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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae's ranger Chase Pearson.
Another authentic reenactment of the case transcribed from the files
of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Names, dates, and places in the following.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Story are fictitious for obvious reasons.
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The events themselves are a matter of records.
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adventure with the tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers. It's
called Nighthawk.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
It is twelve thirty on a Friday night, early in
June nineteen forty eight, in the town of Tipton, Texas.
The graduation dance at Carroll College has been over for
half an hour.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Two miles outside town, A car drives toward.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
A small airfield used during the day as a landing
place for a few private planes. The field and the
single hangar are dark as the car rolls to a
stop on the road bordering the fields.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I mean, I tiring a Johnny.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
My feet are at will Appleton. It's your fraternity, by
the todd Why haven't you.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Tought him to day you step on your toes.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I just don't see how any boy could be so
graceful on a football field, isn't it? Oh well, who
wants to talk about will Appleton anyhow?
Speaker 6 (02:53):
It's a nice dance in spite.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Of him, and nice out here too. The moon makes
everything so bright.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
I like the half moon.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Everybody's always talking about how pretty a full moon is.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Spa.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Somebody's coming down the road, or.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Probably some hand off one of the farms walfrom home.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Looks like he's coming right, Tartise.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
I'm showing you.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Just imagine any things he's going pans Tartan. He's got
something over his face, like some kind of math.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It looks like it's stocking with horse cut out.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
He's got a gun, tart Get out.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
What is his shut up?
Speaker 9 (03:32):
I don't want to hear nothing, not of either. This
is a stick up. Get out of a car. Come on,
I'm getting I'm kipping. Are your toe's sister, not that way?
Slide over and get out this side. Do you want
give me a pocket book?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
There's no money in it.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Give to me.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Look here, you shut up. I'll give me a wallets better.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
It's a matter of what you sister, a bo all right?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
How both your star walking down that road and don't
look back.
Speaker 9 (04:07):
Don't be going a minute. You walking down the road alone.
You're gonna stay with me, sister. You can't do not walking.
Speaker 8 (04:19):
I'll blow your head off fast as no. I kept moving. Okay, sister,
are you and me? You're gonna take a little.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Water showing me?
Speaker 8 (04:31):
I'll pay that baby?
Speaker 10 (04:33):
You and me?
Speaker 8 (04:34):
Shut up? Shut up?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I got.
Speaker 11 (04:43):
Jon He's all right, Jonny, he's going here.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Todd Miller put the girl in his car and drove
back to tom After taking to the hospital, he notified
her parents and the sheriff. Sheriff Wilson dispatched deputies to
the scene of the robbery and requested assistance from the
Texas Rangers. As soon as he had spoken to the girl,
the sheriff drove back to the airfield with Todd. Minutes later,
Ranger Jace Pearson, who was assigned to the case, reached
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the field.
Speaker 11 (05:29):
Haughty, Sheriff, oh is Todd Miller, jays hotty ring.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
He's the boy who was held up.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
The report said, you weren't able to identify the man
who robbed her? Is that right?
Speaker 11 (05:38):
He had a black stocking over his head. I could
only see his eyes.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Where's the car you were driving, the Todd?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I left it in the town, Sheriff Roman back here.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
If you're thinking about Prince Jase, I reckon, we're out
a lot, Todd, here says a fellow hat on gloves.
How about the girl? She heard that she'll be all right.
Speaker 11 (05:53):
Shaking up quite a bit, though, and he must have
hit her in awful whack. Doc thinks her jaw might
be broken. He's shooting and done what he said. I
should have stayed with Johnie.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You did just what you had to do, Son, I
don't reckon you had much choice.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Gods.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Could you see which way he headed after he left
the girl?
Speaker 11 (06:08):
Well, I'm not sure, but I thought I saw him
running across the field toward the hangar. And then after
I got Jonie into my car, I saw a card
drive out from behind the hangar and start off down
the road.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Any idea what kind of a card it was?
Speaker 11 (06:20):
Well, it looked like an old gelopia. I was too
far away to see what kind it was.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Going pretty fast, though.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
One of my deputies found some fresh oils change over
by the hangar gates, and we'll go over in a
minute and take a look. Todd, I want you to
try to remember anything you can about this man. Anything.
Speaker 11 (06:35):
All happened so fast that there's not much about him.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
I remember, wow, tall was he?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, i'd say about my hype.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Can you describe his voice?
Speaker 11 (06:43):
Well, he never talked out loud, just whispered a real
horse whispered anything else. Well, the way he walked right
up to the car, like he'd been waiting for us,
just walked up and made his get out.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
All right, Todd, I think that'll be all, Ranger.
Speaker 11 (07:00):
I think I could get back to town soon. I'm
kind of worried about Jon.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Sorry, with the sheriff, he can send you back in
his car with one of the deputies. You can come
along with me, Shriff. Sure, Jason, we'll drive over to
the hangar and have a look at those oil spots first,
and just let me tell me.
Speaker 11 (07:12):
Deputy Charlie, you take Todd back to town in my car.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'll be with the ranger. Thank you, Sheriff. Thanks. He
sure looks like a tough one, Jason.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Yeah, but I got a hunch we can narrow it
down to one of your local boys.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
How do you figure that.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
Well, for one thing, the way he was so particular
about keeping his face hidden and whispering to disguise his voice.
It does sound like you wanted to make sure he
wouldn't be recognized. But it might have been some stranger
who just didn't want to take chances on getting his
description podcast. It could be a stranger except for one thing,
the fact that he was well enough acquainted with the
town to know where couples might be likely to park
after a dance.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And it's more like a little.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Youn's hand to KTXA go ahead, KTXA.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Suriff's Services received call A man in the stocking mask
is just held up a couple of carold college football
das man shot possibly dead, request football.
Speaker 11 (08:04):
I feel straight along this road on now it's got
to town. Jase, Yeah, ten for Sheriff is with this unit.
Unit ten proceeding the scene at once.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Four minutes after we received the radio call, we were
approaching the college football field. We saw a car sitting
in the center of the parking area. On ten or
twelve people grouped around something on the grass a little
distance away. A man standing near the car beckon to
a surgingly pulled up a few feet away from him.
Speaker 11 (08:35):
How did you sure the ranger? Hey, Snyder's my name
Chris Schneider. I heard the shots from my house over
the age and oh fa years old.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
You wanted to show us something, mister Sneydery.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
The boy he's lying over here, and I think he's dead.
Where is mister.
Speaker 11 (08:48):
Snyder right around the corner of the car there, Yeah,
I said, you know, if we're seeing a young boy
like this and so much blood, I never seen so
much blood a my life.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
It is.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
He did two bullets in his chest and he didn't
have much of a chance.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
Were sure he was.
Speaker 11 (09:05):
Dead that I wouldn't let nobody come too close to you.
Got here, Yes, Joe is the girl with those people
over there.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
That's right.
Speaker 11 (09:12):
Somebody put a coat down on the grass for her.
She gets shot too on on, but she got hurt
a little and told us she run away when he's
felling and shot the boy run toward the football stands.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
They tripped and here head Jason. She's hurt bad. We'll
have to get her to a doctorselves. I know the
ambulance had to go over to see the falls on
the emergency. Let's get over and see her. Who is
the girl?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Julie tell me she works in the drug store. Huh,
And she don't know the boy's dead.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
You know that boy's name, mister Stanning.
Speaker 11 (09:38):
No, No, one don't cause she ain't around town. But
I reckon, you'll have to get his name from Julie.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Uh huh. Will you let us through, folks, let let
us through?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Please?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
All right?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Will you just stand back, please, Julie, Julie, how you
feel her?
Speaker 10 (09:56):
Right?
Speaker 6 (09:57):
My hurts a little. It's is Johnny.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
All right?
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Let me look at your head.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Mess.
Speaker 10 (10:03):
I gotta know about Johnny. They wouldn't let me go
to him. I'm sure he's hurt bad. How bad it
is Johnny hurt?
Speaker 7 (10:10):
I believe you, mss. We don't like to ask questions
at a time like this, but there are a few
things we have to know.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
He shot Johnny. Johnny shouldn't have fought with him.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
What's Johnny's last name?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Gordon? I told Johnny not to fight with him.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Julie.
Speaker 11 (10:28):
Is Johnny's home here in tipty No Spartanville. Do you
remember anything about the man who shot Johnny? Something that
might help us identify him.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I saw his face.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
He made us get out of the cart, and then
he took my pocket book and Johnny's wallet. Johnny started
to fight with him. He pulled the mask off the
man's face. You know the man, not his name, but
I've seen him around the trug store. He works at
the dairy.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I thank you. Would you recognizing me if you saw
him again?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Yes, sir, I'll never forget him.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
We'd like you to come to the Sheriff's office in
the morning and make a written statement. We may need
you to identify the man.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
If we find him, I'll identify him.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
What's the matter?
Speaker 10 (11:16):
I just remembered this man who shot Johnny around the
drug store.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I've heard people call him Ritt.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Is he ever there?
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Yes, yes he doesn't. Kind of a crooked nose.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Thanks miss. That could help a lot.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Well, you go to Johnny now, Julie. Johnny dead, isn't
I'm sorry, Miss.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
David. We were going to be married, Julie. I think
you're married in September. We're gonna have a big wedding.
I always wanted a big wedding.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Come on, Julie.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
We'll take you to a doctor.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
You had a pretty bad bune.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I want to go home.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Is anybody there who can take care of you?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
My father's.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
He's a How about your mother?
Speaker 6 (12:09):
She died a long time ago. I want to go home.
I don't want to see any people now.
Speaker 10 (12:18):
If I need anybody, I'll call the lady next door.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
We'll take you home. The Sheriff's right, you should see
a doctor first, all.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
Right, Angel, Yes sure John is dead? Yes, sure, yes,
Miss I'm afraid so I see.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Johnny.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
As soon as the Justice of the peace arrived, we
drove Duly to a doctor. He said she'd be our
so we took her home and told her we'd phone
her when we needed her. Sheriff and I spent the
rest of the night checking on the lead Julie had
given us. We learned that a man named Ernest Crockett,
sometimes called Red, had worked for the dairy until a
week before, when he was fired at seven that morning.
We found out that Crockett lived in a room above
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a feed store. We got a search warrant and went there.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And I sure hope Julie's got the right man.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
She gave pretty positive identification.
Speaker 11 (13:27):
Yeah, but she was excited. She might have seen a
man with a broken nose and thought it was this Red.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
And you shouldn't take us long to find out if
she's right. And since we get read down to your office,
we'll call Julie and have her try to identify him.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You mean, if we find Red, we could have trouble
doing that.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Uh, this is as good a place as I need
to start.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It should be the room.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Try it empty?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah, you reckon?
Speaker 7 (13:57):
He skipped. Maybe we'll get back the car our last
headquarters to put out in all points bulleting on him. Yeah,
if he has gone anywhere, so since he hasn't got
far murder took place at two thirty, that had only
leaving me Bullet Sheriff.
Speaker 11 (14:09):
Somebody coming upstairs, Yeah, that could be Crockett. Stay on
your toes. He might try something.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
If he's our man. Almost whop he does?
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Careful?
Speaker 8 (14:23):
What's this all about?
Speaker 7 (14:26):
You read? Crockett?
Speaker 8 (14:28):
You know what do you want?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
We'd like to ask you some questions?
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Who said you can come in here? This search one?
Speaker 10 (14:35):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (14:36):
Okay? What do you want to put your hands over
your head?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Freskin sheriff. Yeah, happened on him, Jason. What'd you expect
to find? Where were you last night? Uh? Where?
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Oh? Around town?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Him?
Speaker 8 (14:49):
The restless tide. I hate to stay in one place
too long.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Were you with anybody?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
No?
Speaker 7 (14:54):
I don't like cross much. All right, Crockett, you're coming
with us down to the Sheriff's office. What we think
you I'd have had something to do with two robberies
and a murdered last night.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
They are crazy.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
If you're innocent, you have a chance to prove it.
Speaker 12 (15:06):
What are you?
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I mean?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Somebody got a good look at the killer. Let's go
find out what happens when she gets a look at you.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Friends, permit me a serious word. Think now those families,
more than two thousand families who were made homeless by
tornadoes in six states. Thousands of people are picking through
the rubble of their homes. You would help them if
you could. I know that, and you are helping them
through your American Red Cross. Even as I speak to
you now, your Red Cross is there feeding and sheltering
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the homeless, caring for the sick and injured. Your Red
Cross has made an initial allocation of one million dollars
for emergency That is only the beginning. So great is
the destruction, so great is the need. Your Red Cross
has had to increase its eighty five million dollar fund
goal by five million dollars. After the emergency period has passed.
There will be homes to rebuild and people to restore
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to health and livelihood.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
You, your family, and your home were spared, help those
who were it.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The need is great, the need is now, So answer
the call and please give generously through your American Red Cross.
Now back to Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story Nighthawk.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
We took Rocket to the Sheriff's office and left him
with a deputy. Then I phoned Julie Thomas. There was
no answer, sheriff and I drove to her house and
found it locked. The woman next door told us Juliet
left earlier that morning for nearby town of Spartanville to
stay with a girlfriend. After some persuasion, the woman gave
us the girlfriend's name and address. We went to Spartanville
and located the house. I still don't figure it, Jace.
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Why would she want to skip out like this without
letting us know? She was pretty upset last night, Sheriff.
Chances are she still is.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, but there's something funny about this, and I don't
like it.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I can't see I do either.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Who's there?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
Range? Your person, sheriff, and I'd like to talk.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
To you, Julie.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Why'd you come after me? Why don't you leave me alone?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Can we come in?
Speaker 6 (17:39):
All right?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Your girlfriend around chat to go out?
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Is that your coffee on the table, Julie.
Speaker 11 (17:47):
Yes, you want some, No thanks, but you finish yours,
then we want you to come back to Tipton with us.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I'm not going, Julie.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
What's some moving?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I just don't want to go back. I want to
stay right here in Spartanville.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
You think we found the man we're looking for. We'd
like you to identify him.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
I don't believe I could, but you told.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Us last night you'd recognize him anywhere.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
I know it, but I can't remember anymore.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
But didn't you see the man who shot Johnny?
Speaker 6 (18:13):
I thought I did, but I guess I was wrong.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
All right, Julie, there's anything we can do for you.
Just let us know.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
You're not going to make me come.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
You can't make you do anything if you don't want
to do it.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
What are you going to do with the man you caught?
Speaker 7 (18:30):
I can well have to let him go. Nothing else
we can do.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
Come on, Sheriff, Rachel.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Uh huh ranger. I'm scared. I'm so scared.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Don't let him get me, lose, don't let him get me.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Let who get you?
Speaker 10 (18:51):
Man?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Who shut Johnny? You told me if I said anything
about him, he kill me.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
When was this this morning? But after I got hold
you mean he was at your house?
Speaker 6 (19:00):
No, no, we pon't. He said if I told you,
kill me, no matter how long it took im.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'm so scared, Julie.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Your pocketbook was taken. Was there any identification in it?
Speaker 6 (19:12):
My driver's license? But I can still hear his focus
like a life. It went right through.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
He can't do anything to you, Julie.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
He can, I know it can.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
If he's in jail, he'll break out here.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
He'll find me and kill me.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Let me ask you something. You want to spend the
rest of your life knowing that the man who killed
Johnny is free?
Speaker 10 (19:34):
Please?
Speaker 7 (19:35):
You can be sure you won't stop with Johnny. He'll
rob again, even kill again.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I don't know what to do. I just don't know.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
It's up to you, Julie. We can't force you to
identify him, but you're not being fair to Johnny.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
If you don't, all right, I'll come with you.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
I didn't decide the man who killed Johnny.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Ranger. I won't have to stay long in the same
room with him, brother, only a.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Couple of minutes too.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
It just so we can be sure you'll have time
to recognize him.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
I'm afraid of him, his eyes and and that red
head that stands up all over his head.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
I could see him so clear even when he was
talking to me on the phone.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
You don't have to be scared of a thing.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
You just identify him and we'll make sure he's behind
bars for a long time.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Who do you get the electric chair, I'll be up
to the judge.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Go ahead, in, Julie.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
He is he and there?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Oh he's in the next office. Oh if I'll just
go on through and see if everything's ready case, sit.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Down, Julie.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
No, thank you.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
You don't have to be frightened about a thing.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
You keep saying that, But I'm still scared.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I'm scared at that.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
I know you are. I wish there was some way
I could help you not to be.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
You'll stay with me, won't you arrange her the whole
time I'm in there with him.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Sure sheriff and his deputy will be there too.
Speaker 11 (21:00):
You don't have to read I remember, Julie, don't say
a thing while you're in there.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Just look at him and listen to his voice.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
All right, Rangel, stand up?
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Crockett?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
What's your full name?
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Had all my name when you ask him?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
What's your full name?
Speaker 8 (21:19):
That is Crockett?
Speaker 9 (21:20):
Where do you live? Okay? Okay, two forty five A
Sprisa Street.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You own a gun?
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Gosse not. I never owned a gun in my life.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
That's enough, Sheriff. Come on, Julie take over.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Charlie.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
Sit down, Julie here, Tavius chair, thanks, I will sit
down now. What's that the man you saw last night? No, Julie,
you sure you didn't recognize him.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
I never saw him before in my life.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
But Julie, the the red hair and the broken nose
you told us about, he must be the one.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
How many times do I have to tell you I
never saw him. I never saw him.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You know what I think, Julie, I don't care it.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
He's not the man.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I think. You're not telling us the truth.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
You're gonna prove it. You're gonna make me say something.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I don't watch you, Julie.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
I told you before. We can't force you to say anything,
but sooner or later we'll find other evidence against this man.
When he comes to trial, you'll be put on the
stand under oath.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
That's where I never saw him before.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
If the judge finds out your line, you could go
to jail.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Then I'll go to jail, Julie, I declare, I wish
I could talk some sense into you. You better go
release Crockett, Sheriff, and we'll take Julie home.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Now, man, I'll release.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Then.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
I wish forget it. Julie. You do whatever you feel
you have to do. But even without your help, we're
gonna keep after this man. We get enough evidence to
convict him.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
I want to do the right thing.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
But when I looked at his eyes, I've gotta go away.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I gotta leave here today.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Well that's the way you want it. Where you figure
I'm going.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
You're somewhere out of the state. I'll go up to
Dallas first. Tell my father what's happened.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
All right, we'll stay with your little train.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Time almost ready, Julie.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Just about a few more things I want to get
out of this hall closet.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
You better hurry it up a little.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
It's five forty now. Your train leaves in less than
an hour. You've still got time to change your mind. Julie.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
It's it's no use, ranger. Excuse me a minute. Hello,
When are you.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Gonna get rid of the cops shortly?
Speaker 8 (23:37):
You better make it fast.
Speaker 12 (23:39):
I'm watching your baby, and I'm gonna be watching you.
You make one breaking you understand it is just see
you keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Hello, it mattered, Julie.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
You look fail.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
I'm all right.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
I was cracking on the phone, wasn't it, Yes, ran John.
He's not gonna let me get away.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
No matter where I go.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I'll have the feeling he's watching me.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Chances are he will be.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
It's no use fruning, is it.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's never worked for anybody.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
If you still want me to, I'll identify.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Oh, that's fine you and I'll tell you now.
Speaker 10 (24:23):
The man I saw in the sheriff's office is the
one who held us up last night.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
He shot Shinny.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Come on, sheriff, we're gonna pick up a red Crockett.
We took Julie to the sheriff's office, then went to
Crockett's room when we discovered he wasn't there. We learned
at all deputies for a systematic search of the town.
We informed KTXA that the sheriff and I would be
cruising the streets. We just doubled back a second time
into the Mexican section when I received a radio call,
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you're in attended, ktx A, Go ahead, kt XA.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
He Sureff has been bounded in gunfight at Estanita cafe
by man believed that Deodis Crockett pay the subject escape
for resisting arrest.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Holy smoke ten for unit ten Clear.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Katie exhausted?
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Where's that cafe?
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Shore?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
About a block and the railroad tracks. If you swing
left at this next corner, you'll come right to it.
Speaker 11 (25:21):
Hang on, he's probably taken off, and that gelope if
he has, won't take out long to catch up with him.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Wonder who please you could have gone? Wait a minute?
Speaker 7 (25:30):
What is just saw a man running into that alley
off that has Does it lead anywhere.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
Down toward the freight yards you can drive through to
the tracks.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Must be running pretty fast, there's no place he could
have turned off.
Speaker 11 (25:41):
Yeah, this is as far as we can go in
the car. Yeah, hey, Jase's time you like to pick
him up where he he runs for that box car.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Let's go take it easy around this box car.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
There he goes Chase timbing into that empty over there.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
Call it the Crockett.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
Give me that gun, Crockett, Yesty, get up, it's Tony
your arm it hurts, hurts, bed. Come on, Crockett. You
were so anxious to have a train ride. Now I'm
gonna see you get one all the way to Huntsville.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
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Stay tuned to this station of the NBC Radio Network.
Now for the conclusion of Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Julie Thomas made a positive identification of Ernest Crockett, and
ballistics evidence proved that Crockett's gun had killed Johnny Gordon.
Crockett was indicted and on July ninth, nineteen forty eight,
was found guilty of murder with malice. At three minutes
past midnight on September fifteenth, nineteen forty nine, Crockett died
in the electric jar at Huntsville.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Next week, Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a
case from the files of but Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae
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will soon be seen in San Francisco's Story, a Warner
Brothers release. The cast included Tony Barrett, Bert Holland, Betty Moran,
Lou Krugman, Parley Behar, and Michael Ann Barrett. Technical advisor
was Captain M. T. Lone Wolf Gonzales of the Texas Rangers.
This story was transcribed and adapted by Charles E. Israel
and the program is produced and directed by Stacy Keach.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Hell Give Me Speaking.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
Next.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Enjoy comedy, drama and music on the Big Show on
NBC
Speaker 2 (29:13):
BO
Tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae's ranger Chase Pearson.
Another authentic reenactment of the case transcribed from the files
of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Names, dates, and places in the following.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Story are fictitious for obvious reasons.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
The events themselves are a matter of records.
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adventure with the tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And now from the files of the Texas Rangers. It's
called Nighthawk.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
It is twelve thirty on a Friday night, early in
June nineteen forty eight, in the town of Tipton, Texas.
The graduation dance at Carroll College has been over for
half an hour.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Two miles outside town, A car drives toward.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
A small airfield used during the day as a landing
place for a few private planes. The field and the
single hangar are dark as the car rolls to a
stop on the road bordering the fields.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
I mean, I tiring a Johnny.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
My feet are at will Appleton. It's your fraternity, by
the todd Why haven't you.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Tought him to day you step on your toes.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I just don't see how any boy could be so
graceful on a football field, isn't it? Oh well, who
wants to talk about will Appleton anyhow?
Speaker 6 (02:53):
It's a nice dance in spite.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Of him, and nice out here too. The moon makes
everything so bright.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
I like the half moon.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Everybody's always talking about how pretty a full moon is.
Speaker 7 (03:09):
Spa.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Somebody's coming down the road, or.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Probably some hand off one of the farms walfrom home.
Speaker 6 (03:16):
Looks like he's coming right, Tartise.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
I'm showing you.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Just imagine any things he's going pans Tartan. He's got
something over his face, like some kind of math.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It looks like it's stocking with horse cut out.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
He's got a gun, tart Get out.
Speaker 8 (03:30):
What is his shut up?
Speaker 9 (03:32):
I don't want to hear nothing, not of either. This
is a stick up. Get out of a car. Come on,
I'm getting I'm kipping. Are your toe's sister, not that way?
Slide over and get out this side. Do you want
give me a pocket book?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
There's no money in it.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Give to me.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Look here, you shut up. I'll give me a wallets better.
Speaker 8 (03:57):
It's a matter of what you sister, a bo all right?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
How both your star walking down that road and don't
look back.
Speaker 9 (04:07):
Don't be going a minute. You walking down the road alone.
You're gonna stay with me, sister. You can't do not walking.
Speaker 8 (04:19):
I'll blow your head off fast as no. I kept moving. Okay, sister,
are you and me? You're gonna take a little.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Water showing me?
Speaker 8 (04:31):
I'll pay that baby?
Speaker 10 (04:33):
You and me?
Speaker 8 (04:34):
Shut up? Shut up?
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I got.
Speaker 11 (04:43):
Jon He's all right, Jonny, he's going here.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Todd Miller put the girl in his car and drove
back to tom After taking to the hospital, he notified
her parents and the sheriff. Sheriff Wilson dispatched deputies to
the scene of the robbery and requested assistance from the
Texas Rangers. As soon as he had spoken to the girl,
the sheriff drove back to the airfield with Todd. Minutes later,
Ranger Jace Pearson, who was assigned to the case, reached
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the field.
Speaker 11 (05:29):
Haughty, Sheriff, oh is Todd Miller, jays hotty ring.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
He's the boy who was held up.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
The report said, you weren't able to identify the man
who robbed her? Is that right?
Speaker 11 (05:38):
He had a black stocking over his head. I could
only see his eyes.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
Where's the car you were driving, the Todd?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I left it in the town, Sheriff Roman back here.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
If you're thinking about Prince Jase, I reckon, we're out
a lot, Todd, here says a fellow hat on gloves.
How about the girl? She heard that she'll be all right.
Speaker 11 (05:53):
Shaking up quite a bit, though, and he must have
hit her in awful whack. Doc thinks her jaw might
be broken. He's shooting and done what he said. I
should have stayed with Johnie.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You did just what you had to do, Son, I
don't reckon you had much choice.
Speaker 8 (06:06):
Gods.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
Could you see which way he headed after he left
the girl?
Speaker 11 (06:08):
Well, I'm not sure, but I thought I saw him
running across the field toward the hangar. And then after
I got Jonie into my car, I saw a card
drive out from behind the hangar and start off down
the road.
Speaker 7 (06:18):
Any idea what kind of a card it was?
Speaker 11 (06:20):
Well, it looked like an old gelopia. I was too
far away to see what kind it was.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Going pretty fast, though.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
One of my deputies found some fresh oils change over
by the hangar gates, and we'll go over in a
minute and take a look. Todd, I want you to
try to remember anything you can about this man. Anything.
Speaker 11 (06:35):
All happened so fast that there's not much about him.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
I remember, wow, tall was he?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, i'd say about my hype.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
Can you describe his voice?
Speaker 11 (06:43):
Well, he never talked out loud, just whispered a real
horse whispered anything else. Well, the way he walked right
up to the car, like he'd been waiting for us,
just walked up and made his get out.
Speaker 7 (06:57):
All right, Todd, I think that'll be all, Ranger.
Speaker 11 (07:00):
I think I could get back to town soon. I'm
kind of worried about Jon.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Sorry, with the sheriff, he can send you back in
his car with one of the deputies. You can come
along with me, Shriff. Sure, Jason, we'll drive over to
the hangar and have a look at those oil spots first,
and just let me tell me.
Speaker 11 (07:12):
Deputy Charlie, you take Todd back to town in my car.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I'll be with the ranger. Thank you, Sheriff. Thanks. He
sure looks like a tough one, Jason.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Yeah, but I got a hunch we can narrow it
down to one of your local boys.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
How do you figure that.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
Well, for one thing, the way he was so particular
about keeping his face hidden and whispering to disguise his voice.
It does sound like you wanted to make sure he
wouldn't be recognized. But it might have been some stranger
who just didn't want to take chances on getting his
description podcast. It could be a stranger except for one thing,
the fact that he was well enough acquainted with the
town to know where couples might be likely to park
after a dance.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
And it's more like a little.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Youn's hand to KTXA go ahead, KTXA.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Suriff's Services received call A man in the stocking mask
is just held up a couple of carold college football
das man shot possibly dead, request football.
Speaker 11 (08:04):
I feel straight along this road on now it's got
to town. Jase, Yeah, ten for Sheriff is with this unit.
Unit ten proceeding the scene at once.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Four minutes after we received the radio call, we were
approaching the college football field. We saw a car sitting
in the center of the parking area. On ten or
twelve people grouped around something on the grass a little
distance away. A man standing near the car beckon to
a surgingly pulled up a few feet away from him.
Speaker 11 (08:35):
How did you sure the ranger? Hey, Snyder's my name
Chris Schneider. I heard the shots from my house over
the age and oh fa years old.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
You wanted to show us something, mister Sneydery.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
The boy he's lying over here, and I think he's dead.
Where is mister.
Speaker 11 (08:48):
Snyder right around the corner of the car there, Yeah,
I said, you know, if we're seeing a young boy
like this and so much blood, I never seen so
much blood a my life.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
It is.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
He did two bullets in his chest and he didn't
have much of a chance.
Speaker 8 (09:04):
Were sure he was.
Speaker 11 (09:05):
Dead that I wouldn't let nobody come too close to you.
Got here, Yes, Joe is the girl with those people
over there.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
That's right.
Speaker 11 (09:12):
Somebody put a coat down on the grass for her.
She gets shot too on on, but she got hurt
a little and told us she run away when he's
felling and shot the boy run toward the football stands.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
They tripped and here head Jason. She's hurt bad. We'll
have to get her to a doctorselves. I know the
ambulance had to go over to see the falls on
the emergency. Let's get over and see her. Who is
the girl?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Julie tell me she works in the drug store. Huh,
And she don't know the boy's dead.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
You know that boy's name, mister Stanning.
Speaker 11 (09:38):
No, No, one don't cause she ain't around town. But
I reckon, you'll have to get his name from Julie.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Uh huh. Will you let us through, folks, let let
us through?
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Please?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
All right?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Will you just stand back, please, Julie, Julie, how you
feel her?
Speaker 10 (09:56):
Right?
Speaker 6 (09:57):
My hurts a little. It's is Johnny.
Speaker 8 (10:00):
All right?
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Let me look at your head.
Speaker 8 (10:02):
Mess.
Speaker 10 (10:03):
I gotta know about Johnny. They wouldn't let me go
to him. I'm sure he's hurt bad. How bad it
is Johnny hurt?
Speaker 7 (10:10):
I believe you, mss. We don't like to ask questions
at a time like this, but there are a few
things we have to know.
Speaker 10 (10:17):
He shot Johnny. Johnny shouldn't have fought with him.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
What's Johnny's last name?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Gordon? I told Johnny not to fight with him.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Julie.
Speaker 11 (10:28):
Is Johnny's home here in tipty No Spartanville. Do you
remember anything about the man who shot Johnny? Something that
might help us identify him.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I saw his face.
Speaker 10 (10:41):
He made us get out of the cart, and then
he took my pocket book and Johnny's wallet. Johnny started
to fight with him. He pulled the mask off the
man's face. You know the man, not his name, but
I've seen him around the trug store. He works at
the dairy.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I thank you. Would you recognizing me if you saw
him again?
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Yes, sir, I'll never forget him.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
We'd like you to come to the Sheriff's office in
the morning and make a written statement. We may need
you to identify the man.
Speaker 10 (11:11):
If we find him, I'll identify him.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
What's the matter?
Speaker 10 (11:16):
I just remembered this man who shot Johnny around the
drug store.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
I've heard people call him Ritt.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Is he ever there?
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Yes, yes he doesn't. Kind of a crooked nose.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Thanks miss. That could help a lot.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
Well, you go to Johnny now, Julie. Johnny dead, isn't
I'm sorry, Miss.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
David. We were going to be married, Julie. I think
you're married in September. We're gonna have a big wedding.
I always wanted a big wedding.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Come on, Julie.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
We'll take you to a doctor.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
You had a pretty bad bune.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
I want to go home.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Is anybody there who can take care of you?
Speaker 6 (12:04):
My father's.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
He's a How about your mother?
Speaker 6 (12:09):
She died a long time ago. I want to go home.
I don't want to see any people now.
Speaker 10 (12:18):
If I need anybody, I'll call the lady next door.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
We'll take you home. The Sheriff's right, you should see
a doctor first, all.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
Right, Angel, Yes sure John is dead? Yes, sure, yes,
Miss I'm afraid so I see.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Johnny.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
As soon as the Justice of the peace arrived, we
drove Duly to a doctor. He said she'd be our
so we took her home and told her we'd phone
her when we needed her. Sheriff and I spent the
rest of the night checking on the lead Julie had
given us. We learned that a man named Ernest Crockett,
sometimes called Red, had worked for the dairy until a
week before, when he was fired at seven that morning.
We found out that Crockett lived in a room above
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a feed store. We got a search warrant and went there.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
And I sure hope Julie's got the right man.
Speaker 7 (13:25):
She gave pretty positive identification.
Speaker 11 (13:27):
Yeah, but she was excited. She might have seen a
man with a broken nose and thought it was this Red.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
And you shouldn't take us long to find out if
she's right. And since we get read down to your office,
we'll call Julie and have her try to identify him.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You mean, if we find Red, we could have trouble
doing that.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
Uh, this is as good a place as I need
to start.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It should be the room.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Try it empty?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah, you reckon?
Speaker 7 (13:57):
He skipped. Maybe we'll get back the car our last
headquarters to put out in all points bulleting on him. Yeah,
if he has gone anywhere, so since he hasn't got
far murder took place at two thirty, that had only
leaving me Bullet Sheriff.
Speaker 11 (14:09):
Somebody coming upstairs, Yeah, that could be Crockett. Stay on
your toes. He might try something.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
If he's our man. Almost whop he does?
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Careful?
Speaker 8 (14:23):
What's this all about?
Speaker 7 (14:26):
You read? Crockett?
Speaker 8 (14:28):
You know what do you want?
Speaker 7 (14:29):
We'd like to ask you some questions?
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Who said you can come in here? This search one?
Speaker 10 (14:35):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (14:36):
Okay? What do you want to put your hands over
your head?
Speaker 8 (14:39):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (14:40):
Freskin sheriff. Yeah, happened on him, Jason. What'd you expect
to find? Where were you last night? Uh? Where?
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Oh? Around town?
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Him?
Speaker 8 (14:49):
The restless tide. I hate to stay in one place
too long.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
Were you with anybody?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
No?
Speaker 7 (14:54):
I don't like cross much. All right, Crockett, you're coming
with us down to the Sheriff's office. What we think
you I'd have had something to do with two robberies
and a murdered last night.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
They are crazy.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
If you're innocent, you have a chance to prove it.
Speaker 12 (15:06):
What are you?
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I mean?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Somebody got a good look at the killer. Let's go
find out what happens when she gets a look at you.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
In just a moment, we will continue with Tales of
the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Friends, permit me a serious word. Think now those families,
more than two thousand families who were made homeless by
tornadoes in six states. Thousands of people are picking through
the rubble of their homes. You would help them if
you could. I know that, and you are helping them
through your American Red Cross. Even as I speak to
you now, your Red Cross is there feeding and sheltering
(15:53):
the homeless, caring for the sick and injured. Your Red
Cross has made an initial allocation of one million dollars
for emergency That is only the beginning. So great is
the destruction, so great is the need. Your Red Cross
has had to increase its eighty five million dollar fund
goal by five million dollars. After the emergency period has passed.
There will be homes to rebuild and people to restore
(16:14):
to health and livelihood.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
You, your family, and your home were spared, help those
who were it.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The need is great, the need is now, So answer
the call and please give generously through your American Red Cross.
Now back to Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
We continue now with Tales of the Texas Rangers and
our authentic story Nighthawk.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
We took Rocket to the Sheriff's office and left him
with a deputy. Then I phoned Julie Thomas. There was
no answer, sheriff and I drove to her house and
found it locked. The woman next door told us Juliet
left earlier that morning for nearby town of Spartanville to
stay with a girlfriend. After some persuasion, the woman gave
us the girlfriend's name and address. We went to Spartanville
and located the house. I still don't figure it, Jace.
(17:12):
Why would she want to skip out like this without
letting us know? She was pretty upset last night, Sheriff.
Chances are she still is.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, but there's something funny about this, and I don't
like it.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I can't see I do either.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Who's there?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
Range? Your person, sheriff, and I'd like to talk.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
To you, Julie.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Why'd you come after me? Why don't you leave me alone?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Can we come in?
Speaker 6 (17:39):
All right?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Your girlfriend around chat to go out?
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Is that your coffee on the table, Julie.
Speaker 11 (17:47):
Yes, you want some, No thanks, but you finish yours,
then we want you to come back to Tipton with us.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I'm not going, Julie.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
What's some moving?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I just don't want to go back. I want to
stay right here in Spartanville.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
You think we found the man we're looking for. We'd
like you to identify him.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
I don't believe I could, but you told.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Us last night you'd recognize him anywhere.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
I know it, but I can't remember anymore.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
But didn't you see the man who shot Johnny?
Speaker 6 (18:13):
I thought I did, but I guess I was wrong.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
All right, Julie, there's anything we can do for you.
Just let us know.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
You're not going to make me come.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
You can't make you do anything if you don't want
to do it.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
What are you going to do with the man you caught?
Speaker 7 (18:30):
I can well have to let him go. Nothing else
we can do.
Speaker 8 (18:33):
Come on, Sheriff, Rachel.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Uh huh ranger. I'm scared. I'm so scared.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Don't let him get me, lose, don't let him get me.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Let who get you?
Speaker 10 (18:51):
Man?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Who shut Johnny? You told me if I said anything
about him, he kill me.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
When was this this morning? But after I got hold
you mean he was at your house?
Speaker 6 (19:00):
No, no, we pon't. He said if I told you,
kill me, no matter how long it took im.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I'm so scared, Julie.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Your pocketbook was taken. Was there any identification in it?
Speaker 6 (19:12):
My driver's license? But I can still hear his focus
like a life. It went right through.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
He can't do anything to you, Julie.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
He can, I know it can.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
If he's in jail, he'll break out here.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
He'll find me and kill me.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
Let me ask you something. You want to spend the
rest of your life knowing that the man who killed
Johnny is free?
Speaker 10 (19:34):
Please?
Speaker 7 (19:35):
You can be sure you won't stop with Johnny. He'll
rob again, even kill again.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I don't know what to do. I just don't know.
Speaker 7 (19:43):
It's up to you, Julie. We can't force you to
identify him, but you're not being fair to Johnny.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
If you don't, all right, I'll come with you.
Speaker 10 (19:54):
I didn't decide the man who killed Johnny.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Ranger. I won't have to stay long in the same
room with him, brother, only a.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
Couple of minutes too.
Speaker 11 (20:09):
It just so we can be sure you'll have time
to recognize him.
Speaker 10 (20:12):
I'm afraid of him, his eyes and and that red
head that stands up all over his head.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
I could see him so clear even when he was
talking to me on the phone.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
You don't have to be scared of a thing.
Speaker 7 (20:23):
You just identify him and we'll make sure he's behind
bars for a long time.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Who do you get the electric chair, I'll be up
to the judge.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Go ahead, in, Julie.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
He is he and there?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Oh he's in the next office. Oh if I'll just
go on through and see if everything's ready case, sit.
Speaker 7 (20:42):
Down, Julie.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
No, thank you.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
You don't have to be frightened about a thing.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
You keep saying that, But I'm still scared.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I'm scared at that.
Speaker 7 (20:50):
I know you are. I wish there was some way
I could help you not to be.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
You'll stay with me, won't you arrange her the whole
time I'm in there with him.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
Sure sheriff and his deputy will be there too.
Speaker 11 (21:00):
You don't have to read I remember, Julie, don't say
a thing while you're in there.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
Just look at him and listen to his voice.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
All right, Rangel, stand up?
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Crockett?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
What's your full name?
Speaker 8 (21:16):
Had all my name when you ask him?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
What's your full name?
Speaker 8 (21:19):
That is Crockett?
Speaker 9 (21:20):
Where do you live? Okay? Okay, two forty five A
Sprisa Street.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You own a gun?
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Gosse not. I never owned a gun in my life.
Speaker 7 (21:29):
That's enough, Sheriff. Come on, Julie take over.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Charlie.
Speaker 10 (21:37):
Sit down, Julie here, Tavius chair, thanks, I will sit
down now. What's that the man you saw last night? No, Julie,
you sure you didn't recognize him.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
I never saw him before in my life.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
But Julie, the the red hair and the broken nose
you told us about, he must be the one.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
How many times do I have to tell you I
never saw him. I never saw him.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You know what I think, Julie, I don't care it.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
He's not the man.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I think. You're not telling us the truth.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
You're gonna prove it. You're gonna make me say something.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I don't watch you, Julie.
Speaker 7 (22:11):
I told you before. We can't force you to say anything,
but sooner or later we'll find other evidence against this man.
When he comes to trial, you'll be put on the
stand under oath.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
That's where I never saw him before.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
If the judge finds out your line, you could go
to jail.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Then I'll go to jail, Julie, I declare, I wish
I could talk some sense into you. You better go
release Crockett, Sheriff, and we'll take Julie home.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Now, man, I'll release.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Then.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
I wish forget it. Julie. You do whatever you feel
you have to do. But even without your help, we're
gonna keep after this man. We get enough evidence to
convict him.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
I want to do the right thing.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
But when I looked at his eyes, I've gotta go away.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
I gotta leave here today.
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Well that's the way you want it. Where you figure
I'm going.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (23:00):
You're somewhere out of the state. I'll go up to
Dallas first. Tell my father what's happened.
Speaker 7 (23:05):
All right, we'll stay with your little train.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Time almost ready, Julie.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Just about a few more things I want to get
out of this hall closet.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
You better hurry it up a little.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
It's five forty now. Your train leaves in less than
an hour. You've still got time to change your mind. Julie.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
It's it's no use, ranger. Excuse me a minute. Hello,
When are you.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Gonna get rid of the cops shortly?
Speaker 8 (23:37):
You better make it fast.
Speaker 12 (23:39):
I'm watching your baby, and I'm gonna be watching you.
You make one breaking you understand it is just see
you keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Hello, it mattered, Julie.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
You look fail.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
I'm all right.
Speaker 10 (23:59):
I was cracking on the phone, wasn't it, Yes, ran John.
He's not gonna let me get away.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
No matter where I go.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
I'll have the feeling he's watching me.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Chances are he will be.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
It's no use fruning, is it.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's never worked for anybody.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
If you still want me to, I'll identify.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Oh, that's fine you and I'll tell you now.
Speaker 10 (24:23):
The man I saw in the sheriff's office is the
one who held us up last night.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
He shot Shinny.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Come on, sheriff, we're gonna pick up a red Crockett.
We took Julie to the sheriff's office, then went to
Crockett's room when we discovered he wasn't there. We learned
at all deputies for a systematic search of the town.
We informed KTXA that the sheriff and I would be
cruising the streets. We just doubled back a second time
into the Mexican section when I received a radio call,
(24:56):
you're in attended, ktx A, Go ahead, kt XA.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
He Sureff has been bounded in gunfight at Estanita cafe
by man believed that Deodis Crockett pay the subject escape
for resisting arrest.
Speaker 7 (25:07):
Holy smoke ten for unit ten Clear.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Katie exhausted?
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Where's that cafe?
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Shore?
Speaker 2 (25:14):
About a block and the railroad tracks. If you swing
left at this next corner, you'll come right to it.
Speaker 11 (25:21):
Hang on, he's probably taken off, and that gelope if
he has, won't take out long to catch up with him.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Wonder who please you could have gone? Wait a minute?
Speaker 7 (25:30):
What is just saw a man running into that alley
off that has Does it lead anywhere.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
Down toward the freight yards you can drive through to
the tracks.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Must be running pretty fast, there's no place he could
have turned off.
Speaker 11 (25:41):
Yeah, this is as far as we can go in
the car. Yeah, hey, Jase's time you like to pick
him up where he he runs for that box car.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Let's go take it easy around this box car.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
There he goes Chase timbing into that empty over there.
Speaker 10 (25:55):
Call it the Crockett.
Speaker 7 (26:02):
Give me that gun, Crockett, Yesty, get up, it's Tony
your arm it hurts, hurts, bed. Come on, Crockett. You
were so anxious to have a train ride. Now I'm
gonna see you get one all the way to Huntsville.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
In just a moment, we will tell you the results
of the case you have just heard.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Later today you will find more great entertainment all lined
up for you on this NBC station. Next it's the
Big Show with a star studded guest list and your
unpredictable hostess to Lula 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 addicts of Frankie Remiley,
Julius Abruzzio, and Brother William. There's Murtha Music with Phil
(26:57):
and Alice and their delightful program. And remember or two
the 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 Funday on NBC
because of the many fine shows sent your way to
add to your listening pleasure. Later tonight you'll want to
hear Jack Parr and the sixty four dollars question as
(27:19):
Jack asks the questions and gives away the money. So
remember for fine entertainment all the rest of the day.
Stay tuned to this station of the NBC Radio Network.
Now for the conclusion of Tales of the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
And now here are the results of the case you
have just heard.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Julie Thomas made a positive identification of Ernest Crockett, and
ballistics evidence proved that Crockett's gun had killed Johnny Gordon.
Crockett was indicted and on July ninth, nineteen forty eight,
was found guilty of murder with malice. At three minutes
past midnight on September fifteenth, nineteen forty nine, Crockett died
in the electric jar at Huntsville.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Next week, Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a
case from the files of but Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae
(28:35):
will soon be seen in San Francisco's Story, a Warner
Brothers release. The cast included Tony Barrett, Bert Holland, Betty Moran,
Lou Krugman, Parley Behar, and Michael Ann Barrett. Technical advisor
was Captain M. T. Lone Wolf Gonzales of the Texas Rangers.
This story was transcribed and adapted by Charles E. Israel
and the program is produced and directed by Stacy Keach.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Hell Give Me Speaking.
Speaker 8 (29:06):
Next.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Enjoy comedy, drama and music on the Big Show on
NBC
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