Gallegher (1910)
The first scenes show how the story begins with the murder and robbery of an old millionaire and the escape of his secretary. The detective who is put on the case comes into the newspaper office to see his reporter friend and there Gallegher hears of the case, when he becomes possessed of the wild desire, which probably fills every boy's heart, of playing detective. He is so enthralled with the profession and the personality of the sleuth that in spite of all remonstrances from his employer, the editor, he follows the man when he leaves the office. The next scenes show Gallegher watching the passers-by on the street corner and in the railway station, searching vainly for a man who looks like the photograph of the much sought secretary, who has only three fingers on his right hand. The boy's vigilance is unexpectedly rewarded when he finds that the criminal has purchased a ticket for a small suburban station near which, as the initiated know, a prize fight is to take place that night. The criminal has disguised himself by removing his beard and moustache, but unfortunately for him this makes him look all the more like his youthful picture in the detective's possession. Gallegher, not knowing that his absence from the office resulted in his discharge, seeks his friend, the reporter, and taking the detective with him they go to the prize fight. The fistic encounter takes place in an old barn and they are easily able to locate the criminal, but just as the fight is in full progress, the detective about to arrest his man and the newspaper reporter and Gallegher to get their great "scoop," the police appear and everybody is under arrest. The reporter's plea to be allowed to send his story to the paper is unavailing. The sergeant is inflexible, but Gallegher, slipping his hand into the reporter's pocket, takes the notebook and, crying pitifully, succeeds by his very size and youth in getting by the sergeant and away. He borrows a cab and though fired after by the other officers lashes the horse into a run, and the next scenes show him speeding away toward the newspaper office where compositors and pressmen are holding the morning edition for the promised story. The boy's wild ride is stopped twice by officers whom his street gamin shrewdness succeeds in throwing off the track, and just when all hope has been abandoned and the paper is going to press without it he rushes in with the story and falls in a little heap on the floor. Needless to say that after this he does not lose his job.
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GenresCrime
Drama
Short
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Ashley Miller | Director |
| Richard Harding Davis | Writer |
