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History. The story describes the events which lead up to the reformation of an ex-convict. In 1910, dramatist Paul Armstrong adapted the story into a highly successful Broadway play under the title Alias Jimmy Valentine which ran 155 performances at Wallack's Theatre in New York.
- A Retrieved Reform
- The Cosmopolitan
- April 1903
- United States
Jimmy Valentine, a notorious safe-cracker, is pardoned by the governor and resumes his career of burglary. He is pursued by Ben Price, a detective who knows his tricks and tools.
Jimmy is a safecracker and thief who falls in love with Annabel Adams and changes his identity to Ralph D. Spencer. He is a witty and kind character who is redeemed by his sacrifice for Agatha, Annabel's niece.
Jimmy Valentine, a safecracker, is paroled from prison and falls in love with the banker's daughter in Elmore, Arkansas. He uses his skills to save a girl from a locked vault, but his reformation is threatened by a detective who recognizes him.
A guard came to the prison shoe-shop, where Jimmy Valentine was assiduously stitching uppers, and escorted him to the front office. There the warden handed Jimmy his pardon, which had been signed that morning by the governor. Jimmy took it in a tired kind of way. He had served nearly ten months of a four year sentence. He had expected to stay ...
Jimmy Valentine is a professional thief, an expert safe-breaker no less. He's just been released from prison for this very crime, although he claims to the warden that he was innocent all...
22. Juli 2016 · We present the short story "A Retrieved Reformation," by O. Henry. The story was originally adapted and recorded by the U.S. Department of State. In the prison shoe-shop, Jimmy Valentine was ...
