Steve Bell (Tommy Kelly), Tommy Billy Halop), Pig Huntz Hall), Ape (Bernard Punsly) and String (Gabriel Dell are run out of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell (Virginia Brissac) and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward (Jed Prouty). Steve's brother Don Bell ('Dick Hogan')is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall-guy in the next hijacking.