- Perry, looking for a roving prospector as a witness, runs into a young couple working a worthless gold mine. Their neighbor wants to buy the property but they refuse to sell. When the neighbor is murdered, the young owner is charged.
- Gerald and Sally Norton own an old mine, which they refuse to sell to rancher Ken Bascombe, who wants the property for its available water supply. Someone shoots up the Nortons' campfire, and a ghostly voice warns them to get out. Prospector Amos Catledge arrives with his diffident donkey Sheba, reporting that he saw Bascombe galloping away. Meanwhile, foreman Roy Dowson is having an affair with Bascombe's wife Hazel. Coincidentally, Perry Mason is in town to question Amos and talks with the assayer, Crawford Wright, about where to find Amos. The assayer introduces Perry to Gerry who tells Perry Amos is camped at their place. After another attack, Gerald takes matters into his own hands. He finds Bascombe's body, shot in the back. The murder weapon turns out to be Gerald's rifle, and he is charged with murder. Amos disappears and Perry has to depose Sheba to get to the bottom of things.—richardann
- Perry Mason finds himself defending Gerry Norton after he is accused of murdering Ken Bascombe who was trying to buy the Norton property. Gerry and his wife Sally have been working an old mine in the area but the local assayer, Crawford Wright, has already reported there is little gold left there to find. Bascombe was pushing harder and harder to get them to leave and a few nights before his death, someone had even taken a few pot-shots at the Nortons. Perry happened to be in the area as he was looking to get an affidavit from an old-time prospector, Amos Catledge, in a different case. He's happy to hear that Amos is camping near the Nortons' property but when the man disappears, Perry call his burro Sheba as a witness.—garykmcd
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