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The Chain of Evidence (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

The Chain of Evidence (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

The young villager stands his uncle's ill treatment as long as he can, then determines to seek his fortune in the city. Bidding his sweetheart good-by, he sets out. The next morning his uncle is found dead, and the city police, warned by ...See moreThe young villager stands his uncle's ill treatment as long as he can, then determines to seek his fortune in the city. Bidding his sweetheart good-by, he sets out. The next morning his uncle is found dead, and the city police, warned by telegraph, arrest the boy. At his trial the chief witness against him is the ticket agent at the station, who testifies that the accused purchased a ticket with a torn ten dollar bill, which is offered in evidence. The bill is identified by a tenant of the dead man, who declares that he met his landlord on the street and paid him the money, receiving a receipt, which he produces. In his own defense the prisoner testifies that he found the money in the street while on his way to the station. His story is not believed, and the jury brings in a verdict of guilty. At that moment the local blacksmith enters the courtroom, accompanied by his widowed sister, and asks to be sworn. He deposes that on the night in question he had called on the dead man in his home and paid him a sum of money, arrears of rent owed by the widow. Threatened with dispossession, his sister had appealed to him for help, and after paying the money he had told the old skinflint what he thought of him. The old man, starting up in wrath, had been stricken with apoplexy and had fallen, striking his head. While riding for a doctor, the blacksmith had been thrown by his horse and had lain in a coma. He produces the receipt for the money as confirmatory evidence, and the prisoner, set free, is clasped in his sweetheart's arms. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Jack Drumier Actor Actor See fewer	The Dancer's Peril (1917)
Jack Mulhall Actor Actor See fewer	The Three Musketeers (1933)
Vola Vale Actress (as Vola Smith) Actress (as Vola Smith) See fewer	Who Cares (1925)
Claire McDowell Actress Actress See fewer	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Ivan Christy Actor Actor See fewer	Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
Charles Perley Actor Actor See fewer	The Chosen Prince, or the Friendship of David and Jonathan (1917)