- A murder victim's spirit takes revenge on the man who killed him.
- A convict escaped from a penitentiary, eluded pursuit and found a place of hiding near the riverbank just outside a small town. The problem that confronted him was how to dispose of his striped uniform. A well-dressed man happened to come along and the convict attacked him. Later, when he had donned his victim's clothes, he found with satisfaction that the dead man was the son of an English nobleman who had come to America on financial business and brought with him a letter to the local banker. The convict weighted the body and threw it into the river. He then took his stripes and prison shoes, wrapped them up in a bundle, weighted it and hurled them also into the stream. He then departed. The next day the convict called at the bank gave his name as that of the victim and from the city banker's letter he had found was enabled to forge his victim's signature and open an account without any fear of being suspected. The weeks went by and the impostor and the banker became more friendly. The impostor was attracted by the banker's daughter and the father noticed this with interest and approval, for it nattered his vanity to think his daughter might join the ranks of the aristocrats. One afternoon when the impostor called at the banker s home the latter was looking over his mail; he turned from his guest to answer the telephone and the impostor picked up an illustrated London paper his host had been looking at. In it he saw the picture of his victim and knew that his crime could not long be concealed. The thing that troubled him was whether or not the banker had seen the picture, and from his conversation over the 'phone on an entirely different matter, the criminal was convinced that he was known. Desperately he determined to postpone the inevitable, and asked the banker to accompany him to see some property which he, the impostor, was thinking of buying. Before doing this, however, he had carefully torn up the incriminating picture and thrown it into the wastebasket, torn up in little pieces. His host's daughter witnessed this action and her suspicions were aroused. She pieced the scraps together and learned the truth. The young man to whom she was engaged happened to call at this time and she told him her suspicions, and the two hurried out believing the banker was in danger. They found the two men at the riverfront, the banker weakly struggling against the convict's attacks. The girl and her sweetheart arrived in time, and her companion sprang upon the convict. The latter wounded his assailant and was escaping along the river when a number of other men attracted by the sound of the combat appeared and cut off his escape. With pursuers in front of him and behind him, the only way left for him was to plunge into the river. He did this, and was getting away when those on the bank saw him look down, shriek with terror, and cry, "It is he, he is calling me," and then he sank beneath the water. They dragged the river for the body later, and discovered it. The net which brought him up also disclosed the skeleton of a man's body, the arms fastened about the convict's neck, and a bundle containing a suit of convict clothes.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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