The Convict's Story (1914)
Short | 20 min | Drama, Short

The Convict's Story (1914)

Short | 20 min | Drama, Short

Leaving his boarding house to attend a New Year's celebration given by his sweetheart Elizabeth, Lawrence loses his invitation. Elizabeth receives a valuable necklace from her father. That night, she promises to marry Lawrence. As Lawrence...See moreLeaving his boarding house to attend a New Year's celebration given by his sweetheart Elizabeth, Lawrence loses his invitation. Elizabeth receives a valuable necklace from her father. That night, she promises to marry Lawrence. As Lawrence takes Elizabeth in his arms, her necklace becomes entangled in his cuff link. He disengages the jewel and places it on the table, and both leave the room. Elizabeth misses her necklace after Lawrence has gone home. Her father suspects Lawrence of having stolen it. Accompanied by a policeman, the man hastens to the boy's house. Lawrence declares his innocence, but the missing jewel is found in his dresser, and he is arrested and sentenced to prison. Elizabeth is heartbroken. Six months later, Jarly, a crook, tells a group of convicts seated in the prison yard of one of his adventures. According to the crook, about six months previous he found an invitation to a New Year's party. On the impulse of the moment, said Jarly, he attended the affair. Later, the crook continues, he saw a diamond necklace lying on the table in one of the rooms. Entering by way of the veranda, he stole it. The crook declares that he then hastened back to the fashionable boarding house where he was stopping. Fearing that he had been followed, Jarly states that he entered the room of his next-door neighbor and placed the necklace in his dresser. Later, laughs the crook, the neighbor was accused of having stolen the jewel and arrested. Lawrence listens to this tale in amazement. Springing upon Jarly he bears him to the ground. Guards intervene. The strange story reaches the ears of the authorities and Lawrence is freed. Remorse-stricken because of the disgrace he had heaped upon the boy. Elizabeth's father consents to Lawrence's marriage to his daughter. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Carlyle Blackwell Lawrence - A Victim of Circumstance Lawrence - A Victim of Circumstance See fewer	The Ocean Waif (1916)
Louise Glaum Elizabeth - Lawrence's Sweetheart Elizabeth - Lawrence's Sweetheart See fewer	Sex (1920)
Chance Ward Craig - Elizabeth's Father (as Chance E. Ward) Craig - Elizabeth's Father (as Chance E. Ward) See fewer	The Bat Whispers (1930)
Raymond Hadley Jarly - A Crook (as R.C. Hadley) Jarly - A Crook (as R.C. Hadley) See fewer	Broadway Bill (1918)

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