Jane Doe

When a handsome, well-dressed man, William Arthur, enters the saloon where Jane Deere Doe works as a bartender, he flirts with the responsive woman. She finds him interesting until he reveals he is a police officer. Scared of society and police, she turns him over to Nancy Preston, the bar owner. He wonders why she is afraid of him. He continues looking over his newly returned to old hometown, introducing himself to the population. He enters the bank where he sees an old friend as a guard. Williams sister and daughter enter the bank as he leaves and he introduces her. Maggy, wanting to date the mother, Maggie, and her daughter, Kara, asks the girl for a date and says they need a chaperone: the mother. They laughingly agree to meet at 5:30. Nancy has to go to the bank and orders Jane to go with her to protect the receipts. Jane hates to go but she must. She sees a crook looking for a quick robbery. When he attacks, she responds, breaking his mouth and being covered with his blood. The women go to the bank but Jane will not go in. Nancy does. Unfortunately a robber backs out of the bank, shooting the guard. He backs into Jane who recognizes her husband. He hands her the gun and some money, then slips around the corner. William arrives, seeing a blood-stained Jane with a gun and money, and arrests her. But she does what he orders her to do before he has a chance to tell her. As he leaves with Jane, his sister arrives to find the wounded guard in need of help. She accompanies him to the hospital where she removes the bullet. The prosecutor questions Jane, wanting the money and the robber. Jane knows if she says anything about her husband, he will get off because he would declare his wife identified him. She said nothing about the culprit. The prosecutor believes she is an accomplice in the crime; she is not getting any bail. She never thought she would get bail because she has no ties to the town. The angry prosecutor leaves as the defense attorney arrives in a rumpled, dirty suit. Jane thinks he is a bad attorney. He asks about her accomplice. She refuses to tell him anything. The ambulance brought Maggy to the hospital where he was repaired in an hours long surgery. Maggie went to her daughter in the waiting room where Maggie fell asleep. Jane was taken to the court where she was charged with many crimes and given a half million in bail. She went back to jail. Maggy was sent to Williams house because he was an orphan who had nowhere else to go. William got Jane out of jail by paying the bail. He took her to her tiny house behind the saloon. It had been messed up by the searchers looking for money she was supposed to have stolen years ago. William helps her clean up and then takes her to his house, a thirty room mansion, to clean her dirty clothes. Kara asks Jane to go to the mailbox where the federal officers think Jane is stealing mail, a federal crime. They arrest both Jane and Kara. When Kara is finally allowed to call him, William retrieves both. Jane goes back to court where William realizes why Jane will say nothing about the bank robber: he is her husband. John Doe is arrested, but he gets off because the judge believes her extreme silence revealed her husband as the thief. John says he will get revenge. He gets explosives from his former employer. Jane goes to William’s house to see Kara for playing, but Maggie is too tired to take Jane home, so Jane stays over. John sets a big bomb under Jane’s house. Nancy, picking up trash, is hurt by the blast. Her sister takes her away from town and Jane is left without a job or even any property. William gives her a job caring for the slowly recovering guard. Jane was finally acquitted of the crimes she was accused of. John is so upset his life is so bad he cannot live anymore. He decides to kill Jane. Getting a gun, he invades William’s house. He wants her to hurt so much before she dies he starts to beat her up. Jane is able to shoot him in the knee. When William jumps inside he sees Jane with a gun and a man bleeding on the floor who wants William to arrest her. William went to her to help her, but she saw John grab the gun. He shot her in the chest as she pushed William out of the way. William took the second shot while the paramedics were refused entry to help the injured. John wanted her to die slow. Maggy comes from the back door. He asked what the shooting is for. John shoots at Maggy, but misses. Maggy does not. John is dead as the paramedics and Maggie rush in. She works on Jane who is so badly hurt she cannot be moved before she is repaired. Maggie works on her while the paramedics try to help William, but he is so much in need of information about Jane no one can help him. Maggie finally calms him as he is taken to the hospital. One of the medics says William must love Jane. Maggie says “Almost as much as I love Maggy.” Maggy says what? She admits loving him and they kiss. Jane and William are finally released by the hospital to live together in love.