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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. Name, dates, and places
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in the following story are fixitious for obvious reasons. The
events themselves are a matter of records.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
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Speaker 3 (01:36):
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Speaker 2 (01:38):
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Speaker 4 (01:45):
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Speaker 2 (01:46):
Entertained when you tune to the NBC Radio Network. Now
let's get back to the tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
And now the files of the Texas Rangers. The case
called a Dress Unknown.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
It is just before noon on a hot day in
August nineteen forty in the Big Bend Country of Texas,
forty miles northeast of the Mexican border. A poorly dressed
woman trudges along a dirt road. With one hand, she
leads a four year old boy. In the other, she
carries a cheap cardboard suitcase.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
How far we got a walk, mama?
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Oh, quite appreciate before we get the bust off. Now
you come on, Tommy, give me your hand.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
How hungry?
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Yes, expect y'ad gott I reckon.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I could use a bit of food myself.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
What we got to eat, Mama.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
We'll go over across the road to sit under that tree.
Give us a little bit of shade anyhow, and we'll
use that old flat rock for table.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
What we got to eat?
Speaker 8 (02:51):
Something good?
Speaker 7 (02:52):
SATs sandwiches? We got the nice side meat? How am
can't blind tomorrow? Tommy when we get down, Josie, everybody
make it too thirsty to dain all this hot sum.
I want to drink, Mama, but I ain't gotten one.
Tommy left the house so fast this morning. I clean
forgot about bringing a jar water.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
But I'm thirsty, Tommy.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
We're just gonna have to wait a minute. That ranch
house over there, they ought to have some water. I'm thirsty, Tommy,
I need to see that house down the road.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Uh huh, Well.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
You just walk down then ask them if they got
a tin? Can they can give you some.
Speaker 9 (03:25):
Water in it?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
It's so far?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Will I be watching you?
Speaker 7 (03:29):
I go long now, I ain't mama, mind you don't
stop the plane. Now, just get the water and bring
it right back.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
I ain't, Mama, Can I lost some water? Can I
ask some water?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well? Now, look what we got here.
Speaker 10 (03:52):
There wasn't a little fella like you doing all the
way out here by yourself.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Well, mama wants a kin of water?
Speaker 10 (03:57):
W sure, soney, where's she at over there? We're back
on the road.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
We're going on Josie's.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Is that so?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Now?
Speaker 9 (04:06):
What's your names on me?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Tommy?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, Tommy, you come right on our back.
Speaker 9 (04:11):
We can see what we can do about getting you
some water.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
We got chickens and a horse.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
Yeah, now what kind of horse is?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
He means Robin and Tommy.
Speaker 10 (04:22):
Huh yeah, bet you make quite a pair.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And here's a cup full of water for.
Speaker 9 (04:28):
You and there and I reckon, we.
Speaker 10 (04:32):
Can put the water for your mom in this paint here.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You and your mam live around here?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Tell me do you will?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Eh?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (04:41):
Huh, hey, I know.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You're once some more water.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
M m.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, maybe i'd better ride your back to you.
Speaker 9 (04:51):
I'm on my car.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Do hat for a little fella like you to be walking?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Come on, not Tommy, Dan, Mommy and you on the
kind of sling?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So?
Speaker 9 (05:01):
Did you come fer?
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I don't know it?
Speaker 9 (05:04):
And you go tell me?
Speaker 10 (05:06):
And I slid all the way across. Now we just
put this pail in the middle here.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
It's your kind yeah, handed.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
Along time too. Now where'd you leave your mama?
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Over there? We got sidey fan Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I bet they're good too.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Your face looks funny?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
H you mean my whiskers?
Speaker 9 (05:31):
Eh?
Speaker 10 (05:32):
Well that's what happens when you don't shave for a
couple of days.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Now, don't cot no whispers, and.
Speaker 10 (05:37):
You'll get whispers soon enough to me. And when you do,
you wish you didn't have men. And this where you
left your mama?
Speaker 9 (05:45):
Uh huh a right, come on, tell me, come on there,
here we are, my.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Mammy ain't here? Where's my mama?
Speaker 10 (05:55):
Oh she's around there, summer suitcase and lunch is setting there.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Where's my mom?
Speaker 10 (06:00):
Now, Tommy, she'd probably be right back in a minute.
I'll give her a call, let her know that we're here.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Lady.
Speaker 10 (06:08):
Oh, lady, lady, where are you? Lady? Lady lady, I
got your little boy here.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
I mean she'd be way back now.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
After the rancher had waited half an hour for the
boy's mother to appear, he took Tommy back to his house.
Then he phoned Texas Ranger Company headquarters, located some thirty
miles to the north.
Speaker 9 (06:47):
Rangers Jason Pearson and Clay Morgan arrived an hour later.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
They went with a rancher and the boy to the
spot where a missing woman had last been seen.
Speaker 10 (06:55):
There, ranger suitcase, lunch spread out. Unless they're rough, I
just came't figure, Noh, Tommy, don't cry. Everything's gonna be alright.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
What's your other name? Tommy?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Tell me what?
Speaker 10 (07:10):
Tommy?
Speaker 9 (07:11):
Who else?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (07:14):
Now, Tommy?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Whoa? That's not gone away?
Speaker 9 (07:18):
Tell me here, Son, we're gonna find your mama. Play.
Take a look around. See if you can find anything, Georgias.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
What's that? What?
Speaker 9 (07:27):
Oh? That's my badge? What's your well? Where? Temmy? Where's
your daddy? Didn't he come with you?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
My daddy? Hill?
Speaker 9 (07:39):
I see where do you live? Tommy?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (07:43):
I don't know if it will help any ranger.
Speaker 10 (07:45):
But he said they lived in a place where they
were chickens, and they have a horse named Robin.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
Uh huh? Well did you walk over here from your house? Tommy?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, we got thirsty, he said.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
They rode in a car this morning. I might have
got a lyft parkway. Where were you going?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Tommy?
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Now, what is it? Clay?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Come on over here?
Speaker 11 (08:04):
Second?
Speaker 9 (08:05):
Can you stay here? Tommy? I'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, tell me you stay here with me, and if
you're real good, I'll let you ride.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
One of my horses.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
What you find? The tracks here leads into the brush,
and let's see where they go.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Figure?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
The woman could have run off and left the kid.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
Maybe doesn't seem likely she'd take off into the brush
like this. You know you're probably right left the suitcase
two if she Hey, Jason, look at that man on
the set of tracks coming into an angle much heavier
than the ones we've been following.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Could have been a man.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
It's like he was moving pretty fast too.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Come on, tracks are starting overlap. Maybe the second set
was made by somebody coming along after the woman had
already passed.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
No path going through here, not if anybody'd come this
way unless he had some special reason. Yeah, I wonder why,
Clay huh? Or there to the left, I'll have torn
brush piled up.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Looks like it's covering something.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Let's go have a look and pull the brush aside.
Yeah she is jish dead. Yeah, strangle beating up first.
Pretty powerful man. From the look at those marks on
her face and throat. There's a little person in the
pocket of her dress, anything in it?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Twelve dollars in a comb like won we can rule
out robbery.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
Uh huh, My poor little boy. Times like this when
I wish I'd never seen a badge and were gonna
tell him about this?
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (09:30):
I can't for a while. The thing we have to
do is keep his mind off his mother, and then
we find out more about him.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And guess you're right.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
Well, it looks Jason Killer didn't go any further into
the brush. Ah, he probably headed back for the road.
Let's see if we can pick up his trail. We
found the trail. The tracks came out on the road
fifty feet from where the dead woman's suitcase had been left.
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We checked the suitcase without finding any identification, and we
called for the Justice of the Peace and I waited
while Clay took Tommy Wilkes back to our headquarters. After
the JP arrived, we took the woman's body into town.
Was four thirty when I walked into the office where
Clay was talking to Tommy.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
All right, Tommy, you just played with these while I
go over and talk playing your pistol for amit?
Speaker 9 (10:17):
Him?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (10:19):
How you doing? I've been trying to keep him occupied.
Maybe those handcuffs were keep him busy for a well,
And he said, one of you didn't give me your pistol.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Maybe you think he didn't ask for him. He's a
swell kid, Jay said, I'm worn out. He's got more
energy in the two year old Bob gats Did you.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
Have him photographed?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah? We had to practically cheat him down to keep
him still.
Speaker 9 (10:35):
And see you got him some ice cream?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, he was hungry. He's already eating over half of it.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
I come, you got so much and.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I tried to get a pint. All they had left
was quarts.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
Find out any more about his family?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
No, maybe you better have tried it.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Oh, how's everything, Tommy?
Speaker 12 (10:50):
Right?
Speaker 9 (10:51):
We just sit and talk awhile huh?
Speaker 6 (10:54):
And if the roof.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Crew, yeah, I think you had enough, Tommy, enough for
roof cream? Oh alright, I Clay put a little more
ice cream in that dish. Sure, Temmy, you said you
were going to your aunt Josie's.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Here you are?
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Tell me when you fixed your farmies?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Mm?
Speaker 9 (11:10):
What's he mean? He likes it?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Stood up? Won't need it unless it's like soup.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Alright, now, let's see you like ice cream sometimes. Here
you are, Tommy? Is that better?
Speaker 10 (11:23):
Tell me?
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Did you ever go to your aunt Josie's before?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (11:27):
How long were you and your mama walking on the road?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Are you?
Speaker 9 (11:32):
Did you eat breakfast at home this morning?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Uh? Huh?
Speaker 9 (11:35):
I could narrow down a area some jess. Yeah, Tommy,
when did you wait a second? You're spilling ice cream
all down your sleeve? Here, I'll watch. What's the matter
where here? Just let me pull that sleeve back and
take a look.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Hey, that's an ugly looking black and blue Look.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
How'd you get this mark on your arm?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Tell me George did it?
Speaker 9 (11:57):
George? Is he your brother?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Where's you live?
Speaker 7 (12:02):
House?
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Why do you do it? Tell me? H?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
She said I was bad. I wasn't dead.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
He's George, A little boy or man?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Man?
Speaker 9 (12:14):
You're tired, Temmy, I want my mom to put me
to kit. We'll put you to bed, Tommy, a nice
big bed. Take him out and put him in that
cop the next room when you play.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Sure, come on to me, let's go.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
You gonna get me to bed down?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Sure.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
While Clay was putting Tommy to bed, I checked my
phone with the two post offices within a thirty mile
radius of the spot where Tommy's mother had been killed.
Nobody but the name of Wilkes was listed in the
entire area. We sent Tommy's pictured all newspapers in the vicinity.
The next morning, play and I took Tommy in the
car and started calling in the countryside and the hope
that he would recognize some landmark. By noon, we'd accomplished nothing.
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You get a little hungry, Tommy. Yeah, we see. If
we can't find some kind of store, soon we'll all
have lunch. Put butter, Yeah if you want.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Mam, just me peanut Butter. Who I don't like? Sam?
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Mm hmm?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
You like side me? Oh there's Pedro Pedro he comes
to see George.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
You mean that man on the borough we just passed. Yeah,
I'll back up.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Are you sure you know him?
Speaker 6 (13:29):
He's Pedro?
Speaker 9 (13:32):
Hey signor hold up a minute? Yeah, I mind coming
back here here. Tell me that's a boy.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Than he sounds funny?
Speaker 11 (13:46):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
You want?
Speaker 9 (13:47):
Your name? Pedro?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
See Pedro Sanchez.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
You ever see this little boy before?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I never seen him before.
Speaker 9 (13:56):
Just a minute to me, He says, he knows you
told us your name was Pedro.
Speaker 11 (14:00):
Say you're many people have that name. The little boy
you're making misteak.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Maybe it's a mustache. Make him think you know me?
Speaker 9 (14:10):
You sure you don't know the boy?
Speaker 11 (14:12):
Maybe he's seen me somewhorse than your boy. I don't
remember him.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
Jemmy here says you've been to his house says, you're
visiting somebody there by the name of George.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
George. Say this little boy him making mistake.
Speaker 11 (14:24):
You know how it is with the small ones, sometime
they have a large imagination.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
You live near here, Pedro.
Speaker 11 (14:30):
See maybe seven eight miles by the river on the border.
Speaker 9 (14:34):
See all right, I'm sorry we troubled him.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Well any time, any time at all.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Oh, by the way, is that general store down the
road still open?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Store?
Speaker 11 (14:43):
Oh see, it's all But thanks then, Jemmy, you're sure
that's the man who comes to see George.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
He comes to our house and set the table and
talks to George.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
I don't know, but you, maka Aje, could be a mistaker.
Tell me's imagination. Then again, it's just possible. Our friend
Pedro is lyon. In just a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
We will continue with Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
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now back to the Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
And our authentic story. Address unknown. After we left Pedro,
we drove down at Maria's General Store. We took Tommy
inside with us. One corner, two men sat playing checkers
and arguing in low voices. A large woman sat behind
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the counter, swatting as many flies as she could reach
from where she was sitting.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
When I was here, Senor, you are see such a
hot day. He comes so the flies to kill one fly?
You get ten in his place.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
We like to get some lunch.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
See, Senor, you have some cheese in the ice box.
If you got the time, I can make a jilli tacos.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
How about peanut butter? Jeeze?
Speaker 6 (17:24):
I get it.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
One bart peanut butter?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Anything else, Senor?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I love for bread and a bottle of milk.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
I see.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Hot, Senor, here's the bread and peanut butter.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I get the milk in a minute.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Her name is Marine.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
What you say? Tell me?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Her name is Marie?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
You remember my name Ema?
Speaker 9 (17:50):
You know this boy, Senor?
Speaker 7 (17:51):
See he comes here sometimes with his mother.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Tell me he suppose you go with that candy case
and pick out something you want. We'll be right over.
You know where this missus Wilkes lives?
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Will there, senor, Senora? Who bring a little boy here?
She's not name Weeks? Her name Collins?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Collins.
Speaker 9 (18:10):
Are you sure that's her name?
Speaker 7 (18:12):
That's what she called herself, Senors, and that's what I
call her.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
You know where her place is?
Speaker 7 (18:17):
She You go down the road two miles and then
you turn left. After maybe half a mile, you come
to her house.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
She and the little boy. The only ones who lived there.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Oh no, your she got husband.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Husband?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
His named George, Benny James.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
George Collins. He's a one. He come here sometimes to
drink beer.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Sounds like Tommy's mother must to remarry. And look at that,
Bruce and Tommy's arm might say, George Collins isn't a
very affectionate stepfather, Senora. You know a man named Pedro Sanchez.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
She he was here today, just a little while ago.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Have you ever seen him with George Collins.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Well, sometimes they are together here drinking beer.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Thanks, let's get Tommy. We're going to pay George Collins
a visit. We went to the Collins house. It was empty.
We guessed that nobody had been there that day. We're
pretty sure now that George Collins was involved in his
wife's murder. But before we could look for him, we
had to get Tommy taken care of for the night.
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On the way back to town, we radio at Austin
for a make on Collins. After we made arrangements for Tommy,
we went to headquarters and found a mug shot of
Collins that had come in on the wire. Photo together
with his record. He'd served a two year sentence for
car theft. Our problem was to find him. Had an
idea that Pedro Sanchez, the man we'd met that morning,
knew more than he had told us. After getting directions
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to his place from the general store, we took horses
and started out. Was nearly eleven that night when we
rode along the bank of the river and started up
a rocky slope. That should be a chase up there
near the tub. And I'll still be awake. Leonard's burning
in his window.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Why do you figure we lie to us this morning?
Speaker 9 (19:55):
The only thing I can think of he knows where
Collins is and doesn't want us to know. Nash view
of the river from here, Yeah a little cooler too. Oh, oh, chucky,
woe Dad who boy chase you reckon? Commins is hiding
out up here with chances. Maybe it's gonna take us
long to find out.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Mango. It's so much, so much noise.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You want to have to hope?
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Oh can we come in, Pedro, see come in to
your list? We wake you up?
Speaker 11 (20:29):
See so well, sleeper, your lantern lit. I most have
forgot to pull it out the baby if I moved
from the wind put it on the.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
Table, because are you expecting somebody.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Say why I give you that idea?
Speaker 9 (20:48):
I kind of thought that lander in the window might
be some sort of signal.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
See loll see you even make a mistake.
Speaker 9 (20:55):
I'm over here by the light, Pedro, look you wreckonognized
the man in this picture? Sign you should we understand.
He's a good friend of yours. His name is George
Collins Collins. I don't know such men. I never seen
him before in my life. Well you look sod. I
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tell the truth.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You always tell the truth, Pedro.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
She always This morning you said you didn't know the
little boy we had with us. He's George Collins stepson.
Speaker 11 (21:24):
What's the truth? Signor he make a mistake? I don't
know him and I never see this George Collins.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
Maria at the general store says.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
You have to believe these fat woman.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
She live if anybody's lying at you, Pedro, your life.
Share that lander in the window wasn't a signal for
Collins and put it back in the window.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Pedro for a senor.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
I'm gonna go out and move the horses play. Collins
is gonna show up. We don't want him to know.
He's got a reception committee.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I'm sleepy seal. It's almost longer.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I gotta sit the way Joe Collins gets you.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
So I think this Collins, he's not common. You're wasting
your thought.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Somebody's coming.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
When he comes, I'll get the door. Don't you make
a sound? Pedro? You hear, dude?
Speaker 12 (22:22):
You get put down?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
That your moor for me. That's the hold. Jeffrey.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
There he goes down the slope. Call it Collins. He's
heating for the river.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Him up, that's one got him.
Speaker 10 (22:38):
Maybe trying some kind of trick. Yeah, ain't got his shoulders.
He'll breathing though, must have just knocked him out. Turn
him over, yeah, gage, Yeah, it's not Collins.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Wait a minute. He must have been carrying this package heroin,
pretty good sized batch of it. So that's Pedro's racket, narcotics.
Where's Collins fit into this deal? Why Pedro wry about him?
I don't know, but I think Pedro is going to
give us the answer. We took Pedro and the man
(23:12):
we had shot back to town. After we put the
wounded man in the hospital, we drove Pedro to headquarters
and began asking him questions. His calmness had us puzzled.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I want to know why you lied to us about Colin.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
Pedro to say, is Collins mixed up in this narcotics
racket with you?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Well, ask me question, Senor send me to jail astead
of five years?
Speaker 9 (23:32):
How do you know it's only five years.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I've got a friend. First time he get caught, he
go to jail five years.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Where's Colins?
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Pedro?
Speaker 9 (23:39):
I don't know how, Lord, wait a minute, play, I've
got an idea. Why Pedro isn't talking. Maybe he thinks
as soon as he gets out of jail, he'd be
able to go right back into the narcotics business. He
figures Collins'll be waiting for him. Is that right? Pedro
to say, If that's what you think, you're wrong, because
when we catch Collins, he's going to be held for murder.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Walter, what do you mean.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
I'm pretty sure Collins killed his wife. Sooner or later
we'll find him, Pedro, and when we do, you'll go
on trial with him.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Me.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Oh, you don't do what they're killing.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
You got plenty to do with it. You know where
Collins is and won't tell us.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Sor You've got to believe me. I didn't know he's
mixed up in this.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
You wanna tell us what you do now? He's mixed
up in.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
See, Sir Collins, he is the man I've been working
for when the stuff come from Mexico, always before I
take it.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
To his house where we're supposed to take it.
Speaker 13 (24:29):
This time two days ago, Senior Colins come and he
say he must go away. He say, I have to
bring this stuff to him in San Antonio to a
hotel there, which one the Park Hotel. Senor, I got
nothing to do with this killing. You gotta believe me.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
Come on, play and just lock our friend up and
get moving. It's a long drive to San Antono. We
reached San Antono ten that morning. The Park Hotel was
a run down establishment that advertised rooms from a dollar up.
The desk clerk told us Collins and left word that
if anyone came for him, he could be found in
(25:04):
a barber shop down the street. Left the hotel and
started looking for it. That must be up down here, Jason.
It's the only barber shopping his block. Yeah, how do
you want to work it?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
We can go in and get him.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
Probably better wait till play. A man coming out of
the barber shop.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
It's Collins. All right, jac sees us he's running.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
Come on, he's talking in that restaurant.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Get around at the rear entrance.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Play, I'll go in the front, all right.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
The careful Jase.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Yeah, Hu, closer, Ranger.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Drop that gun. Collins, he's gonna wake me all the
people in here.
Speaker 11 (25:35):
Ranger.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
You wouldn't want to get hurt, would your?
Speaker 9 (25:38):
I love Collins?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I come up closer. You do want, I'll start shooting,
and I don't care.
Speaker 14 (25:41):
Who I hit.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
You got a narcotics in the murder rap already? You
wanna make it worse?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
How can I make it worse? I got nothing to lose.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
I'm going through this kitchen door.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Don't try to come after me.
Speaker 15 (25:52):
Nless you want someone out there and get hurt, drive
him play, you'll shut up.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Come on, Collins, you were going on out the back.
Let's keep right on going. It's all her fault. She
shouldn't have poked the nose in my business to up
your feet.
Speaker 11 (26:15):
Come on, all right, that little Bret Centers, who's going
to learn something bad from me?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Since she was going to the cop.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
That's why you killed the Collins.
Speaker 14 (26:24):
I had a call a force ran away. I had
to beat some sense in her head. Crazy woman, I'm
not keep moving great pushing. The biggest mistake I ever
made was married and I never should have married her.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
That's one thing we agree on, Collins. If you hadn't,
a little kid would still have his mother.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
You have just heard today.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
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Speaker 3 (27:15):
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Speaker 12 (27:26):
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Speaker 2 (27:51):
Hear the Sea Wolf today on Theater Guild on the Air.
And now back to the conclusion of today's Tales of
the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Tommy Wilkes was taken to the home of his aunt,
who identified him through a newspaper picture.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
George Collins revealed the.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Two other men who completed the narcotics ring. They were
picked up by Texas Rangers and all four men involved
were given prescribe jail terms. George Collins was found guilty
of murder with malice and was sentenced to life imprisonments
at Huntsville.
Speaker 12 (28:36):
Next week.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Jole McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a case from
the files of the Texas Rangers Joel McCrae will soon
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The cast included Tony Barrett, Lillian Bias, Dick Bials, Leo Kurley, Herbellus,
and Don Diamond. Technical advisor was Captain M. T. Lonewolf
Gonzalez of the Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed and
adapted by Charles E. Israel, and the program was produced
and directed by Stacy Teach hal Given
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Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger
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Speaker 1 (01:59):
And now the files of the Texas Rangers. The case
called a Dress Unknown.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
It is just before noon on a hot day in
August nineteen forty in the Big Bend Country of Texas,
forty miles northeast of the Mexican border. A poorly dressed
woman trudges along a dirt road. With one hand, she
leads a four year old boy. In the other, she
carries a cheap cardboard suitcase.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
How far we got a walk, mama?
Speaker 7 (02:31):
Oh, quite appreciate before we get the bust off. Now
you come on, Tommy, give me your hand.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
How hungry?
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Yes, expect y'ad gott I reckon.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I could use a bit of food myself.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
What we got to eat, Mama.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
We'll go over across the road to sit under that tree.
Give us a little bit of shade anyhow, and we'll
use that old flat rock for table.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
What we got to eat?
Speaker 8 (02:51):
Something good?
Speaker 7 (02:52):
SATs sandwiches? We got the nice side meat? How am
can't blind tomorrow? Tommy when we get down, Josie, everybody
make it too thirsty to dain all this hot sum.
I want to drink, Mama, but I ain't gotten one.
Tommy left the house so fast this morning. I clean
forgot about bringing a jar water.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
But I'm thirsty, Tommy.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
We're just gonna have to wait a minute. That ranch
house over there, they ought to have some water. I'm thirsty, Tommy,
I need to see that house down the road.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Uh huh, Well.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
You just walk down then ask them if they got
a tin? Can they can give you some.
Speaker 9 (03:25):
Water in it?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
It's so far?
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Will I be watching you?
Speaker 7 (03:29):
I go long now, I ain't mama, mind you don't
stop the plane. Now, just get the water and bring
it right back.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
I ain't, Mama, Can I lost some water? Can I
ask some water?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Well? Now, look what we got here.
Speaker 10 (03:52):
There wasn't a little fella like you doing all the
way out here by yourself.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Well, mama wants a kin of water?
Speaker 10 (03:57):
W sure, soney, where's she at over there? We're back
on the road.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
We're going on Josie's.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Is that so?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Now?
Speaker 9 (04:06):
What's your names on me?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Tommy?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Well, Tommy, you come right on our back.
Speaker 9 (04:11):
We can see what we can do about getting you
some water.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
We got chickens and a horse.
Speaker 9 (04:17):
Yeah, now what kind of horse is?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
He means Robin and Tommy.
Speaker 10 (04:22):
Huh yeah, bet you make quite a pair.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And here's a cup full of water for.
Speaker 9 (04:28):
You and there and I reckon, we.
Speaker 10 (04:32):
Can put the water for your mom in this paint here.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You and your mam live around here?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Tell me do you will?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Eh?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (04:41):
Huh, hey, I know.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You're once some more water.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
M m.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, maybe i'd better ride your back to you.
Speaker 9 (04:51):
I'm on my car.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Do hat for a little fella like you to be walking?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Come on, not Tommy, Dan, Mommy and you on the
kind of sling?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So?
Speaker 9 (05:01):
Did you come fer?
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I don't know it?
Speaker 9 (05:04):
And you go tell me?
Speaker 10 (05:06):
And I slid all the way across. Now we just
put this pail in the middle here.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
It's your kind yeah, handed.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
Along time too. Now where'd you leave your mama?
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Over there? We got sidey fan Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I bet they're good too.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Your face looks funny?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
H you mean my whiskers?
Speaker 9 (05:31):
Eh?
Speaker 10 (05:32):
Well that's what happens when you don't shave for a
couple of days.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Now, don't cot no whispers, and.
Speaker 10 (05:37):
You'll get whispers soon enough to me. And when you do,
you wish you didn't have men. And this where you
left your mama?
Speaker 9 (05:45):
Uh huh a right, come on, tell me, come on there,
here we are, my.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Mammy ain't here? Where's my mama?
Speaker 10 (05:55):
Oh she's around there, summer suitcase and lunch is setting there.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Where's my mom?
Speaker 10 (06:00):
Now, Tommy, she'd probably be right back in a minute.
I'll give her a call, let her know that we're here.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Lady.
Speaker 10 (06:08):
Oh, lady, lady, where are you? Lady? Lady lady, I
got your little boy here.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
I mean she'd be way back now.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
After the rancher had waited half an hour for the
boy's mother to appear, he took Tommy back to his house.
Then he phoned Texas Ranger Company headquarters, located some thirty
miles to the north.
Speaker 9 (06:47):
Rangers Jason Pearson and Clay Morgan arrived an hour later.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
They went with a rancher and the boy to the
spot where a missing woman had last been seen.
Speaker 10 (06:55):
There, ranger suitcase, lunch spread out. Unless they're rough, I
just came't figure, Noh, Tommy, don't cry. Everything's gonna be alright.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
What's your other name? Tommy?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Tell me what?
Speaker 10 (07:10):
Tommy?
Speaker 9 (07:11):
Who else?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (07:14):
Now, Tommy?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Whoa? That's not gone away?
Speaker 9 (07:18):
Tell me here, Son, we're gonna find your mama. Play.
Take a look around. See if you can find anything, Georgias.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
What's that? What?
Speaker 9 (07:27):
Oh? That's my badge? What's your well? Where? Temmy? Where's
your daddy? Didn't he come with you?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
My daddy? Hill?
Speaker 9 (07:39):
I see where do you live? Tommy?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (07:43):
I don't know if it will help any ranger.
Speaker 10 (07:45):
But he said they lived in a place where they
were chickens, and they have a horse named Robin.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
Uh huh? Well did you walk over here from your house? Tommy?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, we got thirsty, he said.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
They rode in a car this morning. I might have
got a lyft parkway. Where were you going?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Tommy?
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Now, what is it? Clay?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Come on over here?
Speaker 11 (08:04):
Second?
Speaker 9 (08:05):
Can you stay here? Tommy? I'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, tell me you stay here with me, and if
you're real good, I'll let you ride.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
One of my horses.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
What you find? The tracks here leads into the brush,
and let's see where they go.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Figure?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
The woman could have run off and left the kid.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
Maybe doesn't seem likely she'd take off into the brush
like this. You know you're probably right left the suitcase
two if she Hey, Jason, look at that man on
the set of tracks coming into an angle much heavier
than the ones we've been following.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Could have been a man.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
It's like he was moving pretty fast too.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Come on, tracks are starting overlap. Maybe the second set
was made by somebody coming along after the woman had
already passed.
Speaker 9 (08:45):
No path going through here, not if anybody'd come this
way unless he had some special reason. Yeah, I wonder why,
Clay huh? Or there to the left, I'll have torn
brush piled up.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Looks like it's covering something.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
Let's go have a look and pull the brush aside.
Yeah she is jish dead. Yeah, strangle beating up first.
Pretty powerful man. From the look at those marks on
her face and throat. There's a little person in the
pocket of her dress, anything in it?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Twelve dollars in a comb like won we can rule
out robbery.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
Uh huh, My poor little boy. Times like this when
I wish I'd never seen a badge and were gonna
tell him about this?
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (09:30):
I can't for a while. The thing we have to
do is keep his mind off his mother, and then
we find out more about him.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
And guess you're right.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
Well, it looks Jason Killer didn't go any further into
the brush. Ah, he probably headed back for the road.
Let's see if we can pick up his trail. We
found the trail. The tracks came out on the road
fifty feet from where the dead woman's suitcase had been left.
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We checked the suitcase without finding any identification, and we
called for the Justice of the Peace and I waited
while Clay took Tommy Wilkes back to our headquarters. After
the JP arrived, we took the woman's body into town.
Was four thirty when I walked into the office where
Clay was talking to Tommy.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
All right, Tommy, you just played with these while I
go over and talk playing your pistol for amit?
Speaker 9 (10:17):
Him?
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (10:19):
How you doing? I've been trying to keep him occupied.
Maybe those handcuffs were keep him busy for a well,
And he said, one of you didn't give me your pistol.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Maybe you think he didn't ask for him. He's a
swell kid, Jay said, I'm worn out. He's got more
energy in the two year old Bob gats Did you.
Speaker 9 (10:31):
Have him photographed?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah? We had to practically cheat him down to keep
him still.
Speaker 9 (10:35):
And see you got him some ice cream?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Yeah, he was hungry. He's already eating over half of it.
Speaker 9 (10:39):
I come, you got so much and.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I tried to get a pint. All they had left
was quarts.
Speaker 9 (10:43):
Find out any more about his family?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
No, maybe you better have tried it.
Speaker 9 (10:49):
Oh, how's everything, Tommy?
Speaker 12 (10:50):
Right?
Speaker 9 (10:51):
We just sit and talk awhile huh?
Speaker 6 (10:54):
And if the roof.
Speaker 9 (10:55):
Crew, yeah, I think you had enough, Tommy, enough for
roof cream? Oh alright, I Clay put a little more
ice cream in that dish. Sure, Temmy, you said you
were going to your aunt Josie's.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Here you are?
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Tell me when you fixed your farmies?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Mm?
Speaker 9 (11:10):
What's he mean? He likes it?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Stood up? Won't need it unless it's like soup.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Alright, now, let's see you like ice cream sometimes. Here
you are, Tommy? Is that better?
Speaker 10 (11:23):
Tell me?
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Did you ever go to your aunt Josie's before?
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (11:27):
How long were you and your mama walking on the road?
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Are you?
Speaker 9 (11:32):
Did you eat breakfast at home this morning?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Uh? Huh?
Speaker 9 (11:35):
I could narrow down a area some jess. Yeah, Tommy,
when did you wait a second? You're spilling ice cream
all down your sleeve? Here, I'll watch. What's the matter
where here? Just let me pull that sleeve back and
take a look.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Hey, that's an ugly looking black and blue Look.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
How'd you get this mark on your arm?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Tell me George did it?
Speaker 9 (11:57):
George? Is he your brother?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Where's you live?
Speaker 7 (12:02):
House?
Speaker 9 (12:02):
Why do you do it? Tell me? H?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
She said I was bad. I wasn't dead.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
He's George, A little boy or man?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Man?
Speaker 9 (12:14):
You're tired, Temmy, I want my mom to put me
to kit. We'll put you to bed, Tommy, a nice
big bed. Take him out and put him in that
cop the next room when you play.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Sure, come on to me, let's go.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
You gonna get me to bed down?
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Sure.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
While Clay was putting Tommy to bed, I checked my
phone with the two post offices within a thirty mile
radius of the spot where Tommy's mother had been killed.
Nobody but the name of Wilkes was listed in the
entire area. We sent Tommy's pictured all newspapers in the vicinity.
The next morning, play and I took Tommy in the
car and started calling in the countryside and the hope
that he would recognize some landmark. By noon, we'd accomplished nothing.
(13:04):
You get a little hungry, Tommy. Yeah, we see. If
we can't find some kind of store, soon we'll all
have lunch. Put butter, Yeah if you want.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Mam, just me peanut Butter. Who I don't like? Sam?
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Mm hmm?
Speaker 6 (13:17):
You like side me? Oh there's Pedro Pedro he comes
to see George.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
You mean that man on the borough we just passed. Yeah,
I'll back up.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Are you sure you know him?
Speaker 6 (13:29):
He's Pedro?
Speaker 9 (13:32):
Hey signor hold up a minute? Yeah, I mind coming
back here here. Tell me that's a boy.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Than he sounds funny?
Speaker 11 (13:46):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
You want?
Speaker 9 (13:47):
Your name? Pedro?
Speaker 4 (13:49):
See Pedro Sanchez.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
You ever see this little boy before?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
I never seen him before.
Speaker 9 (13:56):
Just a minute to me, He says, he knows you
told us your name was Pedro.
Speaker 11 (14:00):
Say you're many people have that name. The little boy
you're making misteak.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Maybe it's a mustache. Make him think you know me?
Speaker 9 (14:10):
You sure you don't know the boy?
Speaker 11 (14:12):
Maybe he's seen me somewhorse than your boy. I don't
remember him.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
Jemmy here says you've been to his house says, you're
visiting somebody there by the name of George.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
George. Say this little boy him making mistake.
Speaker 11 (14:24):
You know how it is with the small ones, sometime
they have a large imagination.
Speaker 9 (14:28):
You live near here, Pedro.
Speaker 11 (14:30):
See maybe seven eight miles by the river on the border.
Speaker 9 (14:34):
See all right, I'm sorry we troubled him.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Well any time, any time at all.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Oh, by the way, is that general store down the
road still open?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Store?
Speaker 11 (14:43):
Oh see, it's all But thanks then, Jemmy, you're sure
that's the man who comes to see George.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
He comes to our house and set the table and
talks to George.
Speaker 9 (14:58):
I don't know, but you, maka Aje, could be a mistaker.
Tell me's imagination. Then again, it's just possible. Our friend
Pedro is lyon. In just a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
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Speaker 1 (16:32):
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 9 (16:35):
And our authentic story. Address unknown. After we left Pedro,
we drove down at Maria's General Store. We took Tommy
inside with us. One corner, two men sat playing checkers
and arguing in low voices. A large woman sat behind
(16:55):
the counter, swatting as many flies as she could reach
from where she was sitting.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
When I was here, Senor, you are see such a
hot day. He comes so the flies to kill one fly?
You get ten in his place.
Speaker 9 (17:13):
We like to get some lunch.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
See, Senor, you have some cheese in the ice box.
If you got the time, I can make a jilli tacos.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
How about peanut butter? Jeeze?
Speaker 6 (17:24):
I get it.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
One bart peanut butter?
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Anything else, Senor?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I love for bread and a bottle of milk.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
I see.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Hot, Senor, here's the bread and peanut butter.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I get the milk in a minute.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Her name is Marine.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
What you say? Tell me?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Her name is Marie?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
You remember my name Ema?
Speaker 9 (17:50):
You know this boy, Senor?
Speaker 7 (17:51):
See he comes here sometimes with his mother.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Tell me he suppose you go with that candy case
and pick out something you want. We'll be right over.
You know where this missus Wilkes lives?
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Will there, senor, Senora? Who bring a little boy here?
She's not name Weeks? Her name Collins?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Collins.
Speaker 9 (18:10):
Are you sure that's her name?
Speaker 7 (18:12):
That's what she called herself, Senors, and that's what I
call her.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
You know where her place is?
Speaker 7 (18:17):
She You go down the road two miles and then
you turn left. After maybe half a mile, you come
to her house.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
She and the little boy. The only ones who lived there.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Oh no, your she got husband.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
Husband?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
His named George, Benny James.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
George Collins. He's a one. He come here sometimes to
drink beer.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
Sounds like Tommy's mother must to remarry. And look at that,
Bruce and Tommy's arm might say, George Collins isn't a
very affectionate stepfather, Senora. You know a man named Pedro Sanchez.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
She he was here today, just a little while ago.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Have you ever seen him with George Collins.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
Well, sometimes they are together here drinking beer.
Speaker 9 (18:58):
Thanks, let's get Tommy. We're going to pay George Collins
a visit. We went to the Collins house. It was empty.
We guessed that nobody had been there that day. We're
pretty sure now that George Collins was involved in his
wife's murder. But before we could look for him, we
had to get Tommy taken care of for the night.
(19:19):
On the way back to town, we radio at Austin
for a make on Collins. After we made arrangements for Tommy,
we went to headquarters and found a mug shot of
Collins that had come in on the wire. Photo together
with his record. He'd served a two year sentence for
car theft. Our problem was to find him. Had an
idea that Pedro Sanchez, the man we'd met that morning,
knew more than he had told us. After getting directions
(19:40):
to his place from the general store, we took horses
and started out. Was nearly eleven that night when we
rode along the bank of the river and started up
a rocky slope. That should be a chase up there
near the tub. And I'll still be awake. Leonard's burning
in his window.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Why do you figure we lie to us this morning?
Speaker 9 (19:55):
The only thing I can think of he knows where
Collins is and doesn't want us to know. Nash view
of the river from here, Yeah a little cooler too. Oh, oh, chucky,
woe Dad who boy chase you reckon? Commins is hiding
out up here with chances. Maybe it's gonna take us
long to find out.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Mango. It's so much, so much noise.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
You want to have to hope?
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Oh can we come in, Pedro, see come in to
your list? We wake you up?
Speaker 11 (20:29):
See so well, sleeper, your lantern lit. I most have
forgot to pull it out the baby if I moved
from the wind put it on the.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
Table, because are you expecting somebody.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Say why I give you that idea?
Speaker 9 (20:48):
I kind of thought that lander in the window might
be some sort of signal.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
See loll see you even make a mistake.
Speaker 9 (20:55):
I'm over here by the light, Pedro, look you wreckonognized
the man in this picture? Sign you should we understand.
He's a good friend of yours. His name is George
Collins Collins. I don't know such men. I never seen
him before in my life. Well you look sod. I
(21:15):
tell the truth.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You always tell the truth, Pedro.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
She always This morning you said you didn't know the
little boy we had with us. He's George Collins stepson.
Speaker 11 (21:24):
What's the truth? Signor he make a mistake? I don't
know him and I never see this George Collins.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
Maria at the general store says.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
You have to believe these fat woman.
Speaker 9 (21:34):
She live if anybody's lying at you, Pedro, your life.
Share that lander in the window wasn't a signal for
Collins and put it back in the window.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Pedro for a senor.
Speaker 9 (21:46):
I'm gonna go out and move the horses play. Collins
is gonna show up. We don't want him to know.
He's got a reception committee.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I'm sleepy seal. It's almost longer.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
I gotta sit the way Joe Collins gets you.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
So I think this Collins, he's not common. You're wasting
your thought.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
Somebody's coming.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (22:14):
When he comes, I'll get the door. Don't you make
a sound? Pedro? You hear, dude?
Speaker 12 (22:22):
You get put down?
Speaker 5 (22:23):
That your moor for me. That's the hold. Jeffrey.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
There he goes down the slope. Call it Collins. He's
heating for the river.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
Him up, that's one got him.
Speaker 10 (22:38):
Maybe trying some kind of trick. Yeah, ain't got his shoulders.
He'll breathing though, must have just knocked him out. Turn
him over, yeah, gage, Yeah, it's not Collins.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Wait a minute. He must have been carrying this package heroin,
pretty good sized batch of it. So that's Pedro's racket, narcotics.
Where's Collins fit into this deal? Why Pedro wry about him?
I don't know, but I think Pedro is going to
give us the answer. We took Pedro and the man
(23:12):
we had shot back to town. After we put the
wounded man in the hospital, we drove Pedro to headquarters
and began asking him questions. His calmness had us puzzled.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
I want to know why you lied to us about Colin.
Speaker 9 (23:23):
Pedro to say, is Collins mixed up in this narcotics
racket with you?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Well, ask me question, Senor send me to jail astead
of five years?
Speaker 9 (23:32):
How do you know it's only five years.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
I've got a friend. First time he get caught, he
go to jail five years.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Where's Colins?
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Pedro?
Speaker 9 (23:39):
I don't know how, Lord, wait a minute, play, I've
got an idea. Why Pedro isn't talking. Maybe he thinks
as soon as he gets out of jail, he'd be
able to go right back into the narcotics business. He
figures Collins'll be waiting for him. Is that right? Pedro
to say, If that's what you think, you're wrong, because
when we catch Collins, he's going to be held for murder.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Walter, what do you mean.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
I'm pretty sure Collins killed his wife. Sooner or later
we'll find him, Pedro, and when we do, you'll go
on trial with him.
Speaker 7 (24:07):
Me.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Oh, you don't do what they're killing.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
You got plenty to do with it. You know where
Collins is and won't tell us.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Sor You've got to believe me. I didn't know he's
mixed up in this.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
You wanna tell us what you do now? He's mixed
up in.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
See, Sir Collins, he is the man I've been working
for when the stuff come from Mexico, always before I
take it.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
To his house where we're supposed to take it.
Speaker 13 (24:29):
This time two days ago, Senior Colins come and he
say he must go away. He say, I have to
bring this stuff to him in San Antonio to a
hotel there, which one the Park Hotel. Senor, I got
nothing to do with this killing. You gotta believe me.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
Come on, play and just lock our friend up and
get moving. It's a long drive to San Antono. We
reached San Antono ten that morning. The Park Hotel was
a run down establishment that advertised rooms from a dollar up.
The desk clerk told us Collins and left word that
if anyone came for him, he could be found in
(25:04):
a barber shop down the street. Left the hotel and
started looking for it. That must be up down here, Jason.
It's the only barber shopping his block. Yeah, how do
you want to work it?
Speaker 3 (25:13):
We can go in and get him.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
Probably better wait till play. A man coming out of
the barber shop.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
It's Collins. All right, jac sees us he's running.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
Come on, he's talking in that restaurant.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Get around at the rear entrance.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Play, I'll go in the front, all right.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
The careful Jase.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Yeah, Hu, closer, Ranger.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Drop that gun. Collins, he's gonna wake me all the
people in here.
Speaker 11 (25:35):
Ranger.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
You wouldn't want to get hurt, would your?
Speaker 9 (25:38):
I love Collins?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I come up closer. You do want, I'll start shooting,
and I don't care.
Speaker 14 (25:41):
Who I hit.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
You got a narcotics in the murder rap already? You
wanna make it worse?
Speaker 4 (25:45):
How can I make it worse? I got nothing to lose.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
I'm going through this kitchen door.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Don't try to come after me.
Speaker 15 (25:52):
Nless you want someone out there and get hurt, drive
him play, you'll shut up.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Come on, Collins, you were going on out the back.
Let's keep right on going. It's all her fault. She
shouldn't have poked the nose in my business to up
your feet.
Speaker 11 (26:15):
Come on, all right, that little Bret Centers, who's going
to learn something bad from me?
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Since she was going to the cop.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
That's why you killed the Collins.
Speaker 14 (26:24):
I had a call a force ran away. I had
to beat some sense in her head. Crazy woman, I'm
not keep moving great pushing. The biggest mistake I ever
made was married and I never should have married her.
Speaker 9 (26:34):
That's one thing we agree on, Collins. If you hadn't,
a little kid would still have his mother.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
You have just heard today.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Two news shows in the NBC Entertainment lineup next on
this station, you'll hear the Chase, and then stay tuned
for your own favorite, The First Nighter with Barbara Laddy
and Olan Soulay, the original stars of the series. Later today,
it's Theater Guild on the air. Listen to this preview
of today's show.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
We haven't find a go. If we can just reach
the longboat, we'll have a chat. Wait, there's someone in
the shadows. Good morning, mister Van Biden and my dear
young lady.
Speaker 12 (27:26):
I'm sorry to be such a spoil sport, but you
see it's quite impossible to escape from my ship, and
if you move one step person of a long boat,
I shall be forced to shoot you both.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
This is Margaret Phillips.
Speaker 7 (27:40):
You have just led a seeing from the Sea Wolf,
the domatic production in which I have the pleasure to go.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
Start with Baris Carlos from Deg's narrative.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
This evening, I'm Theater Guild on the Air on NBC.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Hear the Sea Wolf today on Theater Guild on the Air.
And now back to the conclusion of today's Tales of
the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Tommy Wilkes was taken to the home of his aunt,
who identified him through a newspaper picture.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
George Collins revealed the.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Two other men who completed the narcotics ring. They were
picked up by Texas Rangers and all four men involved
were given prescribe jail terms. George Collins was found guilty
of murder with malice and was sentenced to life imprisonments
at Huntsville.
Speaker 12 (28:36):
Next week.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Jole McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a case from
the files of the Texas Rangers Joel McCrae will soon
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be seen in San Francisco's Story, a Warner Brothers release.
The cast included Tony Barrett, Lillian Bias, Dick Bials, Leo Kurley, Herbellus,
and Don Diamond. Technical advisor was Captain M. T. Lonewolf
Gonzalez of the Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed and
adapted by Charles E. Israel, and the program was produced
and directed by Stacy Teach hal Given
Speaker 4 (29:28):
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