Where Is Mulcahy? (1910)
Sergeant Mulcahy, a rotund, pompous policeman, reports to the desk sergeant in the station house one morning and receives a note from the chief, ordering him to keep a sharp lookout for a number of mischievous boys, who are annoying the citizens and householders of his part of the precinct. Mulcahy says he will get them and, starting out with his men, warns them to watch out for the boys. Sergeant Mulcahy, an hour later, comes across an old gentleman, who is being annoyed by two boys, who have made a target of his silk hat. Mulcahy dashes off after the boys, up an alley, across lots and into private gardens, and thinks he has them captured, when they come to a high-board fence. The larger boy adroitly leaps over the fence and the smaller chap crawls through a hole just as the policeman's brawny hand is thrust after him. He catches the youth by the coat tail and in an effort to get a tighter hold of his prisoner, wriggles head first through the hole, but is unable to get further. The boy with a sudden jerk breaks away and runs after the other chap. Mulcahy sees he is beaten and attempts to squirm out, when he finds that he is stuck tight and the more be wriggles the tighter he sticks. The boys see the policeman's predicament and return cautiously, grinning broadly. The fat policeman mutters a few incoherences and calls down a curse on the kids. They laugh over the situation and after tormenting the poor cop for a while move away, heedless of his entreaties for them to help him out of the hole. Eventually Mulcahy is missed at the station. They have had no report from him for two or three hours and fear is expresses by the desk sergeant that Mulcahy may have met with some accident. We return again to Mulcahy, who has been struggling in the fence for an hour. Suddenly he espies his two former tormentors and a large crowd of other young vagabonds maneuvering threateningly toward him. The boys gather around him and lose no time in getting even with their old enemy. The scene finally ends with two or three of the boys pulling the copper's trousers off and making away with them. This is too much for Mulcahy, who exerts a supreme effort in making his escape. He finds an ash barrel, knocks the end in and crawling into it he makes his way cautiously up the alley. Another hour has passed and Mulcahy has not reported. Finally the sergeant, in desperation, sends a squad of policemen to search for him and after a search come upon the poor copper, making a back alley sneak for the police station. Arrived at the station Sergeant Mulcahy makes a tearful explanation of his terrifying adventures and mourns the loss of his trousers. At this instant a lady, bearing the policeman's trousers, comes in, making inquiries for the owner. Mulcahy identifies them, and the woman, blushing violently, runs out. Mulcahy makes for an anteroom amidst the laughter of his brother cops, but, or course, he is unable to appreciate the humor of the situation.
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