The Wrong Man

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Mrs. Simpkins, a pretty young matron, is on her way home from a shopping tour late one afternoon when she is accosted by a gallant dude, who endeavors to attract her attention. After some endeavor to pass the masher, Miss Simpkins gives him a violent shove into a snowbank and hurries on. Not fazed by this, the masher brushes himself and hurries after her. When she arrives home she finds the maid washing the front windows and calling her from her work, hurries into the house with her. They lock the doors, but the persistent masher climbs in through the window. Mrs. Simpkins and the maid, panic stricken, run out of the house and seeing the plumber coming toward them, beckon for him to hurry. They tell him about the impudent intruder and he volunteers to put him out and leads the way into the house. The masher, however, hears them coming and hides in a closet. The plumber, followed by Mrs. Simpkins and the frightened maid, looks around but the masher is not in sight. He volunteers to stay around, however, to protect the ladies should the annoying fellow return. They leave the room and the plumber helps himself to a cigar and waits. A moment later in comes Mr. Simpkins, a traveling man, who has just returned from an extensive trip. The plumber mistakes the little man for the masher and finally, after many attempts to get him out of the house, throws him out of the window into a snowbank. Mr. Simpkins tries new tactics. He sees two expressmen unloading his trunk and bribing them to help him, he gets into the trunk and is carried inside, but when the trunk lid begins to rise, the plumber who is watching it jumps on it, slams down the lid and rolls it down the back steps. Mr. Simpkins, now in a rage, borrows the expressman's overcoat and hat and enters the house again. He is about to be thrown out of the window again when Mrs. Simpkins enters and recognizes her husband. The masher, concealed in the closet, now tries to make his escape, but the husky plumber overpowers him and he is thrown out of the window into the snow. Mrs. Simpkins and her little hubby are immediately reconciled, while the plumber, after offering profuse apologies, chucks the maid under the chin, and exits.