The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-11-23
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THE TRAP.
First EPISODE

The uncle of Alice Grayson-Leah
Baird-is an inventor, but lacks funds
to market the product of his brain.
He is shown at work in his laboratory,
perfecting a wireless torpedo. German
agents learn of his achievement
through his assistant who is one of
their spies.
He is offered an enormous sum for
the invention. He refuses, declaring
that the United States is the only
country who can possess it. The spies
surprise him at night, murder him
with a poisonous gas and steal the
model and plans. He is found dying
by Alice, to whom he describes his
assailants. The beautiful girl who has
never known a care or responsibility,
becomes a woman of purpose. She
VOWS to avenge him and to recover the
stolen invention.
At night she enters the house of
Hartman, the leader of the German
band and searches for the plans. She
is discovered by him and a desperate
struggle ensues. She manages to es-
cape, but in SO doing. drops a diamond
brooch on the sidewalk as she enters
her waiting automobile. Carter, Hart
mans butler. running in pursuit, finds
the brooch. He is met by Barclay, the
detective, Sheldon Lewis, to whom he
declares that a young woman has tried
to rob his masters home.
Hartman advertises the finding of
the brooch and designates a meeting
place in the poorer part of the city.
Alice walks into the trap. She is res
cued by Bob Moore-Charles Hutchi-
son, a young mining engineer who is
looking for Zaremba, one of the Ger
man spies who had wronged his sister.
Arriving at Zaremba's apartments,
Bob confronts him and when the spy's
wife hears Bob's accusations she be-
comes enraged and shoots her hus-
band. She u Bob of the deed.
The weight of evidence being against
him, he fees and encounters the Hun
henchmen as they endeavor to make
Alice a prisoner. He aids her to es-
cape. Bob dashes to the high roof,
from which he descends to the ground
on a clothes line. The amazing feats
of strength and daring performed by
Mr.. Hutchinson in this fight and es-
capes are considered without equal.
Barclay, the detective, arrives in the
scene as Alice is fleeing in her car and
he follows in a taxi. Bob in his flight
through the back yards and fields
gains the road Alice's automobile is
traversing and is knocked down by it.
She instantly recognizes her rescuer.
and, after hearing his story. offers to
assist him to escape the police. See
ing that they are pursued, Bob is hid
den beneath the rear sea of the car
and is not found by Barclay. who
overtakes them.
Alice and Bob make a compact to
serve their country by recovering the
missing plans and bring Hartman and
Zaremba to justice. Under the guise
of a solicitor of charity funds, Alice
calls at Hartman's office. He is i'm
pressed by her beauty and invites her
to dinner. She accepts the invitation
and informs Bob. They make Hart
man prisoner and take him to her
country home, from which he is IN
able to escape. Hartman is promised
his freedom if he will return the stol-
en- plans. This he steadfastly refuses.
Alice and Bob then go to Hartman's
house, and, after overcoming Carter,
the butler, search for the papers. They
are surprised by Barclay, who holds
them at the point of a gun while wait
ing for the coming of the police.