Through the pitiable destitution of the Rogers family, their fourteen-year-old son, Bob, is compelled to go to the railroad yards and pick coal in order to keep the members of the family from freezing. He is apprehended by a policeman who brings him before Judge Burton to answer to the charge of petty larceny. Following the time-honored method of rigidly interpreting the law, the judge sentences the little fellow to six months in jail. There he becomes a hardened criminal, being in the company of criminals of all sorts, and when he is released he robs a bank. He and his confederate escape with the money. Being pursued by a posse the culprits take refuge in a shack that is soon set on fire by his pursuers. In the revolver fight that follows, Bob is killed, thus ending a life that might have had a successful career. This is a short story of the first reel. The second and third reels show in contrast with the first the method of punishment employed by Judge Ben B
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