July 25, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae's.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the files
of the Texas Rangers. Names, dates, and places in the
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following story are fictitious for obvious reasons. The events themselves
are a matter of records.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
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Speaker 4 (01:14):
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Speaker 4 (01:39):
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Speaker 3 (01:40):
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the news first on this station. Now the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called the Boomerang.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
It is late afternoon on a Thursday in May nineteen
thirty seven, several miles north of Catonsville, Texas. A car
containing two middle aged women pulls up in front of
a chanty on a rundown farm.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
He's here, all right, there's his horse's buggy.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
I'll ride back with him. Ruthie, all right, Edthel, thanks
for driving me over.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Don't mention it, all right, all right, don't break it down.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm coming. Oh, mess it, Hadley. What he won't?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Is my father in there?
Speaker 8 (02:46):
No he ain't.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Don't lie to me.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
That's his buggy.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I shut he ain't around. I'll get out of here.
Speaker 9 (02:50):
Don't tell me what to do, Sam, wife, I'm coming
in and get my paw.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You take one step aside my place and I'll bust
you in the teeth.
Speaker 9 (02:57):
What when my Harry gets back from his sisters.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
We'll see who gets busted in the teeth.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Your husband ain't gonna do nothing to me, Oh no,
oh no, Harry, just as tired of your nagging as
your Poey is. He only went to Oklahoma to get
away from you for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 9 (03:11):
That ain't so Now you tell my paw to come
out of there.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Why don't you get on your broom and fly off
my property.
Speaker 9 (03:17):
You're just asking for trouble, Sam, and you're gonna get it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Pa, that's your fool.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
You are back.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Yes, what do you want?
Speaker 9 (03:28):
I'm taking him home and he ain't never coming here again.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Why don't you ask him if he wants to go.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
He don't belong around no filthy sloppy pig like you.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
The way I live is none here knows your business? Hey, Roscol,
The wardens come to take you back. What's the matter
this time?
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Ifol?
Speaker 9 (03:45):
How many times have I told you not to come
over here? And what are you doing with your feet
in that tub of dirty water?
Speaker 10 (03:50):
It's for a rheumatism.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's got sacrificed riots and keel in it.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Something Sam fixed up for you.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I suppose I'd like to fix up a pine box
for you.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Shut your mouth, you say, ain't that pause? Watch Chane.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
You're wearing no word of it.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
Can give it to me, Paul, Why did you give
him that gold chain?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well, he liked it.
Speaker 9 (04:11):
I never heard of such a thing, Sam, You hand
over that chain right now.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You just try and make me woman.
Speaker 9 (04:18):
My mother gives that the paw and he gave it
to me, so I'm keeping it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Let's cut the arguing assle. I give Sam a prison
and he's gonna keep it. I want him to have it.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
You're always giving him something. Suppose you give him that
box of can goods out by.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
The back door too.
Speaker 9 (04:32):
I just loan Sam the money for that until his pension.
Speaker 10 (04:36):
Check comes through.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
We bought the stuff because because he invited me for supper.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
What for?
Speaker 9 (04:42):
So if you get some more of your money, it's
your power money, not yours.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
If you helped me out once in a while, it's
his business.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Well it's my business too. Come on, Paul, get your
feet out of that tub.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You're gonna let your daughter push you around like that.
Speaker 10 (04:55):
You're nugging with hash. She always gets away.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Ah, here's mine. I'd put her over my knee and
a wail of live in daylight, satter like you're a
small kid. Come on, Paul, you can put your shoes
on in the budget. Oh you're gone both have you?
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Turned crazy woman? Look at you letting her need you
around by the nose. Goin home, don't come back.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
You don't mean that.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Sam here right, Ado, you don't find property out for
you'll see.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
I told you it was only after your money. Go
on and get up in the buggy, Paul, I don't
believe it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Why Sam, ain't that way I am? She told you all.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
You're not giving him, nor anybody else no more money.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
I won't give him no more and force I.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Know you won't. Shouldn't keep all that money around the
house anyhow.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
First thing tomorrow morning, you're gonna get you in this
buggy and take every penny of it to the bank.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, you better do it too, or she'll send you
to bed without your supper.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
Old fool, Get up, rusty, get up.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
At three point thirty the following afternoon, missus Hadley went
to the office of Sheriff Nielsen and reported that her father,
Roscoe Kreide, was missing. After a preliminary check, the sheriff
requested aid.
Speaker 11 (06:12):
And the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Forty five minutes later, Ranger Jace Pearson was the Sheriff's office.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
You'll find him more, your ranger.
Speaker 11 (06:21):
We'll do our best.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Missus Hadley, when was the last time you saw your father?
Speaker 9 (06:25):
About half past nine this morning when he took off
in the buggy with the fourteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Yes, it was in the tin box.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
He never got to the bank, Jase, and we can
pretty well rule out the past buility of an accident.
Speaker 8 (06:37):
He's not at the hospital and no doctor around here
is seeing him. Oh excuse me.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
I know something terrible's happened to her, and it's all
my fault. I made him go.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I'll be right back, Jase. I'm gonna take this call
the other office.
Speaker 11 (06:53):
Okay, Sheriff.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Was your father feeling all right when he left for
the bank, Missus Hadley?
Speaker 6 (07:00):
He wasn't ailing, if that's what you mean. But he
was in pretty low spirits because I kept after him
un till he took off in the buggy. I was
only doing it for his own good.
Speaker 11 (07:12):
Did he ever stay away this long before?
Speaker 9 (07:14):
Sometimes he'd sneak off with that awful man named Sam White,
But I stopped off there, and Sam crames he ain't
seen him all day.
Speaker 11 (07:22):
You think he might be lying?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
He sure could be raised. He's a nasty old man.
Speaker 10 (07:27):
Right she you over here?
Speaker 11 (07:29):
Sure? Excuse me, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
What is the sheriff that phone call on our boys
in a plane?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Thinks she spotted Crider's horse and buggy where on the
edge of Bourne's Lake?
Speaker 11 (07:41):
But there was nobody near it, and a deputy take
missus Hadley home. We'll go out there. We drove off
to the lake.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
The horse was grazing about fifty feet from the unhitched buggy.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
I don't see him anywhere.
Speaker 11 (08:02):
There's nothing in the buggy.
Speaker 10 (08:03):
You can see where he walked around un hitching the.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Horse, and I wouldn't look over there. Sheriff where down
toward the edge of the water about a footprints. Yeah,
you must have gone up to his ankles in mud.
It's like someone shoved a rowboat off here into the water.
Reckon he went rowing. It doesn't make much sense that
Roscoe Crider would take his money down here and go rowing.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Sure doesn't. Can you see any boats on the lake.
Speaker 11 (08:30):
Not from here. Let's get up on that rise.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
We ought to be able to spot it from there.
Leake's only half.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Mile across at most.
Speaker 11 (08:41):
This should be high enough.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
And there isn't a single boat out there.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
Wait a minute, there's one over there in that inlet. Mm,
nobody in it, though, Let's take a look. Might be
the one crider.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Used fine place to leave a boat.
Speaker 11 (09:06):
Yeah, looks like it just drifted into these reeds.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
The lords are pulled in the boat he took all right,
That mud on the floor still wept.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Well.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
The boat's in the water, so it was a pretty
good chance he didn't go on shore.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Wait a minute, sure matter, Jason. A straw hat over
there floating with the reeds.
Speaker 11 (09:23):
Come on, it doesn't look like it'd been in the
water very long.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Look at the initials in this hat. Band RC rush,
go crier. He must have committed juicide. Yes, so we
better drag the lake. We told missus Hadley the news.
She broke down and bitterly blamed.
Speaker 11 (09:52):
Herself for her father's death.
Speaker 10 (09:54):
She felt she'd driven him to it by being too
hard on him.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I called headquarters for aid, and at dawn the following
mon winning a crew started dragging the lake. Sheriff and
I circled the shore on the horseback to see if
the body had been washed up, still worried about not
finding the money, don't you think it's kind of funny, Well,
not exactly, well, Jace, no man in his right mind
commits suicide in the first place.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Well, that's right, as I see.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
If Roscoe Krider was all riled up because his daughter
was running his life to her, like, if he was
mad enough to kill himself, I think he'd be sure enough.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
To take his money to the bottom with him.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Maybe, so, I can't see why he wanted to destroy
fourteen hundred dollars. After all, missus Handley wasn't after his money.
She was only trying to help him in her own way.
I'm almost willing to bet we'll find that money on
the end of a Grapplin book.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
We'll see woohoo.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Chart hoy boy, See anything, Jason?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Now, I just like to check out of that pier.
It's a good place for a body to get wedged in.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Any better, be careful. This old pier is rotten clean through,
not safe views anymore.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
H huh.
Speaker 10 (10:58):
A couple of boards missing. You can see straight.
Speaker 11 (11:01):
Down to the partment. Yeah, let me take a look.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
See anything, Jason.
Speaker 11 (11:08):
No, it's all clear down here. Let's go out to
the end.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Sheriff, of any of the Dragon crew been on this pier,
no I told him to keep off. Why there's fresh
mud tracks on this planket?
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Well, I know none of the boys were out here.
Speaker 11 (11:24):
Looks like these tracks were made by someone who got
out of a boat.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
You mean maybe Roscoe Crider didn't commit suicide.
Speaker 11 (11:31):
I don't know. We didn't find any suicide note.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Besides, what proof do we have the Roscoe Crider wasn't
robbed and killed?
Speaker 10 (11:38):
You do you think these tracks belong to somebody who
killed Roscoe?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
It's sure possible killer could have tried to make it
look like suicide by rowing Cryder's body out the middle
of the lake and pushing it overboard, then landing here
at the end of the pier.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
That shore explained these muddy tracks.
Speaker 11 (11:55):
Yeah, another thing.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
The wind's been blown from the southeast for the last
couple of days. The boat would float right toward that inlet.
That's just where we found it.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Maybe you're right, Jess, maybe it was murder.
Speaker 11 (12:07):
We find a body, we'll know for sure.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
So now we start looking for a murderer.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Uh huh, And a clever one somebody who knew Rascoe
Crider was carrying a lot of money.
Speaker 10 (12:18):
Only two people knew that, Missus Hadley and Sam White.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
That's just what I've been thinking. Let's go pick him up.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
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Speaker 4 (13:41):
For the life you save may be your own. Now
Act two of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story the Boomerang.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
We left the crew at the lake and drove the
Sam White's dilapidated farmhouse.
Speaker 11 (14:06):
Outside we saw an elderly woman trying to lead a
mule up a rampant of the back of.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
A truck corner.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Want to do that?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
One?
Speaker 11 (14:12):
Is?
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Sam isn't married?
Speaker 11 (14:13):
Probably a neighbor.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Oh they boys, How come Sam is not here to
help you with this news?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
No, he moved.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Come on now, get up, kid, Dear mules is stubborn
as Sam White when they moved last night.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Brought all his stock.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
But this ornery mule his won't pay.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Me no mind.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Get on up there.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I'm gonna have to take a whip to him.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
You was them born nowhere, Sam went, I got no
idea at all.
Speaker 9 (14:37):
When he'd come by last night, he had all his
stopped out on the trailer, hooked on backs of.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The old wreckie drives.
Speaker 10 (14:42):
We like, no, you do a man?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Here? You do, sheriff. I'm Red Russell's sister live over
near the South Wash.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Oh of course I didn't recognize you with your hair, Bob.
Speaker 10 (14:53):
Did Sam say where he was going?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
No, just said, don't go new mule. I'll get on up,
not down.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Come on now, come on.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
That sick boy hand shakes that. Would you mind just
shoving that ramp and close the tail?
Speaker 10 (15:09):
Me?
Speaker 11 (15:09):
Sure, ma'am?
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Thanks?
Speaker 8 (15:16):
What was I telling you about last night?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Yeah, Well, Sam said it was an emergency had go away.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Didn't say why, So he sold me.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
The whole shooting match. Already got the hogs and a.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Couple of anger goats and some chickens. He didn't even
know for sure how many of them he had.
Speaker 10 (15:32):
And then this here mule.
Speaker 11 (15:34):
Did he act like he needed money?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
No, sir, I wouldn't say that he was satisfied with
forty two dollars I give him for the whole batch
of stock.
Speaker 10 (15:41):
Them goats and hogs are worth more than that by themselves.
Seemed like he wanted to sell out at any price.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Are you sure he didn't say anything that would tell
where he was heading nope, not single word.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
I signed over the milk check for darey give me
in he drove off check?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yep?
Speaker 11 (15:56):
Something wrong? What company issued that check? Ma'am? Right?
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Dry?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Thanks man? Come on, sheriff, Where are we hitting Jesse
Criterion Dairy. When that check comes back, we want to
know where it was cashed. We went to the dairy company.
They arranged with their bank to notify us when the
canceled check came back.
Speaker 11 (16:22):
Meanwhile, we continued our search for Roscoe Krider's body without success.
A week later, the check came through. It had been
cashed three.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Hundred miles away in Tucker, Texas, by a real estate
broker named John Cooney.
Speaker 11 (16:34):
We went there.
Speaker 10 (16:36):
That's it, Jas, here's your signed John Cooney.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
Maybe Sam White bought some property. Yeah, I'll get it.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Thanks more than gentlemen.
Speaker 11 (16:46):
Can I do boy it you mister Cooney? Yes, sir,
do you remember cashing this check? Let's see now.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Oh sure.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I took it as a rental name in a few
days ago from a man named Sam White. It's right,
lett him a little place out on York Road, and
he gave me the check for part of the rent.
Speaker 11 (17:05):
There's something wrong with the check.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
No, it's okay. How do we get to mister White's place.
It's about three miles.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
Out on York Road. But if you want to see him,
he's probably in town. What makes you think so? Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
When he rented the farm, he asked me where he
could pick up some stock. I told him to get
down the auction yard today. They have sales every Monday.
You know, I'm sure he'll be down there.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
That's about it.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
J Yeah, let's get over to that auction. The auction
was held out in the open. We moved around the
edge of the crowd trying to spot the Sam White.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
We're sure going to have a time finding among all
leads people.
Speaker 10 (17:42):
I just hope he doesn't see us first and sneak out.
Speaker 11 (17:45):
And why don't we mix with the crowd wander through it?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Chare, okay?
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Could we get here?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Sam's a big man, Jayce, easy to hey, Jason, I
think I see it where right up front wearing that
Chucken shirt.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Uh huh, come on, excuse me, please pardon me? Please,
he sees Jason. Look there, he goes, keep an eye
on his cherff. But what you let me through here?
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Please?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Please please, mister.
Speaker 11 (18:09):
Tank, he's running past that pen full of haults.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Sam. Hold, it's making to the parking lot, Sam, Sam?
Why call it? Why?
Speaker 11 (18:21):
You're not going anywhere? So I just stand still?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Hey, when do you want to meet?
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Ranger?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I ain't done nothing unlawful?
Speaker 11 (18:26):
And then why are you running away?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I wasn't running from you, facted I didn't see you.
I forgot I had to meet at Heller House and
the rush to get there. You ain't gonna hold me back?
Are you here to and ride?
Speaker 11 (18:36):
We're gonna hold you.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
You've got a lot of answering to do about what.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I don't know what you want me to tell you?
Speaker 10 (18:42):
Why did you leave Catonsville in such a hurry?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well, there's no crime in moving. It's a pre country, Ranger.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
How come you picked the day Rossko Crider disappears.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Well, when I heard poor Ross Coote down yourself, I
didn't feel like staying around no more.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
Are you sure you didn't leave because you murdered him?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Ranger? He ain't serious?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Are you me kill Rusco? Why?
Speaker 8 (19:02):
We is closer than most king folks.
Speaker 11 (19:04):
He had fourteen hundred dollars on him the day disappeared.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Outside of his daughter, you were the only one who
knew that.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
That don't make me no more a murderer than Blue
knows me.
Speaker 10 (19:12):
Where'd you get.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
Enough money to be stuck in another farm?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Sold all my livestock for coming here. I can prove it.
Speaker 11 (19:18):
You don't have to. We know you only got forty
two dollars for it.
Speaker 10 (19:22):
How about it, Sam, you want to tell us the truth?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
You're digging a dry whale, Sheriff. I wouldn't rob or
kill Roscoe, rest his soul no more than I can
fly like a bird.
Speaker 11 (19:32):
Sam.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
If we find that money in your house, you're in
for a lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know that, now? Are you stay away from my house?
There ain't nothing in it, didn't rest you at all.
Speaker 11 (19:39):
Quit stalin, Sam. We think you murdered Crider and took
his money.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You're gonna have to prove it.
Speaker 11 (19:44):
Maybe we will, Sheriff. Let's lock him up.
Speaker 10 (19:52):
We turned Sam White over the local constable.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
Then we got a search warrant from the magistrate, went
out for the farm White had rented.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Look at it, Jase, hardly any difference between this shock
and his last one.
Speaker 11 (20:03):
I reckon he was gonna use that money for other things.
Door's locked. Let's try that window.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Get to open a couple inches.
Speaker 11 (20:12):
Good, I'll go in first. You don't have to climb through.
I'll open the door.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Shair, okay, Ja.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
He doesn't have much furniture in here. Shouldn't take us
long to go through his stuff.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Not many places in here to hide him.
Speaker 11 (20:32):
Let's try this closet. Some packages up on the shelf.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
What old shoe boxes?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (20:42):
He here's a tin box. The cover's really jammed on tight. Yeah,
there it is.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Neat little stack of bills. I reckon this sinch is
the key, It sure does. Let's show this to Sam White.
See what he has to say.
Speaker 11 (21:01):
Come on and wait him in a chaff? What if
you hear that? Nice?
Speaker 10 (21:08):
Sounded like it came from the back room. Careful Sheriff,
what Roscoe?
Speaker 11 (21:24):
What are you doing here? Mister Crider?
Speaker 10 (21:27):
Don't take me away?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I went to back home.
Speaker 11 (21:30):
Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
If the sin she did.
Speaker 10 (21:32):
Bring me back, didn't she? Please tell her you couldn't
find me. Nobody sent us, mister Crider. We thought you
were dead.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Well that's what I wanted you to think.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
It's the same way you will forget you've seen me.
Speaker 11 (21:43):
How about telling us what this is all?
Speaker 8 (21:45):
About Uh, your promise can stay here.
Speaker 11 (21:47):
You're an adult. You got a right to do anything
you want, ye, my daughter.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Don't think so.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Everything I'd done was wrong. I couldn't smoke in the house.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
I had to eat only what she liked, and I
had to go to bed when she had the company
treat me just like a kid.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Where you had money, Why didn't you move out?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
I did?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I moved in with Sam.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Once Ethel will come after me and made me go
back home.
Speaker 11 (22:08):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
She took me by the arm and she dragged me.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
She said my place is with her.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
You didn't have to pretend you were dead. There must
have been some other way.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Range, Ethel never give up on me. Unless I was diddy.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
I never going back. Did Sam talk you into that
fake suicide?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (22:26):
You sure he didn't do it just to get more
of your money?
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Oh no, Range, a way.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Sam always pays back what he owes me, and the
only money I spend dollars for my own keep.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
I see, mister Crider, you know your daughter has to
be told you're alive.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
No, no, no, it'd just be the same thing all
over again, nagging me and ballowing me out.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Please don't tell her.
Speaker 11 (22:51):
We have to Roscoe.
Speaker 10 (22:52):
She filed a missing persons report. She has to know
you're alive.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Did you have to tell her where I am?
Speaker 11 (22:58):
That parts up to you.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
I don't wanted to know.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
She's been miserable blaming herself for your suicide.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
She don't care.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
She does, mister Crider, She does care. She thought she
was doing the right thing for you. She knows now
she was wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
No, that's she's never owned up to being wrong about anything.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
If you could see her now, you'd know how sorry
she is for the way she treated you. But I
wish I could believe that you'd make me feel a
lot happier.
Speaker 11 (23:24):
You give us a chance to prove it.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Well, maybe, but how you leave.
Speaker 11 (23:29):
That up to us?
Speaker 10 (23:42):
You can come into the office, Knowmage Hadley?
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Thank you? Hello ranger.
Speaker 11 (23:49):
Oh, Missus Hadley, sit down, won't you?
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Thank you? The sheriff said you had something to tell me.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Yes, ma'am, we've got some news for you. Your father's alive.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Oh my, oh, thank god, thank god? Is he all right?
Speaker 11 (24:10):
He's fine? Missus Hadley?
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Tell me where is he?
Speaker 11 (24:14):
That's something we can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
You mean you don't know we know.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Think I don't understand. Why can't you tell me.
Speaker 11 (24:22):
Because he asked us not to?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Oh, he hate me, he hates me that much.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
No, ma'am, he doesn't hate you.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
He must if he didn't need one to see me.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
Maybe he does want to see it, but he's afraid
you'd make him come back and live with you.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
No, no, I wouldn't.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
Missus, Hadley. Your father likes his freedom.
Speaker 11 (24:45):
I know that.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
No, I love him, so I thought everything I did
was for his own good. I was wrong.
Speaker 11 (24:55):
Really, you all make mistakes.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You'll never forgive me.
Speaker 11 (25:00):
Now I'll never be able to see him again.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Excuse me a minute, Missus Hadley. Did you hear what
she said? Mister Trinner, Yes, here is that I heard.
You will leave us now?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I believe you, Ranger.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I want to see her.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case you have just heard.
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Speaker 2 (26:57):
The results of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Missus Hadley kept her word. Her father continued.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Living quietly with Sam White on their rented farm until
his death seven years later.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Roscoe Kreida made periodic visits to his daughter in Catonsville.
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And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called the Boomerang.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
It is late afternoon on a Thursday in May nineteen
thirty seven, several miles north of Catonsville, Texas. A car
containing two middle aged women pulls up in front of
a chanty on a rundown farm.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
He's here, all right, there's his horse's buggy.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
I'll ride back with him. Ruthie, all right, Edthel, thanks
for driving me over.
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Don't mention it, all right, all right, don't break it down.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I'm coming. Oh, mess it, Hadley. What he won't?
Speaker 6 (02:45):
Is my father in there?
Speaker 8 (02:46):
No he ain't.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Don't lie to me.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
That's his buggy.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I shut he ain't around. I'll get out of here.
Speaker 9 (02:50):
Don't tell me what to do, Sam, wife, I'm coming
in and get my paw.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You take one step aside my place and I'll bust
you in the teeth.
Speaker 9 (02:57):
What when my Harry gets back from his sisters.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
We'll see who gets busted in the teeth.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Your husband ain't gonna do nothing to me, Oh no,
oh no, Harry, just as tired of your nagging as
your Poey is. He only went to Oklahoma to get
away from you for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 9 (03:11):
That ain't so Now you tell my paw to come
out of there.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Why don't you get on your broom and fly off
my property.
Speaker 9 (03:17):
You're just asking for trouble, Sam, and you're gonna get it.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Pa, that's your fool.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
You are back.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Yes, what do you want?
Speaker 9 (03:28):
I'm taking him home and he ain't never coming here again.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Why don't you ask him if he wants to go.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
He don't belong around no filthy sloppy pig like you.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
The way I live is none here knows your business? Hey, Roscol,
The wardens come to take you back. What's the matter
this time?
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Ifol?
Speaker 9 (03:45):
How many times have I told you not to come
over here? And what are you doing with your feet
in that tub of dirty water?
Speaker 10 (03:50):
It's for a rheumatism.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's got sacrificed riots and keel in it.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Something Sam fixed up for you.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
I suppose I'd like to fix up a pine box
for you.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Shut your mouth, you say, ain't that pause? Watch Chane.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
You're wearing no word of it.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
Can give it to me, Paul, Why did you give
him that gold chain?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well, he liked it.
Speaker 9 (04:11):
I never heard of such a thing, Sam, You hand
over that chain right now.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
You just try and make me woman.
Speaker 9 (04:18):
My mother gives that the paw and he gave it
to me, so I'm keeping it.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Let's cut the arguing assle. I give Sam a prison
and he's gonna keep it. I want him to have it.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
You're always giving him something. Suppose you give him that
box of can goods out by.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
The back door too.
Speaker 9 (04:32):
I just loan Sam the money for that until his pension.
Speaker 10 (04:36):
Check comes through.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
We bought the stuff because because he invited me for supper.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
What for?
Speaker 9 (04:42):
So if you get some more of your money, it's
your power money, not yours.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
If you helped me out once in a while, it's
his business.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
Well it's my business too. Come on, Paul, get your
feet out of that tub.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
You're gonna let your daughter push you around like that.
Speaker 10 (04:55):
You're nugging with hash. She always gets away.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Ah, here's mine. I'd put her over my knee and
a wail of live in daylight, satter like you're a
small kid. Come on, Paul, you can put your shoes
on in the budget. Oh you're gone both have you?
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Eh?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Turned crazy woman? Look at you letting her need you
around by the nose. Goin home, don't come back.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
You don't mean that.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Sam here right, Ado, you don't find property out for
you'll see.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
I told you it was only after your money. Go
on and get up in the buggy, Paul, I don't
believe it.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Why Sam, ain't that way I am? She told you all.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
You're not giving him, nor anybody else no more money.
Speaker 8 (05:37):
I won't give him no more and force I.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Know you won't. Shouldn't keep all that money around the
house anyhow.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
First thing tomorrow morning, you're gonna get you in this
buggy and take every penny of it to the bank.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, you better do it too, or she'll send you
to bed without your supper.
Speaker 9 (05:52):
Old fool, Get up, rusty, get up.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
At three point thirty the following afternoon, missus Hadley went
to the office of Sheriff Nielsen and reported that her father,
Roscoe Kreide, was missing. After a preliminary check, the sheriff
requested aid.
Speaker 11 (06:12):
And the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Forty five minutes later, Ranger Jace Pearson was the Sheriff's office.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
You'll find him more, your ranger.
Speaker 11 (06:21):
We'll do our best.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Missus Hadley, when was the last time you saw your father?
Speaker 9 (06:25):
About half past nine this morning when he took off
in the buggy with the fourteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Yes, it was in the tin box.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
He never got to the bank, Jase, and we can
pretty well rule out the past buility of an accident.
Speaker 8 (06:37):
He's not at the hospital and no doctor around here
is seeing him. Oh excuse me.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
I know something terrible's happened to her, and it's all
my fault. I made him go.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
I'll be right back, Jase. I'm gonna take this call
the other office.
Speaker 11 (06:53):
Okay, Sheriff.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Was your father feeling all right when he left for
the bank, Missus Hadley?
Speaker 6 (07:00):
He wasn't ailing, if that's what you mean. But he
was in pretty low spirits because I kept after him
un till he took off in the buggy. I was
only doing it for his own good.
Speaker 11 (07:12):
Did he ever stay away this long before?
Speaker 9 (07:14):
Sometimes he'd sneak off with that awful man named Sam White,
But I stopped off there, and Sam crames he ain't
seen him all day.
Speaker 11 (07:22):
You think he might be lying?
Speaker 6 (07:23):
He sure could be raised. He's a nasty old man.
Speaker 10 (07:27):
Right she you over here?
Speaker 11 (07:29):
Sure? Excuse me, ma'am.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
What is the sheriff that phone call on our boys
in a plane?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Thinks she spotted Crider's horse and buggy where on the
edge of Bourne's Lake?
Speaker 11 (07:41):
But there was nobody near it, and a deputy take
missus Hadley home. We'll go out there. We drove off
to the lake.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
The horse was grazing about fifty feet from the unhitched buggy.
Speaker 8 (08:01):
I don't see him anywhere.
Speaker 11 (08:02):
There's nothing in the buggy.
Speaker 10 (08:03):
You can see where he walked around un hitching the.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Horse, and I wouldn't look over there. Sheriff where down
toward the edge of the water about a footprints. Yeah,
you must have gone up to his ankles in mud.
It's like someone shoved a rowboat off here into the water.
Reckon he went rowing. It doesn't make much sense that
Roscoe Crider would take his money down here and go rowing.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Sure doesn't. Can you see any boats on the lake.
Speaker 11 (08:30):
Not from here. Let's get up on that rise.
Speaker 8 (08:35):
We ought to be able to spot it from there.
Leake's only half.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Mile across at most.
Speaker 11 (08:41):
This should be high enough.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
And there isn't a single boat out there.
Speaker 11 (08:46):
Wait a minute, there's one over there in that inlet. Mm,
nobody in it, though, Let's take a look. Might be
the one crider.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Used fine place to leave a boat.
Speaker 11 (09:06):
Yeah, looks like it just drifted into these reeds.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
The lords are pulled in the boat he took all right,
That mud on the floor still wept.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Well.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
The boat's in the water, so it was a pretty
good chance he didn't go on shore.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Wait a minute, sure matter, Jason. A straw hat over
there floating with the reeds.
Speaker 11 (09:23):
Come on, it doesn't look like it'd been in the
water very long.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Look at the initials in this hat. Band RC rush,
go crier. He must have committed juicide. Yes, so we
better drag the lake. We told missus Hadley the news.
She broke down and bitterly blamed.
Speaker 11 (09:52):
Herself for her father's death.
Speaker 10 (09:54):
She felt she'd driven him to it by being too
hard on him.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
I called headquarters for aid, and at dawn the following
mon winning a crew started dragging the lake. Sheriff and
I circled the shore on the horseback to see if
the body had been washed up, still worried about not
finding the money, don't you think it's kind of funny, Well,
not exactly, well, Jace, no man in his right mind
commits suicide in the first place.
Speaker 8 (10:16):
Well, that's right, as I see.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
If Roscoe Krider was all riled up because his daughter
was running his life to her, like, if he was
mad enough to kill himself, I think he'd be sure enough.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
To take his money to the bottom with him.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Maybe, so, I can't see why he wanted to destroy
fourteen hundred dollars. After all, missus Handley wasn't after his money.
She was only trying to help him in her own way.
I'm almost willing to bet we'll find that money on
the end of a Grapplin book.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
We'll see woohoo.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Chart hoy boy, See anything, Jason?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Now, I just like to check out of that pier.
It's a good place for a body to get wedged in.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Any better, be careful. This old pier is rotten clean through,
not safe views anymore.
Speaker 11 (10:57):
H huh.
Speaker 10 (10:58):
A couple of boards missing. You can see straight.
Speaker 11 (11:01):
Down to the partment. Yeah, let me take a look.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
See anything, Jason.
Speaker 11 (11:08):
No, it's all clear down here. Let's go out to
the end.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Sheriff, of any of the Dragon crew been on this pier,
no I told him to keep off. Why there's fresh
mud tracks on this planket?
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Well, I know none of the boys were out here.
Speaker 11 (11:24):
Looks like these tracks were made by someone who got
out of a boat.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
You mean maybe Roscoe Crider didn't commit suicide.
Speaker 11 (11:31):
I don't know. We didn't find any suicide note.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
Besides, what proof do we have the Roscoe Crider wasn't
robbed and killed?
Speaker 10 (11:38):
You do you think these tracks belong to somebody who
killed Roscoe?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
It's sure possible killer could have tried to make it
look like suicide by rowing Cryder's body out the middle
of the lake and pushing it overboard, then landing here
at the end of the pier.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
That shore explained these muddy tracks.
Speaker 11 (11:55):
Yeah, another thing.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
The wind's been blown from the southeast for the last
couple of days. The boat would float right toward that inlet.
That's just where we found it.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Maybe you're right, Jess, maybe it was murder.
Speaker 11 (12:07):
We find a body, we'll know for sure.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
So now we start looking for a murderer.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Uh huh, And a clever one somebody who knew Rascoe
Crider was carrying a lot of money.
Speaker 10 (12:18):
Only two people knew that, Missus Hadley and Sam White.
Speaker 11 (12:21):
That's just what I've been thinking. Let's go pick him up.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
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beginning to wend their way home along crowded highways from
a long Independence Day weekend. It is a time such
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Control your speed at all times to keep within the
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They know that careful driving keeps them from having accidents
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which may take lives. Speed is the number one killer
on the highways, so drive carefully today on your way
home from an enjoyable weekend, and tomorrow, wherever you go
in your car, exercise caution, courtesy, and the golden rule.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
For the life you save may be your own. Now
Act two of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story the Boomerang.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
We left the crew at the lake and drove the
Sam White's dilapidated farmhouse.
Speaker 11 (14:06):
Outside we saw an elderly woman trying to lead a
mule up a rampant of the back of.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
A truck corner.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Want to do that?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
One?
Speaker 11 (14:12):
Is?
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Sam isn't married?
Speaker 11 (14:13):
Probably a neighbor.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Oh they boys, How come Sam is not here to
help you with this news?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
No, he moved.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Come on now, get up, kid, Dear mules is stubborn
as Sam White when they moved last night.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Brought all his stock.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
But this ornery mule his won't pay.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
Me no mind.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Get on up there.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I'm gonna have to take a whip to him.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
You was them born nowhere, Sam went, I got no
idea at all.
Speaker 9 (14:37):
When he'd come by last night, he had all his
stopped out on the trailer, hooked on backs of.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The old wreckie drives.
Speaker 10 (14:42):
We like, no, you do a man?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Here? You do, sheriff. I'm Red Russell's sister live over
near the South Wash.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Oh of course I didn't recognize you with your hair, Bob.
Speaker 10 (14:53):
Did Sam say where he was going?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
No, just said, don't go new mule. I'll get on up,
not down.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Come on now, come on.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
That sick boy hand shakes that. Would you mind just
shoving that ramp and close the tail?
Speaker 10 (15:09):
Me?
Speaker 11 (15:09):
Sure, ma'am?
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Thanks?
Speaker 8 (15:16):
What was I telling you about last night?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Yeah, Well, Sam said it was an emergency had go away.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Didn't say why, So he sold me.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
The whole shooting match. Already got the hogs and a.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Couple of anger goats and some chickens. He didn't even
know for sure how many of them he had.
Speaker 10 (15:32):
And then this here mule.
Speaker 11 (15:34):
Did he act like he needed money?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
No, sir, I wouldn't say that he was satisfied with
forty two dollars I give him for the whole batch
of stock.
Speaker 10 (15:41):
Them goats and hogs are worth more than that by themselves.
Seemed like he wanted to sell out at any price.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Are you sure he didn't say anything that would tell
where he was heading nope, not single word.
Speaker 6 (15:51):
I signed over the milk check for darey give me
in he drove off check?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yep?
Speaker 11 (15:56):
Something wrong? What company issued that check? Ma'am? Right?
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Dry?
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Thanks man? Come on, sheriff, Where are we hitting Jesse
Criterion Dairy. When that check comes back, we want to
know where it was cashed. We went to the dairy company.
They arranged with their bank to notify us when the
canceled check came back.
Speaker 11 (16:22):
Meanwhile, we continued our search for Roscoe Krider's body without success.
A week later, the check came through. It had been
cashed three.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Hundred miles away in Tucker, Texas, by a real estate
broker named John Cooney.
Speaker 11 (16:34):
We went there.
Speaker 10 (16:36):
That's it, Jas, here's your signed John Cooney.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
Maybe Sam White bought some property. Yeah, I'll get it.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Thanks more than gentlemen.
Speaker 11 (16:46):
Can I do boy it you mister Cooney? Yes, sir,
do you remember cashing this check? Let's see now.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Oh sure.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
I took it as a rental name in a few
days ago from a man named Sam White. It's right,
lett him a little place out on York Road, and
he gave me the check for part of the rent.
Speaker 11 (17:05):
There's something wrong with the check.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
No, it's okay. How do we get to mister White's place.
It's about three miles.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
Out on York Road. But if you want to see him,
he's probably in town. What makes you think so? Oh?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
When he rented the farm, he asked me where he
could pick up some stock. I told him to get
down the auction yard today. They have sales every Monday.
You know, I'm sure he'll be down there.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
That's about it.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
J Yeah, let's get over to that auction. The auction
was held out in the open. We moved around the
edge of the crowd trying to spot the Sam White.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
We're sure going to have a time finding among all
leads people.
Speaker 10 (17:42):
I just hope he doesn't see us first and sneak out.
Speaker 11 (17:45):
And why don't we mix with the crowd wander through it?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Chare, okay?
Speaker 8 (17:50):
Could we get here?
Speaker 5 (17:52):
Sam's a big man, Jayce, easy to hey, Jason, I
think I see it where right up front wearing that
Chucken shirt.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Uh huh, come on, excuse me, please pardon me? Please,
he sees Jason. Look there, he goes, keep an eye
on his cherff. But what you let me through here?
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Please?
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Please please, mister.
Speaker 11 (18:09):
Tank, he's running past that pen full of haults.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Sam. Hold, it's making to the parking lot, Sam, Sam?
Why call it? Why?
Speaker 11 (18:21):
You're not going anywhere? So I just stand still?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Hey, when do you want to meet?
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Ranger?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I ain't done nothing unlawful?
Speaker 11 (18:26):
And then why are you running away?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I wasn't running from you, facted I didn't see you.
I forgot I had to meet at Heller House and
the rush to get there. You ain't gonna hold me back?
Are you here to and ride?
Speaker 11 (18:36):
We're gonna hold you.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
You've got a lot of answering to do about what.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I don't know what you want me to tell you?
Speaker 10 (18:42):
Why did you leave Catonsville in such a hurry?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Well, there's no crime in moving. It's a pre country, Ranger.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
How come you picked the day Rossko Crider disappears.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Well, when I heard poor Ross Coote down yourself, I
didn't feel like staying around no more.
Speaker 11 (18:55):
Are you sure you didn't leave because you murdered him?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Ranger? He ain't serious?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Are you me kill Rusco? Why?
Speaker 8 (19:02):
We is closer than most king folks.
Speaker 11 (19:04):
He had fourteen hundred dollars on him the day disappeared.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
Outside of his daughter, you were the only one who
knew that.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
That don't make me no more a murderer than Blue
knows me.
Speaker 10 (19:12):
Where'd you get.
Speaker 11 (19:13):
Enough money to be stuck in another farm?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Sold all my livestock for coming here. I can prove it.
Speaker 11 (19:18):
You don't have to. We know you only got forty
two dollars for it.
Speaker 10 (19:22):
How about it, Sam, you want to tell us the truth?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
You're digging a dry whale, Sheriff. I wouldn't rob or
kill Roscoe, rest his soul no more than I can
fly like a bird.
Speaker 11 (19:32):
Sam.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
If we find that money in your house, you're in
for a lot of trouble.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know that, now? Are you stay away from my house?
There ain't nothing in it, didn't rest you at all.
Speaker 11 (19:39):
Quit stalin, Sam. We think you murdered Crider and took
his money.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You're gonna have to prove it.
Speaker 11 (19:44):
Maybe we will, Sheriff. Let's lock him up.
Speaker 10 (19:52):
We turned Sam White over the local constable.
Speaker 11 (19:54):
Then we got a search warrant from the magistrate, went
out for the farm White had rented.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
Look at it, Jase, hardly any difference between this shock
and his last one.
Speaker 11 (20:03):
I reckon he was gonna use that money for other things.
Door's locked. Let's try that window.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
Get to open a couple inches.
Speaker 11 (20:12):
Good, I'll go in first. You don't have to climb through.
I'll open the door.
Speaker 8 (20:20):
Shair, okay, Ja.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
He doesn't have much furniture in here. Shouldn't take us
long to go through his stuff.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Not many places in here to hide him.
Speaker 11 (20:32):
Let's try this closet. Some packages up on the shelf.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
What old shoe boxes?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (20:42):
He here's a tin box. The cover's really jammed on tight. Yeah,
there it is.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Neat little stack of bills. I reckon this sinch is
the key, It sure does. Let's show this to Sam White.
See what he has to say.
Speaker 11 (21:01):
Come on and wait him in a chaff? What if
you hear that? Nice?
Speaker 10 (21:08):
Sounded like it came from the back room. Careful Sheriff,
what Roscoe?
Speaker 11 (21:24):
What are you doing here? Mister Crider?
Speaker 10 (21:27):
Don't take me away?
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I went to back home.
Speaker 11 (21:30):
Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
If the sin she did.
Speaker 10 (21:32):
Bring me back, didn't she? Please tell her you couldn't
find me. Nobody sent us, mister Crider. We thought you
were dead.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Well that's what I wanted you to think.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
It's the same way you will forget you've seen me.
Speaker 11 (21:43):
How about telling us what this is all?
Speaker 8 (21:45):
About Uh, your promise can stay here.
Speaker 11 (21:47):
You're an adult. You got a right to do anything
you want, ye, my daughter.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Don't think so.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Everything I'd done was wrong. I couldn't smoke in the house.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
I had to eat only what she liked, and I
had to go to bed when she had the company
treat me just like a kid.
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Where you had money, Why didn't you move out?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
I did?
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I moved in with Sam.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Once Ethel will come after me and made me go
back home.
Speaker 11 (22:08):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
She took me by the arm and she dragged me.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
She said my place is with her.
Speaker 11 (22:13):
You didn't have to pretend you were dead. There must
have been some other way.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Range, Ethel never give up on me. Unless I was diddy.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
I never going back. Did Sam talk you into that
fake suicide?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (22:26):
You sure he didn't do it just to get more
of your money?
Speaker 8 (22:28):
Oh no, Range, a way.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Sam always pays back what he owes me, and the
only money I spend dollars for my own keep.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
I see, mister Crider, you know your daughter has to
be told you're alive.
Speaker 10 (22:41):
No, no, no, it'd just be the same thing all
over again, nagging me and ballowing me out.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Please don't tell her.
Speaker 11 (22:51):
We have to Roscoe.
Speaker 10 (22:52):
She filed a missing persons report. She has to know
you're alive.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
Did you have to tell her where I am?
Speaker 11 (22:58):
That parts up to you.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
I don't wanted to know.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
She's been miserable blaming herself for your suicide.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
She don't care.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
She does, mister Crider, She does care. She thought she
was doing the right thing for you. She knows now
she was wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
No, that's she's never owned up to being wrong about anything.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
If you could see her now, you'd know how sorry
she is for the way she treated you. But I
wish I could believe that you'd make me feel a
lot happier.
Speaker 11 (23:24):
You give us a chance to prove it.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Well, maybe, but how you leave.
Speaker 11 (23:29):
That up to us?
Speaker 10 (23:42):
You can come into the office, Knowmage Hadley?
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Thank you? Hello ranger.
Speaker 11 (23:49):
Oh, Missus Hadley, sit down, won't you?
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Thank you? The sheriff said you had something to tell me.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Yes, ma'am, we've got some news for you. Your father's alive.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Oh my, oh, thank god, thank god? Is he all right?
Speaker 11 (24:10):
He's fine? Missus Hadley?
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Tell me where is he?
Speaker 11 (24:14):
That's something we can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
You mean you don't know we know.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Think I don't understand. Why can't you tell me.
Speaker 11 (24:22):
Because he asked us not to?
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Oh, he hate me, he hates me that much.
Speaker 11 (24:31):
No, ma'am, he doesn't hate you.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
He must if he didn't need one to see me.
Speaker 10 (24:35):
Maybe he does want to see it, but he's afraid
you'd make him come back and live with you.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
No, no, I wouldn't.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
Missus, Hadley. Your father likes his freedom.
Speaker 11 (24:45):
I know that.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
No, I love him, so I thought everything I did
was for his own good. I was wrong.
Speaker 11 (24:55):
Really, you all make mistakes.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You'll never forgive me.
Speaker 11 (25:00):
Now I'll never be able to see him again.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Excuse me a minute, Missus Hadley. Did you hear what
she said? Mister Trinner, Yes, here is that I heard.
You will leave us now?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I believe you, Ranger.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I want to see her.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
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Speaker 2 (26:57):
The results of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
Missus Hadley kept her word. Her father continued.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Living quietly with Sam White on their rented farm until
his death seven years later.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Roscoe Kreida made periodic visits to his daughter in Catonsville.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And here again is the star of our show, Joel McRae.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Folks, Today is a red letter day for Tales of
the Texas Rangers. It marks our second anniversary on the radio,
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Speaker 11 (27:25):
We go into the beginning of the third year, we want.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
To tell you listeners how much we've appreciated your letters
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Speaker 11 (27:40):
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Speaker 8 (27:44):
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Speaker 5 (27:46):
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Speaker 1 (28:14):
Next week, Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a
case from the files of the Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae
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Speaker 8 (28:49):
Howard McNair, Parley Bear.
Speaker 6 (28:51):
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Thompson.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
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Lone Wolf Gonzalez of the Texas Rangeings.
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