Hawkeye And The Last Of The Mohicans: Scapegoat
Episode 15. 1957. Set in New York’s Hudson Valley in the 1750s.
Starring John Hart as Nat Cutler (Hawkeye) and Lon Chaney as Chingachgook.
The Tuscarora tribe are hungry and talking of going to war with the settlers.
Hawkeye asks them for time so that he can sort out their issues.
In the meantime, a native is found at a trading post where the owner is dead.
He’s arrested and taken for trial by Hawkeye, although the settlers want to hang him immediately.
After a trial, in which the native is found guilty, Hawkeye adds evidence that clears him.
It’s the man’s business partner who committed the murder.
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