****SPOILERS**** This very disturbing and mind numbing Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, episode proves the biblical saying that "Money is the root of all Evil". Even like in this case where the money being $153,000.00 of practically worthless out of circulation, since the end of the Civil War, US currency that lead to cold blooded murder. It was bone headed tax and county property assessor Ralph Duncan, Vaughn Taylor, who discovered it hidden under a draw in the late Mr. Boden's house and stupidly after taking it home with him left in in his car when he stepped out to buy groceries where it was immediately stolen. The person who stole it was Duncan's Liberace look alike nephew Charly Nickels,Robert Casper, who took it to Llyod Farrell, Liam Sullivan, to fence if in fact he could find anyone stupid enough to take it off his hands!
Stupid or not the sly and cagey Lloyd Ferrell ended up taking the phony money and before he could do anything with it, like playing a game of monopoly, he's murdered with the money nowhere to be found. It's in fact the what looks like the clueless as well as brainless Philip Duncan who falls into the trap that Ferrell's killer set for him by showing up at the scene of the murder with the police, obviously tipped off by Ferrell's killer,being there to arrest him for Duncan's murder.
***SPOILERS*** The trial was more of an anticlimax then anything else with Duncan's, who seemed to be sleeping through the entire trial, lawyer Perry Mason doing his best to prove his client innocent and uncovering Farrell's killer at the same time. After a few false starts and red herrings the truth finally comes out to why Ferrell was in fact murdered. And to no one's surprise it was because of the $153,000.00 in more or less fake money he was to fence, in far off Japan of all places, that was found by Ralph Duncan at the old Boden House. And the person who did Farrell in was even more idiotic then even Duncan was in thinking he or she could even spend the money without realizing that the local police FBI and agents of the US Treasury Department would have him arrested within literally minutes if not seconds after he attempted to spend it!
Stupid or not the sly and cagey Lloyd Ferrell ended up taking the phony money and before he could do anything with it, like playing a game of monopoly, he's murdered with the money nowhere to be found. It's in fact the what looks like the clueless as well as brainless Philip Duncan who falls into the trap that Ferrell's killer set for him by showing up at the scene of the murder with the police, obviously tipped off by Ferrell's killer,being there to arrest him for Duncan's murder.
***SPOILERS*** The trial was more of an anticlimax then anything else with Duncan's, who seemed to be sleeping through the entire trial, lawyer Perry Mason doing his best to prove his client innocent and uncovering Farrell's killer at the same time. After a few false starts and red herrings the truth finally comes out to why Ferrell was in fact murdered. And to no one's surprise it was because of the $153,000.00 in more or less fake money he was to fence, in far off Japan of all places, that was found by Ralph Duncan at the old Boden House. And the person who did Farrell in was even more idiotic then even Duncan was in thinking he or she could even spend the money without realizing that the local police FBI and agents of the US Treasury Department would have him arrested within literally minutes if not seconds after he attempted to spend it!