- In this latter-day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous brother summons police, who then charge the young intruder with murder. How can the burglar prove his innocence?—Thomas McWilliams <tgm@netcom.com>
- Perhaps no two subjects have concerned both judiciary circles and public alike more than the third degree and circumstantial evidence. The justice of their use in convicting a victim has always been an open question. While this subject takes no side in the matter and leaves the question still unsolved, it attempts to present the situation as it is in vivid, logical portrayal, and perchance may cause the more thoughtful to consider whether these principles, as carried out, work for the common good. The youth of the story passes through both ordeals. Truth is brought to light and the strong arm of the law foreseen.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- The novelist's brother, also an author, is jealous of his success, and having partaken too freely of wine, provokes a quarrel, in the course of which he strikes the other down. Bending over the body, he is horrified to find that he can elicit no response to his frantic efforts at resuscitation. Panic-stricken, he flees from the room. The servant has gone for the night, and he is asleep in the house. Suddenly he hears a sound and, stealing behind a curtain, sees a figure enter by a window. The newcomer is a boy, victim of a burglar, who is waiting outside the window through which he has forced his tool to climb. The boy enters the darkened room where the body lies on the floor, and the guilty man, with sudden inspiration, locks him in, then runs out to summon the police. The electric torch in the boy's hand falls upon the corpse-like face, and after investigation of the body the young burglar recoils in terror. When he finds that he cannot escape from the room, he seeks to hide himself from the police, whom he hears outside the door. They capture him, however, and put him through the third degree, while the guilty man stands by and permits another to be accused of his crime. In the other room an ambulance doctor is working over the body. Suddenly the door opens and the "dead" man appears, led by the physician. The unhappy boy, on the verge of confessing to save himself from further torture, gives a foolish laugh of relief; the guilty man stares; the police and the doctor leave the house. With the enormity of his sin before him, the culprit shuns his brother's accusing eyes, but finally permits himself to accept forgiveness. The boy, for a time free from the clutches of the burglar, is living honestly when his evil genius again crosses his path. A policeman interferes, however, and he is free to live honestly thereafter.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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