The heir to a comfortable fortune is followed by a tramp and laid low with a blow from a hammer which the tramp has stolen from the blacksmith shop of Jeff Reed. The tramp buries the money near a hollow tree and then summons the police who find the hammer and accordingly arrest the blacksmith. Reed's outraged family help him to escape from the cell and he goes to the scene of the murder in search of some evidence that will clear his name. The tramp returns about this time and the blacksmith watches him intently from the hollow tree in which he has concealed himself. When the tramp has dug the money from its hiding place and started away, Reed springs upon him, turns him over to the authorities and has little difficulty in proving his innocence and the guilt of the new prisoner.
—Moving Picture World synopsis