August 6, 2025 • 29 mins
Chronicles the cases of a law enforcement officer in the American West, blending traditional Western themes with modern investigative techniques. The stories are based on real cases.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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. In two days,
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the Cotton Bowl and the Rose Bowl football games on
this station of the NBC Radio Network. And now from
the files of the Texas Rangers, the case called Killer's Crop.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It is ten thirty five pm April sixteenth, nineteen forty seven.
A black coop is driving west on a deserted highway
twenty miles from San Antonio, Texas. Inside the coop, the
girl glances nervously at ridings.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, what's it's all about?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
What do you mean, kiddy?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Why couldn't you just pay me back there in front
of my room and house like usual?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Why bring me away out here in the sticks like
I told you? Kitty? The boy says, we gotta be
real careful these days. This is foreign enough. No, let's
walk a little bit. I'd rather go back home. Yeah,
kidd is, don't tell me you're not interested in the
money anymore. It's a merry kitty, but nothing. I'm just tired. Sure,
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that's all it is. Is. Wouldn't be you've gotten cold
feet or anything like that? Would it?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Cold feet?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Just about that's maybe why you went to see that
doctor the other day.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Doctor.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Oh you didn't think the boss and I knew about that. Listens,
the doctor gonna take care of your cold feet, Lizzie,
or maybe the police are I hadn't been to the police, No.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Not yet.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Where were you fixing to go when I came by
this evening just to a movie? Shure, shure. That's why
I had all those crop dusting auto planks would tell
you to burn? I just forgot to burn them. Yeah,
there weren't by any chance figuring on turning them over
to the police for evidence, were you? No? Too bad kid?
Too bad? He needs to be a good news? You
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got it wrong? Have I? So all of a sudden
you're too good for the outfit?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Huh? You won't out?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
All right?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
All right, I'm sick of a whole rotten stuff in there.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Look at me, look.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
At the rest of stuff made out of me, And
I've been helping make wrecks out of other people. Well,
I'm through.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
I'm getting out.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
My my my Isn't she an angel all over? Studd No,
not for.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
A long shot, But maybe some day, with help I
can get over it.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
You want to tell that to the bus.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
You think I'm afraid to say it to him, h Okay,
take me to him.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
You know something I already did standing right there and
the bushes behind you.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Two days later, a young boy accidentally discovered the girl's body.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
In the bottom of a dry wash near the highway.
The sheriff was.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Notified and requested help from the Texas Rangers. Ranger Jason
Pearson was a sign ether has been moving.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Javes good. Here we are Yeah, shot from close range.
Looks like pretty young, isn't she sure? Any identification on
her first have been empty? But see the ring on
her finger?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Flash ring. According Yutch graduated from Ransford High School four
years ago. I only should be able to get an
identification from the school records. Then what is it? Jeef?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Take a look here and I left forearm near the
cook of the elbow. Kinish's quite a few of them, jefs.
What if that spell to you? Shaff not cutis headed?
It's like this you sick at my stummach show you
out twenty one twenty two? Look at her? Look for
it letter same place at leads all of them sooner
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or later. Yeah, only with her came a little faster.
Somebody was supplying her with the stuff. Jeez, I know
that's why I'm taking a special interest in this case. Sheriff.
Somewhere along the line, we've got to dig that wrap,
whoever he is, out of his hole. From the Ramsford
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High School records, we identified the dead girl, Skitty Bows,
twenty two years old. She had listed as her next
to kin and uncle St. Cullum owned a ranch near Ramsford.
Column was sent for. In the meantime, we learned that
Kitty had lived at a rooming house in San Anton.
We called on her landlady there, missus wormsay.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Good, it did ringist. I had just had a fear
it might be something like that. She'd been gone overnight before,
but this time when it got to be two days,
I just began to get to speed.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Yeah, and missus Worms, where did Kitty work?
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Well, I'm not sure she did, oh at least I
don't know what kind of a job you could hold down.
But you're not all hours in sleeping all morning.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Like she used to.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I see.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Always was a mystery to me where she got her money.
But I'm one of leaves in mine in my own business.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
But she did seem to have quite a little money.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Yeah these days gress the way she did. And I
had that flashy yellow convertible around.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You don't do that or nothing?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yellow convertible?
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Yeah, still pass out back.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
We want to take a look at that. Did you
say she went out at night frequently? Missus wormsby?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Where there was several boys that dates with her.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
I never saw any of them more than once. And
then there was one that was with her several times.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
You know what, No, can you describe him?
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Well, i'd see it was in his late twenties.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Maybe fathy about.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Your heart chair anything else?
Speaker 6 (07:14):
No, Sidney always wore a leather jacket.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I'm fraid that's not very much to go on.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Man.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Well, it's about the best I can do. I always
believe in mind.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Say, well, come to think of it, there was something else,
something about his faith.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Well, his skin seemed like it was stretched kind of
tight across his cheeks, so when he smiled and stretched
even tighter made the smile look kind of painful. I
could hurt him too, I see.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I thank you very much, missus. Wimon, Sir, there's anything else,
We'll contact you again?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Sure do who cared who ever did it?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
So do we, ma'am. Apparently Kitty was a little on
the wildside. I had quite a few casual dates. Things
like that could be tough to run down. And we've
got to lead on one of her dates. Fellow in
the leather jacket who looks like it hurts him to smile.
Huh pronounced facial characteristic like that can be a big
help in making identifications. Yeah, but do so. It's not
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too much to go on. I know, Sheriff one or
two things. Either Kitty was killed by one of those
casual dates, in which case it will be tough, or
else there killing stems from something else, a narcotic change. Yeah,
she was an addict. She didn't have a job yet.
She wore flashy clothes and drove a convertible. Where we
should get their money. I can think of one place
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from peddler narcotics, or run them. I'll have a lab
give her car good going over. If she was using
it to transport narcotics, they'll be able to tell us.
When the Sheriff and I returned to his office. SD Cullen,
the man whom Kitty had listed in high school as
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the next of Kin was waiting for us. I got
over here from the ranch as soon as I could.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Ranger.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Thanks, mister Cullen, you were too bad, Yeah, acording the
registration blank.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Kitty made out her last.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Year at Ransford High School. You're her next of Kim uncle,
she put down. Well, matter of fact, that's not true.
What do you mean, Well, I wasn't really any kind
to her, share and if she used to call me
uncle Stan, but it was just sort of a nickname,
nickname y'all.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
You see, her mother died when she was just a baby.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Her dad brought her up. He worked for me on
my ranch, and the two of them lived there in
one of the houses. Well, he died somewhere before her
last year in high school, her father.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yeah, she didn't have nobody to turn to. So I
took her in the big house with me and kind
of looked after all that year.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And I don't want to tell you I had a
time too.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I'll get a Jason. What do you mean about having
a time, mister Cullen. Well, I don't like to say this,
but Kitty was a little bit wild. Soon she turned
twenty one, she moved out on me that she was
her own board. Where'd she go? I heard she was
working as a car hop and rubber for a while.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
She showed up the ranch once a trice and hit
me for a little money, and I showed the lost
tracker room.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Mister cullum, did you know that Kitty was addicted to narconics?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
One? That's right? No, I sure didn't.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Why that's terrible?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Sure is you know?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
One contributing cause for young people drifting into that is
lack of supervision at home?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Arranger?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Maybe I wasn't taking the place where parents very good,
but I was sure trying.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
It just seemed like she wouldn't let me in. Then
when she turned twenty one? What could I do?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Yeah, jose Tessha, that'll be all mister Cullum or arranger. Uh,
I was just wondering that I'd like to arrange for
Kitty to have a decent burial.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I don't it's not much.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Yeah, it can be arranged. What is the chef? Your
boss just telephoned cap'n Stenson? Yeah, I said, the lab
reports have been sent to his office. Good, and I'll
get up there right away and see if they've turned
up any leads for us. Here the report Jez looks
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like your hunch the girl was transporting narcotics in her
car was a good one. Yeah, microscopic particles found in
the trunk, that's right. I found something else too in
the trade of the tires, quite a bit of insecticide.
Insecticide they're currently used for spraying crops. I wonder where Wait,
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what's this little scrap of Mexican newspaper the founder in
one corner of the auto trunk got a lot of
the powder on it. Could have been used to wrap
the stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
M h.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
As you can see, there's a little of the paper's
name showing its the top.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
In just four letters, he and the oh, either part
of the paper's name of the town or it's published Mexico.
I wonder if that's where the stuff came from.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Chance, although you know how thorough the border.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Patrol had been.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Yeah, you've got anything else?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Cavin one thing more? Something that hits me kind of hard.
What is it?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
We located a doctor who told us Kitty had planned
to enter the sanatorium for treatment. Why say that could
take the reason for her murder If she was running
this stuff and decided to take treatments for her own addiction,
That means she was probably trying to pull herself out
of the man.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Whoever she was working for, could have found out about.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
It, could have been afraid she had turned them in,
so they killed it or shut him out. It's a
rotten business chase, And as far as I'm concerned, this
is the most important case we've got. I feel the
same way, cap'n. We find who Kitty was working for,
and we've got her killer, and right now looks like
the trail leads into Mexico. In a moment, we will
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We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Story Killers Crop.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Deptain Stintson contacted the Mexican Police. They assigned one of
their agents to work with us, Ansto Gomez, an old
friend of mine. We met in the Captain's office.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
It would seem as though a new channel for smuggling
narcotics is in existence, Jason.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
That's the way it looks to us in Es, though
the Border Patrol's got a pretty tight clamp on all
the old ones. Here's a case of it reaching as
far north as San Antone.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You fellows have any recent leads on operations in Mexico?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Hey, shit, define stinks.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
We make it a point to keep track of recognized
trafficers in narcotic exam there which of them are in jail,
serve their sentences, and where they are you'll probably do
the same thing.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
A year ago one of them completed his prison sentence,
Julie Flores. He had been convicted as a ger rower.
See he raised poppies and extracted the raw powder. After
he was released from prison, he dropped out a site
only guess today I received a report that he had
been seen recently in a town who one hundred miles
or so below the border. That's Mendota, at the foot
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of the San Facino Range. He was buying provisions and
claimed to be mining in the mountains.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Wait a minute, what's the name of that town again? Mendota,
that's it? What do you mean? In the trunk of
the dead girl's car, we found a scrap of newspaper
which apparently been used to wrap the stuff in. We
could only make out four letters of the name E
and the oh, that's part of Mendota as our tie
in captain. She looks like it, jeez. It would then
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appear that Flores is up to his old trace. Jess. Yeah,
and as though, I think we better take a little
trip and the Ranger playing over the Santa Central Range.
See if we can find out where those tricks of
his are. It's a rugged country down there, and that's though. Yes,
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those mountains are quite wild, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Once I trail a few that threw them for four
days on foot without a sign of another human being.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
We've criss crossed this range pretty thoroughly. I'll have a
pilot all the courts and jay yeah, loop, yeah, a
little pocket down there just below the ridge. See pale
patch of orange.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
That's poppies, keep applying straight ahead. But I don't want
anyone down there to nowhere interested.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
I reckon that could.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Be your chewy floyers.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
And as though, hey, there's a real good chance of it.
Gis got the spot fixed in your mind.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
See got it?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Okay, that's all we need to see from here. Now
we'll go back and pack in for a closer look.
The Ranger plane landed at Mendota. There, we outed it
and started back into the Santa Cento Range on horseback.
Portable radio transmitter was included in our equipment. Several hours
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ride up through the bleak foothills, but it was close
to the area we spotted from the plane Hey, pocket
should be just over that ridge and have a game. Yeah,
we better leave the horses here. Who can tie them
in this clump of scrube?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
They should be sufficiently hidden here again, Okay, let's go.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
We're gonna work our way up the top of the ridge.
Here went up.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
There's plenty of cover along the top of Yeah, okay,
we better kick down and take advantage of this brush.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Is this good?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Guess?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Ah, there it is all right? See Rudby loss the
patch of puppies hut there at the edge of the clearing.
Look a man near the door.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Just let me get my binoculars on him.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Jewy Flores hunch about him? Was right? Looks like well,
Chewy Floris at this end, and maybe the dead girl
at the other. See, the question is who is the
tie between them. We're gonna lose right here until somebody
shows up to pick up some of that stuff. You're
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no lying here among these rocks in the sun. I'm
beginning to feel slightly like a lizard.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, good, I fold days and no sign of anybody
done there below except Chewie Flores.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Jase, this could go on for a long time. Yeah,
I know, But since Flores hasn't going those poppies down
there for his own amusement. Even so, it may be
that you pull it and I still listen. Listen up
by said dirty. It's heading this way, standing to circle. Unh.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Well, Jase, we already seen that there's not enough room
down there for flame to land.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I don't think it has to land their nest though.
Look down there in the clearing, Floris has hoisted a
couple of poles out of the brush and a rope
stretched between them.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
The package dangling from the center.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Of the rope. It's a flying pickle. Yeah. Hey, he's
starting his dive. We'd have to fly very close for
the ground. Now he's flattening out. See there's a hook
dangling from the plane.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He's making a passat of Nah hooked there, Jef, it's
a very skillful pilo.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Uh, get down.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
He's climbing out this way.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Could you make out that number on the underside of
his wing that could get only the first part of it,
and see four or five something of what I noticed.
I think that's enough. What do you know to do?
It looks like a crop dusting plane to me here
and ASTs so you mean the kind would sprays the
crops in the field. Yeah, that explains why he's so
good a low flying. It also could explain the extoricide
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and attire credit Kiddy's convertible.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yees, yeah, laws here the pilot in the middle of
the dead girl of the allarmdi.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Do you think that the pilot is the boss of
the operation?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
To get an answer to that, first, we gotta find
a pilot on our portable radio transmitter.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We requested the Ranger plane to attempt to intercept and
follow the crop duster. Then we moved in and er
Nesto placed Floris under arrest for the time. I reached
the border and called Captain Stinson. He had some information
for me.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
A plane innocent at the crop dusting plane. All right,
he's being far enough, awayers not to arouse.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Espicially tag him all the way to his airport.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
At him for a few minutes, and then spotted him
again landing at the Tricity airport. We checked himland at
the one lad outfit called a MIKA crop dusting sentence.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Is the plane at the airport now?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Sharon Phillips is over there keeping an eye on it.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Thanks a lot Captain, I'll get over there right now. No,
he's holy Yeah, yes, sir, I'm setting up headquarters here
behind the ship for the time being. And see that
little hanger off therebyut Shoe, Yeah, Meeker Crop Testing Service.
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Captain Stinson said it was a one man up. Uh uh.
Meeker's a pot. Is he in that hanger now?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah? Working on his plane? Boys in the control car.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
I told him. You mentioned the paul of fuel pumped
to him when he came in. You mean he's been
right there with his plane ever since he landed? Or no,
them he has put just enokjase. If he's a boy
that picked up that packet blew the border, then it
should be somewhere in that plane or hanger. Yeah. Hey,
man coming out of the hanging must be Meeker h
heading for the coffee shop. Looks like sure if you
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get a good look at him, I sure did jave
skin stretched tight across his face. You can't miss it.
That's the guy Kitty's land lady told us about the
one she saw Kitty with several times. Yeah, well, it's
all beginning to slide in playcas. Sure looks that way.
Come on, we need that package for evidence, and now's
a good time to get it. While Meeker was in
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the coffee shop, the sheriff and I searched the plane
and the small office in the corner of the hangar,
and we weren't able to find the package. Ah, don't
get it, Jase. We know meet to pick it upload
a border.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
On the fly.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Maybe that's just the way he unloaded, sheriff on the fly,
what do you meet? Look, me could be taking a
big chance coming into land with that package aboard, always
facing the chance there'd be a tip on him in
a search. Yeah, but we you figure he'd dropped it
somewhere before I landed. Could be but where it seems
to me to be just as risky dropping it in
the same place each time as a woodlanding.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Here with it.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
But suppose it's a different place each time, different places.
I don't wait a minute, because the crop dust, sure,
And what we see in his office there crop dust
in order? Right, And take a look at those orders again.
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On the top of a spindle was an order for
that day to dust the cotton field twenty miles east.
We rushed to that cotton field, hoping to find the
package before it was picked up more walking than I've
done for squatter slid.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Well, we've already walked our way around two thirds of
the field, but we've been sticking to the edges. Jae, Well,
we know that package you picked up in Mexico could
have been dropped form in the middle of the field.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Maybe, but I doubt it. Sheriff, I think they'd want
to keep it as.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Close to the roads as possible so they runner could
drive up close and pick it up seat of walking
right through the field. Yeah, sounds logical. But down the
Sheriff look over there a packaging day package just about
twenty feet in from the road. Sure that accounts for
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the insecticide. And to tread to Kitty's tires. She drive
up alongside whichever field Meeker have sprayed that day and
hunt around until she found the package just in from
the edge. U hm, well what now, Jay, and we
wait around and find out who's taking Kiddy's place. M m.
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We concealed the car behind a pump house at one
corner of the field and staked out in a crump
of bushes nearby. Shortly after dark, a car came down
the road, stopping Jase, Yeah, I figured they wouldn't let
that package sit in the field very long? Somebody getting out,
crossing in front of the headlights. It's Meeker, Sure is Jeece?
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Why wouldn't heeka drop the package when he's plane and
came back in a car to pick it up. I
don't get it, neither do I. He's got the package
all right, getting back in the car. Okay, we'll get
him a lead, then tail him with her light flow.
See where he takes that package. Look, Jesse, who swung
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off the road? Don't lunch? Yeah, I must have turned
in up there past those trees. Okay, leave the car
here looks like a ranch where he turned in. Yeah,
so back there beside the house in part here's a
turning and wait a minute, the mailbox here and aough
moonlight to make out the name. Yeah, SB Coat SB
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column Blight. Well that's the fellow we had him for questioning,
the one that had been looking after Kitty. Yeah, and
he was so anxious to give Kitty a decent burial.
If you were instead Ranger Hud, I thought I saw
you driving. I've just hold it, both of you. You
got to drop on a sheff, Sure I have maker?
What hold what are you, hey, ranger on the sheriff.
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Sure you were real smart, Meka. You'll let them straight here,
I let It wouldn't have happened if you hadn't called
me and told me to pick the stuff up. I
told you I didn't have any choice. Couldn't line up
a runner, I a trust. Yeah, you killed the one
you had, didn't you? Kitty shut up? What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
She wanted out and you wouldn't let her shut up.
So you're the boss of the.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Operation, Cullum. You're the rat who first dragged Kitty down
into dirt and then killed her when she tried to
pull herself out of it.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
That's one too many, ranger.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Now you try to pull yourself out of this you okay, Ja, Yeah,
that's for you. Maker. Just stand there real still.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Well, I had the drug buny get you.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
I guess you've never seen a springhoster before. You don't
have to draw springholster. Yeah, but you'll never have one, Cullum.
That's where you're going. They're going to have the drop
on you from now on.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the you have just heard. Here's another last minute
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And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
William Meeker and sd Cullhen were invited and tried for
the brutal murder of Kitty Barrows for.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
His part in the crime. Meeker was given a life sentence.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
On the morning of November third, nineteen forty eight, at
Huntsville Penitentiary, Cullen was put to death in the electric chair.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Next que Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of the
case from the files of that Texas Rangers. The cast
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included Tony Barrett, Virginia Gregg, herb Ellis Ken, Christy Bill Johnstone,
and Byron Kane. Technical adviser was Captain Mt. Lone Wolfnzalas
of the Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed and adapted
by Bob Rich and the program is produced and directed
by Katy Keek. This is Hal Jydney speaking.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Next, It's the Big Show, All This and Tulula Too
on NVC
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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Bowl in Pasadena will mark the twenty sixth year this
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the Cotton Bowl and the Rose Bowl football games on
this station of the NBC Radio Network. And now from
the files of the Texas Rangers, the case called Killer's Crop.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It is ten thirty five pm April sixteenth, nineteen forty seven.
A black coop is driving west on a deserted highway
twenty miles from San Antonio, Texas. Inside the coop, the
girl glances nervously at ridings.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, what's it's all about?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
What do you mean, kiddy?
Speaker 5 (02:32):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (02:33):
Why couldn't you just pay me back there in front
of my room and house like usual?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
Why bring me away out here in the sticks like
I told you? Kitty? The boy says, we gotta be
real careful these days. This is foreign enough. No, let's
walk a little bit. I'd rather go back home. Yeah,
kidd is, don't tell me you're not interested in the
money anymore. It's a merry kitty, but nothing. I'm just tired. Sure,
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that's all it is. Is. Wouldn't be you've gotten cold
feet or anything like that? Would it?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Cold feet?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Just about that's maybe why you went to see that
doctor the other day.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Doctor.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Oh you didn't think the boss and I knew about that. Listens,
the doctor gonna take care of your cold feet, Lizzie,
or maybe the police are I hadn't been to the police, No.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Not yet.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Where were you fixing to go when I came by
this evening just to a movie? Shure, shure. That's why
I had all those crop dusting auto planks would tell
you to burn? I just forgot to burn them. Yeah,
there weren't by any chance figuring on turning them over
to the police for evidence, were you? No? Too bad kid?
Too bad? He needs to be a good news? You
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got it wrong? Have I? So all of a sudden
you're too good for the outfit?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Huh? You won't out?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Maybe?
Speaker 5 (03:51):
All right?
Speaker 6 (03:54):
All right, I'm sick of a whole rotten stuff in there.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Look at me, look.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
At the rest of stuff made out of me, And
I've been helping make wrecks out of other people. Well,
I'm through.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
I'm getting out.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
My my my Isn't she an angel all over? Studd No,
not for.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
A long shot, But maybe some day, with help I
can get over it.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
You want to tell that to the bus.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
You think I'm afraid to say it to him, h Okay,
take me to him.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
You know something I already did standing right there and
the bushes behind you.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Two days later, a young boy accidentally discovered the girl's body.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
In the bottom of a dry wash near the highway.
The sheriff was.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Notified and requested help from the Texas Rangers. Ranger Jason
Pearson was a sign ether has been moving.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Javes good. Here we are Yeah, shot from close range.
Looks like pretty young, isn't she sure? Any identification on
her first have been empty? But see the ring on
her finger?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Flash ring. According Yutch graduated from Ransford High School four
years ago. I only should be able to get an
identification from the school records. Then what is it? Jeef?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Take a look here and I left forearm near the
cook of the elbow. Kinish's quite a few of them, jefs.
What if that spell to you? Shaff not cutis headed?
It's like this you sick at my stummach show you
out twenty one twenty two? Look at her? Look for
it letter same place at leads all of them sooner
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or later. Yeah, only with her came a little faster.
Somebody was supplying her with the stuff. Jeez, I know
that's why I'm taking a special interest in this case. Sheriff.
Somewhere along the line, we've got to dig that wrap,
whoever he is, out of his hole. From the Ramsford
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High School records, we identified the dead girl, Skitty Bows,
twenty two years old. She had listed as her next
to kin and uncle St. Cullum owned a ranch near Ramsford.
Column was sent for. In the meantime, we learned that
Kitty had lived at a rooming house in San Anton.
We called on her landlady there, missus wormsay.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Good, it did ringist. I had just had a fear
it might be something like that. She'd been gone overnight before,
but this time when it got to be two days,
I just began to get to speed.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Yeah, and missus Worms, where did Kitty work?
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Well, I'm not sure she did, oh at least I
don't know what kind of a job you could hold down.
But you're not all hours in sleeping all morning.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Like she used to.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I see.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Always was a mystery to me where she got her money.
But I'm one of leaves in mine in my own business.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
But she did seem to have quite a little money.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Yeah these days gress the way she did. And I
had that flashy yellow convertible around.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You don't do that or nothing?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yellow convertible?
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Yeah, still pass out back.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
We want to take a look at that. Did you
say she went out at night frequently? Missus wormsby?
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Where there was several boys that dates with her.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
I never saw any of them more than once. And
then there was one that was with her several times.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
You know what, No, can you describe him?
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Well, i'd see it was in his late twenties.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Maybe fathy about.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Your heart chair anything else?
Speaker 6 (07:14):
No, Sidney always wore a leather jacket.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I'm fraid that's not very much to go on.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Man.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Well, it's about the best I can do. I always
believe in mind.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Say, well, come to think of it, there was something else,
something about his faith.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Well, his skin seemed like it was stretched kind of
tight across his cheeks, so when he smiled and stretched
even tighter made the smile look kind of painful. I
could hurt him too, I see.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I thank you very much, missus. Wimon, Sir, there's anything else,
We'll contact you again?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Sure do who cared who ever did it?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
So do we, ma'am. Apparently Kitty was a little on
the wildside. I had quite a few casual dates. Things
like that could be tough to run down. And we've
got to lead on one of her dates. Fellow in
the leather jacket who looks like it hurts him to smile.
Huh pronounced facial characteristic like that can be a big
help in making identifications. Yeah, but do so. It's not
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too much to go on. I know, Sheriff one or
two things. Either Kitty was killed by one of those
casual dates, in which case it will be tough, or
else there killing stems from something else, a narcotic change. Yeah,
she was an addict. She didn't have a job yet.
She wore flashy clothes and drove a convertible. Where we
should get their money. I can think of one place
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from peddler narcotics, or run them. I'll have a lab
give her car good going over. If she was using
it to transport narcotics, they'll be able to tell us.
When the Sheriff and I returned to his office. SD Cullen,
the man whom Kitty had listed in high school as
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the next of Kin was waiting for us. I got
over here from the ranch as soon as I could.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Ranger.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Thanks, mister Cullen, you were too bad, Yeah, acording the
registration blank.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Kitty made out her last.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Year at Ransford High School. You're her next of Kim uncle,
she put down. Well, matter of fact, that's not true.
What do you mean, Well, I wasn't really any kind
to her, share and if she used to call me
uncle Stan, but it was just sort of a nickname,
nickname y'all.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
You see, her mother died when she was just a baby.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Her dad brought her up. He worked for me on
my ranch, and the two of them lived there in
one of the houses. Well, he died somewhere before her
last year in high school, her father.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Yeah, she didn't have nobody to turn to. So I
took her in the big house with me and kind
of looked after all that year.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And I don't want to tell you I had a
time too.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I'll get a Jason. What do you mean about having
a time, mister Cullen. Well, I don't like to say this,
but Kitty was a little bit wild. Soon she turned
twenty one, she moved out on me that she was
her own board. Where'd she go? I heard she was
working as a car hop and rubber for a while.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
She showed up the ranch once a trice and hit
me for a little money, and I showed the lost
tracker room.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Mister cullum, did you know that Kitty was addicted to narconics?
Speaker 4 (10:10):
One? That's right? No, I sure didn't.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Why that's terrible?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Sure is you know?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
One contributing cause for young people drifting into that is
lack of supervision at home?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Arranger?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Maybe I wasn't taking the place where parents very good,
but I was sure trying.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
It just seemed like she wouldn't let me in. Then
when she turned twenty one? What could I do?
Speaker 5 (10:35):
Yeah, jose Tessha, that'll be all mister Cullum or arranger. Uh,
I was just wondering that I'd like to arrange for
Kitty to have a decent burial.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I don't it's not much.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Yeah, it can be arranged. What is the chef? Your
boss just telephoned cap'n Stenson? Yeah, I said, the lab
reports have been sent to his office. Good, and I'll
get up there right away and see if they've turned
up any leads for us. Here the report Jez looks
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like your hunch the girl was transporting narcotics in her
car was a good one. Yeah, microscopic particles found in
the trunk, that's right. I found something else too in
the trade of the tires, quite a bit of insecticide.
Insecticide they're currently used for spraying crops. I wonder where Wait,
(11:34):
what's this little scrap of Mexican newspaper the founder in
one corner of the auto trunk got a lot of
the powder on it. Could have been used to wrap
the stuff.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
M h.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
As you can see, there's a little of the paper's
name showing its the top.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
In just four letters, he and the oh, either part
of the paper's name of the town or it's published Mexico.
I wonder if that's where the stuff came from.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Chance, although you know how thorough the border.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Patrol had been.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Yeah, you've got anything else?
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Cavin one thing more? Something that hits me kind of hard.
What is it?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
We located a doctor who told us Kitty had planned
to enter the sanatorium for treatment. Why say that could
take the reason for her murder If she was running
this stuff and decided to take treatments for her own addiction,
That means she was probably trying to pull herself out
of the man.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Whoever she was working for, could have found out about.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
It, could have been afraid she had turned them in,
so they killed it or shut him out. It's a
rotten business chase, And as far as I'm concerned, this
is the most important case we've got. I feel the
same way, cap'n. We find who Kitty was working for,
and we've got her killer, and right now looks like
the trail leads into Mexico. In a moment, we will
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continue with tell you of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel
McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson. Our National Safety Council reports
that last year, more than thirty five thousand persons were
killed in traffic accidents, with more than a million injured.
Almost without exception, these fatalities and injuries were the result
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pedestrian the personal responsibility of knowing and obeying all traffic laws. Remember,
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Speaker 1 (13:46):
They can happen to us, to you, or to me.
Every driver is urged to obey all traffic signs and signals,
never to drive after drinking, and never to drive on
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Speaker 4 (13:58):
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Speaker 1 (14:01):
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The life you save may be your own.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Story Killers Crop.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Deptain Stintson contacted the Mexican Police. They assigned one of
their agents to work with us, Ansto Gomez, an old
friend of mine. We met in the Captain's office.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
It would seem as though a new channel for smuggling
narcotics is in existence, Jason.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
That's the way it looks to us in Es, though
the Border Patrol's got a pretty tight clamp on all
the old ones. Here's a case of it reaching as
far north as San Antone.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You fellows have any recent leads on operations in Mexico?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Hey, shit, define stinks.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
We make it a point to keep track of recognized
trafficers in narcotic exam there which of them are in jail,
serve their sentences, and where they are you'll probably do
the same thing.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
A year ago one of them completed his prison sentence,
Julie Flores. He had been convicted as a ger rower.
See he raised poppies and extracted the raw powder. After
he was released from prison, he dropped out a site
only guess today I received a report that he had
been seen recently in a town who one hundred miles
or so below the border. That's Mendota, at the foot
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of the San Facino Range. He was buying provisions and
claimed to be mining in the mountains.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Wait a minute, what's the name of that town again? Mendota,
that's it? What do you mean? In the trunk of
the dead girl's car, we found a scrap of newspaper
which apparently been used to wrap the stuff in. We
could only make out four letters of the name E
and the oh, that's part of Mendota as our tie
in captain. She looks like it, jeez. It would then
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appear that Flores is up to his old trace. Jess. Yeah,
and as though, I think we better take a little
trip and the Ranger playing over the Santa Central Range.
See if we can find out where those tricks of
his are. It's a rugged country down there, and that's though. Yes,
(16:15):
those mountains are quite wild, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Once I trail a few that threw them for four
days on foot without a sign of another human being.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
We've criss crossed this range pretty thoroughly. I'll have a
pilot all the courts and jay yeah, loop, yeah, a
little pocket down there just below the ridge. See pale
patch of orange.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
That's poppies, keep applying straight ahead. But I don't want
anyone down there to nowhere interested.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
I reckon that could.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Be your chewy floyers.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
And as though, hey, there's a real good chance of it.
Gis got the spot fixed in your mind.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
See got it?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
Okay, that's all we need to see from here. Now
we'll go back and pack in for a closer look.
The Ranger plane landed at Mendota. There, we outed it
and started back into the Santa Cento Range on horseback.
Portable radio transmitter was included in our equipment. Several hours
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ride up through the bleak foothills, but it was close
to the area we spotted from the plane Hey, pocket
should be just over that ridge and have a game. Yeah,
we better leave the horses here. Who can tie them
in this clump of scrube?
Speaker 2 (17:30):
They should be sufficiently hidden here again, Okay, let's go.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
We're gonna work our way up the top of the ridge.
Here went up.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
There's plenty of cover along the top of Yeah, okay,
we better kick down and take advantage of this brush.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Is this good?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Guess?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Ah, there it is all right? See Rudby loss the
patch of puppies hut there at the edge of the clearing.
Look a man near the door.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Just let me get my binoculars on him.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Jewy Flores hunch about him? Was right? Looks like well,
Chewy Floris at this end, and maybe the dead girl
at the other. See, the question is who is the
tie between them. We're gonna lose right here until somebody
shows up to pick up some of that stuff. You're
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no lying here among these rocks in the sun. I'm
beginning to feel slightly like a lizard.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, good, I fold days and no sign of anybody
done there below except Chewie Flores.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Jase, this could go on for a long time. Yeah,
I know, But since Flores hasn't going those poppies down
there for his own amusement. Even so, it may be
that you pull it and I still listen. Listen up
by said dirty. It's heading this way, standing to circle. Unh.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Well, Jase, we already seen that there's not enough room
down there for flame to land.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
I don't think it has to land their nest though.
Look down there in the clearing, Floris has hoisted a
couple of poles out of the brush and a rope
stretched between them.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
The package dangling from the center.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Of the rope. It's a flying pickle. Yeah. Hey, he's
starting his dive. We'd have to fly very close for
the ground. Now he's flattening out. See there's a hook
dangling from the plane.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He's making a passat of Nah hooked there, Jef, it's
a very skillful pilo.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Uh, get down.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
He's climbing out this way.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Could you make out that number on the underside of
his wing that could get only the first part of it,
and see four or five something of what I noticed.
I think that's enough. What do you know to do?
It looks like a crop dusting plane to me here
and ASTs so you mean the kind would sprays the
crops in the field. Yeah, that explains why he's so
good a low flying. It also could explain the extoricide
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and attire credit Kiddy's convertible.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yees, yeah, laws here the pilot in the middle of
the dead girl of the allarmdi.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Do you think that the pilot is the boss of
the operation?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
To get an answer to that, first, we gotta find
a pilot on our portable radio transmitter.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We requested the Ranger plane to attempt to intercept and
follow the crop duster. Then we moved in and er
Nesto placed Floris under arrest for the time. I reached
the border and called Captain Stinson. He had some information
for me.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
A plane innocent at the crop dusting plane. All right,
he's being far enough, awayers not to arouse.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Espicially tag him all the way to his airport.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
At him for a few minutes, and then spotted him
again landing at the Tricity airport. We checked himland at
the one lad outfit called a MIKA crop dusting sentence.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Is the plane at the airport now?
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (20:53):
Sharon Phillips is over there keeping an eye on it.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Thanks a lot Captain, I'll get over there right now. No,
he's holy Yeah, yes, sir, I'm setting up headquarters here
behind the ship for the time being. And see that
little hanger off therebyut Shoe, Yeah, Meeker Crop Testing Service.
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Captain Stinson said it was a one man up. Uh uh.
Meeker's a pot. Is he in that hanger now?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah? Working on his plane? Boys in the control car.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
I told him. You mentioned the paul of fuel pumped
to him when he came in. You mean he's been
right there with his plane ever since he landed? Or no,
them he has put just enokjase. If he's a boy
that picked up that packet blew the border, then it
should be somewhere in that plane or hanger. Yeah. Hey,
man coming out of the hanging must be Meeker h
heading for the coffee shop. Looks like sure if you
(21:47):
get a good look at him, I sure did jave
skin stretched tight across his face. You can't miss it.
That's the guy Kitty's land lady told us about the
one she saw Kitty with several times. Yeah, well, it's
all beginning to slide in playcas. Sure looks that way.
Come on, we need that package for evidence, and now's
a good time to get it. While Meeker was in
(22:11):
the coffee shop, the sheriff and I searched the plane
and the small office in the corner of the hangar,
and we weren't able to find the package. Ah, don't
get it, Jase. We know meet to pick it upload
a border.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
On the fly.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
Maybe that's just the way he unloaded, sheriff on the fly,
what do you meet? Look, me could be taking a
big chance coming into land with that package aboard, always
facing the chance there'd be a tip on him in
a search. Yeah, but we you figure he'd dropped it
somewhere before I landed. Could be but where it seems
to me to be just as risky dropping it in
the same place each time as a woodlanding.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Here with it.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
But suppose it's a different place each time, different places.
I don't wait a minute, because the crop dust, sure,
And what we see in his office there crop dust
in order? Right, And take a look at those orders again.
(23:07):
On the top of a spindle was an order for
that day to dust the cotton field twenty miles east.
We rushed to that cotton field, hoping to find the
package before it was picked up more walking than I've
done for squatter slid.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Well, we've already walked our way around two thirds of
the field, but we've been sticking to the edges. Jae, Well,
we know that package you picked up in Mexico could
have been dropped form in the middle of the field.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Maybe, but I doubt it. Sheriff, I think they'd want
to keep it as.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Close to the roads as possible so they runner could
drive up close and pick it up seat of walking
right through the field. Yeah, sounds logical. But down the
Sheriff look over there a packaging day package just about
twenty feet in from the road. Sure that accounts for
(23:53):
the insecticide. And to tread to Kitty's tires. She drive
up alongside whichever field Meeker have sprayed that day and
hunt around until she found the package just in from
the edge. U hm, well what now, Jay, and we
wait around and find out who's taking Kiddy's place. M m.
(24:13):
We concealed the car behind a pump house at one
corner of the field and staked out in a crump
of bushes nearby. Shortly after dark, a car came down
the road, stopping Jase, Yeah, I figured they wouldn't let
that package sit in the field very long? Somebody getting out,
crossing in front of the headlights. It's Meeker, Sure is Jeece?
(24:36):
Why wouldn't heeka drop the package when he's plane and
came back in a car to pick it up. I
don't get it, neither do I. He's got the package
all right, getting back in the car. Okay, we'll get
him a lead, then tail him with her light flow.
See where he takes that package. Look, Jesse, who swung
(24:59):
off the road? Don't lunch? Yeah, I must have turned
in up there past those trees. Okay, leave the car
here looks like a ranch where he turned in. Yeah,
so back there beside the house in part here's a
turning and wait a minute, the mailbox here and aough
moonlight to make out the name. Yeah, SB Coat SB
(25:24):
column Blight. Well that's the fellow we had him for questioning,
the one that had been looking after Kitty. Yeah, and
he was so anxious to give Kitty a decent burial.
If you were instead Ranger Hud, I thought I saw
you driving. I've just hold it, both of you. You
got to drop on a sheff, Sure I have maker?
What hold what are you, hey, ranger on the sheriff.
(25:50):
Sure you were real smart, Meka. You'll let them straight here,
I let It wouldn't have happened if you hadn't called
me and told me to pick the stuff up. I
told you I didn't have any choice. Couldn't line up
a runner, I a trust. Yeah, you killed the one
you had, didn't you? Kitty shut up? What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (26:07):
She wanted out and you wouldn't let her shut up.
So you're the boss of the.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Operation, Cullum. You're the rat who first dragged Kitty down
into dirt and then killed her when she tried to
pull herself out of it.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
That's one too many, ranger.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Now you try to pull yourself out of this you okay, Ja, Yeah,
that's for you. Maker. Just stand there real still.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Well, I had the drug buny get you.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
I guess you've never seen a springhoster before. You don't
have to draw springholster. Yeah, but you'll never have one, Cullum.
That's where you're going. They're going to have the drop
on you from now on.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the you have just heard. Here's another last minute
reminder to make your plans now to enjoy both the
Cotton Bowl and Rose Bowl football games Tuesday on this
station in Dallas, Texas. At the famed Cotton Bowl, the
Wildcats of Kentucky, led by their All American quarterback Vito Perillo,
(27:18):
will meet the wide open passing attack of dutch Meyer's
Texas Christian horn Frogs, and as usual, NBC will switch
to Pasadena, California at the conclusion of the Kentucky, Texas
Christian grid battle to bring you the color of the
Tournament of Roses and the exciting Stanford Illinois football games.
(27:39):
The Rose Bowl will be playing host to Coach of
the Year Chuck Taylor's Stanford Indians and Ray Elliott's Fighting
a Lion I from Champagne, Illinois. Arrange a football party
at your home and enjoy a full day of the
country's finest grid clashes, broadcast direct to you by NBC
from both the Cotton Bowl and the Rose Bowl Tuesday,
New Year's Day on this station of the NBC Radio Network.
(28:14):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
William Meeker and sd Cullhen were invited and tried for
the brutal murder of Kitty Barrows for.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
His part in the crime. Meeker was given a life sentence.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
On the morning of November third, nineteen forty eight, at
Huntsville Penitentiary, Cullen was put to death in the electric chair.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Next que Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of the
case from the files of that Texas Rangers. The cast
(29:07):
included Tony Barrett, Virginia Gregg, herb Ellis Ken, Christy Bill Johnstone,
and Byron Kane. Technical adviser was Captain Mt. Lone Wolfnzalas
of the Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed and adapted
by Bob Rich and the program is produced and directed
by Katy Keek. This is Hal Jydney speaking.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
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