The first picture shows a woman sitting in her home, when a man enters, who has some costly lace for sale. After examining the goods, the lady leaves the room for a moment, and the vendor, seizing the opportunity, opens the safe and steals a large quantity of jewels with which he quickly makes his escape. When the woman returns and finds she has been robbed, she immediately hastens to a detective where she recognizes the lace seller’s picture in the rogues’ gallery. She then offers a large reward for his capture, and two of the cleverest detectives are put on the case. They first go to a café and spy the culprit sitting at a nearby table, but before they have time to grab him he makes his escape and drives to his home in a cab, where he gets his two trunks and makes for the railroad station. The detectives, in disguise, follow him, but miss the train by a few seconds. Not to be outdone, however, they procure an automobile and follow the train, arriving at the fellow’s destination as soon as he does himself. They follow him to the hotel and disguise themselves, one as a porter and the other as a maid. The fellow becomes suspicious of the servants, and decides to keep a watch on them. He peeps through the keyhole; he sees them open his trunks and conceal themselves inside. He sneaks out and locks down the lids, thus making them prisoners and then hurries away. The attendants come to take the trunks to the room, but as soon as they lift them the bottoms fall out, thus liberating the detectives. They start after the crook, and this time he rides away on a bicycle: but they are close on his heels, and follow him as he jumps into a river and swims to the opposite shore. Finally he rushes into a curio store, and while he is talking to the attendant the detectives sneak in and one disguises himself as a mummy, while the other gets into a suit of armor. Just as the burglar is about to leave they pounce upon him, happily at last to have outwitted such a resourceful crook.