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The Menace of the Mute

Nov 5, 1915

0h 50m

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Overview

Young Edyth Vail, believes her fiancé Allen Morris may have committed a murder, asking Ashton Kirk to investigate the crime. The fiancé admits he went to the David Hume's home to retrieve plans for a submarine, invented by his scientist father and stolen by the murdered man, but Allen claims he left the home before retrieving the plans. Kirk uses a train conductor's punch ticket to discover the identity of the murderers, one of whom is mute, and sets a trap to apprehend the suspects.

Genres

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

Pathé Exchange

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Cast

Ashton-Kirk

Arnold Daly

David Hume

Sheldon Lewis

Edyth Vail

Louise Rutter

Allen Morris

William Hartigan

Pendleton

Charles Laite

Martin Sabine

George D. Melville

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