YANCY DERRINGER "Loot from Richmond" 1958
This 1958-59 series is about a card sharp, who returns home to New Orleans three years after the end of the Civil War. The man, Jock Mahoney, finds the city full of Northern carpet bagging types. He is secretly put to work as an undercover man by the city commissioner, Kevin Hagen. Mahoney is to keep Hagen advised on the various low-life types running wild in the city. He does this with the help of his Pawnee bodyguard, X. Brands. The series ran for a total of 34 episodes.
In this episode, the seventh of the series, we have Yancy Derringer, (Jock Mahoney) being approached by a friend of Derringer's old General in the late war. The man, Jon Hole, is killed by a gunman before he can deliver the message from the General.
Mahoney and his bodyguard, X Brands decide to pay a visit to the home of the General, Carl Benton Reid. They arrive at the plantation and find that the General is being buried. He had died the 3 days before. Mahoney does not believe a word of it and decides to dig into the matter.
Sure enough, there is villainy afoot. The General is found trussed up in one of the plantation out buildings. It seems that the whole thing is over a half million in gold coins. The money is part of the Confederate treasury that went missing after the war.
Reid had been in charge of protecting the money. Reid had kept the gold hidden, but has now decided it is time to turn it over to the US Government. The hidden gold was discovered by a dastardly underling, Dennis Patrick, who was on the General's staff. He has decided to keep the cash for himself.
Needless to say Mahoney and his Pawnee pal, X Brands, step up and try and save the day. The gold, hidden in a bale of cotton, has been loaded on a Mississippi riverboat. Guns, knives and a sword are needed to dispatch Patrick and his hired gunmen. The gold however is lost overboard and is now on the bottom of "Big Muddy".
This 1958-59 series is about a card sharp, who returns home to New Orleans three years after the end of the Civil War. The man, Jock Mahoney, finds the city full of Northern carpet bagging types. He is secretly put to work as an undercover man by the city commissioner, Kevin Hagen. Mahoney is to keep Hagen advised on the various low-life types running wild in the city. He does this with the help of his Pawnee bodyguard, X. Brands. The series ran for a total of 34 episodes.
In this episode, the seventh of the series, we have Yancy Derringer, (Jock Mahoney) being approached by a friend of Derringer's old General in the late war. The man, Jon Hole, is killed by a gunman before he can deliver the message from the General.
Mahoney and his bodyguard, X Brands decide to pay a visit to the home of the General, Carl Benton Reid. They arrive at the plantation and find that the General is being buried. He had died the 3 days before. Mahoney does not believe a word of it and decides to dig into the matter.
Sure enough, there is villainy afoot. The General is found trussed up in one of the plantation out buildings. It seems that the whole thing is over a half million in gold coins. The money is part of the Confederate treasury that went missing after the war.
Reid had been in charge of protecting the money. Reid had kept the gold hidden, but has now decided it is time to turn it over to the US Government. The hidden gold was discovered by a dastardly underling, Dennis Patrick, who was on the General's staff. He has decided to keep the cash for himself.
Needless to say Mahoney and his Pawnee pal, X Brands, step up and try and save the day. The gold, hidden in a bale of cotton, has been loaded on a Mississippi riverboat. Guns, knives and a sword are needed to dispatch Patrick and his hired gunmen. The gold however is lost overboard and is now on the bottom of "Big Muddy".
