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State Senator Ludlowe introduces a bill in the Senate prohibiting capital punishment. That night as he goes home he remembers that it is his daughter's birthday. While he is purchasing a costly jewel as a present for his daughter, a crook ...See moreState Senator Ludlowe introduces a bill in the Senate prohibiting capital punishment. That night as he goes home he remembers that it is his daughter's birthday. While he is purchasing a costly jewel as a present for his daughter, a crook is watching him through the window of the jewelry store. That night the father hears a suspicious sound and hides himself to await developments. The crook enters the room, lays his revolver upon the table and approaches the safe. The senator holds the crook at bay with his own revolver. He is about to turn the housebreaker over to the police when he remembers the charity to criminals he recommends in his bill. He liberates the crook with admonitions to lead a better life. Left alone, the senator becomes drowsy and falls asleep in his chair. He dreams that the crook returns and re-enters his house, still bent upon stealing the jewel. In the dream he sees the crook shoot and kill his daughter, and later he sees the crook arrested. He awakens and begins studying over his bill to prohibit capital punishment. He is convinced that after his charitable action in liberating the burglar, had he returned and killed his daughter, as he dreamed, he would have been deserving of capital punishment. In the senate chamber he causes a sensation by withdrawing his bill without explanation. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less