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.

Directed by Richard Stanton

Top 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

C

Charles Edler

Martin

B

Barbara Conley

Bobby

B

Baby Cohen

The Baby Brother

J

James Titus

The Judge

H

Henry Peal

The District Attorney

J

Joseph Hartley

The Twelfth Juror

J

James Morgan

Warden

A

Arthur Glynn

The Governor

J

James P. McNeill

Dowling's Butler

A

Arthur Shilling

Dowling's Secretary

F

Fritz von Hardenberg

Factory Inspector

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