Nick Carter's Double

An old woman falls asleep in front of her home while watching a cage which contains a pet bird, and soon a fellow comes along who takes advantage of the situation and steals the bird. He is sure of having a fine feast on the little creature, so in his anticipation of having it ready to cook upon arriving at his home, be plucks the feathers as he goes along the street. When the old woman awakes and discovers that her pet is gone she puts up an awful wail, and goes straight to a detective whom she hires to run down the cruel culprit. The pompous sleuth takes a large magnifying glass, and accompanies the woman to her home and when he sees the feathers strewn along the street he follows the trail for some distance which eventually leads him to the door of the thief's house. He is unable to enter, so climbs up a drain pipe to the roof, and comes down through the chimney and is just in time to see the fellow devouring the bird. He attacks his man and soon has him under his power, and lugs him off to the station where the poor old woman is patiently waiting. He throws the thief on the table and proceeds to extract the bird from his stomach, which he does successfully with the aid of a saw, and returns the little pet to its mistress, and as a reward for all his trouble she presents him with a small bunch of flowers.