Fred Velasco

Le colonel MacFay suspecte un jeune homme d'être l'auteur des menaces de mort dont il est victime. Il fait appel à Nick et Nora pour éclaircir cette affaire mais lorsque le colonel est retrouvé mort, le suspect idéal semble trop idéal...

Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.

Tex has been sent to investigate the theft of government provisions along the border. Kildare is the leader of the outlaw gang and has his men posing as Indians. He has already killed the incoming Marshal and assumed his identity. When Tex asks too many questons, he plans to get rid of him also.

Au cours d'un spectacle dans un cabaret, un coup de feu retentit, suivi d'un cri. Toute la troupe cherche d'où provient le bruit tandis que la foule tétanisée ne s'intéresse déjà plus au numéro qui se poursuit sur scène. On découvre enfin le corps sans vie de l'une des artistes. La représentation doit s'interrompre. Les soupçons de la police ne tardent pas à se diriger sur le mari cependant que dans l'ombre du théâtre, au-dessus de la scène, un homme blessé ne perd pas une miette des interrogatoires. Une fois le cabaret désert, mourant, l'homme tombe sur la scène et confesse le crime à un clown resté là pour ranger ses affaires.