Saloon owner Will Morgan greets a gore-covered, pistol-waving redhead. He is stunned when Constance Riley accuses him of killing her father, a New York banker-turned-temperance-leader. Her repulsive cousin, Sheriff Ernest Kopel, charges both of them and locks them up-together. While Constance watches the gallows being built, Will ponders the real murderer's motives. He only hopes proof of his suspicions arrives with his summoned cousin, J.P. Morgan, before a lynch mob or this lovely woman end his good intentions.