After inheriting a newspaper in a small country town, Carmel Lee leaves her home in the city to take charge of it. She soon discovers that the town is terrorized by a band of bootleggers, who abduct and later kill the local sheriff. With the aid of Professor Pell, who has been recently fired as school superintendent, Carmel makes a public issue of the sheriff's murder, editorializing in her paper for justice and reform. Pell and Carmel are kidnapped by the bootleggers, but Carmel escapes and alerts the police. The bootleggers are arrested, the sheriff's murder in solved, and Abner Fownes, a politician and one of the town's leading citizens, is uncovered as the leader of the gang.
as Carmel Lee
as Deputy Jenney
as Launcelot Bangs
as Evan B. Pell
as Sheriff Churchill
as Tubal
as Abner Fownes
as Simmy
as George Bogardus
as Jared Whitfield
as Pee Wee Bangs
as Mrs. Churchill
