The Tiger Lily (1913)

"In Three Reels- A Sensational Story of a Jealous Woman Who Sends a Live Tiger to Destroy Her Rival, Little Knowing It's Her Own Child; Intensely Thrilling"

Thinking that her husband is paying more attention to his work and to their little daughter, Nina, than to her, Cleo Morin runs away with Henri Mordan. On the afternoon of their elopement, Morin, who is a ballet master, is seriously injured on the stage, and the doctor tells him that his spine is so affected that he will never be able to walk again.