Betty joe bishop is an innocent white widow, and she and her boy friend have been attacked by a mysterious black man. The killer had a rolled up newspaper, which he had apparently left at the scene. And he'd circled two wantads, one for a dishwasher at a local restaurant. An eye witness comes forward, says he saw a man near the crime scene, swarthy, wearing a pyramid shaped hat. They scour the area around the crime site, stumble on a little cottage,. Inside is 39 year old willi nash, unemployed handy man, dark haired. He confesses, so who do you call? What you really want is a white lawyer.