Episode
Wagon Train: Trial for Murder (1)
Overview
When a well thought of member of the wagon train is found dead, Adams needs to prevent mob rule and make sure a lawful trial takes place. The accused who was not well liked is found passed out with the rifle used in the murder.
Details
- Series
- Wagon Train
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 29
- Air date
- 1960-04-27
- Runtime
- 51 min
Episode context
Trial for Murder (1) is Episode 29 in Season 3 of Wagon Train. It aired on 1960-04-27. The runtime is 51 min.
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Episode 28: The Amos Gibbon Story
After an argument with Major Adams, Flint leaves the wagon train and mozies up to a bar at a nearby town. What he doesn't know is the locals are shanghaiing strangers for slave labour in the mine and no one on the train knows where he went.
Episode 30: Trial for Murder (2)
When the deceased's wife arrives, the people on the wagon train learn that the murdered man has a dark past, and this could be a case of Cain & Abel - or perhaps something or someone in the dead-man's past came home-to-roost.
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