Reporter Curt Devlin loves sob sister Ellen Garfield but believes women are bum newspapermen When she learns the identity of a murdered arsonist, he calls it luck When she goes after the murderer he gets enough evidence to have Maitland Coulter arrested She finds a bunch of not guilty ballots and publishes the wrong story; he eavesdrops on the jury and gets the correct verdict After being fired she gets a confession from the real killer and gets Coulter released