Weary Willie's Rags

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Henry Paff, a well-to-do businessman in a small town, is obliged to make a trip to the city. He arrives late, puts up at a hotel and sleeps very soundly. So does the hotel clerk, for, during the night, William Ragson, a tramp, sneaks into Paff's room and exchanges his old rags for Paff's neat attire. In the morning Paff discovers his loss and tries to telephone the office without success, and is finally obliged to put on the tramp's filthy rags which change his appearance so greatly that when he complains to the clerk he gets no satisfaction and is kicked out by the porter who carried in his luggage. In the meantime, Ragson, dressed in Paff's clothes and in possession of all his money and papers, lives on the fat of the land, and when he meets Paff on the street he kicks him out of the way. Poor Paff, unable to identify himself, or get any redress, gets desperately hungry and appropriates a lunch-basket he finds on a bench in the park. He is promptly arrested and when taken to the station is surprised to meet Ragson who has been arrested for riotous behavior. The hotel keeper is summoned; Paff is identified and Ragson meets the fate of all transgressors.