Dug is the leader of the Jesse James Honor Club, of which Spike, Matt, Bill and Tommy are members. They make a raid on Mrs. Thompson's chicken coop, are caught and taken to jail. In the Juvenile Court the Judge says he will let the boys go if each will earn three dollars and a half to pay Mrs. Thompson for the chickens. Tommy, who had eluded the, officers, goes back to the coop and steals eight more chickens. When the boys arrive with their earnings the eight chickens are not accounted for and the Judge, disappointed in the boys, is about to send them to jail when Tommy confesses his share in the raid.
—Motography, November 3, 1917