The Adventure of the Button (1912)
Caught in a drenching downpour of rain one day, Hobbs hikes for the nearest store and purchases a raincoat. Arriving home with his purchase he finds that one of the buttons is missing. Meanwhile a crook buys a duplicate of the raincoat at the same store and, that night, enters the place and escapes with the contents of the cash-drawer. The only clue found by the frantic storekeeper is a button torn from the coat as the thief has escaped out the window. Next morning the storekeeper posts a notice in his window with the button, offering a reward for the capture of the thief. Passing the window Mrs. Hobbs sees the advertised button and immediately suspects it to be the one from her husband's raincoat. Meanwhile, the thief who has a room directly above the Hobbs' apartment, also sees the sign, hastens to the house, secretes the money under the bed-mattress, then calls the janitor and makes him a present of the raincoat. Young Sherlock, a would-be detective having been informed of the robbery, catches sight of Hobbs on the street wearing the raincoat with the missing button and attempts to arrest him as he is entering the apartment, but Hobbs takes him for a lunatic. Seeing this from the window, Mrs. Hobbs, fearing for hubby's safety, locks him in a bedroom and has an awful time with a bill collector whom she takes for a sleuth. It is not until the janitor is called in and explains where he got his raincoat that the capture of the real thief is made by Mrs. Hobbs as he tries to leap from the window. Consequently she is handed over the reward and matters end happily after all.
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