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The millionaire's child is kidnapped. Sherlock Holmes after many thrilling adventures and narrow escapes rescues the child.

Little Sherlock Holmes, Jr., reads the doughty doings of his hero-god, and at once determines to become a detective himself. Providence at once favors him by giving him a mystery to solve. His father has noticed that in some weird, unaccountable fashion the whiskey in the decanter is ever vanishing, and father swears he drink it as fast as all that. So Sherlock Holmes, Jr. assigns himself the task of discovering who tampers with his father's soothing beverage. Concealed behind a table, he sees Bridget, the cook, come in and at once proceed to get on the outside of a man's size pull on the flask. At once the embryo detective makes his report to his father, with the astounding solution of the mystery. The father decides to use Dr. Brown's Sure Cure for the Liquor Habit on the cook, and obtains a bottle of the fluid. This he puts in the room near the whiskey, intending to pour some in the bottle a little later. Sherlock Holmes, Jr., discovers the bottle and follows the 'Do it Now' maxim. There are friends visiting the house at the time, who are sitting on the lawn with his parents, awaiting tea, which the maid is going to bring them. Sherlock Holmes, Jr. pours a goodly amount of the fluid into the tea. One of the results of taking the liquid is falling into a deep slumber, and in a few moments the host, the hostess, and the guests are fast asleep. Then happen's along Bridget's beau, the policeman, for whose particular benefit Bridget essays to go inside and procure a glass of 'buttermilk.' After imbibing, the policeman forgets all about everything except that he is awful drowsy, and the next thing, he, too, is asleep. It must have been contagious - or could Bridget not have forgotten herself? - but at any rate, she, too, wanders off into the Land of Nod. Then Sherlock dons the policeman's clothes and club, and marches through the house, monarch of all he surveys. At this opportune moment, two burglars arrive at the scene, and seeking the sleepers, think they have been transferred to Burglar's Paradise. They sneak upstairs, fill their bags with silverware and then fall for the whiskey on the table, little Sherlock watching eagerly. At last they get themselves off, followed by the creator of all the mischief, but they have not gone far when they are overcome by the liquor cure and fall in their tracks to sleep. Little Sherlock now takes the manacles from the policeman's coat pocket, and ties both legs of the burglars together. In due time the household awakes, they seek the boy, and eventually find him covering the two burglars, prisoners of Sherlock Holmes, Jr.

Nell, the boss's daughter, uses Sherlock Holmes' detective work, to choose between the two suitors at her dad's broker's office.

The rise to fame of Sally, maid-of-all-work at Jonesville's Palace Hotel, was occasioned solely because some absent-minded guest had left a book behind when he departed from the Palace Hotel's somewhat-limited splendors. The book was a treatise on the ancient, gentle art of detecting. Filled with a desperate zeal to distinguish herself, Sally decided to 'shadow' the very next guest who arrived in the hotel--and this very first guest was plainly a suspicious character; he was quietly dressed a perfectly respectable in appearance. So Sally shadowed the stranger in the most approved fashion. When he locked the door to his room, she looked over the transom. Sure enough, he took some jewels out of his suitcase. Sally instantly summoned the police. Entering the room to keep the man under closer surveillance, she accidentally pointed a fan shaped like a pistol at him. Instantly his hands shot above his head. The funny part was he really was the thief. Sally pocketed the reward and departed.

Gus and bud are two blundering robbers, Jack a millionaire Sherlock Holmes, who gains Mr. Dough's consent to his marriage to Ethel when by pure luck he nabs the crooks after they have robbed the Dough home. Source - Motion Picture World (Volume 27) Jan. - Mar. 1916 Item page 657

Sam Bug & Raskus Bug are suitors for Mandy Bug. When Raskus Bug get's the 'cold shoulder', he gets a gang headed up by "Gyp the Bug" to frame Sam Bug with the crime of killing a silkworm. Mandy gets Sherlock Bug, the great detective, who blow's up the gang's den and sends them all to jail, freeing the innocent Sam Bug.

Sam Johnson & Raskus Hudson are suitors for Mandy Jones. When Raskus Bug get's the 'cold shoulder', his negro blood is aroused. Raskus & his gang steal a chicken and plant it in Sam's house, and put chicken feathers in Sam's shirt. Sam gets thrown into jail. Mandy gets Sherlock Jackson Holmes, the great detective of International fame, who finds a trail of chicken feathers which leads to the gang's den. The gang gets sent to the dungeon freeing the innocent Sam. Sherlock gets his reward, a smile from Mandy. "Moving Picture World Magazine" Volume 20 Apr-Jun, 1914.

Yes the money disappeared while every member of the counting room was present. Nell Pierce did not accept the popular verdict, however, but unerringly hit upon a solution of the problem, which proved her wonderful power of deduction. Nell "The Yankee Girl Detective" finally brought her man to bay, and saved an innocent boy from prison.

Nell Pierce the girl detective once again solves a case of a missing jeweled bracelet, by saving a cat tossed in a bag in a pond by a tramp, and the cat had the bracelet around it's neck. Nell was a sharp shrewd and well read young miss and had a literary acquaintance with every detective from Nick Carter to Sherlock Holmes.

The daughter of a detective solves the case after her father is killed.

Hemlock Hoax thinks he can "put it all over" Sherlock Holmes, and his sleuthing is somewhat of a joke in the little tropical town where he lives. Two boys plan some fun at his expense and bring him the news of a terrible murder. Holmes is led to the scene of the crime and with measuring tape and magnifying glass proceeds to search for clues and material for deductions in the most approved detective fashion. He discovers a shred of cloth on a projecting branch and declares the murderer to be as good as found. Like the human hound that he is, he starts hot upon the scent and finds a tramp wearing the garment from which the cloth was torn. The surprised tramp develops a burst of speed that is astonishing and Hoax makes a good second. Others aid the pursuit and they are led on a merry cross country chase that ends in the capture of the tramp by Hoax and a policeman they have picked up. The trembling tramp is led back to the scene of his atrocious crime and confronted with the body of the victim. Then, for the first time, Hoax discovers that the body is merely a dummy stuffed with leaves, and the poor boys are properly punished, though not until the crowd has enjoyed a good laugh at the expense of the crestfallen Hoax.