Danger Go Slow (1918)

Muggsy Mulane a waif who wears boys clothing jumps a freight train to the country after Jimmy the Eel the leader of the gang of crooks with whom she works is arrested In the village of Cottonville Muggsy befriends Aunt Sarah whom she later discovers is Jimmys mother When Muggsy learns that the greedy Judge Cotton who holds the mortgage on Aunt Sarahs property is planning to foreclose she threatens to blackmail him and he relents