Sorrowful Jones

Sorrowful Jones is a New York bookie who keeps his operation hidden behind a trap door in a barber shop. He suffers from a financial setback when a horse named Dreamy Joe unexpectedly wins a race. Jones takes bets with payment in markers from gambler Orville Smith, who also leaves his daughter Martha Jane, four years old, as collateral for the bet. Orville is killed by Big Steve Holloway, who reveals that the race is fixed. Big Steve plans to make one final race before he gets out of the game, where he is fixing the race so that the horse will win.