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The episode opens inside a cafe (not a saloon) where a railroad agent is trying to buy a small strip of old cowboy Jack Brewster's land. Jack loudly denounces him and leaves the cafe, bumping into chairs and people as he goes. Crooked lawyer Rafe Paulson and his henchman Ox Grant see what happened. Paulson realizes that Jack is nearly blind and decides to use this fact to get Jack's land so that he can sell it to the railroad. Paulson and Ox murder the railroad agent and trick Jack into thinking he did it. Jack gives himself up to the sheriff. He thinks Paulson is his friend as well as his lawyer and blindly signs a form Paulson gives him. Little does he know it's the title to all his land! Now Paulson and Ox plan to lynch Jack. But The Ranger and Tonto are on the job and they have to figure a way to find out what really happened. That won't be easy! Note the checkered tablecloths on each table in the cafe at the beginning of the episode. There is a bar in the cafe, but no liquor bottles anywhere and all anyone seems to be doing is eating. No suggestion of alcohol use for the kid who are watching. Familiar Lone Ranger villains Steve Brodie and Gene Roth plays Paulson and Ox. Russell Simpson was already in his 70s when he made this, his only LR appearance. He played Pa Joad in "Grapes of Wrath" (1940). His last screen credit was as Reverend/Sheriff Goodbody in the John Wayne/John Ford film "The Horse Soldiers" (1959). Russell was perfectly cast in this LR episode and his performance makes it a memorable one.