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Hickey, a contemptible character, acts as a spy for the police, keeping them posted concerning the doings of the crooks with whom he consorts. In return, the police, although they despise him, pay him small sums of money for expenses. Threatened with the loss of this source of income because he is growing less useful to the police. Hickey is at his wits' end. He discovers an apartment house where a burglary might easily be committed and decides to frame up a robbery to make himself solid with the police. Joe King, a laborer out of employment, is the unfortunate whom he picks for the scapegoat. King is persuaded to join Hickey in the robbery, but Hickey first notifies the police. When the two attempt to rob the house, a police trap is sprung and both are arrested. Subsequently at the police station King is locked up and Hickey is released. Benny, the pickpocket, has seen King with Hickey. He knows that Hickey is a police spy. The day following King's arrest, Benny is caught in the act of robbing a woman's purse and thrown in jail. Both Benny and King are convicted on the same day, and a detective starts to the penitentiary with them handcuffed together. Meanwhile, Hickey has learned that King has a pretty wife who cannot understand what has become of her husband. On the way to the penitentiary the detective is obliged to wait with his prisoners at a railroad junction. He handcuffs them to a baggage truck while he stretches his legs on the platform. Meanwhile King has learned from Benny how he was tricked by Hickey. Seizing a moment when the detective is at the far end of the platform Benny slips his small hand out of the cuff, releasing both him and his companion. The prisoners flee in opposite directions. The detective pursues Benny and ultimately captures him, but King makes good his escape. He returns on foot to the city and visits his home, arriving just a few moments after Hickey. Hickey is forcing his obnoxious attentions on Mrs. King when King enters the room. A fight between the two men takes place in the room, during which Hickey receives a smashing blow in the face which staggers him backward through the window. He falls three stories to the sidewalk. He is taken to the police hospital and King is rearrested, but in the hospital Hickey, being told that he is dying, makes a full confession.