Elliot Reynolds, a newspaper reporter, is sent to investigate charges of graft against Gorden Helm. Elliot, who is engaged to marry Helm’s daughter, Louise, gives Helm warning of his paper’s intentions. Helm does not believe Elliot can or will use the information against him and he is both alarmed and angry when he later learns the extent to which Elliot has gone. He and the reporter have a quarrel and Elliot leaves the house, to return a minute later to telephone, when he fines Helm dead of a bullet wound. The butler tells of the quarrel and Helm’s friends try to have Elliot convicted for Murder. While he is on trial and when things are going against him, a note is discovered in which Helm explained his reason for suicide. Elliot is free from all charges and eventually weds Louise. - Motography Vol. XV, No. 25. Apr-June 1916
This was the only film produced by American that used "murder" in the title.