Desc: Duped: Directed by J.P. McGowan. With William Desmond, Helen Holmes, J.P. McGowan, Dorothea Wolbert. New Yorker John Holmes, who has made a fortune on Wall Street, receives an urgent message to go West because a California gold mine in which he has invested may be lost due to the larceny of his foreman. Once in California, he meets Dolores Verdiego, who became an innocent victim of the foreman and his gang when she was coerced into making a false ownership claim on the mine from an old charter. John and Dolores fall in love, and John eventually unmasks the thieves and recovers his mine after the charter to proven to be a forgery.