Revised list of high-class original motion picture films (1908)

SENSATIONAL. then are able to obtain the specie and again make their way to their mountain resort. We see the sheriff posting a bill offering a reward of $10,000 for the capture of Buck Brady, dead or alive. He has scarcely left, however, before the four bandits make their appearance and, reading the bill, express their disdain by shooting their revolvers at it, and finally tear it down. Evidently Mr. Brady has not been captured, for we next see him reconnoitering a placer mine, where gold is being taken out in large quantities by the lucky diggers. He stands and notes the accumulation of a large amount of gold dust and tracks the messenger who carries it away and who is accompanied by an armed guard, down to the nearest city, where he sees him enter the county bank and presumably deposit the gold, as he afterwards comes out empty-handed. Having obtained this information, the outlaw calls his followers together and instructs them what to do, and we next see them riding through a beautiful and romantic rocky pass and fording streams on their way to the bank, where the daring four arrive in the course of the afternoon and ride straight up to the sidewalk in front of the bank. Two of their number then enter the bank and, at the mouth of their revolvers, compel the cashier and assistants to leave the. bank and stand in front of the two other robbers, while they enter and leisurely despoil the vaults, bringing away with them the recently deposited gold dust, besides an enormous amount of money in gold and treasury bills. Holding the unfortunate bank officers at bay, they dispose of the spoils on their horses and, mounting, dash like mad through the streets, being soon lost to sight in a cloud of dust and revolver smoke. Fortunately the sheriff with his mounted posse, returning from a fruitless chase for other criminals, arrives on the scene almost immediately and, stopping only long enough to obtain fresh horses, they start at once in pursuit of this band of desperate outlaws. The chase is on, and continues for many a weary mile. Both pursuers and pursued appear at frequent intervals, mounted on their horses, life size, and apparently rushing straight toward the audience. Closer and closer come the officers of the law, whose horses are less wearied. At last the bandits are compelled to leave their horses and take to the woods, when a running fight ensues, in which Buck Brady's three associates are killed, while the sheriffs party also lose several of their number. Fighting to the last, although wounded in several places, the desperate villain holds his own until a shot from the sheriff takes vital effect, and Buck Brady, the noted Bandit King, has at last paid the penalty of his crime. S. P. 2563-2570. THE WIRE TAPPERS. Price, §72.00. Approximate Length, 600 feet. It is an old and true saying that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives, and our picture — which reproduces an occurrence actually taking place in New York not long ago — shows with startling fidelity some of the workings of the "underworld" and the manner in which (.to use the phraseology of the wire tapping craft) the "real stuff" — the prosperous business man — is "laid against the wire." We may say that through nefarious practices of this description a well-known New York business man was recently mulcted of over $60,000, and committed suicide in consequence. We first see the intended victim, supposedly a banker, sitting at work in his office. A card is brought him, and. by his instructions, a caller is admitted, who proves to be a crook well known in New York under the cognomen of the "King of the Wire Tappers." He explains to the banker that he is the sole possessor of a system by which the betting ring and pool rooms ran be beaten, and immense sums of money secured without risk or possibility of loss. Following his natural inclination tin banker Indignantly refuses to entertain the proposition, but at length consents to listen to the