Find the Woman (1922)

Clancy Deane, who leaves her home in Ohio for a career on the New York stage, makes the acquaintance of the Webers, tools of Maurice Beiner, a blackmailer operating under the cover of a theatrical agency. While in Beiner's office seeking an engagement, Clancy witnesses his being stunned by a fall over a table. She leaves by a window, and on the fire escape she encounters Mrs. Carey, who wants to secure some letters. When Beiner's murder is investigated, Mrs. Carey is implicated but is released after examination. Judge Walbrough is knocked out by an unknown assailant, whose fingerprints are identical with those on the knife that killed Beiner. Following numerous complications, Don Carey, a dissolute alcoholic who kills himself, is revealed as the murderer. Clancy marries Philip Vandevent, and Judge Walbrough wins Sophie Carey.