The Inspector's Story (1914)
Jim Sloane, an ironworker, who has lost his job through intemperate habits, leaves his wife dying and continues his protracted spree. Finding her end near, Mrs. Sloane sends her 8-year-old daughter Nell to search for he father and bring him home so that she might bid him a last farewell. After searching many dives and barrooms in vain, she hears a shot through a dive doorway, and enters to discover that her father has just shot a man to death in a quarrel. The police make an arrest at once, and Nell follows the curious crowd to the police station where, after a tearful interview with the Inspector, she induces him to take her unfortunate father to the bedside of his dying wife, where the final farewells are said. At the trial Sloane receives a life sentence, and, having taken a deep interest in Nell, the inspector assists her in conducting a newspaper route, instructing his men to protect her from arrest by the Children's Society. One day, meeting her friend the Inspector in Central Park, Nell asks him how pardons are secured, and, for reply, the inspector points to a lady riding in a carriage, and replies that she could give the information better than anyone else, as she is the governor's wife. Nell follows the carriage to a nearby residence, succeeds in awakening the interest of the lady in the case, and with the friendly Inspector as attorney, Nell succeeds in securing the governor's signature to a pardon, and Sloane is released. Backed by the kind Inspector, father and daughter open a newsstand, which in due time is paid for, and a clean bill of sale handed over to the happy principles.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Barry O'Neil | Director |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Robert Drouet | |
| Eleanor Dunn | |
| John Smiley | |
| Mrs. Allen Walker |
