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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger
Jase Pearson, another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from
the files of the Texas Rangers. Names, dates, and places
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in the following story are fixtitious for obvious reasons. The
events themselves are a matter of records.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
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Speaker 1 (02:00):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers the
case called Christmas Payoff.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
It is four pm on the afternoon of December twenty fifth,
nineteen forty in the small West Texas town of Rockfield.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
In his office, Doctor Redwood.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Hartley and his nurse are just clearing up after treating
an emergency case which is taking the doctor away from
his family on this Christmas day.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Doctor, before I leave, would you like me to say
how us?
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I would just like you to school on home where
you should have been hours ago.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
And what about you? I think it's a shame the
one day in the year family should be together and
you have an emergency.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Well anyway, oh, missus Thompson will feel a lot better
now for the holidays. Pretty nasty infection. This doctoring is
a one business camp be run by a time.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Clark and nursing's are part of doctrines.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
So I leave when you do, trapt. Sure, we love
to spend the whole day with the youngsters.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
No, they probably won't even let you back in the house.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Christmas got him so excited. I don't think to even
though I'm gone. Oh, by the way, you sure you
won't have supper with us?
Speaker 9 (03:08):
I'd love to, doctor, But oh no?
Speaker 7 (03:12):
And what's mety doctor?
Speaker 8 (03:13):
You come over the window for a minute.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Not not a patient?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
I think?
Speaker 8 (03:17):
So?
Speaker 7 (03:17):
H Well, I guess the Christmas streak can wait a
little longer. Who is it?
Speaker 8 (03:23):
I don't know here?
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Look that man just getting out of the car.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
I don't recognize him. That I must be in pretty
bad shape. Bandage clear to the y elbow.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
And why didn't he come in two hours ago? What
do you mean that man was sitting in that car
two hours ago? Only was parking in front of the
house next door.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
I wonder, I'm away from there?
Speaker 9 (03:43):
What?
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Doctor, I don't want him to see you? And go on?
What else?
Speaker 10 (03:48):
Well?
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Just that now, later, when I took missus Thompson out
to her guy.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
I was still there and he meant it. He really
meant it. Doctor, What is it?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Alice? I listen to me, don't ask you any questions.
I want you to get in the supply closet and
stay there. Whatever you do, don't make a sound, no
matter what happens out here.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Don't give yourself away. You understand me. Your life depends
on it. What is it? Why don't we call the sheriff?
Speaker 6 (04:09):
I'm going to hurry, hurry into the closet.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
I remember, not a sound.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I should have known it to come. I didn't know when.
Come on, Come on, operator, this is Doc Hartley. Listen carefully.
I have to speak quietly. Get the sheriff to my
office as quick as you can, and don't call back.
Just get him out here.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Ain't stole any longer.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Come in just a minute.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Here goes Yes, he'll doc hardly. That's right. Well would
I come in?
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Oh of course, come here. I know that's the supply closet.
My dispensary is this way. You'll just get up on
the table.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Yeah. Would you like to lie down more comfortable for
that arm? I'll sit. That's a lot of energy. What
did you do to that hand? I think maybe I
sprind it. You are the docs? Suppose you tell me, huh?
Always work this slow?
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Doc?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Oh uh, I'm sorry. Where's your nurse? She's gone home?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Long time ago? Not even supposed to be working today.
This is Christmas, you.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Know, Yeah?
Speaker 11 (05:30):
I uh, why don't you pull the last of the
bandage of Doc. Don't you wanna see my head?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
I know what's in it? Then I'll do it myself. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (05:43):
Say, there's your Christmas present, Doc in my fist? Nice
thirty eight. Don't you want it?
Speaker 10 (05:50):
Doc?
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Why are you doing this? Why? Maybe I shouldn't give
it to you. You guessed what it was, spoiled my surprise.
Speaker 11 (05:58):
Ah, you look like a knight. I'll give it you anyway.
Luck at me, Doc, You don't know what it's for.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Very Christmas, Doc, shereff Lon McGill on arriving at the
scene of the crime, found doctor Hartley dead and nurse
Alice lent It in the state of physical collapse. You
immediately asked for the help of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Ranger Jason Pierson.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Will Society, joining the sheriff at the doctor's office A
short while later.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Photographer will be out of your way in a minute, Jace.
The nurse I told you abouts in the other room.
Maybe you want to talk to her first, Yeah, thanks, Sheriff.
She's still as bad off she was. Oh, she's something better.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Now.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
It's a rough thing for a woman to have to
go through. YEA plenty rough in here, Jason, Alice, Alice,
This is Ranger Pearson Alice Leonard Jace been Doc Hartley's
nurse for six years.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Howdy man, I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
I just can't even to get ahold of myself.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
We were so horrible.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
Horror.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
I know how you must feel, ma'am. But you'll be
helping a lot by answering. If you question us, i'd
try fine. Sheriff here has given me what you told him,
so I won't put you through that again. Just want
to clear up a few things you know of anyone
who might have wanted Doc dead?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
What sort of person that want that?
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Doctor was a wonderful man, never had an enemy in
his life, Sheriff.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
He'll tell you that, that's right, Jess. Doc was a
real popular man in this town.
Speaker 10 (07:46):
I never heard a word against you.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Friend. Didn't put him where he is now. Sheriff, ma'am,
you say you saw the killer's.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Face, yes, through the key.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
You think you'd recognize him if you saw him again? Yes,
I'm sure? What good now from their conversation? Would you
say the doctor knew this man. No yet when he
saw him through the window, he made you hide in
the closet. Yes, that's right. He say anything at all
about the man. No?
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Wait, wait, I remember now he said something about he
meant it?
Speaker 7 (08:20):
He meant it? Yes, what is it? Man? I just
remembered something.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
A note?
Speaker 7 (08:25):
What, no doubt.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
A few weeks ago, the doctor got a letter. I
opened it because I take care of his mail.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Go on. Inside was just.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
A piece of paper with words cut out from newspapers.
Pasty to it, he said, the payoffice soon.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
What did the doctors say when he saw it?
Speaker 8 (08:40):
Boy, he just laughed, said it was some sort of joke.
But I caught him sitting and staring at it a
few times after that.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
You know where that letter is? Well, if he gets
in his desk, Miss Leonard, you remember anything about the
car this man drove?
Speaker 8 (08:55):
No, just that it was black, I see, dan Oh,
the front fender had a big end in it. I
remember I could see it from the office window.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
I think that'll do for now, ma'am. You go home
and try and get some rest.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Tell the deputy I said to drive you home, Alice,
I will.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I hope you find a man.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
Yeah, a poor woman. She was mighty fun of the doc.
Jese must have spent some bad minutes in that closet. Yeah,
the doc had a couple of bad minutes too, Sheriff. Uh,
the photographer must be finished in there by. Now let's
take a look.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Nothing's been touched in there, Jas, Everything's just the way
we found it.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Thought you'd want it that way, thanks, Sheriff. Let's have
a look at the dock, you know, just whip the
sheet off him here shot at close range? All right,
powder burns. The angle of the shots seem to bear
out the nurse's story. Mollistics will fill us in later.
Let's have a look at this desk. Okay, Jason, Well
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there's not much on this side, Jace. What's the matter?
Drawer full of Christmas candies. It'll be a nice Christmas
for those poor kids. Hey, wait a minute, Jace, I
think this is what you want and that's it. The
payoff is soon. No envelope with it? Mm I reckon,
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doc threw that away. It'd be a tough one to trace.
Cheap paper, the message and newspaper captions, and it's used
a lot for blackmail because it's so hard to run down. Well,
where to now, Jace. Has the doc's wife been told
about this yet? No, been holding off and I sure
don't relish it none those kids and all. Let's tell
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her together then, Sheriff. It's a little easier that way, thanks, Jase.
Anything more we can do here, No, But before we go,
I want to check on that black sedan with a
smashed front fender, see if it's on the stolen car list.
If you can spare a couple of deputies, Sheriff, I'd
like him do a house to house on this street.
Maybe somebody else got to look at that car or
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the killer. It's a good idea, Jays. There's not much
to go on, is he. There's enough? They always leave enough,
and this is one killer. I want, Sheriff. I want
him bad. A black sedan with a smashed front fender
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was on the stolen car list. We finished our calls
and left. Fifteen minutes later, we stood in front of
a large, neat house on a well kept street, staring
at the front door Doc Hartley would never open again.
Through the parlor window, we could see three laughing kids
and proud grandparents around a Christmas tree. It was so rough.
Stove held herrange.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
I thought you'd never I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
I was expecting my husband. Oh sure, M killed Hardy,
Miss Hartley? Can we come in? Oh? Of course?
Speaker 10 (12:16):
Please do I imagine you want to see Ed.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
I'm sorry he had an emergency.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
But if you're like, this is ranger Pierson, howdy, ma'am, Hello,
ranger please to meet you, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Can we speak to you privately? I mean in another
room away from them? Of course? Come in here. Well
what is it, ma'am? It's best to say it quickly.
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Your husband he's been killed. Oh no, here, he knew you.
Better sit down? Is Harley?
Speaker 9 (13:08):
Eh?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
I'm sorry, ma'am. How how did it happen? He was shot,
ma'am by a man who came in asking for treatment.
H I wanna find that man, missus Hardley. I I
know how you feel at a time like this, but
if you could answer a few questions, it had help.
I'll try. Has anyone threatened your husband that you know of?
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Did he seem worried lately? No? Did anyone call him
to day beside the woman he went to treat. Just
a a man ought man? Oh a little past? Noom
of phone rang? Some man asked for my husband. I
told him he was at the office on an emergency,
and he just hung up. You recognize the voice, Missus Harley. No,
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just one more question, ma'am. Do you know of anyone
who had a grudge against the doctor who'd have wanted
this to happen? Nope, nobody, nobody accept except who. Oh,
I was thinking of that man, the one he sent
to prison. Sent to prison? Man, I think I can
explain that, Jess. And you mean that Nixon thing is
(14:20):
hardly Yes, well, it happened a couple of years back.
Jesse fellow named Al Nixon robbed the payroll of a
gas cracking planted about forty miles from here, shopped during
the getaway, though, came through here and forced Doc Hartley
to treat him at gunpoint. You know what kind of
stretch they gave him, Shriff, No, I don't remember. You see,
that was a four hour sheriff. I was living the
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other in the county.
Speaker 10 (14:42):
Then.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Well, anyway, seems Doc somehow sneaked a phone call while
he was treating Nixon, and the police got him. I
isn't that right, Miss Hardley.
Speaker 10 (14:51):
Yes, they sent him to Huntsville.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Missus Hardley, I'm sorry to put you through this. We're
gonna leave now. Is there anything we can do for you? Nothing?
There's nothing anyone can do. How will I tell the children?
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Call from KTXA. Ought to be in any minute now, Sheriff.
I still don't see why you ask him for that
rundown on Nixon. Jase. You're thinking maybe he's out, no, Sheriff,
but I sure want to find out. Nixon's got a
real good motive for this killing. I gotta go with
you on that. But that's Unit tend to KTXA. Go ahead, have.
Speaker 10 (15:47):
Information you requested?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Al Nixon sentence life term, Huntsville Penitentiary, December nineteen thirty seven.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Money from gas cracking plant payroll never recovered ten for
Unit ten player any exhausted? Well, that kind of kills
that noted Jase, man with the best motive of all
is serving life at Huntsville and still too good to
pass by, Sheriff.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Look, next may be in Huntsville for a life. That
doesn't change his motive. It's still good, so good. I
want to see him. I'm going to Huntsville in the morning.
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In a moment.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
We will continue with tales of the Texas Rangers starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
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Speaker 7 (18:04):
Next morning, I left nurse Alice Leonard with the sheriff
to begin the long job of trying to pick a
killer's picture out of the gallery. Then I headed for Huntsville.
I wasn't in the visiting room five minutes when Nixon
was brought in, a brutal looking little man who shuffled
forward and sat across the table from me waiting for
me to talk. My name's Pearson, Nixon, Ranger Pearson. Eh,
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but you want a medal? Remembering your name? I want
some answers. And if I don't get into you have
me rest in her. Remember doctor Hartley Nixon? Yeah, I remember?
Look around. Ain't this good reason to remember? He didn't
put you here? You put yourself here? Hartley put me here.
Speaker 12 (18:49):
Oh, don't you worry about me? Right, I'll make out
e you worry about Harley. Hartley is dead, Nixon. You
mean that he's dead, shot to death? Something funny next
to you know?
Speaker 7 (19:10):
You get it? He put me in here.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Now he's dead, but I'm still alive. Who you've caught?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
You? Rossmort Ain't you sure sure?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
You got me? But you never got the money.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
And best of all, Hartley is dirty. You're in the
right place next, So that's why you're here. Maybe I
killed him.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I'll confess.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
I just walked through the walls, knocked him off, and
flew back like a bird. I'm called for a ranger.
You can take it in the office, all right, guy?
Speaker 10 (19:42):
Thanks?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yeah, you can have him, Hey, range, arrest you.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
In the ranger. Thanks.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
Hello, Shart McGill. Jeez, how are you making out?
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Cold Trail? Sheriff? Nixon's no help. How'd you come out first?
Speaker 10 (20:05):
Picked out a picture? Jason swears it's him. Fella named
Louke Crowley.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
You run a make on him.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
I sure did. He did the last two years in Huntsville.
Released a week.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Ago, beginning to fit sheriff anymore on that car.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
I was just coming to that.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
They found it about one hundred miles from here, abandoned
in some brush just outside of Crest City. I want
to see that car, Sheriff. Tell him to hold it
where it is. Soon as I talked to the warden,
I'm heading for Crest City. Want to meet me there?
Speaker 10 (20:32):
Sure thing. Jason meets you at the hotel and.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
We can tell what's coming. Sheriff. That cold trail's all
warmed up again. I had my talk with the warden
and then met the sheriff in Crest City. As we
headed for the spot where the abandoned car had been found,
I kept thinking of Doc's wife and her three small kids.
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I was getting closer to a killer, and I like it.
I don't know Jason, no matter how, I figured, there's
always a couple of losings. So then try this Sheriff.
Al Nixon is doing life for a payroll robbery, and
he's convinced this Doc Hartley's fault. Now that payroll was
never found because Nixon hid it someplace before they got him.
I follow that far. Jay in Huntsville with Nixon was
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Lou Crowder. Now Nixon knew he was never going to
get to use that money, so suppose he made a
deal with Crowder. Crowder could have it if he killed
Doc Hartley. But what was to stop Crowder from just
digging up the money and not killing the doc. Now
Nixon stuo smart for that sheriff probably set it up
so he'd let Crowder know where the money is after
he was sure of Doc's death. He had figures, all right,
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But how would he let Crowder know? By letter? Sheriff
the one and told me Nixon's already written Crowder three times?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
What good would that do?
Speaker 7 (21:51):
All male coming out of Huntsville is censured?
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Jay?
Speaker 7 (21:53):
I know, but the two men had plenty of time
to rig a code when they were together in the pen.
Then a letter could be the answer. That's right, the highway,
throw car up ahead? Must be where the car is? Yeah, yeah,
this is it, Hardy Fellas, there's a car, Jason just
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behind his brush, Jace. Even if your figuring's right, what
do you recon This car is gonna tell us just
one thing, Sheriff, that's it. I don't get it, Jay,
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you will look. Would Crowder want to hang around of town?
He'd kill a man in no reckon not. But if
he's expecting a letter from Nixon, he's got a light
someplace to get it. What are you driving there? Put
this together? This car is still in run in order
Crowder didn't have to leave it. That makes Press City
a pretty good bet for the place the letter is
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gonna be picked up. But what if Crowder's already picked
up letter? And it's not likely Nixon didn't even know
about the kill until I told him today, and he'd
want to be sure before he paid off. What if
Nixon double cross his crowder. Suppose he don't send the
letter telling where the money is, he'll send a sheriff.
I got a good look at Nixon's face when I
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told him Doc was dead. He'll send it back in
Cress City. The postmaster agreed to notify us the minute
he got any letter postmark Huntsville without giving it out.
The very next day, the letter was there. The man
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had come in for it, but was told it hadn't arrived.
The postmaster noticed the man was driving a car with
a horse trailer attached. I got my horse trailer and
we set the trap in the post office the next
morning with that's crowdray. All right, Jason, he got the letter.
Shall we take him? No hold a sheriff's I don't
want to take a chance. He's probably armed, so these
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people may get hurt. Well, what are you going to do?
Give him a lead and tail him. All right, let's
move up the front door and see where he goes.
I wi he just got in that car. J one
of the trailer. He's pulling out. Come on, you reckon.
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He'll head straight for that money. There's no doubt about it.
He's not pulling that horse trailer for nothing. He must
be hidding some place he can't use a car. It's
all right with me. We'll get him, Sheriff. Wherever he goes,
we'll get him. For almost three hours, we trailed crowded
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by car, never getting too near him, just pinpointing him.
When the country got rough, he left his car and
switched to the horse he'd been pulling. So did we.
We gave him a bigger lead and just followed his
tracks all the rough climb. Jase, you sure we're following him?
I don't see any tracks. You're following him, all right, Sheriff.
Didn't you just see that turned rock moist on one side?
I hope? Did that? Beats me?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
How you spot him?
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Hold it, Sheriff, hoo, it's a drop off just ahead.
I want to look.
Speaker 10 (25:22):
See anything, Jace.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Hold it. He's just over the drop about twenty feet.
Is he digging? Jase? Better than that, Sheriff. He's found
it already now, look Sheriff. He's in a dead end canyon.
I'm going down after him. You cut along this ridge
and close in from the base, all right, Jace, but
be careful, come on.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Way crowder, get your hands up.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Don't take me.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Come up.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
That's a warning, Crowder. Next one I'll be through your head. Now,
throw your gun away.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Alright, alright, don't shoot you step her hands rough keeping there.
Speaker 10 (26:00):
Look there's thirty thousand bucks here. I'll make a deal
with it.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Take half the money.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Just give me a change like the chance you gave Doc.
You're not to make that money.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
No, you don't give me that nice.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Oh all right then yeah, I'm all right, Sheriff.
Speaker 10 (26:19):
You were taking an awful chant that way.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Jaja, I know a sheriff. I had a bad minute
there when I saw his knife glint in the sun,
I thought you'd have to gun him for shore. I
didn't want it that way. I had to take crowd
or alive, Sheriff. He's my Christmas present to the warden
at Huntsville.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
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Speaker 4 (28:07):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
On February third, nineteen forty one, Al Nixon was removed
from Huntsville Penitentiary to stand trial along with Lou Crowder
for the premeditated murder of doctor Hartley.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Both men were.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Found guilty the sentence death in the electric chair.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
This is Joel McCrae, folks, I just want to say
I hope you'll all have a happy holiday season and
many more to come. See you next week.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Next week Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of the
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and adapted by Anthony Barrett, and the program was produced
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Speaker 2 (29:50):
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events themselves are a matter of records.
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Speaker 1 (02:00):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers the
case called Christmas Payoff.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
It is four pm on the afternoon of December twenty fifth,
nineteen forty in the small West Texas town of Rockfield.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
In his office, Doctor Redwood.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Hartley and his nurse are just clearing up after treating
an emergency case which is taking the doctor away from
his family on this Christmas day.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Doctor, before I leave, would you like me to say
how us?
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I would just like you to school on home where
you should have been hours ago.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
And what about you? I think it's a shame the
one day in the year family should be together and
you have an emergency.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Well anyway, oh, missus Thompson will feel a lot better
now for the holidays. Pretty nasty infection. This doctoring is
a one business camp be run by a time.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Clark and nursing's are part of doctrines.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
So I leave when you do, trapt. Sure, we love
to spend the whole day with the youngsters.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
No, they probably won't even let you back in the house.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Christmas got him so excited. I don't think to even
though I'm gone. Oh, by the way, you sure you
won't have supper with us?
Speaker 9 (03:08):
I'd love to, doctor, But oh no?
Speaker 7 (03:12):
And what's mety doctor?
Speaker 8 (03:13):
You come over the window for a minute.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Not not a patient?
Speaker 6 (03:16):
I think?
Speaker 8 (03:17):
So?
Speaker 7 (03:17):
H Well, I guess the Christmas streak can wait a
little longer. Who is it?
Speaker 8 (03:23):
I don't know here?
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Look that man just getting out of the car.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
I don't recognize him. That I must be in pretty
bad shape. Bandage clear to the y elbow.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
And why didn't he come in two hours ago? What
do you mean that man was sitting in that car
two hours ago? Only was parking in front of the
house next door.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
I wonder, I'm away from there?
Speaker 9 (03:43):
What?
Speaker 7 (03:43):
Doctor, I don't want him to see you? And go on?
What else?
Speaker 10 (03:48):
Well?
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Just that now, later, when I took missus Thompson out
to her guy.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
I was still there and he meant it. He really
meant it. Doctor, What is it?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Alice? I listen to me, don't ask you any questions.
I want you to get in the supply closet and
stay there. Whatever you do, don't make a sound, no
matter what happens out here.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Don't give yourself away. You understand me. Your life depends
on it. What is it? Why don't we call the sheriff?
Speaker 6 (04:09):
I'm going to hurry, hurry into the closet.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
I remember, not a sound.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I should have known it to come. I didn't know when.
Come on, Come on, operator, this is Doc Hartley. Listen carefully.
I have to speak quietly. Get the sheriff to my
office as quick as you can, and don't call back.
Just get him out here.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Ain't stole any longer.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
Come in just a minute.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
Here goes Yes, he'll doc hardly. That's right. Well would
I come in?
Speaker 6 (04:49):
Oh of course, come here. I know that's the supply closet.
My dispensary is this way. You'll just get up on
the table.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Yeah. Would you like to lie down more comfortable for
that arm? I'll sit. That's a lot of energy. What
did you do to that hand? I think maybe I
sprind it. You are the docs? Suppose you tell me, huh?
Always work this slow?
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Doc?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Oh uh, I'm sorry. Where's your nurse? She's gone home?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Long time ago? Not even supposed to be working today.
This is Christmas, you.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Know, Yeah?
Speaker 11 (05:30):
I uh, why don't you pull the last of the
bandage of Doc. Don't you wanna see my head?
Speaker 7 (05:37):
I know what's in it? Then I'll do it myself. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (05:43):
Say, there's your Christmas present, Doc in my fist? Nice
thirty eight. Don't you want it?
Speaker 10 (05:50):
Doc?
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Why are you doing this? Why? Maybe I shouldn't give
it to you. You guessed what it was, spoiled my surprise.
Speaker 11 (05:58):
Ah, you look like a knight. I'll give it you anyway.
Luck at me, Doc, You don't know what it's for.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Very Christmas, Doc, shereff Lon McGill on arriving at the
scene of the crime, found doctor Hartley dead and nurse
Alice lent It in the state of physical collapse. You
immediately asked for the help of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Ranger Jason Pierson.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Will Society, joining the sheriff at the doctor's office A
short while later.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Photographer will be out of your way in a minute, Jace.
The nurse I told you abouts in the other room.
Maybe you want to talk to her first, Yeah, thanks, Sheriff.
She's still as bad off she was. Oh, she's something better.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Now.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
It's a rough thing for a woman to have to
go through. YEA plenty rough in here, Jason, Alice, Alice,
This is Ranger Pearson Alice Leonard Jace been Doc Hartley's
nurse for six years.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Howdy man, I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
I just can't even to get ahold of myself.
Speaker 7 (07:13):
We were so horrible.
Speaker 10 (07:17):
Horror.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
I know how you must feel, ma'am. But you'll be
helping a lot by answering. If you question us, i'd
try fine. Sheriff here has given me what you told him,
so I won't put you through that again. Just want
to clear up a few things you know of anyone
who might have wanted Doc dead?
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
What sort of person that want that?
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Doctor was a wonderful man, never had an enemy in
his life, Sheriff.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
He'll tell you that, that's right, Jess. Doc was a
real popular man in this town.
Speaker 10 (07:46):
I never heard a word against you.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
Friend. Didn't put him where he is now. Sheriff, ma'am,
you say you saw the killer's.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Face, yes, through the key.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
You think you'd recognize him if you saw him again? Yes,
I'm sure? What good now from their conversation? Would you
say the doctor knew this man. No yet when he
saw him through the window, he made you hide in
the closet. Yes, that's right. He say anything at all
about the man. No?
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Wait, wait, I remember now he said something about he
meant it?
Speaker 7 (08:20):
He meant it? Yes, what is it? Man? I just
remembered something.
Speaker 10 (08:24):
A note?
Speaker 7 (08:25):
What, no doubt.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
A few weeks ago, the doctor got a letter. I
opened it because I take care of his mail.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Go on. Inside was just.
Speaker 8 (08:32):
A piece of paper with words cut out from newspapers.
Pasty to it, he said, the payoffice soon.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
What did the doctors say when he saw it?
Speaker 8 (08:40):
Boy, he just laughed, said it was some sort of joke.
But I caught him sitting and staring at it a
few times after that.
Speaker 7 (08:47):
You know where that letter is? Well, if he gets
in his desk, Miss Leonard, you remember anything about the
car this man drove?
Speaker 8 (08:55):
No, just that it was black, I see, dan Oh,
the front fender had a big end in it. I
remember I could see it from the office window.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
I think that'll do for now, ma'am. You go home
and try and get some rest.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
Tell the deputy I said to drive you home, Alice,
I will.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I hope you find a man.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
Yeah, a poor woman. She was mighty fun of the doc.
Jese must have spent some bad minutes in that closet. Yeah,
the doc had a couple of bad minutes too, Sheriff. Uh,
the photographer must be finished in there by. Now let's
take a look.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
Nothing's been touched in there, Jas, Everything's just the way
we found it.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
Thought you'd want it that way, thanks, Sheriff. Let's have
a look at the dock, you know, just whip the
sheet off him here shot at close range? All right,
powder burns. The angle of the shots seem to bear
out the nurse's story. Mollistics will fill us in later.
Let's have a look at this desk. Okay, Jason, Well
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there's not much on this side, Jace. What's the matter?
Drawer full of Christmas candies. It'll be a nice Christmas
for those poor kids. Hey, wait a minute, Jace, I
think this is what you want and that's it. The
payoff is soon. No envelope with it? Mm I reckon,
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doc threw that away. It'd be a tough one to trace.
Cheap paper, the message and newspaper captions, and it's used
a lot for blackmail because it's so hard to run down. Well,
where to now, Jace. Has the doc's wife been told
about this yet? No, been holding off and I sure
don't relish it none those kids and all. Let's tell
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her together then, Sheriff. It's a little easier that way, thanks, Jase.
Anything more we can do here, No, But before we go,
I want to check on that black sedan with a
smashed front fender, see if it's on the stolen car list.
If you can spare a couple of deputies, Sheriff, I'd
like him do a house to house on this street.
Maybe somebody else got to look at that car or
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the killer. It's a good idea, Jays. There's not much
to go on, is he. There's enough? They always leave enough,
and this is one killer. I want, Sheriff. I want
him bad. A black sedan with a smashed front fender
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was on the stolen car list. We finished our calls
and left. Fifteen minutes later, we stood in front of
a large, neat house on a well kept street, staring
at the front door Doc Hartley would never open again.
Through the parlor window, we could see three laughing kids
and proud grandparents around a Christmas tree. It was so rough.
Stove held herrange.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
I thought you'd never I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
I was expecting my husband. Oh sure, M killed Hardy,
Miss Hartley? Can we come in? Oh? Of course?
Speaker 10 (12:16):
Please do I imagine you want to see Ed.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
I'm sorry he had an emergency.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
But if you're like, this is ranger Pierson, howdy, ma'am, Hello,
ranger please to meet you, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Can we speak to you privately? I mean in another
room away from them? Of course? Come in here. Well
what is it, ma'am? It's best to say it quickly.
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Your husband he's been killed. Oh no, here, he knew you.
Better sit down? Is Harley?
Speaker 9 (13:08):
Eh?
Speaker 7 (13:09):
I'm sorry, ma'am. How how did it happen? He was shot,
ma'am by a man who came in asking for treatment.
H I wanna find that man, missus Hardley. I I
know how you feel at a time like this, but
if you could answer a few questions, it had help.
I'll try. Has anyone threatened your husband that you know of?
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Did he seem worried lately? No? Did anyone call him
to day beside the woman he went to treat. Just
a a man ought man? Oh a little past? Noom
of phone rang? Some man asked for my husband. I
told him he was at the office on an emergency,
and he just hung up. You recognize the voice, Missus Harley. No,
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just one more question, ma'am. Do you know of anyone
who had a grudge against the doctor who'd have wanted
this to happen? Nope, nobody, nobody accept except who. Oh,
I was thinking of that man, the one he sent
to prison. Sent to prison? Man, I think I can
explain that, Jess. And you mean that Nixon thing is
(14:20):
hardly Yes, well, it happened a couple of years back.
Jesse fellow named Al Nixon robbed the payroll of a
gas cracking planted about forty miles from here, shopped during
the getaway, though, came through here and forced Doc Hartley
to treat him at gunpoint. You know what kind of
stretch they gave him, Shriff, No, I don't remember. You see,
that was a four hour sheriff. I was living the
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other in the county.
Speaker 10 (14:42):
Then.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
Well, anyway, seems Doc somehow sneaked a phone call while
he was treating Nixon, and the police got him. I
isn't that right, Miss Hardley.
Speaker 10 (14:51):
Yes, they sent him to Huntsville.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Missus Hardley, I'm sorry to put you through this. We're
gonna leave now. Is there anything we can do for you? Nothing?
There's nothing anyone can do. How will I tell the children?
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Call from KTXA. Ought to be in any minute now, Sheriff.
I still don't see why you ask him for that
rundown on Nixon. Jase. You're thinking maybe he's out, no, Sheriff,
but I sure want to find out. Nixon's got a
real good motive for this killing. I gotta go with
you on that. But that's Unit tend to KTXA. Go ahead, have.
Speaker 10 (15:47):
Information you requested?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Al Nixon sentence life term, Huntsville Penitentiary, December nineteen thirty seven.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
Money from gas cracking plant payroll never recovered ten for
Unit ten player any exhausted? Well, that kind of kills
that noted Jase, man with the best motive of all
is serving life at Huntsville and still too good to
pass by, Sheriff.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
What do you mean?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Look, next may be in Huntsville for a life. That
doesn't change his motive. It's still good, so good. I
want to see him. I'm going to Huntsville in the morning.
(16:35):
In a moment.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
We will continue with tales of the Texas Rangers starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
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Speaker 1 (17:50):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story Christmas Payoff.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
Next morning, I left nurse Alice Leonard with the sheriff
to begin the long job of trying to pick a
killer's picture out of the gallery. Then I headed for Huntsville.
I wasn't in the visiting room five minutes when Nixon
was brought in, a brutal looking little man who shuffled
forward and sat across the table from me waiting for
me to talk. My name's Pearson, Nixon, Ranger Pearson. Eh,
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but you want a medal? Remembering your name? I want
some answers. And if I don't get into you have
me rest in her. Remember doctor Hartley Nixon? Yeah, I remember?
Look around. Ain't this good reason to remember? He didn't
put you here? You put yourself here? Hartley put me here.
Speaker 12 (18:49):
Oh, don't you worry about me? Right, I'll make out
e you worry about Harley. Hartley is dead, Nixon. You
mean that he's dead, shot to death? Something funny next
to you know?
Speaker 7 (19:10):
You get it? He put me in here.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Now he's dead, but I'm still alive. Who you've caught?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
You? Rossmort Ain't you sure sure?
Speaker 4 (19:18):
You got me? But you never got the money.
Speaker 7 (19:20):
And best of all, Hartley is dirty. You're in the
right place next, So that's why you're here. Maybe I
killed him.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
I'll confess.
Speaker 7 (19:34):
I just walked through the walls, knocked him off, and
flew back like a bird. I'm called for a ranger.
You can take it in the office, all right, guy?
Speaker 10 (19:42):
Thanks?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yeah, you can have him, Hey, range, arrest you.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
In the ranger. Thanks.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
Hello, Shart McGill. Jeez, how are you making out?
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Cold Trail? Sheriff? Nixon's no help. How'd you come out first?
Speaker 10 (20:05):
Picked out a picture? Jason swears it's him. Fella named
Louke Crowley.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
You run a make on him.
Speaker 10 (20:10):
I sure did. He did the last two years in Huntsville.
Released a week.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Ago, beginning to fit sheriff anymore on that car.
Speaker 10 (20:18):
I was just coming to that.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
They found it about one hundred miles from here, abandoned
in some brush just outside of Crest City. I want
to see that car, Sheriff. Tell him to hold it
where it is. Soon as I talked to the warden,
I'm heading for Crest City. Want to meet me there?
Speaker 10 (20:32):
Sure thing. Jason meets you at the hotel and.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
We can tell what's coming. Sheriff. That cold trail's all
warmed up again. I had my talk with the warden
and then met the sheriff in Crest City. As we
headed for the spot where the abandoned car had been found,
I kept thinking of Doc's wife and her three small kids.
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I was getting closer to a killer, and I like it.
I don't know Jason, no matter how, I figured, there's
always a couple of losings. So then try this Sheriff.
Al Nixon is doing life for a payroll robbery, and
he's convinced this Doc Hartley's fault. Now that payroll was
never found because Nixon hid it someplace before they got him.
I follow that far. Jay in Huntsville with Nixon was
(21:20):
Lou Crowder. Now Nixon knew he was never going to
get to use that money, so suppose he made a
deal with Crowder. Crowder could have it if he killed
Doc Hartley. But what was to stop Crowder from just
digging up the money and not killing the doc. Now
Nixon stuo smart for that sheriff probably set it up
so he'd let Crowder know where the money is after
he was sure of Doc's death. He had figures, all right,
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But how would he let Crowder know? By letter? Sheriff
the one and told me Nixon's already written Crowder three times?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
What good would that do?
Speaker 7 (21:51):
All male coming out of Huntsville is censured?
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Jay?
Speaker 7 (21:53):
I know, but the two men had plenty of time
to rig a code when they were together in the pen.
Then a letter could be the answer. That's right, the highway,
throw car up ahead? Must be where the car is? Yeah, yeah,
this is it, Hardy Fellas, there's a car, Jason just
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behind his brush, Jace. Even if your figuring's right, what
do you recon This car is gonna tell us just
one thing, Sheriff, that's it. I don't get it, Jay,
(22:35):
you will look. Would Crowder want to hang around of town?
He'd kill a man in no reckon not. But if
he's expecting a letter from Nixon, he's got a light
someplace to get it. What are you driving there? Put
this together? This car is still in run in order
Crowder didn't have to leave it. That makes Press City
a pretty good bet for the place the letter is
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gonna be picked up. But what if Crowder's already picked
up letter? And it's not likely Nixon didn't even know
about the kill until I told him today, and he'd
want to be sure before he paid off. What if
Nixon double cross his crowder. Suppose he don't send the
letter telling where the money is, he'll send a sheriff.
I got a good look at Nixon's face when I
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told him Doc was dead. He'll send it back in
Cress City. The postmaster agreed to notify us the minute
he got any letter postmark Huntsville without giving it out.
The very next day, the letter was there. The man
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had come in for it, but was told it hadn't arrived.
The postmaster noticed the man was driving a car with
a horse trailer attached. I got my horse trailer and
we set the trap in the post office the next
morning with that's crowdray. All right, Jason, he got the letter.
Shall we take him? No hold a sheriff's I don't
want to take a chance. He's probably armed, so these
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people may get hurt. Well, what are you going to do?
Give him a lead and tail him. All right, let's
move up the front door and see where he goes.
I wi he just got in that car. J one
of the trailer. He's pulling out. Come on, you reckon.
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He'll head straight for that money. There's no doubt about it.
He's not pulling that horse trailer for nothing. He must
be hidding some place he can't use a car. It's
all right with me. We'll get him, Sheriff. Wherever he goes,
we'll get him. For almost three hours, we trailed crowded
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by car, never getting too near him, just pinpointing him.
When the country got rough, he left his car and
switched to the horse he'd been pulling. So did we.
We gave him a bigger lead and just followed his
tracks all the rough climb. Jase, you sure we're following him?
I don't see any tracks. You're following him, all right, Sheriff.
Didn't you just see that turned rock moist on one side?
I hope? Did that? Beats me?
Speaker 4 (25:09):
How you spot him?
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Hold it, Sheriff, hoo, it's a drop off just ahead.
I want to look.
Speaker 10 (25:22):
See anything, Jace.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Hold it. He's just over the drop about twenty feet.
Is he digging? Jase? Better than that, Sheriff. He's found
it already now, look Sheriff. He's in a dead end canyon.
I'm going down after him. You cut along this ridge
and close in from the base, all right, Jace, but
be careful, come on.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Way crowder, get your hands up.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
Don't take me.
Speaker 7 (25:50):
Come up.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
That's a warning, Crowder. Next one I'll be through your head. Now,
throw your gun away.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Alright, alright, don't shoot you step her hands rough keeping there.
Speaker 10 (26:00):
Look there's thirty thousand bucks here. I'll make a deal
with it.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Take half the money.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
Just give me a change like the chance you gave Doc.
You're not to make that money.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
No, you don't give me that nice.
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Oh all right then yeah, I'm all right, Sheriff.
Speaker 10 (26:19):
You were taking an awful chant that way.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Jaja, I know a sheriff. I had a bad minute
there when I saw his knife glint in the sun,
I thought you'd have to gun him for shore. I
didn't want it that way. I had to take crowd
or alive, Sheriff. He's my Christmas present to the warden
at Huntsville.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
With Christmas just on the corner, We at NBC hope
that you all will have a joyful, happy holiday season.
With the program scheduled on the NBC Radio Network, we
will try to add to your listening pleasure as you
relax in tune for your favorite entertainers, special programs are
planned by all of our NBC shows, and we know
that you will want to hear as many of them
as you possibly can. To put it in musical form,
(27:20):
here is a holiday wish from the NBC.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Chimes Happiness, Holiday Happiness, NBC.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
This holiday Happiness, Holiday.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yes, from all of us at NBC to all of
you throughout the country, comes this sincere, hearty wish for
a merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
On February third, nineteen forty one, Al Nixon was removed
from Huntsville Penitentiary to stand trial along with Lou Crowder
for the premeditated murder of doctor Hartley.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Both men were.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Found guilty the sentence death in the electric chair.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
This is Joel McCrae, folks, I just want to say
I hope you'll all have a happy holiday season and
many more to come. See you next week.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Next week Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of the
case from the Piles of but Texas Rangers. The cast
(29:10):
included Tony Barrett, Lillian biam Whitfield, Connor Lou Krugman, Michael
Ann Barrett, and Parley Bear. Technical adviser was Captain M. T.
Lonewolfn Zalas of the Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed
and adapted by Anthony Barrett, and the program was produced
and directed by Stacy Peach hal Gifney speaking.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Next, It's The Big Show, All This and Tallula Too
on NBC
Speaker 6 (30:00):
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