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An Example (1915)
Short | Short, Drama, Western

An Example (1915)

Short | Short, Drama, Western

Joseph Bohn, ex-sheriff of Gray Gulch, Arizona, makes his home with his daughter and her husband a miner. Noticing the growing indifference on the part of the young wife towards her husband and being a man of experience, the ex-sheriff ...See moreJoseph Bohn, ex-sheriff of Gray Gulch, Arizona, makes his home with his daughter and her husband a miner. Noticing the growing indifference on the part of the young wife towards her husband and being a man of experience, the ex-sheriff defines the cause. The husband, who finds his affectionate advances toward his wife repulsed, leaves tor his work at the mine. The sheriff, overhearing his daughter making an appointment with David Morton, who possesses better looks and manners than her plain working husband, follows her to the meeting place and confronts the man, gun in hand. He orders him to leave. Taking his daughter back to the little cabin, he sits down with her beside the open fire and remonstrates with her, knowing that she is just an innocent-hearted western girl with really no idea of evil, to bring her to her senses and relates to her the story of his early life and experiences. When sheriff of Gray Gulch, he gets home to his wife one day to find that she has offered hospitality to a man who is badly battered up and seems to be in unfortunate circumstances. Together they nurse the man to convalescence. The sheriff receives a letter from the Kansas City authorities warning him concerning an artist who has become a forger of bank notes and further stating a picture and description will follow later. He does not connect this criminal with the man he is keeping at his house, although he knows the latter is an artist. The friendship between the sheriff's wife and the artist grows. He paints her picture often and the husband little realizes the affection their constant association leads to. Later he receives the description and photograph of the man wanted and it is then he realizes the man he has been keeping at his house and who they had nursed back to health, is none other than the criminal in question. He charged the man with the crime and shows him the photograph and description and takes him into custody. That night the wife leaves a note to her husband stating that she loves the imprisoned man. Taking the keys to the jail from his pocket and packing up a few belongings, she goes to the jail and frees the man, Edward Boyle. Next morning the sheriff discovers the state of affairs and sets out in pursuit, determined to capture the man at all costs. The erring wife has taken with her her small child. The water supply is nearly exhausted and she begs some from the man. He refuses it to her. A struggle ensues between them for possession of the small remaining water supply, in which the woman is able to knock him down in his weakened condition. In falling he strikes his head against the wheel of the wagon in which they are traveling and is rendered unconscious. The sheriff's wife stumbles over the satchel in which she has brought her belongings and discovers therein the handcuffs taken from the man by her in the jail, and which she had inadvertently put into the handbag. Realizing that, should the man recover consciousness, he will cause her further trouble, she handcuffs him to the wagon wheel. She then goes to give water to her baby, but discovers that the canteen is entirely empty. Facing death for herself and baby, she becomes demented and wanders out across the desert. The sheriff, meanwhile, closely following the trail, comes upon the deserted wagon and finds his man handcuffed to the wheel, dead. He takes up the trail of his wife, and, following it some distance, comes upon her body. She, likewise, has succumbed to the desert thirst, but the baby is alive. He takes the child in his arms and, as the story closes, the old sheriff turns to his daughter and kindly tells her that she was that child. Suddenly they hear a noise outside. It is the husband, who has returned from his work and is cleaning quietly the mire from his shoes. The wife goes to him, throws her arms about his neck and weeps. The husband is at a loss to know the reason for this but the old men tells him it is all right. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Murdock MacQuarrie Ex-Sheriff Joseph Bohn Ex-Sheriff Joseph Bohn See fewer	Modern Times (1936)
Agnes Vernon Nell Bohn - the Sheriff's Daughter Nell Bohn - the Sheriff's Daughter See fewer	Queen of the Turf (1921)
Pearl Summers Ellen Bohn - the Sheriff's Wife Ellen Bohn - the Sheriff's Wife See fewer	The Slip (1912)
William A. Crinley Jack Cotton Jack Cotton See fewer	The Radio Detective (1926)

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