By Whose Hand?
0 votes
Chester Rowe commits a robbery and murder, then flees to the mountains where he meets and falls in love with Lottie Toby. Lottie's father receives news of $1,000 awaiting him at the post office. Rowe, aware of this, attempts to rob Mr. Toby. Disabled local youth Oliver comes upon the theft in process, he and Toby simultaneously shoot Rowe, resulting in his death. Oliver, believing he killed Rowe, hides the body. Toby's helper, Jack, finds Toby injured by a bullet wound. The sheriff wrongly accuses Jack of assaulting Toby. Oliver confesses to killing Rowe, and Jack is proven innocent.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1915-06-28
Runtime: 15 mins
Director: Henry Otto
Spoken language: No Language
Genres: Drama
Original title: By Whose Hand?
Production Companies: American Film Manufacturing Company
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Recommendations
Devdas
1935-03-30
Devdas, the son of a zamindar, and Parvati, his neighbour's daughter, are childhood sweethearts. How
The Barricade
1917-03-05
Debutante Hope Merrill returns home one day to find her financier father Amos Merrill on the verge o
Not So Long Ago
1925-09-07
Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win th
The Queen's Husband
1946-01-01
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wan
Satan
1920-01-30
A three-part historical film: the first episode takes place in ancient Egypt, the second is based on
Women They Talk About
1928-08-10
Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequenc
Great Expectations
1917-01-08
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that h
The Men She Married
1916-11-27
Tricked into marriage with a villain, the woman, believing him dead, marries another, only to have t
The Social Leper
1917-03-19
A clairvoyant warns divorcée Adrienne Van Couver to beware of Robert Warren, whom she has spurned. T
Behind the Monastery Wall
1928-01-15
The old nunnery owns the best lands. Nuns rent out the land to local rich men, and exploiting peasan
The Shadow of the East
1924-01-27
Barry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father. Craven's
Minnie
1922-12-01
Minnie, the homeliest girl in town, is devoted to her father, a discouraged inventor who has been wo
The Girl from Nowhere
1921-05-20
Headstrong Mavis Cole defying her grandfather runs away with the wealthy but caddish Herbert Whitman
The Stealers
1920-10-03
Rev. Robert Martin is an ex-minister who has lost his faith because of his wife's faithlessness, and
The Marriage Whirl
1925-07-19
Marian marries Arthur, a party-loving man, hoping to reform him, but he becomes restless and starts
Esmeralda
1922-06-01
Silent adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic focusing on the character of Esmeralda rather than Qua
Kiss or Kill
1918-10-21
Henry Warner (Herbert Rawlinson) is so broke that he has sold his overcoat and now his landlady won'
The Weaker Vessel
1919-06-30
Abby Hopkins, the eldest of a small-town newspaper-owner's five daughters, is urged by her family to
Little Women
1917-07-02
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Rose-Marie
1928-02-11
Sergeant Malone of the Mounties and effeminate Etienne Doray are both in love with Rose-Marie, but s