Acquitted

Mystery

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Paul Powell

Status Released

Release Date 1916-02-06

Storyline

Hard-working insurance company bookkeeper John Carter, comes home Easter eve to his suburban cottage with a potted lily for his loving wife and two daughters. The Carters live happily until cashier Charles Ryder is murdered by the night watchman, a "coke sniffer" in need of money, and Carter is accused because he worked with Ryder that evening.