This story turns Joe Helmer (Jeremy Slate) into an emotional roller coaster after the unemployed young man happens upon someone who just collapsed and appears to be dead. Figuring no harm done when he takes the man's wallet, Joe returns home with a windfall of two hundred seventy five bucks, and after offering to take his wife (Neile Adams) out for dinner, discovers a medical emergency card in the wallet describing the guy's cataleptic illness which mimics death. Now saddled with guilt, Joe returns to the spot where he originally found the man, and sees that an ambulance has taken the body away, and he's unable to convince a patrol cop that the man might not be dead. When he finally goes to the police station, he unburdens himself with the story of the wallet and is taken down to the morgue to identify the man who he thought was dead. But in a dramatic turnabout, the corpse belongs to a well known petty thief and pickpocket known well by the local cops. All's well doesn't end well for poor old Joe, because now he has a lot more explaining to do, and it doesn't look like he'll be able to do it.
Review of One Grave Too Many
