The Trigger Man: Tales of the Texas Rangers (July 29, 1950)

“The Trigger Man” is an episode of Tales of the Texas Rangers, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 29, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Two dangerous fugitives, the Gordon brothers, are fleeing south toward the Mexican border after robbing and murdering a service station attendant in Oklahoma. When a deputy sheriff and his teenage son are shot near Mineral Wells, Texas, Ranger Jase Pearson is sent to investigate and track down the killers before they escape across the border.

Texas and Oklahoma, 1947. The action moves from a service station in Pied, Oklahoma to a hospital in Palo Pinto County, Texas, with a shooting incident in a mulberry grove near Mineral Wells.

Characters: Ranger Jase Pearson, Captain Stinson, Jasper Leech, Joe Gordon, Tiny Gordon, Deputy Sheriff, Deputy's son, Doctor

Listen for: The deputy's account of the ambush in the mulberry grove where he and his son were shot by the Gordon brothers; Ranger Pearson's determination to catch the fugitives before they reach Mexico.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.