A young man enters a drawing room to find a young lady threatened by two burglars. He coolly draws a gun and tells a servant to send for the police. While waiting, he has to deal with one of the burglars being similarly armed.
There isn't much to this Wallace MacCutcheon scene. Fifty seconds doesn't allow much time develop anything in the way of plot or character. Despite Billy Bitzer's credit as the camera man, there isn't anything of note in the photography, although I did manage to convince myself briefly of the shadowings of the Biograph Right Wall.... which vanished on looking at it again.
There is an attempt to fill up the time with comings and goings and threats being quelled. Clearly MacCutcheon thought his audience needed more than had been offered to them, but it still is a primitive piece.