The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-03-22
The
LIGHTNING RAIDER
CAST.
THE BAITED TRAP.
(Tenth Episode =

The police automobile in which
Lightning eluded the bluecoats who
had come to her home to capture her,
broke down soon after she left her
apartment, and with the forces of the
law in hot pursuit, she was compelled
to lead them a mad chase down the
alleys owe fences and roofs and
through cellars until she finally found
refuge in an underworld hangout, the
back room of an opium joint. Mean
while the story shifts to a ne%ighboring
street where WI Fang is CALAMITY
en%deavoring to make an impression
with Lottie, a dark-eyed beauty of the
neighborhood. Lottie's sweetheart is
Bull" Larsen a gentleman who makes
a precarious living by investigating
the contents of second story apart
ments. Bull" m on Lottie and
WI, and is rightfully jealous. He
drags Lottie roughly home and admin
listers the underworld's idea of punish
ment upon her, her strolls back to the
opium joint for solace. In the back
room he comes upon Lightning and an
idea enters his head. If Lottie is
playing fast and loose with a Chink he
will get himself another girl, and why
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So he sits down and starts in to make
love to Lightning and DOR let's slip
the fact that Lottie is fooling around
with WI. Immediately Lightning is
all attention. She decides to allow
Bull" to hang around and even asks
him to come to her rooms that night
as she hopes to extract some informa-
ton about WI Fang from him. Lottie
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joint and through a doorway hears the
appointment made for the meeting that
night at Lightning's rooms. She is
convinced at once that Lightning is
trying to steal her man away and that
night as Bull" is en%deavoring to make
crude love to Lightning while she is
intent only in eluding his mou long
enough to find out what he knows
about WI, Lottie forces a situation by
entering with a revolver extended and
covering Bull" Fol a moment it
seems as if Bulls" time had come,
but his old dominance over Lottie
saves him and he forces her by sheer
will power to drop the gun and leave
the room. Now Lightning, convinced
that he has no information to give her,
turns a rather cold shoulder on him
and he leaves and goes home to beat
up Lottie since he blames her for spoil
ing his affair with Lightning. Arriv-
ing home he finds WI Fang there pay
ing court to Lottie. He kicks the Chi
naman out and again visits his brutal
system of punishment upon Lottie.
Wu's vengeance for the manhandling
is quick and terrible. The mex morn
ing in the back room of the opium
joint Bull is found, his body twisted
and contorted in the throes of the
death that accompanies the use of
loved Bull in spite of his brutal treat
ment is filled with a consuming desire
for vengeance and it is upon this pas
sion that Lightning plays in order to
get WI. She convinces Lottie that
WI did the deed and induces her to
allow the Chinaman to pay her court
so that they may get a confession from
him, for if Lightning can prove WI
guilty of murder her troubles will be
at an end as the law will settle with
him. After many visits with Lottie
comes an evening when the trap is set.
Detectives are in an adjoining room
and a dictaphone close to Wu's head
is recording every word he utters. AS
Wu's advances become more fervid
Lottie tells him that she will only mar
ry the man who killed Bull the brute
who had treated her so terribly. And
WI fell into the trap and puffed with
pride over himself, admitted that he
had committed the murder. Then Lot
tie springs to her feet and says, you