The Fighting Cub

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Tommy O'Toole, copy boy on the news, hears the editor assign a police reporter to investigate a big jewelry robbery. Tommy asks for a chance at reporting and is told in jest he can have a job if he gets an interview with Toler, big political boss. He is thrown out of the Toler mansion by the butler, but scrapes acquaintance with Toler's youngest daughter and through her gets to see the father. The result is that he gets a job as reporter. Later he discovers the den of the Owls, the gang which stole the jewels. After a variety of thrilling adventures, during which he is wounded by a bullet, he rounds up the thieves, proves the police reporter to be a crook, gets back the loot, and is appointed star man on the paper.