A convict makes his escape from the penitentiary and is found by a little boy, who takes him home, feeds him, gives him a new suit of clothes, and helps file the shackles off his feet. The boy, who lives alone with his mother, in a house heavily mortgaged, does his best the day after he finds the convict, to put off the foreclosure of the mortgage on his little home, hut the man who holds the mortgage is hard hearted and attempts to throw them out into the road bodily. The convict shows himself during this episode, and in consequence, is forced to flee, as there is a $500 reward offered for his recapture. The boy goes with the convict into the woods, and there tells him the story of the mortgage, and he, hardened criminal, knowing that the human bloodhounds are on his trail, compels the boy to deliver him into the sheriff's hands at the point of the gun, which the convict himself supplies. The result of this is that the convict goes back to jail and the little boy, winning the five-hundred-dollar reward, manages to save his home.
—Moving Picture World synopsis