The Public Defender
When bank president Leslie Morrison dips into the till, he seeks to place the blame on bank clerk David Moulton by altering the figures in Moulton's books. He lays his plan carefully, but upon leaving the building late one night, Morrison falls into an elevator shaft and is killed. Moulton, the one man known to have been there, is charged with murder and tried by district attorney Robert Murdock. Unable to afford a competent defense, Moulton is convicted and sentenced to die in an electric chair. However, Mary Reed, a stenographer who loves Moulton, appeals as a last resort to the newly elected public defender, Arthur Nelson. Nelson investigates the case and discovers evidence on the very eve of the execution, evidence that will warrant a stay. Rescued from death in the nick of time, Moulton is granted a new trial under the supervision of the public defender and is found innocent.
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Release
1917-11-03
Cast
Frank Keenan
Robert Murdock
Alma Hanlon
Mary Reed
Robert Edeson
Arthur Nelson
John St. Polis
David Moulton
Florence Short
Rose Moulton
Louis Stern
Leslie Morrison
Tex La Grove
Walter Holmes
Harry Kingsley
Arthur Stevens
Helen Conwell
'Queenie' La Mar
James E. Sullivan
Father O'Malley
F.A. Cronin
James Whalon
John O'Keefe
John Hartley
John K. Roberts
'Billy' Means
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