- An old man plots to have his enemy's son convicted of his own murder.
- Old Abner Wiley, a wealthy and crabbed miser, is rescued from some tormenting boys by the son of his bitterest enemy, Robert Gregg. Back in the Rebellion days, Wiley and the elder Gregg both loved the pretty Laura. Gregg won her and Wiley has nursed his revenge long after Gregg's death. Discovering the identity of the younger Gregg, Wiley concocts a fiendish plan to bring about his revenge. He makes Gregg heir to all his possessions. In his excitement young Gregg leaves his heavy walking stick in Wiley's library. Next morning Gregg is arrested at the breakfast table for Wiley's murder. An investigation of the miser's library reveals the walking stick blotted with blood, and the entire room showing evidences of a struggle. Detective Ross discovers pieces of Wiley's personal belongings in the ruins of a burned house nearby, and Gregg is further accused of having burned the body after the murder. He is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. On the morning of the execution Ross is at headquarters when one of the attendants passes him with a tray of empty dishes. Instantly Ross recalls seeing Wiley's maid coming from the second floor of the old house with a similar tray of dishes. His brain working rapidly, Ross rushes to the Wiley home, places the maid and butler under arrest, then lights a smoke torch, places it in the hallway, and shouts "fire'' loudly. Suddenly, through the dense smoke, a panel in the wall slides back and old Wiley, trapped like a rat, staggers out in a paroxysm of fear. Captured by Ross, and realizing his dastardly scheme has come to naught, Wiley dies of heart failure, while Ross reaches the jail in time to stop Gregg's execution.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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