The Mine Swindler

Harry, enthused over reports of a gold strike, persuades his mother to supply him with money to invest. He arrives at the mining camp where he is taken in by a professional mine swindler and a worthless claim is unloaded on the unsuspecting tender-foot. Harry soon becomes discouraged at his failure to find gold and accuses Pete, the swindler, of robbing him. As Harry is about to commit suicide Pete relents and assists him to return home with his original capital, first exacting from the young man a promise that he will never visit the mining country again.