Cast
Stuart Holmes
Teddy Brant
Wanda Hawley
Helen
Vinnie Burns
Claire
Dan Mason
Walt Collins
C
Carl Eckstrom
Victor
Mary Martin
Rose Hare
O
Olive Trevor
Olga Hare
MovieDrama
The Derelict
19170h 50mDirected by Carl Harbaugh
Loutish Teddy Brant feeling trapped by his marriage and family commitments to the sweet Rose and their infant daughter Helen fakes his suicide and embarks on a dissolute life. Thinking herself free Rose remarries, and time passes contently. Years later, Teddy, now a hopeless derelict, wanders the country straying one night into the waiting room of a train station. He sees a young girl being accosted by an elderly gentleman who tries to entice her home. Teddy thinks nothing of the incident until he finds a purse lying on the seat and learns that the girl is his daughter Helen. Teddy hastens after them and in the ensuing fight, strangles Helen's assailant and then flees. Helen is arrested for the murder but is acquitted when Teddy staggers into the police station and confesses to the crime.
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