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Kaeem Company— The International Producers.
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RED SWEENEY’S MISTAKE
RED SWEENEY, living by 'his wits, makes a humorous mistake which results in a protracted visit in jail. Harry and George each purchase a stick pin with brilliant imitation diamonds for 25 cents, and when they return t-o the office their employer, Mr. Goodwin, is deceived by the cheap jewelry. Goodwin is induced to wear one of the pins in his tie as a joke, and when he steps from hi-s office he is accosted by Red Sweeney, who begs the price of a meal. As Goodwin is extracting some change from his pocket, the pin catches Red's eye and he makes away with it. Goodwin is almost convulsed with laughter as he thinks of the thief's poor selection, but he decides that the man should be punished in any event and he informs the police.
Red returns to his shack and taking out the pin’s setting, places it in a ring
which he hands to Rose, his accomplice, to pawn.
. The pawnbroker is suspicious when the ring is offered to him and slipping out the back door, he summons an officer. Rose becoming alarmed, makes her escape but is finally apprehended. A woman detective at headquarters dons Rose’s clothes and, carefully veiled, she enters Sweeney’s abode. Red asks for a report and is confronted by the detective’s revolver.
The thief is taken to the station house and Mr. Goodwin is called. When Red and Rose are brought before him, Goodwin takes the supposed gem and smashes it into a powder with one blow of the sergeant’s pistol.
“What do you know about that?’’ exclaims Sweeney to Rose. Then turning to the sergeant, he remarks, “Lock us both up till we get some sense.”
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