A poor fellow who has had just a tiny drop too much is endeavoring to find his way home when he falls over the prostrate body of a man who has been robbed and left for dead by some midnight marauders. The poor drunken fellow when he sees the man lying there thinks he also has been celebrating, and kneeling down beside him tries to arouse him. His fingers, however, suddenly come in contact with something wet and the color leaves his face as he recognizes it as blood and looking around sees that his coat is covered with it. Realizing in a moment what has happened, he becomes seized with terror and immediately endeavors to conceal himself somewhere, for should he be seen in this condition he will surely be thought a murderer. He is a pitiable object indeed, as, he being a painter by trade, the telltale marks of red stand out with greater distinctness on his white suit. Finally, unable to bear the agony any longer, he decides to go into a café and get something to drink. As he sits at one of the tables he glances furtively from side to side endeavoring to cover the stains on his coat with his hand. The waiter brings him something to drink and as he is gulping it down two other men come over to him, and noticing from his queer behavior that something is wrong soon see the blood stains and in a short time deliver the terrified man up to the police. When he is arraigned at court where all the people that were in the café are gathered to witness against him, the body of his supposed victim is brought in on a stretcher. Just as the magistrate begins to speak the form on the stretcher rises and pointing his finger at one of the men who discovered the blood stains on the painter’s coat in the café, cries that he is the one who stabbed him. Then falling back he breathes his last. The policeman immediately seizes the accused man. When they endeavor to explain to their other prisoner, however, that he is now free, and that it was all a mistake, to their astonishment he laughs loudly, and, pushing them aside, makes a dash at the magistrate, endeavoring to strangle him and still shrieking with laughter. It is easily seen that the occurrences of the night have been too much for the man’s brain, which has been completely turned in consequence.