Magda Foy

Old Joel Smith is charged with murder. He tells his story, in flashback, of striking with ironworkers, then the confrontation when he resolves to go back to work to feed his starving family.

Major Neal disowns his daughter, because he considers her marriage a misalliance. Years pass. One morning (Christmas), a hamper is found beneath the Major's covered driveway. The hamper contains a baby girl. (imdb)

Kitty, the six-year-old daughter of Detective Harper, finds a homeless dog. Her mother does not look with favor upon the animal, and is about to drive him away when Harper decides that they will keep the dog. A gang of counterfeiters victimize some storekeepers with bad bills. The storekeepers complain to Captain Matthews of the Police Department, and he in turn notifies Detective Harper by telephone.

Herbert Moore is the leader of a gang of crooks. He leads by sheer force of mentality, while his pal, Burley Butts, leads by brutal force. Between them they have a plan to rob Mr. Stanhope, a noted philanthropist, on whom Moore has been spying. For their ill purposes they use little Oliver, an unwilling pupil of Butts. On a dark night they embark on their venture. Gripping events succeed each other in rapid succession.

A young man of high social position sacrifices his home and family for a girl of the stage. Cast off by his family, the young man finds that he is not qualified to earn his living. In the meanwhile his wife grows ill, a child is born, and several years after, the man finds himself in narrow straits. He prepares to go out and burglarize a place. His child enters when he leaves his revolver on the table. The child plays with it as with a toy and then innocently removes the bullets.