Two toughs grab a well-dressed gentleman in downtown London. A policeman rushes to help the victim, but in the confusion, they overpower the forces of polite society.
It's a very early staged incident from the works of Robert W. Paul. He, like many of the British Victorian film makers had a decidedly middle-class outlook, and so for a decade, threats to the middle class were offered, from robbers, to gypsies to men who kissed women in railway carriages. In the US and France, the film makers soon realized that the middle and upper classes went to live theater, and turned their attention to subjects that might interest their actual audience.
You may notice the flashing sign for Vinola. Apparently this was a brand of shaving soap.