The Girl and the Gangster (1913)
The lazy and good-for-nothing father of Jessie Malone, depends solely for his subsistence upon the scanty earnings of his daughter as a salesgirl in a department store. She lives in constant dread of him, and her only ray of sunshine is the companionship of Bunk Woods, a gangster, but a fellow with a sympathetic nature. Many a time he has rescued her from the tyrannical outbursts of her father, Handsome Harry, who has been exposed for double dealing by Bunk. He decides to revenge himself and one evening as Jessie is coming home, he accosts her. Bunk happens to witness the assault and goes to the aid of .Jessie. An unfortunate incident causes Harry's death and Bunk is accused, arrested and sentenced to prison. During his incarceration, Con Kelly, one of his pals, has been the sole support of his aged mother, and when his sentence is commuted for good behavior, he returns home to his happy mother and faithful Jessie. Some days later Jessie and one of her girl friends visit an amusement park, where they spend their week's wages. Jessie is afraid to go home and tell her father what she has done with the money, so, acting upon the suggestion of her friend, she throws away her purse and informs a policeman that she lost her purse, containing her week's wage. Bunk finds it and the officer brings him to Malone's home, where Jessie recognizes her property. It is empty, and Jessie, afraid to tell the truth on account of her father's temper, has Bunk arrested, much against her will. Learning of the trouble. Con Kelly, perceiving that Malone is the cause of all the outrages, goes to his home intent upon revenge. He discovers an infernal time clock that the old man was perfecting, and locking the door, so that Jessie and her father cannot escape, he sets the clock and runs away. He encounters Bunk, who managed to escape from his captor, and who, upon hearing of his pal's act, reprimands him severely and goes to the tenement, where he succeeds in throwing the bomb out of the window just in time to prevent a terrible explosion inside the house. This causes the unraveling of the difficulties and as Jessie's father is led away to prison, she places herself in Bunk's care, he having secured a good position.
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