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SYNOPSIS

A jailbird is brought from his cell to the Warden's office, given $10 to go straight, and released, but not before the S10 has been picked from his pocket by the detective who slips it back to the Warden. At the jail gate the attention of the warden and detective is centered on the shapely ankle of a girl who is on her way to a pawnshop to obtain a loan on a necklace which her accomplice has stolen from the wife of the judge who sentenced the jailbird. While engrossed in this manner, the jailbird gets back his $10 bill from the Warden and also the watch of the crooked detective, which he later takes and pawns in the same shop that the girl is pawning the stolen necklace. The pawnbroker takes the necklace and is making out a ticket when the girl steals the necklace back from him and hides it in her muff, just as the jailbird enters to soak the detective's watch. The jailbird seeing this manipulation steals the necklace from the girl's muff, pawns the watch, receives a ticket for it and departs. Outside the pawnshop the judge is passing just as the girl emerges. He flirts and follows her, and the jailbird, escaping from the pawnbroker who has discovered his loss, jumps on the same car that the judge is in trying to flirt with the girl. Alighting from the car the girl tells her accomplice of the Judge's attentions, and he is promptly knocked down, and the jailbird helping him to his feet, recognizes him as the judge who sentenced him, and for revenge slips the pawn ticket for the detective's watch in his pocket. The Warden discovers the loss of the $10 bill and accuses the detective of double crossing him, and when later the detective discovers his watch he accuses the Warden of purloining it. The detective is summoned to the District Attorney's office, who is the sweetheart of the judge's daughter, where he hears the pawnbroker's tale of the robbery. Later in the park the girl discovers the loss of the necklace from her muff, and seeing the jailbird on an adjoining bench, they walk over to him, accuse him of the robbery and there is a fight. The detective locks the trio up, but not before the jailbird slips the necklace into his pocket, where it is found later in court. On trial, the judge discovers the pawn ticket in his pocket, at the same moment that the detective finds the necklace in his. The judge calls the detective and whispering confidentially to him slips the pawn ticket in his pocket, at the same moment the detective slips the pearls in his (judge's) pocket. The judge's wife who attends the trial, sees and grows fearful of the man who stole her necklace when she flirted with him (this man is the girl's sweetheart who pawned the necklace and whom the judge flirted with), and she cautiously begs him not to expose her as a flirt. The judge on the bench sees the girl (the accomplice of the crook), and he is afraid of exactly the same thing that is worrying his wife.