- Senator John Coburn's son Steve, who associates more with gamblers, criminals and drug addicts than with his father's congressional cronies, impulsively murders his mistress' new lover. The senator tries to use his influence to have Steve acquitted, but all of the evidence firmly and correctly implicates him, and so the jury prepares to find Steve guilty without much deliberation. Before the verdict can be announced, however, Steve's mother rises in court to make an impassioned plea for her son. As a result, moved by the mother's grief, the jurors choose to ignore all of the evidence, and declare that Steve is not guilty.—Pamela Short
- James Colburn and his wife have grown old and gray. He is elected to Congress and his wife and son, Steve, leave his farm home. Steve's country sweetheart, Eleanor, later is employed in the same city in a candy factory. Steve spends his father's money in dissipation, and one day Eleanor discovers Steve in the streets, where he had fallen. In an endeavor to keep Steve's condition a secret from his parents, Eleanor calls on a middle-aged man friend, Charles Fynes, who supplies Steve with funds for a doctor and a nurse. Fynes buys the girl fine clothes and takes her to dinners against the warning of Steve. Finally the girl confesses to Steve that Fyne has promised to marry her and that they are going to sail on a South American steamer. Steve, believing that Fynes has betrayed the girl, shoots him. In the meantime the parents call upon Steve in his apartment. He comes downstairs with the revolver in his hand after killing Fynes. Steve is arrested and held for trial. The father spends much of his money in fighting for the boy, two trials having been given him. His mother, who is a star witness, perjures herself to save her son. Finally Eleanor in a South American city hears the news of the trouble and through council is brought back to America. Through the grief of the mother the jury declares that Steve is not guilty and he is freed. In the general courtroom Eleanor is welcomed, and back at the farm the old couple begin life anew, where Steve makes their last days happy and marries Eleanor.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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