Purnell Pratt

Rival newspaper reporters trying to outscoop each other join together to solve a series of murders committed in an apartment building.

The murder of a vaudeville performer puts a fellow member of the troupe on trial. A sole juror suspects a frame up seeks out the real killer.

Middle-aged housekeeper Emma (Marie Dressler) helps a lonely widower, Ronald Smith (Richard Cromwell) raising his spoiled and over-entitled children. When Smith takes Emma on a vacation, he makes his feelings for her known by proposing marriage. Emma happily accepts, but tragedy strikes when Smith dies of a heart attack shortly after. Emma is devastated, but then must face Smith's children, who suspect she may have been involved in the death of their father.

El tórrido romance de una mujer con un periodista pone en peligro el supuesto negocio paralelo de su padre de contrabando de inmigrantes.