Grace Neville

A mysterious ray that immobilizes all motors and engines threatens the security of the country. (imdb)

Tom Ferguson, star left wing of the Indians hockey team, is killed during a game in an "accident" with Dick Adams and Bill Drake, two of his own teammates. His brother, Alec Ferguson, is not convinced it was and accident, and goes to New York to uncover the truth. Posing as a fellow townsman named Steve Moreau who is unable to accept an offer to play with the Indians because of an injury, Alec wins a place with the team. (imdb)

A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.

Rudolph Mordini (Henry Mollison) is a Houdini-type magician who claims he couldn't have possibly murdered his wife, as he was enclosed, at the time of the killing, in a sealed locked-on-the-outside box at the bottom of the ocean. Cub newspaper reporter Larry McGill (Charles Quigley) scoops other reporters and the police by solving the crime himself.