Joe Prine, a rube, while walking along a country road, sees a wicked looking Italian apparently about to murder a woman with a baby in her arms. Terrified, Joe rushes to the town constable and frantically begs him to come to the scene. The country cop climbs the ladder and. with the aid of his spy-glasses, sees a dago chasing a woman and throwing bombs at her. Sliding down the ladder, the constable rushes to the station house and calls out the entire police force. After an exciting chase, which terrorizes the whole town, they finally arrive at the scene of the supposed crime, only to find that it is a moving picture company rehearsing.
—Moving Picture World synopsis