A jailer is saved from financial embarrassment by his friend the engineer. The latter mistakes a railroad signal, causing a wreck, for which he is sent to prison, and finds himself in charge of his friend. The engineer's wife becomes very ill and his daughter writes him a pathetic letter which he shows to the jailer, who releases him for one night and the engineer reaches home in time to hold his wife in his arms as she expires.
—The Bennington Evening Banner - January 13, 1911