For Another’s Crime (1915)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Short
Release: 1915-02-06
Director: William Humphrey
Writers: Edward J. Montagne , F.C. Rumsey
Language: None | English
Stars: Leo Delaney , L. Rogers Lytton , William R. Dunn , Marion Henry , Edwin R. Phillips , Frank Currier , Leah Baird
Runtime: min
Awards: N/A
AKA: For Another's Crime (United States of America) , For Another's Crime
Plot: Steve Harney, a bullying deputy sheriff, orders Walker, a professional gambler, out of town. Both Harney and Jack Brandon, a young miner, are infatuated with Sue, a mountain girl and an irrepressible flirt. After promising to go to a dance with Jack, she goes with Harney. Jack disconsolately goes to Benson's saloon to drown his sorrows and later joins in a card game with Walker. Harney returns from the dance and a quarrel starts between him and Jack. Benson flees to the sheriff's and Walker watches the fight from outside the door. Just as Harney is about to stab the half-intoxicated Jack, Walker rushes in, snatches Jack's knife, kills Harney and flees. When the sheriff arrives Jack is found half stupefied from liquor with the fatal knife, hearing his name, beside him. He is arrested and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. Conscience-stricken that Jack is paying the penalty for a crime which he himself committed, Walker helps Jack to escape from prison without admitting his guilt. Both flee to the Far West. Upon their arrival at Silver Gulch, Walker opens up a saloon with Jack as his partner. Jack meets Amy Green, daughter of the Justice of Peace, and falls in love with her. Huggins, an old cell-mate of Jack's, wanders into town, recognizes him and starts to blackmail him. Jack thrashes Huggins, and the rascal exposes Jack's past to Judge Green. He doubts Huggins' story until Jack himself confesses that he is an escaped convict. The Justice reluctantly places Jack under arrest. Walker, standing nearby, turns on Huggins to kill him, but the jailbird shoots first. Walker dying, confesses that he killed Harney, and Jack, who suffered for the crime, is pardoned and exonerated.
IMDB:tt0451320