By Unseen Hand (1914) Online

By Unseen Hand (1914) Online

Arthur Baxter comes to spend the week end with John Masterson, a wealthy merchant. With him are his nephew, Jack Warrington, and his niece. Margaret Warrington. Arthur is in love with Margaret; she repels his advances, but he persists. Her uncle, however, rather favors the match, as he thinks Baxter is wealthy. Jack Warrington, however, takes a different view of the matter and is badly worsted in a fist fight. He goes out hunting, and when he returns later, he finds Baxter asleep in the library; so he quietly slips in and lays his revolver and cartridge belt on the table. He leaves the room, and some time thereafter a shot is heard; Baxter is found dead in the chair; the police investigate and arrest Jack. Jimmy Norton, a keen police reporter, and friend of Margaret, refuses to believe that Jack is guilty. He discovers by accident, that the sun shining through a glass gold-fish bowl, has focused on a cartridge in the belt that Jack laid upon the table, exploded the shell and caused ...