The Mixed Sample Trunks (1912)
Howard Missimer and John Steppling, the former a salesman of ladies' suits, and the latter for a large wholesale surgical instrument concern, manage to get their trunks mixed on arriving at the hotel. Now Steppling has a very life-like dummy in his trunk that he demonstrates on for the edification of prospective customers, and it is this dummy that starts all the trouble. After securing his room, Missimer starts to unpack the suits from his trunk, and consequently is horrified on throwing back the lid to see what is apparently the dismembered head, limbs, etc., of a man. With a yell of horror he slams the trunk shut and sinks down at the table, only to be confronted by the headlines in the afternoon paper stating a brutal murder has been committed in that very hotel, and that the mutilated body has been found by the police in a trunk. Firmly believing he will be suspected of the crime if discovered, Missimer determines to escape. Meanwhile. Steppling finds he has the wrong trunk, complains to the clerk, and is informed be evidently has Missimer's trunk, as the latter sells ladies' suits. They are about to go to the room when a wild-eyed bellboy dashes in and tells of seeing Missimer doing uncanny things on the floor above. With a cop and a detective the party investigate. Missimer hears them coining and escapes down the fire escape. It is not until after a wild chase that he is captured and the mystery of the trunks explained, then Missimer treats to cigars for the crowd.
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