- Desperate because his mortgage is due and he cannot meet it, a young farmer murders an itinerant peddler who visits the farm, casts his body into a stream and secretes all evidence of his crime. However, he retains a shawl from the peddler's pack, which he gives to his wife, telling her that the peddler gave it to her for her kindness to him. Friends of the peddler set out to seek him. When all the clues point to the farmer's house and they see the wife wearing the shawl, the farmer is arrested and brought to trial. It is discovered that the peddler had not died, but had been saved, taken to the hospital, and, his memory completely restored, he appears to testify against the farmer. The picture ends with the conviction of the farmer for assault with intent to kill.
- With the mortgage coming due, and other pressing needs, the young farmer is desperate when the peddler comes to his house. The man is unknown in those parts, nobody is aware of his visit, and he has money. In a moment the deed is done, the evidence hidden. But the man has friends who search for him, and evidence does exist, enough to hang the guilty man, were it not for the strange chance that kept him from being a murderer.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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