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The White Elephant

Tales of the Texas Rangers · October 28, 1951 · 29 min · 4,423 words

The transcript of “The White Elephant”, an episode of Tales of the Texas Rangers first broadcast October 28, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Tales of the Texas Rangers plays Tales of the Texas Rangers free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Read about your favorite NBC entertainers. Yes, in the November NBC Silver Jubilee issue of Radio TV Mirror magazine, you can enjoy reading about such NBC stars as Fiverr McGee and Molly, Bob Hope, and Groucho Marx.

The National Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCray in Tales of the Texas Rangers. From Hollywood, another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the files of the Texas Rangers. The examples of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCray is Ranger Jason 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. 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 records. Case for tonight, the White Elephant. It is January 16th, 1950. The time, 628 PM. A freight train just outside of a west Texas town gained speed and rolls through the gathering dusk.

Inside a gondola car, a hobo crouches in the corner as the brakeman comes toward you. Oh, this is where you get up. Now listen, Pautius, let me get to the next town. I just... I said, this is where you get up.

But we're moving now. Now you're going on when we was moving, you can get up. Now come on around, dust the top of your head. Listen, don't don't do it. I told you to leave me alone, just like me, when you...

2.55 AM of the morning following the freight train incident, a rancher named Banker noticed a small coupe parked on the shoulder of the road. It bore Oklahoma license plates. Banker turned his spotlight on the car, saw a man slum down on the driver's seat.

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