A household cook named Margie has a sudden mental breakdown and attacks her employers, the Holland family. After being briefly restrained, she escapes the house and later sneaks back in. Driven by a "fiendish idea," she takes the Holland's infant baby from its crib and hides the child in the kitchen oven before starting a fire beneath it. The parents unknowingly begin to use the oven, but the baby is rescued just in time when the parents discover the plot during a struggle with the cook, who is then arrested by police.
D.W. Griffith
Writer
D.W. Griffith
Director
Billy Bitzer
Director of Photography
Marion Leonard
Mrs. Holland
Harry Solter
Mr. Holland
George Gebhardt
Policeman #1
Mack Sennett
Policeman #2
Clara T. Bracy
David Miles
Anita Hendrie
Margie, the Cook
