Professor Austin, chemist extraordinaire is said to have invented a new very powerful explosive, which for reasons never explained nor examined, he put up in a pill: or so say the police when an explosion occurs and his wife disappears.
We open on the trial. Zasu Pitts is one of the jurors. The defense attorney, twenty minutes late, is Thelma Todd, the prosecutor is Billy Gilbert. Gilbert shows his evidence, one of the bomb pills and a dummy made as an exhibit.
The pill is very large. Todd for the Defense claims to the jurors that no woman could possibly swallow such a large pill. Zasu, who is sharing a domicile with Todd, reminds Thelma of how Zasu once swallowed a plumb, entire.
She tries it. And she accidentally swallows it. The 'real' pill rolls off the judge's bench. Nothing happens. The Court Clerk has accidentally switched the real pill for the demonstration pill, and Zasu has swallowed the real one!
All panic. Zasu is rushed to Prof. Austin's laboratory, where a merry mix-up proceeds; only to be interrupted by a loud pounding on the door. It is Professor Austins 'murdered' wife, who merely had gone out for a while.
At the end, it is explained that it was she who invented the giant pills, and not her husband: and that they are perfectly harmless.
Nevertheless, Zasu complains that she's feeling sick.
Todd asks Mrs. Austin what is in those pills.
Mrs. Austin explains that they contain nothing but castor oil, and Thelma rushes Zasu out of the room.
The End.
We open on the trial. Zasu Pitts is one of the jurors. The defense attorney, twenty minutes late, is Thelma Todd, the prosecutor is Billy Gilbert. Gilbert shows his evidence, one of the bomb pills and a dummy made as an exhibit.
The pill is very large. Todd for the Defense claims to the jurors that no woman could possibly swallow such a large pill. Zasu, who is sharing a domicile with Todd, reminds Thelma of how Zasu once swallowed a plumb, entire.
She tries it. And she accidentally swallows it. The 'real' pill rolls off the judge's bench. Nothing happens. The Court Clerk has accidentally switched the real pill for the demonstration pill, and Zasu has swallowed the real one!
All panic. Zasu is rushed to Prof. Austin's laboratory, where a merry mix-up proceeds; only to be interrupted by a loud pounding on the door. It is Professor Austins 'murdered' wife, who merely had gone out for a while.
At the end, it is explained that it was she who invented the giant pills, and not her husband: and that they are perfectly harmless.
Nevertheless, Zasu complains that she's feeling sick.
Todd asks Mrs. Austin what is in those pills.
Mrs. Austin explains that they contain nothing but castor oil, and Thelma rushes Zasu out of the room.
The End.