The widow Cooper and her two sons lived in moderate circumstances in one of the large Eastern cities. Her eldest son became cashier in the First National Bank. Some time after he had attained this position, he fell in with a class...

Saved from Himself

The widow Cooper and her two sons lived in moderate circumstances in one of the large Eastern cities. Her eldest son became cashier in the First National Bank. Some time after he had attained this position, he fell in with a class socially below him. In order to maintain the attitude and class of leader in this social set, his earnings were soon squandered. At this period there comes the woman. Cooper, to maintain this woman in style, steals from the bank. One morning on entering the bank, he is accused by the president of that institution of theft. He denies the charge, but he has left behind him finger prints on one of the ledgers. The president of the bank calls in the police, and Cooper is arrested. He is tried, found guilty, and sentenced to serve five years' penal servitude. After the trial he is confined in prison with his pal. They succeed in overpowering the guard and climbing the wall. The guard on the wall opens fire and kills Cooper's pal. At the critical moment, a freight train dashes past the prison wall. Cooper realizes his plight, and makes a plunge to reach the roof of the swiftly moving car. He succeeds and rides off, with the baffled guard on the wall emptying his rifle at him. Cooper leaves the freight train at a little way-station, and succeeds in stealing from the switchman's shanty a suit of overalls. A short time after this the younger brother receives an offer from the Premier Mining Company of British Columbia, to act as their cashier. He, his mother and his sweetheart decide to leave for the Northwest. Young Cooper arrives and takes up his position. In the meantime the older brother, now a fugitive from justice, arrives in the same town with his mother and brother. He, having sunk so low, is only too glad to fall in with two notorious crooks. The moneys of the Premier Mining Company have been delayed in transportation, therefore. Will Cooper, cashier for the mine, is forced to travel overland to get the money to pay the mine hands. The brother and his crook companions decide to hold up the cashier. However, the cashier fears that this attempt will be made; he empties the money box, fills it with stones, and secrets the money in his stuffed moose-head. The robbers hold him up in a lonely spot of the road and take the money-box, leaving behind as worthless the moose-head. Realizing that they had been tricked, they formulate a plan of entering the mine office. Will and Dora accidentally overhear this plan. They then make up their minds that they must save Cooper from himself. The robbers enter the mine office, leaving Cooper outside on guard. Will overpowers his brother, and locks the desperadoes in the office, while Dora rides for the mounted police. Will then takes his brother home to his mother, and pays double the amount of his brother's defalcation. Meanwhile the two companions of Cooper are arrested and sentenced. Cooper promises to go straight; he migrates farther west, and engages in the real estate business. Six months later, we find him honest, hard-working and making good, while the widow and her younger son and his sweetheart take up again the thread of their lives.

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