An Amateur Holdup (1909)
Jonesville reads its morning paper one day and finds that a crime wave has come to town. During the preceding night the residences of two or three leading citizens have been burglarized, two or three midnight pedestrians have been sandbagged, and "the police are powerless." Mrs. Brown warns her husband to take the better lighted streets when he comes home at night. He laughs and says he can take care of himself. Brown prepares after dinner to attend a meeting of the Municipal Protection League, and gives Mrs. Brown a vest to mend. Mrs. Brown removes her husband's watch and money from his vest and returns the garment without telling him of having removed his valuables. Brown, after being cautioned by his wife to look sharp, starts out for the meeting. While on the way he collides with a drunken man, who brushes close to him and has difficulty in separating himself from Brown. The man swears at Brown and ambles on, while Brown looks after him with disgust. Brown stops into a cigar store and there makes the discovery of having lost his watch and purse. He concludes that the intoxicated one must have got them and hurries out in an endeavor to overtake the thief. At the point of a pistol Brown demands the return of his valuables, and the drunk, believing that he is being held up, delivers his own watch and purse to Brown. Brown hurries back to the cigar store and boasts of his heroism, when the victim, accompanied by two policemen, enters the place and points out Brown as the guilty party. Brown is dragged to the police station and is dumbfounded when he learns that the man he robbed was entirely innocent of having removed his own watch and money. He is liberated from his most unenviable position when Mrs. Brown appears and explains that it was she who removed her husband's roll and timepiece. Brown is released, after being heavily fined by the judge for carrying concealed weapons, promising to observe more caution in his future dealings with supposed hold-up men.
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