A Boomerang Swindle - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

Barton and Hanscon, two swindlers, to elude the police go to a little country village. At the hotel Barton reads an ad in the local paper of a furnished house and cultivated farm for sale and he plans to swindle the owner (Jouhan Splivens)...See moreBarton and Hanscon, two swindlers, to elude the police go to a little country village. At the hotel Barton reads an ad in the local paper of a furnished house and cultivated farm for sale and he plans to swindle the owner (Jouhan Splivens) out of a few hundred dollars. Barton calls on the farmer and pays him a five hundred dollar deposit on the farm. A few days later Hanscon calls and offers Splivens a thousand dollars more. Splivens tells him to call the following day for an answer. Barton returns to pay the balance and Splivens buys back the receipt for a thousand dollars. Tom Pope, a young lawyer and the fiancé of Frances, the farmer's daughter, overhears the crook boasting of how he swindled the old man. Phoning to Splivens, Tom verifies his fears. Tom then gets a friend and taking him up to his room, which is next to the one occupied by the crooks, Tom gets him to say loud enough for the crooks to hear, that the traction company want to buy the land and will pay ten thousand for it. The crooks fall for the plan. Hanscon rushes back to Splivens and buys the farm for six thousand, a gold watch and a diamond stick pin. Splivens is a little over four thousand in. Tom gets the girl and the two crooks go to jail. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less