The story
“George Waite, banker in a small town, steals the funds entrusted to him. He is abetted by Charles Sibley, the cashier, who bargains, in return for a share of the spoils, to flee to South America, thus accepting the blame of the theft. The only person who suspects the banker himself of complicity is Henry Spear, editor of the local paper. He attacks Waite in his columns. Waite sends to him an emissary with false expressions of sympathy. Spear has no notion that this man comes from the banker. He accepts from him some money and gives in return a promissory note, which really empowers the banker to seize Spear’s establishment and business at any time he may desire. Rosalie Spear goes to New York to visit her Aunt Marie. Meanwhile, Waite receives a letter from Sibley, telling him that his accomplice is in New York, and that unless the banker meets him there the following day, he will confess to the police. Rosalie and her little cousin Dicky walk in the park and take snapshots. They exchange cameras by accident with a young Westerner, Mansfield Hite. When the films are developed, Hite goes in search of the girl whose picture her little cousin had taken. He finds Rosalie. Another snapshot in the camera, taken by Dicky, shows the banker giving his accomplice hush money in the park. This is sufficient evidence to save the editor, and bring the guilty bank robbers to justice.”
Summary from Reel Life · 21 August 1915
