A Heart Reclaimed (1912)
William Hartridge calls on his friend Jack Storm, and finds him proceeding to get drunk. Storm tells the story of how he loved the girl and won her love; how their troth was plighted; how her father went down in the crash in Wall Street; how a wealthy broker, in love with the girl, alone could save him. The father went to the girl, and told her she alone could save the family honor by marrying the broker. She promised her father that she would carry out his wish and marry the broker. Hartridge heard the story and told him to come to the club and forget his grief. He did so but with no success. He left the club. A few hours later his friends learned that the broker had been killed and that Storm had been found bending over his dead body with a revolver in his hand. He had walked to the girl's house, and had stood on the other side of the street looking across at the windows. He had heard a shot, had run toward the man who fell, saw it was the broker and the assassin escaping, he lifted up the body, picked up the revolver and had thus been found by the police. Everything pointed to his guilt. He was tried and condemned. Just as the judge was about to read the sentence, a letter is handed to him. "He stole my wife and I followed him, found him, shot him. My task is done, and I am through with the world." By a greater jury than the twelve who judged only as weak man can judge, Jack Storm is acquitted.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Richard Garrick | Director |
| Cast | Role |
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| Alexander Gaden | |
| William Sorelle | |
| Barbae Montville | |
| Charles W. Travis |
