August 4, 2025 • 28 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 (00:11):
Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger
Jase Pearson, another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from
the files of the Texas Rangers. Names, dates, and places
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in the following story are fictitious for obvious reasons. The
events themselves are a matter of records.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
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Sure to enjoy.
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Now Here are tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called Misplaced Person. It is one thirty pm, Tuesday,
November sixth, nineteen forty nine, near Stockville, Texas.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
A woman and her five year old son are entering
a path through the woods on their way to a
neighbor's house.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Fatty, what on earth you're hanging back for?
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Do you want to miss the whole party that way?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Hurry up?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
We're half an hour late already.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
There's a word worse.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
There's there Friday, which is goblin. And come on, there's
a sad thing in here.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Scared now, honey, Ever since Halloween you've been imagining things.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I told you there's no such thing as goblins and boogieman.
Now come on here, well, I son, Oh lammy, there's
nothing to be frightened of. Your Mommy's right here with you.
Don't want no yady, We can't be a baby all
our lives. Cammy not come along, honey, you don't wanna
go to fardy lobby. You're just letting your imagination run
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away with you. But where is the thing you saw?
Who's there? Take hold of mommy's Can that's right now?
Show me where it is? I don't want to go on, robby.
Mommy wants to show you that there's nothing to be
frightened off. Is it over that way?
Speaker 8 (03:21):
It all right?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I'm gonna show you.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Come on gold spend goblins and just make believe. Honey,
you don want to grow up to be a scaredy cat?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Do you you know?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Alright? Then, can you show mommy where it is?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
She's right over there.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
By that bush?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Who huh?
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Now, Mommy will prove to you that it's all your imagination.
Here is Ruby play right here?
Speaker 8 (03:48):
See buddy clock wi mouth imagining things.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
What he had seen in the brush was the bruised
and bacon body of a dead woman. His mother immediately
notified the sheriff of Stockville County, who sent for the
aid of the Texas Rangers. Rangers Jace Pearson and Clay
Morgan were signing. While Ranger Morgan searched the area around
the body of the tracks Ranger. Pearson talked to the
little boy's.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Mother, who how it skat half out of my wits
when I saw it.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Ranger. What's your name, ma'am, Emma Clark, My little son
really found it.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Kinda tough for a little kid to see something like that.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
I just hope you'll be able to sleep tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Is the body just the way it was when you
found it, ma'am?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yes, it is, Ranger. As soon as I thought, I
ran the neighbors, he formed.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
The sheriff all right, playing, Thank you very much, ma'am.
I guess that'll be all for now. I want you
to sign a statement later on.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I'll be glad to sure. Hope you can catch the murder.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Rangers can find something. Play yeah, I found this first,
just off the road, Jase. And look it's got some
blood on it, any identification in it. I haven't able
to find any. Quite a bit of money, though, and
so was out for robbery's and motor anything else. In
the usual clap trap, women carry compact lipstick cigarettes and
wait a minute, maybe a cash register. Receive it has
something scribbled on it. I want to say, doctor Schiller
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avalon eight one eighth. That might help. Maybe the woman
was one of his patients and had something to start on. Anyway, Yeah,
maybe he can tell us who she is. We checked
with the telephone company and found that Avalon eight one
eight was the telephone number of a trailer court just
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outside Corpus Christy. We called and found that the doctor
Shiller lived there. We talked to him and asked him
to meet us the next morning at the funeral parler
in Stockville. At ten thirty the following day, we were
checking over the woman's clothing in the waiting room of
the mortuary when a thin erect man walked in, doctor Schiller. Yes,
I'm Ranger Pearson and this is Ranger Morgan. How do
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you do hardy? Have a chair? Doctor? Thank you very much.
We sent for you, doctor Schiller, because a woman we
think you must know was found murdered yesterday. How shocking
erh Who is it? We don't know, but your name
and telephone number where scribbled on a markets lift found
in her purse or the sea Hn ures, isn't it?
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Have you ever seen this purse before? Doctor n N No,
I don't recall that I have MM here's a market flip.
May I see it? Please?
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Extraordinary? Yes, it is my number. Gentlemen, you recognize her handwriting? No, sir,
I do not. Are you practicing in the corpus christie? Doctor? Oh? No,
I wish that I could practice her. But you see,
I've come to a miracle in a quota just recently.
I'm not yet a citizen. How long have you been here?
I left thee in a six months ago. Are you
an md HA? Yes? For many years? You see, I
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was in Scolo Ghee clinice. I'm not much of a language.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Doctor, would you.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Uh excuse me? Clinical psychology? I was with doctor young Azoi.
I see, doctor, do you have any idea how your
number got into the dead woman's purse? None?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Whatsoever?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
How could I when I have no idea to whom
this person belongs? I think perhaps you'd better take a
look at the body. You might recognize the woman be
able to tell us something. It is possible you'd come
into the next room with a doctor there you well, ah,
some decomposition that's set in, of course, but the features
are still recognizable. There's a body on that slab. She
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must have been heightened when she died judging from the
muscle tension. Yes, well, doctor, I am quite positively as
a piercing that I have never seen this woman before
this moment. You think someone else gave her your name
and number?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Perhaps?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Can you think of anyone who might have No, I'm sorry,
I'm quite mystified. Well, thank you very much, doctor Schiller.
We have your name and address, and we will stand
for you again if we need you do by all means.
I should be happy to be of any assistance that
I can. Thank you. GOODBYSA good day, gentlemen. He well,
where we go from here? Jess looks to me like
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a long, hard night Digging into the files on missing persons.
Examination of over two hundred reports on missing persons finally
produced a record which described the murdered woman. We sent
for a missus Fields, who had reported her sister missing
for several weeks. She identified the body and expressed distrust
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of her sister's husband, Thomas red Orm, a fisherman. She
stated he had recently collected insurance on the drowning of
missus Arm's son. Since the husband had filed no report
on his wife's disappearance, we drove to Corpus Christie to
talk to him. We located Arm on the shrimper Caroline,
a beat up trawlermored to the slime covered piles of
a wharf in red Fish Bay. Caroline, here it is, jas.
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You're a rush the old tub. Let's go board plank right.
You can smell that the branch and there the gallus
in it. Yeah, I'm out in the pilot house. You know,
no sign of him. Maybe he's below in the cabin. Well,
let's go down all right.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Who's there, mister.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Arm Where is it? I'm Ranger Pierson. It's Ranger Morgan.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
What's on your mind? Ranger?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
We'd like to ask you some questions.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Well, I'm pretty busy getting ready to pull out tomorrow
in a three day haul.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I'm praid you have to change your plans, mister Arm, But.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
For hold, trim poleets out ahead of me. Now. If
I don't get moving, I'll be lucky if I dragging
a stinger. Ree.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I'm glad we got you before you took off. Then
I'm gonna ask you a few questions about your wife.
Thought about her? You've been missing for several weeks, hadn't you? Yeah?
My own eight weeks since I said ay was on her.
He tried to locate her. Oh why not?
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Because I was fed up with up beefing and belly
aching around. Figured it's good ridden.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I think we ought to tell you, mister arm, that
your wife's dead. Somebody murdered her. Oh he's beating to death.
He's been having trouble with your wife. Hadn't you thought
about it? Maybe you better tell us about it.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Nothing to tell you didn't get along, that's all. After
the kid drowned, she got worse and worse.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
He collected insurance after the boy was killed, didn't she? Joe?
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Why shouldn't I supported him for now on to ten years?
Who had a better right?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Why didn't you turn in the missing persons before?
Speaker 7 (10:14):
And your wife?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Mister O?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
A man have to wig wagon to the whole world
when his wife walks out on him.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
How many weeks.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Ago did you say?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
She left you?
Speaker 7 (10:21):
But they reckon?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
She took all my money with her.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
I've been saving for years to buy me a new
motor for this stink bucket? Really fixed me up? She did?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
And you've seen her since she left? Yeah, just once.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
A couple of days after she walked out, tried to
get her to come back to me, but she wouldn't you.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Know where she was staying.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Now I can tell you what she's doing, spending all
my money on some crackpot doctor.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Doctor.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
Yeah, if I was.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Laying in the locker, and now it's all his fault.
He's the one got a crow jacking in the wrong
direction with all his blubber about what's going on in
her mind, as if he could tell what a buddy's
thinking her mind. Yeah, she used to come home nights
and gold me with a lot of big, crazy sounded words.
Do you know what the men of stuff said? He
was helping her to get over losing the boy.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Only reason I put up with it. What was the
doctor's name?
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Don't know. She never would tell me.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Was he a psychologist?
Speaker 7 (11:15):
There's a quack, that's where he was.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Did you ever see him, mister arm Oh? And I
never want to talk to him on the phone. Once
that was enough, when it was at m one night
when I thought.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
I almost called him from a payphone in the fish house,
grabbed the phone and told him the man his own breaks,
leave my wife alone.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
That was the night she left me, said I disgrace her.
Can you remember anything about his voice.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
The way he talked.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Yeah, sounded to me like he had a mouthful of
snap beans.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Well thanks, mister arm we'll see you later.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Now, you ain't gonna keep me here on court when
the shrimper running eye.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
It's my living, you know, services for your wife at tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
I'll do my thinking a loan ranger, I reckon, I
wouldn't wanna see you now anyways?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Would you only be gone three days? I saw you
got a ready on board.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Sure you can always contact me. I'll be with the
shrimp and flee dot yonder the gulf.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
There, Okay, mister on go ahead. We don't know where
to find you.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
There's my left hole in a message jellyfish which she last.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
A low days.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Actually sounds like I'm friend Schillard to me Jayson and.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
He was ryan this.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Yeah, let's go get a wand.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
In just a moment, we will continue with tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
This long Labor Day weekend means a glorious holiday for
millions of Americans, but it also means death, injury, heartache,
and grief for several hundreds of the throng. Since Friday evening,
more than forty million automobiles, one for every four persons
in the United States have been taking to our n highways.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
So today and tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
As you drive, please be careful if roads are slippery
from rain or crowded with returning vacationists. The safe speed
is much slower than the posted speed limits. Drive safely,
drive in accordance with road conditions.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
For the life you save may be your own.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And when you reach home safely tomorrow, once again, remind
yourself that school starts this week in many localities throughout
the nation, four times a day. Beginning this week, these
school children will be walking to and from school.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Watch for children. Whenever you drive, a.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Child may dare so drive with care.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now the second act of Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
We continue now with tail to the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story misplaced Person.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
We got a search warrant and head for the court
where doctor Sheiller lived. When we got there, missus Acres,
who ran the place, told us he wasn't home, but
walked us over to his trailer. Wanted to get a
little background on Shiller, so we let her radl on
about the doctor.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
If it ain't offer an old shoe like me get
a chance to talk to a famous be Any's psychiatrist.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Like doctor Shiller.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Suppose not, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Tie, the cur is gratifying to have one for a
wheeler in here that ain't loaded with up teen kids.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Oh, this is it ringers. How's the doctor's trailer been
parts here, missus Acres.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Oh about four months? I reckon and ranger. In that
short time, I've learned things about myself. What I mean
is the Doctor's brought out for ner someone that's really.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Means you mean he's been telling you what goes on
in your mind?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Yeah, it's yeah. I used to fool myself all the time.
It to rationalize, sublimate, all them defense kind of things.
Now I've just thrown away my inhibitions. I'm beginning to
look life square in the eye.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
It's bleak but real.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I see, how long has doctor Shiller been helping you,
missus Acres, Almost ever.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Since he came.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Yes, of course, psychoanalysis is just exhausted. But when I
think of all the years I thought cooking was my
primary urge, well.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I didn't even know what a lobido was.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
In those days. How much does doctor Sheiller charge you
for these treatments?
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Man, La, don't charge me anything. I just give him
a check once in a while.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
For his relief fund relief funds.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
See, doctors always thinking about them poor misplaced persons wandering
all over the map of Europe. Likes to send them
over money for shoes and grub for their.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Knapsacks and all as the doctor any other patients, missus acres, woy,
I told you he.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Ain't practicing, just likes to unscramble a few friends, and
he has out of the kindness of his heart.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Missus Acres. This picture is from a missing person's file.
Have you ever seen this woman in your trailer car? Well?
Speaker 7 (15:51):
I see?
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Oh yeah, go ask miss arm She's a real good
friend of doctor Schiller's. Used to come see him right offen,
this was the last time you Sawr's been quite spell
now a month or two anyway, must have left town,
I reckon.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well, thank you, missus akers. What can we better go
in now? Play?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Well, I told you the doctor was out, ranger.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
We have a warrant, ma'am, warrant you ain't any kind
of trouble if we don't know yet. You wanna come
in with us?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
I gotta get back to dash my hand.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
But you go out of head Rangers, cause I'm dead sure,
Doctor Shiller's got nothing to die.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Thanks very much, ma'am. Seems like there's nothing much in
here but books, Jase, most of 'em are born. And
have a look in that desk over there.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
H.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Do this address book? Play find something? Yeah, here's a
my arms name and address there it is jes good
ease me, gentlemen. It's just an old American custom to
be cause when the host is another at home, we
have a warrant to search your trailer, doctor, So well,
I see that you have already found that you want.
That's right, doctor, I thought you told us you didn't
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know missus arm as I recall when I talked to you,
you did not know her name, is it not? So
that's true. But when you looked at her in the
funeral parlor, you said you'd never seen her before. And
now let's not waste time, doctor, we have evidence that
she came to your trailer often quite right, So she did,
and you must have recognized the body. Yes, I recognized
missus arm but I did not wish to be questioned
as to what I know about her? Why because in
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my profession such information is confidential, even when she's dead.
Of course, I'm afraid we can't go along with that doctor.
We're investigating a murder. As far as ethics are concerned.
What about your practicing without a license? I do not practice.
I listened to the tubles of a few friends of mine,
that is all. But you received money, fellow, Yes I did,
but not for myself. For those persons aboard who have
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to stare into the rubble of the home and tudge
on the memory dying down on her bags, I have
been destitute and penniless myself. I know you actually prove
you sent these donations.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Of course, here.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
This, this is my canceled check. Gentlemen made that to
the relief organization at Oberhagen. And here on the bank
you will see the notation missus Akas fifty five dollars,
missus arm forty. As you will see my check represents
the total of their donations. You do all practice your doctor,
then you have money of your.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Own to live on.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
No, do you see these hands? Yes, these are the
hens that once held a three pen in the most
delicate brain operations. Now are they full dressing? Boiled instruments,
push patients and wheelchairs? Where that's the Thanks to Cliniqi
on Corpus CHRISTI when Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and two
undred ten, we can.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Easily check that you know precisely. That's why I told you.
Why didn't you want to identify missus Arm's body.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
You are intimating, of course, that I'm under suspicion of murder.
You lied to us, doctor, Why shouldn't you be? I see,
we want to know why you lied to us? Now,
doctor sheillar, I asked you a question. Sorry, gentlemen. When
I learned that missus Orm was dead, I was afraid,
afraid that if I admitted knowing her, I would be
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accused of practicing without a license, and my chances for
becoming a citizen would be seriously impaired. But if you
weren't practicing, what you have to worry about? Her husband,
mister r Yes, he threatened to accuse me of taking
money for the treatment of his wife. I'd say this
man is vicious, a hypomanic type. I was always afraid
if missus Olms stayed with him longer some violence would
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come to her though you told her to leave him. Naturally,
if she had taken my advice, this tragedy might have
been averted. You know, don't your doctor, that just by
giving advice you are guilty of practicing without a license.
But what would you have me do stand by and
see this poor woman suffer? When I had the power
to help her, a licensed psychiatrist, you could have sent
her to I tried to, but she wanted advice for
me as a friend, and it was as a friend
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that I gave it to her, with no thought of compensation.
We'd all like the laws in this day, doctor, But
if you could have seen as I did, the terror
and that poor woman's mind, you would have done the
same thing. It doesn't take a doctor to know that
this man is dangerous. Even the night he was here,
he flew into a rage and start her. Wait a minute,
say you've seen mister arm Certainly when the night he
came here to my trailer and setting to accuse me
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of a legal practice, mister m said he'd never met
you as a man, nearly stangled me. There was a
shameful scene on the steps out there. Anybody else see
you with him.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Of course, you.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Must have alloused the whole trailer court. Can you remember
any specific witness who could identify him? Mm? Oh yes, uh,
mister Harker, really Hawker, he lives down there on the
last trailer. I was the date of all this, Doctor,
this is the last time missus arm visited me. Let
me look on my calendar.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Let's see.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah, yes, yes, it was October third, about five weeks ago.
I should say it checks pretty closely with the approximated
the day of the murder Clay. Yeah, that's what I
was thinking. Did n take his wife with him when
he left here?
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I was alarmed for safety. It looks like you had
good reason to be. You know, don't you, Doctor, that
we're gonna have to check up on all these things.
I hope you will.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Why don't you.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Come along with us? We talked to Willie Harker, of course, gentlemen.
Doctor Schiller led us to a two wheel trailer park
about one hundred feet from his own. He could hear
a baby crying, and a thin, sallow little man was
sitting on the steps when he saw us coming. He
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got up quickly and went inside. Was that Harker?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yes, citizen.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Mister Harker.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah, Texas Rangers, you come outside. We want to talk
to you.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Oh oh uh.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Doctor Schiller here says that you saw a man named
Red Arm drag his wife out of the doctor's trailer
several weeks ago. Is that right?
Speaker 8 (21:39):
No, No, I don't know anyone by that name.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I never heard of him, mister Hart. Just a minute, doctor,
he's a big fella, he got a red face. I
understand he was pretty.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Rough with his wife.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
I'm sorry, I can't remember anything about it.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
If that's all what you excuse me?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I'd like to go change a baby.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
My wife's oude.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Kid's kind of fussy today. Wait a minute, Harker, Yeah,
you're sure you didn't see your man and his wife
quarreling outside of the doctor's trailer. No, sir, I ain't
saying anything out of the ordinary that I can recall.
Mister Harker, what do you mean you didn't see anything?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Just what I said.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I don't know nothing about any quarrel. Well, doctor, when
mister Harker you followed him out to his car, don't
you remember? No?
Speaker 8 (22:18):
No, I'm sorry, doc.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
No, mister Harker, I know what it is. You're trying
to protect me. You think I'm in some kind of trouble. No,
I just can't remember anything about we're investigating a murder. Harker.
If you do know anything, i'd advise you to tell us.
If you don't, you're practically convicting me. Well, how can
I tell what I don't remember? He's lying? You are
deliberately lying. Why why tell me that? What are you
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afraid of?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
You have to tell the truth.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I wouldn't be holding back anything if I were you, Harker.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
But I don't know anything.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Tell them the truth, mister Harker. If I had not
been afraid, I would not be under suspicion. Now. I
was brought up on fear. But why should you be afraid?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Well, Harker, all right, I was afraid to tell.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Her what I saw.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
I'm afraid my wife and kid. I got more reason
to protect them to protect you. Doctor.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Let's have it, Harker, tell us what you saw that night.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Well, just like the doc here said, arm dragged his
wife out of the car, and he started.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Beating, and she screamed.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
So I followed him. I'd try to help her.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
That's all what happened.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Grabbed him by the neck and like a strangle me
would let go. I promise to keep.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Still about what I see?
Speaker 4 (23:26):
See anything more?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
No, no, beat it as fast.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
As I could. It was afraid he changed his mind
and really cooked me.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
He's putting his wife in the back seat of the car.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Lest I see well she unconscious?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Sure looked like he wasn't moving anyway.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Why didn't you report this to the police.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Well, because I was scared of him.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Alright, mister Harker, you and the doctor come down to
the Sheriff's office with us. We wanna take written statements
from both of you. We took the statements of the
doctor and Willie Harker. While Red Arm was still at sea,
we located his car. There were black stains on the
floor of the back seat. Took these to our lab
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in Austin for examination. Stains matched missus arms blood type.
We headed back for Redfish Bay. When we reached the wharf,
the Caroline was riding in her moorings. There is Jason
Forward drying his nets.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Hey Arm, Texas rangers that said, what doctor here?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yeah, we talked to him.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Weazened up little crawfish. I'd throw him back her back
on him what'd you do? Lock him up?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Not yet?
Speaker 7 (24:28):
So the killers still walking around loose? Is he?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Yeah? He is?
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Hey? What's eating you? What do you stand there glaring
at me?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
For?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I thought you said you've never seen doctor shit.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
I ain't, and if I ever do, I'll beat the tar.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I think you've done about enough beaten.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
What do you mean here?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
We seemed dragging your wife out of Shilla's trailer on
the night she was killed. Yeah, two witnesses saw you
hit her. That's a lie, now it is. We even
found blood on the upholstery year Cary that matches your wife.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Why are you sneaking lopers snooping around my ticks while
I'm out at sea. I'll pull you off here.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I wouldn't try it arm without your hands.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Now, don't shut.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Did not try get up? Now you mean the cops play?
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Hey, Jay, ain't gonna get beef for murder because I
didn't mean to do it. I just wanted to teach.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Her a lesson.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
You did kill it? No, I just got sore and
I struck out at it. And when she wouldn't answer me,
I got madder and madder.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
You better come along.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
You can't blame me for this. She had it coming
to her, she hadn't coming to it.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Suppose we let the cart decide.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Come on, in just a moment, we will tell you
the results of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
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conclusion of today's Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
And now here are the results of the case you.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Have just here.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Confronted with the evidence against him, Thomas red Arms signed
a compression admitting the brutal killing of his wife. He
was charged with murder with malice and sentenced to ninety
nine years in the state that attentiary at Huntsville. No
charge was made against doctor Schillan.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Next week, Jola McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a
case from the files of that Mexico Rangers. Joel McCrae
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is currently seen in San Francisco's Story, a Warner Brothers release.
The cast included Tony Barrett, herb Ellis, Henry Rowlands, Dan Rist,
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Lone wolf Zalis of the Texas Rangers.
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Now Here are tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called Misplaced Person. It is one thirty pm, Tuesday,
November sixth, nineteen forty nine, near Stockville, Texas.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
A woman and her five year old son are entering
a path through the woods on their way to a
neighbor's house.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Fatty, what on earth you're hanging back for?
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Do you want to miss the whole party that way?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Hurry up?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
We're half an hour late already.
Speaker 7 (02:27):
There's a word worse.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
There's there Friday, which is goblin. And come on, there's
a sad thing in here.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Scared now, honey, Ever since Halloween you've been imagining things.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I told you there's no such thing as goblins and boogieman.
Now come on here, well, I son, Oh lammy, there's
nothing to be frightened of. Your Mommy's right here with you.
Don't want no yady, We can't be a baby all
our lives. Cammy not come along, honey, you don't wanna
go to fardy lobby. You're just letting your imagination run
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away with you. But where is the thing you saw?
Who's there? Take hold of mommy's Can that's right now?
Show me where it is? I don't want to go on, robby.
Mommy wants to show you that there's nothing to be
frightened off. Is it over that way?
Speaker 8 (03:21):
It all right?
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I'm gonna show you.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Come on gold spend goblins and just make believe. Honey,
you don want to grow up to be a scaredy cat?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Do you you know?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Alright? Then, can you show mommy where it is?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
She's right over there.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
By that bush?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Who huh?
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Now, Mommy will prove to you that it's all your imagination.
Here is Ruby play right here?
Speaker 8 (03:48):
See buddy clock wi mouth imagining things.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
What he had seen in the brush was the bruised
and bacon body of a dead woman. His mother immediately
notified the sheriff of Stockville County, who sent for the
aid of the Texas Rangers. Rangers Jace Pearson and Clay
Morgan were signing. While Ranger Morgan searched the area around
the body of the tracks Ranger. Pearson talked to the
little boy's.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Mother, who how it skat half out of my wits
when I saw it.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Ranger. What's your name, ma'am, Emma Clark, My little son
really found it.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Kinda tough for a little kid to see something like that.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
I just hope you'll be able to sleep tonight.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Is the body just the way it was when you
found it, ma'am?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yes, it is, Ranger. As soon as I thought, I
ran the neighbors, he formed.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
The sheriff all right, playing, Thank you very much, ma'am.
I guess that'll be all for now. I want you
to sign a statement later on.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I'll be glad to sure. Hope you can catch the murder.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Rangers can find something. Play yeah, I found this first,
just off the road, Jase. And look it's got some
blood on it, any identification in it. I haven't able
to find any. Quite a bit of money, though, and
so was out for robbery's and motor anything else. In
the usual clap trap, women carry compact lipstick cigarettes and
wait a minute, maybe a cash register. Receive it has
something scribbled on it. I want to say, doctor Schiller
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avalon eight one eighth. That might help. Maybe the woman
was one of his patients and had something to start on. Anyway, Yeah,
maybe he can tell us who she is. We checked
with the telephone company and found that Avalon eight one
eight was the telephone number of a trailer court just
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outside Corpus Christy. We called and found that the doctor
Shiller lived there. We talked to him and asked him
to meet us the next morning at the funeral parler
in Stockville. At ten thirty the following day, we were
checking over the woman's clothing in the waiting room of
the mortuary when a thin erect man walked in, doctor Schiller. Yes,
I'm Ranger Pearson and this is Ranger Morgan. How do
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you do hardy? Have a chair? Doctor? Thank you very much.
We sent for you, doctor Schiller, because a woman we
think you must know was found murdered yesterday. How shocking
erh Who is it? We don't know, but your name
and telephone number where scribbled on a markets lift found
in her purse or the sea Hn ures, isn't it?
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Have you ever seen this purse before? Doctor n N No,
I don't recall that I have MM here's a market flip.
May I see it? Please?
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Extraordinary? Yes, it is my number. Gentlemen, you recognize her handwriting? No, sir,
I do not. Are you practicing in the corpus christie? Doctor? Oh? No,
I wish that I could practice her. But you see,
I've come to a miracle in a quota just recently.
I'm not yet a citizen. How long have you been here?
I left thee in a six months ago. Are you
an md HA? Yes? For many years? You see, I
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was in Scolo Ghee clinice. I'm not much of a language.
Speaker 7 (06:52):
Doctor, would you.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Uh excuse me? Clinical psychology? I was with doctor young Azoi.
I see, doctor, do you have any idea how your
number got into the dead woman's purse? None?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Whatsoever?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
How could I when I have no idea to whom
this person belongs? I think perhaps you'd better take a
look at the body. You might recognize the woman be
able to tell us something. It is possible you'd come
into the next room with a doctor there you well, ah,
some decomposition that's set in, of course, but the features
are still recognizable. There's a body on that slab. She
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must have been heightened when she died judging from the
muscle tension. Yes, well, doctor, I am quite positively as
a piercing that I have never seen this woman before
this moment. You think someone else gave her your name
and number?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Perhaps?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Can you think of anyone who might have No, I'm sorry,
I'm quite mystified. Well, thank you very much, doctor Schiller.
We have your name and address, and we will stand
for you again if we need you do by all means.
I should be happy to be of any assistance that
I can. Thank you. GOODBYSA good day, gentlemen. He well,
where we go from here? Jess looks to me like
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a long, hard night Digging into the files on missing persons.
Examination of over two hundred reports on missing persons finally
produced a record which described the murdered woman. We sent
for a missus Fields, who had reported her sister missing
for several weeks. She identified the body and expressed distrust
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of her sister's husband, Thomas red Orm, a fisherman. She
stated he had recently collected insurance on the drowning of
missus Arm's son. Since the husband had filed no report
on his wife's disappearance, we drove to Corpus Christie to
talk to him. We located Arm on the shrimper Caroline,
a beat up trawlermored to the slime covered piles of
a wharf in red Fish Bay. Caroline, here it is, jas.
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You're a rush the old tub. Let's go board plank right.
You can smell that the branch and there the gallus
in it. Yeah, I'm out in the pilot house. You know,
no sign of him. Maybe he's below in the cabin. Well,
let's go down all right.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Who's there, mister.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Arm Where is it? I'm Ranger Pierson. It's Ranger Morgan.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
What's on your mind? Ranger?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
We'd like to ask you some questions.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
Well, I'm pretty busy getting ready to pull out tomorrow
in a three day haul.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I'm praid you have to change your plans, mister Arm, But.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
For hold, trim poleets out ahead of me. Now. If
I don't get moving, I'll be lucky if I dragging
a stinger. Ree.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I'm glad we got you before you took off. Then
I'm gonna ask you a few questions about your wife.
Thought about her? You've been missing for several weeks, hadn't you? Yeah?
My own eight weeks since I said ay was on her.
He tried to locate her. Oh why not?
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Because I was fed up with up beefing and belly
aching around. Figured it's good ridden.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I think we ought to tell you, mister arm, that
your wife's dead. Somebody murdered her. Oh he's beating to death.
He's been having trouble with your wife. Hadn't you thought
about it? Maybe you better tell us about it.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
Nothing to tell you didn't get along, that's all. After
the kid drowned, she got worse and worse.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
He collected insurance after the boy was killed, didn't she? Joe?
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Why shouldn't I supported him for now on to ten years?
Who had a better right?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Why didn't you turn in the missing persons before?
Speaker 7 (10:14):
And your wife?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Mister O?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
A man have to wig wagon to the whole world
when his wife walks out on him.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
How many weeks.
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Ago did you say?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
She left you?
Speaker 7 (10:21):
But they reckon?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
She took all my money with her.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
I've been saving for years to buy me a new
motor for this stink bucket? Really fixed me up? She did?
Speaker 4 (10:30):
And you've seen her since she left? Yeah, just once.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
A couple of days after she walked out, tried to
get her to come back to me, but she wouldn't you.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Know where she was staying.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Now I can tell you what she's doing, spending all
my money on some crackpot doctor.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Doctor.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
Yeah, if I was.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Laying in the locker, and now it's all his fault.
He's the one got a crow jacking in the wrong
direction with all his blubber about what's going on in
her mind, as if he could tell what a buddy's
thinking her mind. Yeah, she used to come home nights
and gold me with a lot of big, crazy sounded words.
Do you know what the men of stuff said? He
was helping her to get over losing the boy.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Only reason I put up with it. What was the
doctor's name?
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Don't know. She never would tell me.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Was he a psychologist?
Speaker 7 (11:15):
There's a quack, that's where he was.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Did you ever see him, mister arm Oh? And I
never want to talk to him on the phone. Once
that was enough, when it was at m one night
when I thought.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
I almost called him from a payphone in the fish house,
grabbed the phone and told him the man his own breaks,
leave my wife alone.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
That was the night she left me, said I disgrace her.
Can you remember anything about his voice.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
The way he talked.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Yeah, sounded to me like he had a mouthful of
snap beans.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Well thanks, mister arm we'll see you later.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Now, you ain't gonna keep me here on court when
the shrimper running eye.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
It's my living, you know, services for your wife at tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (11:50):
I'll do my thinking a loan ranger, I reckon, I
wouldn't wanna see you now anyways?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Would you only be gone three days? I saw you
got a ready on board.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Sure you can always contact me. I'll be with the
shrimp and flee dot yonder the gulf.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
There, Okay, mister on go ahead. We don't know where
to find you.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
There's my left hole in a message jellyfish which she last.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
A low days.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Actually sounds like I'm friend Schillard to me Jayson and.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
He was ryan this.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Yeah, let's go get a wand.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
In just a moment, we will continue with tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
This long Labor Day weekend means a glorious holiday for
millions of Americans, but it also means death, injury, heartache,
and grief for several hundreds of the throng. Since Friday evening,
more than forty million automobiles, one for every four persons
in the United States have been taking to our n highways.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
So today and tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
As you drive, please be careful if roads are slippery
from rain or crowded with returning vacationists. The safe speed
is much slower than the posted speed limits. Drive safely,
drive in accordance with road conditions.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
For the life you save may be your own.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And when you reach home safely tomorrow, once again, remind
yourself that school starts this week in many localities throughout
the nation, four times a day. Beginning this week, these
school children will be walking to and from school.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Watch for children. Whenever you drive, a.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Child may dare so drive with care.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Now the second act of Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
We continue now with tail to the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story misplaced Person.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
We got a search warrant and head for the court
where doctor Sheiller lived. When we got there, missus Acres,
who ran the place, told us he wasn't home, but
walked us over to his trailer. Wanted to get a
little background on Shiller, so we let her radl on
about the doctor.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
If it ain't offer an old shoe like me get
a chance to talk to a famous be Any's psychiatrist.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Like doctor Shiller.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Suppose not, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Tie, the cur is gratifying to have one for a
wheeler in here that ain't loaded with up teen kids.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Oh, this is it ringers. How's the doctor's trailer been
parts here, missus Acres.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Oh about four months? I reckon and ranger. In that
short time, I've learned things about myself. What I mean
is the Doctor's brought out for ner someone that's really.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Means you mean he's been telling you what goes on
in your mind?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Yeah, it's yeah. I used to fool myself all the time.
It to rationalize, sublimate, all them defense kind of things.
Now I've just thrown away my inhibitions. I'm beginning to
look life square in the eye.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
It's bleak but real.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I see, how long has doctor Shiller been helping you,
missus Acres, Almost ever.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Since he came.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Yes, of course, psychoanalysis is just exhausted. But when I
think of all the years I thought cooking was my
primary urge, well.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
I didn't even know what a lobido was.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
In those days. How much does doctor Sheiller charge you
for these treatments?
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Man, La, don't charge me anything. I just give him
a check once in a while.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
For his relief fund relief funds.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
See, doctors always thinking about them poor misplaced persons wandering
all over the map of Europe. Likes to send them
over money for shoes and grub for their.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Knapsacks and all as the doctor any other patients, missus acres, woy,
I told you he.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Ain't practicing, just likes to unscramble a few friends, and
he has out of the kindness of his heart.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Missus Acres. This picture is from a missing person's file.
Have you ever seen this woman in your trailer car? Well?
Speaker 7 (15:51):
I see?
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Oh yeah, go ask miss arm She's a real good
friend of doctor Schiller's. Used to come see him right offen,
this was the last time you Sawr's been quite spell
now a month or two anyway, must have left town,
I reckon.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well, thank you, missus akers. What can we better go
in now? Play?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Well, I told you the doctor was out, ranger.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
We have a warrant, ma'am, warrant you ain't any kind
of trouble if we don't know yet. You wanna come
in with us?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
I gotta get back to dash my hand.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
But you go out of head Rangers, cause I'm dead sure,
Doctor Shiller's got nothing to die.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Thanks very much, ma'am. Seems like there's nothing much in
here but books, Jase, most of 'em are born. And
have a look in that desk over there.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
H.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Do this address book? Play find something? Yeah, here's a
my arms name and address there it is jes good
ease me, gentlemen. It's just an old American custom to
be cause when the host is another at home, we
have a warrant to search your trailer, doctor, So well,
I see that you have already found that you want.
That's right, doctor, I thought you told us you didn't
(17:01):
know missus arm as I recall when I talked to you,
you did not know her name, is it not? So
that's true. But when you looked at her in the
funeral parlor, you said you'd never seen her before. And
now let's not waste time, doctor, we have evidence that
she came to your trailer often quite right, So she did,
and you must have recognized the body. Yes, I recognized
missus arm but I did not wish to be questioned
as to what I know about her? Why because in
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my profession such information is confidential, even when she's dead.
Of course, I'm afraid we can't go along with that doctor.
We're investigating a murder. As far as ethics are concerned.
What about your practicing without a license? I do not practice.
I listened to the tubles of a few friends of mine,
that is all. But you received money, fellow, Yes I did,
but not for myself. For those persons aboard who have
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to stare into the rubble of the home and tudge
on the memory dying down on her bags, I have
been destitute and penniless myself. I know you actually prove
you sent these donations.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Of course, here.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
This, this is my canceled check. Gentlemen made that to
the relief organization at Oberhagen. And here on the bank
you will see the notation missus Akas fifty five dollars,
missus arm forty. As you will see my check represents
the total of their donations. You do all practice your doctor,
then you have money of your.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Own to live on.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
No, do you see these hands? Yes, these are the
hens that once held a three pen in the most
delicate brain operations. Now are they full dressing? Boiled instruments,
push patients and wheelchairs? Where that's the Thanks to Cliniqi
on Corpus CHRISTI when Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and two
undred ten, we can.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Easily check that you know precisely. That's why I told you.
Why didn't you want to identify missus Arm's body.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
You are intimating, of course, that I'm under suspicion of murder.
You lied to us, doctor, Why shouldn't you be? I see,
we want to know why you lied to us? Now,
doctor sheillar, I asked you a question. Sorry, gentlemen. When
I learned that missus Orm was dead, I was afraid,
afraid that if I admitted knowing her, I would be
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accused of practicing without a license, and my chances for
becoming a citizen would be seriously impaired. But if you
weren't practicing, what you have to worry about? Her husband,
mister r Yes, he threatened to accuse me of taking
money for the treatment of his wife. I'd say this
man is vicious, a hypomanic type. I was always afraid
if missus Olms stayed with him longer some violence would
(19:23):
come to her though you told her to leave him. Naturally,
if she had taken my advice, this tragedy might have
been averted. You know, don't your doctor, that just by
giving advice you are guilty of practicing without a license.
But what would you have me do stand by and
see this poor woman suffer? When I had the power
to help her, a licensed psychiatrist, you could have sent
her to I tried to, but she wanted advice for
me as a friend, and it was as a friend
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that I gave it to her, with no thought of compensation.
We'd all like the laws in this day, doctor, But
if you could have seen as I did, the terror
and that poor woman's mind, you would have done the
same thing. It doesn't take a doctor to know that
this man is dangerous. Even the night he was here,
he flew into a rage and start her. Wait a minute,
say you've seen mister arm Certainly when the night he
came here to my trailer and setting to accuse me
(20:06):
of a legal practice, mister m said he'd never met
you as a man, nearly stangled me. There was a
shameful scene on the steps out there. Anybody else see
you with him.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Of course, you.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Must have alloused the whole trailer court. Can you remember
any specific witness who could identify him? Mm? Oh yes, uh,
mister Harker, really Hawker, he lives down there on the
last trailer. I was the date of all this, Doctor,
this is the last time missus arm visited me. Let
me look on my calendar.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Let's see.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah, yes, yes, it was October third, about five weeks ago.
I should say it checks pretty closely with the approximated
the day of the murder Clay. Yeah, that's what I
was thinking. Did n take his wife with him when
he left here?
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I was alarmed for safety. It looks like you had
good reason to be. You know, don't you, Doctor, that
we're gonna have to check up on all these things.
I hope you will.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Why don't you.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Come along with us? We talked to Willie Harker, of course, gentlemen.
Doctor Schiller led us to a two wheel trailer park
about one hundred feet from his own. He could hear
a baby crying, and a thin, sallow little man was
sitting on the steps when he saw us coming. He
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got up quickly and went inside. Was that Harker?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Yes, citizen.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Mister Harker.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah, Texas Rangers, you come outside. We want to talk
to you.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Oh oh uh.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Doctor Schiller here says that you saw a man named
Red Arm drag his wife out of the doctor's trailer
several weeks ago. Is that right?
Speaker 8 (21:39):
No, No, I don't know anyone by that name.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I never heard of him, mister Hart. Just a minute, doctor,
he's a big fella, he got a red face. I
understand he was pretty.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Rough with his wife.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
I'm sorry, I can't remember anything about it.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
If that's all what you excuse me?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
I'd like to go change a baby.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
My wife's oude.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Kid's kind of fussy today. Wait a minute, Harker, Yeah,
you're sure you didn't see your man and his wife
quarreling outside of the doctor's trailer. No, sir, I ain't
saying anything out of the ordinary that I can recall.
Mister Harker, what do you mean you didn't see anything?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Just what I said.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I don't know nothing about any quarrel. Well, doctor, when
mister Harker you followed him out to his car, don't
you remember? No?
Speaker 8 (22:18):
No, I'm sorry, doc.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
No, mister Harker, I know what it is. You're trying
to protect me. You think I'm in some kind of trouble. No,
I just can't remember anything about we're investigating a murder. Harker.
If you do know anything, i'd advise you to tell us.
If you don't, you're practically convicting me. Well, how can
I tell what I don't remember? He's lying? You are
deliberately lying. Why why tell me that? What are you
(22:41):
afraid of?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
You have to tell the truth.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I wouldn't be holding back anything if I were you, Harker.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
But I don't know anything.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Tell them the truth, mister Harker. If I had not
been afraid, I would not be under suspicion. Now. I
was brought up on fear. But why should you be afraid?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Well, Harker, all right, I was afraid to tell.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
Her what I saw.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
I'm afraid my wife and kid. I got more reason
to protect them to protect you. Doctor.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Let's have it, Harker, tell us what you saw that night.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
Well, just like the doc here said, arm dragged his
wife out of the car, and he started.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Beating, and she screamed.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
So I followed him. I'd try to help her.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
That's all what happened.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Grabbed him by the neck and like a strangle me
would let go. I promise to keep.
Speaker 7 (23:24):
Still about what I see?
Speaker 4 (23:26):
See anything more?
Speaker 3 (23:26):
No, no, beat it as fast.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
As I could. It was afraid he changed his mind
and really cooked me.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
He's putting his wife in the back seat of the car.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Lest I see well she unconscious?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Sure looked like he wasn't moving anyway.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Why didn't you report this to the police.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Well, because I was scared of him.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Alright, mister Harker, you and the doctor come down to
the Sheriff's office with us. We wanna take written statements
from both of you. We took the statements of the
doctor and Willie Harker. While Red Arm was still at sea,
we located his car. There were black stains on the
floor of the back seat. Took these to our lab
(24:02):
in Austin for examination. Stains matched missus arms blood type.
We headed back for Redfish Bay. When we reached the wharf,
the Caroline was riding in her moorings. There is Jason
Forward drying his nets.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Hey Arm, Texas rangers that said, what doctor here?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yeah, we talked to him.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Weazened up little crawfish. I'd throw him back her back
on him what'd you do? Lock him up?
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Not yet?
Speaker 7 (24:28):
So the killers still walking around loose? Is he?
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Yeah? He is?
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Hey? What's eating you? What do you stand there glaring
at me?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
For?
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I thought you said you've never seen doctor shit.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
I ain't, and if I ever do, I'll beat the tar.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I think you've done about enough beaten.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
What do you mean here?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
We seemed dragging your wife out of Shilla's trailer on
the night she was killed. Yeah, two witnesses saw you
hit her. That's a lie, now it is. We even
found blood on the upholstery year Cary that matches your wife.
Speaker 7 (24:54):
Why are you sneaking lopers snooping around my ticks while
I'm out at sea. I'll pull you off here.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
I wouldn't try it arm without your hands.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
Now, don't shut.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Did not try get up? Now you mean the cops play?
Speaker 7 (25:11):
Hey, Jay, ain't gonna get beef for murder because I
didn't mean to do it. I just wanted to teach.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Her a lesson.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
You did kill it? No, I just got sore and
I struck out at it. And when she wouldn't answer me,
I got madder and madder.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
You better come along.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
You can't blame me for this. She had it coming
to her, she hadn't coming to it.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Suppose we let the cart decide.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Come on, in just a moment, we will tell you
the results of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Many of your favorite NBC programs already have returned to
the air in their regular fall time periods, and throughout
the coming weeks, many more great programs will once again
be feature on the NBC Radio network. This week, we
know you'll want to hear the Cavalcade of America on
Tuesday with Robert Cummings in the starring role. Wednesday brings
another authentic big Story and the recovering of a reporter's
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battle to prove the identity of a killer.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
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will bring you the nation's most popular.
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Music on Your Hit Parade.
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These five favorite programs are sure to please, and they're
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conclusion of today's Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
And now here are the results of the case you.
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Have just here.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Confronted with the evidence against him, Thomas red Arms signed
a compression admitting the brutal killing of his wife. He
was charged with murder with malice and sentenced to ninety
nine years in the state that attentiary at Huntsville. No
charge was made against doctor Schillan.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Next week, Jola McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a
case from the files of that Mexico Rangers. Joel McCrae
(27:46):
is currently seen in San Francisco's Story, a Warner Brothers release.
The cast included Tony Barrett, herb Ellis, Henry Rowlands, Dan Rist,
Virginia Gregg, and Dick Beale. Technical adviser was Captain M. T.
Speaker 7 (27:59):
Lone wolf Zalis of the Texas Rangers.
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the program was produced and directed by Stacy pe. Tales
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