This is Case Closed, Crime Stories from the Golden Age of Radio.

Welcome back to Case Closed.

This week's hour of crime begins with Tales of the Texas Rangers.

We'll hear the May 6th, 1951 episode titled No Living Witnesses.

After that, it's the silent men, and food and war, their story from April 23rd, 1952.

The National Broadcasting Company presents

Joe McCray in Tales of the Texas Rangers.

Tonight transcribed from Hollywood

another authentic reenactment

of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers.

Music case from the files of the Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers

starring Joel McCray as Ranger Jace Pearson.

Texas more than 260,000 square miles.

And 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America.

Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on fact. Only names, dates, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons.

The events themselves are a matter of record.

Case for tonight, no living witnesses.

It is 11.30 a.m. a. Monday morning in November 1939. Sheriff Ross Bettsby turns his car into a quiet residential street of Harper's Landing, Texas.

Seated in the car with him is Mrs. Blackburn, a medical assistant. She becomes increasingly nervous as they approach a sign marking the home of Dr. Walter Hengett. Now, don't go get and

jump to, Ms. Blackburn. There could be a hundred reasons for the doc to be missing. Not Doc Hemet and you know it. It ain't like him to just disappear. No sign of him since Saturday night. Wasn't at church yesterday and he ain't at his house this morning. He's always there for visiting hours at 9.30. So he's probably out on a house call. Maybe over to the hospital at Ridge Hill. If he was, the phone operator'd know about it. Besides, his car is still in the garage. Well, here's a house. Better get out of the car and see if we can't raise him. That's what I've been trying to do all morning. You sure he wasn't at church yesterday? Of course, I'm sure.

He always gave me a ride home to my place,

and I'd always make Sunday breakfast for him

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