The scene opens with the exterior of a house with policeman on duty. Looking occasionally at the house he is seen by the cook, who brings him out a mutton pie, etc. Slippery Jim, the burglar, seeing they are fully engaged, slips by and forces the door. He is, however, seen by the cook, and the policeman thinking he can make an easy capture, enters the house. But Jim has escaped by the window, bowling over the cook; both policeman and cook then hurry after the burglar. Jim, however, is slippery, and meeting a swell and his lady-love, forces the former, at the point of a pistol, to change clothes. The policeman comes up and attempts to arrest the swell, but on matters being explained continues the chase. Jim has by this time again exchanged clothes with a coster, and coming up to a supposed old woman he attempts to repeat his manoeuvre, but the supposed old woman turns out to be a policeman, and the crowd coming up, Jim is carted off on the coster’s barrow, the crowd enjoying the fun.