Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-07-20
SYNOPSIS.


Warden Handle of Sing Sing prison
and Detective George Doyle endeavor to
prevail on Bill Avery. a released prisoner.
to search out information against a for
mer pal" a young convict known as
Jimmy Valentine. Avery refuses. and
Doyle and Handler threaten to attack
him. Valentine had a trick OF opening
safes solely by the sense Of touch.
Avery goes. Lieutenant Governor Fay,
his beautiful niece, Rose Lane. and two
women workers in a rescue mission visit
the prison.
Warden Handler hears Rose Lane tell
Z how she was rescued from a thief on a
ftrain, and he is amazed at a coincidence.
+ Convict Jimmy Valentine. No. 12S9. is
brought into the warden's office to open
a safe as an object lesson to the visitors.
and Rose recognizes him as the man who
saved her from the thief Cotton.
Valentine says he can't open the safe.
engaging 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.
Fay 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 a note from Rose brings
him back to his former determination to
be honest lin spite of the coppers."
Rose peISuades her father to give VAL
ent!nt. /. position in his bank in SPRING
field. III He and Red go to work in the
bank.
For several years Valentine works ex-
c~ellently 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
valentine receives a telegram from
Doyle. He tells Red how he has planned
to outwit the detective by means or a
cleverly concocted alibi.
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n 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 robbing a Massa-
chusetts bank many years before.
Doyle Is astounded when Valentine an
nounces that he 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. IN
land him if 1t takes a lifetime" he says.
Kitty. Roses little sister. becomes acct
dentally locked in a new vault in the
bank. Red Flanagan rushes in to Ran
dall's'' 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
E3entine, 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
lady needs you, Jimmy. moro than Massa-
chusetts does" He lets Valentine go free.
and Rose and Jimmy marry.
[coNT1NUED.l
AS Jimmy Valentine dashed into the
vault room he cried to Red Flanagan.
who was at his heels:
"Go get one Of the clerks to run for
some sandpaper. Pumice stone is too
soft for this job. My fingers are not
in shape for a trick like this. Go!
RUM
Red turned and darted away on his
urgent errand. Well he knew just how
necessary it was for Jimmy Valentine
to have sandpaper to rescue Kitty If 1t
were true that the skin on his fingers
had grown calloused or had reached
even its natural thickness.
Jimmy Valentine pulled manfully at
the handles Of tho vault door. Per-
haps, after all, the combination had
not been turned and only tho doors
weight held It in place. But tho metal
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