The Two Mothers (1911)
Joe Williams, a steel engraver, is out of employment, and without funds to support his wife and baby. It is then that a noted counterfeiter, hearing of Joe's predicament, calls on him with a promise of a large sum if the engraver will assist him in the making of counterfeit notes. Joe at first declines the offer, but the sight of money, of which he is in great need, forces him to accept the counterfeiter's offer. A few days later the office of the secret service men have been taken up. After a diligent investigation the secret service men locate the counterfeiters' den and a raid on the place is planned. A detective, Carl Harris, is given charge of the men who are to make the raid, and that night, bidding his wife and baby good-bye, Carl leaves the house and a few moments later leads his men to a place where the counterfeiters are working. The counterfeiters are taken by surprise and several captured, although Joe and one other escape by leaping out of the window. The detectives fire at the runaways, one of the bullets hitting Joe, who staggers home and dies in his wife's arms. The next evening there is a reception given at the home of the chief of the detectives, at which Carl and his wife are guests. Crazed by grief, Mary, Joe's wife, slips out to the Chief's porch and when Carl appears on the veranda alone she fires at him. Carl is carried home where a few moments later he dies. Molly, Carl's wife, having seen Mary at the window at the Chief's home, goes to the steel engraver's house with the intention of seeking personal revenge on the woman she believes to be the murderer of her husband. She is restrained from this, however, by the entrance of the police and detectives, who arrest Mary. There follows a scene between Mary and her infant, from whom she refuses to be parted. Molly, whose heart now aches in sympathy with the forlorn mother and her baby, pleads with the officers to liberate the engraver's wife. Later, during the trial, Molly refuses to testify against Mary, who is acquitted. The photoplay closes with the scene between the two mothers and their babies, in which all is forgiven.
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