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The story told by this picture is well introduced to make the final "taking" of that redoubtable highwayman, R. Bill, seem convincing. He is a character well known and often applauded, an outlaw with a heart of gold that shows plainly whenever he smiles and he smiles often. Moreover, he is afraid of nothing, including the sheriff and a barroom full of posse material. Then it is shown that no woman ever pleaded to him in vain; he is a direct lineal descendant of medieval paladins and doughty knights of the wood, like Robin Hood, popular heroes all. A perfectly acted drunken stage driver lets a child, daughter of the sheriff, get lost, get lost in the woods for hours she is overcome by exposure and is found very sick, by Rattlesnake Bill. It is his solicitude for the safety of the child that leads to his capture by the sheriff, whom he might have killed had he not feared to awaken the patient suddenly, which the doctor, he had risked getting warned here would prove fatal. The hero's role is perfectly suggested by John Ince, who is also the producer. The sheriff (William Carr) has a refreshingly human countenance in the picture and is natural in his acting. Billy Roesher, the stage driver, in a perfectly simulated drunk, added much to amuse the audience and make the offering convincing. E.C. Hall wrote the script. - The Moving Picture World, November 1, 1913