August 24, 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 (00:09):
Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger
Chase Pearson. Another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from
the Pales of.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
The Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Names, dates, and places in the following story are fictitious
for obvious reasons.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
The events themselves are.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
A matter of records.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
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Speaker 5 (01:08):
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Speaker 3 (01:46):
And now here's today's.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Adventure with the tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called I Mean.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
It is four thirty am on the morning of January sixth,
nineteen forty three, about twelve miles east of Humboldt, Texas.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
An Army troop train roars westward through the darkness.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
In the smoking room of one sleeping car, a burly
private of thirty players solitaire. His long companion, a nineteen
year old PFC, stares out of the window.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
What do you see out there in the dark? Anyway?
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Texas will take a good look. It'll be a long
time you live around here, don't you.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm about forty miles south think or Texas. My mother
had an operation a couple of days ago. Sure wish
I could see her.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
You got a bad kid, eh, Never can beat this game.
Ever been away from home before?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
We used to go to Beaumont to visit my grandmother.
Never been out of Texas in my whole life.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, you ain't miss nothing.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I've been as far as New Jersey you can have,
and this stinking army with it?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Why you always sound off back Tomy.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Maybe you found a home in it.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, it's the only one we'll have for mighty long time.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Not me.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'm saying out of Ohs any minute now.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Like I told you back at camp, I'm getting off
this train before we get to that port. You've been
thinking about what I was telling you?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh, yeah, I guess I have. But I ain't skipping outfit.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Well I am. No Jap's gonna shove a bay at
my belly.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
How are you gonna get off the train?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Well, we're starting off the cap rock.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
I can jump off easy anytime the train slows down
on one of these upgrades.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Who's get caught?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
I expect to be sooner or later. Don't you see
a kid? They catch me, give me a court Marshal.
I get six months or a year. That's been than a.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
JAP bullet, ain't it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
You could go home and see your mother and wait
for the MPs to bring you back. So you get
six months, or maybe you can volunteer overseas duty and
they forget the court Marshal.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, suppose they're waiting there, boy eating to see my mother.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
They won't even know what's gone till they get to
the pe.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
What do you say, dorsy, if I could get back
to the outfit and can't.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Make up your mind, I'm taking off.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
You coming.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It's taking a big change.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I'll just say yes or no.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
All right, I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Good to you now, Let's make it fast.
Speaker 8 (04:21):
Go on down the steps, go on up me out? Hi,
all right?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Not oh?
Speaker 8 (04:34):
When an army had a little merchant.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Come on.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
We're in a pretty rugged country. We got a lot
of walk into a door.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Sounds coming up. You're gonna get hot pretty soon.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Watch a little heat unless we're away from not chicken army.
How's it feel to be a free man, Darsie?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm sorry, I did it?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I what's eating you?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I've been thinking you got me in allowsiness. Hi for
crying out loud.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I did your favorite.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
You was on your way overseas, and I wish that
still was what's got.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Into you anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It wasn't right to leave the other guys. Wasn't right?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Now? Why did you go?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You want to see your mother?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Don't you.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, I did well, Not this way you think I
want her to find out I deserted. She was proud
I was in the army.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
All right, cry baby?
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Shut up?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Who you telling this? Shut up? Are you touching me?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Leon? I'll bust it one of them rocks.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Ah, now, little kid, we're traveling together. Let's keep it peaceful. Well, okay, Hey,
he is a road up ahead. Can you make out
that sign on the fence? Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Keep cattle gate closed? Math or ranch?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Hey, maybe we can chow down with the hands.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I'm giving my up since we're at their ranch house.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Oh no, you're not.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Look, I ain't listening to you no more. If I
tell the army the truth, maybe they'll let me go
back to the out there.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
You ain't going nowhere except with me. No, cry baby's
gonna ruin my plans.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I don't care about your plans. I'm going back to
the out there.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
That's what you can't let me go.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You can't stop me.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
I'll show you what I can't.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
You stop me.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I don't want to fight you no more.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Benson, So don't start up again. Here, come on, get up,
and let's get going. Hey, Benson, why don't you get up, Benson, Benson, what's.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Holy cow?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Later that morning, the Sheriff of Humboldt County was called
the Matha ranch. Elderly Pete Mather had been severely beaten.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
In his car stolen.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
The sheriff drove to the scene and immediately requested the
aid of the Texas Rangers. Rangers Jas Pearson and Clay
Morgan met the sheriff at the ranch at eleven am.
After a brief talk with the Sheriff of the Rangers
went into the bedroom to interview the victim.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Sounds like somebody really worked the old man over.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yeah, I hope he can give us a lead on
who did it? Mister Mather? I Arranger Pierson, this Ranger Morgan.
You feel up answering a few questions?
Speaker 9 (07:31):
Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Would you tell us exactly what happened?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Well? I I went to the barn and fixed some
harness and heard something round back and went around to look.
What wasn't mister mapping soldiers trying to start my car.
I got a thirty two reel, parked it around there.
He was trying to steal it, and what did you do? Well?
I yelled at him and told him to get out
of there, and ran over.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
To pull him out.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
He he jumped out on me and knocked me around.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I fell down and he kicked me in the head.
What do he look like?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
He had an Army uniform on, blood on it, face marked.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Up like he's been fighting.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Was he a big fellow mistramatic? Well better than average size,
black hair, a Texas boy. We talked, I'd knowed him
again if asarm.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Remember anything about his uniform, shoulder patch anything like that?
A patch, Yeah, usually wear him just off the left shoulder.
It tell us what outfit he's with. Yeah, I do remember.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
It was a kind of a kind of a bell
and a fire cracker going crossways in front of it.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
It's a nine oh third Infantry Division, Jason. Their camp's
located over in the east part of the state, and
there was a down Shawn.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Yeah, could be any one of fifteen thousand men. We
learned the nine oh third division that left their camp
and because of the troop movement, no man had been
granted leave. The Army promised to quit check with the
nine ozh third next morning at Ranger headquarters, I received
a call from the Edge and Jay General's office. Thanks
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thanks a lot. Would you find out Jay twenty two
soldiers when awlf the nine oh third, one's Frank Dorsey
and the other's Leo Benson both disappeared from a troop
train on the Santa Fe somewhere in this general area.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
We can break the down even further. Mister Matthew said
the soldier.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Was a textioner. They both are. Dorsey comes from Pinker
and Benson's hometown's Abilene.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Pinker is only forty miles from here. Maybe we better
go over there first.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Could be Dorsey wanted the car to get home. Let's
go pay him a visit. We drove over to Pinker,
Texas and went to Dorsey's address. Turned out to be
a small farmhouse about five miles north of town.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
No one seemed to be at home. Thank you shun
there playing possum. Could be Let's go around and wait
a minute.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Fire slowing down to turn in here. Heyah, looks like
a girl driving. She's alone. M Dorsey could have ducked
down the sea. Now, yes, she's alone? Right?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Say you live here?
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Miss?
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (10:11):
I do.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Frank Dorsey any kin to you?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
He's my brother, I'm Norma Dorsey.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I'm ranger piercing this Ranger, Morgan, can you tell us
where your brother is?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well, he's he's on his way overseas.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Have you heard from him lately? What I Miss Darcy,
has your brother been here?
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (10:29):
Please, ranger, give the kid a break.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
He's in trouble. You know you to help us. You'd
make it easier all the way around.
Speaker 10 (10:36):
Frank was here, came home yesterday. Poor kid looked terrible.
He's tired and his uniform all messed up. He told
me all about jumping off the train.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Is he here now? No?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I want you to know why he did.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It though, why he went a w l even a
good reason. I won't excuse him, miss.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
I want you to know anyway. You see, my mother's sick.
Frank went to the hospital to see here last night.
You probably never see her again. That's why Frank went aw.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Well, I'm sorry, Miss Dorsey, but we still have to
pick him up. There'd be less trouble if you tell
us where he is.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
All right, Frank's on his way to Dallas. I just
saw him off on the nine eighteen bus.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Thank you, Come on play Well.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
He's going to turn himself in.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Why can't you leave him alone because he didn't leave
someone else alone. The lady's selling tickets at the bus
station in Pinker told us Frank Dorsey got on a
Continental bus to Dallas. We took off down the highway
after it. Thirty minutes later we spotted the bus.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
That's it, Jas up ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Drag him down on.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I pull along the side, right.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
Hey, hey, driver, hold stop.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Driver here looks surprised. Probably thinks he's getting a ticket.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I wonder what doors he did with the rancher's car.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
I'm abandoned that somewhere. I guess we'll find out. You
go on in, Jesson, you gotta passenger on here. We
want to talk to driver. Only take him minute.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
About a half a dozen soldiers back there, Jesson. Just
look for the nine or third shoulder parents right hey,
that must be him you Frank Darcy, Yes, sir, you
better come with us. What for we'll talk about that
outside gonny luggage where you shun, sir?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Let's go. Thanks, driver, you can go now.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I was trying to get back to the out. Honest,
you're going the wrong way, son gown.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
If it isn't in Dallas, come on get in.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yes, I was going there to catch a plane for
San Francisco. That's where the division went. I'm willing to
go back to the outfit and face charges.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
You didn't pick you up for going a wall you
know that you work for, then beating an old rancher
half to death?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
An old rancher, No, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Where were you yesterday morning? Anywhere near the Matha Ranch?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Well, yes, ir, I was.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
That's when Pete Mather was beating up. How about it, Peton.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Mather, look rangers. I jumped off a train and went home.
But I didn't beat up any old man.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Oh how did you get those bruises then?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Jumping off the train.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
And you didn't steal Mathew's card?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
I suppose. No, you know another soldier, a fellow named
Leo Benson, Yes, sir, I know him. Did he jump
off the train with you?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
No, sir, I was alone.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
You were the one soldier from the nine zero thirty
was close enough to the math Or Ranch to have
done it.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
But I didn't.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
We think you did. And see what Pete Matha thinks.
He got to the math Ranch a little after twelve.
I stayed with Dorsey in the car while Clay went
in to get permission from the old man to bring
the prisoner in. Clay came back and said, Pete Mather
was anxious to see if we really had his assailant.
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We took Frank Dorsey into the house. That's going to
be are they. Mister Manther, how you feeling today.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
That the fellow you want me to look at?
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Yes, sir, have you ever seen him before? Bring him
closer to the bed.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I want to take a good look at him.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Now that's enough.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Dorsey, mister you don't know me? Tell him you don't.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
How about mister Mather, is this the soldier who beats you?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Looks like you made a mistake. Rangers, I've never seen
this boy before in my whole life.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Now that spring is officially here, most of us will
be pleasure driving on the highways more often than previously.
But when you drive, keep in mind that road conditions
in many areas are still dangerous. Remember that when you drive,
you always have an unwelcome passenger danger. So, as you
take the family for a Sunday outing in your autobile
drive carefully. Careful driving is good driving. The men who
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drive for a living, the truck drivers, are taught to
be careful and courteous. They know that careful and courteous
driving are two of the major reasons why accidents don't happen. Yes,
statistics of the American Safety Council show that the majority
of automobile accidents happened because the drivers involved were not careful.
We're not observing traffic laws and road conditions. And here's
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a slogan for every driver to remember. A rolling ball
is always followed by a running child. So when you drive,
please be careful. The life you save may be a child's. Now,
let's return to the Tails of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story Troop Train.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Pete Mather insisted Frank Dorsey was not the man who
had attacked him. We left a few minutes later to
drive Dorsey into town. We planned to leave him with
the sheriff, who would hold him for the army authorities.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Sorry, we brought you up here, Dorsey, but we thought
it was you.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It's the only way to find out.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Yes, Jaycee lee us only one way I can see it.
The other g I who jumped the train? Leo Benson
must have been him? Why do you say that soldier
who beat up Pete Mather was from your division? You
and Benson the only ones missing from the nine oh third.
He must have jumped right after you did.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, I see Benson's home address was Abilene.
Wasn't jays a little head down there?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah? As soon as we hand Dorsey over to the sheriff.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Listen, I gotta tell you what is it?
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Dorsey?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I gotta tell someone. I couldn't sleep last night. I
kept seeing him all night, kept seeing him the way
it happened, seeing who it wasn't Benson who beat up
that home man? And you won't find him in Abilen?
Speaker 5 (16:58):
How do you know you did? Why you say you
killed Benson?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It was an accident. He talking to him to jumping
off the train with him. After I did, I figured
out what a big mistake I meane. I wanted to
turn himself in. He wouldn't let me him know. We
got into a fight. He fell and hit his head
on a rock. There was blood all over him. Where
was this back of that old man's rants just off
a little dirt road.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Suppose you show us where.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
Stop by this cattle gate, through this gat over that way.
He's right over there on the other side of that brush.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Pretty isolated place. Now tell him when the body would
have been spotted.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Buzzies would have found it pretty soon. Do I have
to go?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I'm getting sick.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
To my stummer. You stay here with him, play okay?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
We started fighting just about clear.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
You say you left him behind this brush?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yes, something wrong, Jason.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yeah, blood on the rock. All right, there's nobody. We
took Frank Dorsey to the local jail the aid of
the sheriff and his deputies. We searched the entire area.
No trace of Benson was found. Ranger Morgan and I
then drove to Abilene. Benson's address was a garage apartment
in the rear of a large run down house. Up
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those steps, I guess, yeah, the woman at the back
door of that house. What's that, ma'am?
Speaker 8 (18:46):
What you're looking for?
Speaker 12 (18:47):
The rangers he at here, being gone a couple.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Of days, we wanted to see mister Benson. Is he here?
Speaker 12 (18:54):
Yim No, he's in the army a long time.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Now. You any can to the Bensons.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
No, our apartment. I live up here in the front house.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Do you have a key to that place? We like?
Look around?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well, shure you.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Where there is one.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Oh, I got the miseries in my back.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Something norful.
Speaker 12 (19:13):
Ain't hardly walk.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
What you want him for? Something bad?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
We just want to talk to him.
Speaker 12 (19:19):
Oh, that man's plumb no good running around the whole
time I was here. Suppose now he's in the army.
He's got the whole country to run around in.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
She always keeps extra key under.
Speaker 12 (19:30):
This map for the ice man.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Oh, one of you boys better get it.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
My back something fierce to be I'll get it, say rangers. No,
I don't like to get in the way of the
law or nothing like that. But you sure it's all
right for me to let you in up there.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I won't get no trouble with it.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
We brought such one now, My sure looks legal, don't it.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Then you boys better go on ahead.
Speaker 12 (19:58):
Keep me some time. Get up on the.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Stairs, all right, ma'am, Come on play. He isn't dead.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
He could have come home yesterday and taken off with
his wife, or else you might have gone out to
pick him up.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Somewhere. There's still a chance he's up here hiding. Now, Yeah,
try again.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Huh told you she wasn't home.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
You're in the key, yes, ma'am. Take a look in
that bedroom, Clay. I'll see what's in this closet here, right, Jess,
come here? What is it, Clay?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
There's nobody here.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
But take a look at this Vincent's uniform. Quite a
bit of blood on it.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
He was here alive anyway.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Door.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
She'd be glad to hear that.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Like they cleaned the play sound. Did you check the closet?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
No, I'll get it now.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Some clothes still in here? Yeah, cannot come in there, sure, ma'am.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
Stairs will get the death of me.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I ain't nearly surprised.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
My bedding.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Why don't you take me?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Maybe she sends it the laundry.
Speaker 12 (21:02):
No, thenan belongs to me. I'll give her clean rooms
every Monday.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Blankets are gone too. I wonder why she took them?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Well, product clothes left in the closet. Chase didn't take everything.
I'll check the kitchen, Okay, I want to look in
this bureau.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Nice. You sure he's a sloppy house, don't she?
Speaker 12 (21:17):
That window aren't been worse in a couple of three years.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I'll bet plenty of stuff in here, m photo album?
Oh right, you picked Benson's picture out for me, ma'am
glad duke.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, that's him and that wedding picture.
Speaker 12 (21:36):
Oh, here's another one of him.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Reckon.
Speaker 12 (21:39):
That's cabin where they used to go. There's more pictures
of that cabin.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Is that their car in this picture?
Speaker 12 (21:45):
Let me see? Uh huh, so there still got there?
That's his wife next to him.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Have you ever seen this man near the other car?
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You ever saw him before?
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Say, mister fish, didn't it the Benson's own?
Speaker 9 (22:01):
Right?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And now you never were?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Very frankly, have you any idea where it might be located?
Finanding play in a way.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
That's what I didn't find. It took all the food
with him. And take a look at this photo album.
Speaker 12 (22:13):
Yeah, look at here back.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Here missus Benson and his wife at the cabin there.
Look at the year of the license played on their car,
nineteen thirty nine. Man, Look here, same cabin, same car,
only the licenses for nineteen forty. There's some more snaps
taken there in forty one. They kept going back there.
Maybe they own it? Oh, No, they couldn't since they
took all the food and bedding. Seems logical they might
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have headed for a place like that. You know where
it is?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Now?
Speaker 5 (22:37):
The owner of that other car in the picture, does
it can locate him through that license number?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Might add after something, might not.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
That's what we're gonna find out. We checked the license
number of the car in the picture belong to a
man named Harry Steelman. Steelman worked at a cotton compress
and the edge of town.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
We went there.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Yeah, all right, moving on fails with that end?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Yeah, hold on, man him, Charlie, will haven't that all day?
Speaker 8 (23:09):
Get to let out what we'd like to talk to you.
All right, let's go back to the office keeping.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Having nothing but trouble. Compress broke down. We lost four
hours this morning. I'll never catch up at this rayon.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Something I can do for you. We're looking for Leo Benson.
Have you seen him? Leo?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Not for six or eight months.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
He's in the army.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Have you heard from him lately?
Speaker 7 (23:37):
No?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
I haven't.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Most two of my best men to the army in
the past week. But new fellas I can get us
slur and cold molasses. You and Ben some good friends. Yeah,
I've known him a long time. Used to get to
get every once in a while. Ever go fishing with
him in the cabin. Maybe, Yeah, a couple of times
where down the Blanco River country. He used to kill
me Celia, that's Leo's wife. Her dad left it to him.
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You know if they keep food and bedding in the cabin. No,
I'm pretty sure they don't. They only went up there
once in a while. Anything else, and just one more thing, Yeah,
how do we get to this cabin? I can show
you on a map, but I can tell you one thing.
Sil You're sure wouldn't be up there by itself.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
That's just what we were thinking. Steelman showed us the
approximate location of the cabin on a map. Early the
following morning, we drove down there.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
They smoke over there.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
That must be it, and it sparked the car here
and find out.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Going to Steelman's direction, got just about where the cabin
should be.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Uh huh, oh, there it is a clearing to the river.
Let's go this way.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
No signs of live set that smoke. I don't see
the car.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Then Sin's wife might have gone somewhere with it. I
don't think he'd stick his nose out of these woods.
Open out, Bencing.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Let's take a look in that window, and they've been
here all right. They should still on the table and
see what's out back.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
That's great conference for fast.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I wouldn't mind, older Jason.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Play? Thought?
Speaker 6 (25:11):
I saw someone move over there, head down by the
river where but a big boulder you see for the
right of it.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
No one there? Now, well, let's take a look. It
was right about here, and there's a couple of stones
skipped over here. Still damn where they were. I guess
it must have been someone.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I'll take a look around back of the bowlder right.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Jee, the spring of fish here is still wet.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
I'll get him prison.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Stop get away from me. Yeah, all right, Benson, on
your feet.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
You went to a lot of a lot of trouble
for nothing, ranging.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I was going to give myself up anyhow, you were,
huh sure?
Speaker 9 (26:01):
I was.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I'd rather spend a couple of years in jail overseas.
That's better than get my hit shot off aid.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
In your case, Benson, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Case you have just heard.
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now for the conclusion of Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
And now here are the results in the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Frank Dorsey was turned over to the Army authorities and
received six months confinement for being absent without lead. Leo
Benson was found guilty of carthet and assault and battery.
He was sentenced to five years at Huntsfield Mandature. Upon
his release from prison, he was returned to the Army
and received two years for decision and at.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
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Technical adviser was Captain M. T. Lone Wolf Gonsalez of
the Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed and adapted by
Bernard Editor and Robert A. White, and The program is
produced and directed by Stacy Keith Hell Gipney.
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Adventure with the tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, the
case called I Mean.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
It is four thirty am on the morning of January sixth,
nineteen forty three, about twelve miles east of Humboldt, Texas.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
An Army troop train roars westward through the darkness.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
In the smoking room of one sleeping car, a burly
private of thirty players solitaire. His long companion, a nineteen
year old PFC, stares out of the window.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
What do you see out there in the dark? Anyway?
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Texas will take a good look. It'll be a long
time you live around here, don't you.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I'm about forty miles south think or Texas. My mother
had an operation a couple of days ago. Sure wish
I could see her.
Speaker 6 (02:44):
You got a bad kid, eh, Never can beat this game.
Ever been away from home before?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
We used to go to Beaumont to visit my grandmother.
Never been out of Texas in my whole life.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, you ain't miss nothing.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I've been as far as New Jersey you can have,
and this stinking army with it?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Why you always sound off back Tomy.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Maybe you found a home in it.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, it's the only one we'll have for mighty long time.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Not me.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'm saying out of Ohs any minute now.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Like I told you back at camp, I'm getting off
this train before we get to that port. You've been
thinking about what I was telling you?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh, yeah, I guess I have. But I ain't skipping outfit.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Well I am. No Jap's gonna shove a bay at
my belly.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
How are you gonna get off the train?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Well, we're starting off the cap rock.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
I can jump off easy anytime the train slows down
on one of these upgrades.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Who's get caught?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
I expect to be sooner or later. Don't you see
a kid? They catch me, give me a court Marshal.
I get six months or a year. That's been than a.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
JAP bullet, ain't it.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
You could go home and see your mother and wait
for the MPs to bring you back. So you get
six months, or maybe you can volunteer overseas duty and
they forget the court Marshal.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, suppose they're waiting there, boy eating to see my mother.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
They won't even know what's gone till they get to
the pe.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
What do you say, dorsy, if I could get back
to the outfit and can't.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Make up your mind, I'm taking off.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
You coming.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It's taking a big change.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I'll just say yes or no.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
All right, I'm coming.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Good to you now, Let's make it fast.
Speaker 8 (04:21):
Go on down the steps, go on up me out? Hi,
all right?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Not oh?
Speaker 8 (04:34):
When an army had a little merchant.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Come on.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
We're in a pretty rugged country. We got a lot
of walk into a door.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Sounds coming up. You're gonna get hot pretty soon.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Watch a little heat unless we're away from not chicken army.
How's it feel to be a free man, Darsie?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I'm sorry, I did it?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I what's eating you?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I've been thinking you got me in allowsiness. Hi for
crying out loud.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
I did your favorite.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
You was on your way overseas, and I wish that
still was what's got.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Into you anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It wasn't right to leave the other guys. Wasn't right?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Now? Why did you go?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You want to see your mother?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Don't you.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, I did well, Not this way you think I
want her to find out I deserted. She was proud
I was in the army.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
All right, cry baby?
Speaker 8 (05:32):
Shut up?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Who you telling this? Shut up? Are you touching me?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Leon? I'll bust it one of them rocks.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Ah, now, little kid, we're traveling together. Let's keep it peaceful. Well, okay, Hey,
he is a road up ahead. Can you make out
that sign on the fence? Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Keep cattle gate closed? Math or ranch?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Hey, maybe we can chow down with the hands.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
I'm giving my up since we're at their ranch house.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Oh no, you're not.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Look, I ain't listening to you no more. If I
tell the army the truth, maybe they'll let me go
back to the out there.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
You ain't going nowhere except with me. No, cry baby's
gonna ruin my plans.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I don't care about your plans. I'm going back to
the out there.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
That's what you can't let me go.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You can't stop me.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
I'll show you what I can't.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
You stop me.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I don't want to fight you no more.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Benson, So don't start up again. Here, come on, get up,
and let's get going. Hey, Benson, why don't you get up, Benson, Benson, what's.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Wrong with you?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Holy cow?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Later that morning, the Sheriff of Humboldt County was called
the Matha ranch. Elderly Pete Mather had been severely beaten.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
In his car stolen.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
The sheriff drove to the scene and immediately requested the
aid of the Texas Rangers. Rangers Jas Pearson and Clay
Morgan met the sheriff at the ranch at eleven am.
After a brief talk with the Sheriff of the Rangers
went into the bedroom to interview the victim.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Sounds like somebody really worked the old man over.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yeah, I hope he can give us a lead on
who did it? Mister Mather? I Arranger Pierson, this Ranger Morgan.
You feel up answering a few questions?
Speaker 9 (07:31):
Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Would you tell us exactly what happened?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Well? I I went to the barn and fixed some
harness and heard something round back and went around to look.
What wasn't mister mapping soldiers trying to start my car.
I got a thirty two reel, parked it around there.
He was trying to steal it, and what did you do? Well?
I yelled at him and told him to get out
of there, and ran over.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
To pull him out.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
He he jumped out on me and knocked me around.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I fell down and he kicked me in the head.
What do he look like?
Speaker 7 (08:03):
He had an Army uniform on, blood on it, face marked.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Up like he's been fighting.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Was he a big fellow mistramatic? Well better than average size,
black hair, a Texas boy. We talked, I'd knowed him
again if asarm.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Remember anything about his uniform, shoulder patch anything like that?
A patch, Yeah, usually wear him just off the left shoulder.
It tell us what outfit he's with. Yeah, I do remember.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
It was a kind of a kind of a bell
and a fire cracker going crossways in front of it.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
It's a nine oh third Infantry Division, Jason. Their camp's
located over in the east part of the state, and
there was a down Shawn.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Yeah, could be any one of fifteen thousand men. We
learned the nine oh third division that left their camp
and because of the troop movement, no man had been
granted leave. The Army promised to quit check with the
nine ozh third next morning at Ranger headquarters, I received
a call from the Edge and Jay General's office. Thanks
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thanks a lot. Would you find out Jay twenty two
soldiers when awlf the nine oh third, one's Frank Dorsey
and the other's Leo Benson both disappeared from a troop
train on the Santa Fe somewhere in this general area.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
We can break the down even further. Mister Matthew said
the soldier.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Was a textioner. They both are. Dorsey comes from Pinker
and Benson's hometown's Abilene.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Pinker is only forty miles from here. Maybe we better
go over there first.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Could be Dorsey wanted the car to get home. Let's
go pay him a visit. We drove over to Pinker,
Texas and went to Dorsey's address. Turned out to be
a small farmhouse about five miles north of town.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
No one seemed to be at home. Thank you shun
there playing possum. Could be Let's go around and wait
a minute.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
Fire slowing down to turn in here. Heyah, looks like
a girl driving. She's alone. M Dorsey could have ducked
down the sea. Now, yes, she's alone? Right?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Say you live here?
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Miss?
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (10:11):
I do.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Frank Dorsey any kin to you?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
He's my brother, I'm Norma Dorsey.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I'm ranger piercing this Ranger, Morgan, can you tell us
where your brother is?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Well, he's he's on his way overseas.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Have you heard from him lately? What I Miss Darcy,
has your brother been here?
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (10:29):
Please, ranger, give the kid a break.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
He's in trouble. You know you to help us. You'd
make it easier all the way around.
Speaker 10 (10:36):
Frank was here, came home yesterday. Poor kid looked terrible.
He's tired and his uniform all messed up. He told
me all about jumping off the train.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Is he here now? No?
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I want you to know why he did.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It though, why he went a w l even a
good reason. I won't excuse him, miss.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
I want you to know anyway. You see, my mother's sick.
Frank went to the hospital to see here last night.
You probably never see her again. That's why Frank went aw.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Well, I'm sorry, Miss Dorsey, but we still have to
pick him up. There'd be less trouble if you tell
us where he is.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
All right, Frank's on his way to Dallas. I just
saw him off on the nine eighteen bus.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Thank you, Come on play Well.
Speaker 10 (11:19):
He's going to turn himself in.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Why can't you leave him alone because he didn't leave
someone else alone. The lady's selling tickets at the bus
station in Pinker told us Frank Dorsey got on a
Continental bus to Dallas. We took off down the highway
after it. Thirty minutes later we spotted the bus.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
That's it, Jas up ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Drag him down on.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I pull along the side, right.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
Hey, hey, driver, hold stop.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Driver here looks surprised. Probably thinks he's getting a ticket.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I wonder what doors he did with the rancher's car.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
I'm abandoned that somewhere. I guess we'll find out. You
go on in, Jesson, you gotta passenger on here. We
want to talk to driver. Only take him minute.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
About a half a dozen soldiers back there, Jesson. Just
look for the nine or third shoulder parents right hey,
that must be him you Frank Darcy, Yes, sir, you
better come with us. What for we'll talk about that
outside gonny luggage where you shun, sir?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Let's go. Thanks, driver, you can go now.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
I was trying to get back to the out. Honest,
you're going the wrong way, son gown.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
If it isn't in Dallas, come on get in.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yes, I was going there to catch a plane for
San Francisco. That's where the division went. I'm willing to
go back to the outfit and face charges.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
You didn't pick you up for going a wall you
know that you work for, then beating an old rancher
half to death?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
An old rancher, No, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
Where were you yesterday morning? Anywhere near the Matha Ranch?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Well, yes, ir, I was.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
That's when Pete Mather was beating up. How about it, Peton.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Mather, look rangers. I jumped off a train and went home.
But I didn't beat up any old man.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Oh how did you get those bruises then?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Jumping off the train.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
And you didn't steal Mathew's card?
Speaker 5 (13:21):
I suppose. No, you know another soldier, a fellow named
Leo Benson, Yes, sir, I know him. Did he jump
off the train with you?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
No, sir, I was alone.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
You were the one soldier from the nine zero thirty
was close enough to the math Or Ranch to have
done it.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
But I didn't.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
We think you did. And see what Pete Matha thinks.
He got to the math Ranch a little after twelve.
I stayed with Dorsey in the car while Clay went
in to get permission from the old man to bring
the prisoner in. Clay came back and said, Pete Mather
was anxious to see if we really had his assailant.
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We took Frank Dorsey into the house. That's going to
be are they. Mister Manther, how you feeling today.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
That the fellow you want me to look at?
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Yes, sir, have you ever seen him before? Bring him
closer to the bed.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
I want to take a good look at him.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Now that's enough.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Dorsey, mister you don't know me? Tell him you don't.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
How about mister Mather, is this the soldier who beats you?
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Looks like you made a mistake. Rangers, I've never seen
this boy before in my whole life.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Chase Pearson.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Now that spring is officially here, most of us will
be pleasure driving on the highways more often than previously.
But when you drive, keep in mind that road conditions
in many areas are still dangerous. Remember that when you drive,
you always have an unwelcome passenger danger. So, as you
take the family for a Sunday outing in your autobile
drive carefully. Careful driving is good driving. The men who
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drive for a living, the truck drivers, are taught to
be careful and courteous. They know that careful and courteous
driving are two of the major reasons why accidents don't happen. Yes,
statistics of the American Safety Council show that the majority
of automobile accidents happened because the drivers involved were not careful.
We're not observing traffic laws and road conditions. And here's
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a slogan for every driver to remember. A rolling ball
is always followed by a running child. So when you drive,
please be careful. The life you save may be a child's. Now,
let's return to the Tails of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
We continue now with tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story Troop Train.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Pete Mather insisted Frank Dorsey was not the man who
had attacked him. We left a few minutes later to
drive Dorsey into town. We planned to leave him with
the sheriff, who would hold him for the army authorities.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Sorry, we brought you up here, Dorsey, but we thought
it was you.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It's the only way to find out.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Yes, Jaycee lee us only one way I can see it.
The other g I who jumped the train? Leo Benson
must have been him? Why do you say that soldier
who beat up Pete Mather was from your division? You
and Benson the only ones missing from the nine oh third.
He must have jumped right after you did.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Oh yeah, yeah, I see Benson's home address was Abilene.
Wasn't jays a little head down there?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah? As soon as we hand Dorsey over to the sheriff.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Listen, I gotta tell you what is it?
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Dorsey?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
I gotta tell someone. I couldn't sleep last night. I
kept seeing him all night, kept seeing him the way
it happened, seeing who it wasn't Benson who beat up
that home man? And you won't find him in Abilen?
Speaker 5 (16:58):
How do you know you did? Why you say you
killed Benson?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It was an accident. He talking to him to jumping
off the train with him. After I did, I figured
out what a big mistake I meane. I wanted to
turn himself in. He wouldn't let me him know. We
got into a fight. He fell and hit his head
on a rock. There was blood all over him. Where
was this back of that old man's rants just off
a little dirt road.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Suppose you show us where.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
Stop by this cattle gate, through this gat over that way.
He's right over there on the other side of that brush.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Pretty isolated place. Now tell him when the body would
have been spotted.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Buzzies would have found it pretty soon. Do I have
to go?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I'm getting sick.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
To my stummer. You stay here with him, play okay?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
We started fighting just about clear.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
You say you left him behind this brush?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yes, something wrong, Jason.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
Yeah, blood on the rock. All right, there's nobody. We
took Frank Dorsey to the local jail the aid of
the sheriff and his deputies. We searched the entire area.
No trace of Benson was found. Ranger Morgan and I
then drove to Abilene. Benson's address was a garage apartment
in the rear of a large run down house. Up
(18:39):
those steps, I guess, yeah, the woman at the back
door of that house. What's that, ma'am?
Speaker 8 (18:46):
What you're looking for?
Speaker 12 (18:47):
The rangers he at here, being gone a couple.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Of days, we wanted to see mister Benson. Is he here?
Speaker 12 (18:54):
Yim No, he's in the army a long time.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Now. You any can to the Bensons.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
No, our apartment. I live up here in the front house.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Do you have a key to that place? We like?
Look around?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well, shure you.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Where there is one.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Oh, I got the miseries in my back.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Something norful.
Speaker 12 (19:13):
Ain't hardly walk.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
What you want him for? Something bad?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
We just want to talk to him.
Speaker 12 (19:19):
Oh, that man's plumb no good running around the whole
time I was here. Suppose now he's in the army.
He's got the whole country to run around in.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
She always keeps extra key under.
Speaker 12 (19:30):
This map for the ice man.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Oh, one of you boys better get it.
Speaker 12 (19:35):
My back something fierce to be I'll get it, say rangers. No,
I don't like to get in the way of the
law or nothing like that. But you sure it's all
right for me to let you in up there.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I won't get no trouble with it.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
We brought such one now, My sure looks legal, don't it.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Then you boys better go on ahead.
Speaker 12 (19:58):
Keep me some time. Get up on the.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Stairs, all right, ma'am, Come on play. He isn't dead.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
He could have come home yesterday and taken off with
his wife, or else you might have gone out to
pick him up.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Somewhere. There's still a chance he's up here hiding. Now, Yeah,
try again.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Huh told you she wasn't home.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
You're in the key, yes, ma'am. Take a look in
that bedroom, Clay. I'll see what's in this closet here, right, Jess,
come here? What is it, Clay?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
There's nobody here.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
But take a look at this Vincent's uniform. Quite a
bit of blood on it.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
He was here alive anyway.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
Door.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
She'd be glad to hear that.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Like they cleaned the play sound. Did you check the closet?
Speaker 3 (20:44):
No, I'll get it now.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Some clothes still in here? Yeah, cannot come in there, sure, ma'am.
Speaker 12 (20:53):
Stairs will get the death of me.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I ain't nearly surprised.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
My bedding.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Why don't you take me?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Maybe she sends it the laundry.
Speaker 12 (21:02):
No, thenan belongs to me. I'll give her clean rooms
every Monday.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Blankets are gone too. I wonder why she took them?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Well, product clothes left in the closet. Chase didn't take everything.
I'll check the kitchen, Okay, I want to look in
this bureau.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Nice. You sure he's a sloppy house, don't she?
Speaker 12 (21:17):
That window aren't been worse in a couple of three years.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I'll bet plenty of stuff in here, m photo album?
Oh right, you picked Benson's picture out for me, ma'am
glad duke.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, that's him and that wedding picture.
Speaker 12 (21:36):
Oh, here's another one of him.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Reckon.
Speaker 12 (21:39):
That's cabin where they used to go. There's more pictures
of that cabin.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Is that their car in this picture?
Speaker 12 (21:45):
Let me see? Uh huh, so there still got there?
That's his wife next to him.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Have you ever seen this man near the other car?
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (21:54):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You ever saw him before?
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Say, mister fish, didn't it the Benson's own?
Speaker 9 (22:01):
Right?
Speaker 2 (22:01):
And now you never were?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Very frankly, have you any idea where it might be located?
Finanding play in a way.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
That's what I didn't find. It took all the food
with him. And take a look at this photo album.
Speaker 12 (22:13):
Yeah, look at here back.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Here missus Benson and his wife at the cabin there.
Look at the year of the license played on their car,
nineteen thirty nine. Man, Look here, same cabin, same car,
only the licenses for nineteen forty. There's some more snaps
taken there in forty one. They kept going back there.
Maybe they own it? Oh, No, they couldn't since they
took all the food and bedding. Seems logical they might
(22:35):
have headed for a place like that. You know where
it is?
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Now?
Speaker 5 (22:37):
The owner of that other car in the picture, does
it can locate him through that license number?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Might add after something, might not.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
That's what we're gonna find out. We checked the license
number of the car in the picture belong to a
man named Harry Steelman. Steelman worked at a cotton compress
and the edge of town.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
We went there.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Yeah, all right, moving on fails with that end?
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Yeah, hold on, man him, Charlie, will haven't that all day?
Speaker 8 (23:09):
Get to let out what we'd like to talk to you.
All right, let's go back to the office keeping.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Having nothing but trouble. Compress broke down. We lost four
hours this morning. I'll never catch up at this rayon.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Something I can do for you. We're looking for Leo Benson.
Have you seen him? Leo?
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Not for six or eight months.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
He's in the army.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Have you heard from him lately?
Speaker 7 (23:37):
No?
Speaker 5 (23:37):
I haven't.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Most two of my best men to the army in
the past week. But new fellas I can get us
slur and cold molasses. You and Ben some good friends. Yeah,
I've known him a long time. Used to get to
get every once in a while. Ever go fishing with
him in the cabin. Maybe, Yeah, a couple of times
where down the Blanco River country. He used to kill
me Celia, that's Leo's wife. Her dad left it to him.
(24:00):
You know if they keep food and bedding in the cabin. No,
I'm pretty sure they don't. They only went up there
once in a while. Anything else, and just one more thing, Yeah,
how do we get to this cabin? I can show
you on a map, but I can tell you one thing.
Sil You're sure wouldn't be up there by itself.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
That's just what we were thinking. Steelman showed us the
approximate location of the cabin on a map. Early the
following morning, we drove down there.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
They smoke over there.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
That must be it, and it sparked the car here
and find out.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Going to Steelman's direction, got just about where the cabin
should be.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Uh huh, oh, there it is a clearing to the river.
Let's go this way.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
No signs of live set that smoke. I don't see
the car.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Then Sin's wife might have gone somewhere with it. I
don't think he'd stick his nose out of these woods.
Open out, Bencing.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Let's take a look in that window, and they've been
here all right. They should still on the table and
see what's out back.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
That's great conference for fast.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I wouldn't mind, older Jason.
Speaker 9 (25:09):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
Play? Thought?
Speaker 6 (25:11):
I saw someone move over there, head down by the
river where but a big boulder you see for the
right of it.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
No one there? Now, well, let's take a look. It
was right about here, and there's a couple of stones
skipped over here. Still damn where they were. I guess
it must have been someone.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I'll take a look around back of the bowlder right.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Jee, the spring of fish here is still wet.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
I'll get him prison.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Stop get away from me. Yeah, all right, Benson, on
your feet.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
You went to a lot of a lot of trouble
for nothing, ranging.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I was going to give myself up anyhow, you were,
huh sure?
Speaker 9 (26:01):
I was.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I'd rather spend a couple of years in jail overseas.
That's better than get my hit shot off aid.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
In your case, Benson, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Case you have just heard.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Later today you will find more great entertainment all lined
up for you on this NBC station.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Next, it's the Big Show with a star.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Studded guest list and your unpredictable hostess Tulula Bankhead and
Meredith Wilson will be on hand to direct the Big
Show orchestra and chorus. Later tonight, be sure to hear
the hilarious Phil Harris and Alice Fay Show, featuring the
comedy atticts of Frankie Redley, Julius Abruzzio, and Brother William.
There's Murphy Music with Phil and Alice in their delightful program.
(26:57):
Remember too, that Theater Guild on the air will bring
you another entertaining dramatization of an exciting play, co starring
two of your favorite Broadway stars. Yes, Sunday is fun
Day on NBC because of the many fine shows sent
your way to add to your listening pleasure. Later tonight
a special broadcast featuring a speech by Benjamin Fairless. Remember
(27:21):
for fine entertainment all the rest of the day's day
tuned to this station of the NBC Radio Network. And
now for the conclusion of Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
And now here are the results in the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Frank Dorsey was turned over to the Army authorities and
received six months confinement for being absent without lead. Leo
Benson was found guilty of carthet and assault and battery.
He was sentenced to five years at Huntsfield Mandature. Upon
his release from prison, he was returned to the Army
and received two years for decision and at.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Dis horrible dis job.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Next week, Joel McCray.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
And another authentic reenactment of the case from the file Dove.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
The Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Joel McCray will soon be seen in San Francisco's Story,
a Warner Brothers release.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
The cast included Tony.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Parrett, Peter Lee, Sam Edwards, Herbellus, Vivid Jansen, and Janet Nolan.
Technical adviser was Captain M. T. Lone Wolf Gonsalez of
the Texas Rangers. This story was transcribed and adapted by
Bernard Editor and Robert A. White, and The program is
produced and directed by Stacy Keith Hell Gipney.
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