The Missing Finger - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

The story opens at midnight in the office of the Jewelers' Protective Association, the alarm indicator showing that a jeweler's shop has been entered. The Chief summons his men and they go to the shop. On entering they find the place ...See moreThe story opens at midnight in the office of the Jewelers' Protective Association, the alarm indicator showing that a jeweler's shop has been entered. The Chief summons his men and they go to the shop. On entering they find the place looted and the safe door blown open. In searching for a clue, the chief encounters blood stains and two joints of the little finger of a human hand. The detective visits the hospitals and, leaving his men in charge of the shop, starts to run out his clue. In the emergency ward of a hospital a man enters with his right hand bound in a handkerchief. The physician, assisted by a nurse, performs the necessary operation and the man, ignoring the doctor's advice to remain, hastily leaves. A few moments later the detective arrives; he learns of the man's visit and secures his description. About daybreak the man enters a railroad station, and, by fast running, is able to swing himself on the last car of the train pulling out of the station. A moment later the detective enters, and both the pursuer and pursued see each other for the first time. The detective summons the station-master and, securing an engine, starts after the fugitive. The man, knowing that he will be followed, jumps from the train on a lonely stretch of the road. He is unhurt, and has barely time to conceal himself as the engine bearing the detective rounds the curve and disappears. The man then makes his escape. Several months later Michael Clark, the burglar, turns up in a western town. He meets Bill Jackson, the son of a ranch owner, and is invited to visit. In the meantime the hospital doctor's sister, Mary Forrest, is told that she must go west for her health, and on receipt of a letter from Jackson she starts. On her arrival at the ranch both Bill and Clark fall in love with her, but the girl instinctively distrusts the latter. One day she takes a snap shot of both men and sends the photographs to her brother. On receipt of them, the doctor recognizes the man as being his patient on the night of the robbery and communicates with the detective. They decide to go west to capture him. When they arrive at the ranch the man tries to make his escape and is killed, while Bill is made a willing captive for life by Mary. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less