Tom Jordan, one of the deserving army of the unemployed in a great city, and his five-year-old daughter, Allie, are thrown out of their dilapidated shack because the rent is not forthcoming. The little one's mother is dead. Deprived of a ...See moreTom Jordan, one of the deserving army of the unemployed in a great city, and his five-year-old daughter, Allie, are thrown out of their dilapidated shack because the rent is not forthcoming. The little one's mother is dead. Deprived of a home, the man leaves the tired child in a park while he again seeks work in vain. Two sneak thieves snatch a suit from a clothing store, then finding they are pursued, the crooks, by a clever dodge, fasten the crime on the innocent Jordan. The latter is arrested and when taken before the young police judge, swears he is not guilty and begs to be allowed to get his baby from the park. The judge sends a policeman to the park with Jordan. The weeping, frightened Allie, however, had been picked up by a kind-hearted and wealthy young widow and when Jordan arrives at the park there is no trace of his baby. Crazed with grief, Jordan attempts to escape from the policeman, but is recaptured and given a limit sentence by the angry judge. Jordan swears vengeance against the judge. Allie only knows her father as "Daddy." The widow decides to keep the little one. Judge Ellers becomes interested in the widow and succumbs to the charms of Allie, ignorant of the fact that she is Jordan's child. Jordan is free at last. He buys a revolver, trails the judge to the widow's home and hides in the shrubbery, awaiting a chance to shoot down Ellers. An innocent game of hide and seek brings both Ellers and Allie near the ambush, but the child stumbles on her father first and saves him from the stain of murder. Written by
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