Cheating the Public

Overview

John Dowling, a greedy factory owner, cuts his employees' pay while raising their food prices at the company store. The employees strike but to no avail. Mary Garvin visits Dowling to plead the laborers' cause, but because her mother had once refused his marriage proposal, he attacks Mary out of revenge. In the struggle, Dowling is shot, and Mary is tried and convicted of murder. Before the execution, foreman "Bull" Thompson boasts that his bullet killed Dowling during Mary and the factory owner's struggle, and Dowling's son Chester, who has attempted to introduce reforms into the factory, races to the governor's train to secure a pardon for Mary. After Mary's release, she and Chester are married.

Details

Cast

Enid Markey

Mary Garvin

Ralph Lewis

John Dowling

Wanda Hawley

Grace Martin

Bertram Grassby

Chester Dowling

Tom Wilson

'Bull' Thompson

Edward Peil Sr.

Mary's Attorney

Carrie Clark Ward

Mrs. O'Toole

Fanny Midgley

Mary's Mother

Frankie Lee

Frankie Garvin

Charles Edler

Martin

Barbara Conley

Bobby

Baby Cohen

The Baby Brother

James Titus

The Judge

Henry Peal

The District Attorney

Joseph Hartley

The Twelfth Juror

James Morgan

Warden

Arthur Glynn

The Governor

James P. McNeill

Dowling's Butler

Arthur Shilling

Dowling's Secretary

Fritz von Hardenberg

Factory Inspector