Romance of a Taxicab (1908)
A young and beautiful girl who is heiress in her own right to an immense fortune, falls a victim to her ambitious stepmother, who plans to acquire her fortune by having the stepdaughter committed to a private sanitarium for the insane. The girl waits and watches patiently until fortune directs a young doctor across her path, and as he is leaving the place of her incarceration, she deftly places a note in his hands stating the direct facts. He at once prepares to release the much wronged girl, and enlists the services of a trained nurse: then acting on the instant he employs the services of a taxicab in which both the nurse and himself repair to the sanitarium, under the very eyes of the keeper and the heads of the institution, as well as the senile father and villainous stepmother. The nurse following the young physician's instructions manages to place her cloak and veil in the possession of the captive girl, who having been made aware of the plan of escape, walks boldly into the reception room where her enemies are assembled, and in company with the young doctor leaves the place. The escape is discovered by the head of the institution, and now begins the exciting automobile chase. The taxicab containing the runaways is followed by a huge touring car, on, on through the parks and streets until the very outskirts of the city is reached. Policemen all along the route endeavor to stop the mad race, but all in vain. At last a daring officer places himself directly in front of the flying automobiles. The driver of the taxicab loses heart and brings his machine to a dead stop. The officer mounts the taxicab to place the driver under arrest, when to his consternation the young surgeon produces his Health Department permits. The officer, seeing his mistake salutes and permits them to proceed, but at once places the violent stepmother and weakling of a father under arrest. They drive in another direction while the taxicab and its occupants proceed to a modest parsonage and are married by a kind old minister. The ceremony is just completed when the irate and chagrined followers appear, but all too late.
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