August 12, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Dennist Day Show returns to the air at this
time in just three weeks. Remember the Dennist Day Show
returning over most of these stations in.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Just three weeks, presenting Joe McCrae as Jace Pearson in
Tales of the Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers
authentic stories from their official files. Texas more than two
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hundred and sixty thousand square miles and fifty men who
make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement party
in North America. Now from the files of the Texas
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Rangers come these stories.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Based on fact.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Only named states and places are goodness for obvious freedom,
the events fell for a matter of record. Man Tonight's
transcribe case Candy Man.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
It is four pm April fourteenth, nineteen forty seven. A
prisoner at the jail in Pentland County, Texas is being
returned to a cell as the visiting hour comes.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
To an end.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
His name is Paul Abbott, serving out a six month
sentence for petty larceny. His cell mate, John Saygood, has
not had a visitor for say Good is being held
without bail a waiting trial for murder.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
All Right Abbott in.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Your wife. Bring what I told you to get for me.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Yeah, yeah, I got it, Johnny. Candy and and the
razor blades. You know we're not supposed to have razor blades.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
Yeah. If they find him I made, they might put
me in jail. What are you some nervous about? With
the allows a six month flat bit, I'm facing the chair.
My nerves are still better than yours.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Look, sa good. I only got a month and a
half to go. I don't want to get no trouble.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Lay off? Were you telling me what I should do?
Speaker 8 (02:21):
You?
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I'm jotting.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I caught my arm. You're hurting me?
Speaker 7 (02:26):
No kidding, really, cheek kid, I'm sorry. Maybe I play
too rough And you're my pal model prisoner like you
with only a few weeks to go and never get
searched after a visit, and you're so good to me.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
You have a piece of candy.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Pal, I don't want any Okay, you know why you
been out visiting, And I've been thinking, I'm gonna let
you and your wife do me another favor, a big favor.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Look, I gotta be careful they ask her. I can't
upset her now you know that? Oh that's right. The
babies do soon, ain't it. Papa wouldn't want the kid
to start out without an old man, would you.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
What do you mean, Johnny?
Speaker 7 (03:12):
I wanted to see if your wife could get these
razor blades in next time she comes.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Tell her to bring me a hack so and a gun.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
No, no, Johnny, you don't want to see me go
to the chair, do you now? If you do, I
could take one of these blades to your throat.
Speaker 9 (03:26):
No, no, Johnny, keep your voice down here.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
All right, all right, I'll do it. You will do
it now, don't kid me. I can hear the wheels turning,
and that square ahead of yours. Next time the screw
takes you out of here, you'll spill your guts. I want, Johnny,
I swear I know you won't. I'll tell you why,
because if you're right on me, somebody will slip a
shive in there, in jail or out.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I remember that, remember it. If you ever want to
see that.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Kid, you'll realize what you're asking me to do.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Ad ask it.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
I'm telling if you decide to get brave with you
your own neck, remember I can have your wife taken
care of too. You would winder there right here, comes
to screw.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
What's the yelping? Bell? What's going on in here?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
We was just arguing, that's all bell? What baseball? How
many games Garrick played for the Yanks?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Is that right? Abbot?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Ain't that right? Abbot?
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Yeah, that's right baseball.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Frantic with fear, Paul Abbot yielded to say Good and
through his wife, obtained the gun and hacksall. The blowoff
came a week later, when the Pentland County jailer was
killed and say Good and Abbot escaped. Wild roadblocks were
being quickly set up by Ranger and highway patrol units.
Ranger jas Pearson contacted Sheriff Lennett Ginn at the county jail.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
In this cell, Ranger, yeah, son of the Locke has
been hacksawed.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Sheriff.
Speaker 10 (05:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (05:05):
I must have waited in the passage until the jailer
turned the corner here and shot him through the stomach
and took his keys.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Any idea where they got the gun?
Speaker 9 (05:13):
No?
Speaker 11 (05:14):
No, but Abbot's wife was allowed to visit. She could
have slipped it into him.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You've got to pick up out for mm.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Hm Timperley's out after now.
Speaker 11 (05:23):
Abbot made a big jump when they gunned the jailer
and petty lars need to jail, break and murder.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I don't know a murderer likes say Good. He had
a reason to crash out. But the first timer, like Abbot,
with only four weeks to go, he doesn't figure to
make a break.
Speaker 11 (05:39):
Just the same Habbit's gone with say Good.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
We may find out why when we bring in his wife.
Sometimes a man goes places he doesn't want to go
with a gun in his back?
Speaker 12 (05:55):
What could I do?
Speaker 10 (05:57):
What else could I do?
Speaker 12 (05:58):
That man would have killed him?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Did you arrange anything else for them, missus Abbott? Get
clothing or an automobile?
Speaker 12 (06:05):
Now could I? I even had the light of my
mother to get money buy the gun. Paul was in
jail and I wasn't working. I was always borrowing money
to bring him thing.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I understand the one behind the bars doesn't do all
of suffering.
Speaker 12 (06:22):
I'd have done anything for Pool. I had to take
the food out of my mouth to buy things for
that other man.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
And isn't me alone?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I'll be having my babysit. Why did Paul go with him? Why?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I don't think he went willingly, missus Abbot. I'm afraid
he went at the point of that gun you brought him.
I'm begin to agree with that ranger you told us
you brought, say good, a lot of candy, Yes.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
More than a dollar's worth every week.
Speaker 11 (06:53):
There's a real sweet too. Jays always sitting up at
MMA for sugar a meal times.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, missus Abbot, will you excuse us for a moment, Sheriff,
I want to see.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
You for a second.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Oh sure, Sure.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You've got anybody watching our house in case Abbott and
Sagod show up there.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, it's covered good. Your office hasn't any report of
a stolen car.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Huh, No, nothing yet, and I probably on foot could
be out of the county by now.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Though we have other ranger units in the area.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I'm gonna call my headquarters and have one of them
come with me so he can beat the countryside.
Speaker 11 (07:29):
Okay, anything else you want me to handle.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, they'll have to eat wherever they are, and even if.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
They have money, they won't take a chance on being
spotted at buying anything for a while.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
That figures.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I want you to make a careful check on any
robbery report you get from food stores.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I'd like an itemized account of everything that's taken. I
got a hunch sagod and make a special effort to
get his hands on some candy. All that day nothing
turned up in the roadblock while Ranger Jim Leads and
(08:05):
I rode through the countryside without finding a trace of
the man we were after.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
But on the following morning, maybe we've been heading the
wrong way. Jay, I don't think so, Leads.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Coming this way would have been the fastest trail out
of the county. Otherwise, all wilderness for more than eighty miles,
too much of them on foot without supplies. Still figuring
the cut through toward us too eighty e they must have.
I'll have to get to a car someplace. Unless they
got a spot to hold up in real close. I
don't think they're gonna take that chance. He'll want distance. Yeah,
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farmhouse head m a rider coming too.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
He's really pounding leather. He sees us come right this way.
Let's meet him. How strangers who shark?
Speaker 13 (08:55):
Hey didn't expect anybody so soon.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
What do you mean?
Speaker 13 (09:00):
I just called the sheriff less than half an hour ago. Head,
while you're here.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
We didn't know about your call. What happened?
Speaker 13 (09:07):
My dogs flushed a couple of powers during the night.
I went had all night hunting them, or i'd have
put in the call before.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Maybe you're boys, you know what they look like.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
No, all I saw was two shadows.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Dogs woke me up.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Like I told you, men was prowling around.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
You better have a look at his place, leads and
we're ride back with you. Oh god, yeah, yeah? How
long ago did happened? Oh?
Speaker 9 (09:33):
Reckon? It was two am, about six hours ago.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
You say you chased them, Yeah.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
But I couldn't spot him in the darkness, just rolled
around all night. I'd have had me since I had
a call right away. But he drew a couple of
shots at me when I saw him, and I got
hot and went for my gun and lit out.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I see I got anything.
Speaker 13 (09:53):
When I went back to the house this morning, my
mississ had a couple of shirts and jeans, was visit.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Let's see say good and now it all right? Getting
rid of their jail clothes. They have horses. I didn't
hear any Maybe.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
They were going to take a couple of years and
didn't have time to get them.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I'll come your norms.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
Didn't stay after them enough, should have turned them loose.
Speaker 13 (10:14):
But like A said, I was too hot, stingy, clinking
after they shot at me.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
If you had done anythinking, you just stayed at home.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
One of the men you were chasing is a killer
and about as cold as they come. We picked up
their trail near the farmhouse about four miles out. We
found the ashes of a fire and chicken bones and feathers,
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and in the brush near the same spot a bundle
of prison clothes.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
From there, the trail led straight to the US Highway.
You can see the roads through the brush now, Jaez.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, let's hope we spot a highway patrol car before
we and what's the matter?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Something off the road in that patch of Douglas fir h.
Looks like the front of a truck pulled pretty far back.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Come on, get up truck.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Oh oh oh boy. Uh hall truck stacked with new cars.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Uh huh, that's what they are, well screened from the road.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Alright, yeah, uh.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Driver doesn't seem to be around unloading ramps down, Jase, tire.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Tracks on the ground.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
They've got a car now, alright, wonder what happened to
the driver of the truck.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Light on the capsie more on the running board in
the ground.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Goes this way.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
There he is. Jeez, probably tried to go for help
and couldn't make it.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, looks like say Good's trademark shot through the stomach.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson. Now we continue with
tonight's case Candy Man, an authentic story from the files
of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I left the horses with Leads at the nearest town.
He did some checking while I got a lift back
to Pentland to pick up the car and horse trailer,
and I drove back to meet Leads where I'd left him.
Come on, boy, get the trailer, good boy, Ready to roll,
Jays and the role as soon as we can figure
out which way you check on those gas stations.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Highway patrol went all the way down the line. No
station service to car we're looking for. No pumplocks were
broken during the night.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
They must have driven as far as they wanted to
go and ditch the car somewhere within about one hundred
miles from you.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
How do you figure that all new cars.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Coming off the assembly line only get a few gallons
of gas put in it.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
They didn't take on more gas. They got as far
as they could on what was in the thing. That
makes sense, We'll head west. Think it sat couple in
Oklahoma and Louisiana. I part into its records, and so
he'd go to New Mexico where he's cleaned. He left
the state. Yeah, guess their best shot.
Speaker 14 (13:50):
KTXA Unit ten kt XA to Unit.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Ten, Unit ten to kt XA, Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
KTXA every port for Unit.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Ten on subject John Seagod.
Speaker 14 (14:01):
Only known associate of Saygoods was woman known as Marcella Roberts.
Present whereabouts unknown. Last location was place of business beauty
seller on in Abilene, Texas. Left there two months ago.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Unit ten request check of cosmetic distributors and supply houses
checked recent orders as possible source of new address on
subject Marcella Roberts.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Who will do uniten?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Uh moment, uniten.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Have another message coming in for a Unit ten stand by,
Unit ten standing by.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Maybe they've found the car. Jeez you big help that
they have.
Speaker 14 (14:36):
It is Unit ten General Store, Pike Hill, ended during
early morning, situated thirty miles west. Your press location check
of stolen merchandise includes.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Candy and fifth subject saygud Proceeding to Pike Hill immediately
Unit ten ten.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Four KDJ the Austin.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Uh sleep in the room.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
Ride back to the store, hair Rangel, and I hear
this noise. I got up and lit the light just
for a daybreak.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
See anybody No No.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
I opened the door into the store, and then the
dang cat popped into my room and start purning and
rubbing against my league.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
So I just figured she knocked.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Something over, So I went on back to bed. I
see anybody broke them until I got up this morning and.
Speaker 9 (15:31):
Found the dog glass busted.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
Must have slept through that though I sleep real sound,
I guess I woke up when they knocked this stack
of can goods over, got them up and got them
all stacked again.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Now you call the sheriff right away, Yep, yep.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
Soon as I found a few.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
Dollars from the cash draw missing, didn't think about the
candy counter. Don't keep much, you know, till a couple
of kids coming later on want some Pepmint life savers.
And I saw a whole boxing was gone in some
chocolate bars.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yes, that's when the sheriff got in touch with us then,
and we will rope off this showcase and have somebody
from our lab come in to check it for fingerprints
so we can be sure it was a man we
were after no much doubt about it, geez. Nothing like
being sure. We drove further west from Pike Hill past Virgo.
(16:23):
While we waited for the fingerprint check, we combed the
brush along the highway looking for the car. Say good, na,
it had stolen, but there was no sign of it.
It was abandoned, might stay hidden for weeks. Nothing in here, gez. No,
it would have been a good spot to ditch a car,
though I couldn't have driven much further than this. We
may find it further on. Maybe maybe we've already passed it.
(16:47):
Call in your car radio, geez, yeah, I heard it.
KTA un T come in ten.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Unit ten to KTXA go ahead kt XA report.
Speaker 14 (17:01):
On subject Marcella Roberts cosmetic distributor. Check shows nail and
amal ordered in the subject's name two weeks ago.
Speaker 15 (17:09):
Delivery made to Adorable Beauty.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Salon Virgo, Texas Units ten and seven. Continuing investigation Unit
ten ten four ktxas philand Les.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Virgo's about fifty miles back. Jaz had a hunch we
came too far figure. The woman's helping him hide out.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Biga didn't head in this direction without a reason. If
she isn't tidening, she'll know where he's headed. Marcella Roberts
(17:48):
wasn't at work or wish she at her home when
we got there, but she came home about an hour later.
We left her car out of site. She didn't see
us until she came up the steps of the private
entrance on the porch.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Miss Roberts, Oh, oh, Rangers, I didn't see you. Thought
you might be able to help us. You know a
man named John Segud. I used to know him long
time ago. You seen him lately?
Speaker 15 (18:15):
Well, how could I?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I heard that he was in jail, paperboy, mister been
neglecting you late, ladies.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
He's out. We're looking for him, all right, Rangers, I'll
tell you what I know.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
He probably headed for Oklahoma City. Tell me once that
he could always hide out there. If you got in
any trouble, you should.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Have carried a compass, because he headed the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
He broke into a store at Pike Hill before son
of this morning, and he was still moving in this
direction when.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
He left there.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Well, I haven't seen him.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Good and you won't mind if we take a look
through your apartment.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
If you've got any objection, one of us can wait
here while the other gets the warm All.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
Right, chi can come in. I only hesitated because the
place is a messy.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Sure, but we won't tell the neighbors.
Speaker 14 (19:02):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Well, Hey, y'are I couldn't hide a.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Mouse in here, leads, check the bathroom, in closets, I'll
look in the kitchen by James.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Nobody here, James, that's for sure. No now, but there
was somebody here? What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I mean, if you were a better housekeeper, you might
make a better liar. You could have swept up these
candy wrappers.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
On the floor.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
Hit a log.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Can't eating candy. I hate it old top, so does Sego.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
You happen to have a thirty day die attacked up
on your kitchen wall, and your figure says you've been following.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
It pretty close. You can't prove anything with that.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Maybe not, but there's something else. Two different brands of
cigarettes in his ashtray. One brand doesn't have any lipstick
on him.
Speaker 12 (19:58):
I had a boyfriend visits me.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I'm gonna check every store in this town and find
out if you bought a load of groceries today, and
if you did, you better be able to show them
or prove where they went. Stranger, you're concealing and aiding
a murderer. You can serve a lot of time for that, Marcella,
enough to rub off those good looks before you get out.
Speaker 13 (20:16):
I don't want to go to jail, but you don't know, Johnny,
he'd killed me.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Where is he?
Speaker 14 (20:23):
Well?
Speaker 10 (20:23):
I took him and the other fello up the back
road to this gier Diablo field. He didn't hide out
there and come back in a week after I've raised
some money for him to.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Get out of the country.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Lead us out the way you left him, and don't
bother about raising that money.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
He isn't gonna be needing it.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
We followed her to the place where say Good Nabbit
had been dropped the base of the wilds here Diablo country.
Catching the last rays of the sun leads and I
took our horses out of the trailer and started after them.
It's pretty dark, Jase, Yeah, I have to leave the
horses and go on foot. Sooner we'll lose this trail.
I can hardly see anything. Now, hold up a minute.
(21:09):
Oh oh dark, oh what m moist patch here? One
of them slipped and fell, and the one making the
heaviest tracks probably say good oh, abbot say goods bigger,
But he's using abbot for a pack meal to carry supplies.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Look how the tracks spraddle out. Yeah, sure must be
carrying weight all right, handed right for that rocky ground ahead,
and you won't find any more prints as clear as these.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Wann time the horse is off here. No, I think
we better lead him. I can walk this ground and
we may need him coming out. And let's keep going.
(21:55):
We've lost him, Jace, keep flashing your light around it,
keep it cucked. I all spread out a little No, no,
wait a minute, come back, would you part? The earth
is soft at the base of this rock. Yeah, but
no prince in it?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Gee?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Now all but look at those marks mm bridle snake track. Yeah,
wasn't moving away from here though?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Then?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Probably in under the rock? Was we even back and forth?
A rapper? Only does that one that's disturbed? You mean
they scared it pass them by?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
And something scared of some loose rock fell around the
air not long ago either, And see where chip does
it fell? And chips are fresh haven't been weathered over.
Then they musta knocked the loose climbing up around the rock. Yeah,
let's find out if they did come this way, they
must have moved along this ledge. Yeah, use your light again,
(22:53):
a right chase, Look at this. Yeah, piece of broken
shoelace snapped while they were climbing, and they sat there
and tied the rest of its.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
See where his.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Back rubbed dirt off the rock behind him?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, and I mean straight for that plateau gives sego
to clear view of anything coming up by day. Go
and leave the horses here and go on and climb
down and get 'em. We'll circle the rocks and take
the long way up. We'll give Segod a chance to
fall asleep. We may be able to take in the line.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
We reached the plateau of broad flat Patch, just under
the final ascent of the high pieces of the range,
and picked up the trail again, led straight toward a
clump of trees and brushing through the trees, we saw
the gold before.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
We moved toward it. Moved the pretty broaden out. Jase,
we're out here.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
They're in cover.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Let's say move between us and that car.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It's funny sego to keep a fire going at the
night and eat it in the day for cooking the
giveaway in the darns, and he probably.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Figures he's safe enough.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
He's got to keep an eye on unless we were
wrong and ad but so long because he wants to
be and we will find that out when the showdown comes.
Don't sign any movement there yet.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Jeez and uh, I better leave the horses now and
we'll stick him out here and split circling on footunete.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Fucking out leave.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Now.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I knew what was wrong with the n was a deploy.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Take it that set up.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
He was someplace in the rim of the brush behind us.
I twisted around looking for a flash of his gun
if he fired again, but they.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
Got a cut shot. I'll put one right for your belly.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Get the next fact you get away to just say God,
wake and away.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
You'll never get out of here unless we take you out.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
We got poor guns. You're one, say good. Get the
choko right down myself.
Speaker 9 (24:59):
Fuck how old tanny I have. I still gotta have it,
little papa.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
And if one of they got a bullet knock for me,
remember it's gotta go through him first.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Keep him talking geez, maybe I can crawl around him.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
No, no, no, no, he's trigger happy.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
He heard a sound. He put a bullet, and Abbot's back.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
What do your pay, rangers? I want to see this
punk guy. I remember, I got nothing to lose my gunness.
What do you want, Sago, I'll make you a deal.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
We don't make deals. School lay sick.
Speaker 15 (25:27):
What I ever said he's got bullet?
Speaker 10 (25:29):
Rangers?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Just tell me I got a wife for that.
Speaker 10 (25:32):
Take time.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Ain't that touch on?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Rangers?
Speaker 9 (25:35):
How you ever played bowl with me?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
What's your deal?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Bang off?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Way off?
Speaker 15 (25:41):
So I can see you go and.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Leave us your horses.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
And remember, ever, it'll be in front of me when
we come out.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
And get him.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Jeez.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
We can let him come out, and then we can
sure sure I know all right?
Speaker 9 (25:52):
Say good, you got a deal.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I loosened the cinch on charcoal. We backed away ready
in case they fired, and they moved out into the moonlight.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Say good.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Kept Abbot between us and got him up on Lean's horse.
Then he started to mount charcoal.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
Shake them boy, Come on, le he won't ever hit
anything but the crown, he say good?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Watch him.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
All right?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Abit, Yeah, yeah, I'm a frist. Get up, Say good,
O my arm. Never borrow a ranger's horse when a
ranger's around, unless he wants you to have him.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh, I'm glad I didn't have to kill you, say good.
I want the rest of prisoners at Pentland to see you.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Back in that cell. Might help him make up their
minds never to come back again.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
You've been start that lesson with knee ranger.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Once I get out, you won't see me there again. Good.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, but it's no place for a wife and kid
to go visit, all right, Say good, get going.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
John Saygood was brought to trial and found guilty on
three counts of murder.
Speaker 15 (27:25):
His sentence death in the electric chair. This is Joel McCrae.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Many tales about the Texas Rangers have been repeated until
they are legend, and here's one of my favorites. Many
years ago, rioting broke out in a Texas town and
the mayor appealed for aid from the Rangers.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
He was at the railroad depot to meet the expected
help when a stranger got off the train and approached him.
Are you the mayor? Theer asked.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
The mayor, looking anxiously for the ranger for us, said yeah,
but I have no time to talk to you now.
I'm waiting for the Texas Rangers to stop this rioting.
The stranger said, I'm the Ranger. I was sent down
to help you.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
The Mayor's mouth dropped open in dismay.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
They only send one ranger. Puzzled by the question, the
ranger said, yeah, you only got one riot, haven't you?
Don't forget our date? Same time next week, folks, see
you then.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Next week.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a case from the.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Piles of the Texas Rangers.
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Joel McCrae is currently seen starring in the Universal International
Technicolor production Saddle Tramps. Cast included Tony Parrett, Frank Martin, Reed,
Hadley Wilms, Herbert Dick Ryan, and Loreen Tuttle. This story
was transcribed and adapted by Joel Murcott, and the program
was produced.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And directed by Stacy Peach.
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Thrilling day manner.
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And that same Saturday, October seventh, also marks the return
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and mayhem. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company
The Dennist Day Show returns to the air at this
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Just three weeks, presenting Joe McCrae as Jace Pearson in
Tales of the Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers
authentic stories from their official files. Texas more than two
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hundred and sixty thousand square miles and fifty men who
make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement party
in North America. Now from the files of the Texas
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Rangers come these stories.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Based on fact.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Only named states and places are goodness for obvious freedom,
the events fell for a matter of record. Man Tonight's
transcribe case Candy Man.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
It is four pm April fourteenth, nineteen forty seven. A
prisoner at the jail in Pentland County, Texas is being
returned to a cell as the visiting hour comes.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
To an end.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
His name is Paul Abbott, serving out a six month
sentence for petty larceny. His cell mate, John Saygood, has
not had a visitor for say Good is being held
without bail a waiting trial for murder.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
All Right Abbott in.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Your wife. Bring what I told you to get for me.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Yeah, yeah, I got it, Johnny. Candy and and the
razor blades. You know we're not supposed to have razor blades.
Speaker 7 (02:04):
Yeah. If they find him I made, they might put
me in jail. What are you some nervous about? With
the allows a six month flat bit, I'm facing the chair.
My nerves are still better than yours.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Look, sa good. I only got a month and a
half to go. I don't want to get no trouble.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Lay off? Were you telling me what I should do?
Speaker 8 (02:21):
You?
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I'm jotting.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I caught my arm. You're hurting me?
Speaker 7 (02:26):
No kidding, really, cheek kid, I'm sorry. Maybe I play
too rough And you're my pal model prisoner like you
with only a few weeks to go and never get
searched after a visit, and you're so good to me.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
You have a piece of candy.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Pal, I don't want any Okay, you know why you
been out visiting, And I've been thinking, I'm gonna let
you and your wife do me another favor, a big favor.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Look, I gotta be careful they ask her. I can't
upset her now you know that? Oh that's right. The
babies do soon, ain't it. Papa wouldn't want the kid
to start out without an old man, would you.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
What do you mean, Johnny?
Speaker 7 (03:12):
I wanted to see if your wife could get these
razor blades in next time she comes.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Tell her to bring me a hack so and a gun.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
No, no, Johnny, you don't want to see me go
to the chair, do you now? If you do, I
could take one of these blades to your throat.
Speaker 9 (03:26):
No, no, Johnny, keep your voice down here.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
All right, all right, I'll do it. You will do
it now, don't kid me. I can hear the wheels turning,
and that square ahead of yours. Next time the screw
takes you out of here, you'll spill your guts. I want, Johnny,
I swear I know you won't. I'll tell you why,
because if you're right on me, somebody will slip a
shive in there, in jail or out.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I remember that, remember it. If you ever want to
see that.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Kid, you'll realize what you're asking me to do.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Ad ask it.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
I'm telling if you decide to get brave with you
your own neck, remember I can have your wife taken
care of too. You would winder there right here, comes
to screw.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
What's the yelping? Bell? What's going on in here?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
We was just arguing, that's all bell? What baseball? How
many games Garrick played for the Yanks?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Is that right? Abbot?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Ain't that right? Abbot?
Speaker 7 (04:25):
Yeah, that's right baseball.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Frantic with fear, Paul Abbot yielded to say Good and
through his wife, obtained the gun and hacksall. The blowoff
came a week later, when the Pentland County jailer was
killed and say Good and Abbot escaped. Wild roadblocks were
being quickly set up by Ranger and highway patrol units.
Ranger jas Pearson contacted Sheriff Lennett Ginn at the county jail.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
In this cell, Ranger, yeah, son of the Locke has
been hacksawed.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Sheriff.
Speaker 10 (05:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (05:05):
I must have waited in the passage until the jailer
turned the corner here and shot him through the stomach
and took his keys.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Any idea where they got the gun?
Speaker 9 (05:13):
No?
Speaker 11 (05:14):
No, but Abbot's wife was allowed to visit. She could
have slipped it into him.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You've got to pick up out for mm.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Hm Timperley's out after now.
Speaker 11 (05:23):
Abbot made a big jump when they gunned the jailer
and petty lars need to jail, break and murder.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I don't know a murderer likes say Good. He had
a reason to crash out. But the first timer, like Abbot,
with only four weeks to go, he doesn't figure to
make a break.
Speaker 11 (05:39):
Just the same Habbit's gone with say Good.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
We may find out why when we bring in his wife.
Sometimes a man goes places he doesn't want to go
with a gun in his back?
Speaker 12 (05:55):
What could I do?
Speaker 10 (05:57):
What else could I do?
Speaker 12 (05:58):
That man would have killed him?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Did you arrange anything else for them, missus Abbott? Get
clothing or an automobile?
Speaker 12 (06:05):
Now could I? I even had the light of my
mother to get money buy the gun. Paul was in
jail and I wasn't working. I was always borrowing money
to bring him thing.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I understand the one behind the bars doesn't do all
of suffering.
Speaker 12 (06:22):
I'd have done anything for Pool. I had to take
the food out of my mouth to buy things for
that other man.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
And isn't me alone?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I'll be having my babysit. Why did Paul go with him? Why?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I don't think he went willingly, missus Abbot. I'm afraid
he went at the point of that gun you brought him.
I'm begin to agree with that ranger you told us
you brought, say good, a lot of candy, Yes.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
More than a dollar's worth every week.
Speaker 11 (06:53):
There's a real sweet too. Jays always sitting up at
MMA for sugar a meal times.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, missus Abbot, will you excuse us for a moment, Sheriff,
I want to see.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
You for a second.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Oh sure, Sure.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
You've got anybody watching our house in case Abbott and
Sagod show up there.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, it's covered good. Your office hasn't any report of
a stolen car.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Huh, No, nothing yet, and I probably on foot could
be out of the county by now.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Though we have other ranger units in the area.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I'm gonna call my headquarters and have one of them
come with me so he can beat the countryside.
Speaker 11 (07:29):
Okay, anything else you want me to handle.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, they'll have to eat wherever they are, and even if.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
They have money, they won't take a chance on being
spotted at buying anything for a while.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
That figures.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
I want you to make a careful check on any
robbery report you get from food stores.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I'd like an itemized account of everything that's taken. I
got a hunch sagod and make a special effort to
get his hands on some candy. All that day nothing
turned up in the roadblock while Ranger Jim Leads and
(08:05):
I rode through the countryside without finding a trace of
the man we were after.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
But on the following morning, maybe we've been heading the
wrong way. Jay, I don't think so, Leads.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Coming this way would have been the fastest trail out
of the county. Otherwise, all wilderness for more than eighty miles,
too much of them on foot without supplies. Still figuring
the cut through toward us too eighty e they must have.
I'll have to get to a car someplace. Unless they
got a spot to hold up in real close. I
don't think they're gonna take that chance. He'll want distance. Yeah,
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farmhouse head m a rider coming too.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
He's really pounding leather. He sees us come right this way.
Let's meet him. How strangers who shark?
Speaker 13 (08:55):
Hey didn't expect anybody so soon.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
What do you mean?
Speaker 13 (09:00):
I just called the sheriff less than half an hour ago. Head,
while you're here.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
We didn't know about your call. What happened?
Speaker 13 (09:07):
My dogs flushed a couple of powers during the night.
I went had all night hunting them, or i'd have
put in the call before.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Maybe you're boys, you know what they look like.
Speaker 9 (09:17):
No, all I saw was two shadows.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Dogs woke me up.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
Like I told you, men was prowling around.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
You better have a look at his place, leads and
we're ride back with you. Oh god, yeah, yeah? How
long ago did happened? Oh?
Speaker 9 (09:33):
Reckon? It was two am, about six hours ago.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
You say you chased them, Yeah.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
But I couldn't spot him in the darkness, just rolled
around all night. I'd have had me since I had
a call right away. But he drew a couple of
shots at me when I saw him, and I got
hot and went for my gun and lit out.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I see I got anything.
Speaker 13 (09:53):
When I went back to the house this morning, my
mississ had a couple of shirts and jeans, was visit.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Let's see say good and now it all right? Getting
rid of their jail clothes. They have horses. I didn't
hear any Maybe.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
They were going to take a couple of years and
didn't have time to get them.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I'll come your norms.
Speaker 9 (10:10):
Didn't stay after them enough, should have turned them loose.
Speaker 13 (10:14):
But like A said, I was too hot, stingy, clinking
after they shot at me.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
If you had done anythinking, you just stayed at home.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
One of the men you were chasing is a killer
and about as cold as they come. We picked up
their trail near the farmhouse about four miles out. We
found the ashes of a fire and chicken bones and feathers,
(10:44):
and in the brush near the same spot a bundle
of prison clothes.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
From there, the trail led straight to the US Highway.
You can see the roads through the brush now, Jaez.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, let's hope we spot a highway patrol car before
we and what's the matter?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Something off the road in that patch of Douglas fir h.
Looks like the front of a truck pulled pretty far back.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Come on, get up truck.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Oh oh oh boy. Uh hall truck stacked with new cars.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Uh huh, that's what they are, well screened from the road.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Alright, yeah, uh.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Driver doesn't seem to be around unloading ramps down, Jase, tire.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Tracks on the ground.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
They've got a car now, alright, wonder what happened to
the driver of the truck.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Light on the capsie more on the running board in
the ground.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Goes this way.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
There he is. Jeez, probably tried to go for help
and couldn't make it.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, looks like say Good's trademark shot through the stomach.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson. Now we continue with
tonight's case Candy Man, an authentic story from the files
of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I left the horses with Leads at the nearest town.
He did some checking while I got a lift back
to Pentland to pick up the car and horse trailer,
and I drove back to meet Leads where I'd left him.
Come on, boy, get the trailer, good boy, Ready to roll,
Jays and the role as soon as we can figure
out which way you check on those gas stations.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Highway patrol went all the way down the line. No
station service to car we're looking for. No pumplocks were
broken during the night.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
They must have driven as far as they wanted to
go and ditch the car somewhere within about one hundred
miles from you.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
How do you figure that all new cars.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Coming off the assembly line only get a few gallons
of gas put in it.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
They didn't take on more gas. They got as far
as they could on what was in the thing. That
makes sense, We'll head west. Think it sat couple in
Oklahoma and Louisiana. I part into its records, and so
he'd go to New Mexico where he's cleaned. He left
the state. Yeah, guess their best shot.
Speaker 14 (13:50):
KTXA Unit ten kt XA to Unit.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Ten, Unit ten to kt XA, Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
KTXA every port for Unit.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Ten on subject John Seagod.
Speaker 14 (14:01):
Only known associate of Saygoods was woman known as Marcella Roberts.
Present whereabouts unknown. Last location was place of business beauty
seller on in Abilene, Texas. Left there two months ago.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Unit ten request check of cosmetic distributors and supply houses
checked recent orders as possible source of new address on
subject Marcella Roberts.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Who will do uniten?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Uh moment, uniten.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Have another message coming in for a Unit ten stand by,
Unit ten standing by.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Maybe they've found the car. Jeez you big help that
they have.
Speaker 14 (14:36):
It is Unit ten General Store, Pike Hill, ended during
early morning, situated thirty miles west. Your press location check
of stolen merchandise includes.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Candy and fifth subject saygud Proceeding to Pike Hill immediately
Unit ten ten.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Four KDJ the Austin.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Uh sleep in the room.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
Ride back to the store, hair Rangel, and I hear
this noise. I got up and lit the light just
for a daybreak.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
See anybody No No.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
I opened the door into the store, and then the
dang cat popped into my room and start purning and
rubbing against my league.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
So I just figured she knocked.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Something over, So I went on back to bed. I
see anybody broke them until I got up this morning and.
Speaker 9 (15:31):
Found the dog glass busted.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
Must have slept through that though I sleep real sound,
I guess I woke up when they knocked this stack
of can goods over, got them up and got them
all stacked again.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Now you call the sheriff right away, Yep, yep.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
Soon as I found a few.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
Dollars from the cash draw missing, didn't think about the
candy counter. Don't keep much, you know, till a couple
of kids coming later on want some Pepmint life savers.
And I saw a whole boxing was gone in some
chocolate bars.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yes, that's when the sheriff got in touch with us then,
and we will rope off this showcase and have somebody
from our lab come in to check it for fingerprints
so we can be sure it was a man we
were after no much doubt about it, geez. Nothing like
being sure. We drove further west from Pike Hill past Virgo.
(16:23):
While we waited for the fingerprint check, we combed the
brush along the highway looking for the car. Say good, na,
it had stolen, but there was no sign of it.
It was abandoned, might stay hidden for weeks. Nothing in here, gez. No,
it would have been a good spot to ditch a car,
though I couldn't have driven much further than this. We
may find it further on. Maybe maybe we've already passed it.
(16:47):
Call in your car radio, geez, yeah, I heard it.
KTA un T come in ten.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Unit ten to KTXA go ahead kt XA report.
Speaker 14 (17:01):
On subject Marcella Roberts cosmetic distributor. Check shows nail and
amal ordered in the subject's name two weeks ago.
Speaker 15 (17:09):
Delivery made to Adorable Beauty.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Salon Virgo, Texas Units ten and seven. Continuing investigation Unit
ten ten four ktxas philand Les.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Virgo's about fifty miles back. Jaz had a hunch we
came too far figure. The woman's helping him hide out.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Biga didn't head in this direction without a reason. If
she isn't tidening, she'll know where he's headed. Marcella Roberts
(17:48):
wasn't at work or wish she at her home when
we got there, but she came home about an hour later.
We left her car out of site. She didn't see
us until she came up the steps of the private
entrance on the porch.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Miss Roberts, Oh, oh, Rangers, I didn't see you. Thought
you might be able to help us. You know a
man named John Segud. I used to know him long
time ago. You seen him lately?
Speaker 15 (18:15):
Well, how could I?
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I heard that he was in jail, paperboy, mister been
neglecting you late, ladies.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
He's out. We're looking for him, all right, Rangers, I'll
tell you what I know.
Speaker 10 (18:28):
He probably headed for Oklahoma City. Tell me once that
he could always hide out there. If you got in
any trouble, you should.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Have carried a compass, because he headed the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
He broke into a store at Pike Hill before son
of this morning, and he was still moving in this
direction when.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
He left there.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Well, I haven't seen him.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Good and you won't mind if we take a look
through your apartment.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
If you've got any objection, one of us can wait
here while the other gets the warm All.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
Right, chi can come in. I only hesitated because the
place is a messy.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Sure, but we won't tell the neighbors.
Speaker 14 (19:02):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Well, Hey, y'are I couldn't hide a.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Mouse in here, leads, check the bathroom, in closets, I'll
look in the kitchen by James.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Nobody here, James, that's for sure. No now, but there
was somebody here? What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I mean, if you were a better housekeeper, you might
make a better liar. You could have swept up these
candy wrappers.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
On the floor.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
Hit a log.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Can't eating candy. I hate it old top, so does Sego.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
You happen to have a thirty day die attacked up
on your kitchen wall, and your figure says you've been following.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
It pretty close. You can't prove anything with that.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Maybe not, but there's something else. Two different brands of
cigarettes in his ashtray. One brand doesn't have any lipstick
on him.
Speaker 12 (19:58):
I had a boyfriend visits me.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I'm gonna check every store in this town and find
out if you bought a load of groceries today, and
if you did, you better be able to show them
or prove where they went. Stranger, you're concealing and aiding
a murderer. You can serve a lot of time for that, Marcella,
enough to rub off those good looks before you get out.
Speaker 13 (20:16):
I don't want to go to jail, but you don't know, Johnny,
he'd killed me.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Where is he?
Speaker 14 (20:23):
Well?
Speaker 10 (20:23):
I took him and the other fello up the back
road to this gier Diablo field. He didn't hide out
there and come back in a week after I've raised
some money for him to.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Get out of the country.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Lead us out the way you left him, and don't
bother about raising that money.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
He isn't gonna be needing it.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
We followed her to the place where say Good Nabbit
had been dropped the base of the wilds here Diablo country.
Catching the last rays of the sun leads and I
took our horses out of the trailer and started after them.
It's pretty dark, Jase, Yeah, I have to leave the
horses and go on foot. Sooner we'll lose this trail.
I can hardly see anything. Now, hold up a minute.
(21:09):
Oh oh dark, oh what m moist patch here? One
of them slipped and fell, and the one making the
heaviest tracks probably say good oh, abbot say goods bigger,
But he's using abbot for a pack meal to carry supplies.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Look how the tracks spraddle out. Yeah, sure must be
carrying weight all right, handed right for that rocky ground ahead,
and you won't find any more prints as clear as these.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Wann time the horse is off here. No, I think
we better lead him. I can walk this ground and
we may need him coming out. And let's keep going.
(21:55):
We've lost him, Jace, keep flashing your light around it,
keep it cucked. I all spread out a little No, no,
wait a minute, come back, would you part? The earth
is soft at the base of this rock. Yeah, but
no prince in it?
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Gee?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Now all but look at those marks mm bridle snake track. Yeah,
wasn't moving away from here though?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Then?
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Probably in under the rock? Was we even back and forth?
A rapper? Only does that one that's disturbed? You mean
they scared it pass them by?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
And something scared of some loose rock fell around the
air not long ago either, And see where chip does
it fell? And chips are fresh haven't been weathered over.
Then they musta knocked the loose climbing up around the rock. Yeah,
let's find out if they did come this way, they
must have moved along this ledge. Yeah, use your light again,
(22:53):
a right chase, Look at this. Yeah, piece of broken
shoelace snapped while they were climbing, and they sat there
and tied the rest of its.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
See where his.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Back rubbed dirt off the rock behind him?
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, and I mean straight for that plateau gives sego
to clear view of anything coming up by day. Go
and leave the horses here and go on and climb
down and get 'em. We'll circle the rocks and take
the long way up. We'll give Segod a chance to
fall asleep. We may be able to take in the line.
Speaker 7 (23:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
We reached the plateau of broad flat Patch, just under
the final ascent of the high pieces of the range,
and picked up the trail again, led straight toward a
clump of trees and brushing through the trees, we saw
the gold before.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
We moved toward it. Moved the pretty broaden out. Jase,
we're out here.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
They're in cover.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Let's say move between us and that car.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It's funny sego to keep a fire going at the
night and eat it in the day for cooking the
giveaway in the darns, and he probably.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Figures he's safe enough.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
He's got to keep an eye on unless we were
wrong and ad but so long because he wants to
be and we will find that out when the showdown comes.
Don't sign any movement there yet.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Jeez and uh, I better leave the horses now and
we'll stick him out here and split circling on footunete.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Fucking out leave.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Now.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I knew what was wrong with the n was a deploy.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
Take it that set up.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
He was someplace in the rim of the brush behind us.
I twisted around looking for a flash of his gun
if he fired again, but they.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
Got a cut shot. I'll put one right for your belly.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Get the next fact you get away to just say God,
wake and away.
Speaker 9 (24:51):
You'll never get out of here unless we take you out.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
We got poor guns. You're one, say good. Get the
choko right down myself.
Speaker 9 (24:59):
Fuck how old tanny I have. I still gotta have it,
little papa.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
And if one of they got a bullet knock for me,
remember it's gotta go through him first.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Keep him talking geez, maybe I can crawl around him.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
No, no, no, no, he's trigger happy.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
He heard a sound. He put a bullet, and Abbot's back.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
What do your pay, rangers? I want to see this
punk guy. I remember, I got nothing to lose my gunness.
What do you want, Sago, I'll make you a deal.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
We don't make deals. School lay sick.
Speaker 15 (25:27):
What I ever said he's got bullet?
Speaker 10 (25:29):
Rangers?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Just tell me I got a wife for that.
Speaker 10 (25:32):
Take time.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Ain't that touch on?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Rangers?
Speaker 9 (25:35):
How you ever played bowl with me?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
What's your deal?
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Bang off?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Way off?
Speaker 15 (25:41):
So I can see you go and.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Leave us your horses.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
And remember, ever, it'll be in front of me when
we come out.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
And get him.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Jeez.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
We can let him come out, and then we can
sure sure I know all right?
Speaker 9 (25:52):
Say good, you got a deal.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I loosened the cinch on charcoal. We backed away ready
in case they fired, and they moved out into the moonlight.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Say good.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Kept Abbot between us and got him up on Lean's horse.
Then he started to mount charcoal.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
Shake them boy, Come on, le he won't ever hit
anything but the crown, he say good?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Watch him.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
All right?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Abit, Yeah, yeah, I'm a frist. Get up, Say good,
O my arm. Never borrow a ranger's horse when a
ranger's around, unless he wants you to have him.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh, I'm glad I didn't have to kill you, say good.
I want the rest of prisoners at Pentland to see you.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Back in that cell. Might help him make up their
minds never to come back again.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
You've been start that lesson with knee ranger.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Once I get out, you won't see me there again. Good.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, but it's no place for a wife and kid
to go visit, all right, Say good, get going.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
John Saygood was brought to trial and found guilty on
three counts of murder.
Speaker 15 (27:25):
His sentence death in the electric chair. This is Joel McCrae.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Many tales about the Texas Rangers have been repeated until
they are legend, and here's one of my favorites. Many
years ago, rioting broke out in a Texas town and
the mayor appealed for aid from the Rangers.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
He was at the railroad depot to meet the expected
help when a stranger got off the train and approached him.
Are you the mayor? Theer asked.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
The mayor, looking anxiously for the ranger for us, said yeah,
but I have no time to talk to you now.
I'm waiting for the Texas Rangers to stop this rioting.
The stranger said, I'm the Ranger. I was sent down
to help you.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
The Mayor's mouth dropped open in dismay.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
They only send one ranger. Puzzled by the question, the
ranger said, yeah, you only got one riot, haven't you?
Don't forget our date? Same time next week, folks, see
you then.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Next week.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a case from the.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
Piles of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Joel McCrae is currently seen starring in the Universal International
Technicolor production Saddle Tramps. Cast included Tony Parrett, Frank Martin, Reed,
Hadley Wilms, Herbert Dick Ryan, and Loreen Tuttle. This story
was transcribed and adapted by Joel Murcott, and the program
was produced.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And directed by Stacy Peach.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
This is Hell, Give Me Speaking, Three Chimes Mean Good
Times on NBC. The secret of Dennis Day's comedy is
that he always appears perplexed and bewildered. Dennis will be
back on the Network of the Chimes Saturday, October seventh,
that's three weeks from the night with more delightful mix
(29:35):
up than popular music in the.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Thrilling day manner.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
And that same Saturday, October seventh, also marks the return
of Judy Canova with more of her Mountain style music
and mayhem. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company
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