A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fellow passenger, who is a police commissioner. The wire identifies him as official collector for the Old Cops' Home. A little chloroform does for him and when the train pulls out of his destination he is still on board while Gribbon is posing as the commissioner-collector.
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Harry Gribbon as Silk Hat Charley - Gentleman Crook
Gloria Swanson as The Prominent Citizen
Bobby Vernon as The Daughter's Sweetheart
Wallace Beery as The Police Chief
Guy Woodward as The Prominent Citizen
Frank Opperman as Henry Cooper - Traveling Lecturer
Billy Mason as Charley's Lead Henchman
Raymond Griffith as Policeman
Nick Cogley as Second-Hand Store Proprietor
Charley Chase Director
United States 07 May 1916
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