Drunkard's Child (1909)

• 44%
• 1909
• Drama

The wife lies on her death bed; the little boy, a cripple, is selling papers. The drunken father watches on the corner to take the pennies from the boy. An old man passing drops his wallet and the little boy restores the same to the loser who takes him along to buy him a square meal and some good clothes. He then brings him home. The dying wife begs the stranger to look out for her boy and after having received his promise she falls back, dead. The drunken father comes in but is shown the door by the old man. After the mother is buried the old man takes the boy to his home and adopts him. The drunkard learning of a sum of money in the house of the boy's benefactor tries to break open the safe. Discovered by his son, the old man is called. The drunkard is shot in the fight. Thus the drunkard's son has twice saved his protector from great loss.