 Following his refusal to let his daughter Carol (Lois Hall) marry cowhand Bill Grant (House Peters Jr.), rancher John Roberts (Forrest Taylor) is kidnapped, and Bill is hunted for the crime. Carol abandons the ranch which soon earns a reputation of being haunted. Marshal Johnny Mack Brown (Johnny Mack Brown), investigating a gold bullion robbery, discovers a piece of bone-handle from the kidnapper s gun on the ranch and also a solid gold rifle bullet. He locates Bill and they trace the gun-butt fragment to Andy Mullins (Milburn Morante), an eccentric old prospector. They find the stolen gold, a set of jewelers tools and the missing rancher in Andy s basement. The sheriff (Edmund Cobb) arrives with his henchmen Hawkins (Stanley Price) and Crowley (Dennis Moore) and Johnny and Bill are arrested. Instead of taking his prisoners to jail, the sheriff who is secretly the head of the gold-robbing gang, directs his henchies to take Johnny and Bill to a remote spot...and kill them.