Charles Francis Coe

After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.

Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.

Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams.

This film concerns a youth torn between his fatherly gangland mentor and the beautiful, virtuous daughter of a police detective.