Broke with a sick child at home, Jim Rogers decides to try and rob a warehouse. Two hardened criminals (Jimmy Withers and his accomplice, Sam) are also robbing the warehouse at the same instant and kill the watchman while making their getaway. Jim notices that the warehouse's insurer will pay a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of persons robbing the facility. He picks up the gun that Sam dropped during the fracas and has his wife Peg, call the Highway Patrol to turn him in for the reward. Dan Mathews and Sergeant Williams notice that Jim's story about "the other two guys" has numerous holes in it and when Jim becomes aware that the reward won't be paid until after conviction, he has a change of heart and escapes. In the meantime, Withers and Sam realize that Jim witnessed part of the robbery, including the murder of the watchman. Intending to kill Jim and retrieve the gun, Withers and Sam trail him back to his house where Dan Mathews and Sergeant Williams will also be waiting...for the truth.
—Sam Spear