The Sleuth and the Wig

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Opening in the home of a police officer. After he has said his morning farewells his wife removes her wig preparatory to dressing for her regular daily trip to market. As she leaves the room for a moment the family dog steals the wig for a plaything and gets entirely out of sight before her return. On her return she is disappointed to find her wig has been stolen. She forthwith makes her way to a wiggery to purchase a new one. Meantime the dog has tired of his plaything and left it beside the road. Two policemen find the mangled wig and forthwith decide there has been a murder. They follow all prescribed methods in search for a clue, and finding an Apache asleep upon a park bench they arrest him. Arrived at the station the Apache shows the commissioner an address in the wig at which it will doubtless be possible to find the owner. The address is that of the maker and the commissioner goes directly to the shop where the owner has preceded him in her desire to obtain a new head covering. She accuses the police commissioner of the robbery and drives him back to headquarters where she orders her husband, who is on duty, to arrest him. The poor husband is about to do so when the irate wife decides he is the cause of the trouble for owning the dog and thereupon chastises him.