Cheating the Public
20/01/1918
John Dowling, a greedy factory owner, cuts his employees' pay while raising their food prices at the company store. The employees strike but to no avail. Mary Garvin visits Dowling to plead the laborers' cause, but because her mother had once refused his marriage proposal, he attacks Mary out of revenge. In the struggle, Dowling is shot, and Mary is tried and convicted of murder. Before the execution, foreman "Bull" Thompson boasts that his bullet killed Dowling during Mary and the factory owner's struggle, and Dowling's son Chester, who has attempted to introduce reforms into the factory, races to the governor's train to secure a pardon for Mary. After Mary's release, she and Chester are married.
Movie Information
Enid Markey
as Mary Garvin
Ralph Lewis
as John Dowling
Wanda Hawley
as Grace Martin
Bertram Grassby
as Chester Dowling
Tom Wilson
as 'Bull' Thompson
Edward Peil Sr.
as Mary's Attorney
Carrie Clark Ward
as Mrs. O'Toole
Fanny Midgley
as Mary's Mother
Frankie Lee
as Frankie Garvin
Charles Edler
as Martin
Barbara Conley
as Bobby
Baby Cohen
as The Baby Brother
James Titus
as The Judge
Henry Peal
as The District Attorney
Joseph Hartley
as The Twelfth Juror
James Morgan
as Warden
Arthur Glynn
as The Governor
James P. McNeill
as Dowling's Butler
Arthur Shilling
as Dowling's Secretary
Fritz von Hardenberg
as Factory Inspector
Miles McCormack
as
Beverly Griffith
as
