M.J. Murchison

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The Stolen Engine
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The Stolen Engine

Dec 05, 1914

The Stolen Engine
1914 12 min 1 vues
A pair of crooks steal a valuable package, hold up the crew of a freight engine, and compel the engineer to aid their escape. Learning this, Helen climbs into the cab of a locomotive standing on a siding and takes up the chase.
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The Death Train
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The Death Train

Mar 06, 1915

The Death Train
1915 12 min 1 vues
The smashed corner of a trunk containing counterfeiting paraphernalia reveals to Helen that there is treachery afoot at Lone Point. Detectives capture two of the trio, but one of them gets away, pursued by Helen, across a high railroad trestle. Seventh of the "Hazards of Helen" Railroad Series.
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The Flying Freight's Captive
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The Flying Freight's Captive

Dec 12, 1914

The Flying Freight's Captive
1914 12 min 1 vues
Helen receives a cypher message about a jewel robbery and trails the yeggmen to their lair. Discovered, Helen is bound and gagged and thrown into a box car, but gets loose, and leaps to the ground from the speeding train. The crooks are captured, Helen's pluck wins Billy's heart, but, as usual, she refuses, with an eye on next week's adventure.
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The Broken Circuit
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The Broken Circuit

Jan 16, 1915

The Broken Circuit
1915 12 min 1 vues
Attempting to prevent an armed robbery in the paymaster's office, Helen is bound and gagged, and the thieves escape on a hand car. With her feet still bound by wire, Helen endeavors to pursue on foot, but stumbles and falls across the rails of the track of an oncoming train.
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The Red Signal
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The Red Signal

Feb 13, 1915

The Red Signal
1915 13 min 1 vues
Brent, the night operator has been knocked unconscious by a piece of lumber projecting from a passing freight, and has been rendered temporarily insane. Meantime, a furious storm arises, a track walker discovers a washout and wires a warning to Helen, who sets the danger signal for the Limited which is due in ten minutes.
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The Girl at Lone Point
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The Girl at Lone Point

Mar 27, 1915

The Girl at Lone Point
1915 13 min 1 vues
Helen catches two yeggmen who have broken into a freight car which has been detached from a train because of a hot box and are attempting to rifle the safe. The yeggmen escape aboard a passing freight with Helen, who has leaped upon the caboose, in hot pursuit, along with the trainmen.
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The Fate of Number One
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The Fate of Number One

Jul 13, 1915

The Fate of Number One
1915 13 min 1 vues
Their demand for money having gone unheeded, Garibaldi and his gang wreck Number One. Howard, who attempts to interfere, is battered into insensibility. The criminals then place a note in the man's pocket warning the railroad officials to heed their demands in the future.
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The Watertank Plot
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The Watertank Plot

Oct 09, 1915

The Watertank Plot
1915 12 min 1 vues
Fearing lest Cameron's horse beat the pony he has plunged on, Tony Dorgan orders one of his men to bribe the stableman to drug the animal. Saratoga Johnny tries to carry out Tony's order, but receives a beating at the hands of the irate Cameron employee.
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A Test of Courage
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A Test of Courage

Oct 16, 1915

A Test of Courage
1915 13 min 1 vues
Confronting Helen at the Lone Point Switch Tower, Denning and his pal imprison the girl in a clothes closet and then steal everything of value. In making their getaway, the crooks accidentally upset a lantern and set the tower afire. Helen, by picking the lock in the door with a hairpin, barely escapes death in the flames.
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A Mile a Minute
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A Mile a Minute

Oct 23, 1915

A Mile a Minute
1915 12 min 1 vues
Hume and Frintz, while riding in a boxcar, see a trunk in the unguarded baggage car of a passenger train. By a daring leap from the freight to the passenger, Hume steals the trunk, throws it into one of the boxcars, and then leaps back. The trunk is missed and the loss reported from Helen's station.
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The Pay Train
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The Pay Train

Jun 11, 1915

The Pay Train
1915 11 min 3 vues
Helen, overhearing Tony and his accomplices plotting to derail the pay train and steal its money, is thrown into a cattle car; grabbing a revolver which one of the men has dropped, she shoots the wire controlling the semaphore arm, which then swings up and flashes the danger flag, thus averting disaster in the nick of time.
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The Leap from the Water Tower
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The Leap from the Water Tower

Jan 09, 1915

The Leap from the Water Tower
1915 13 min 1 vues
Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making them useless on the long descent from the summit of Pine Hill to Lone Point the following day. Learning of the impending peril, Helen dashes to a water tower under which the train must pass, climbs out on the spout, leaps onto the roof of one of the cars, and warns the engineer in time. Helen's heroism wins her another offer of marriage, this time from Wadsworth, the freight engineer, but once again she opts for next weeks hazards instead.
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