August 8, 2025 • 30 mins
Chronicles the cases of a law enforcement officer in the American West, blending traditional Western themes with modern investigative techniques. The stories are based on real cases.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Pales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae's Ranger Chase Pearson.
Another authentic reenactment of Mcase transcribed.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
From the files of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Names, dates, and places in the following story are fictitious
for obvious reasons. The events themselves are a matter of records.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Right now, I'd like to give you some of the
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Rimsky Korsikov, and now back to Tales of the Texas Rangers, and.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Now from the Piles of the Texas Rangers, the case
called Birds of a Feather.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
It is three o'clock in the morning of February twenty third,
nineteen forty. The cold rain is falling in the town
of Baker, Texas. A car drives slowly through the darkness,
comes to a stop near the Union High School. The
two occupants sit looking up the street toward the school grounds.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Hold on the window. Freddy can see better. Huh oh, shure,
bet you now.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
We got it set for eight forty five this morning.
He'll come down this street heading for the school. We'll
be right here waiting for him. Suppose don't you he will?
And I've been checking it every day for a week.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I suppose it. Don't Suppose something goes wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Nothing's gonna go wrong, goes out to shack. Now we
want to have everything ready for him. You'll be driving,
nim it. What's the matter to you, Freddy? You ain't
even listening per show? Sure heard of a word to say?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Or what did I say? Joe's out of the shock?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And what we guess? I must have missed it, Yeah,
you must have. You're scared, ain't you?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Freddy?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Ain't you?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So I'm scared. Who wouldn't be on a job like this?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Look, Ben, why don't we stick to filling station? We're
making living living? Fifteen bucks here twenty there? What kind
of living?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Said?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
We'll get more office job and we hitting one hundred
filling stations.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I don't like it, Ben, I just don't like it.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Let's get out of here, roll up, you win all right.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I'll tell you something, Freddy, Joe ain't gonna be happy
when he finds out you've been crying like this.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I know.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Shut up and listen. This thing we got planned, it's big.
We can't afford no slip ups. I just relax, three
of us always done, alright, not.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Sure, but we never tried nothing like this before.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Oh. Sure, if it goes okay, you win a lot.
But if if you lose, it's for good. We ain't
gonna lose what I okay, Ben, you set for the job.
I I won't argue, only I'm pulling. Now you're what? Well,
I can't help it if I'm scared? Can I? Oh?
Why don't you say something? Look?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Ben, you won't joke and handle a job, but don't
need three men out.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I might just lost yet? Yeah? Yeah, you just mind? Well,
I I wouldn't do you no good feeling like I do?
You know? I I catch a train back to Damn.
I s mo, Sure, Freddie? Sure, I wouldn't want you
to do nothing? You're scared of him?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh, I'm sure glad you feel that we've been I
just Freddie'd be so me?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Freddy, No, we've been through too much together for me
to get so at you.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
And if you don't wanna, what's matter me? Cor feels funny?
Must be this old road. No, it ain't the road.
It feels like the baptized flat. Maybe a better stop.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Got the flash out of the dashboard and take a
look out, Freddy?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
All right, you see anything?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Right?
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Real?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Looks okay? She as well? Here? What about this? And
bring a light over it? All right? Well that's okay too.
What can you imagine them? Things? Man.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah, I am of the flash, Freddy, suh.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, let's get.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Ben. What'd you do with the gun?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
You were right, Freddy, Joe and me can't handle the
job alone. We don't need you.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Ben.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
No, like you said yourself, you might lost herself.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I said I was leading town. You never hear from
me again.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
How much you'll know about the job, Freddy, you'll know
who've done it, and don't be crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Shortly up it's a seven.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That morning, a farmer on his way to town noticed
a man lying in some brush by the side of
the road. He was still alive but unconscious. While an
ambulance took him to the hospital in Baker, the sheriff
requested the assistance of a Texas Ranger. Ranger Jase Prison
was a sign joining the sheriff in the hospital waiting room.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
An hour later. Hello Sheriff, Hi, je mat you good.
Make it so coos over the next county. This man
who was shot as he's still alive, just barely. Doc
said he'd call me if there's any change, find any identification.
Draftguard we found on him, said Fred Meeter gave us
homeless Dallas. You ever see him around before? No, he
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might have been just passing through Baker and the report
I got said he was found on a side road
outside of town. That's right about two miles up the
old Copper Canyon Road. Probably wasn't just passing through then,
sounds more like he was heading for some place around here.
Maybe you're right. I'm hoping he can tell us about
it directly. I better send his name and description in
the headquarters anyhow, maybe they can give us a lead
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doc now or anything new.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Dot, You and a ranger better come with me, Shaft.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Sure, come on, Jason, he's meet her conscious.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Doctor or not yet, but there's a chance he may
be any minute.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
You think he'll be able to talk? Yah, if he
regains consciousness at all, he'll probably be able to talk.
I think he might die without coming too.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
And it's possible he's lost a lot of blood and
the bullets entered is left blung.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Here we are as you can leave him down there,
I'll stay with him. Looks as seeing as he did
a while back. Not quite. Also a little weaker respiration floor.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I'm afraid he's just about finished.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
No chance of he is pulling through m sounds like
he's coming to How about a doc well, sometime just
before then. They do you see in his eyes? I'm
sorry if I talk to him now, certainly, Fred, can
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you hear me? He did hear you? Jeez, who shot you? Fred?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Tell us? Who shot you? Look, Jesse, he's trying to
say something.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
John John Warren just a minute, chare hurt. I'm sorry, Ranger, Yeah, thanks, doctor,
let's go shoff.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
You know the name John Warren, Riff, sure do? Jeez
this Meeter Philly. He's all wrong. Why John Warren is
one of the leading citizens in Baker Has he lived
nearby about a mile out of town. Jeez, this don't
make sense. I know John Way Well, he wouldn't have
any connection with a kid like that and something we
better make sure of. Come on, Sheriff, we're gonna visit
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mister Warren. It was nine thirty am when we left
the hospital. Iphoned headquarters, gave him all the information I
had on Fred Meeter and asked for a report as
quickly as possible. Then we headed for John Warren's home.
It was a rambling ranch type house set back in
the low hills just outside town. Mister Warren opened the
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door for us himself. Adjah Well Sherrie, this is a
pleasant surprise.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Come in, come in the facts. This is Ranger, patient John.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Howdy, Ranger. Come on over here by the fire. He'll
sit down. Eh, you're glad you stopped by. I'm afraid
this isn't a social call, mister Warren. Oh, we have
no matter. Glad to see you anyhow. Hey, he's lonely
around here. Boys at school all day. You know, sometimes
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I think I shouldn't have retired so young? Are you
and the sheriff on some coffee? Ranger? No thanks, I'd
like to ask you some questions, mister Warren, Sure, go ahead.
Early this morning, a young man named Fred Meader was
shot on the side road near Baker. That's so well, sorry,
do you hear it? Sorry? Do you hear it? He
don't help the town to have things like that happen here. Oh,
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no reflection on you, sheriff. Uh, you know who shot
the fella. I'm coming to that. The sheriff and I
were with him in the hospital just before he died.
He mentioned your name, Ryaney. Well that's crazy. I didn't
know this Fred Meeterer. Yeah, Fred Mead, I have even
heard of him. Well, Sheriff, youn't even French with near
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ten years. You don't believe this stuff, do you? He
did mention your name, John. I don't know what to say.
I just don't know what to see. You haven't always
lived around here? Have you missed a Warren? No? No,
I moved here ten years ago after my wife. And
where'd you live before? Dallas got some more lashes near there?
Fred Meeterer was from Dallas too. You sure you didn't
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know him? Ranger, You've got to believe me. I don't
know what this is all about, but there's some mistake
somewhere that there's got to be. Maybe there is, mister one.
But until we find out what it is, we'd like
you to stay in town. Let's go, Sheriff. We drove
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back to the Sheriff's office, arriving there just before noon.
Sheriff went in to talk to his deputy while I
stayed at the trailer to give Charcoal his feet back.
Five minutes later, I joined the sheriff in his office. Jeez,
look at fish. Well, yeah, what is a message from Austin?
Deputy just gave it to me. Anything about Fred Meeter,
you bet there is. Fred Meeterer had a record three
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convictions for larceny, filling station jobs, anything else. Yeah, seems
he worked with a gang picked up each time with
two other fellas, Ben Morphine and Joe Wills. It could
be something we'll get out to pick up on him.
There's something else, Jase, Fred Meeter, Ben Morphine, Joe Wills
all worked at one time for the Warren Oil Company,
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John Warren's outfit. That's it. Get your hat, Sheriff. I've
just thought of a few more questions to ask mister Warren.
Kind of funny you don't answer. His car's still in
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the garage. Try again, Sheriff. Who's there? Ranger Pearson, Sheriff Holmes,
go away?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
You better open up, John, I said go away.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
And I had him all wrong, Jess. Let me handle
a sheriff all right, mister Warren, if you want it
that way, we'll be back with a Warren for your arrest.
Why do you want to come around bothering me? Why
don't you go away and leave me?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Be?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Let us in? John, I come on you. Why didn't
you want to see us? Mister Warren? I can't tell you.
All right, we'll skip that for a minute. This morning
you said you didn't know Fred Meeter that's right. How
many times have I got to tell you? How about
Ben Morphy and Joe Wills? You know then I never
heard of him. Why don't you go away and leave
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me be, mister Warren. All three of those men worked
for your oil company. You know, maybe they did, had
hundreds of men working for me. I didn't know all
the names. What's had got to do with you'd forgotten
that Fred Meeter named you just before he died. No,
you want to tell us why he did? All right,
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I'll tell you. I didn't know when you were here before.
Now I do it. It wasn't me that Meter was
talking about. He said your name, John, I heard him.
It wasn't my name. Did you ever stop to think
that I I've got a son, young Johnny. But he's
just a kid. Yeah, just a kid. And they're the
killin my boy, mister w They said, if I told
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the police that kill him, I don't want him get die, arranger,
you hear me? I want my boy a lie easy? Now, John,
don't you understand this this note I just got they've
kidnapped my boy.
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We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story Birds of a Feather.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
The kidnapped note had arrived in the mail that morning,
but Warren had not picked it up until a few
minutes before we arrived. It was a crudely printed message,
unsigned and mailed the night before in Baker. It asked
ten thousand dollars for the return of the boy. The
money was to be brought in fifty dollars bills to
a shack and copper Canyon at four o'clock that afternoon.
It was now one fifteen. While we read the note,
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one paced back and forth across the room. John walking
back and forth like that ain't gonna do no good.
Why don't you sit down? Sure you can say that
it's not your boy that got out there in the cold, now, John,
that ain't fair. You know, I feel bad about this.
No you do, Sheriff. I'm sorry, mister Warren. Are you
sure they've actually picked up your son? Well, they must have.
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I called the school right after I got the note.
Johnny never showed up there today. That means they've had
him since before nine this morning. What's the use of
talking about it. Just let me leave the money and
get my boy back. We'd like to help you get
him back. You've read what are sitting the note if
I bring the police in, Mister Warren, what I'm going
to say will sound pretty blunt, but I want you
to think about it. I can't think now just a minute.
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You must believe that once the kidnappers get the money,
they're going to take the trouble to bring your son back. Well,
Ranger's right, John, they wouldn't do that too much we
have getting caught. You mean it, Even if I leave
them on it, they'll kill Jolie. I'm not saying they will,
but they might look at it this way. Sure, the
note said they'd bring your son back, but did it
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say when or how? Well? No, I've seen a lot
of these cases, mister Warren. I know how tragically most
of them end because the victim doesn't call in the police.
All right, what do you want me to do? First
of all, you've got to understand one thing. We'll do
our best to help you, but it's humanly impossible to
guarantee anything. I understand that. Ringer good. Let's see, it's
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one twenty. How long will it take us to get
the Copper Canyon Sheriff. Well, if we cut across the
back of this range, shouldn't take us a word minutes
on Horsey. Good, you've got a horse for the sheriff,
mister Warren, sure have corrals full of them. Is there
some place we can watch the shack without being seen?
I reckon the best place be along the rim of
the canyon. It wouldn't spot us there. I don't suppose
you have all that cash handy, mister Warren. I'll have
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to get it from the bank. You know any of
the bank officials, Well, the president one of my best friends,
and get the money directly from him. Have him mark
the bills and record the serial numbers. Well he want
to know why? Tell him? I'd ask him not say
anything to anybody. All right, Rachel, we'll be taken off now.
You can ride to the canyon. As soon as you
have the money, you want me to leave it there,
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just like they said. That's right. We'll be watching and
we're gonna count on catching whoever picks it up. I
contacted headquarters by radio and requested an area blockade of
the region around Baker. Then the sheriff and I started off.
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It was two o'clock when we reached the rim of
Copper Canyon. An icy wind was blowing in from the north.
We dismounted and eased over to the edge of the ridge.
The shack was clearly visible two hundred yards below. We waited.
At three point fifty five we spotted one riding up
the canyon. He's right on time.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Jeez, you reckon, somebody's waiting for him in that shack.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Maybe shouldn't be long before we find out, don't get
strike you funny that they only ask ten thousand, John
must be worth close to a mision. They could have
got fifty thousand easy. This is a small time larsony
gang sheriff. Ten thousand must look pretty big to them. Yeah,
poor John.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Sure hope we can get that kid back to him.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
I make a good try there he goes open the
door of the shack. Uh huh, better get ready, there's
anybody in there. We don't want to lose him. I'm ready,
but one of the kidnappers easy him there. You could
pluck him easy with that rifle when he comes out.
That wouldn't be any good sheriff, and we'd never find
out whether they're hiding the boy. There's John again.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Jeez, he's waving at us to come down.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
Now.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
What I'm on Sheriff. Let's go down and see what
he wants. There's something I don't like about this, Jase.
Why with John backing us down here like he did.
There's only one way to find out. We'll know in
a minute.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I don't see him around. He must have gone back
into the shack.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Oh, oh, tarky, Oh, be careful, open in, Sheriff. Maybe
some kind of trap, that's the one. S all right, Ray, John,
come on here. Look look what's in his cage. I'll
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be done. The pigeons. What's that strapped on the backs?
CAPSI used to carry messages or money the homing pigeon,
Sheriff and knew it wouldn't work, Ranger. These men are clever.
They don't take chances. Do they leave any instructions? Yeah?
What you say, Jace. Mister Warren is supposed to divide
the money in ten parts and put it in those
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capsules on the pigeons. Yes, and then I release the
pigeons and they fly wherever the men are well lit, Ranger,
I'm not so sure. But if I don't do like
they say, they'll kill my boy. You'll do exactly as
they say, mister Warren. As these pigeons are gonna lead
us to your son. But Jase, we can't follow homan
pigeons on a horseman, I alone, the sheriff. We're gonna
have help. What kind of help? A plane? I'll use
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that walkie talkie out there in my saddle. Have our
nearest unit contact Austin ask him to send one of
the ranger planes over here. Sounds like a good idea.
Jes suppose they do bring a plane in. How'll that'll
help you find my boy. We won't release the pigeons
till the plane gets here. Then the area unit will
keep radio contact with us and lead us to the
place where the pigeons land. You you reckon it'll work,
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I hope, So you stay here with mister Warren, Sheriff.
I'll be back in ten minutes. I rode the higher
ground so my radio signal would carry. I contacted the
highway patrol car. It relayed my message to Austin headquarters
said they could have Unit nine oh two, our ranger
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plain overhead in twenty five minutes. Then I went down
to the shack again and we waited.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Things should be getting here anytime now.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Jeez, I wish that hurry I thought I heard it
a second ago. Yeah, there it is in from the
southeast where oh I see it. Now, how about the pigeons,
mister Warren, they're all ready to go. Bring the cage
out of the shack with your sheriff for sure. You
think the clean Jesus yet? I don't know, but I
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can call him now. Unit ten, the unit nine oh two,
Go ahead, Unit nine oh two, nine two, the unit
ten and directly above upper canyon.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Indicate your position.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Unit ten next to shack at north end of canyon floor.
Can you spot us? Gotcha? Relay instruction. Pigeons are all
set chase fine. This unit will release ten pigeons. Follow
them and locate landing place. Request you maintain radio contact
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with us. Stand by for release of pigeons. Ten four
two clear. All right, Sheriff, open the cage and let
the pigeons go.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
They're not wasting any time getting away.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
We've held it up too long. We half an hour elite. Now.
Don't worry, mister Warren. The men are waiting and probably
think they're pretty safe. Pigeons are head niece, Jason. I'm
going ahead in that direction too. Get in touch with
you as soon as possible, mister Warren. Let's go share,
Get up, get out. Oo. We've been riding for over
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ten minutes. Jase, shouldn't we be hearing from your plane.
He's probably got moren he can do, just keeping his
eye on those pigeons we all have from it.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
I sure hope it soon gets stuck early these days.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
That could be him coming in now oo. Unit ten
the nine oh two, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Shoot it just got off moder I'm blinded to avoid detection.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Is my signal?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Clear?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Signal Claire, nine oh two. Pigeons are now landing.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
At chack do he's your form of position check?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Located at base of the hill where dry wash makes
for shoe bin. That's the old Martinez shack. Jeez, been
empty for years. Sounds like it's occupied now. Thanks nine
oh two. We'll take it from here. Unit ten, Claire
ten nine o two clear? How far is the Martinez
Shack from here? Sheriff four miles maybe five at the most.
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And we got a knock on the sheriff. No telling
what their plans are now, get that's in Jason up ahead?
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Oh who charky, Oh boy, he's we didn't make it
any too soon. Get the dark already. Better leave the
horses here. I wonder if they're still inside the shack.
There's your answer, sheriff. Car hidden in that brush. Must
have driven up this dry wash. How do you figure
to take it, Jason? They won't be expecting us. The
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best ways to break in and get him before they
can hurt that boy if they haven't heard him already. Yeah,
when we get to the door, we'd like to give
the word to go in. Got you jas, Come.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
On, pigeons. At least we know we got the right place.
You ready share for you?
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Says Yeah, I think we just nicked the other one.
I'm hurt. I've hurt. That's on your shoulder. Where's the boy?
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Here's the back room. See he's all right. Sure. Your
name is Joe Wills. Joe's over there. Get me to
a doctor, will you? Young Warren's all right, I'm on
tying God. You must be Ben Morphy. He get me
to a doctor whom I short. There's nothing wrong with
your legs. Ben. Get up. It's a long trip to
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Huntsville and you're walking the first part.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case.
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You have just heard.
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Speaker 5 (28:21):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Soon after the arrest, Ben Morphy confessed to the killing
of the third member of the gang, Fred Meda. He
was tried and convicted on dual counts of kidnapping and
first degree murder on August thirty first, nineteen forty one.
He died in the electric chair at unspilled penitature.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Next week, Joe McCray and another authmentic reenactment of a
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The Texas Rangers.
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From the files of the Texas Rangers.
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Speaker 1 (02:00):
Now from the Piles of the Texas Rangers, the case
called Birds of a Feather.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
It is three o'clock in the morning of February twenty third,
nineteen forty. The cold rain is falling in the town
of Baker, Texas. A car drives slowly through the darkness,
comes to a stop near the Union High School. The
two occupants sit looking up the street toward the school grounds.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Hold on the window. Freddy can see better. Huh oh, shure,
bet you now.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
We got it set for eight forty five this morning.
He'll come down this street heading for the school. We'll
be right here waiting for him. Suppose don't you he will?
And I've been checking it every day for a week.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I suppose it. Don't Suppose something goes wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Nothing's gonna go wrong, goes out to shack. Now we
want to have everything ready for him. You'll be driving,
nim it. What's the matter to you, Freddy? You ain't
even listening per show? Sure heard of a word to say?
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Or what did I say? Joe's out of the shock?
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And what we guess? I must have missed it, Yeah,
you must have. You're scared, ain't you?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Freddy?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Ain't you?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So I'm scared. Who wouldn't be on a job like this?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Look, Ben, why don't we stick to filling station? We're
making living living? Fifteen bucks here twenty there? What kind
of living?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Said?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
We'll get more office job and we hitting one hundred
filling stations.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I don't like it, Ben, I just don't like it.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Let's get out of here, roll up, you win all right.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
I'll tell you something, Freddy, Joe ain't gonna be happy
when he finds out you've been crying like this.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
I know.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Shut up and listen. This thing we got planned, it's big.
We can't afford no slip ups. I just relax, three
of us always done, alright, not.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Sure, but we never tried nothing like this before.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Oh. Sure, if it goes okay, you win a lot.
But if if you lose, it's for good. We ain't
gonna lose what I okay, Ben, you set for the job.
I I won't argue, only I'm pulling. Now you're what? Well,
I can't help it if I'm scared? Can I? Oh?
Why don't you say something? Look?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Ben, you won't joke and handle a job, but don't
need three men out.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I might just lost yet? Yeah? Yeah, you just mind? Well,
I I wouldn't do you no good feeling like I do?
You know? I I catch a train back to Damn.
I s mo, Sure, Freddie? Sure, I wouldn't want you
to do nothing? You're scared of him?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh, I'm sure glad you feel that we've been I
just Freddie'd be so me?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Freddy, No, we've been through too much together for me
to get so at you.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
And if you don't wanna, what's matter me? Cor feels funny?
Must be this old road. No, it ain't the road.
It feels like the baptized flat. Maybe a better stop.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Got the flash out of the dashboard and take a
look out, Freddy?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
All right, you see anything?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Right?
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Real?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Looks okay? She as well? Here? What about this? And
bring a light over it? All right? Well that's okay too.
What can you imagine them? Things? Man.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah, I am of the flash, Freddy, suh.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, let's get.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Ben. What'd you do with the gun?
Speaker 4 (05:28):
You were right, Freddy, Joe and me can't handle the
job alone. We don't need you.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Ben.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
No, like you said yourself, you might lost herself.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
I said I was leading town. You never hear from
me again.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
How much you'll know about the job, Freddy, you'll know
who've done it, and don't be crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Shortly up it's a seven.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
That morning, a farmer on his way to town noticed
a man lying in some brush by the side of
the road. He was still alive but unconscious. While an
ambulance took him to the hospital in Baker, the sheriff
requested the assistance of a Texas Ranger. Ranger Jase Prison
was a sign joining the sheriff in the hospital waiting room.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
An hour later. Hello Sheriff, Hi, je mat you good.
Make it so coos over the next county. This man
who was shot as he's still alive, just barely. Doc
said he'd call me if there's any change, find any identification.
Draftguard we found on him, said Fred Meeter gave us
homeless Dallas. You ever see him around before? No, he
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might have been just passing through Baker and the report
I got said he was found on a side road
outside of town. That's right about two miles up the
old Copper Canyon Road. Probably wasn't just passing through then,
sounds more like he was heading for some place around here.
Maybe you're right. I'm hoping he can tell us about
it directly. I better send his name and description in
the headquarters anyhow, maybe they can give us a lead
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doc now or anything new.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Dot, You and a ranger better come with me, Shaft.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Sure, come on, Jason, he's meet her conscious.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Doctor or not yet, but there's a chance he may
be any minute.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
You think he'll be able to talk? Yah, if he
regains consciousness at all, he'll probably be able to talk.
I think he might die without coming too.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
And it's possible he's lost a lot of blood and
the bullets entered is left blung.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Here we are as you can leave him down there,
I'll stay with him. Looks as seeing as he did
a while back. Not quite. Also a little weaker respiration floor.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I'm afraid he's just about finished.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
No chance of he is pulling through m sounds like
he's coming to How about a doc well, sometime just
before then. They do you see in his eyes? I'm
sorry if I talk to him now, certainly, Fred, can
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you hear me? He did hear you? Jeez, who shot you? Fred?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Tell us? Who shot you? Look, Jesse, he's trying to
say something.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
John John Warren just a minute, chare hurt. I'm sorry, Ranger, Yeah, thanks, doctor,
let's go shoff.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
You know the name John Warren, Riff, sure do? Jeez
this Meeter Philly. He's all wrong. Why John Warren is
one of the leading citizens in Baker Has he lived
nearby about a mile out of town. Jeez, this don't
make sense. I know John Way Well, he wouldn't have
any connection with a kid like that and something we
better make sure of. Come on, Sheriff, we're gonna visit
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mister Warren. It was nine thirty am when we left
the hospital. Iphoned headquarters, gave him all the information I
had on Fred Meeter and asked for a report as
quickly as possible. Then we headed for John Warren's home.
It was a rambling ranch type house set back in
the low hills just outside town. Mister Warren opened the
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door for us himself. Adjah Well Sherrie, this is a
pleasant surprise.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Come in, come in the facts. This is Ranger, patient John.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Howdy, Ranger. Come on over here by the fire. He'll
sit down. Eh, you're glad you stopped by. I'm afraid
this isn't a social call, mister Warren. Oh, we have
no matter. Glad to see you anyhow. Hey, he's lonely
around here. Boys at school all day. You know, sometimes
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I think I shouldn't have retired so young? Are you
and the sheriff on some coffee? Ranger? No thanks, I'd
like to ask you some questions, mister Warren, Sure, go ahead.
Early this morning, a young man named Fred Meader was
shot on the side road near Baker. That's so well, sorry,
do you hear it? Sorry? Do you hear it? He
don't help the town to have things like that happen here. Oh,
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no reflection on you, sheriff. Uh, you know who shot
the fella. I'm coming to that. The sheriff and I
were with him in the hospital just before he died.
He mentioned your name, Ryaney. Well that's crazy. I didn't
know this Fred Meeterer. Yeah, Fred Mead, I have even
heard of him. Well, Sheriff, youn't even French with near
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ten years. You don't believe this stuff, do you? He
did mention your name, John. I don't know what to say.
I just don't know what to see. You haven't always
lived around here? Have you missed a Warren? No? No,
I moved here ten years ago after my wife. And
where'd you live before? Dallas got some more lashes near there?
Fred Meeterer was from Dallas too. You sure you didn't
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know him? Ranger, You've got to believe me. I don't
know what this is all about, but there's some mistake
somewhere that there's got to be. Maybe there is, mister one.
But until we find out what it is, we'd like
you to stay in town. Let's go, Sheriff. We drove
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back to the Sheriff's office, arriving there just before noon.
Sheriff went in to talk to his deputy while I
stayed at the trailer to give Charcoal his feet back.
Five minutes later, I joined the sheriff in his office. Jeez,
look at fish. Well, yeah, what is a message from Austin?
Deputy just gave it to me. Anything about Fred Meeter,
you bet there is. Fred Meeterer had a record three
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convictions for larceny, filling station jobs, anything else. Yeah, seems
he worked with a gang picked up each time with
two other fellas, Ben Morphine and Joe Wills. It could
be something we'll get out to pick up on him.
There's something else, Jase, Fred Meeter, Ben Morphine, Joe Wills
all worked at one time for the Warren Oil Company,
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John Warren's outfit. That's it. Get your hat, Sheriff. I've
just thought of a few more questions to ask mister Warren.
Kind of funny you don't answer. His car's still in
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the garage. Try again, Sheriff. Who's there? Ranger Pearson, Sheriff Holmes,
go away?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
You better open up, John, I said go away.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
And I had him all wrong, Jess. Let me handle
a sheriff all right, mister Warren, if you want it
that way, we'll be back with a Warren for your arrest.
Why do you want to come around bothering me? Why
don't you go away and leave me?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Be?
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Let us in? John, I come on you. Why didn't
you want to see us? Mister Warren? I can't tell you.
All right, we'll skip that for a minute. This morning
you said you didn't know Fred Meeter that's right. How
many times have I got to tell you? How about
Ben Morphy and Joe Wills? You know then I never
heard of him. Why don't you go away and leave
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me be, mister Warren. All three of those men worked
for your oil company. You know, maybe they did, had
hundreds of men working for me. I didn't know all
the names. What's had got to do with you'd forgotten
that Fred Meeter named you just before he died. No,
you want to tell us why he did? All right,
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I'll tell you. I didn't know when you were here before.
Now I do it. It wasn't me that Meter was
talking about. He said your name, John, I heard him.
It wasn't my name. Did you ever stop to think
that I I've got a son, young Johnny. But he's
just a kid. Yeah, just a kid. And they're the
killin my boy, mister w They said, if I told
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the police that kill him, I don't want him get die, arranger,
you hear me? I want my boy a lie easy? Now, John,
don't you understand this this note I just got they've
kidnapped my boy.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
In a moment, we will continue with Tales of the
Texas Rangers starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
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back to Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story Birds of a Feather.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
The kidnapped note had arrived in the mail that morning,
but Warren had not picked it up until a few
minutes before we arrived. It was a crudely printed message,
unsigned and mailed the night before in Baker. It asked
ten thousand dollars for the return of the boy. The
money was to be brought in fifty dollars bills to
a shack and copper Canyon at four o'clock that afternoon.
It was now one fifteen. While we read the note,
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one paced back and forth across the room. John walking
back and forth like that ain't gonna do no good.
Why don't you sit down? Sure you can say that
it's not your boy that got out there in the cold, now, John,
that ain't fair. You know, I feel bad about this.
No you do, Sheriff. I'm sorry, mister Warren. Are you
sure they've actually picked up your son? Well, they must have.
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I called the school right after I got the note.
Johnny never showed up there today. That means they've had
him since before nine this morning. What's the use of
talking about it. Just let me leave the money and
get my boy back. We'd like to help you get
him back. You've read what are sitting the note if
I bring the police in, Mister Warren, what I'm going
to say will sound pretty blunt, but I want you
to think about it. I can't think now just a minute.
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You must believe that once the kidnappers get the money,
they're going to take the trouble to bring your son back. Well,
Ranger's right, John, they wouldn't do that too much we
have getting caught. You mean it, Even if I leave
them on it, they'll kill Jolie. I'm not saying they will,
but they might look at it this way. Sure, the
note said they'd bring your son back, but did it
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say when or how? Well? No, I've seen a lot
of these cases, mister Warren. I know how tragically most
of them end because the victim doesn't call in the police.
All right, what do you want me to do? First
of all, you've got to understand one thing. We'll do
our best to help you, but it's humanly impossible to
guarantee anything. I understand that. Ringer good. Let's see, it's
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one twenty. How long will it take us to get
the Copper Canyon Sheriff. Well, if we cut across the
back of this range, shouldn't take us a word minutes
on Horsey. Good, you've got a horse for the sheriff,
mister Warren, sure have corrals full of them. Is there
some place we can watch the shack without being seen?
I reckon the best place be along the rim of
the canyon. It wouldn't spot us there. I don't suppose
you have all that cash handy, mister Warren. I'll have
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to get it from the bank. You know any of
the bank officials, Well, the president one of my best friends,
and get the money directly from him. Have him mark
the bills and record the serial numbers. Well he want
to know why? Tell him? I'd ask him not say
anything to anybody. All right, Rachel, we'll be taken off now.
You can ride to the canyon. As soon as you
have the money, you want me to leave it there,
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just like they said. That's right. We'll be watching and
we're gonna count on catching whoever picks it up. I
contacted headquarters by radio and requested an area blockade of
the region around Baker. Then the sheriff and I started off.
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It was two o'clock when we reached the rim of
Copper Canyon. An icy wind was blowing in from the north.
We dismounted and eased over to the edge of the ridge.
The shack was clearly visible two hundred yards below. We waited.
At three point fifty five we spotted one riding up
the canyon. He's right on time.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Jeez, you reckon, somebody's waiting for him in that shack.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Maybe shouldn't be long before we find out, don't get
strike you funny that they only ask ten thousand, John
must be worth close to a mision. They could have
got fifty thousand easy. This is a small time larsony
gang sheriff. Ten thousand must look pretty big to them. Yeah,
poor John.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Sure hope we can get that kid back to him.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
I make a good try there he goes open the
door of the shack. Uh huh, better get ready, there's
anybody in there. We don't want to lose him. I'm ready,
but one of the kidnappers easy him there. You could
pluck him easy with that rifle when he comes out.
That wouldn't be any good sheriff, and we'd never find
out whether they're hiding the boy. There's John again.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Jeez, he's waving at us to come down.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
Now.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
What I'm on Sheriff. Let's go down and see what
he wants. There's something I don't like about this, Jase.
Why with John backing us down here like he did.
There's only one way to find out. We'll know in
a minute.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I don't see him around. He must have gone back
into the shack.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Oh, oh, tarky, Oh, be careful, open in, Sheriff. Maybe
some kind of trap, that's the one. S all right, Ray, John,
come on here. Look look what's in his cage. I'll
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be done. The pigeons. What's that strapped on the backs?
CAPSI used to carry messages or money the homing pigeon,
Sheriff and knew it wouldn't work, Ranger. These men are clever.
They don't take chances. Do they leave any instructions? Yeah?
What you say, Jace. Mister Warren is supposed to divide
the money in ten parts and put it in those
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capsules on the pigeons. Yes, and then I release the
pigeons and they fly wherever the men are well lit, Ranger,
I'm not so sure. But if I don't do like
they say, they'll kill my boy. You'll do exactly as
they say, mister Warren. As these pigeons are gonna lead
us to your son. But Jase, we can't follow homan
pigeons on a horseman, I alone, the sheriff. We're gonna
have help. What kind of help? A plane? I'll use
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that walkie talkie out there in my saddle. Have our
nearest unit contact Austin ask him to send one of
the ranger planes over here. Sounds like a good idea.
Jes suppose they do bring a plane in. How'll that'll
help you find my boy. We won't release the pigeons
till the plane gets here. Then the area unit will
keep radio contact with us and lead us to the
place where the pigeons land. You you reckon it'll work,
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I hope, So you stay here with mister Warren, Sheriff.
I'll be back in ten minutes. I rode the higher
ground so my radio signal would carry. I contacted the
highway patrol car. It relayed my message to Austin headquarters
said they could have Unit nine oh two, our ranger
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plain overhead in twenty five minutes. Then I went down
to the shack again and we waited.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Things should be getting here anytime now.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Jeez, I wish that hurry I thought I heard it
a second ago. Yeah, there it is in from the
southeast where oh I see it. Now, how about the pigeons,
mister Warren, they're all ready to go. Bring the cage
out of the shack with your sheriff for sure. You
think the clean Jesus yet? I don't know, but I
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can call him now. Unit ten, the unit nine oh two,
Go ahead, Unit nine oh two, nine two, the unit
ten and directly above upper canyon.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Indicate your position.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Unit ten next to shack at north end of canyon floor.
Can you spot us? Gotcha? Relay instruction. Pigeons are all
set chase fine. This unit will release ten pigeons. Follow
them and locate landing place. Request you maintain radio contact
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with us. Stand by for release of pigeons. Ten four
two clear. All right, Sheriff, open the cage and let
the pigeons go.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
They're not wasting any time getting away.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
We've held it up too long. We half an hour elite. Now.
Don't worry, mister Warren. The men are waiting and probably
think they're pretty safe. Pigeons are head niece, Jason. I'm
going ahead in that direction too. Get in touch with
you as soon as possible, mister Warren. Let's go share,
Get up, get out. Oo. We've been riding for over
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ten minutes. Jase, shouldn't we be hearing from your plane.
He's probably got moren he can do, just keeping his
eye on those pigeons we all have from it.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
I sure hope it soon gets stuck early these days.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
That could be him coming in now oo. Unit ten
the nine oh two, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Shoot it just got off moder I'm blinded to avoid detection.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Is my signal?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Clear?
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Signal Claire, nine oh two. Pigeons are now landing.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
At chack do he's your form of position check?
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Located at base of the hill where dry wash makes
for shoe bin. That's the old Martinez shack. Jeez, been
empty for years. Sounds like it's occupied now. Thanks nine
oh two. We'll take it from here. Unit ten, Claire
ten nine o two clear? How far is the Martinez
Shack from here? Sheriff four miles maybe five at the most.
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And we got a knock on the sheriff. No telling
what their plans are now, get that's in Jason up ahead?
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Oh who charky, Oh boy, he's we didn't make it
any too soon. Get the dark already. Better leave the
horses here. I wonder if they're still inside the shack.
There's your answer, sheriff. Car hidden in that brush. Must
have driven up this dry wash. How do you figure
to take it, Jason? They won't be expecting us. The
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best ways to break in and get him before they
can hurt that boy if they haven't heard him already. Yeah,
when we get to the door, we'd like to give
the word to go in. Got you jas, Come.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
On, pigeons. At least we know we got the right place.
You ready share for you?
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Says Yeah, I think we just nicked the other one.
I'm hurt. I've hurt. That's on your shoulder. Where's the boy?
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Here's the back room. See he's all right. Sure. Your
name is Joe Wills. Joe's over there. Get me to
a doctor, will you? Young Warren's all right, I'm on
tying God. You must be Ben Morphy. He get me
to a doctor whom I short. There's nothing wrong with
your legs. Ben. Get up. It's a long trip to
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Huntsville and you're walking the first part.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
You have just heard.
Speaker 9 (27:10):
There's Man de man adventure in store for you Tuesday
Night with Cavalcade of America and the Man called X.
Gregory Peck will be heard as the prisoner named Brown
when Cavalcade of America tells the story of the man
who instituted widespread prison reforms by becoming a voluntary inmate.
It was in nineteen thirty one that Thomas Osborne, a
former mayor of Auburn, New York, visited the Governor of
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New York to see what could be done to make
Sing Sing more effective. He saw the same men return
again and again for new prison sentences. Working from the
point of view the prison should be.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Repair shops and not scrap heaps.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
He entered the prison to find out firsthand about the
conditions in penal institutions. His discoveries and improvements led to
his becoming warden of the self same prison in which
he was a prisoner. You'll hear this story Tuesday on
the Cavalcade of America and also on Tuesday over most
NBC stations. Herbert Marshall takes over as the Man called X,
with stories of intrigue in the far off corners.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Of the world.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
Here, Herbert Marshall is the man called X Tuesday on
this station of the NVC Radio Network, And how back
to tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
Soon after the arrest, Ben Morphy confessed to the killing
of the third member of the gang, Fred Meda. He
was tried and convicted on dual counts of kidnapping and
first degree murder on August thirty first, nineteen forty one.
He died in the electric chair at unspilled penitature.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Next week, Joe McCray and another authmentic reenactment of a
case from the files of.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
The Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
The cast included Tony Barrett, Bill Conrad, Ed Begley, Ernie Newton,
and Bill Johnstone. Technical advisor was Captain M. T. Lone
Wolf Gonzales of the Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed
and adapted by Charles E. Israel and the program was
produced and directed by Stacy keats Hell.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Give Me Speaking.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Next, It's the Big Show, All This and Tallula Too
on NBC. Oooh boo bo
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