Jailbird

The tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCrae's Ranger, Jace Pearson. Another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed from the piles of the Texas Rangers. Dates and places in the following story are fictitious for obvious reasons.

The events themselves are a matter of records. Every day, Monday through Friday, there's top entertainment all day long when you set your radio dial to NBC. Listen for Double or Nothing and you'll hear one of Radio's funniest quiz shows.

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station of the NBC radio network. And now here's today's adventure with the tales of the Texas Rangers. And now from the files of the Texas Rangers the case called jailbird. On October 8, 1939, Jim Hackett serving a life term from Ron, Robbery and Mutter escaped from a Texas state prison farm. He was assisted in his escape

by a woman believed to be his wife. A statewide manhunt was carried on by all law enforcement bodies. Just after dark two days later in the town of Oak Bluff, Texas, a woman climbed the stairs to a room above a hardware store.