 Phil and Red Hogan hijack and abandon a new-car carrier, store the three new cars in their barn, and prepare to sell them in order to obtain cash to purchase a better farm. A radio broadcast alerts them that the carrier has been found and that its driver has died from injuries sustained in the hijacking. They realize that capture may mean the death penalty and they try to hurriedly dispose of the cars in the remote countryside. Dan Mathews and Sergeant Moore use the carrier s odometer readings to deduce that it was driven only a short distance from where it was found and they are able to narrow the area of their search. When they go to check out the Hogans  farm, the brothers expose their involvement by fleeing in a panic.