TV & VIDEO - April 29, 1987

Clayton Moore, television’s “Lone Ranger,” is keeping at least one masked eye on his trademark chrome-plated Colt .45s since they were recovered after disappearing at an airport luggage terminal on Christmas Eve. “They’re priceless. I’d take nothing for them,” Clayton Moore said Monday while testifying at the trial of Edward Louis Young III, who is accused of stealing the guns from the Continental Airlines terminal at Hobby Airport in Houston. The guns were returned to Moore by a precious metals trader who testified that he bought them from Young for $500. Moore was allowed to testify with his hat on, a decision made by state District Judge Ted Poe over the objections of defense lawyers.