Texas Rangers - Travesty

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae's ranger Chase Pearson.
Another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the Piles
of the Texas Rangers.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Names, dates, and places in.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
The following story are fixtitious for obvious reasons. The events
themselves are a matter of records.

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Speaker 1 (01:54):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called Travesty.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
It is ten thirty a m.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
February twelfth, nineteen fifty one, at Texas Rangers headquarters. As
the commander of that company, Captain Stinson is disturbed from
his desk duties by an unexpected coller. Morning, are you
Captain Stinson? Sure I am. What can I do for you?
My name's Phil Clampet, come a long way to talk.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
To you, Captain.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Sit down, mister Clampert, thank you. Now, what's your problem? Well,
this is bigger than just sain a little problem of mind, Captain.
It's a matter of catching some crooked cops. That's some
mighty serious charge. Mister Clampert, Sure it is. I don't
mind telling you. I'm plenty burned up about this. I'll
try to keep my dander down till I give you
the facts. That'll be just fine. A couple of weeks ago,
my company moved me down from Saint Joe, Missouri to

(02:44):
Art Texas office at Harper's Ferry.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Brought my wife and kids, of course, and I was
driving them down the new Sedana bought for the trip.
Stopped buy a little driving on Highway ninety two near
a town called Corona, about one hundred and fifty miles
northeast of here. Yeah, and while I was inside eating,
somebody opened the back of my car and store the
brand new spair sent for Depty sheriff right away and
reported it. That's the best thing you could have done,
mister Clampet. That's what I thought at the time. Depty

(03:08):
took down a full complaint and say look into it.
I gave this information an insurance company, of course, when
you filed acclaim for the tire. Sure well, the insurance
company made a routine check and the sheriff of Corona
County wrote him back saying he had no information on
file about a tire theft report. I see. I was
good and riled up about it, because it sure makes
me look like a sap. So I wrote the sheriff
of Corona County myself and asked him what place was

(03:30):
going on. Well, if he got his answer yet, right
here in my pocket here. It is no like he's
attitude at all, look says here. Have interviewed all my
deputies and we have no information at all about any
report having been made of an alleged tire theft. Yeah,
I see. I like that alleged. Why he's called me

(03:51):
a blasted lyre captain. Is it possible, mister Clampet, that
you could have the wrong county? No, it ain't. Ranger,
don't have a tire stone every day in a week,
and I'm not likely to forget where it happened. You're
sure it was on Highway ninety two near Corona. Yeah,
but he's had a filling station right next to it.
How could you be positive the tire was stolen there,
mister Clampet, because I stopped throwing the highway bottom mile

(04:12):
before we got there to get a blanket out of
the bank, and the tire was there then. And when
did you first notice it was gone? Just as soon
as we'd finished eating. He was getting cold and my
wife wanted another quote for the kid. Is he uh huh?
I went to get up before we started and found
the back of the cart been jimmied open and the
tire was gone. Look, here's a receipt for repairs on
a trunk. Captain, tell me, do you remember the name

(04:35):
of the deputy you talked to, mister.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Clampet, No, no, I don't. He was a young fellow, though,
and I.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Gave him a detailed report of the whole thing. Now
the sheriff says he don't have any sense report on file. Now, Look,
mister Clampet, I've known Sheriff horstep If Corona County for
a long time. He's considered a mightifying officer. Well, something's
fishy somewheres because I sure talked to a deputy. And
if you can't trust even the law nowadays, who can
you trust?

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Captain?

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Now, just come on, we were trying to find out
for you what went wrong over there.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Johnson, get me a.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
KTXA as soon as I get the radio station, mister Clampett,
I'll have a ranger assigned to investigate this right away.
Within minutes, Ranger jas Pearson had called in, was breaked
on the case and assigned to take over the investigation.

(05:25):
He proceeded at once to the County courthouse in Corona
and was told he could locate Sheriff Halstead at the
cattle pens of a local stockyard. Pearson contacted him there
about noon fall, said, Yo, that day, I speak here
for a minute. Sure what you doing over this way?

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Come on over here. We can hear ourselves. Thanks.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Hey, you're mad? How about i'll talk to you later.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
I got kind of a tickless job in my hands, Kim,
and I'd like to ask you a few questions. I
hope you will bear with me while I clean up
a little misunderstanding here, saying far away jays. Okay, he's
got a letter on February seventh from Harper's Ferry didn't Shift,
from a party named Phil Lampitt.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, I did some follow claims he made a report
of a tart after one of my deputies, and.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
I understand you wrote him that you'd interviewed all your
deputies and none of them taken any such report.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
That's right, boys didn't know anything about it. Follow must
be some kind of a crank, I think, well, I
don't think so, Sheriff.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
He had a receipt for repairs on the trunk of
his car, and kat Stinson seemed to think he was
telling the truth.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Ooh, so now he's pestering the rangers about it is?

Speaker 4 (06:27):
He let me ask you something, Sheriff.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
Yeah, have you ever had any complaints on any of
your deputies before?

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Nothing to speak of. Oh, about three months ago a
follower was picked up for vagrancy and claimed Jerry Matthews
emptied his wallet. Boy brought him in.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Did you check on him?

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Sure? Nothing to it? Follow was plaster. Is Jerry Matthews
a young fellaw? Yeah, yeah, he is nice, clean cut kit.
How long has he been working for you, Sheriff? Ooh,
six seven months? A reckon that officer kind of hard headed,
gives me a little static sometimes, but he's got plenty
of nerve. Matter of fact, I'd say he's my best man.
James well Clampet's dead. Sure it was one of your day,
But as he talked with how could he be sure?

(07:02):
When he wrote me he didn't even remember the name
of the diner. There are dozens of chicken and burger
joints on Highway ninety two.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
He's pretty definite about its being near Corona. Caff said,
do you know of any place on the highway with
a filling station next to it? Were sure, that's the
round up, but oh, climb, it didn't tell.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Me that who covers that area.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Sheriff Jerry Matthews Michelle.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
The same fellow you had to complaint on before.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yeah, but look here, Jase might as well accuse me.
I bet my bottom dollar he's a straight shooter. That
kid Clampett said he was a young fellow. I think
i'd better talk to Matthews, sheriff. Okay, JS, I shut
him up on the hills this morning. He's checking on
the moonshine. You want to ride up there?

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Yeah, I'd like to clean this up right away.

Speaker 5 (07:41):
Jim, the sheriff picked up his horse in Corona and
loaded him into my trailer with charcoal. We drove about
thirty miles out of Corona and took off on horses
into the hills. The sheriff knew whether the still was
supposed to be located, so we didn't have any trouble
finding his deputy.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
There's Jerry Horse. Oh there he is now over there,
coming out from behind that rock. Hey, Jerry, I said, oh,
find anything? Uh, that's another room right, Yes, I'm all over.
There's nothing here. Just come out on a wild goose change.
There's Ranger Pierson. Jerry Matthews morning Ranger ranger wants to

(08:22):
talk to Jerry about that fellow claims he got his
tires stolen. You mean the one who wrote that letter
didn't even know where it happened. Well, we figured out
he was talking about the round up. Jerry, I told
you last week. I don't know anything about it.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
Cherry Lamp but still claims he talked to a deputy,
a young fellow who took down a written report.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Would he want to talk to me for looking to
accuse me, Ranger concealing something.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
I'm not looking for anything but information, Jerry.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
I told your sheriff. I never took no such report. Look, Jerry,
the ranger here's been assigned to clear this up, and
while he's here, I want you to cooperate with him
as much as you can, but get one of the
other boys. I got more than I can do now.
I can't send you out on anything else, Jared. I'll
get this cleaned up, meaning I am under suspicion. Then
we'd just like to have you stick around and we
get to the bottom of this. Jerry. Meantime, just on
the report of some cracked pot you're believing me of

(09:06):
my duties? Is that it? Now? I'll get a hold
of yourself, Jerry. Remember you're still wearing the deputy's bad No,
I'm not. I'm turning it in. Yeah wait, I'm in
at Jerry. No reason for you to fly off the
handlelight things. What more can I tell you except I
don't know anything about a tie theft. Suppose next you
can ask me if I stole the tie.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Oh, somebody stole at Matthews, and we'd like to have
all the help we can and locating who did. First off,
we want to find out who took that report.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
But you can stop investigating me right now, Ranger, because
I'm not a deputy anymore. I quit. I'll take it easy,
je I fed up with this. That'd be looking for
a job and working for someone who doesn't trust me,
not taking any more orders from you, Sheriff, I'm through
turning in that badge.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Matthews.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Doesn't mean you're not still taking orders from both of us.
What do you mean, Ranger?

Speaker 5 (09:46):
I mean the Sheriff and I are ordering you to
stick around and be available for questioning till we figure
this out. We're not through investigating this case yet. After
we left Jerry mann Us, we headed for the round up.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
To fae to talk to the owner.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
We drove out to Highway ninety two and got their
little past one.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
That's Charlie Reeves.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
He owns the place to know if your remembers about
that deputy? A right, Charlie, you got a minute range?
Your person here wants to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
The little right behind?

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Eh? How they range?

Speaker 6 (10:25):
Here?

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Are they?

Speaker 6 (10:26):
Reeves?

Speaker 5 (10:27):
Do you remember an out of state car belonging to
a fellow named Phil Clampitt?

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Eh?

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Phil Clampitt.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
He claims he had a spare stolen out of the
back of his car while he was eating in here.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Oh, Shair, don't remember anyone having the tires stolen when
it happened a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 5 (10:41):
You don't recall one of your customers sending for a
deputy sheriff at any time? No, sure, I don't rag
you know a deputy named Jerry Matthews.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Sure? Do you remember if he's been around here lately?
Oh don't think he has. You should drop in here
for grub all the time before he got married, And
I haven't seen Jerry more than twice in the last year.
I reckon, because though you're gonna be much help to us, Charlie. Sure, sorry, sir, Hey,
maybe Vince knows something about it. Avins take fish out

(11:08):
of that blueberry pie for a man and come over
here with you. That's my brother in law, Ranger. It
takes care of the filling station next door for me.
Might be able to tell you simplon a VNS this
Ranger Pearson, how do you Ray?

Speaker 4 (11:21):
I like to know if you can give us any
information about a tire theft? Tire theft? Yeah, a fellow
named clampe says it happened here and he sent for deputy.
You know anything about it?

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Search me? I haven't heard anything about a tire theft
or deputy coming here either. Ain't you being outside? If
a tire was stolen seems like ash you wouldn't known
about it? Would you be able to recognize the Customurph
come in here just once? Charming? Well that's hard to say.
Awful lot of people drop by here in twenty four
hours that you remember it. If anything like that had happened,
And maybe that fella's pull an insurance rare, I could

(11:50):
pick up the price with.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
Tire Say how about that, Jays could be Maybe we
better get clamp it over here, Sheriff, be sure we
got the right.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Diner, right.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
You're sorry we can't be more help to you. Okay, thanks, Yeah,
it seems funny. Nobody remembers anything about it, don't it, Jays, Yeah,
it does, And I'm feeling kind of bad now about
Jerry Matthews turned down his bad Tell you what, Sheriff,
Let's go out to Jerry's house and take him over
to Harper's.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Jerry with us to talk to Clampton.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
Darn good idea, Jays, because if this does turn out
to be a racket, Jerry might like to be on
hand when we clean it up.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
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Speaker 1 (13:47):
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story Travesty.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
We drove over to Jerry Matthew's house to pick him
up and take him with us to Harper's ferry to
get clamping. It was about three fifteen when we reached
Jerry's place. A care of baby crying inside the house.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Yes, oh, hello, Sheriff, I am is Matthews. There's this
range of Pierce afternoon.

Speaker 6 (14:20):
Ma'n come in, won't you?

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Jerry Holmer is Matthew?

Speaker 6 (14:26):
Why no, Chef, he's gone out on an assignment.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
He says, oh, oh yeah, say when he be home.

Speaker 6 (14:33):
No, he didn't, Cheff. I'm sorry about Skipper's krying on so,
but he ain't been very well today.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
You're expecting your husband home for supper, aren't you, ma'am.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (14:44):
Rather the North will come home at all?

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Range anything about his job, my, Oh no, he sure likes.

Speaker 6 (14:50):
His job, Cheff. It's well, it's only we had such
an awful fact today when he came home for lunch
would probably blow over, ma'am. Yeah, it's just I guess
you see, we don't either of us keept much sleep nowadays.
Baby's been awful fussy lately, and we've both been up
half a night with him.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
You gotta go through that to raise the family in Marston.

Speaker 6 (15:10):
Sure, I guess today was mostly my fault. I was
nagging at him about money again, not having any trouble,
I hope don't everybody nowadays. Y. You see, Jerry's still
struggling to pay off the hospital bill for Skipper and
the washing machine.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
And as pretty tough on the policeman selling.

Speaker 6 (15:29):
Gee. Yeah, I I guess I deviled Jerry about paying
the rent on time. It's mostly because we're leasing from
my folks kind of a stubborn point of proder.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Reckon anything I can do to help mother?

Speaker 6 (15:42):
No, thanks, Cheff. I guess Jerry takes an awful lot
from me first about the rent and off, But today
when I pitched in to him about it, he he
just blew up at me and said he was kept
out and he wasn't coming fat.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
It's probably not half as serious as you think, missus Matthews.

Speaker 6 (15:57):
Gee, I hope not. Where'd you send him today's shot?

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Uh? Let's see how I can't just recall now, Martha,
I've been up to my neck lately.

Speaker 4 (16:07):
Well, ma'am, I guess we'd better be heading the line.

Speaker 6 (16:09):
Well, is there anything special you want with Jerry?

Speaker 4 (16:12):
No, just tell him we were asking for him.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
I sure will. I'm I'm hoping he'll cool off and
head home for too long.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
Well, thank you, miss Matthews. Sure hope that baby picks
up some him.

Speaker 6 (16:22):
I he's just kind of got to touch a colic.
I guess I don't reckon, he'll be all right. Goodby
arrangement was not too much, Thank you, ma'am.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
You by, Martha, take it easy. Don't like Jerry's heading
out of town like that? Jays when you've told him
to stick around.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
I don't like it either, Sheriff. It's like Jerry's getting
little too independent for his own good.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
Of course, I hate to admit it, but if they're
having financial troubles, maybe Jerry did have something to do
with that time after and maybe so. I wonder what
he's up to now, telling Martha he's on an assignment
when he's turned his badge in.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
Glad you didn't give him away, Sheriff.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Till we find out a little more about what's going on,
I sure hope he isn't mixed up in this clamber
case Jays with a baby and all.

Speaker 5 (17:01):
I hope so too. I don't think we can tell
anything until we go get clamp it. Sheriff and I
headed for Harper's ferry to pick up clamping. We got
to the house about five point fifteen and knocked.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
On his door.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
No one was home, so we walked around the garage
at the back of the house. The car is not
in the garage. Probably hasn't come home from work yet. Yeah,
what are we doing to wait for him? In just
a minute, Sheriff, Right, there's a tire in that garage,
a new one. Do you suppose that nerve is so
and so. Really he is pulling an the turant racket, after.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
All, it sure looks like it's There is a car
coming in the driveway now, Jason Hire there he's the
same as those on his car. Yeah, mister clamp It, Yeah,
I want to talk to you a minute. You're here
to see about that tire theft. Well, sure, guys, you
fellows are getting moving on this thing. Looks like we
should have come to see you in the first place.
Mister Clampit, what do you mean? Maybe you can explain

(17:57):
what that new tire same issue as these on your
car here, is doing in your garage.

Speaker 5 (18:02):
What are you talking about, ranger? Mister Clampitt, This is
Sheriff Jim Halstead of Corona County. I think he's waiting
for a little explanation too. I sure amn't, Clampitt. What's
that spare doing in there?

Speaker 3 (18:12):
After you raised all this rumpus accus from one of
my deputies of with holding a report your local I
haven't got no spare. I've been trying for weeks to
collect from the insurance company so I could buy another one.
There it is over there, Clampitt, would you like to
take a look.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
I sure would.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
Well, I'll be harl the devil did that gid in there? Well,
this turn wasn't in here when I left this morning.
It is your spare, isn't it here? It is, at
least it looks like it the one that was stolen. Yeah,
but Ranger, I tell you, up till this morning, it
wasn't here. And I've been away all day. Where's your family?
My wife and kids rubbed sit her sister in Waco.
Somebody must have put it in here today while I

(18:47):
was away. I'll bet it was that crooked deputy of
your sheriff. Now look here, Clampitt, I think you've caused
my county enough trouble already. Ranger, listen, I'm telling you
the truth. Somebody did put it in here. We'll look around.
You see all of us on things. This tire here
is clean.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
You can see it hasn't been laying here long. I
can see that all right. The tire is clean. There
are a few fresh fingerprints on the casing. If all
those prints are yours, mister Clampet, you're in trouble. If
they belong to somebody else, then maybe we'll believe you.
I got my kit and lifted the prince from the tire.

(19:24):
Then we fingerprinted Clampet at the Constable's office in Harper's Ferry.
We sent a copy of his prints, along with the
tire prints, to the lab in Austin for comparison. Then
we took Clampet with us in my car and headed
for Jerry Matthew's house. Got there about ten after nine.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
You stay in the car.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
Clampet will bring him out here. Come on, Sheriff, Jay
sure chimes run. I don't like my job too much.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Yeah, I know what you mean. I have a feeling.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
Clampet selling the truth would have hidden the tire if
he hadn't been. Yeah, Jerry's gipping off like that, telling
Martha they had an asylum.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
Not too good that that tire suddenly turning up.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah, Oh it's you, Sheriff Ringe, and I'd like to
talk to you. Jerry.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Go outside. You know you're upsetting your wife.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
You with you in a minute, honey. Now what do
you want? Like to know where you were from noon
on today, Jerry, when you told mar that you were
going on an assignment. Look, I'm not working for you anymore, Sheriff.
I don't have to be badgered with questions like this. Oh,
yes you do. I'm here representing the county and Ranger
Pearson represents the state. All right, what do you want

(20:32):
to know? Ranger?

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Were you in Harper's Ferry today? Matthews? No, I wasn't.
Where were you then?

Speaker 3 (20:36):
I'm not going to answer that. I don't have to listen, Jerry.
You know we're just doing a job. Why don't you
tell us and be done with it. I'm not keeping
anything from you. That's any of your business.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Where you were this afternoon is our business?

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Oh look, you fellas. Haven't I any right to privacy
at all?

Speaker 4 (20:51):
Why don't you want to tell us?

Speaker 3 (20:52):
Just don't want her?

Speaker 5 (20:53):
That's all you know, Jerry. There's no old saying. The
truth is a mighty powerful weapon. Yeah, can't do anything
but help you out of this mess?

Speaker 6 (21:03):
Now?

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Where were you all day today?

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Because that my father in law's over Injunction, had some
things to settle with him, but I didn't want to
tell Martha about it because I didn't want to upset
her with Skipper's sick. You still don't believe me?

Speaker 6 (21:17):
Do you?

Speaker 4 (21:17):
Just one more thing?

Speaker 6 (21:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (21:20):
I want a fella sitting over in the car to
take a look at you. What fella, Bill Clampitt, Come on, Jerry,
mister Clampet, is this the deputy that took the report?
Eh mm hmm, oh thing. He was a big fella

(21:42):
about the same side. But uh, the one I talked
to was kind of grimy looking, Jordy fingernails and all,
and couldn't help notice. And when he took down the report,
this fellow ain't the deputy I talked to at all. Thanks, okay, Jerry,
that doesn't going to your wife now? Thanks to share. Yeah, sure,

(22:03):
sorry about this morning. Didn't quite realize what that badge
meant to me. I got it right here in my pocket, Jerry.
If you'd like to have it back, sure would. Thanks.

Speaker 5 (22:14):
Hark a night, Ranger, nice kid. Yeah, I still don't
know who did this dirty fingernails. Huh hey, wait a minute,
what is it, Jay, mister clamping Yeah, Ranger. Did this
deputy shriff you talk to have dark sort of curly hair,
Yeah he did.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
You mean you're beginning to believe me? Uh huh, you've
been lying. You'd tried to pin it on, Jerry. Just now,
what were you driving at a minute ago? Jays?

Speaker 5 (22:42):
Well, when we were talking to those people at the
round Up the other day. He couldn't help noticing how
dirty that brother in law's hands were.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Vince.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
Yeah, looked as though he might have washed him all right,
but there was black grease under his nails. Vince could
have done it all right. Sure, being right there in
the filling station next to the parking lot. He's got
a perfect racket, stealing tires off out of state cars.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
Most of you would never miss him for a while, either,
until there were miles out of the state. Mister Clampett,
of the deputy you talk to, have kind of almond
shaped eyes, Yeah, he did.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
Ranger, come on, Sheriff, get in. We got an interesting
call to make. We headed for the round Up Cafe
on Highway ninety two. When we got there, the filling
station was dark and the neon sign over the diner
was out. The lights were on. Inside we could see
Charlie drawing a stack of dishes. Vince was leaning against

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the counter and a beard in his hand. He got
out of the car and went up to the door. Ranger,
here he is, there's the deputy. I talked to the
one with the bruni's hand, and I'd like to get
a closer look.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
I sure would.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Light up.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
It's Ranger Pearson, open up. I'm sorry, Ragie didn't know
it was you. Hey, Charlie, Rang and Sheriff. I want
to say, stick around. We want to talk to you too. Wah,
Can I get you some coffee or something?

Speaker 6 (24:07):
No?

Speaker 4 (24:08):
Thanks?

Speaker 5 (24:09):
Friend here wants to say loh to you, Charlie. Uh, Ranger,
he's the one that told me to call a depty.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
What was he talking about? I never saw this guy before.
This is mister Clampitt claims he had a tire stolen
here two weeks ago. How many times you two gotten
away with this neat little recond in which one of
your hooks and tires?

Speaker 4 (24:25):
How about that, Vince?

Speaker 5 (24:27):
Would be kind of simple for you, wouldn't it, being outside,
Just to break open the back of a car and
take out the spare.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, and then if somebody discovers it, miss and like Clampitt,
did you put in a call at the gas station.
Charlie overcomes Vince the quick change of his pretending he's
a deputy.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Share Listen.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
I don't know what this fellow's been feeding you too,
but I tell you, Ranger, it's all a pack of
lies the same. I'd like to have you both come
down for the Sheriff's office with us.

Speaker 6 (24:49):
What for?

Speaker 4 (24:50):
I want to take your fingerprints.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
You see, somebody got a little scared and returned mister
Clampitt's tire figuring this whole.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
Thing and blow over that way.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
But he didn't know he was leaving a nice fresh
set of fingerprints while he was returnament. Okay, we'll be
glad to come down with you. All we want all advance. Crap, Charlie,
you don't Vince like you hold stop that stop. That's

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all right, jay, Yeah, get on, fool Vince. What do
you have to try to duck for?

Speaker 2 (25:22):
It's all right for you, you.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Jolly you haven't got any prints on it.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
Time.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well, we've got a pair of handcuffs for him just
the same.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Come on, get up, Vince. Now let me tell you something.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
A badge is a mark of trust and doesn't belong
on the rats like you get moved.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case you have just heard.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
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Speaker 2 (27:05):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
The live report positively identified Vince Wright's prints on the
stolen tire. Faced with his evidence, he and Charlie Reeves
made full statements concerning their tire theft, racket, and impersonation
of a peace officer. They were arraigned before the District
Court on charges of larceney and fraud and were each
given prescribed terms according to law and the State Penitentiary
at Huntsville.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Next week.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
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Jess Kirkpatrick, and Tony Barrett. Technical advisor was Captain M. T.
Lone Wolf Gonsales of the Texas Rangers. This story was
transcribed and adapted by Betty Mears and the program is
produced and directed by Stacy Keach.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
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