A disheveled escapee from Yuma prison breaks into the Epitaph office and at gunpoint, convinces Harris Claibourne to look into the court records of his murder conviction. Claiming his innocence, Vince Harper states that on the night of the murder his gun had been taken from him by a saloon girl named Laura Coleman, who seems to have disappeared soon after the trial. Arriving in town at the same time is the prison guard Captain, looking to take Harper back to prison dead or alive, preferably dead. Hollister doesn't care for the Captain's ethics and commences his own search for the wanted criminal.
