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A Midnight Mystery (1917)
Short | Short, Drama

A Midnight Mystery (1917)

Short | Short, Drama

Dudsbury is found dead by his butler, Hatch. Dickson Fay, a reporter, answers the butler's call for help and together they carry the body from the veranda where it is found into the house. Dr. Adams, Dudsbury's physician, attributes death ...See moreDudsbury is found dead by his butler, Hatch. Dickson Fay, a reporter, answers the butler's call for help and together they carry the body from the veranda where it is found into the house. Dr. Adams, Dudsbury's physician, attributes death to heart failure. The reporter is just leaving the room when he hears a woman's voice urging him to remain, as she fears that her uncle has been murdered. Fay then asks Adams to give him some facts for the newspaper, and the doctor tells about Dudsbury and his wonderful collection of antiques. Elsie Wheaton, Dudsbury's niece, has hastened home and arrives that day, the housekeeper, Mrs. Weed, being the only one who knows of her coming. It is she who asks Fay to remain. The doctor thinks she is still in Europe. When Hatch goes to Dudsbury's bedroom where the body was taken he is horrified to find neither the undertaker nor the body. As Fay and Adams enter the museum to look about, the doctor goes out and locks the door, thus holding the reporter a prisoner. Elsie is terrified by the sight of her uncle, who passes by her without speaking. There is blood on the side of his head. She hears the hammering of Fay against the museum door and opens it, but faints upon seeing Fay. Adams and Hatch continue to search for Dudsbury and the undertaker, but, unsuccessful, they return to the museum. Fay and Elsie hear their approach and hide behind a mummy case. When the two men cannot find the reporter, they begin to look behind the large objects and soon come to the mummy case. They try to pull the door open and as it gives with a jerk, Fay and Elsie are thrown back, causing them to fall through a trap-door and disappear. Adams tells Hatch, the butler, that they will take anything valuable they can carry and make a getaway. Fay anti Elsie land in a room where they confront Dudsbury and the undertaker, who sits in a chair, tied hand and foot. Dudsbury then relates to them his story. Becoming suspicious of Dr. Adams, he began to watch him. Finally he saw the man drop some powders in a glass of wine, and although Dudsbury merely touched the liquor to his lips he fell as he was entering the house and regained consciousness only to find the undertaker working over him. They grappled, but Dudsbury at fast forced him to enter the secret room, and fearing that he was an accomplice of Adams, tied him securely in the chair. Hearing a noise in the museum, Fay and Dudsbury discover Adams and Hatch as they are loading themselves with priceless antiques. At the sight of Dudsbury Dr. Adams recoils in horror. Hatch is afraid to look his master in the face. When the policemen arrive Dudsbury tells them to watch Adams carefully, and pays the undertaker and the police a large amount of money to keep the affair quiet. So the mystery is solved. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Thomas Jefferson Simon Dudsbury Simon Dudsbury See fewer	Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
Betty Schade Elsie Wheaton Elsie Wheaton See fewer	Bare Fists (1919)
Charles Perley Dickson Fay Dickson Fay See fewer	The Chosen Prince, or the Friendship of David and Jonathan (1917)
Harry Holden Hatch Hatch See fewer	Treasure Island (1920)
E.P. Evers Dr. Adams Dr. Adams See fewer	Drugged Waters (1916)
Anna Dodge Mrs. Weed (as Anna Hernandez) Mrs. Weed (as Anna Hernandez) See fewer	The White Medicine Man (I) (1911)