Polidor reads in his morning paper of the loss of a valuable ring by a fellow citizen, who is desolated at his loss, and is prepared to handsomely remunerate the person who restores it to him. Polidor regards himself as in the first flight...See morePolidor reads in his morning paper of the loss of a valuable ring by a fellow citizen, who is desolated at his loss, and is prepared to handsomely remunerate the person who restores it to him. Polidor regards himself as in the first flight as a crime detector, and soon finds his way to the house of the owner of the ring, who accepts his preferred help with thanks, and stands round with his household in open-mouthed admiration as Polidor proceeds to subject the room to a minute search. But the admiration changes to passion when the little man's zeal carries him so far as to set him tearing out the stuffing of chairs and sofa, smashes vases which are possible receptacles for the ring, and finally to turning every room in the place upside down. Polidor cows his "client" with a pistol when he expostulates, but the latter manages to get on the 'phone to the police, and Polidor exchanges the role of detective for that of prisoner. Written by
Cinema News and Property Gazette (March 17, 1913)
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