August 2, 2025 • 29 mins
The "Tales Of The Texas Rangers Collection" brings together the most thrilling episodes from this iconic western radio series. Experience the rugged adventures and dramatic stories of the Texas Rangers as they pursue justice in the wild west. This collection is perfect for fans of westerns and those who enjoy action-packed radio dramas. Relive the golden age of radio with these timeless tales of heroism and adventure.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger
Chase Pearson. Another authentic re enactment of a case transcribed
from the files of the Texas Rangers. Names, dates, and
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places in the following story are fictitious for obvious reasons.
The events themselves are a matter of records.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
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Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
And now from the files the Texas Rangers. The case
called Knockout.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
It is ten o'clock on a Saturday night in July
nineteen forty six outside the Rand Hotel in Jackson, Texas,
fifty miles from Houston. The sheriff stands talking to some
cattle ranches were in town for a convention Hiver. He
is about to leave the group and walk toward his
car in the front door of the hotel, burst over chat.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Yeah over here, tell me, oh care.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Her excuse me, Bill, see you later. Yeah, what's the matter?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
On the second call, some kind of trouble.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
I'll come along, joby.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Where it is?
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Missus Beale?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
She just called sounds scared of death, said there was
an awful fight going.
Speaker 8 (02:42):
On the next room, up right up these stairs.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Hey, you haven't been up there yet?
Speaker 9 (02:46):
No, No, I've never seeing you in the lobby.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
A few minutes ago, I hope you'd still be around.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You're sure she said there was a fight.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Oh yeah, that's what you said.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
We'll find out what it is all over.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Excuse me, man, it's okay.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
She sure.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Come run that corner past. Which way do we go?
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (03:00):
Right down here. Miss Bill's room is in the middle
of the h Huh.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
Don't seem to be any noise up here now, Oh ball,
it's a desk clark mine.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Oh what?
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Oh you brought the sheriff.
Speaker 10 (03:14):
Well, i's a gang.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
I understand.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
You think you heard some fighting going on up here.
Speaker 10 (03:17):
Somebodies be killed. I know who somebodies be you killed?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Which room was this? Man?
Speaker 10 (03:22):
W wou you want the boy?
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Want me to come with the shirt or you.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Better stay here in this bill just in case there
is some trouble.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Over hurt the sheriff. Open up, you come down in
the little house, open up. I wanna talk to you now.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Uh, okay, don't come out, come on, come on, hurry
up in there, Oh curry, come on.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
What's all trouble, sheriff? I heard there was a fight
going on in this room.
Speaker 11 (03:57):
Fight.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
There must be some mistake. I'd like to come.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Didn't take a look around. But what for a sheriff?
Is nothing wrong here? You you mind standing the side?
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Well? Sure? Or sure that's the way you feel about it.
Come on here, see there's nothing wrong in here.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Who's out in the bathroom? My father, he's taken a bath.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
R Uh?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
What's that white potter on the floor next table?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Where?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Oh? Oh?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
That was uh some of my father's medicine. He spilled
it a while ago. I I was just getting ready
to clean it up when you not.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Well, everything looks alright, I guess I you mind.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Moving aside a second side and wat sheriff? You come on,
mister move?
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Was sure?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Or I just didn't know what you meant. I'd terarely
get broken chairs? Oh oh, I had tripped over it
almost broke my neck when I fell. Matter of fact,
that's probably what made people think.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
There was a fight in here.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
I'm a big man, who when I fall, I really
go down hide.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
I think i'd like to.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Have a word with your father.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Well, like I told you, he's taking a baths. Why
don't you come back later. I'll talk to him now,
miss pair.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Oh, mister, the.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Old man's a little hard of hearing with a water running. Oh,
well he'll hear this this kirk.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
I wanna talk to you, mister.
Speaker 11 (05:11):
Reckon.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I'll just have to go in.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
No, you can't wait.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Give me back that gun.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Yeah, I'll give it back.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Oh what happened to that?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
That's the way God?
Speaker 10 (05:26):
Sure show up?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Sure how.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
The sheriff recovered quickly on the bathroom floor, he found
the body of an elderly man. The dead man was
identified by the clerk as George Wilton, a rancher will
then had been the only guest registered.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
In that room.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
After requesting the clerk to phone the Texas Rangers, the
sheriff left to see if he could pick up the
trail of this sailant. Twenty minutes later, rangers Jace Person
and Clay Morgan climbed the stairs to the second floor
of the hotel.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Looks like the room down here to the right chest.
Uh huh. If I was standing in front of the door,
I must be the desperat And ye ain't sure the
garden for us. He's not letting that crowd get anywhere
near all, right, excuse us.
Speaker 9 (06:10):
Get through this kind of side.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
Everybody send the bathroom right, anything been touched?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Oh no, sir, no, sheriff left special orders. Not that
he's still be anything til you got here. Now, I
didn't even turn the water the water, yes, M running
into the bathtub. I had to pull the plug out though,
so wouldn't.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
Run over on the floor.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Did you get a look at the man who ran away?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Sure wish I had. I only saw his back. Sheriff
got a good look at it. No two good looks.
The way he put it, I mean he saw man
as mad as the sheriff was when he.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Come to uh huh. We take a look inside now, Yeah,
what do we may want to ask you a few
more questions later.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yes, I expect you wanna talk to missus Beale too.
Now she's a lady first heard the fighting. Is she
around in her room right next door?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Get it if you wanna, fine, we'll be out in
a few minutes, all right. The last room door is
a little Joe, and I don't expect you get any
prints off of going out now, but you better kick
it open your foot anyhow. Yeah, yeah, there he is,
M little suh. The shoot took some milk on the
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head way. He's lying. I got an idea he was
dragged in here from the other room. I think he
looked through his pocket's play. I'll see if there's some
way to shut this water off.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Yeah, might be a cut off valve back of the tub,
and there is.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
Find anything. No pockets are clean. Looks like it might
have been robbery. And you don't get a lab grew
up here to go over the place for a princes
And don't think they'll find too much, Jaez, Honey, mean
they's drinking glass with a tall stuffed in it, full
of dust. You notice how everything's white clean in here,
like somebody try to get rid of any possible prints.
He tried, alright. These other glasses, for instance, you can
see they've been used recently, but there's not a print
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on 'em far as I can figure. There's only one
place in here. A friend forgot. Where's that over here?
I think you look at that water face up in
the tub. Yeah, good clear print. Say, if you're right
about the old man being dragged in here after he
was dead, there's a good chance this print belongs to
the guy who did it. See if there's anything outside
in the room.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Chiller musta been pretty big to be able to slug
the sheriff as he as he did.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Don't make it. The old fella had much of a
chance either, Like he put up a fight though baking
chair leg and hey, wait a minute, you looking at
that white powder on the floor. Yeah, could be one
other thing the killer didn't have time to clean up,
more like crystals than powder.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Any idea what it is Jason that chair?
Speaker 7 (08:30):
But it shouldn't take the lab long to find out.
In the meantime, we'd better have a talk with a
woman who heard the fighting in here. Uh huh. Lucky
the sheriff got a look at the killer. He still
be able to make an identification. If that print in
the bathroom doesn't give us a lead, could be our
man won't even have a record. He doesn't. We won't
get much from the print or the monk fire.
Speaker 10 (08:46):
Oh hear the omiss field, missus b W Ranger the
desk cat said, you wanted to talk to me, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
We're interested in anything you can remember about this.
Speaker 10 (08:56):
Yes, well, I was lying in bed trying to sleep.
I knew I wouldn't sleep because my athema was bothered
in me, but I thought i'd try anyhow.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
What time was this, ma'am?
Speaker 10 (09:05):
The time? Oh well, I'm not exactly sure, but it
couldn't have been more than thirty minutes after I took
my brown pills, so I'd say it was about nine.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Sayd uh, it was just a couple of minutes to ten.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
When you call me, miss Bell, I know that, young man.
Speaker 10 (09:19):
What I wanted to tell the rangers started long before that.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
And let's see where was he? There were lying in bedmore?
Speaker 10 (09:25):
Oh, yes, well I heard the door open in the
next room. I didn't want to listen, but you know
how family these walls are, and when those people come
into the room, that made so much noise.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
How many were there?
Speaker 10 (09:34):
Well, there was an old man, I understand he was
the one who died, and there was a younger man.
He had a really deep voice.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
But the one I heard curious was the girl.
Speaker 10 (09:45):
The girl, that's right. She had the most piercing voice
I ever heard, and the way she was laughing, I
could tell she.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Had no breeding.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Could you hear what they were saying?
Speaker 12 (09:53):
Well, I I.
Speaker 10 (09:55):
Oh dead, just for not wow circuit for his Oh
that would be nice of you, young man. You tell
me whatever it is that.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
I'm very busy, ma'amah, ma'am, you were saying you could
hear the people in the next room were talking, Yes,
yes I could.
Speaker 10 (10:06):
They'd all been drinking, and then they started to tell
the most awful stories, simply awful. I wanted to put
my hands over my ears, Yes, ma'am. Well, the old
man was just fascinated by this hussy. Well, I'm sorry, rangers,
but that's the only word I know to describe her.
He laughed at everything she said and the things she said.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Uh huh.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
Well, all of a sudden, the old man stopped laughing
and got real angry. He started shoting at the girl,
told her she'd put something in his drink. Then before
I with the most awful fight started, just awful, And
the next thing I knew, someone banged against the water
and I was almost throwed out of bed.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
Did you hear anything else?
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (10:45):
After that they were quispering in there.
Speaker 12 (10:47):
Uh, but it was slow.
Speaker 10 (10:48):
I I just couldn't hear what they were saying.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
So they want you to get in touch with the
shriff by radio as soon as you can.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Thanks and thank you, missus Beale.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
But awesome are to tell you about when the sheriff
was up there.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
When you won't have to trouble you about that man,
the sheriff of Pilot and his report. Oh, come on quay. Yeah,
funny the way people enjoy getting mixed up in something
like this, scared to death and still get a kick
out of it. Yeah, she did help us, though. At
least we can be pretty sure now about our killer's racket,
the confidence game. Uh huh. You old man was probably
lonely and got a little careless about showing how much
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money he had in his pocket. Yeah, he sure sounds
like the old story. I've got to hunch those crystals
we found on the floor turn out for the knockout drops.
Uh huh. Girl must a skipp before the sheriff got there,
and she could have gone out to set up their getaway.
And I sure hope either that print in the bathroom
pays off for the sheriff can make some kind of identification. Yeah,
and if we don't get any lead tonight, we have
the sheriff drive over to Austin with us in the
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morning and go through the month file. Jason, I wonder
what the sheriff wants us to call him for. Find
out right now, get that code sheet out of the
glove compartment. See what his call number is. Will you Sheorgie,
let's see. Oh hey there's six nine two. Thanks, you're
at ten to you'ren at six nine two. You're at
ten to six nine to two. Unit six nine two
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to Unit ten.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
This unit requests assistance an apprehending fugitive killer believed to
be hiding gear and Field one a half miles south
of Jackson, Unable to make search until more help arrived.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Ten four Unit Tannel joined six' nine two Immediately unit
Ten claire six nine two.
Speaker 13 (12:20):
Clear that must be the sheriff up the head chase
their swing.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
A spotlight across that. Corntine, yeah it's like a barb
wire fence at the. Back my man's in. There you'll
have a tough time getting out that. Way he got
if told get out either and without a sheriff seeing.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Him party.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Good i've been trying to cover the field of the.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Spotlight here casey pops.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Up you sure it was him you? Saw, oh couldn't
be any mistake about. It i'd been out cruising around
looking for. HIM i was just heading back to town
WHEN i saw this fellow walking toward me up the.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Road recognized you soon to put the light on. Him
then he run into the field.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Right and getting the flash lights. Play we'll go in after.
Him Show jay keep that spot running across the back,
Fence sheriff playing out of time and flush him.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Out, okay But i'd show a light to go in
after this one. MYSELF i got a personal score to
settle with. HIM i was that bump on your. Head,
Oh i'll be all.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
RIGHT i could kick myself WHERE i let him get
my gun and slug.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Me AND i don't worry about, it and just hope
we can pick him. Up now here's a, Flash, jay
science any idea where he went, In, sheriff and THERE'S
i can figure it's about thirty feet up the road
and keep as far away from your spotlight as you.
Can he thinks he's being. Cornered he might take a
shot at. You you know that'd be something in it
with my old. Gun LUCKY i had my arrival in the.
Car he makes her break across that, fence So i'm
gonna Make swiss cheese out of. Him let's, Go clay
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better be careful with our lights. Too, yeah but we
know this. Baby he's desperate enough to try, anything and
this could be where he went in corn stalks have
been over all, right watch. Yourself you don't know how
far an he might. Be, yeah seems like he's started
thereunto the. Right uh so that tell over there trail
looks like it stops just to. End, no it doesn't, Stop.
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Jase you must have started crawling along the furrows. Here
and he could have been when the sheriff first threw
his spot on the. Fields and he shouldn't be too far.
Away and uh so he's making a bee line for that.
Motel and hold a, second is there anything you? Know
he'll let me lift my Right Kate Stirdy, gootes come,
on hold it.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Too he's yelling to, somebody see if we can stop.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Me he's hitting right for those motel. Cabins holds your.
Speaker 13 (14:28):
Fireplaces we're gaining on.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Him, yeah but he's going around the corner of that cabin.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Directly we gotta split.
Speaker 9 (14:33):
Up uh, huh you take the laft and.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Out it doesn't car taking, Off, Jason, no.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Lights must hear him.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Too far, away. Missed let's get back to our, car
see if we can catch. Him by the time we
had reached our, car he was out of. Sight we
took off after, him leaving the sheriff to make end
buyers at the motel office were ready up for blockades
to be set up throughout the. Area for the rest
of the. Night we may an extensive search without finding
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a trace of our. Man at dawn we reached the
highway patrol. Roadblock we turned around and headed back Toward,
jackson covering all side roads along the. WAY i don't Know,
jackson so since he couldn't have gotten through that, roadblock
now all that he might have made it through before
the block was set. Up i've been thinking as a
pretty fast getaway made last, night too, fast been too
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have stolen a car from the motel was probably his own.
Car remember he was yelling to somebody while he's running
across the field and could have been the girl he works.
With maybe the motel is where they'd been. Staying maybe
if we don't spot him in another half, hour can
we better go pick up the sheriff see if he
can make an identification from the mug.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Files AND i wonder if he found out anything at
that motel.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
OFFICE kta unit attend TO ktxa go ahead TO ktxa BIG.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
A printed bathroom a hotel. Rent jacks has been identified
as belonging To Gus. Howard Red Gus howard no present
terms for. Fraud bolone is a released From, Huntsville april.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Six ten four No Other Traffic unit ten player the
traffic Example.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Howard, Huh, jace didn't you want to have something to
do with the guy with that?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
NAME i, said guess up on his last. Trip any
idea where he might be hanging out? Now, no But
i'm pretty sure where we can get a lead On Melly,
vincent for whom she guess his, partner and except when
they're in jail and never very far away from each.
Other hang, On, Clay we're heading For houston in just a.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Moment we will continue With tales of The Texas, rangers
Starring joel McCrae As Ranger Jase.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Pearson only a madman or a fool would intentionally set
fire to one of our forests or. Woodlands yet ninety
percent of our forest fires are started by. People most
of these men caused fires are due to plain. Carelessness
a campfire left, smoldering a lighted match thrown from a car,
window a cigarette not. Extinguished in less troubled, times the
waste due to forest fires would be.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Tragic in these dangerous, times it can be.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Disastrous Forest fires destroy natural resources we need to keep
our country. Strong they impede the production and transportation of
critical defense, suppliers interfere with military, training and they destroy military.
Installations join in the fight against. Carelessness crush out, cigarettes
cigar and pipe, ashes break matches in two after using
find out the law before using a. Fire one moment
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of carelessness can destroy national beauty and wealth that can
never be. Replaced Forest fires are a shameful waste because
they can be. Prevented remember only you can prevent forest.
Fires now back To tales of The Texas.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Rangers we continue now With tales of The Texas rangers
and our authentic story Knock.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Out it was a little before ten that morning when
we arrived In. Houston we parked the car a few
doors away from the house Where Millie vincent's mother lived
and walked toward. It it was a corner house in
a poor neighborhood that the fanciest place in the world
is a jee And millie's mother never went in for.
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Trimming were pick jase through the side, Window the girls
sitting at the. Table you know we're lucky It's milly.
Herself what the devil was she doing with her foot
up on the. TABLE i don't. Know let's getting around
to the. FRONT i Think gushes around, somewhere and it's
hard to. Say matter of, Fact i'm a little surprised
to See. Million maybe she wasn't IN i had job left.
Him we didn't want that sitting out.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
When nothing? Before wait to?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
See, Oh, honny you?
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Want we wanna talk to, You.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
Milly i'd done enough talking to.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
You Where's? Gus a my?
Speaker 10 (18:58):
Life can't see What i'm?
Speaker 7 (18:59):
Doing, Gus, milly once.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
You ever get?
Speaker 10 (19:01):
Tired how DO i know Where gush?
Speaker 8 (19:03):
IS i haven't seen him for three?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Months n we look around, anyhow so as you. Can That's.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
I've known you'd ever.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Wanant, okay go in, there, look, reckon you better walk
around with. Us did you See i'm doing my? Toenails they'll?
Wait come, On?
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Okay is this the?
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Bathroom hat a dining?
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Room and not in? There now about that? Room my's
room doors? Open you can see there's nobody in.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Us what about this one over?
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Here this your? Room? Milly, yeah and you ain't going?
In excuse, me? MISS i said you ain't going. In. No, look,
uh let me see why you didn't want us in?
Here what are you doing with all those clothes on the, Bed?
Milly you getting ready to go. Somewhere i'm in my.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
Dresses you always keep a couple of suitcases handy when you. Addresses,
okay so Maybe i'm going?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Away where my?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Business? Hey anybody got a?
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Cigarette?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Yeah, match there you?
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Go where were you last?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Night?
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Milly right? Here you sure you weren't over In jackson With?
GUS i told YOU i haven't Seen gus for three.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Months we think you and he might have.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Been up to your old knockout, tricks only this time
your Friend gus killed?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Her.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
MAN i was right? Here oh last?
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Night where's your mother along with? Her was she home last? Night?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Too?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Sure and we'll see if first story is the same as.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Yours she's, out won't be home for five or six.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Hours it sounds like you expected her when we walked.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
In and we just stick around so she GETS i
told you she won't be. Great he sounds like somebody.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Coming.
Speaker 10 (20:41):
Now i'll get the.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Door just let our. Stoo we're, talking may.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
Get, out get?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Away get her?
Speaker 10 (20:48):
Gone oh, many that's the last time gone for?
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Ers were you next?
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Time?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
You, oh you got her a.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
Game we want to ask you a few. Questions Missus?
Vincent am out of here last?
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Night tell? Him?
Speaker 7 (21:04):
MAM i, said we'd do the. Talking Missus, Vincent where
Was melly last?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Night right?
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Here were you with?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Him was, sure of course there? Was THINK i go?
Run WHO i?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Am?
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Nice how about yesterday? AFTERNOON i was, here so Was.
MILLY i Suppose gus was here.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Too was sure you were?
Speaker 7 (21:22):
There to, you what's the, matter you dumb guess wasn't?
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Here? Well how AM i supposed to? Know you want
to tell me who's supposed to be? Here and?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Who ain't you?
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Stupid, Allright, milly get your shoes. On you're going with.
Me play stayed at the house in Case gus showed.
UP i Took milly back with me To. Jackson it
just past noon when we walked down the corridor to
The sheriff's. Office come, On, milly pick up your.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Feet you in such a big hurry.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Going in sheriff that you. Did, YEAH i THINK i
got one of the ens from last, night and you
can sit down if you. Want you could make it
easier for everybody if you tell us Where gus, is.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
Tell you don't HE i got nothing to say to.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
You oh who's Is Millie? Vincent she used to work
With Gus, howard and we think she worked with him last.
Night that's our lively.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Lie i've seen her someplace. Before, jason you're.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Crazy you never seen. Me she spent a couple of
times up at the woman's prison and he wasn't. There,
SURE i just can't do where it. Was billy doesn't
seem to want to tell us where a partner.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Is NOW i know where he.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Is he's never worked without you, Before oh he does.
Now it's not likely you'd never Let gus work with another,
woman AND i don't think you did last.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
NIGHT i was home last.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
NIGHT i can prove, it you, mean by your, mother
and after that slip she made my gets mixed up
every now and.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
Then she'll be all right in.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Court do you ever get me to?
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Court you'll be there cause last night you And gus
went with an old man to his hotel. Room when
you caught you slip a knockout drops into his. Drink
there was a big fight And gus killed. Him that's
a LOT i heard a.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Minute, NOW i know Where i've seen.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
You it was in the hotel last.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
NIGHT i bunch into you WHEN i was coming up the.
Stairs here trew were coming down the second, four probably
from Where gus had just killed the old. Man how
are you.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Gonna prove that there was a hotel clerk with?
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Me he'll remember you.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
Too SUPPOSE i was at the.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
HOTEL i don't MEAN i was in on any.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Killing it's no, Use. Milly we know you And gus
always worked, together and we Know gus was in that
hotel room from his. Fingerprints that ain't Kill gus what
you were gonna. Say gus wiped off all the fingerprints he, Did,
melly all but. One he found it on the water
faucet in the.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
Bathroom you mean you picked me up Because gus left
these prints in that.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Room uh had bone?
Speaker 12 (23:43):
Head if he had some, Sense you've never got.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Me that's what you said last time you got. Caught
doesn't work that, Way.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Milly last time it takes fall.
Speaker 12 (23:52):
Two god made me stop in that cafe for a.
Beer you'd never a pound, it and he calls.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Me TIME i get caught on the.
Speaker 12 (24:00):
Him he's always.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Playing it's as.
Speaker 12 (24:01):
Smart he's got the, brains he, SAYS i got to
look him in his.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Brain where is he?
Speaker 12 (24:06):
Now he want me to sit still and take a
rap for. Him, WELL i ain't gonna do. It IF
i get caught he goes up along with.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Me is he In?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Houston, no you want to find that Bum.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
Gush you gotta get To dallas where?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Airport you? Know the car up this?
Speaker 12 (24:18):
MORNING i was gonna take a plane Up medium when
at nine tomorrow morning we were gonna take the ten
o'clock plane For.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
La oh that.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Knucklehead all, right, sheriff lock melly up and we'll go Get.
Speaker 12 (24:29):
GUS i can hardly wait to see the look on
his face when he gets brought in.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
HERE i can hardly. WAIT i called headquarters and requested
The ranger plane to pick us up In. Jackson we
flew To dallas and spent the night checking hotels and
lesterants in the hope of Picking gus. Up we didn't find.
Him we decided he'd either spend the night with friends
or in his. CAR a little after nine the next,
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morning we walked through the air.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
TERMINAL i sure hope that girl wasn't lying to us.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
GATE i reckon she was a little too. Sore gus to,
lie you know all the.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Same i'd hate to think of him slipping through our.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
FINGERS i don't see him inside, here and should be
out at the. Gate see him?
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Anywhere no Open jason over there at the gate, too
he sure looks in.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Patient paston back and. Forth would work over to him
as puietless as we.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Can if he he's easy, case he's starting to.
Speaker 13 (25:23):
Rock hold, It, jos hold it around the.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Building come, on easy past this.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
Corner, HELL i don't see him.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Anywhere, jason there he.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Goes i'll toward the front of the. Tuminal he's hiding
for that.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
TAXI i think we can get, him grab, it get
out of, there, guts no good cops.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Out give me that. Gun give it to. Me i'll kill, it.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Drop, it drop.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
It thanks for getting it, Back. JESS i never should
let him get it in the first.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Place we'll tell HER i was going to be, Here,
milly put out your, Hands.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Gus if he's.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
Dame every TIME i get, caught it's on a haun her.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Hair.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Funny she thinks the same thing about.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
You hadn't been for being so clumsy with those knock out,
DROPS i wouldn't have been caught never short of taken
that dizzy name for a partner in the first.
Speaker 7 (26:09):
Place don't worry about. It Guess i've got an idea
That judge is gonna dissolve that partnership of yours anyhow for.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Good in just a, moment we will tell you the
results of the case you have just.
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Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
And now from the files the Texas Rangers. The case
called Knockout.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
It is ten o'clock on a Saturday night in July
nineteen forty six outside the Rand Hotel in Jackson, Texas,
fifty miles from Houston. The sheriff stands talking to some
cattle ranches were in town for a convention Hiver. He
is about to leave the group and walk toward his
car in the front door of the hotel, burst over chat.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Yeah over here, tell me, oh care.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Her excuse me, Bill, see you later. Yeah, what's the matter?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
On the second call, some kind of trouble.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
I'll come along, joby.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Where it is?
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Missus Beale?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
She just called sounds scared of death, said there was
an awful fight going.
Speaker 8 (02:42):
On the next room, up right up these stairs.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Hey, you haven't been up there yet?
Speaker 9 (02:46):
No, No, I've never seeing you in the lobby.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
A few minutes ago, I hope you'd still be around.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
You're sure she said there was a fight.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Oh yeah, that's what you said.
Speaker 7 (02:53):
We'll find out what it is all over.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
Excuse me, man, it's okay.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
She sure.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Come run that corner past. Which way do we go?
Speaker 7 (03:00):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (03:00):
Right down here. Miss Bill's room is in the middle
of the h Huh.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
Don't seem to be any noise up here now, Oh ball,
it's a desk clark mine.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Oh what?
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Oh you brought the sheriff.
Speaker 10 (03:14):
Well, i's a gang.
Speaker 8 (03:15):
I understand.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
You think you heard some fighting going on up here.
Speaker 10 (03:17):
Somebodies be killed. I know who somebodies be you killed?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Which room was this? Man?
Speaker 10 (03:22):
W wou you want the boy?
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Want me to come with the shirt or you.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
Better stay here in this bill just in case there
is some trouble.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Over hurt the sheriff. Open up, you come down in
the little house, open up. I wanna talk to you now.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Uh, okay, don't come out, come on, come on, hurry
up in there, Oh curry, come on.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
What's all trouble, sheriff? I heard there was a fight
going on in this room.
Speaker 11 (03:57):
Fight.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
There must be some mistake. I'd like to come.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Didn't take a look around. But what for a sheriff?
Is nothing wrong here? You you mind standing the side?
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Well? Sure? Or sure that's the way you feel about it.
Come on here, see there's nothing wrong in here.
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Who's out in the bathroom? My father, he's taken a bath.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
R Uh?
Speaker 6 (04:16):
What's that white potter on the floor next table?
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Where?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Oh? Oh?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
That was uh some of my father's medicine. He spilled
it a while ago. I I was just getting ready
to clean it up when you not.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
Well, everything looks alright, I guess I you mind.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Moving aside a second side and wat sheriff? You come on,
mister move?
Speaker 7 (04:36):
Was sure?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Or I just didn't know what you meant. I'd terarely
get broken chairs? Oh oh, I had tripped over it
almost broke my neck when I fell. Matter of fact,
that's probably what made people think.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
There was a fight in here.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
I'm a big man, who when I fall, I really
go down hide.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
I think i'd like to.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
Have a word with your father.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
Well, like I told you, he's taking a baths. Why
don't you come back later. I'll talk to him now,
miss pair.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Oh, mister, the.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Old man's a little hard of hearing with a water running. Oh,
well he'll hear this this kirk.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
I wanna talk to you, mister.
Speaker 11 (05:11):
Reckon.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I'll just have to go in.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
No, you can't wait.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Give me back that gun.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Yeah, I'll give it back.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Oh what happened to that?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
That's the way God?
Speaker 10 (05:26):
Sure show up?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Sure how.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
The sheriff recovered quickly on the bathroom floor, he found
the body of an elderly man. The dead man was
identified by the clerk as George Wilton, a rancher will
then had been the only guest registered.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
In that room.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
After requesting the clerk to phone the Texas Rangers, the
sheriff left to see if he could pick up the
trail of this sailant. Twenty minutes later, rangers Jace Person
and Clay Morgan climbed the stairs to the second floor
of the hotel.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Looks like the room down here to the right chest.
Uh huh. If I was standing in front of the door,
I must be the desperat And ye ain't sure the
garden for us. He's not letting that crowd get anywhere
near all, right, excuse us.
Speaker 9 (06:10):
Get through this kind of side.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
Everybody send the bathroom right, anything been touched?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Oh no, sir, no, sheriff left special orders. Not that
he's still be anything til you got here. Now, I
didn't even turn the water the water, yes, M running
into the bathtub. I had to pull the plug out though,
so wouldn't.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
Run over on the floor.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Did you get a look at the man who ran away?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Sure wish I had. I only saw his back. Sheriff
got a good look at it. No two good looks.
The way he put it, I mean he saw man
as mad as the sheriff was when he.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Come to uh huh. We take a look inside now, Yeah,
what do we may want to ask you a few
more questions later.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Yes, I expect you wanna talk to missus Beale too.
Now she's a lady first heard the fighting. Is she
around in her room right next door?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
Get it if you wanna, fine, we'll be out in
a few minutes, all right. The last room door is
a little Joe, and I don't expect you get any
prints off of going out now, but you better kick
it open your foot anyhow. Yeah, yeah, there he is,
M little suh. The shoot took some milk on the
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head way. He's lying. I got an idea he was
dragged in here from the other room. I think he
looked through his pocket's play. I'll see if there's some
way to shut this water off.
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Yeah, might be a cut off valve back of the tub,
and there is.
Speaker 7 (07:27):
Find anything. No pockets are clean. Looks like it might
have been robbery. And you don't get a lab grew
up here to go over the place for a princes
And don't think they'll find too much, Jaez, Honey, mean
they's drinking glass with a tall stuffed in it, full
of dust. You notice how everything's white clean in here,
like somebody try to get rid of any possible prints.
He tried, alright. These other glasses, for instance, you can
see they've been used recently, but there's not a print
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on 'em far as I can figure. There's only one
place in here. A friend forgot. Where's that over here?
I think you look at that water face up in
the tub. Yeah, good clear print. Say, if you're right
about the old man being dragged in here after he
was dead, there's a good chance this print belongs to
the guy who did it. See if there's anything outside
in the room.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
Chiller musta been pretty big to be able to slug
the sheriff as he as he did.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Don't make it. The old fella had much of a
chance either, Like he put up a fight though baking
chair leg and hey, wait a minute, you looking at
that white powder on the floor. Yeah, could be one
other thing the killer didn't have time to clean up,
more like crystals than powder.
Speaker 8 (08:28):
Any idea what it is Jason that chair?
Speaker 7 (08:30):
But it shouldn't take the lab long to find out.
In the meantime, we'd better have a talk with a
woman who heard the fighting in here. Uh huh. Lucky
the sheriff got a look at the killer. He still
be able to make an identification. If that print in
the bathroom doesn't give us a lead, could be our
man won't even have a record. He doesn't. We won't
get much from the print or the monk fire.
Speaker 10 (08:46):
Oh hear the omiss field, missus b W Ranger the
desk cat said, you wanted to talk to me, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
We're interested in anything you can remember about this.
Speaker 10 (08:56):
Yes, well, I was lying in bed trying to sleep.
I knew I wouldn't sleep because my athema was bothered
in me, but I thought i'd try anyhow.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
What time was this, ma'am?
Speaker 10 (09:05):
The time? Oh well, I'm not exactly sure, but it
couldn't have been more than thirty minutes after I took
my brown pills, so I'd say it was about nine.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Sayd uh, it was just a couple of minutes to ten.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
When you call me, miss Bell, I know that, young man.
Speaker 10 (09:19):
What I wanted to tell the rangers started long before that.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
And let's see where was he? There were lying in bedmore?
Speaker 10 (09:25):
Oh, yes, well I heard the door open in the
next room. I didn't want to listen, but you know
how family these walls are, and when those people come
into the room, that made so much noise.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
How many were there?
Speaker 10 (09:34):
Well, there was an old man, I understand he was
the one who died, and there was a younger man.
He had a really deep voice.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
But the one I heard curious was the girl.
Speaker 10 (09:45):
The girl, that's right. She had the most piercing voice
I ever heard, and the way she was laughing, I
could tell she.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
Had no breeding.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Could you hear what they were saying?
Speaker 12 (09:53):
Well, I I.
Speaker 10 (09:55):
Oh dead, just for not wow circuit for his Oh
that would be nice of you, young man. You tell
me whatever it is that.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
I'm very busy, ma'amah, ma'am, you were saying you could
hear the people in the next room were talking, Yes,
yes I could.
Speaker 10 (10:06):
They'd all been drinking, and then they started to tell
the most awful stories, simply awful. I wanted to put
my hands over my ears, Yes, ma'am. Well, the old
man was just fascinated by this hussy. Well, I'm sorry, rangers,
but that's the only word I know to describe her.
He laughed at everything she said and the things she said.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Uh huh.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
Well, all of a sudden, the old man stopped laughing
and got real angry. He started shoting at the girl,
told her she'd put something in his drink. Then before
I with the most awful fight started, just awful, And
the next thing I knew, someone banged against the water
and I was almost throwed out of bed.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
Did you hear anything else?
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (10:45):
After that they were quispering in there.
Speaker 12 (10:47):
Uh, but it was slow.
Speaker 10 (10:48):
I I just couldn't hear what they were saying.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
So they want you to get in touch with the
shriff by radio as soon as you can.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Thanks and thank you, missus Beale.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
But awesome are to tell you about when the sheriff
was up there.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
When you won't have to trouble you about that man,
the sheriff of Pilot and his report. Oh, come on quay. Yeah,
funny the way people enjoy getting mixed up in something
like this, scared to death and still get a kick
out of it. Yeah, she did help us, though. At
least we can be pretty sure now about our killer's racket,
the confidence game. Uh huh. You old man was probably
lonely and got a little careless about showing how much
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money he had in his pocket. Yeah, he sure sounds
like the old story. I've got to hunch those crystals
we found on the floor turn out for the knockout drops.
Uh huh. Girl must a skipp before the sheriff got there,
and she could have gone out to set up their getaway.
And I sure hope either that print in the bathroom
pays off for the sheriff can make some kind of identification. Yeah,
and if we don't get any lead tonight, we have
the sheriff drive over to Austin with us in the
(11:40):
morning and go through the month file. Jason, I wonder
what the sheriff wants us to call him for. Find
out right now, get that code sheet out of the
glove compartment. See what his call number is. Will you Sheorgie,
let's see. Oh hey there's six nine two. Thanks, you're
at ten to you'ren at six nine two. You're at
ten to six nine to two. Unit six nine two
(12:02):
to Unit ten.
Speaker 9 (12:03):
This unit requests assistance an apprehending fugitive killer believed to
be hiding gear and Field one a half miles south
of Jackson, Unable to make search until more help arrived.
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Ten four Unit Tannel joined six' nine two Immediately unit
Ten claire six nine two.
Speaker 13 (12:20):
Clear that must be the sheriff up the head chase
their swing.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
A spotlight across that. Corntine, yeah it's like a barb
wire fence at the. Back my man's in. There you'll
have a tough time getting out that. Way he got
if told get out either and without a sheriff seeing.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Him party.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Good i've been trying to cover the field of the.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Spotlight here casey pops.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Up you sure it was him you? Saw, oh couldn't
be any mistake about. It i'd been out cruising around
looking for. HIM i was just heading back to town
WHEN i saw this fellow walking toward me up the.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Road recognized you soon to put the light on. Him
then he run into the field.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Right and getting the flash lights. Play we'll go in after.
Him Show jay keep that spot running across the back,
Fence sheriff playing out of time and flush him.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Out, okay But i'd show a light to go in
after this one. MYSELF i got a personal score to
settle with. HIM i was that bump on your. Head,
Oh i'll be all.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
RIGHT i could kick myself WHERE i let him get
my gun and slug.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
Me AND i don't worry about, it and just hope
we can pick him. Up now here's a, Flash, jay
science any idea where he went, In, sheriff and THERE'S
i can figure it's about thirty feet up the road
and keep as far away from your spotlight as you.
Can he thinks he's being. Cornered he might take a
shot at. You you know that'd be something in it
with my old. Gun LUCKY i had my arrival in the.
Car he makes her break across that, fence So i'm
gonna Make swiss cheese out of. Him let's, Go clay
(13:44):
better be careful with our lights. Too, yeah but we
know this. Baby he's desperate enough to try, anything and
this could be where he went in corn stalks have
been over all, right watch. Yourself you don't know how
far an he might. Be, yeah seems like he's started
thereunto the. Right uh so that tell over there trail
looks like it stops just to. End, no it doesn't, Stop.
(14:04):
Jase you must have started crawling along the furrows. Here
and he could have been when the sheriff first threw
his spot on the. Fields and he shouldn't be too far.
Away and uh so he's making a bee line for that.
Motel and hold a, second is there anything you? Know
he'll let me lift my Right Kate Stirdy, gootes come,
on hold it.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Too he's yelling to, somebody see if we can stop.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Me he's hitting right for those motel. Cabins holds your.
Speaker 13 (14:28):
Fireplaces we're gaining on.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Him, yeah but he's going around the corner of that cabin.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Directly we gotta split.
Speaker 9 (14:33):
Up uh, huh you take the laft and.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Out it doesn't car taking, Off, Jason, no.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Lights must hear him.
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Too far, away. Missed let's get back to our, car
see if we can catch. Him by the time we
had reached our, car he was out of. Sight we
took off after, him leaving the sheriff to make end
buyers at the motel office were ready up for blockades
to be set up throughout the. Area for the rest
of the. Night we may an extensive search without finding
(15:01):
a trace of our. Man at dawn we reached the
highway patrol. Roadblock we turned around and headed back Toward,
jackson covering all side roads along the. WAY i don't Know,
jackson so since he couldn't have gotten through that, roadblock
now all that he might have made it through before
the block was set. Up i've been thinking as a
pretty fast getaway made last, night too, fast been too
(15:21):
have stolen a car from the motel was probably his own.
Car remember he was yelling to somebody while he's running
across the field and could have been the girl he works.
With maybe the motel is where they'd been. Staying maybe
if we don't spot him in another half, hour can
we better go pick up the sheriff see if he
can make an identification from the mug.
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Files AND i wonder if he found out anything at
that motel.
Speaker 7 (15:39):
OFFICE kta unit attend TO ktxa go ahead TO ktxa BIG.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
A printed bathroom a hotel. Rent jacks has been identified
as belonging To Gus. Howard Red Gus howard no present
terms for. Fraud bolone is a released From, Huntsville april.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Six ten four No Other Traffic unit ten player the
traffic Example.
Speaker 8 (16:08):
Howard, Huh, jace didn't you want to have something to
do with the guy with that?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
NAME i, said guess up on his last. Trip any
idea where he might be hanging out? Now, no But
i'm pretty sure where we can get a lead On Melly,
vincent for whom she guess his, partner and except when
they're in jail and never very far away from each.
Other hang, On, Clay we're heading For houston in just a.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Moment we will continue With tales of The Texas, rangers
Starring joel McCrae As Ranger Jase.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Pearson only a madman or a fool would intentionally set
fire to one of our forests or. Woodlands yet ninety
percent of our forest fires are started by. People most
of these men caused fires are due to plain. Carelessness
a campfire left, smoldering a lighted match thrown from a car,
window a cigarette not. Extinguished in less troubled, times the
waste due to forest fires would be.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Tragic in these dangerous, times it can be.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Disastrous Forest fires destroy natural resources we need to keep
our country. Strong they impede the production and transportation of
critical defense, suppliers interfere with military, training and they destroy military.
Installations join in the fight against. Carelessness crush out, cigarettes
cigar and pipe, ashes break matches in two after using
find out the law before using a. Fire one moment
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of carelessness can destroy national beauty and wealth that can
never be. Replaced Forest fires are a shameful waste because
they can be. Prevented remember only you can prevent forest.
Fires now back To tales of The Texas.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Rangers we continue now With tales of The Texas rangers
and our authentic story Knock.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Out it was a little before ten that morning when
we arrived In. Houston we parked the car a few
doors away from the house Where Millie vincent's mother lived
and walked toward. It it was a corner house in
a poor neighborhood that the fanciest place in the world
is a jee And millie's mother never went in for.
(18:19):
Trimming were pick jase through the side, Window the girls
sitting at the. Table you know we're lucky It's milly.
Herself what the devil was she doing with her foot
up on the. TABLE i don't. Know let's getting around
to the. FRONT i Think gushes around, somewhere and it's
hard to. Say matter of, Fact i'm a little surprised
to See. Million maybe she wasn't IN i had job left.
Him we didn't want that sitting out.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
When nothing? Before wait to?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
See, Oh, honny you?
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Want we wanna talk to, You.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
Milly i'd done enough talking to.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
You Where's? Gus a my?
Speaker 10 (18:58):
Life can't see What i'm?
Speaker 7 (18:59):
Doing, Gus, milly once.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
You ever get?
Speaker 10 (19:01):
Tired how DO i know Where gush?
Speaker 8 (19:03):
IS i haven't seen him for three?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Months n we look around, anyhow so as you. Can That's.
Speaker 10 (19:09):
I've known you'd ever.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Wanant, okay go in, there, look, reckon you better walk
around with. Us did you See i'm doing my? Toenails they'll?
Wait come, On?
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Okay is this the?
Speaker 6 (19:24):
Bathroom hat a dining?
Speaker 7 (19:25):
Room and not in? There now about that? Room my's
room doors? Open you can see there's nobody in.
Speaker 8 (19:32):
Us what about this one over?
Speaker 7 (19:34):
Here this your? Room? Milly, yeah and you ain't going?
In excuse, me? MISS i said you ain't going. In. No, look,
uh let me see why you didn't want us in?
Here what are you doing with all those clothes on the, Bed?
Milly you getting ready to go. Somewhere i'm in my.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
Dresses you always keep a couple of suitcases handy when you. Addresses,
okay so Maybe i'm going?
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Away where my?
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Business? Hey anybody got a?
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Cigarette?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Yeah, match there you?
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Go where were you last?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Night?
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Milly right? Here you sure you weren't over In jackson With?
GUS i told YOU i haven't Seen gus for three.
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Months we think you and he might have.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
Been up to your old knockout, tricks only this time
your Friend gus killed?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
Her.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
MAN i was right? Here oh last?
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Night where's your mother along with? Her was she home last? Night?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Too?
Speaker 7 (20:29):
Sure and we'll see if first story is the same as.
Speaker 10 (20:31):
Yours she's, out won't be home for five or six.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Hours it sounds like you expected her when we walked.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
In and we just stick around so she GETS i
told you she won't be. Great he sounds like somebody.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Coming.
Speaker 10 (20:41):
Now i'll get the.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Door just let our. Stoo we're, talking may.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
Get, out get?
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Away get her?
Speaker 10 (20:48):
Gone oh, many that's the last time gone for?
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Ers were you next?
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Time?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
You, oh you got her a.
Speaker 7 (20:59):
Game we want to ask you a few. Questions Missus?
Vincent am out of here last?
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Night tell? Him?
Speaker 7 (21:04):
MAM i, said we'd do the. Talking Missus, Vincent where
Was melly last?
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Night right?
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Here were you with?
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Him was, sure of course there? Was THINK i go?
Run WHO i?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Am?
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Nice how about yesterday? AFTERNOON i was, here so Was.
MILLY i Suppose gus was here.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Too was sure you were?
Speaker 7 (21:22):
There to, you what's the, matter you dumb guess wasn't?
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Here? Well how AM i supposed to? Know you want
to tell me who's supposed to be? Here and?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Who ain't you?
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Stupid, Allright, milly get your shoes. On you're going with.
Me play stayed at the house in Case gus showed.
UP i Took milly back with me To. Jackson it
just past noon when we walked down the corridor to
The sheriff's. Office come, On, milly pick up your.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Feet you in such a big hurry.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Going in sheriff that you. Did, YEAH i THINK i
got one of the ens from last, night and you
can sit down if you. Want you could make it
easier for everybody if you tell us Where gus, is.
Speaker 10 (22:08):
Tell you don't HE i got nothing to say to.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
You oh who's Is Millie? Vincent she used to work
With Gus, howard and we think she worked with him last.
Night that's our lively.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Lie i've seen her someplace. Before, jason you're.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
Crazy you never seen. Me she spent a couple of
times up at the woman's prison and he wasn't. There,
SURE i just can't do where it. Was billy doesn't
seem to want to tell us where a partner.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Is NOW i know where he.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Is he's never worked without you, Before oh he does.
Now it's not likely you'd never Let gus work with another,
woman AND i don't think you did last.
Speaker 8 (22:42):
NIGHT i was home last.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
NIGHT i can prove, it you, mean by your, mother
and after that slip she made my gets mixed up
every now and.
Speaker 10 (22:49):
Then she'll be all right in.
Speaker 6 (22:51):
Court do you ever get me to?
Speaker 7 (22:53):
Court you'll be there cause last night you And gus
went with an old man to his hotel. Room when
you caught you slip a knockout drops into his. Drink
there was a big fight And gus killed. Him that's
a LOT i heard a.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Minute, NOW i know Where i've seen.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
You it was in the hotel last.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
NIGHT i bunch into you WHEN i was coming up the.
Stairs here trew were coming down the second, four probably
from Where gus had just killed the old. Man how
are you.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Gonna prove that there was a hotel clerk with?
Speaker 6 (23:15):
Me he'll remember you.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
Too SUPPOSE i was at the.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
HOTEL i don't MEAN i was in on any.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Killing it's no, Use. Milly we know you And gus
always worked, together and we Know gus was in that
hotel room from his. Fingerprints that ain't Kill gus what
you were gonna. Say gus wiped off all the fingerprints he, Did,
melly all but. One he found it on the water
faucet in the.
Speaker 10 (23:36):
Bathroom you mean you picked me up Because gus left
these prints in that.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Room uh had bone?
Speaker 12 (23:43):
Head if he had some, Sense you've never got.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Me that's what you said last time you got. Caught
doesn't work that, Way.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Milly last time it takes fall.
Speaker 12 (23:52):
Two god made me stop in that cafe for a.
Beer you'd never a pound, it and he calls.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Me TIME i get caught on the.
Speaker 12 (24:00):
Him he's always.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Playing it's as.
Speaker 12 (24:01):
Smart he's got the, brains he, SAYS i got to
look him in his.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Brain where is he?
Speaker 12 (24:06):
Now he want me to sit still and take a
rap for. Him, WELL i ain't gonna do. It IF
i get caught he goes up along with.
Speaker 7 (24:11):
Me is he In?
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Houston, no you want to find that Bum.
Speaker 10 (24:15):
Gush you gotta get To dallas where?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Airport you? Know the car up this?
Speaker 12 (24:18):
MORNING i was gonna take a plane Up medium when
at nine tomorrow morning we were gonna take the ten
o'clock plane For.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
La oh that.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Knucklehead all, right, sheriff lock melly up and we'll go Get.
Speaker 12 (24:29):
GUS i can hardly wait to see the look on
his face when he gets brought in.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
HERE i can hardly. WAIT i called headquarters and requested
The ranger plane to pick us up In. Jackson we
flew To dallas and spent the night checking hotels and
lesterants in the hope of Picking gus. Up we didn't find.
Him we decided he'd either spend the night with friends
or in his. CAR a little after nine the next,
(24:54):
morning we walked through the air.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
TERMINAL i sure hope that girl wasn't lying to us.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
GATE i reckon she was a little too. Sore gus to,
lie you know all the.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Same i'd hate to think of him slipping through our.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
FINGERS i don't see him inside, here and should be
out at the. Gate see him?
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Anywhere no Open jason over there at the gate, too
he sure looks in.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Patient paston back and. Forth would work over to him
as puietless as we.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Can if he he's easy, case he's starting to.
Speaker 13 (25:23):
Rock hold, It, jos hold it around the.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Building come, on easy past this.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
Corner, HELL i don't see him.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Anywhere, jason there he.
Speaker 7 (25:33):
Goes i'll toward the front of the. Tuminal he's hiding
for that.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
TAXI i think we can get, him grab, it get
out of, there, guts no good cops.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Out give me that. Gun give it to. Me i'll kill, it.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Drop, it drop.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
It thanks for getting it, Back. JESS i never should
let him get it in the first.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Place we'll tell HER i was going to be, Here,
milly put out your, Hands.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
Gus if he's.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
Dame every TIME i get, caught it's on a haun her.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Hair.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Funny she thinks the same thing about.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
You hadn't been for being so clumsy with those knock out,
DROPS i wouldn't have been caught never short of taken
that dizzy name for a partner in the first.
Speaker 7 (26:09):
Place don't worry about. It Guess i've got an idea
That judge is gonna dissolve that partnership of yours anyhow for.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Good in just a, moment we will tell you the
results of the case you have just.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
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Speaker 11 (27:32):
Rangers and now here are the results in the case
you have just, Heard Melly vinson And Gus howard would
try and convicted for the murder Of George. Women Melly
vincent received a forty five year sentence in The women's
(27:54):
person at. Gory Gus howard was sentenced To Huntsville penedentiary
will the rest of his. Life next Week joel McCay
and another authentic reenactment of a case from the Filetel
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Gonzales of The Texas.
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