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Well now it is time for this week's episode of Tales of the Texas Rangers. The original air date

November the 12th 1950 and the title is Blood Routlet Air. The national broadcasting company presents

Joe McRae in Tales of the Texas Rangers. Tonight transcribe from Hollywood another authentic

reenactment of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers.

Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joe McRae as Ranger Jace Pearson.

Texas more than 260,000 square miles and 50 men will 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. Blood relative.

It is 4 p.m. June 26, 1949. Will Bonner, propriet of the general store at Stump Hill, Texas,

is waiting on Mack Kennedy, a dirt farmer.

It's found to fly in the bacon, man. And in the nails?

Yeah, carton of cigarettes.

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