The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-02-15
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The Girl and
the Judge
The Most Intensely Gripping
The Most Intensely Gripping
Dramatic Film Ever Made

In the parlor of a Southern mansion
a girl is seen seated at the piano, Idly
drumming the keys. as if expecting
someone. Her father is sitting on the
veranda reading. Two rival suitors
for the girls hand arrive at about the
came time and are shown into the par
| Tor. She appears to favor each alike
and they ask her 10 choose between one
! or the other just as her father enters
the room, and she sides up to him and
/ intimates that this Is her choice. Both
are discounted.
While the young lady is dismissing
one caller the other accompanies the
father 10 his study. where he is shown
collection of antique firearms. In
the center OF the table on which the
weapons are displayed there also
stands large microscope. The young
man here bcgs the father for the hand
OF his daughter. but is told that he
first must win her heart, and loud
words are spoken. The young man
at last apologies and departs While
he is in tho next room, picking up his
hat, gloves ana riding whip, he hears
a report OF gun and rushes back in
to the study to find the father shot
through the heart and a smoking pis-
tol on the table The daughter, her
other sutton who happens also to be
the district judge, and the servants
all rush in, and the natural inference
s that the old man has been shot by
the rival sutton. He vehemently pro-
tests his innocence, but the evidence
is against him and he is placed under
arrest.
AS the man is friend of the judge,
although his rival in love, the judge
cannot believe IL possible that a crime
has been committed, and he sits down
to try and solve the problem AS he
does so he accldcntly places his hand
under the microscope and receives n
sharp burn. This sets him thinking.
Is IL possible that this could have dis
charged the pistol? He closes the
doors and places some powder in the
pan Of the old pistol and he lays 1t
down in its former position. In a mo-
ment there is a flash. The mystery is
solved. He is about to rush out and
proclaim the innocence of his rival
when he stops and thinks. mo. I'm
der the cloud of guilt he is no longer
a rival. / am his Judge and can be
merciful-but the girl must be mine"
His mind is still unchanged when
the trial takes place, and when the
jury finds the prisoner guilty OF MUIR
der the judge pronounces the sentence.
One month later, as the judge is
calling on the girl she shows him a
letter from the mother of the con-
demned man:
Dearest Virginia: All hope Is lost.
begged the Governor on my knees TO
pity the agony of a mothers breaking
heart and pardon my son, but he re-
fused. My boys innocent young life
will be taken"
At sight OF this the judge breaks
down and confesses to the girl that his
rival was innocent, but that his great
love for her tempted him to conceal
tho proof. This he now feverishly ex-
plains to her as he shows her the mi
croscope and the position of the pistol.
and they both hasten to the Governors
office. where the mother is making
last appeal. The Governor has again
refused. when the Judge enters and
explains to the Governor. who hastily
writes a pardon. which the judge him
self takes To the prisoner.
And here comes the anti-climax TO
this absorbing story. The girl has fol-
lowed and congratulates the prisoner
on his release. but she realizes that
now is the time she must make her
choice. AS the Judge bows his head In
Humiliation and turns away she reali-
yes the depth Of n love that had tempt
ed the judge from the path OF honor.
and placing her hand I'm his she tells
him that he IL her choice. while the
discharged prisoner sadly gives them
HE congratulations.