A gang of thieves is captured and brought to justice. Some weeks later the woman of the party dies in prison and her baby, Jane, is adopted. Twenty years pass and Jane, grown to young womanhood, has an inherited propensity for stealing which she is unable to resist.
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Mary Ross as The Thief
Alice Hollister as Jane - the Thief's Daughter
Helen Lindroth as Mrs. Dexter
James Vincent as Dr. Van Buren
Robert G. Vignola Director
United States 26 May 1913
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12 April 1913
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home.
09 May 1913
Through the efforts of the Rev. John Drummond, who comes to a small western mining town with his little boy, all the saloons are closed.
21 January 1913
A kind hearted actress who befriended a poor little waif of the street, soon grew to love the child. When she went on the road she found him a home with her old nurse.
27 February 1913
In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's apartment.
15 September 1913
Angelo Diotti, a violinist, although encouraged by the eulogy of the musical profession, fails to impress Mildred Wallace, with whom he is in love, by his efforts on the violin.
21 November 1913
Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border.
10 October 1913
Mr. Burns, a student of Theosophy, has a dream in the hammock. He sees himself, his wife and her admirer, in a previous existence.
07 August 1913
When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out.
14 April 1913
A Keystone Kops short about a landlord discovering three "anner-kist" tenants building a bomb.
13 December 1913
Mary and Billy are sweethearts. Mr. Stanley, the girl's father, suspects the boy of being a victim of the drug habit.
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