Texas State Police

This was the beating heart of South Texas cattle country, and the store was a place where cowboys gathered after a long day, drank a few cold ones, spit tobacco juice, and chilled.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, because no one saw him arrive, a member of the Texas State Police was pointing a pistol at one cowboy's back.

Throw up your hands!

Ordered the policeman, a 25-year-old rookie named Green Paramore.

So after Christmas, Hardin was free to ride east into the East Texas pines with a plan to visit family over in Louisiana.

But when he stopped along the way in the town of Longview, suddenly he's arrested.

The officers were with the new Texas State Police, newly formed by the state's Republican governor.

To racist Southerners such as Hardin, this governor was a carpetbagger, a traitor to his beloved Southern cause.

Well, Commissioner Valentine, I'd like to go back a few years to Dallas, Texas.

Sheriff Hart was telephoning to the Texas State Police.

This escaped convict is deadly.

I consider him one of the most dangerous criminals at large.