Shadow of the Law (1930)

John Nelson a welltodo businessman is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense In the ensuing fight the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove selfdefense for him has disappeared and can not be found