The Secret Service Man (1912)

• 69%
• 1912
• Drama

Officials of a foreign country learn that certain United States war plans they desire are in the possession of a prominent senator, at his country home. An adventuress, high up in society circles, delegated to learn their location, secures the combination of the safe they are in and her confederate enters and is robbing the safe when the senator's daughter surprises him. She is overpowered and he escapes with the plans. The secret service man in attendance follows, and one of the most exciting chases ever seen in pictures follows. The pursuit begins with the fugitive getting away on a trolley car. The pursuer commissions a horse and follows, but finds himself distanced. When the foreigner leaves the trolley and gets away in an aeroplane the secret service man takes after him in an automobile. When he has gained sufficiently on his pursuer, the foreigner drops 3,500 feet in a parachute and manages to jump a train that is just leaving the station. The other man leaves his auto when it breaks down and continues the chase of the train on a motor cycle. From the train the fugitive takes to his heels closely followed by the other and then jumps a high bridge into the river. The secret service man follows closely and at the river bank overpowers him and serves his country by getting the plans back into his own possession.