***SPOILERS*** Matty a drunk from the Bowery ends up being accused of murder for a crime that he in fact didn't commit.The murder victim's money just happened to fly into Matty's hands while he was out dead drunk and sleeping it off in an alley. Buying himself a horse and budgie Matty was q1uickly arrested in the murder of the person who's money he bought them with by the police checking out the serial numbers of the $20,00 bills.
With Matty facing a life sentence behind bars or worse his Bowery friends go out to find the real killer and bring him to justice which wasn't all that hard in that he lived among them, in the Bowery, and had a big mouth as well. And it took almost 100 of them to finally corner him, a Mister Chain, and hold him until the police came to arrest him. It was Matty's friends not the police who tracked down and captured the killer by knowing that Matty was totally incapable of committing any type of crime especially that of cold blooded murder.
***SPOILERS*** Matty now proved innocent and released from jail goes on his horse and budgie that was donated to him by the NYPD back home to Johathonville in upstate NY It's there where things are not as wild and crazy as in the big city as well as far less dangerous.