Death by Adoption

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. Fails of the Texas Rangers starring Joe McCray as Ranger Jason 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 name, states and places are fictitious for obvious reasons. The events themselves are a matter of record. Case for tonight? Death by adoption. It is 9.45 p.m. on a Saturday night, September 1937. The business district of Central City, Texas, is dark, except for the office of Harry Cashman's used Carla.

Cashman is pacing the small office in agitation. A man in a leather windbreaker crosses the lot slipping between the cars for sale and knocks the door. Well, how dare Mr. Cashman? Glad to see you waited for me.

Art spit it out what do you want this time? I'm kind of short on folding money. Thought you might be a pal and help me out again. You know what this is, don't you, striker?

The Lord called it a shakedown. I gave you a hundred dollars two weeks ago and another hundred the month before. So I need more. You're not getting more, not for me. Well, that's too bad.

I'm sorry I feel that way, Mr. Cashman. I kind of thought you were a nice guy. Oh. Kind of guy I'd like to see you raise my baby. As long as I can't raise myself.

Now you leave the baby out of this. Now you can't expect me to forget about her, Mr. Cashman. After all, she's more flesh and blood. She belongs to me and my wife, legally, by adoption.