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  • The Triumph of Right (I) (1914)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Triumph of Right (I) (1914)
Short | Short, Drama
John Prescott by speculations with Stephen Jepson of the Bank of Omaha, has brought the bank on the verge of bankruptcy. Ed Harrison, secretary to Prescott and engaged to his daughter, discovers the discrepancies and calls attentions to ...See moreJohn Prescott by speculations with Stephen Jepson of the Bank of Omaha, has brought the bank on the verge of bankruptcy. Ed Harrison, secretary to Prescott and engaged to his daughter, discovers the discrepancies and calls attentions to them. Harrison and Natalie get married when it is discovered that he is deeply in debt on account of gambling. The bank examiners are about to visit the bank, and Jepson takes the money left in the bank, goes west and starts a department store. Prescott goes home and is met by his daughter and son-in-law, who ask him to pay the gambler's debts. A quarrel ensues and the struggle is interrupted by Natalie who separates them and takes Ed to his room. After Prescott has retired Natalie asks tor a book, and Ed goes to the library for it. At the same time a burglar is seen entering Prescott's bedroom. Ed, in the library, is startled by a shot and getting to Prescott's room, finds the banker dead on the floor, but does not see the burglar escaping. Natalie enters as Ed is kneeling on the floor with the pistol in his hand, and remembering the recent quarrel between him and her father, believes that he committed the murder. Ed is accused of the crime, tried and is sentenced for life. On the way to prison he escapes, jumps from a trestle into a river, and is reported dead. Three years elapse. Ed secures a position as bookkeeper in Jepson's store, and Natalie, wishing to clear his name and that of her father, seeks employment as a detective. Her application is considered favorable. Jepson, discovering that his store is bankrupt, resolves to go to Omaha, secure more insurance, and sets fire to it. At the same time the insurance company reports to the detective department that there have been several incendiary fires which they desire to trace and request the sending of some detective, a woman preferred. The detail is given to Natalie, and she is sent for a conference with the insurance company. While there Jepson makes application for another policy, and advised by Natalie, who recognizes him, He receives it and hurries back, followed by Natalie. On the day of her arrival the store is fired, and Ed, whose existence she has not heard of for three years, is asphyxiated, but rescued by firemen. Natalie takes her husband to a hospital, secures the services of an officer and sets out to arrest Jepson. They enter his house on the pretense of being insurance adjusters, but an inadvertent question from Natalie warns him of danger and he rushes out of the house locking the door behind him. Natalie and the officer jump from a window in pursuit, and finally come upon him in their automobile, only to find that Jepson's car has overturned and killed him. Before passing away he confesses his guilt to Natalie, who telegraphs her success to the chief. Returning to the hospital she finds her husband out of danger, and while telling him of her adventures a message comes from an adjoining room asking tor an interview with Natalie. Going to the room, she finds a dying stranger, who confesses to the murder of her father and thereby clears her husband's name. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Siegmund Lubin
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Updated Sep 24, 1914
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Sep 24, 1914 (United States)

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Joseph W. Smiley
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Edward Harrison Edward Harrison   See fewer
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Lila Leslie
Natalie Prescott (as Lillie Leslie) Natalie Prescott (as Lillie Leslie)   See fewer
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