Violet Dare, Detective (1913)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Short
Release: 1913-06-10
Director: N/A
Writers: N/A
Language: None | English
Stars: Isabel Lamon , Richard Travers , Harry Kendall
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Violet Dare, Detective , Violet Dare, Detective (United States of America)
Plot: The local police and detective forces are completely baffled by a daring cracksman, who, seeming to possess accurate knowledge of the officer's plans, evades with ease all traps set for him. The chief of police enlists the aid of Violet Dare, an expert amateur, who will take up interesting cases for love of the game. She decides that the cracksman is too clever to be caught by any ordinary means, as he leaves no clue whatever. It is therefore necessary to invent some novel method against which he will not be on guard. It happens that Vlolet's sweetheart, a secret service officer, captures a lot of excellent counterfeit dollar bills. Violet induces him to loan her the bills and to keep secret the news of the capture. She says nothing to the police of her plans. She arranges with a merchant, her uncle, to make a window display of the $5,000 in counterfeit money, and this display attracts much attention. The counterfeit bills, and no other money, are placed in the safe at night and no watch is kept on the place. As Violet calculated, the safe is robbed that night. The robbery is reported to the police, but the fact that the bills were counterfeit is not disclosed. The counterfeit bills are deposited in a bank by the thief. The cracksman, not suspecting the genuineness of the bills and not dreaming that they could form a clue, makes no efforts to cover his tracks. Violet soon has the man "wanted" for burglary. The finding in his possession of all the remaining counterfeit bills proves his guilt. The thief's success in evading the regular police traps is explained by the fact that he is a civilian clerk at police headquarters, and has been familiar with all the police plans to catch him. Violet is duly congratulated and rewarded. The following day all the credit is given the police department much to Violet's amazement.
IMDB:tt0389509