Just ordinary, natural happenings are shown as giving "the third degree" to a manslaughterer. Not daring to confess, he lets an innocent man (played by Francis Bushman) be suspected. The trial lasts three days and he (Harry Mainhall) looks on in torments that finally make him confess. Such a situation is perennially fresh and Mr. Mainhall's interpretation of it here makes a good offering. His acting shows a good measure of restrained imagination until the last few feet where the action becomes a little hysterical. One of the lesser roles, that of the conscience-stricken man's friend, weakened the effect somewhat by being too much like Mephistopheles, too much like a conscious torturer. He was made to appear to us more, as he must have appeared to his friend, and should have been more objective. In the last scene all the actors forgot art for a moment and began to feel the action as themselves, lost all objectivity. It is a very interesting picture as a whole and one worthwhile. - The Moving Picture World, October 12, 1912