The Moving Picture Weekly (1916-1917)

20 ■THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY NEALHARTin ^ (Copyright 1917, Universal FilmMfg Co.) $5,000 REWARD!!! For the Capture, Dead or Alive, of Neal Hart lEAL himself read the circular which had just been put up by the sheriff. "Well, I'd like the five I thcmsand all right," he soliloquized, "but I don't see how I am going to arrest myself, so here goes for a drink." But several men in the Red Dog saloon knew the outlaw's face almost as well as he did himself, and while the drink was going down one man ran for the sheriff, while the other ran to the back door to prevent the outlaw's escape that way. But Neal's profession had taught him supercaution. He saw the sheriff even before he was seen by the sheriff, and instinctively felt the man at the rear door. When the latter put his head through, Neal's gat got him like a bolt of lightning, and in the confusion Neal made his getaway with the sheriff's posse in hot pursuit. Neal's horse was tired, and he just escaped the posse by plunging over a cliff and waiting till it went by, but he had been seriously wounded. Staggering along the underbrush he finally came to a cabin. Mary Moore, who occupied this little homestead with her husband, took him in, and although she suspected that he was an outlaw, she ministered to his wounds tenderly, and Neal was con THREE REEL Western Drama. Produced by George Marshall. Neal Neal Hart John Moore Fred Church His Wife Janet Eastman Joe Ramon Joe Rickson Sheriff Bud Osborne vinced that she was an angel. The couple were in very sad straits owing to the exhaustion of their resources, and their larder had been replenished by Joe Ramon, a prepossessing gambler who had conceived a guilty admiration for Mary. Neither noticed at the time the malicious smile with which Ramon received their effusive thanks. But this same Joe Ramon concocted as diabolical a scheme as ever a man devised to win a woman. In the first place, he had promised to give John Moore a job, and told him to meet him at the saloon the next day. While John was away, Joe came to the cabin, and Mary's painful attempts to conceal Neal's presence convinced him that the outlaw was in the back room. Neal realized that his position there would endanger the Moores, and after Joe went away he made a break for the open, but was overtaken by Joe, and was promised his liberty if he would rob a stage coach the following day of twenty thousand dollars in gold. The alternative was the exposure of his being shielded by the Moores. Joe then sent John Moore to the rendezvous agreed upon with Neal after the coach shall have been robbed. Joe thought thereby to get rid of both men, and Mrs. Moore would then inevitably fall into his hands. And the plan would have worked, except for the honesty of the outlaw. When the posse, which had been warned beforehand of the robbery, overtook Neal • and John, both of whom were extremely surprised to see each other, Neal, whose brain acted like a flash, turned to John. "You make a break over there in that direction, and I'll get out the best I can. Here goes the money.? And he threw it in the brush beside the road, and rode directly in the opposite direction from which the attack was expected. His furious riding and a clever manoeuver outdistanced the posse, and Neal had a free road to Cactus Center, where he demanded to know where Ramon was. "Oh, he went up to the Moore cabin half an hour ago," said one of the men in the saloon. Another furious ride, and Neal dashed open the door just in time to see Mary desperately struggling in the arms of the victorious gambler. Without a moment's hesitation Neal sent the worthless gambler's black heart hurtling into eternity. But the posse was right on his heels. "Quick," he said to John Moore, who had just stepped into the cabin. "You hold me up and turn me over to the police. It's the only way." And with a smile on his face, and tears in the eyes of John and Mary Moore, Neal surrendered himself to the sheriff. He had squared it.