The Silent Accuser (1915)
Dr. Mills is a successful physician whose daughter Jane is in love with his assistant, John Howard. Also working for the doctor is Joe King, who does odd jobs around the office. One evening, money is taken from the doctor's desk. Howard is found semi-conscious nearby, and when he is revived tells a story of being choked in the dark by someone unknown to him. The doctor's suspicions are allayed as far as the servants are concerned. The detectives he has called in find the windows locked and King asleep in his room, and after the usual deductions they arrive at the conclusion that Howard had something to do with the theft. Just as the net is closing around young Howard, Jane discovers pencil marks on his collar. She takes the collar to her father, who examines them under a lens and sees that they are peculiar marks, up and down like a jagged teeth of a saw. They are, in fact, the markings of a pencil held in Howard's hand while he was being choked, and record the up-and-down movements of the victim's hand as he struggled. Believing more in the boy's honesty now, Dr. Mills calls in the porter as the first one whom he will test. The doctor asks him to assist him in an experiment, and puts the pencil in the porter's hand, and makes him clench his hand in the same manner in which Howard says he was choked. Then the doctor turns on the revolving globes. King becomes hysterical, at first trying to stab the doctor with a paper knife, and then, as a vision comes to him of his deed the night before, he cries out his own guilt.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Joseph Kaufman | Director |
| Daniel Carson Goodman | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Richard Wangermann | |
| Mary Charleson | |
| Francis Joyner | |
| James Cassady |
