Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCray in Tales of the Texas Rangers.

Tonight transcribe from Hollywood another authentic reenactment of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers. The tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCray as Ranger Jayce Pearson, Texas more than

260,000 square miles and 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body 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, dead head freight.

In a day,

in a short,

in a shortly before midnight August 27th, 1938 at the Santa Fe Freight yards in Lubbock, Texas.

A deadhead freight hauling empties back to the west coast from Galveston has just pulled into the yard.

The brakeman and a railroad detective are making a routine check of the cars for free riding hobos.

If I was a yard dick, I'd be snoozing in the roundhouse.

You ain't found a free rider in months.

And so what? I get paid the check and I check.

Oh, you know, Bozon, the freight's always hop off before we pull into the yards?

I ever think one of them might fall asleep in a car and not have anybody to wake him up.

Well, it could be.

Yeah, first you let in this him.

Okay. There, she?

Nobody.

The car up ahead is the last of the boxcars.

I walked the flats and gondolas while we was rolling, so I know that they're clear.

Hey, what's the door roll it's set on this one?

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