An accidental death on a hunting trip results in an innocent young man being accused of murder.

An old man plots to have his enemy's son convicted of his own murder.

Stumbling into the squalor of her miserable tenement room the woman, a wretched victim of drink and dissipation, sinks down at the table and lights the half-burned candle.

An Italian laborer is mistakenly accused of kidnapping the child of one of his clients.

A grouchy landlord discharges a kind-hearted rent collector for failing to collect the rent from an impoverished widow. After dreaming that he himself is experiencing the sordid experiences of being destitute, the old man sees the error of his ways and becomes suddenly charitable.

A super sleuth of the Secret Service Bureau disguises himself as a common thief to penetrate a gang of counterfeiters.