The famous child detective Dick, with the collaboration of his stenographer, succeeds in uncovering a desperate character. But the little stenographer falls victim to the wiles of the villain's evil accomplices, and is locked by them under vile duress in a barrel of ashes, where she falls asleep.
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Georgie Stone as Little Dick - The Detective
'Baby' Carmen De Rue as Flora - Dick's Stenographer
Violet Radcliffe as Bad Joe
Harry Essman as Joe's First Assistant
Lloyd Perl as Joe's Second Assistant
Jack Hull as The Junkman
Betty Marsh as Little Laura
The Ash Can Trailer
United States 21 June 1915
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