"Cold Cash" Harding, who won't allow his daughter, Bubbles, to have a suitor who hasn't at least a thousand dollars, throws Jerry Evans off the ranch and tells him not to return to see the girl until he can show his "credentials." Jerry, ...See more"Cold Cash" Harding, who won't allow his daughter, Bubbles, to have a suitor who hasn't at least a thousand dollars, throws Jerry Evans off the ranch and tells him not to return to see the girl until he can show his "credentials." Jerry, who believes in the god of luck, goes forth, confident of getting the $935 he needs to make a thousand. He sees a placard offering $1000 reward for the capture of Barney Russell, a horse thief, and in his zeal to get the money, captures the first man he sees, who turns out to be Chicago Joe, training for a championship bout, who knocks him out. The next man he "captures" is a harmless professor. The third man he encounters is the thief himself, disguised as an old man for a trip to town. He limps along, leading a pack horse. Jerry lets him ride his horse to town, where he buys the "old man" a square meal. Here he sees a tell-tale scar on the rustler's arm and jumps on him, but the sympathetic bystanders drag him away from the "aged man" who escapes on horseback toward the border. Jerry pursues, followed by the posse. At the border he lands his man. They fight on both sides of the line and the rustler is finally knocked out on U. S. soil, winning for Jerry the thousand and the girl. Written by
Universal Weekly, April 17, 1926
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