It was one of several films Lincoln made with the Tait family, who had produced The Story of the Kelly Gang.
[9] Mathias (Arthur Styan) is an innkeeper in a village in Alsace, happily married to Catherine (Miss Grist) and with a daughter Annette (Nellie Bramley).
However he is greatly in debt, so on Christmas Day 1833, he murders a Polish Jew (Mr Cullenane) who visits the inn for his gold.
Fifteen years later on Christmas Day, Mathias becomes delirious and hears the sound of the Jew's sleigh bells.
The film was an adaptation of a well known play and featured the only known screen appearance of stage actor Nellie Bramley.