Plot

Sam Burroughs, the sole member of the Jenksville police force, is in love with Winnie, queen of the village lunch-stand. Their courtship progresses favorably until the arrival of Diamond Dan Hicks, a city grafter who sells glass diamonds to the Jenksville inhabitants at fancy prices. Hicks cuts a disastrous inroad into the love of Winnie and Sam, and finally gains Winnie's consent to be married by placing upon her finger one of the "phoney'' rings from his stock of jewels. The night before her marriage to Hicks, Winnie repents her hasty action in throwing Sam over. In her regret she reads her favorite passage from a book Sam has given her: "Ah my love s like a red, red rose. That's newly sprung in June." She falls asleep gazing at a huge vase of red roses, the symbol o£ the homely Sam's love. Walking in her sleep, her mind centered upon her deep-seated affection for Sam, she carries a red rose to Sam's room, together with a note avowing her love for him. Sam has just entered the room and watches the strange sight of the sleep walker depositing the note underneath his pillow with mingled feelings of delight and astonishment. When Winnie has left the room he reads the note and whoops his joy upon discovering her love is still for him. Now he is determined to stop the wedding upon the following morning. He has just wired to the city to get information that will lead to Hick's arrest and the answer comes back that the jewelry fakir should be imprisoned instantly. While Sam reads this wire, the wedding procession winds up the center aisle of the village church. In the choir is old Squire Jenks who, in the absence of any arrests in the past four years, has been practicing faithfully during that length of time in the hope of mastering the wedding march on the trombone. Honoring the event of Winnie's marriage he now toots his favorite tune with ecstatic fervor. At this moment, however, Sam enters, wildly flourishing a telegram ordering the arrest of Hicks. He stops the wedding ceremony in the nick of time hands the enraged Hicks over to Judge Jenks for arrest, and after explanations are made proudly takes his place as the bridegroom. Hicks is hustled off to the tiny village jail and from behind iron bars listens mournfully as Judge Jenks continues to practice the wedding strains. Sam, delighted over his first arrest, is more than willing to yield placidly to his capture by Cupid, and Winnie, well, she loved Sam from the first.—Moving Picture World synopsis