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The Police Inspector (1913)
Short | Short, Crime, Drama

The Police Inspector (1913)

Short | Short, Crime, Drama

Ethel Clayton, wife of a notorious crook, reads in a newspaper that Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey have purchased a quantity of precious stones and jewelry while abroad and are on their way to a fashionable hotel in America. She calls her husband, ...See moreEthel Clayton, wife of a notorious crook, reads in a newspaper that Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey have purchased a quantity of precious stones and jewelry while abroad and are on their way to a fashionable hotel in America. She calls her husband, points out the newspaper item to him and he immediately packs a valise and goes to the hotel where the tourists are expected. He notices them enter the lobby and after they are assigned to a room, he walks to the register and writes his name. Fortunately for him he is given an adjoining room. He listens and hears that Mr. Humphrey must leave to attend an important business meeting, and a few minutes after the husband departs, he raps at the door of their suite and is admitted. Covering Mrs Humphreys and her maid with his revolver, he gathers up the jewels he finds on the dresser and slips back to his room. The lady and her maid telephone the clerk of the hotel who, in turn, notifies the chief of police. The chief assigns Inspector Hawtrey to capture the thief. Accompanied by four policemen, they make a close scrutiny of the interior and exterior of the hotel. Clayton, hearing the inspector's orders, immediately starts an escape, which means leaping from a window to a fire-escape, down the ladder and a drop of about thirty feet to the walk, rushes to the roadway where he boards an automobile. At the point of his pistol he orders the chauffeur to proceed at breakneck speed after he realizes he is being pursued by a municipal police patrol carrying fifteen policemen. The police inspector sitting beside the driver of the auto patrol is urging him on for more speed, firing at intervals at the fleeing automobile containing the crook. One shot lodges in the tire of the automobile, resulting in the abandonment of the machine and the crook takes to his heels. An exciting chase ensues, resulting in the crook's being tracked to his home and the inspector with his men finding the door locked, shoots the lock away and makes a search of the house. The bandit, upon hearing the shot, escapes to the roof of the house and makes a miraculous leap to an adjoining tree, lowers himself to the ground and rushes away. In his mad rush to escape he dives into an old well. The inspector closely follows, lowers himself to the bottom of the well where a desperate struggle takes place, resulting in the capture of the criminal. Now begins the pursuit of the wife who has flown from the house with the jewels in her possession and after a careful search she is detected hiding in an adjoining cornfield. The inspector promptly carries her to the waiting patrol and the two culprits are sent to the station house. Awaiting news are the frantic husband and wife, and when the inspector enters with the captured criminals and returns the jewels to the rightful owner, joy reigns supreme. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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