Circumstantial Evidence (1911)
Two young men, friendly rivals for the hand of a sweet-faced western girl, start forth to make, each, his respective fortune. In five years, one becomes a bank cashier, the other a ranch foreman. We see the cashier mingling in the swell clubs of the upper ten, living beyond his means to keep up to the style of his associates. Again, we see him "caught short" in his accounts. The foreman and the ranch owner start cityward to make a deposit of gold nuggets in the bank. The ranch owner meets the cashier and invites him to his swell club. The cashier fleeces the ranchman at cards out of a pile of greenbacks. The next night, the ranchman is ready for another fleecing, but is persuaded not to go by his foreman. He gives the latter his roll and sends him home. He attends the club but has nothing to lose. The cashier is disappointed, but shows by his manner he would run a big risk to get the ranch owner's wad. In the meantime the foreman had started for home. If the money in his possession were only his, it would mean the possibility of his getting the woman he loves. The night is rainy, so he dons his raincoat and cap. At the club the cashier decides to leave after the ranch owner's departure and he, too, dons a raincoat and cap; later these men pass the same lonely spot. We see them, but can't tell which is the other. Shortly after the ranch owner falls a victim to the bullet of one of them, and the spectator is in ignorance as to who really committed the deed. But the foreman is arrested as the perpetrator of the crime. Then comes the court procedure, which is carried out in all its interesting formula to the minutest detail. The cashier is one of the jurymen and out of the twelve men all except him stand out for conviction. He finally confesses his crime. The foreman's name is freed from stigma, and this he shares with his sweet-faced western girl.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Mark M. Dintenfass | Producer |
