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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCrae in Tales of
the Texas Rangers. Tonight Transcribe from Hollywood another authentic reenactment
of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers.
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Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger
Jace Pearson, Texas more than two hundred and sixty thousand
square miles and fifty men who make up the most
famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America. Now
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from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories
based on fact only names, dates, and places are victor.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
There's just more obvious reasons.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
The events themselves are a matter of record.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Case Fortnite, Room one fourteen.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It is four forty seven pm the afternoon of October
twenty ninth, nineteen twenty seven. Liz Ferris, a chamber maid
at the Hotel Alamo in the town of Lynthia, Texas,
approaches Sam Bixby the desk clip.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Mister Bigsby, Ooh, Liz, though't you went home.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I can't see they'll ever get home till you get
the rooms finished. We're still in been in room one.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Fourteen, one fourteen. That's mister Bolland's room. Oh, he won
out a couple hours.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Ago, and he left one of them do not disturb
cards on his door, just the same.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Who's king in the box? There?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I look before while you're sorting out the mail.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
We probably just forgot believe he was key. You got
your past key, you can get in.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Well, you know he didn't come back again without you
seeing him.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Suppose he's in.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
There taking a bath.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Alright, Liz, all right, come on, I'll come back when
they give me the keys.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Some folks don't care at all when I finish work,
long as they can sleep the day away.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
No, Liz, mister Boling's been here for two days and
this is the first time he's give you any trouble.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Well, if it ain't him, somebody else there there's that
do not disturb?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Caught on the door? Like I said, you try and
knock him not on the door.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Of course I didn't.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I got some consideration for other folks, even though they
ain't got none for me.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Sides are on.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
The vacuum cleaning the hall hard enough to wake the dead.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Really don't answer and knock? Sure he went out? Oh
you're so sure?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Why don't you open the door then.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You, uh, you and mister Ballin. Mister Ballin, he's out,
all right, go ahead, live all right.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I'll make the bed first and get the bets sticking
up under the bed.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And that's blood on the rug. Lady'll be quiet. List
don't let the other guests here.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
You I better.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Call the sheriff right away.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Sheriff James Kurfis reached the murder scene and immediately sent
out a request for assistance from the Texas Rangers. Ranger
Jason Pearson was assigned to investigate him. He joined the
sheriff in room one fourteen of the Alamo Hotel.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Everything just like I found it.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Ranger Scheffner had the bed move so that I could
get a look at the body.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Throat slashed. Huh looks like it was done with a.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Straight edged razor, Sheriff, Yeah, weaponing around any please, So
that's what made me figured it was murder for sure.
I could have figured that out even if the razor
was around. Arms of his hands are cut too. He
tried to have the razor and get it away from
whoever killed him. Oh she, we better cover him with
a sheet, Austin, have fingerprint?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Man here soon you know who he is.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
The name on the registers, Henry Boling Ben here two
days come up from loom Star to sell some cattle
at the auction bone.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
All the way up here from Lone start auction cattle.
That's pretty far. And you mentioned it is. Yeah, plenty
of who discovered the body? A district and cleaning woman.
You must have passed hm out in the hall tol
him a week right, I'm saying, yeah, I saw him.
We better talk to him.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Which men Range wants to do them? I already told
you all I know, Sheriff.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Anybody come in to visit in this room today.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well it's hard to say, Ranger. A lot of cattlemen
in the town when auction's running. Well, nobody stopped by
the desk. But you know how it is, man know
each other, visitor around.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Sure, if you've been out ten in his business like
a man ought to be, he mightn't be.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's what I say now, Liz, I told you he
was out.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I saw him go.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
When was this.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
A little later? Maybe? But I didn't see him come
in again? You sure it was bowling you saw?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Might have been somebody dressed like him, wearing his clothes maybe.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Oh, no, I saw him good enough. No, for sure,
stop just a few feet from a.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Desk to wipe his eyeglasses with a handkerchief.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Eyeglasses.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I'm wrong with that, jeez, I'll.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Tell you in a minute. He wears glasses all the time.
Every time I said, I see when you open this door,
most of the body was hidden by the bed, wasn't it.
The bed's been moved since then. I think you better
come in and identify the body.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Oh do we have to?
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah, I'm afraid it's necessary. That's the man in here
didn't wear glasses. Come on, well, okay, Look, he wouldn't
have to be wearing him when he was killed.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
He never wore him.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Man who wears glasses all the time has little pressure
marks alongside the bridge of his nose. It's the thing
we always look for. Helps with identification. And I'll move
the sheet.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
What that ain't, mister Boland? No it ain't. Then who
is this felling sheriff? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I never saw him before. He's a lot different, mister Boland.
Not only wore glasses, he had a mustache and this spillard.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Doned This couldn't be him clean shaven? Oh, Sir, could
not looks like Boland isn't our victim, sheriff, looks like
he's the killer.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
I made some photos of the dead man, got a
quick developing job done, and headed for Lone Star, the
town Bowland had given us his address on the way.
I called my headquarters and asked to have Ranger Steve
Clark meet me there. He was waiting at the county
courthouse when I drove up, Hotty jays Haughtie.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Steve been waiting long. Oh, just got here about half
an hour ago.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Say what's up? Head Quarters? Fell in on the killing
of the Alamo hotel in them Fia.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, they told me about it. Good. How far out
the Bowland range.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Against nine miles southwest?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
What do we do? Go out and grab Boland.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
If he's around, But it isn't likely after checking out
of that hotel and leaving a dead man in his room?
Why'd you had this way?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Then?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Nobody had Limpia had seen the dead man before. We've
got to find out who he is. If there was
bad blood between him and Boland, somebody around here might
know about it.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
That's good thought. I love my horse in with yours.
We can go out to the ranch and.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Wake him up.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
The Boland ranch was plenty big, spreading and sprawling out
south of the main highway. The ranch house was deserted
except for a Mexican woman. She was frightened and wouldn't
unlatch the screen door.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
We just want to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Man.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Away, Go away, you come back again.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
We mister Borland each here.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
We're Texas Rangers.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
We just want some information from you. I know, you
go away.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
If mister Boland is in there, we'd like to talk
to her. No, run Y's here, Senor.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
No, one won't do you any good to hide him, ma'am.
If he's not there, why can't we come in and
look around?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
No, we should have gotten the search warn shas.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
No, she's just frightened because she's alone. There ought to
be somebody else around the ranch. This size bowling must
have hens.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Where are the men, Senora, of our caros who work
on the range? Jump out to work the round up?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
All right, Senora, you can go back to bed. We'll
go talk to them.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Senora wasn't too happy to see you, boy. I know.
Let's get the horses out of the trailer. You really
want to look for those car folks to night.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
Yeah, because we got plenty of other things to do
in the morning. Come on, charcoal, come on, what's on
your mind for the morning? Find out where Bowling banks,
watch his account so we can trace him.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Pee cash as a check anyplace.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Hey, it'll make it tougher for him to hide, all right,
that's how I want to make it tough. Well, that's right, yeah, yeah,
Holand had plenty of stock, all right.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
We passed cows and calves for the score. But ground
marks showed that the main herds the selling beef were
driving south.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Railroad runs to the South Jays. Just I'm moving them
that way for shipping figures. That's why we had to ride.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
So far and must make take them three or four
days to cut out the stairs and drive.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Them to a main can.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
We ought to be spotting some riders soon.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Trail marks have been getting pressure, and.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
If we don't, we're gonna have to rest these ponies.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We've been knocking on them. Steady off about it, all right,
we're getting close. They can rest soon.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Look, yeah, mace over there in the moonlight, look down
at the base on the east end.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, campfire, come on, come on, yeah and see the
stock now only part of the hurt and the looks
of it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Probably got a few folks working each section, driving into
the railhead from different angles.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
They can drive them anyway they want.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All I want is somebody who can identify the photographs
of a dead man. Can't find there all right, Jason,
nobody around it. That's kind of funny in it. The
fire must have been made by cow folks. They gotta
be around. Horses couldn't move off. They were hobbled.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
But there ain't any horses inside either, not little but
part of the herd. And then they moved around to the
other side of the mason. Who wait that shuck come
from James hump a rushing rock at the edge of
the mesa.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Oh, were easy to Where are you? Come on, wore?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
We can see your hands high not.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Why they're gunning from cover for you saying for.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
The right to media and for you what are you
doing on the same were Texas Rangers Rangers, the rangers,
let's get a look at come on, yeah, yep, full charcoal.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Now move out of.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
That brush or we can see you.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Okay, we better get off our horses.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Jas make sures of the target for him.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, well, reckon y'all rangers. All right, my name's Frank Tuller.
This Charlie is small. Remind the introduction's tler. You always
throw let at anybody riding this range. I'm fired over
your head, just a warning, wanning for what it shor
the's rangers. Somebody's been making off with some stock and
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bowling told us to be on the lookout for strange.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Riders bowling here around No, when't you see him last?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Just before we start out on round him? Teller and
I ain't seen anybody but each other for almost a week.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
And you don't have any idea where your boss might be.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Now, would we know? You seem mighty anxious to find him.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I am mighty anxious and abortioning some kind of trouble.
He's in plenty of trouble and you'll find it out
sooner or later. He's wandered from murdering a man in
a hotel in Olympia. So if you know where he is,
or even where he might be, you better talk up.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Well, we knew we till you ran off, but we.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Don't know anybody Boland's been having trouble with.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
No Bosh never had trouble with nobody.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
It's a dead man who'd disagree with that? If he
could get those photos out of your saddlebag? Will you, Steve,
why maybe you can identify the man Boland killed? Hey, yeah, Jas,
thanks here, teller, and you're too small, huh.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Take a look, machine Ranger. Boland never killed this man,
or makes you so sure of that? Because this is
the boss. This is a picture of Boland himself.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson. We continue now with
tonight's case Room one fourteen, an authentic story from the
files of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
We had our killer, cold knew his name, his address,
and he turned out to be the dead man.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
The case fell apart. It didn't make sense. You're sure
this is a photo of Bulan. We ought to know.
We've been working for.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Him for a year ever since to come down from
Wyoming and bought this spread.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's clerk at the hotel in Lympia said he never
seen this man before. I can't have that.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Bolan was registered at that hotel for two days. Clerk
said he wore eyeglasses and a mustache.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Then the man he wasn't Henry Bolan. He's something fishy
about this whole thing, Jace. I can't figure why anybody.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Went it, Steve, Eh, you fella said, Bolan thought somebody
was running his stock off?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yes? Right?
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Is his brand registered?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (13:51):
It is box B brand. Thanks? We want any more information,
We'll be out to see you later.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Come on, Steve, But Jace, go on, get mount, get
up charge Hope. If you checked the man?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Thanks? What's on your mind? Jas Or?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Ask about the missing cattle and the brand registration. Boland
thought some of his cattle were missing the registered brand.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Stolen cattle are hard to get rid of. It wouldn't
be so hard if the thief took them to an
out of the way auction barn like the one in
Olympia and then pretended to be Bowland when he sold them. Hey, Jace,
that makes sense, or does?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That's why somebody registered the Alamo under Bolan's name.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And Bowland must have found out about it, went after
Lympia for a showdown and got himself killed.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
That's the picture.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I'll buy it, Jason. But who killed it?
Speaker 6 (14:37):
That's something we're going to have to find out. Whoever
it was it was somebody Boland knew, or he wouldn't
have been able to follow.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Him to that hotel room.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
And if the cattle were stolen from here by somebody
bowlan new Bolan.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Hasn't been here very long.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
The thief might have been one of his own ranch hands.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
We'll playing it that way. Steve's stick around here and
see if we can find a poke with a mustache
and eyeglasses. During the next morning, we spotted a pair
of riders and asked if they knew of a hand
with a mustache and glasses. There was such a man
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on the ranch, and they told us what general direction
he might be working in. A couple of hours later,
we found him alone, pushing some strays out of a
blind draw.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
That's him. Jason just saw the sound of flack gun
his flashes.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Let's go yeah, yeah, yo, there right where you are.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Don't go for that rifle. Whole stuff.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
We'll ask the questions mustache to yeah. Let's sit tight
on that horse until I got your rifle. Hellok, ranger,
when you come riding down on me like I've done something,
grab my gun.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I reckon, I got a rife. You know what it's
all about. You've been at the Alamo Hotel in Lympia recently,
never been in Limpea in my whole life.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Where you've been for the past four days?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Right here on this range working anybody?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
No, just me, I'll come. The other hands are working
in twos and threes. Well I ain't. I've been working
through this bad landscrip, no herd in here, nothing but
a few strays one man can dig out.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
And that's how come anybody's seen you here in the
last couple of days.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
How could anybody see me? I've been way back in
that scrub canyon.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Yeah, if nobody saw you there, nobody'd see you if
you weren't there either.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
What's your name, Dave Boden? Booden? Huh? All right, you
better come with us. Come with you for what. I
ain't come at any place.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
I'm not asking you. I'm telling you. Somebody murdered your boss,
Henry Bowling up in Lympia yesterday.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I murdered Hank Bowling. That's right. Description of the killer
fits you. But you're crazy. I've been right here.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
I tell you, tell me anything you want. You're coming
to Lympia. I want a couple of people to get
a look at you. We got back to the car
and drove Dave Boden to the Sheriff's office in Limpia
to see if he could be identified.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Ranger, I'm telling you, I ain't never been near this town.
You haven't been here. You got nothing to worry about it.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
You sent for the chamber maid in the desk lug. Sure, yeah,
here they be here in real thanks. No matter of fact,
he had come now at the outside steps. Seems with
the window, Ranger, I'm telling you better not say anything
just now. Buden, I meant Jurnie, honey, Ray, can you
remember the ranger here?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I ain't like they would forget him after seeing him
only yesterday.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Liz, mister Vixby, I want you to meet mister Buden
Hot Honey Hardy.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Doesn't seem like you've ever met mister Bouden before. I
thought maybe you had. No can't say I ever had
the pleasure me neither.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
All.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
For a minute, he did look like I listen, lady
knows what everybody getting excited about.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I'm just gonna say it looked like Saralini's old bol
the one that run off when everybody expected that was going.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
To get married regularly Ray, Thanks lez mister Vixby. I
just wanted to be sure that this man wasn't the
one who was registered under the name of Henry Bohland.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Oh I see, Oh no, nothing like him except for
the eyeglasses and the mustache. I guess we might as
well let these folks go back to the hotel. Jason, Yeah, looks.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Like you were telling the truth. Budden, I'm sorry, Oh harm,
dumb Ranger.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Well you could have known him, jeez, I have been thinking.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
You suppose him mustache and eyeglasses might have been in disguised.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
It's who's all that's a thought, shaff It's been done before.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Well I ain't the way I was this time, Ranger.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Why not mixby?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Well, them glasses may have been fake, but not the
mustache man you're after had a real mustache. I know
because I seen him in the barber shop and the
barber trimmed it.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
We put Buden on the bus to Lone Star and
send him back to the Bowling branch. Clark and I
spent the next day questioning everybody in Lympia, the crew
of the auction barn, cattleman, everybody. They couldn't have the
thing that what we already knew. When we got back
to the Sheriff's office, there was more of that, and
it was I had a call from your headquarters in
doors Jays. They checked those French lab crew lifted from
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one fourteen.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Whoever left to had no record. Yeah, that does it.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
I still think it must have been somebody from Bowling's ranch,
somebody he knew.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
That's what we think, and that's the way it looks.
Let's face it, Jace could have been a stranger, stole
the cattle, Bowling found out about it, went in for
a show down like any hot.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Head, and got himself killed.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Killer could have come in from any direction and left
in any direction. It's range. Jeez, no way you're telling
come in. I did sheriff rangers and what we can do
for you. Well, my name is Denny. I drive a
line half rent the state trucking route between New Orleans
El Passer. I think I got some information you might want,
least wise the thought so over at the Alimo Hotel,
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what kind of information? The key to room one fourteen animal,
where'd you get this was? It was nightfall, last night
of the day Bullen was killed. Ja, Yeah, go ahead, Yeah,
So my relief man was driving. We made a coffee
stop placed by forty mile this side of Loan Star.
Full the truck in the side of the service station.
Now I was sleeping, didn't want no coffee, so I
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stayed in the cab and dozed while a relift.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Man went inside. I got it. Go on, Well, cattle
truck pull in for gas with empty.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Empty cattle truck.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Headed which way southwest? Taught Loan Star.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
You notice the license, Well, no, no, but there was
a mark on the side box with a B in
the middle of it Bulling's box b brand jeeh.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Must have been the truck he used a haul of
stolen cattle up here.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Yeah, the haul of killer back to the ranch.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
What about the key I was coming to that fell
in the cattle truck he paid for the gas. I
didn't see him too good, and I was just sort
of slumped in my cab, you know, half groggy, not
exactly watching him but seeing I know.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
What you mean.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Well, when he fished the money out of his pocket,
I saw him kind of look at something he dug
out with it. Then he sort of looked around like
he was looking for some bre's the thought station man
left him to go inside for change. Then the fellow
walked right past my truck real quick. It didn't see me,
of course, cause a cab was dark, and I heard
him throw something may kind of a clink. Then he
went back to the cattle rig and drove off, just
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went it. Threw away the hotel key here and see
I found when my partner came out, we went back
to check the top and the tailgate and I sort
of looked around found the key with a flash.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
I'll come you didn't just drop it in the mailbox.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Well, we had a lot of stops along the line
loading unloading, and the rod came right through here. Thought
I'd stop it, just drop it off information heppy.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
An, it sure does.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
My headquarters will see to what your boss here is
about it too. Sheriff better take down his statement, old
king jeans. Come on, Steve, see you later, all.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Right, Jeeves heading back to the lone.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Star past the wheels will turn filin.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, how are we going to narrow it down?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Jas Buden was the only hand with a mustache and
the glasses, and.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
He's clear glasses still could have been phony. Some of
the killer wore only while he was in Lympia.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
We know the mustache wasn't a phony. Poland's hands have
been on round up for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
A lot of them let their beards grow. Would have
been a simple matter to shave the beard and leave
a lip cover, sneak away with a loaded cattle, and
then shave clean before he got back.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
No, I know, but Buden was the only hand working alone.
One of the others did it and disappeared for a
few days.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
His sidekick know about.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
It doesn't have to be a one man job.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Steve sidekick could be in on it too.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
That figures what's our play jays fingerprint them all and
get a check out on the princes up at Austin.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I think we can wrap it up quicker in that
we know the killer doesn't have a beard now and
uses a straight razor that was the murder weapon.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, Buden can tell.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Us which of the men shaved with straight razors, and
once we know that, we can settle the rest with
a camera I got in the cart trunk now by
asking the straight razor man if they'd like to pose
for a couple of identification.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Pictures with eyeglasses and a phony mustache. Tell them. We'll
have to hold them until the pictures are.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Seen by a couple of witnesses in Lympia.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
That ought to flush them action from them.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Action.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
I'm betting the man who killed Bolan will raise more
fuss than the alligator when the lake went dry.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Got back to Lone Star just in time.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Thank had taking over the management of Bolan's ranch as executors.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
And the roundup was just about complete.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Last the herd was being driven into the stock pins
in the railroad siding when we reached the south end
of the ranch.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
There'sh booting. Jason, take care of the horse over there
by the crowd. Yeah, come on, hey, Buomen, hey Buden.
I want to talk to you a minute. I will
make out fine if you will help. Pretty sure it
was somebody on the ranch who killed your boss. How
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can I help you?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Just tell me which of the popes used straight razors
for shaving? What she is?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Jones and Tuller and happy Color?
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Huh Hey, Jace, isn't.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It a bright ball that fired on us first time
we rode out on the range.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
He's the one, all right? It is Kelean shaven too.
Fella with him was named small you know where they
are booten. Well it was over there a minute ago.
Driving along here it.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Come down jas round the end of the cral with
the horses here. You better drift away booting sure things?
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Well, Holy Rache back again.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah, I like to have another talk with you. Tuller,
you too small? Sure ain't here? Want you to be
make you wait till you this mam? What do you
want find out who kill Bowling?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
We're pretty sure it's one of the hands. All you
fellas without beards are going in with us?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
What for?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Why here?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
What would that prove? Prove plenty when we get what
we want. Take photos of all of you with proper
eyeglasses and mustache on you. A couple of people in
Lympia want to see them.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Well, if they think they recognize somebody that ain't legal evidence.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
We'll have something to help it along. We'll fingerprint the
man they think they saw him, because Boland's killer left
his prints all over that hotel room range.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It warn't me I helped you, that can't. Let's all.
I didn't go to Limbiahiti. I told you to shut
up your raft. All right, teller, you can both.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Color lashed his horse and dove behind the other mounts
of the rack right and animal rear it over is
knocked smalling to me before Clark could grab the bie.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Keep her on, small Steve. I'm going after Tuller. He
got to venture to the cattle shoe bringer. I'll climb
up get him from a bow. But I stay sat
up the ranger. I can see you better, and you
can see me. You got yourself in a trap. Color,
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if you would wanted you come down after me. I
don't have to come down after you. You're a dead
pigeon in that cattle shoe. Don't you believe in Ranger?
Now that shot, your fire has already got the cattle
stirred up. Hey, your man down in a pen. Open
the gate so the herd can move into the chote. God,
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give me more cover. Yeah, however, you won't like if
they open that gate and I fire into the herd,
he'll run you down. You'll get dropped to death. All right, boys, open.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Up the gate.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I'm not pulling Color.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I'll fire in him.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
No, no, no, not come, he's my gun, all right.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Time up on the fence. All right, all right, I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Now, give me your arm. I'll pull you out of it.
Good range. Your cake gool to me dropped now. I
don't want to make no trouble.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Ranger.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I made a mistake. I admitted, you made a big mistake. Teller,
too bad you didn't use that razor strictly for saving
go On.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
For his part in the crime, Charles Small received a
sentence of twenty five years. Frank Tuller was tried and
convicted for the murder of rancher Henry Bollen. Today, after
two decades, he still serves his sentence life imprisonment.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
And now here again. It's the star of our show.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Joel McCrae, Reflecting on the old time one riot, one
ranger reputation of the Texas Rangers, A visitor to Texas
recently mentioned to a ranger that he'd been noticing a
number of current press reports where two rangers had participated
in the quelling of a riot or investigation of a crime.
After citing this observance to the ranger, the man asked,
how come two men are being assigned to some of
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these cases now? Are the Rangers less effective than they
used to be? A lanky ranger shook his head. Oh no,
he said, one ranger is still sufficient to handle the
situation all right, But in these days of complex legal technicalities,
we've been sending two of them along, one to take
care of what trouble there is and the other one
to serve as a sort of a disinterested witness. Good night, folks,
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see you next week.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Next week Toole McCray and another authentic reenactment of a
case from the files of the Texas Rangers.
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Stars in Mike Crowns.
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story was transcribed and adapted by Joel Murcock, and the
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of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers.
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Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger
Jace Pearson, Texas more than two hundred and sixty thousand
square miles and fifty men who make up the most
famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America. Now
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from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories
based on fact only names, dates, and places are victor.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
There's just more obvious reasons.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
The events themselves are a matter of record.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Case Fortnite, Room one fourteen.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
It is four forty seven pm the afternoon of October
twenty ninth, nineteen twenty seven. Liz Ferris, a chamber maid
at the Hotel Alamo in the town of Lynthia, Texas,
approaches Sam Bixby the desk clip.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Mister Bigsby, Ooh, Liz, though't you went home.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I can't see they'll ever get home till you get
the rooms finished. We're still in been in room one.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Fourteen, one fourteen. That's mister Bolland's room. Oh, he won
out a couple hours.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Ago, and he left one of them do not disturb
cards on his door, just the same.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Who's king in the box? There?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I look before while you're sorting out the mail.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
We probably just forgot believe he was key. You got
your past key, you can get in.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Well, you know he didn't come back again without you
seeing him.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Suppose he's in.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
There taking a bath.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Alright, Liz, all right, come on, I'll come back when
they give me the keys.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Some folks don't care at all when I finish work,
long as they can sleep the day away.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
No, Liz, mister Boling's been here for two days and
this is the first time he's give you any trouble.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Well, if it ain't him, somebody else there there's that
do not disturb?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Caught on the door? Like I said, you try and
knock him not on the door.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Of course I didn't.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I got some consideration for other folks, even though they
ain't got none for me.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Sides are on.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
The vacuum cleaning the hall hard enough to wake the dead.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Really don't answer and knock? Sure he went out? Oh
you're so sure?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Why don't you open the door then.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You, uh, you and mister Ballin. Mister Ballin, he's out,
all right, go ahead, live all right.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I'll make the bed first and get the bets sticking
up under the bed.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And that's blood on the rug. Lady'll be quiet. List
don't let the other guests here.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
You I better.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Call the sheriff right away.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Sheriff James Kurfis reached the murder scene and immediately sent
out a request for assistance from the Texas Rangers. Ranger
Jason Pearson was assigned to investigate him. He joined the
sheriff in room one fourteen of the Alamo Hotel.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Everything just like I found it.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Ranger Scheffner had the bed move so that I could
get a look at the body.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Throat slashed. Huh looks like it was done with a.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Straight edged razor, Sheriff, Yeah, weaponing around any please, So
that's what made me figured it was murder for sure.
I could have figured that out even if the razor
was around. Arms of his hands are cut too. He
tried to have the razor and get it away from
whoever killed him. Oh she, we better cover him with
a sheet, Austin, have fingerprint?
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Man here soon you know who he is.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
The name on the registers, Henry Boling Ben here two
days come up from loom Star to sell some cattle
at the auction bone.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
All the way up here from Lone start auction cattle.
That's pretty far. And you mentioned it is. Yeah, plenty
of who discovered the body? A district and cleaning woman.
You must have passed hm out in the hall tol
him a week right, I'm saying, yeah, I saw him.
We better talk to him.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Which men Range wants to do them? I already told
you all I know, Sheriff.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Anybody come in to visit in this room today.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well it's hard to say, Ranger. A lot of cattlemen
in the town when auction's running. Well, nobody stopped by
the desk. But you know how it is, man know
each other, visitor around.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Sure, if you've been out ten in his business like
a man ought to be, he mightn't be.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
That's what I say now, Liz, I told you he
was out.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I saw him go.
Speaker 6 (05:04):
When was this.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
A little later? Maybe? But I didn't see him come
in again? You sure it was bowling you saw?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Might have been somebody dressed like him, wearing his clothes maybe.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Oh, no, I saw him good enough. No, for sure,
stop just a few feet from a.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Desk to wipe his eyeglasses with a handkerchief.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Eyeglasses.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I'm wrong with that, jeez, I'll.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Tell you in a minute. He wears glasses all the time.
Every time I said, I see when you open this door,
most of the body was hidden by the bed, wasn't it.
The bed's been moved since then. I think you better
come in and identify the body.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Oh do we have to?
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Yeah, I'm afraid it's necessary. That's the man in here
didn't wear glasses. Come on, well, okay, Look, he wouldn't
have to be wearing him when he was killed.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
He never wore him.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Man who wears glasses all the time has little pressure
marks alongside the bridge of his nose. It's the thing
we always look for. Helps with identification. And I'll move
the sheet.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
What that ain't, mister Boland? No it ain't. Then who
is this felling sheriff? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I never saw him before. He's a lot different, mister Boland.
Not only wore glasses, he had a mustache and this spillard.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Doned This couldn't be him clean shaven? Oh, Sir, could
not looks like Boland isn't our victim, sheriff, looks like
he's the killer.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
I made some photos of the dead man, got a
quick developing job done, and headed for Lone Star, the
town Bowland had given us his address on the way.
I called my headquarters and asked to have Ranger Steve
Clark meet me there. He was waiting at the county
courthouse when I drove up, Hotty jays Haughtie.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Steve been waiting long. Oh, just got here about half
an hour ago.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Say what's up? Head Quarters? Fell in on the killing
of the Alamo hotel in them Fia.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, they told me about it. Good. How far out
the Bowland range.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Against nine miles southwest?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
What do we do? Go out and grab Boland.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
If he's around, But it isn't likely after checking out
of that hotel and leaving a dead man in his room?
Why'd you had this way?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Then?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Nobody had Limpia had seen the dead man before. We've
got to find out who he is. If there was
bad blood between him and Boland, somebody around here might
know about it.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
That's good thought. I love my horse in with yours.
We can go out to the ranch and.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Wake him up.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
The Boland ranch was plenty big, spreading and sprawling out
south of the main highway. The ranch house was deserted
except for a Mexican woman. She was frightened and wouldn't
unlatch the screen door.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
We just want to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Man.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Away, Go away, you come back again.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
We mister Borland each here.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
We're Texas Rangers.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
We just want some information from you. I know, you
go away.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
If mister Boland is in there, we'd like to talk
to her. No, run Y's here, Senor.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
No, one won't do you any good to hide him, ma'am.
If he's not there, why can't we come in and
look around?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
No, we should have gotten the search warn shas.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
No, she's just frightened because she's alone. There ought to
be somebody else around the ranch. This size bowling must
have hens.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Where are the men, Senora, of our caros who work
on the range? Jump out to work the round up?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
All right, Senora, you can go back to bed. We'll
go talk to them.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Senora wasn't too happy to see you, boy. I know.
Let's get the horses out of the trailer. You really
want to look for those car folks to night.
Speaker 6 (08:38):
Yeah, because we got plenty of other things to do
in the morning. Come on, charcoal, come on, what's on
your mind for the morning? Find out where Bowling banks,
watch his account so we can trace him.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Pee cash as a check anyplace.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Hey, it'll make it tougher for him to hide, all right,
that's how I want to make it tough. Well, that's right, yeah, yeah,
Holand had plenty of stock, all right.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
We passed cows and calves for the score. But ground
marks showed that the main herds the selling beef were
driving south.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Railroad runs to the South Jays. Just I'm moving them
that way for shipping figures. That's why we had to ride.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
So far and must make take them three or four
days to cut out the stairs and drive.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Them to a main can.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
We ought to be spotting some riders soon.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Trail marks have been getting pressure, and.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
If we don't, we're gonna have to rest these ponies.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
We've been knocking on them. Steady off about it, all right,
we're getting close. They can rest soon.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Look, yeah, mace over there in the moonlight, look down
at the base on the east end.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Yeah, campfire, come on, come on, yeah and see the
stock now only part of the hurt and the looks
of it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Probably got a few folks working each section, driving into
the railhead from different angles.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
They can drive them anyway they want.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All I want is somebody who can identify the photographs
of a dead man. Can't find there all right, Jason,
nobody around it. That's kind of funny in it. The
fire must have been made by cow folks. They gotta
be around. Horses couldn't move off. They were hobbled.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
But there ain't any horses inside either, not little but
part of the herd. And then they moved around to the
other side of the mason. Who wait that shuck come
from James hump a rushing rock at the edge of
the mesa.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Oh, were easy to Where are you? Come on, wore?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
We can see your hands high not.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Why they're gunning from cover for you saying for.
Speaker 7 (10:43):
The right to media and for you what are you
doing on the same were Texas Rangers Rangers, the rangers,
let's get a look at come on, yeah, yep, full charcoal.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Now move out of.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
That brush or we can see you.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Okay, we better get off our horses.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Jas make sures of the target for him.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, well, reckon y'all rangers. All right, my name's Frank Tuller.
This Charlie is small. Remind the introduction's tler. You always
throw let at anybody riding this range. I'm fired over
your head, just a warning, wanning for what it shor
the's rangers. Somebody's been making off with some stock and
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bowling told us to be on the lookout for strange.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Riders bowling here around No, when't you see him last?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Just before we start out on round him? Teller and
I ain't seen anybody but each other for almost a week.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
And you don't have any idea where your boss might be.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Now, would we know? You seem mighty anxious to find him.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I am mighty anxious and abortioning some kind of trouble.
He's in plenty of trouble and you'll find it out
sooner or later. He's wandered from murdering a man in
a hotel in Olympia. So if you know where he is,
or even where he might be, you better talk up.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Well, we knew we till you ran off, but we.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Don't know anybody Boland's been having trouble with.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
No Bosh never had trouble with nobody.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
It's a dead man who'd disagree with that? If he
could get those photos out of your saddlebag? Will you, Steve,
why maybe you can identify the man Boland killed? Hey, yeah, Jas,
thanks here, teller, and you're too small, huh.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Take a look, machine Ranger. Boland never killed this man,
or makes you so sure of that? Because this is
the boss. This is a picture of Boland himself.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson. We continue now with
tonight's case Room one fourteen, an authentic story from the
files of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
We had our killer, cold knew his name, his address,
and he turned out to be the dead man.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
The case fell apart. It didn't make sense. You're sure
this is a photo of Bulan. We ought to know.
We've been working for.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Him for a year ever since to come down from
Wyoming and bought this spread.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's clerk at the hotel in Lympia said he never
seen this man before. I can't have that.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Bolan was registered at that hotel for two days. Clerk
said he wore eyeglasses and a mustache.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Then the man he wasn't Henry Bolan. He's something fishy
about this whole thing, Jace. I can't figure why anybody.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Went it, Steve, Eh, you fella said, Bolan thought somebody
was running his stock off?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yes? Right?
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Is his brand registered?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (13:51):
It is box B brand. Thanks? We want any more information,
We'll be out to see you later.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Come on, Steve, But Jace, go on, get mount, get
up charge Hope. If you checked the man?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Thanks? What's on your mind? Jas Or?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Ask about the missing cattle and the brand registration. Boland
thought some of his cattle were missing the registered brand.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Stolen cattle are hard to get rid of. It wouldn't
be so hard if the thief took them to an
out of the way auction barn like the one in
Olympia and then pretended to be Bowland when he sold them. Hey, Jace,
that makes sense, or does?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That's why somebody registered the Alamo under Bolan's name.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And Bowland must have found out about it, went after
Lympia for a showdown and got himself killed.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
That's the picture.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I'll buy it, Jason. But who killed it?
Speaker 6 (14:37):
That's something we're going to have to find out. Whoever
it was it was somebody Boland knew, or he wouldn't
have been able to follow.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Him to that hotel room.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
And if the cattle were stolen from here by somebody
bowlan new Bolan.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Hasn't been here very long.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
The thief might have been one of his own ranch hands.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
We'll playing it that way. Steve's stick around here and
see if we can find a poke with a mustache
and eyeglasses. During the next morning, we spotted a pair
of riders and asked if they knew of a hand
with a mustache and glasses. There was such a man
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on the ranch, and they told us what general direction
he might be working in. A couple of hours later,
we found him alone, pushing some strays out of a
blind draw.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
That's him. Jason just saw the sound of flack gun
his flashes.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Let's go yeah, yeah, yo, there right where you are.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Don't go for that rifle. Whole stuff.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
We'll ask the questions mustache to yeah. Let's sit tight
on that horse until I got your rifle. Hellok, ranger,
when you come riding down on me like I've done something,
grab my gun.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I reckon, I got a rife. You know what it's
all about. You've been at the Alamo Hotel in Lympia recently,
never been in Limpea in my whole life.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Where you've been for the past four days?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Right here on this range working anybody?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
No, just me, I'll come. The other hands are working
in twos and threes. Well I ain't. I've been working
through this bad landscrip, no herd in here, nothing but
a few strays one man can dig out.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
And that's how come anybody's seen you here in the
last couple of days.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
How could anybody see me? I've been way back in
that scrub canyon.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Yeah, if nobody saw you there, nobody'd see you if
you weren't there either.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
What's your name, Dave Boden? Booden? Huh? All right, you
better come with us. Come with you for what. I
ain't come at any place.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
I'm not asking you. I'm telling you. Somebody murdered your boss,
Henry Bowling up in Lympia yesterday.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
I murdered Hank Bowling. That's right. Description of the killer
fits you. But you're crazy. I've been right here.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
I tell you, tell me anything you want. You're coming
to Lympia. I want a couple of people to get
a look at you. We got back to the car
and drove Dave Boden to the Sheriff's office in Limpia
to see if he could be identified.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Ranger, I'm telling you, I ain't never been near this town.
You haven't been here. You got nothing to worry about it.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
You sent for the chamber maid in the desk lug. Sure, yeah,
here they be here in real thanks. No matter of fact,
he had come now at the outside steps. Seems with
the window, Ranger, I'm telling you better not say anything
just now. Buden, I meant Jurnie, honey, Ray, can you
remember the ranger here?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I ain't like they would forget him after seeing him
only yesterday.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Liz, mister Vixby, I want you to meet mister Buden
Hot Honey Hardy.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Doesn't seem like you've ever met mister Bouden before. I
thought maybe you had. No can't say I ever had
the pleasure me neither.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
All.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
For a minute, he did look like I listen, lady
knows what everybody getting excited about.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
I'm just gonna say it looked like Saralini's old bol
the one that run off when everybody expected that was going.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
To get married regularly Ray, Thanks lez mister Vixby. I
just wanted to be sure that this man wasn't the
one who was registered under the name of Henry Bohland.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Oh I see, Oh no, nothing like him except for
the eyeglasses and the mustache. I guess we might as
well let these folks go back to the hotel. Jason, Yeah, looks.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Like you were telling the truth. Budden, I'm sorry, Oh harm,
dumb Ranger.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Well you could have known him, jeez, I have been thinking.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
You suppose him mustache and eyeglasses might have been in disguised.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
It's who's all that's a thought, shaff It's been done before.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Well I ain't the way I was this time, Ranger.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Why not mixby?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Well, them glasses may have been fake, but not the
mustache man you're after had a real mustache. I know
because I seen him in the barber shop and the
barber trimmed it.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
We put Buden on the bus to Lone Star and
send him back to the Bowling branch. Clark and I
spent the next day questioning everybody in Lympia, the crew
of the auction barn, cattleman, everybody. They couldn't have the
thing that what we already knew. When we got back
to the Sheriff's office, there was more of that, and
it was I had a call from your headquarters in
doors Jays. They checked those French lab crew lifted from
(19:10):
one fourteen.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Whoever left to had no record. Yeah, that does it.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
I still think it must have been somebody from Bowling's ranch,
somebody he knew.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
That's what we think, and that's the way it looks.
Let's face it, Jace could have been a stranger, stole
the cattle, Bowling found out about it, went in for
a show down like any hot.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Head, and got himself killed.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Killer could have come in from any direction and left
in any direction. It's range. Jeez, no way you're telling
come in. I did sheriff rangers and what we can do
for you. Well, my name is Denny. I drive a
line half rent the state trucking route between New Orleans
El Passer. I think I got some information you might want,
least wise the thought so over at the Alimo Hotel,
(19:52):
what kind of information? The key to room one fourteen animal,
where'd you get this was? It was nightfall, last night
of the day Bullen was killed. Ja, Yeah, go ahead, Yeah,
So my relief man was driving. We made a coffee
stop placed by forty mile this side of Loan Star.
Full the truck in the side of the service station.
Now I was sleeping, didn't want no coffee, so I
(20:14):
stayed in the cab and dozed while a relift.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Man went inside. I got it. Go on, Well, cattle
truck pull in for gas with empty.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Empty cattle truck.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Huh?
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Headed which way southwest? Taught Loan Star.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
You notice the license, Well, no, no, but there was
a mark on the side box with a B in
the middle of it Bulling's box b brand jeeh.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Must have been the truck he used a haul of
stolen cattle up here.
Speaker 6 (20:36):
Yeah, the haul of killer back to the ranch.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
What about the key I was coming to that fell
in the cattle truck he paid for the gas. I
didn't see him too good, and I was just sort
of slumped in my cab, you know, half groggy, not
exactly watching him but seeing I know.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
What you mean.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Well, when he fished the money out of his pocket,
I saw him kind of look at something he dug
out with it. Then he sort of looked around like
he was looking for some bre's the thought station man
left him to go inside for change. Then the fellow
walked right past my truck real quick. It didn't see me,
of course, cause a cab was dark, and I heard
him throw something may kind of a clink. Then he
went back to the cattle rig and drove off, just
(21:14):
went it. Threw away the hotel key here and see
I found when my partner came out, we went back
to check the top and the tailgate and I sort
of looked around found the key with a flash.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
I'll come you didn't just drop it in the mailbox.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Well, we had a lot of stops along the line
loading unloading, and the rod came right through here. Thought
I'd stop it, just drop it off information heppy.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
An, it sure does.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
My headquarters will see to what your boss here is
about it too. Sheriff better take down his statement, old
king jeans. Come on, Steve, see you later, all.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Right, Jeeves heading back to the lone.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
Star past the wheels will turn filin.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, how are we going to narrow it down?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Jas Buden was the only hand with a mustache and
the glasses, and.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
He's clear glasses still could have been phony. Some of
the killer wore only while he was in Lympia.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
We know the mustache wasn't a phony. Poland's hands have
been on round up for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
A lot of them let their beards grow. Would have
been a simple matter to shave the beard and leave
a lip cover, sneak away with a loaded cattle, and
then shave clean before he got back.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
No, I know, but Buden was the only hand working alone.
One of the others did it and disappeared for a
few days.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
His sidekick know about.
Speaker 6 (22:27):
It doesn't have to be a one man job.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Steve sidekick could be in on it too.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
That figures what's our play jays fingerprint them all and
get a check out on the princes up at Austin.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
I think we can wrap it up quicker in that
we know the killer doesn't have a beard now and
uses a straight razor that was the murder weapon.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, Buden can tell.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Us which of the men shaved with straight razors, and
once we know that, we can settle the rest with
a camera I got in the cart trunk now by
asking the straight razor man if they'd like to pose
for a couple of identification.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Pictures with eyeglasses and a phony mustache. Tell them. We'll
have to hold them until the pictures are.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
Seen by a couple of witnesses in Lympia.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
That ought to flush them action from them.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Action.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
I'm betting the man who killed Bolan will raise more
fuss than the alligator when the lake went dry.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Got back to Lone Star just in time.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Thank had taking over the management of Bolan's ranch as executors.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
And the roundup was just about complete.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Last the herd was being driven into the stock pins
in the railroad siding when we reached the south end
of the ranch.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
There'sh booting. Jason, take care of the horse over there
by the crowd. Yeah, come on, hey, Buomen, hey Buden.
I want to talk to you a minute. I will
make out fine if you will help. Pretty sure it
was somebody on the ranch who killed your boss. How
(23:53):
can I help you?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Just tell me which of the popes used straight razors
for shaving? What she is?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Jones and Tuller and happy Color?
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Huh Hey, Jace, isn't.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
It a bright ball that fired on us first time
we rode out on the range.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
He's the one, all right? It is Kelean shaven too.
Fella with him was named small you know where they
are booten. Well it was over there a minute ago.
Driving along here it.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Come down jas round the end of the cral with
the horses here. You better drift away booting sure things?
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Well, Holy Rache back again.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Yeah, I like to have another talk with you. Tuller,
you too small? Sure ain't here? Want you to be
make you wait till you this mam? What do you
want find out who kill Bowling?
Speaker 6 (24:41):
We're pretty sure it's one of the hands. All you
fellas without beards are going in with us?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
What for?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Why here?
Speaker 6 (24:49):
What would that prove? Prove plenty when we get what
we want. Take photos of all of you with proper
eyeglasses and mustache on you. A couple of people in
Lympia want to see them.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Well, if they think they recognize somebody that ain't legal evidence.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
We'll have something to help it along. We'll fingerprint the
man they think they saw him, because Boland's killer left
his prints all over that hotel room range.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
It warn't me I helped you, that can't. Let's all.
I didn't go to Limbiahiti. I told you to shut
up your raft. All right, teller, you can both.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Color lashed his horse and dove behind the other mounts
of the rack right and animal rear it over is
knocked smalling to me before Clark could grab the bie.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Keep her on, small Steve. I'm going after Tuller. He
got to venture to the cattle shoe bringer. I'll climb
up get him from a bow. But I stay sat
up the ranger. I can see you better, and you
can see me. You got yourself in a trap. Color,
(25:50):
if you would wanted you come down after me. I
don't have to come down after you. You're a dead
pigeon in that cattle shoe. Don't you believe in Ranger?
Now that shot, your fire has already got the cattle
stirred up. Hey, your man down in a pen. Open
the gate so the herd can move into the chote. God,
(26:13):
give me more cover. Yeah, however, you won't like if
they open that gate and I fire into the herd,
he'll run you down. You'll get dropped to death. All right, boys, open.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Up the gate.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I'm not pulling Color.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
I'll fire in him.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
No, no, no, not come, he's my gun, all right.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
Time up on the fence. All right, all right, I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Now, give me your arm. I'll pull you out of it.
Good range. Your cake gool to me dropped now. I
don't want to make no trouble.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Ranger.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I made a mistake. I admitted, you made a big mistake. Teller,
too bad you didn't use that razor strictly for saving
go On.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
For his part in the crime, Charles Small received a
sentence of twenty five years. Frank Tuller was tried and
convicted for the murder of rancher Henry Bollen. Today, after
two decades, he still serves his sentence life imprisonment.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
And now here again. It's the star of our show.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
Joel McCrae, Reflecting on the old time one riot, one
ranger reputation of the Texas Rangers, A visitor to Texas
recently mentioned to a ranger that he'd been noticing a
number of current press reports where two rangers had participated
in the quelling of a riot or investigation of a crime.
After citing this observance to the ranger, the man asked,
how come two men are being assigned to some of
(28:06):
these cases now? Are the Rangers less effective than they
used to be? A lanky ranger shook his head. Oh no,
he said, one ranger is still sufficient to handle the
situation all right, But in these days of complex legal technicalities,
we've been sending two of them along, one to take
care of what trouble there is and the other one
to serve as a sort of a disinterested witness. Good night, folks,
(28:29):
see you next week.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Next week Toole McCray and another authentic reenactment of a
case from the files of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Joel McCray has currently seen starring in the MGM production.
Stars in Mike Crowns.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Tonight's past included Tony Barrett and Diamond her Figrant, Peggy Webber,
Tom McKee, Bill Johnstone, herb Ellis, and Barney Phillips. This
story was transcribed and adapted by Joel Murcock, and the
program was produced and directed.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
By Stacy Keach. This is hal get Me Speaking.
Speaker 8 (29:15):
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the Best in music on NBC Tomorrow Night, Gordon McRae
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The NBC Symphony presents a one hour concert featuring works
by Vivaldi, Wagner.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
And Stravinsky.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
Tomorrow's NBC Symphony concert marks the first in the series
under the baton of the widely acclaimed young conductor Guido Cantelly.
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