His Mother's Trust (1914) watch online HD

A poor old mother has a scapegrace son whose drinking and gambling habits break her heart, although she strives mightily to lead her boy right. But he will not stay home nights and travels ... See full summary

A poor old mother has a scapegrace son whose drinking and gambling habits break her heart, although she strives mightily to lead her boy right. But he will not stay home nights and travels with a tough mob, one of whom finally leads him into a robbery. The man they plan to rob is a wealthy man, whose philanthropy is well known. Invited to come to see him, the boy goes to see Keene, but only to get the lay of the land, for he and his pal, who plan to rob his house. The boy and his crook pal later go to the man's house to rob and the boy waits in the hall standing guard, while his pal investigates the safe. etc. The crook carries a 38 caliber gun while Keene has a 32 in his desk, and while the burglar is looking over the place Keene enters the room, surprises the burglar, who fires on him and is in turn shot and killed by Keene. The latter is mortally wounded, the shots that wounded him also knocking his gun out of his hand, and he is thus forced to use the dead burglar's gun with which...