The Criminal

Directed by Reginald Barker

With Clara Williams, William Desmond, Enid Willis, Joseph J. Dowling and Gertrude Claire

A young Italian immigrant girl, uneducated and superstitious, finds an abandoned baby on the stairs of her tenement, with a note attached explaining the baby is illegitimate. A young newspaper reporter, whom the girl knows from waiting on him at the restaurant where she works, reads the note for her. But the police arrest her, at no evidence whatsoever other than possession of the baby, for kidnapping.