Their First Execution

A new electric chair has been installed in the prison, and the officials impatiently await the first execution. The victim, with careless disregard for their feelings, makes his escape from the prison. The sleuth goes in pursuit, and finding the discarded convict's garb dons it as a disguise, hoping to meet the hunted man and ingratiate himself. Prison guards capture the sleuth, and disliking to disappoint the waiting crowd, decide to execute him. He is placed in the chair and the current turned on, but he stubbornly resists death. The current is doubled and trebled, to no avail. Meanwhile the real criminal has been captured, and he is brought back in time to save the sleuth from his perilous position.

Raymond Hatton

Mack Sennett

Ford Sterling

Charles Avery

Nick Cogley

Edgar Kennedy

Bert Hunn

Josef Swickard

• Mack SennettDirector

Release date

May 14, 1913

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

10m

Genres

Comedy