- A French peasant, unknown to his innocent daughter, becomes the leader of the murderous "Stranglers of Paris".
- In a little rose-covered cottage in a village of France lived respectable Simmonet, his wife, and their little daughter Mathilde. Their happiness was complete but short-lived, as his wife died after a short illness. Simmonet, nearly insane with grief, takes to drink, neglects his business, and sinks to the depths of an outcast of society. He is aroused to a sense of his condition, but fails to regain a foothold; it is too late. He becomes vindictive, hates all mankind, and makes a vow that by no matter what means, he would save his child from the pangs of poverty. He takes his child to Paris, where she grows to womanhood, ignorant of her father's double life. Simmonet loses his identity and assumes the name of Jagon. He soon drifts into the underworld of Paris, and. owing to his superior strength and powerful personality, becomes the leader of the dreaded gang known as "The Stranglers of Paris." Wealthy, elderly gentleman Claude Guerin is attracted by Mathilde's beauty and asks for her hand in marriage. Jagon makes a tool of Mathilde and compels her to accept, provided he makes a will in her favor. This he does; later he strangled by Jagon and found dead before the wedding day. For this crime, Blanchard, an innocent man, is convicted on circumstantial evidence. Later, Captain Guerin, a brother of the murdered man, contests the will and obtains a verdict in favor of his daughter Jeanne. The day the money is paid to him by the court he is followed to his home by Jagon and his accomplice, Lorenz. That night Captain Guerin is strangled by Jargon and the money stolen. About this time Blanchard had been made a "trustee" of the prison, and succeeded, on the night of the murder, to slip away for a few hours to visit his wife, who is a maid at Captain Guerin's home. He was seen to enter and leave the house by several persons. He was brought back, and, owing to his record, is held for the crime. Jagon, too self-confident, enters the room at this moment, and is recognized by Jeanne as the man who had called on her father prior to his death, and accuses him. He is arrested and convicted of the crime and sentenced with Blanchard as his accomplice, to penal servitude for life. Fearing this, Jagon had previously given Lorenz the money and the family papers of Don Jose the Marquis de Ribas, and instructed him to assume this name, and to take care of his daughter, Mathilde. This Lorenz does, and later marries her. Jeanne Guerin, believing that Blanchard, the husband of her maid, is innocent of the crime of her father's death, entreats her lover, Robert, an officer in the army, to secure the proofs of his innocence. He meets Mathilde, who becomes infatuated with him, and promises to assist him, and when shown photographs of Jagon and Blanchard, discovers that Jagon is her father. In a scene with Lorenz, who is jealous of Robert, she declares him the real accomplice of her father, and asserts that she will rescue this innocent man and denounce him. Lorenz, fearful of this threat, strangles her. At this very moment Jagon appears, he and Blanchard having escaped from the convict ship. He springs upon Lorenz and almost strangles him, when he is shot by Lorenz and falls by his daughter's side. Arousing himself to follow Lorenz and kill him, he disappears behind curtains. Lorenz wanders back, half-dazed, and nearing the curtains, is drawn back of them by the powerful grip of Jagon, the strangler, and later found dead. Jagon, semi-conscious from loss of blood, staggers into his daughter's arms, who has recovered. He dies in her arms, but not until he has cleared Blanchard of both crimes, and sees him united to his wife a "free man."—Moving Picture World synopsis
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