The Knife

Kate Tarleton grows up on a Southern plantation and becomes engaged to her guardian Dr. Robert Manning a famous surgeon. When Robert Kate and her younger sister Mary Lou visit New York where the doctor wishes to conduct medical experiments the superstitious Kate goes to the home of a fortune-teller named Stella Hill. Stella whose principal business is white slave trafficking drugs Kate and forces her to work in a "den of vice" run by Stella and her accomplice Jimmy Bristol where she contracts syphilis and goes insane. Robert Detective Ellis and a lawyer named Billy Meredith rescue Kate who recovers her sanity but remembers nothing of her bondage.