The One-Legged Man

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A girl who has the job of wheeling a cripple around in a cart goes to join some friends while her charge sleeps. An extraordinary thief comes along and steals the cripple's wooden leg. Immediately the cripple awakens and gives him chase, with, the girl, who pushes the cart, in close call. The man runs like a hare, but the cripple is upon him at every turn. The one-legged man annexes the crutch of an old gentleman who was asleep in the park, and with the aid of this he is better able to follow. At one point two policemen join in the chase, and they follow the thief over walls, down hills and around corners, the one-legged man always traveling faster than the others. Crossing a meadow, the fugitive attempts to leap a ditch, but falls in and has to scramble out, as do the others. But the one-legged man clears the ditch in one leap. The thief is finally run down near the course of a stream, but makes a high dive and gains the water; but the cripple is upon him, and reaching the opposite shore, holds him until help arrives.