John Campbell, in love with Mary Bradford, is arrested and convicted of the murder of the town philanthropist. Glory Holden, editor of the small-town local newspaper and the mother of Mary, senses an injustice and carries on a relentless crusade in her newspaper to bring about Campbell's exoneration and find the guilty person. She discovers that the murdered man, shortly before his death, placed in his will a $10,000 bequest to a charitable institution. With this as a clue, the determined editor exposes the true killer by playing upon the jealousy of a woman in love with an unscrupulous lawyer. But first she has to hold off single-handed an enraged lynch mob which has pursued Campbell to her home after he make a jail break.