Boys' Reformatory

Tommy Ryan lives with Mrs. O’Meara, a seamstress, and her teenage son Eddie. Eddie is unemployed and hanging around a pool hall with a gang of teenage thieves led by Mike Hearn, the pool hall owner. Hearn feared Eddie would squeal to the police about the gang’s past, but Hearn decided to get the boy out of his way by staging a robbery at the gas station where the boy worked and then framing him. Tommy and Eddie are sentenced to the State Industrial School for three years.