***SPOILERS*** Telling his live in and single girlfriend Lil Baker, Noel Francis, to lay low in the seedy part of town until the heat, in him being investigated for legal and political corruption, blows off mobbed up Judge Moffet,Walter Huston,is shocked to find out that his secret bank account,that he deposits his pay off money into, was lost and recovered by Lil's next door neighbor Mary Thomas, Anita Page. Mary being the good and decent person that she is returns the bankbook to Lil but her boyfriend, "Da judge", feels she'll turn the information of his illegal payoff scheme over to the district attorney's office.
Judge Moffet getting one of his stooges Ed, Warner Richmond, to pose as a John or man out on the town looking for action, if you know what I mean, to break into Mary's apartment and be caught with his pants down or completely off and have her arrested for both prostitution and shaking Ed down for more money, $20.00, then what she at first asked for. With her shyster lawyer Crawford, John Miljan, who's secretly working with Moffet telling a confused Mary to plead guilty and get off with just a $5.00 fine she instead has the book thrown at her by Judge Moffet and given a 90 day sentence in the city workhouse. What's even worse Mary has her baby taken away from her and her taxi driver husband Mike, Phillips Holmes, for safe keeping by the state!
Not for a moment believing the charges against his wife Mary her husband Mike soon uncovers Judge Moffet's criminal activities and kidnaps him to get him t spill the beans on what he did to his wife and many others who's lives like Mary's that he destroyed. That's after Moffets' goons lead by his top bone and head cracker Gorgan, Tully Marhall, kidnapped Mike and brutally worked him over to keep him quite and in line!
***SPOILERS*** It was in fact the murder of top crime investigator Judge Osgood, Lewis Stone, by one of Mofft's goons that saved the day for both Mike & Mary Thomas. That in having Judge Osgood secretly recording, with a hidden dicta-phone, Moffet threaten to murder him if he doesn't end his investigation of him as well as other corrupt state and NYC judges. Facing the very possibility of being sent to the Sing Sing electric chain for Osgood's murder, which in fact he was innocent of, or spending ten years behind bars for taking payoff money to fix sentences like the one he imposed against Mary Thomas, which Judge Moffet was guilty of, the now exposed Judge Moffet choose the later!
Judge Moffet getting one of his stooges Ed, Warner Richmond, to pose as a John or man out on the town looking for action, if you know what I mean, to break into Mary's apartment and be caught with his pants down or completely off and have her arrested for both prostitution and shaking Ed down for more money, $20.00, then what she at first asked for. With her shyster lawyer Crawford, John Miljan, who's secretly working with Moffet telling a confused Mary to plead guilty and get off with just a $5.00 fine she instead has the book thrown at her by Judge Moffet and given a 90 day sentence in the city workhouse. What's even worse Mary has her baby taken away from her and her taxi driver husband Mike, Phillips Holmes, for safe keeping by the state!
Not for a moment believing the charges against his wife Mary her husband Mike soon uncovers Judge Moffet's criminal activities and kidnaps him to get him t spill the beans on what he did to his wife and many others who's lives like Mary's that he destroyed. That's after Moffets' goons lead by his top bone and head cracker Gorgan, Tully Marhall, kidnapped Mike and brutally worked him over to keep him quite and in line!
***SPOILERS*** It was in fact the murder of top crime investigator Judge Osgood, Lewis Stone, by one of Mofft's goons that saved the day for both Mike & Mary Thomas. That in having Judge Osgood secretly recording, with a hidden dicta-phone, Moffet threaten to murder him if he doesn't end his investigation of him as well as other corrupt state and NYC judges. Facing the very possibility of being sent to the Sing Sing electric chain for Osgood's murder, which in fact he was innocent of, or spending ten years behind bars for taking payoff money to fix sentences like the one he imposed against Mary Thomas, which Judge Moffet was guilty of, the now exposed Judge Moffet choose the later!