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.
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
Frank Opperman
as Henry Cooper - Traveling Lecturer
Raymond Griffith
as Policeman
Nick Cogley
as Second-Hand Store Proprietor
Guy Woodward
as The Prominent Citizen
Billy Mason
as Charley's Lead Henchman
