Texas Rangers - Canned Death

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The National Broadcasting Company presents Joe McCrae in Tales of
the Texas Rangers. Tonight transcribe from Hollywood another authentic reenactment
of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers,

(00:23):
The Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joe McCrae as
Ranger Jase Pearson, Texas more than two hundred and sixty
thousand square miles and fifty men who make up the
most famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America.

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Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these
stories based.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
On fact only.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Names, dates, and places are big ficious for obvious reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
They, amongst themselves, are a matter of record case for
Tonight Canned Death.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
It is one fifteen am January twenty sixth, nineteen forty.
Bob Farrigant, a rancher, comes awake slowly. As his eyes open,
a wave of nausea sweeps over him, and he breaks
into a cold sweat. He throws back the covers staggers
to his feet, noticing that his wife has left her
place beside him.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
May, May, where are you? May?

Speaker 4 (01:46):
What's the matter? Why you out of bed?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Oh? Bob? Have you so sick.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yeah, I feelt kind of funny myself.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
I would just put some water on my face.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
What's the matter with me?

Speaker 4 (02:01):
You're as white as a sheet. You better get back
and lie down. Funny, I can hardly stand my feet.
I'd hold him on to something.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
You're all perspired. Oh bout what you to be? I
don't know us.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
We're all coming down with the floor or something. Kids
acted kind of funny before they went to bed.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I was up with them about eleven o'clock. They were
playing about stomachicks.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Wait, we better go have a look at him.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
If they feel like.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
We do, I'm gonna call the dock.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Are they They seem to be all right now? Both sleeping.
Better close the window. I pee bed. Janet's got covers
kicked off.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
I'll put a quilt over. We better get back to
bed ourselves have duck out in the morning.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
And there was felt so sick. Bob, What is he?
What's matter? Here's the funny, Bob. She isn't braiding. She
missed the cold.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
But don't forget me yourself excited.

Speaker 6 (03:16):
I'll wake her unk, Janet, Janet, wake up, baby, Jenny,
Wake up, baby.

Speaker 7 (03:26):
Wake up, Pity, wake up, Hey, Hey, what's the matter
with them?

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Doc?

Speaker 7 (03:38):
Gotta call the doc right away.

Speaker 6 (03:41):
Don't leave me.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, may may Maye gotta get him. Get somebody to hell.

Speaker 7 (03:56):
Gotta get downstairs to the phone.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
The bodies were discovered two days later when a neighbor
noticed faragainst milk cows wandering in pain as the result
of not being milk. The sheriff was summoned along with
a medical examiner, who made a preliminary diagnosis of poisoning.
The bodies were moved into town for autoty, and the
sheriff called for the aid of a Texas Ranger.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Ranger Jace Pearson was a sign. Everything in this medicine
cabinet seems to be innocent enough, Jays, your deputy, check
the garbage cans and refuse bins. Yeah, no empty bottle
of any kind. Just a few cans, vegetable fuels, stuff
like that. I'll need some rapping to pack these bottles
in so they can be flown to the lab for examination. Rob,
we find what you need downstairs. Pece. I've been in

(04:58):
office nine years and this is the dirtiest killer I've
ever had. It seemed pretty sure this wasn't an accident,
not with kids being affected. Farraguts reminded careful people car
pulling up, Yeah, it must be the duck with the
AUTOPSI report no shit. Make Farragut's partner in this ring?

(05:18):
Who did a sheriff? Shit? If I knew that, I
wouldn't be standing here. Figure to do something about this.
I don't want anybody getting away with it. You can
post a five thousand dollars reward for the killer in
my name. Make it ten, make it anything. I got
it easy. Shit. I don't know how you feel. Sheriff
tells me you own half this place, that's right, render
how come you haven't been out here in a couple

(05:39):
of days. Well, I don't live on the place. There's
just an investment to me. I've got a hardware store
on time living there. I see. You know, anybody who
was packing a grudge against the Farraguts, against Bob and
me and those kids would take a madman to want
to hurt them. Oh jays, that's dark, stark coming out good.
Why does everything take so long to stand around waiting

(06:01):
instead of doing something? There's no point in doing anything.
Tell you know what you're doing, and Doc tells us
what killed the Farraguts. They'll have something to trace. Oh,
I'm sorry, all right, mister Mac Haddie Hardie not you know, sir,
this is range of peers ranger. Yeah, the results of
the artif sees the kind of surprising. Sheriff. Death in

(06:22):
all four cases is accidental, no doubt about it. Death
for cause by bachelism. What's that? It's the result of
improper home cannon Stomach content showed the Farraguts that made
their last meal on green beans, potatoes and Cannes sausage meat.
There's nothing in that to kill them. Yes there is,
mister Mac. The doc's right cannon made at whom his

(06:43):
tricky business sid should be done under steam pressure at
high temperature. If it isn't, bacteria forms, and it's plenty deadly,
You sure that's what killed them? Do? Bacteria was unmistakable, Sheriff.
It was the sausage meat, nothing else. Yes, we should
be thankful in a way. It's nice to know it
wasn't murdered dead, just from sitting down to a meal

(07:06):
and they're all dead. Well, Jays, looks like I brought
you down here for nothing. I don't know, Sheriff, looks
like we've got a real job on our hands. Anyhow,
What do you mean, Ranger, A Sheriff and I have
fine combed the house. There's nothing in there that's home canned,
and no equipment for home canning. Yeah, that's right. All
we did find was one cannon jar on the kitchen
green board. Must have been washed out along with the

(07:27):
dishes from the last Mealaid, are you sure that wasn't
even a steam boiler big enough for home canning. And
a woman doesn't just put up one jar, She cans
in batches and the whole batch might be contaminated. Women
do pass out samples of their home cannon to neighbors
and friends. That jar must have been a gift, Quite
a gift, like a stick of dynamite with a lighted fuse.

(07:48):
Somebody around here must have a pantry full of poison
and they don't know it. You mean, what happened to
the Farraguts could happen to somebody else. It will happen
to somebody else if we don't find out where that
sausage meat came from and fast. Sure, Iff, you better
get all your deputies and a bunch of volunteers out here.
Right away. We'll need them to make direct contact with
anybody in the area who can't be reached by phone.

(08:08):
You've got to warn anybody that may have given the
Farraguts that sausage meat. I'll call them right away and
ask the phone company to put on a staff and
make calls to every listing, right, Jess, is there anything
I can do? Ranger and you get your car. You
can take an area when the sheriff and I'm map
it out. I can help you there. I'd rather use
you in another way, if you don't mind, Doc, drive
into town, go to the newspaper in the local radio station,

(08:29):
ask him to get out a warning. Right you want
me to come back, then no, you better stand by
in town and pray that we don't bring in another
case for the hospital of the Morgue. For five days
and nights we covered the territory, the shacks and farms

(08:50):
and ranch houses without phones, and then doubled back on
the phone listings that hadn't answered, running down the whereabouts
of people away on business trips or vacations. But we
couldn't locate the source of the contaminated meat. If only
somebody'd come forward and admit that they can to stop
the Farragut's eat, we'd know we were shap I may
be afraid of being held responsible for the deaths. This

(09:12):
is something to wonder about. Yeah, we almost back to
my office. Maybe one of the other men has left
a report. What time is it? Almost midnight? Here we are? Oh, party,
Horty you share kingman? That's right, This is Ranger Pearson. Hello,

(09:36):
what can I do for you? My name's Burton. I
just came down from Davis. I'm an investigator for the
Mid London Frontier Insurance Company. We understand that you're still
investigating the death with Faragut family. Well, we're trying to
find the source of the stuff that killed them. If
that's what you mean, then this isn't a criminal investigation.
No deaths were accident. What's your interest, mister Burton? Well, Ranger,

(09:57):
it is unusual for an entire family to be killed
for a highway accident, of a fire, some natural calamity.
The Faragates were all heavily insured by my company. I'm
just making a routine check up before we pay the
beneficiary's claim with thirty thousand dollars thirty thousand dollars. You
say your company insured all the Farroguts. That's right, ten
thousand dollars each fro his wife, five thousand each other children.

(10:19):
All the Farraguts have dead though, who is a beneficiary
mister Farragut's partner Sid mac sud May. How long ago
were those policies written, mister Burton, a little over a
year ago when the partnership was formed. That's the main
reason my company wanted to make certain about your investigation.
It's not a routine for partners to insure each other.

(10:40):
But but this involved Firagut's whole family. Yes, however, since
there's no criminal investigation, we'll have to honor mister Max's claim.
Thanks for your time, Sheriff at just the second, mister Burton, Yes,
if I were you, I wouldn't recommend payment of that
claim just yet. But the sheriff just said that there's
no criminal investigation. There was an a minute ago, but

(11:02):
there is now.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring
Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson. We continue now with
tonight's case, Canned Death, an authentic story from the files
of the Texas Rangers.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
In the morning, Sheriff Kingdom got a search warrant for
sid Max's house. Mac had already left for the hardware store,
but we were admitted by his hired girl. She was
young and frightened. She watched us in silence as we
started our search, and then disappeared. Nothing in here, Jays.
Nothing in the pantry either. Let's try the attic as
girls screwed it mighty quick, didn't you. She's probably told

(11:56):
Mac what we're doing by now, then kept her here
until we were pol doesn't make any difference. He'd no
sooner or later. And if anything's here, he won't be
able to stop us from finding this door here, We're
not gonna find anything, Jas. If there was more of
that contaminated food, he'll be stupid to have it around.
And if he did kill the fair counts, he's not stupid. Oh,
this whole job is too clever. No job is perfect.

(12:19):
There's always a slip someplace. Let's move those crates, Okay,
nothing of these things, Jas, better look at those barrels too. Yeah. Hey,
hold it, somebody's coming upstairs. Mac, I reckon, you're on
the ranger up there, Sir, that's right, Mac. What's the

(12:41):
idea just having to look around? Mac, We've got a
search warm. Maybe you're gonna need more than a search warm.
I had a call from an insurance man named Burton
this morning. We had a call from him last night.
That's why we're here. I've got a legitimate insurance claim,
but you've stopped it from being paid. He'll be paid
in due time if it should be paid us, that
soul ranger. Well, let me tell you something. I think

(13:03):
the way you stopped that claim constitute slammer. You think
of any reason why I shouldn't slap a lawsuit on
the two of you, No, man, not anymore. And I
can think of a reason why you insured Farragut's wife
and two kids, Then maybe I'll give you the reason.
Sheriff Faragut knew I had them all insured. You can't
insure somebody without them knowing it. The company will tell
you that Farragut is my friend. You understand that my friend.

(13:27):
Sure I insured his wife. If he'd lost and been
left with the two kids, he'd needs somebody to take
care of him, and that cost money. Farragut could have
insured himself, so I did it for him, and I
love his kids. I don't have any, And there they
were like my own. The policies I had on them
weren't just life insurance policies. They were in dowment policies too,

(13:48):
to pay for the education. And what's wrong about that, Sheriff?
Nothing wrong, man. If what you're saying is true, ask
the insurance man, ask him out of the ranch. Before
we found out what killed the Farraguts, when we thought
they'd been murdered, I offer to put up everything I
have as a reward, didn't I, Well didn't I? Yes, Mac,
it did. I'm glad you mentioned that, Mac, because it

(14:10):
brought something to my mind, something that's been trying to register,
and you just brought it out. What do you mean,
how long you been in the hardware business? Eleven years? Why?
Because when Doc told us the Farraguts died from food poisoning,
from food that wasn't canned properly, he had to draw
you a blueprint. You didn't seem to know anything about it.
I don't know anything about it. No, don't you sell

(14:32):
canning equipment at the hardware store. Well, we can go
over to the store and have a look. Mac all right,
So I sell canning equipment. Any hardware store does. What
does that prove? Things that make canning equipment usually put
out instruction booklets too, telling how the equipment should be used.
And those booklets contain a warning about the possibility of
food poisoning. Maybe they do. I never read one of them.

(14:55):
Kidne me. Mac, man who's been handling a line for
eleven years has to know the answers when customers ask
about the stuff he's selling. If he doesn't, he doesn't
last eleven years in the business. You're covering up, Mac.
That doesn't look good. So it doesn't look good, all right, Sheriff,
What are you gonna do about it? Arrest me for
telling the lie? Won't be smart, Mac, I don't even

(15:15):
know why I'm bothering to talk to you. You got
your warrant. Go ahead and search, but you're not gonna
find anything here, no canning equipment and no canned sausage
meat to go ahead, search your heart out. Mac wasn't

(15:37):
hatching anymore. Having him out in the open made me
feel uncomfortable. He was too defiant, too sure of himself.
We finished our search, but we found nothing. Started back
for the Sheriff's office. He knows something about those desks.
Jeez radically told us so right to our face. I
know he can't prove anything. He could have brought cannon
equipment home from the store, could have taken it any

(15:57):
place and ditched it when he was finished. He'd need
more than just the equipment, Sheriff. What hog meat might
have bought? A hoger? I had one butcher to some
farm around here, but which one. We checked every house
in the territory once warning them about the meat. I
reckon we're'd have to check them again from a different angle.
Be a jump. Some folks off in the backwoods keep
a hogger too, We'll check them all. I'm towing a

(16:19):
double horse trailer. We can load your mount in with
charcoal in case we need him for the woods or
hill country. Matter of fact, places off the beaten trail
might be our best bet. I know it's going to
be done, jeesh. But even if we find the place,
can't jail him for buying hog meat. Just the same.
It's our next step, and it might be the step
that starts Mac on his way to us Sell. It

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was work, grim, routine, discouraging work. The game of questions
and answers without ever getting the right answer. In three days,
we checked all the spots that could be reached by car,
and then we switched to the horse and rode into
the backwoods. These backwoods people are kind of tied to
mouthee and so I've noticed. I guess they figure the
world doesn't want to share the troubles, so they hold

(17:09):
up back here. You see what I mean. Next place
we come to Crazy Annie. Crazy Annie, that's what the caller.
She isn't really crazy, just kind of strange. Has a
sun feeble minded. They had him at the State of
Sylum for a while, but he was harmless, so they
let him go. The old lady came into the woods
with him, and hell, they've been here ever since. They

(17:29):
got hawgs, yeah, dogs, a couple of chickens. That's about
all they have got. Oh yeah, they got one other thing.
The meanest dog in the state of Texas. Keep probably
opened for him when we ride up. Don't they keep
him tired? Yeah? Yeah, but he shoes loose, hates everybody
but the old lady and her son places just through
this plump of trees. Hey, all that sheriff. Look at

(17:54):
that on the earth covered with the rocks, and a
cross sticking up at the head. Looks like a grave. Reckon,
Luke did that? Old and his son Always burying dead
birds and things gives them all the first class funerals.
Oh get up, Oh, come on boy, there's Luke now
loom he scared him, took off of the woods like

(18:16):
a jack rabbit. Yeah, never know how he's gonna act.
I don't see any dog anyplace, No, first time I
come here that he hasn't tried to sample on my pants.
Oh there's the old lady coming out of the sack. Now, yeah,
I see her. Hold shark, How Annie, he frightens my loop?

Speaker 5 (18:36):
Whydy, you come to frighten him.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
We don't mean him any harm, ma'n. We just came
to see you. Where's your dog? Annie? I don't want
him sneaking up on me.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
The devil came for him. He's dead, and Luke cries
for him. He's afraid in the night without the dog.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Maybe you're just as well off, Annie. That hound might
have turned on you sometime. How the hog's coming. See
the sal has a new liter. Those sucklings ought to
make good. Kenny. Maybe you got some canned meat that
I could buy.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
I ain't got nothing canned, not terrible butcher.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
That's true. Jays Ford checked our shelves when we were
warning everybody. I see you ever give any can sausage
meat to the Farraguts?

Speaker 5 (19:18):
I never give him nothing. Why people are always.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Asking me that you know the Farraguts are dead, don't Janny? Yeah?
If you never gave anything to the Farraguts, did you
ever give or sell any canned sausage to Sid Mac
or any hog meat or even alive hog? Well? Did, Janny?
You got a right to sell what your own.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
I don't know the man you talked about.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Now, don't lie to us. Anny, we're friends, you know that, don't.

Speaker 5 (19:45):
You never sold him nothing? I never did? He never
come up here?

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Oh, Danny wanna write on? Jay's no sense trying to
catch Luke when he's scary like he is today. He
can't even talk. Yeah, let's goodbye, ma'am. Come on in
Chark boy. Of course, it's hard to tell with anybody
like that, Jas, but she seemed to tighten up when
you mentioned should make She did. Her hands started to

(20:14):
work nerves, and the boy Luke ran when you shaw me.
Of course she's done that before. If they can give
us any information, it isn't going to be easy to get.
I got an idea, maybe a wrong one, but it's
worth a shot. Let's turn back for town. Come on, Chark,
come on boy, you want to tackle back again? No,
I want to see the doctor. Well, there's a complete

(20:46):
chapter on bachelorism in this book, Jase, Now, what was
it you wanted to know? This food poisoning from improper canning, Doc,
does it always happen? I mean, if the batch wasn't
cooked the proper length of time, or if it wasn't
sealed under the proper steam pressure, would it necessarily be poisoned? No,
not necessarily, it could be, all right. I just wanted

(21:06):
to make sure what your point is. If Mac put
up that contaminated meat, he'd have no way of knowing
it was bad without testing it. So since you wouldn't
test it on himself, he didn't test it on anybody else. Either.
There'd have been another death or somebody sick enough for
Doc to know about. Mack wouldn't have gambled on the
farraguts just getting sick. He wouldn't have even gotten the
food to him unless he was sure it was deadly well,

(21:27):
he could have tested it on an animal. Would an
animal eat that food? Doc, Eh, meat, it seem all
right by taste or smell? Yes, yes, an animal would
eat it. That's all I wanted to know, Doc, Sheriff.
We're going for another ride in the woods. I think
I know what for. Shouldn't take two guesses. We're gonna
dig up Luke's dog and send it to the lab

(21:48):
at Austin. I want to know what that dog died from.
We took depity for it with us to stay on
guard and keep Old Annie and Luke and leaving their shack.
We dug up the dog and sent it to Austin.
The answer fit death by food poisoning. Sheriff and I

(22:12):
rode back to the shack in the woods. Old Annie
was quitely shaking, and her son huddled in a corner,
his eyes enormous and frightened, his lips numbed, and he
believed me. Nobody's gonna hurt you or Luke, but you've
got to help us. Who had no reason to harm
the Farraguts, we know that, but we're after the man
who did have a reason.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
I don't know. You have to do is tell us?
Was Mac here?

Speaker 4 (22:35):
Did you sell him anything or can anything under his direction?

Speaker 2 (22:40):
I guess it's no use, Jase, and we can try
again when we get to town. Annie, you and uncle
have to come with us. We're taking in Looke, Luke Christening.
We're only taking you into town. I wouldn't have to
do that if you or your mother answered my question.
Is a lion?

Speaker 7 (22:57):
They want to take me back there, maas and take
me back.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Mat Wait a minute, Sheriff, where did mister Max say
they we're gonna take you, Luke? You know where? Please?
War It took me before he's gonna take you. Luke.
I won't let him, jessh. I think he means your silence.
That's what he does mean. That's the key to why
he won't talk. Wait. I got a hunch, Luke Mac

(23:22):
isn't a good man. He killed your dog? Well he did,
didn't he? No?

Speaker 8 (23:27):
He was always giving me stuff to feed him. DoD.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
You're getting to him, Jeeves. We don't want to send
you away, Luke Mac lied. He's the one he wants
to send you away.

Speaker 8 (23:43):
He tried to help me, he told me who was
trying to have me send back there.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
It was mister Pharaoh.

Speaker 8 (23:50):
Good, that's me.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
You don't tell him, Luke, don't say anymore.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
You better let him talk any because if Mac didn't
kill the Farraguts, then Luke did. He didn't.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
He didn't mean Joe.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
He didn't know what he was doing.

Speaker 8 (24:01):
Mister Max said, I should be nice to mister Ferragut
and his wife, then they wouldn't send me away.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
What do you mean by telling you to be nice?

Speaker 8 (24:09):
He said, I should go and bring him a present.
He give me the present to bring something nice for.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Empty, something ajar, something canned.

Speaker 8 (24:19):
Yeah, the same kind of stuff the old is kept
giving me to feed my dog. Murd dog dies, and
mister Ferragut and his lady and the little babies they die.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Too, answered Jays. They can hear him an accessory of
the murder of four piece. I know with Luke's background
and with a smart defense attorney in the court scaring
him and confusing him, Luke's story wouldn't hold up. Mac
could get away with it. But what else can we do.
You gotta find the rest of that food and prove
it passed through Max's hands. He had a batch of it,
kept feeding the dog's samples until he found a jar

(24:54):
that was deadly. Annie, Your boy's in trouble. You know that,
don't you? How much of that stuff did Mac bring
up here? All rot?

Speaker 5 (25:05):
He kept it hid someplace in the woods, excepting what
he fed the dog.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
He didn't tell us why. And after the dog died,
that's when he got the jar from his hiding place
for Luke to take to the Farraguts, wasn't.

Speaker 5 (25:17):
It Luke never know what killed the dog to after.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Mister Farragut.

Speaker 8 (25:24):
You think when he give him a half dollar? Ladies,
she smiled at me, pretty Luke.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Do you know where Mac hid that food? Did you
see him digging any place? Did you follow him?

Speaker 8 (25:36):
I never know where he kept it.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
He allus went over the hill whe over where it's
so wrong that rock formation across the gully Jason bout
a mile from here. Think he left the stuff there
and it wouldn't be safe from the cart around. He
had to leave it someplace. Come on, he's gonna need
more men, the sheriff. They have an all night digging party.
Worn gotcha just water in the hall? Well up on

(26:00):
your partner went head for the nearest ranch. Get on
the phone and call for deputies. Tell them to bring
shuffles and keep them mouth shut about where they're going.
I want them up here right away. We dug by
flashlight and torchlight. Finally we found it, a burlapped sack
loaded with giants of sausage, meat, canned death. We rushed

(26:22):
back to town and just after dawn a fingerprint crew flew
in from Austin. I held my breath. All we needed
was a print, one fingerprint belonging to sid Mac. We
got it more than one. There were sets on every
jar by that time. His store was open and we
went for him. Well, Sriff and the ranger, what bright

(26:43):
ideas have you got this time? You got an idea?
We're gonna lock you up, Mac. You can drop that smile. Mac.
Luke was just as scared of us as he was
of you. We know the whole story. Ah, Yes, fellas
with your mentality might believe Luke, but a jury won't
know what the law says about a reasonable doubt. We
also found a few buried samples of your canning, Mac,

(27:06):
with your fingerprints all over the jars, just yours. So
like you once said, I sell cannon equipment. I handle
the stuff I sell. So my prints were on the
jars smart Asney Sheriff, regular genius. Thanks. Sorry, I can't
return the compliment. You just like all the smart ones. Mac,
you just made one mistake and it was a real

(27:28):
stupid one. About those prints. You had to put them
on the jars after they were filled, when the canning
was completed. Any prints that were on before would have
been boiled off, Juba Mac climber. Mac. Don't make me
put a bullet in you, because Heaven knows, Mac, I'm counted.
Wait a minute, Sheriff. I'm not resisting. I'm not touching anything.

(27:52):
All right, Better lock the door, Mac. You won't be
coming back, said Mac.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Was brought to trial on August third, nineteen forty He
was convicted of premeditated murder, and on April nineteenth, nineteen forty.

Speaker 2 (28:23):
One, he died in the electric chair.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Next week, Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a
case from.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
The files of Don Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae is currently
seen starring in.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
The Universal International Technicolor production Frendsheep. The night's cast included
Tony Barrett, Paul Freeze, Virginia Craig, will Wright, Ken Christine, Joe.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Forte, Edmund McDonald, and Don Diamond. This story transcribed and
adapted by Joel Murcott, and.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
The program was produced and directed by Stacey Peach.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Hell Give Me Speaking, Three Chimes Mean Good Times. On NBC,
Gordon McRae sings for You Tomorrow evening as The Railroad

(29:27):
Hour presents a melodic adaptation of the dramatic opera Madame Butterfly.
Gordon's guest for this Railroad Hour presentation is lovely soprano
Nadine Connor, and Your Monday of Music Tomorrow also includes
a concert by the Voice of Firestone with guest artist
Eugene Conley. Bill Baker asks the sixty four Dollar Question
next on NBC