Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1911-03-31
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SYNOPSIS.

Warden Handler OF Sing Sing prison
and Detective George Doyle endeavor 70
prevail on Bill Avery released prisoner.
10 search out Information against a tor
ner pal" young convict known as
Jimmy Valentine Avery refuses. and
Doyle and Handler threaten TO attack
rim Valentine mad a trick or opening
safes solely by the sense OF touch
Avery goes Lieutenant Governor Fay.
mis- beautiful niece. Rose Lane. and Two
women workers in rescue mission visit
Tho prison.
Warden Handler hears Rose Lane tell
now she was rescued from thief on a
train, and he is amazed at a coincidence.
Convict Jimmy Valentine. No l2ss. IS
brought into the wardens office TO open
safe as an object lesson to the visitors
and Rose recognizes him as the man VINO
saved her from the thief Cotton.
Valentine says he can't open the safe.
enraging Handler. The lieutenant COVER
nor and Rose talk with Valentine Rose
pleads with Fay to aid the young prison.
er. who is handsome even in Sing Sing
garb.
ray promises for Roses sake to ask the
governor to pardon Valentine. A stormy
interview occurs between Handler and
Valentine.
Valentine waits patiently in prison for
news. Finally he is pardoned and goes to
Albany to thank the governor. Lieutenant
Governor Fay and Rose.
Valentine refuses positions offered by
the rescue mission workers To his amaze
ment. he meets Bill Avery and a former
coworker, Red Flanagan
Red and Avery try to dissuade Jimmy
from going square" Detective Doyle ap-
pears. and Red and Avery hide. Doyle
wants Valentine to tell him where Avery
is for he wants to rearrest him. Valen-
tine refuses.
Doyle departs. threatening to send VAL
entine back to Sing Sing prison. Avery
now tries to kill Valentine.
Valentine finally agrees to go it crook
ed again. but note from Rose brings
him back to his former determination to
be honest lin spite Of the coppers.
Rose persuades her father to give Val
entine a position in his bank in Spring
field, Ill He and Red go to work in the
bank
For several years Valentine works ex-
cellently and rises to be assistant cashier. !
He and Rose love each other. but valen-
tine knows Doyle is on his track and
dares not tell her Of his affection for her.
A mysterious Mr.. Cronin turns out to be
old Bill Avery. now reformed and a man
OF business.
Valentine receives a telegram from
Doyle. He tells Red how ne has planned .
TO outwit the detective by means or a
cleverly concocted abb.
Rose Lane tells Valentine she loves him
and that they are going to marry VAL
entine reveals TO her his love for her.
Doyle appears on the scene to arrest VAL
entine on a charge of rohbing a Massa-
chusetts bank many years before.
Doyle is astounded when Valentine an
nounces that ne was never in Sing Sing
or in Massachusetts in his life and that
his name is Lee Randall
Doyle is finally convinced by a sensa-
tional ruse employed by Valentine that
Valentine is not Valentine after all I'm
land him If 1t takes a lifetime" he says.
Kitty Roses little sister becomes acci-
dentally locked in a new vault in the
bank Red Flanagan rushes in to Ran
dalls'' office. crying. Jimmy JIMMY
Doyle recognizes Red and realizes that
Randall is really Jimmy Valentine.
Valentine tears off his coat and opens
the new bank vault through the sense of
touch. as the combination had not been
sent to him as yet.
Doyle and Rose Lane. unknown to Val
entine. watch him open the safe. He
saves Kitty's life. She was almost dead
from suffocation
Doyle IS about to arrest Valentine. Rose
pleads with him. Doyle finally says. The
sdy needs you, Jimmy. more than Massa-
,husetts does" He let's Valentine go free.
ind Rose and Jimmy marry.