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- The story of Charles Peace, one of Britain's most notorious criminals. Peace was an expert in cat burglary. The film reconstructs Peace's real-life leap from a train on his way to trial for the murder of Arthur Dyson.
- Three hunters surprise two poachers in the act. The hunters take umbrage and give chase over fences and through fields. The hunters fire away, but the poachers have guns as well, and a fight ensues with casualties for the hunters. Two cops appear and so do dogs as the chase continues. Will the poachers escape, or will they, like the game they were after, be trapped?
- Vowing not to let his family starve, a man steels a sheep and is pursued by the farmer and the police.
- Mary is brought before a magistrate, charged with the crime of beating a policeman with a stick. She leaps over the bar, assails the police and hurls an inkpot at the magistrate, hitting him in the eye. Eventually she is subdued and taken away for punishment.
- A lawyer locates a locket and a witness to save a mute from a murder charge.
- A lawyer tries to drown a thatcher to prevent his marriage to an heiress.
- Tramps take over the shop of an absent barber.
- Reproduction from the well-known scene of "The Two Orphans."
- A nurse enters a park, with her baby in a pram - but she is pre-occupied with her soldier boy-friend. Dusty Rhodes the tramp has a thirst, and starts to quench it from the baby's bottle. Seeing him, the soldier chases him round the park bench, and throws him down, unfortunately onto the pram, flattening it and the baby in the process. Dusty makes off, pursued by the soldier, the nurse and flattened baby.
- The village lads and lasses engage in a snowball fight, during which they also pelt pedestrians and a cyclist: but they are then assailed by a big, powerful female, "Mog the Fireman" (who is none other than our old friend Mirthful Mary), who gives a good account of herself against enormous odds.
- Mary, the worse for drink, beats a policeman with a stick, and is hauled off to appear before a magistrate.
- A shipwrecked sailor sends a bottled message to his wife and is saved by a battle ship.
- Mary goes into a pub, and feeling dry, she takes another customer's beer and drinks it. When rebuked for this, she drenches the other customers with a soda syphon, and then lays waste the whole pub.
- Painters fight with black and white paint.
- Boy swimmers upset a bench and throw lovers into a stream.
- An Irishman gets drunk and throws his wife through a window.
- A brutal man rebuffs a beggar and is chased into a stream.
- Boys push a PC and a farmer into a stream.
- Boys cause a fight between a tramp and a gentleman in a park.
- A dude fights a rival and they end up in a stream.
- A drunken clubman sees visions and reforms.