Trying Out No. 707 (1913) Online

Trying Out No. 707 (1913) Online

Convict "No. 707" is a presumably hardened individual. "In" for 25 years, the limit for alleged safe-cracking. The warden of the penitentiary concludes to try the Honor System and allows a party of his prisoners to work in a quarry without an armed guard, placing the responsibility for their return upon one of their own number. Strangely enough, "No. 707" refuses to trust himself to such temptation, preferring to remain under guard. Close to the quarry lives a lone widow, Mrs. Love, and one of these trusted convicts attempts to hide on her premises and get away. But she discovers him and talks to him to such a purpose that he goes back to the pen, repentant. At a meeting in the prison chapel this convict testifies to the influence the dear old lady had upon him for good. "No, 707," who is at the meeting, appears to recognize his own mother in the description of Mrs. Love and asks permission to join the honor squad, and soon makes his way to her cottage and looks through the window. ...