the screen is short-lived, for the character is shot and killed in the first 10 minutes of the 54-minute film. By 1940, Lingham identified himself as fully retired from the motion picture industry. The United States Census for that year documents that he and his wife Alberta, who was long retired from her acting career, were still living in California, residing together in a $30-a-month apartment on Fountain Avenue in Los Angeles. In that federal survey of the nation's population, Lingham classifies himself as retired and also documents that he was not seeking employment in 1940 and had not worked for wages at all in the preceding year. The couple's living arrangements at that time suggest the two former actors were living modestly off investments or remaining income they had accrued during their many years performing on stage and in films. Sometime during the next decade, though, either for financial or medical reasons, Lingham relocated to the Motion Picture Country House, a retirement community for former film-industry employees in nearby Woodland Hills. Personal life and death In Columbus, Ohio on February 4, 1907, Lingham married Alberta Katherine Boardman Brisk (stage name Katherine Goodrich). Thomas's obituary, however, in the Los Angeles Times in 1950 indicates that he may have been married a second time late in life. At the time of his death his surviving wife was identified in the newspaper simply as "Mary". Published three days after his death, Lingham's full obituary reads as follows: Partial filmography The Shadow of Guilt (1914) The Bond Eternal (1914) The Barrier of Ignorance (1914) The Potter and the Clay (1914) The Strangler's Cord (1915) The Dream Seekers (1915) The Pitfall (1915) Stingaree (1915) The Taking of Stingaree (1915) A Bushranger at Bay (1915) The Master Swindlers (1916) Medicine Bend (1916) The Manager of the B. and A. (1916) The Social Pirates (1916) Judith of the Cumberlands (1916) Lass of the Lumberlands (1916) The Lost Express (1917) The Railroad Raiders (1917) The Lion's Claws (1918) The Red Glove (1919) The Adventures of Ruth (1919) The Vanishing Dagger (1920) Ruth of the Rockies (1920) The Fire Eater (1921) The Honor of Rameriz (1921) My Lady Friends (1921) The Spirit of the Lake (1921) Riders of the Law (1922) The Crow's Nest (1922) Wolf Tracks (1923) The Forbidden Trail (1923) Itching Palms (1923) Desert Rider (1923) Desert Driven (1923) The Lightning Rider (1924) Wanted by the