The Accusers

Charles Drake is the guest star in this Laramie episode, a respectable pillar of the Laramie community and an executive with the Overland Stage line which employs the people at Sherman station. John Smith and Spring Byington are in town for business and Spring decides she'll stay overnight.

Where she witnesses Drake leaving the room of saloon owner Joanne Linville who is his secret mistress. Drake in fact set her up in the saloon business, but Linville is tired of being the back street affair. She wants him to leave his wife and during a fight he kills her. That's when Byington sees him leave her room.

The problem is no one believes her. But Drake shows his dark side soon enough. He'll do anything to protect that image.

Linville is also a gold digger and I can't forget Carmen Phillips in a small role as one of Linville's girls. She has a real telling scene with Drake where she makes it plain she wouldn't mind the same set up as Linville had.

The respectable Mr. Drake and these two women of the saloon make this a Laramie episode to watch.