Simon Prescott

Kimble makes a careless error disclosing his whereabouts and Lt. Gerard hastily returning from a vacation with his wife closes in.

While his stage makes a stop, Bat is arrested, charged with possession of a gun and assessed a staggering fine. When Bat learns that the local judge runs the town as a personal fiefdom, he decides to change things when a man faces hanging.

Kimble is mistakenly identified as the murderer of a neighborhood girl while working as an apartment building janitor in a slum.