gunslinger44
Greenie
- Mar 29, 2019
- 18
- 17
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I just finished "100 Tons of Gold" amazing story, to say the least.
One part I find particularly disturbing is the sequence where Doc, disastrously, tries to fly off the 110 bars.
For one thing, it makes no sense that Charles Ryan wanted to "turn the gold into authorities", why on earth would he be helping Doc search for it in the first place? It doesn't ring true, to me.
But the worst is obviously, how Charles Ryan and his goons kidnap Doc Noss (holding someone against their will is called kidnapping) when he comes to the house, then Doc flees, Charles Ryan then shoots him in the back, then stands over him and shoots him in the head. The witnesses there testify that this is what happened. Based upon this, this is murder, and even in a 1949 court, its hard to imagine someone getting away with that. Doc was not armed, he merely fled his captors, and him going back to his truck was him trying to LEAVE, not have a gun battle. In either case, Ryan shot him when he was down and unable to retrieve his gun, had that been his intent (I don't believe it was), at the behest of his cackling wife "Shoot the son of a *****!".
If anyone has anything to add, whether knowledge or speculation, I appreciate insight, this has been bothering me since I read it.
One part I find particularly disturbing is the sequence where Doc, disastrously, tries to fly off the 110 bars.
For one thing, it makes no sense that Charles Ryan wanted to "turn the gold into authorities", why on earth would he be helping Doc search for it in the first place? It doesn't ring true, to me.
But the worst is obviously, how Charles Ryan and his goons kidnap Doc Noss (holding someone against their will is called kidnapping) when he comes to the house, then Doc flees, Charles Ryan then shoots him in the back, then stands over him and shoots him in the head. The witnesses there testify that this is what happened. Based upon this, this is murder, and even in a 1949 court, its hard to imagine someone getting away with that. Doc was not armed, he merely fled his captors, and him going back to his truck was him trying to LEAVE, not have a gun battle. In either case, Ryan shot him when he was down and unable to retrieve his gun, had that been his intent (I don't believe it was), at the behest of his cackling wife "Shoot the son of a *****!".
If anyone has anything to add, whether knowledge or speculation, I appreciate insight, this has been bothering me since I read it.