To catch a thief

Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.

A lad from a butcher shop is carrying a tray laden with a roast or a leg of lamb. A hobo grabs it and runs. The boy gives chase, ed by dogs, as neighbors watch the spectacle. The hobo jumps into a lar…

A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught by store employees. Meanwhile, a poor woman with two sma…

A couple steals food from a grocery store. To stop them from repeating their crime, the cunning salesman electrifies his shop.

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.

A policeman spots a dog stealing a piece of meat from a butcher's shop, and gives chase. Soon several more policemen have ed the pursuit. But the chase does not turn out as the policemen expect.

A man hides his valuables under his mattress before going to sleep, blissfully unaware of the two burglars on his roof.

Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well. Meanwhile, Cornelia Van Gorder has …

A tramp steals a girl's handbag, but when he tries to pick Charlie's pocket loses his cigarettes and matches. He rescues a hot dog man from a thug, but takes a few with his walking stick. When the thief t…

An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.

In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous brother summons police, who then charge the intruder wit…

Cullen has hired Tom to try and stop the robberies on his railroad. Knowing Cullen's secretary Holt is tipping off the gang, Tom works undercover by posing as a highwayman. To help him bring in the gang h…

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.

An isolated house is too remote for a lone servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Left alone in the house is a mother and her infant. A tramp has watched …

A burglar escapes from the apartment he's robbing by sliding down the clothesline, but in the end he's caught by the family dog.

When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over…

Made-for-TV drama about one of the largest crimes in history—the 1980 robbery of the Boston Depositors Trust by a group of policemen. Capt. Gerry Clemente is the leader of a gang of rotten cops who take t…

The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple…

Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a little girl who lives in his building.