A Dead Man's Honor (1911) Online

A Dead Man's Honor (1911) Online

Hugh and Henry Watson, two brothers, are in love with Helen Mallory. She rejects Hugh and accepts Henry. Hugh, broken-hearted, goes west, leaving a note to his mother telling her the reason for his going away. Hugh is the apple of his mother's eye, and she grieves herself into a collapse and is dying with sorrow. Her sight fails her. Henry tells his mother that he will go in search of his brother. Henry arrives among the mountains of Colorado. He takes a stagecoach and on his way to the point where he expects to find his brother, the stagecoach is held up by a masked robber and when the passengers are being robbed, Henry shoots the highwayman, whom he discovers to be his brother Hugh. Henry tells Hugh to get away as quickly as possible. He makes himself up to appear like the desperado and is afterwards captured as the guilty party. Henry gets word to the wounded brother, telling him to pose as the passenger who shot the thief in the stagecoach hold-up and collect the reward offered ...

From the San Francisco Chronicle, June 14, 1911: Ben Michaels, proprietor of a nickelodeon at 644 Broadway, San Francisco, California was convicted yesterday of violating section 761 of the new law which prohibits the exhibiting of a moving picture depicting violence or murder. Michaels was fined $100 with the alternative of 50 days in the County Jail. Michaels was arrested at the instance of the Board of Censors and Judge Shortall, and the officers of his court visited on Monday a nickelodeon on Market Street, where the alleged objectionable moving pictures were shown. It was entitled "A Dead Man's Honor," and showed a holdup and a man shot to death.