- A young couple are enjoying a romantic interlude in the young woman's home, when her father discovers them and angrily chases the young man out of the house. They thus decide to elope, and they make plans accordingly. But as they are leaving, a thief discovers their plans, and he decides to turn the situation to his own advantage.—Snow Leopard
- How It Proved a Windfall for Burglar Bill. The maxim, "The course of true love never ran smooth" was never more clearly verified than in this Biograph picture. Frank loved Jennie and Jennie loved Frank, but Papa couldn't see Frank with field glasses, so he was forbidden the house. "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady," and Frank's heart was anything but faint, so he braved the terrors of Papa's No's and intruded. He has hardly arrived when Pa puts in an appearance and he is unceremoniously evicted. But dauntless still, he appears that evening in the garden, and with a signal calls his fair charmer to the window on the balcony. He suggests an elopement that night, to which Jennie acquiesces, and then goes to arrange matters. Here our old friend Bill the Burglar butts in on the scene, ties up a rope ladder and is about to ascend to relieve the family of some of their wealth when Frank returns. Bill hides, and Frank thinking Jennie had supplied the ladder, attempts to climb it. His work here would never pass in a naval examination, and after almost breaking his neck, gives it up and secures a more solid form of ascent. Making the balcony, he, assisted by Jennie, lowers her trunk. It falls with a bang on the ground, arousing the constabulary gentleman of the beat from his nap, who rushes up as the elopers are struggling with this bothersome baggage. The copper, as you may imagine, takes them for a couple of housebreakers and carries them to the police station. Bill coming from his hiding seizes the trunk and skiddoos. After carrying it several blocks he sets it down to rest. Someone is coming; escape is cut off, so he vamooses by the trunk line, that is to say, gets into the trunk. A copper coming up sees the lone trunk, calls aid and takes it to the police station, arriving as the lovers are trying to explain matters. The arrival of the trunk helps them materially, hence they are finally released, taking the trunk with them, Bill, of course, inside. At the hotel, a telegram calls Frank and Jennie to the parlor for paternal forgiveness. While they are absent, Bill comes out of the trunk, packs into a couple of suitcases all that is worth taking in the room and beats it. 'Tis an ill wind that blows no good. Furthermore, Frank and Jennie are too happy to mourn their loss. -- The Moving Picture World, August 8, 1908
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