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- Mr. Robb, a wealthy gentleman, has unearthed a well-preserved statue, which turns out to be of great antiquity. He presents it to the National Museum. Mr. Walls, a rich American, offers £2,000 for it, but is refused. Raffles, as a connoisseur, obtains entrance to Robb's house, where he leaves on a table a case of cigarettes, which he has prepared with opium. Mr. Robb is going away, and asks for a number of policemen to be sent to guard the treasure and convey it to the museum. A detachment is sent, and waiting, grow rather tired, and help themselves to the cigarettes, and are soon unconscious. Raffles and his confederates enter, rolling a large barrel containing a block of stone the same weight as the statue. The latter is placed in the cask, and the stone takes its place in the case. Mr. Walls bribes the guard of the train in which Ganimard and his assistants are carrying the case containing the supposed statue. The guard drops the case from the van, but Ganimard sees the action, and seizes Walls, who is carried off to prison. Ganimard proudly carries the case to the Government offices and opens it, disclosing only a stone. In prison Walls receives a letter from Raffles telling him that the case will fail, and telling him to call on Raffles if he wishes the statue. Raffles has a replica made of the statue, and when Walls calls sells it to him as the original for £5,000.
- At the conclusion of a domino party, host and hostess, together with their two gentlemen guests, rise from their seats preparatory to leave-taking. One of the guests, while the others are bidding each other good-night, takes advantage of his host's forgetfulness in leaving his keys on the table, abstracts the front door key and places it in his pocket. He then leaves the house in company with his fellow guest. In the absence of his parents, the hosts' little child becomes mischievous and hides a domino, the double six, in the cash box in a cabinet. Outside the house the two guests part, the thief accidentally dropping his scarf, which the other picks up for him. Everything is in darkness, and presently the thief, fully masked, comes in and gropes his way to the cabinet. With a jimmy, he very soon has the door open, when suddenly he is surprised by the master of the house. A struggle ensues, during which the thief overpowers his host and decamps with the cash box. Arriving at his rooms, he forces on the lid and abstracts some notes, letting fall, unnoticed the double-six domino. Frightened lest the crime should be brought home to him, he hides the notes behind a picture, burns the cash box and throws the jimmy out through the window. The host, meanwhile, is soon discovered in his helpless condition, and the thief's scarf, which he clutched during his struggle with him, gives the police a clue. A domino is also found missing, and with these two pieces of evidence, the police proceed at once to the thief's lair. Confronted with his own scarf, he feigns complete ignorance of the whole affair but the detective, unknown to the culprit, discovers the missing domino in the apartment. The thief is taken to his host's house and charged with the theft and assault. The child, confessing his mischievous prank, provides the necessary link in the chain of evidence for the conviction of the thief, who unconsciously took with his ill-gotten gains the silent, but so fatal an accuser, the "double-six."
- Raffles plots with a number of confederates to obtain money from the Earl of Lazar. Two of the confederates make an attack upon the Countess and her daughter, and Raffles comes to the rescue, and is invited to the Earl's house. He becomes a regular visitor, and uses his opportunities so well that he becomes betrothed to the girl he has " rescued," and one night leads her to the garden. Plans have already been laid, and a band of ruffians leap at the two, blindfold and bind Raffles, whom they leave on the ground, while they carry off the girl and confine her in a cellar, where they divide the jewels she wears amongst them. Then a note is sent to the Earl, demanding that £20,000 be put in the ruins of an old bridge. Raffles offers to accommodate the Earl for half the amount, and it is placed in the desired position. The girl is taken in a motor-car to a street in a distant part of the town and there left. Raffles, who has placed on his finger the ring reserved for him by his confederates. now desires to get out of his engagement to the Earl's daughter, and to this end instructs his typist and confederate to come to the Earl's house while he is there and claim him as her husband. Discovery, however, comes in the moment of success, for on offering the girl his hand in parting she recognises the 'ring, and by this small oversight Raffles finds himself defeated and seized by the police.
- This magnificent spectacular subject is one of the grandest films ever produced. A story of heart interest leads up to the climax which is a splendid representation of one of the greatest events in history.
- A little waif is befriended by Pierrot; he adopts her and provides and cares for her as if his own. When, years after, she falls in love with a young man of her choice, Pierrot is very wroth, as he hoped to retain her for his bride, and banishes her from his home. Lucia's choice, however, was a good one, and she is happy as well as living in luxury. She cannot forget her obligation to her foster father for the love and tenderness shown her, and so, years after, she seeks him. In his old apartment she finds him in a very sorrowful mood, as, growing reminiscent, he has taken out the dress and pair of shoes she wore when he found her, which are on a chair as she was wont to put them. The sight of his little charge, now grown to womanhood, happily established, and with a little daughter of the size that she herself was when Pierrot found her, a forsaken waif, on a cold night, melts his heart, and he tearfully embraces her and forgives her mother. The series concludes with a view of the entire group reunited in love and sympathy.
- Raffles reads in the newspaper of the return by the police to the Earl of Essex of a valuable diamond. He determines to obtain this prize ; at the same Lime, another shady character comes to a similar resolve. Raffles writes to the Earl telling him he will come and take the diamond at 2 o'clock that night. Tapping the telephone wire, he overhears the message the Earl sends to a famous detective and lays his plans accordingly. The detective hails a motor-car and fills it with policemen, but on the way to the Earl's house it breaks down, and while everybody looks for the cause, the chauffeur, who is no one else but Raffles in disguise, goes off at express speed, and in one of his secret haunts, transforms himself into a creditable imitation of the detective and several of his confederates into policemen. Greeted cordially by the Earl, Raffles posts his men at various points and then lies down on a sofa to wait until 2 o'clock. An unexpected adventure occurs with the arrival of the other thief with two confederates, but Raffles and his men soon overpower them. The Earl thinks he has Raffles captive, and the latter leaves with his profound thanks-and with the diamond, which he has abstracted from the case when it was entrusted to him by the Earl's daughter.
- Yusuf, the Corsair and pirate, the dread of seven seas, is shown in life size as he stands on a boat in the water, scanning the horizon. An assault is to be made on a Turkish harem. Yusuf is summoned and takes affectionate leave from his wife, both promising that if death takes one the other will soon join. Life at the harem is presented in all its glory. Yusuf gains admission in disguise, and once on the premises he discards his disguise, and at a signal his cohorts swoop down upon the guards. A desperate battle ensues, and owing to force of numbers the pirates are victorious. Yusuf himself, however, is taken prisoner. The intelligence is taken to his wife, and when alone she proudly carries out her part of the death compact, using a stiletto upon herself. One of the inmates of the harem releases Yusuf and after disposing of the outer guard he makes his way back to his rendezvous, where he comes upon the lifeless form of his wife. With the stiletto used by her he concludes his existence, and in the throes of death clasps her dead body to his own.