky
man to be alive. See, I knows she better get
some more clothes before that storm hits. You aren't exactly
dressed for bad weather. O A steady chark. Looks like
our surprise didn't come off. N Let's get moving before
(20:41):
Bascom builds up a lead on us again. Yeah, let's
go right horse, Harris and I picked up the trail
shortly ask him. Managed to stay ahead of us, using
a large bag of tricks to keep out of sight,
even if he couldn't shake us. When the sun set
(21:02):
behind towering thunderclouds, we were working our way down a
wide aaron belly, keeping some distance apart.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Hey say, share the tracks again, pick.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Them up charcoal. Yeah, ooh ooh boys, I heading right
down there in the valley. Precious daisies too.
Speaker 14 (21:21):
Yeah, no blow sand drifted into them at all. We
better try that general call again and to report opposition.
Look at the direction those tracks are taken. They've been
swinging that way.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
The last half hour.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
Yeah, I noticed that hit it almost du eash.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Now Bascomb's pulling another big red herring on us. He
made for Highway eleven long enough for us to report
it and set up interception for him there, and then.
Speaker 14 (21:40):
He swings straight east for Highway thirteen.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
So that catches us with our units down, don't it.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Bascomb's gambling that it does. And I'll try the call
unit nine oh two to unit and range nine oh
two to unit and range nine oh two to.
Speaker 8 (21:56):
Unit and range W.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
It's no use, Jay, You can't raise anybody with too
far out.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Now whether it isn't helping him either on this lower ground,
looks like we're in for real soaking before night.
Speaker 14 (22:06):
Yeah, baskuom can't possibly be much ahead of us. Maybe
we can tree him before he gets through to the highway,
handle him on our own from here on.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You can't risk it in if he slips us and
gets through to make a ride with somebody or steal
another car, you'll be gone.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
And I guess here's where we separate. Then I'm kind
of out of the running with this year.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Bum Arm.
Speaker 14 (22:24):
Give me the walkie talking and I'll double back till
I'm in range of the units on Highway eleven again.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
That's good.
Speaker 8 (22:31):
It'll ride all right like that.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Anything special for the boys.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Ask him to request coverage on Highway thirteen all the
way to Preto. Keep trying till you get through. I'll
stick on his trail. I'll have a really indicating XA
in half an hour. As soon as you do, you
better head out toward dry creek and get that arm
look there. I'll wait till we've got bask him. Good luck, Jase,
same to you. Ahead, come on ye twenty minutes later
(22:59):
than he instructed, with cloud burst intensity bringing complete darkness,
not before John Bastu's tracks led me on an adobe
bench where sheep and new raising. He'd removed his boots here,
and his tracks blended with a maze of other bare
footprints left by Mexican sheepherders. I rode on slowly. Suddenly
a small rain drenched boy stepped out from the brush.
(23:20):
Charcoal nearly ran him down. Oh whoa charpo, steady ball.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Hey you're there, Hey boy, need y'all pay.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Ran like a frightened little rabbit. Light winked as the
door open and closed the door to an adobe shack.
So I approached. I saw the blinds were tightly drawn,
almost as though to prevent the leakage of any telltale
light from the candle burning dimmer inside.
Speaker 11 (23:47):
Ooh, charpo, who boy?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Over and up over an up Jenny, Who are you
Texas Ranger? I mean out of this rain. I want
to ask you some questions.
Speaker 15 (24:06):
Well, Senor, I cannot let you in. How how can
he seek?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
He's very sick and your boy just ran in here.
Speaker 15 (24:12):
He was going to look for him. Mamma, go storm,
she spaed. He frightened him, Senor.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
He gave me a turn for a minute.
Speaker 11 (24:21):
Two.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Look, I need little help me.
Speaker 15 (24:23):
I would do anything till the Texas Ranger trailing.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
A man, a very dangerous man. You must have passed
close to here about the time the rain began. Where
is he now?
Speaker 15 (24:31):
We have seen nothing? Want he told me nobody, Senor.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Maybe your husband did them anyway, I want out of this.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
Rain, Senor, No, you must not my husband.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
This woman was definitely afraid, but her eyes told me
she wasn't afraid of me, of the storm, perhaps of
the sickness in her house, or of the blanket wrapped
man lying on a bunk in the corner of the
room with his bare feet including toward me. The door
was thick. I pushed it inward as far as it
had done. Step quickly, please, gun off front of that
blanket and drop it. Baskom, the gun, Bascom, drop it,
(25:06):
or I'll break your other arms.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Drop it.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You would be stubborn, Bassom. Now you really got something
to be sick about. Something I'm bleeding to death. You
won't get off that easy. We're saving you for the
electric chair. You got something I can use for bandages
in your This will do fine. He was holding a
(25:40):
gun on you and the boy making you do what
he said. How could you know your real husband's a
sheep man, isn't he?
Speaker 15 (25:48):
He's working your problem?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Well, look at these bare feet sticking out here. You
ever see an honest to goodness sheep man with his
toes all crowded together from wearing cowboy boots that it
puts water on the heat. I'll need it to patch
him up enough to take him in.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
John Bascombe was tried in live Ol County and found
guilty of the murder of two men on the second
day of December nineteen forty seven at Huntsville Prison.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
His sentence was carried out death in the electric chair.
And now here again is the star of our show.
Joel McCrae. One of the pleasures afforded us. Here in
(26:48):
this show is the large number of letters we received
asking for special information about the Texas Rangers. This week,
we received one an especially interesting letter which the writer
said she had heard of an official ranger's prayer and
inquired if such a prayer actually existed. It does. The
prayer was written by Captain Pierre Bernard Hill, chaplain of
(27:09):
the Texas Rangers, and I should like you to hear it.
Oh God, whose end is justice, whose strength is all
our stay, be near and bless my mission as I
go forth today. Let wisdom guide my actions, Let courage
fill my heart, and help me Lord in every hour
(27:30):
to do a ranger's part. Protect when danger threatens, Sustain
when trails are rough, Help me to keep my standard high,
and smile at each rebuff. When night comes down upon me.
I pray thee Lord be nigh, whether on lonely scout
(27:50):
or camped under Texas sky, keep me O God in life,
and when my days shall end, for give my sins
and take me in for Jesus sake.
Speaker 11 (28:05):
Amen. Good night, folks, Good night.
Speaker 18 (28:25):
Next week Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a
case from the files of the Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae
(28:48):
will soon be seen in the Universal International Technicolor production Frenchie.
Tonight's past included Tony Barrett, Herb Butterfields, Barney Phillips, Bill Johnstone,
Herb Ellis, and Lillian Bia.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
This or He was transcribed and adapted by Tom W. Blackburn,
and the program was.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Produced and directed by Stacy Keach.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
This is Hal Gibney.
Speaker 19 (29:08):
Speaking Three Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC. Tonight, Theater
Guild on the Air presents Judy Garland in the prize
winning novel Alice Adams, co starring Thomas Mitchell. Another Sunday
(29:30):
Evening favorite is The sixty four Dollars Question, starring Jack Parr. Tomorrow,
on the Station of the Chimes, you'll hear Gordon McRae
as you're singing Master of Ceremonies on one of his
wonderful musical journeys.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Aboard the show Train.
Speaker 19 (29:42):
The Chimes are your invitation to the best in radio entertainment.
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