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  • A Child's Judgment (1910)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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A Child's Judgment (1910)
Short | Short, Drama
The trouble begins when young Mrs. Parker's brother, Bob Jordon, is arrested, charged with a crime, convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to the penitentiary. Mr. Parker believes Bob guilty and refuses to aid him in any way, ...See moreThe trouble begins when young Mrs. Parker's brother, Bob Jordon, is arrested, charged with a crime, convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to the penitentiary. Mr. Parker believes Bob guilty and refuses to aid him in any way, while Mrs. Parker is perfectly miserable, knowing her brother to be innocent. Mrs. Parker finally receives a letter from a friend, advising her that her brother's escape from the penitentiary is about to be accomplished and requesting her to take care of him when he arrives. She shows this letter to her husband and asks his aid, but he not only refuses any assistance whatever, but informs her that if he finds her brother, be will turn him over to the authorities. Bob arrives while Parker is out and is joyfully received by Mrs. Parker, who secretes him until she purchases a disguise for him. After he is completely disguised, she forces him to accept some money, and just as he is about to leave and while she is giving him a farewell embrace, Mr. Parker enters and not recognizing Bob, heaps the basest of accusations upon his wife's head. Bob steps forward to explain, but is prevented by his sister, who places her hand over his mouth and facing her husband, bids him believe what he will. This so enrages Parker that he attempts to strike her, but is prevented by Bob. At this instant, the only child of the Parkers, a little daughter, comes into the room and runs to her mother. Tearing the child from the mother's arms. Parker orders the brother and sister out of the house and tells the latter that he never wants to see her face again. Bob and Mrs. Parker take a cheap apartment in the neighborhood, where the wife and mother sits grieving for her husband and child, while Parker is just as miserable in his home, grieving for his wife. One day, the nursemaid takes the little one out into the park to play and while the child is thus engaged she amuses herself by flirting with a policeman. Bob happens to be passing and noticing his little niece, runs home to his sister and informs her that she now has the opportunity of seeing her daughter once more. Mrs. Parker hastens to the spot and while the nursemaid's back is turned, has a little visit with her child. When she starts to leave, however, the little girl refuses to be again parted from her and insists upon accompanying her, and yielding to her mother-longing, Mrs. Parker takes the little one back to her apartment. The nurse soon discovers the disappearance of her charge and telling her policeman friend to seek for the child everywhere, she runs home and informs Mr. Parker of the loss. He immediately summons aid from the police and scours the neighborhood, and while passing Mrs. Parker's apartment house, sees his little daughter playing with her doll in an upper window. Rushing upstairs into the room, accompanied by an officer, Parker confronts his wife and asks for his child. The officer, stepping forward, is about to take the child by force, when Parker, overcome by better thoughts, waves him back and says, "No, let the child decide!" The little girl is placed between her parents and his told to choose. The child wavers between the two for a moment and then running to her mother, clasps her arms about her neck. The father, abiding by her decision, then walks sorrowfully from the room. Bob, who has been concealed during this interview, tells his sister he is going to end it all, and breaking from her, he hurries to the Parker home, which he enters through a window and confronting his brother-in-law tells him he has come to right a great wrong. Parker springs at him with murder in his heart, when Bob removes his disguise and says calmly, "Now you know the truth. Hand me over to the police!" But Parker is so delighted at having his doubts of his wife removed, that his anger fades away instantly, and seizing Bob's hand, he begs him to take him to his loved ones. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Dec 1, 1910
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Dec 1, 1910 (United States)

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