John Nolan is a hardworking, honest man, who has been thrown out of employment, and, from causes over which he has no control, finds it extremely difficult to find work. His wife and child ... See full summary
The Third Degree (1910) Online
John Nolan is a hardworking, honest man, who has been thrown out of employment, and, from causes over which he has no control, finds it extremely difficult to find work. His wife and child are reduced to the point of starvation, when John happens to think of an old friend and decides to call on him for work. Cold, hunger and want have so worked on the overwrought nerves of the wife that she falls into a sleep, but her rest is broken by horrible dreams. She dreams that her husband has gone to the home of his friend with the intent to rob him, A burglar has just entered the house for the same purpose. A struggle ensues between the old man and the burglar, in which the old man is choked, almost into insensibility. Just as he recovers, John enters the room, and, mistaking him for the person who had assaulted him, the old man springs on John with all the fury of a man defending his possessions in the struggle the old man is thrown near the portieres over the window, when the burglar, who ...