The False Outlaw

Originally Aired: January 2, 1939 In The Lone Ranger #926, "The False Outlaw," a dangerous criminal named Jet Grabo turns the tables on U.S. Marshal Harry Miller in a clever and twisted scheme. When Tonto encounters Marshal Miller searching for the outlaw, the faithful Indian directs him toward his quarry. However, Jet anticipates the lawman's approach and ambushes him in a desolate area near Plainfield. Instead of killing the marshal, Jet hatches an ingenious plan: he forces Miller to exchange clothes with him, takes his badge and official papers, and decides to pose as the marshal himself while making Miller appear to be the wanted outlaw. The situation becomes even more audacious when Jet discovers that wealthy Kansas rancher Randolph has posted a thousand-dollar reward for his capture. Jet realizes he can collect his own reward by bringing Miller into town as the supposed criminal. The Lone Ranger, learning of the marshal's manhunt from Tonto, adopts a disguise and enters Plainfield just as Jet arrives with his prisoner, ready to perpetrate this brazen fraud on the unsuspecting sheriff.