A Trap to Catch a Burglar (1913) Online

A Trap to Catch a Burglar (1913) Online

Mr. and Mrs. Miniver have in their household, a servant, who is a suffragette, Bedelia. Mrs. Miniver gets into an argument with her husband on woman's rights and Bedelia butts in and sides with the mistress taking particular exception to the dictum of Mr. Miniver that a woman has no inventive genius. A number of burglaries have been committed in the neighborhood and Miniver, being called away on business, purchases a patent burglar alarm for his wife to set in his absence. Bedelia proposes to the mistress, anxious to show the inventive genius of her sex, that they shall themselves invent a trap that will catch the burglar. They get an old skirt of strong materials, sew it together at the top, put a barrel hoop around the bottom, weight it with flat irons and suspend it from the ceiling over the front hall door by a rope and pulley, so that when the front door is opened, it will descend and fall over the burglar like an extinguisher, putting him down and out. They carry out their plan....