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The Limousine Mystery (1916)
Short | Short, Drama, Mystery

The Limousine Mystery (1916)

Short | Short, Drama, Mystery

Mrs. Crosby, a society favorite, drives out with her husband in a closed limousine. The husband gets out to enter a jewelry store and tells the chauffeur to drive on. George Kingsley, a well-known clubman, enters the limousine from the ...See moreMrs. Crosby, a society favorite, drives out with her husband in a closed limousine. The husband gets out to enter a jewelry store and tells the chauffeur to drive on. George Kingsley, a well-known clubman, enters the limousine from the other side of the street and the chauffeur drives on unawares of his new passenger. Presently Kingsley alights and Clymer Blakford, a fellow-clubman, notes that he came out of the Crosby car. On arriving home the chauffeur opens the door of the car. Mrs. Crosby seems to have fainted. The chauffeur and butler carry her into the house, where Dr. Benton, accompanied by the noted criminologist, Fownes, makes an examination and declares that Mrs. Crosby has been stabbed to death. The chauffeur testifies at the inquest that the last person seen with Mrs. Crosby was her husband. Crosby doesn't deny that he was with his wife, but indignantly proclaims his being put under arrest. Eownes gets permission to view the body of the victim, while Blackford appears at police headquarters and reports that he saw Kingsley come out of the car after Crosby had left it. On the strength of Blackford's testimony Crosby is released and Kingsley faces a charge of murder. Fownes, determined to solve the mystery, offers his services to Kingsley, whom be believes to be innocent. Kingsley admits to the detective that he was Mrs. Crosby's lover and that she had promised to leave her husband for him, but insists that when he left the car she was alive and happy. The detective picks up a dagger-shaped paper cutter during an interview with Crosby and pockets it unseen by Crosby. At the ensuing trial, the detective is placed on the stand and informs the court that the late Mrs. Crosby, upon his investigation, had been a dancer who appeared under the name of Yola in an East Side dance hall, and that her lover at that time was a young gangster known as Budd Kennedy. Subsequently, she made a hit at an uptown cabaret. It was there that Crosby became acquainted with her and paid her marked attention, thus arousing the jealousy of her lover. Believing in the girl's innocence, Crosby asked her to marry him and she thereupon indicated to Budd that she was tired of wearing cheap clothes and that he never gave her any jewels. This caused Budd to commit burglary in order to provide her with a diamond necklace and other jewels. Yola, however, learning that he had stolen them, was afraid to keep them. Accordingly she dropped the diamond necklace into his pocket. Budd, subsequently, while under the influence of liquor, had a fight with another gangster in an East Side saloon in the course of which the diamond necklace had dropped from his pocket causing his arrest and subsequent sentence to a term in prison, Budd being fully convinced that Yola had betrayed him. After getting rid of Budd, Yola married Crosby. Five years later they had a quarrel when she told him frankly that she had only married him for his money and the social position he could give her. After making this statement, Fownes says: "According to my deduction, the following events occurred upon the fatal day. A new chauffeur drove the car. Crosby and his wife had a violent quarrel. Upon the husband leaving the car, the lover Kingsley, took his place. The murder was committed after Kingsley had left the car by a man who used a knife affected by a certain set of gangsters on the East Side." Fownes then takes a gangster's knife from his pocket and accuses the chauffeur who drove the car. The chauffeur arises indignantly and denies the accusation. Fownes insists that the chauffeur is no other than Budd Kennedy, who, after his release from prison, was consumed with a desire for revenge on the woman who had thrown him over. The detective asks for the arrest of Budd, who tries to make his escape, but is overpowered by the police. Slipping his hand into the chauffeur's pocket, Fownes pulls out a knife similar to that shown during his testimony. Budd, realizing that his case is hopeless, laughs hysterically and says, "She double-crossed me. I waited and planned to get her. She had her day. You've got me. I got her." Everybody crowds around to congratulate Kingsley, who insists that the solution of the mystery is due to the cleverness of the criminologist. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Joseph W. Girard Mr. James Crosby Mr. James Crosby See fewer	Captain Midnight (1942)
Mary Fuller Mrs. James Crosby Mrs. James Crosby See fewer	The Huntress of Men (1916)
Tony Merlo George Kingsley (as Anthony Merlo) George Kingsley (as Anthony Merlo) See fewer	Seventeen (1916)
A.H. Busby Fownes (as Bertram Busby) Fownes (as Bertram Busby) See fewer	The River of Romance (1916)
William Welsh The Chauffeur The Chauffeur See fewer	The Bull's Eye (1917)

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