Another woman standing nearby quickly snatches the child out of the carriage.

Soon afterwards, another mother is playing with two children in the park, and when she leaves one of them unattended, her child is also seized by the same woman.

[2] This is the first film directed by William Barker, who was then working for the Warwick Trading Company.

Child stealers has been identified as having made popular in America films about kidnapping, other noticeable example of this new genre being in 1905 Rescued by Rover and in 1908 the first film directed by D.W. Griffith, The Adventures of Dollie.

[6] and as an example of the "preponderance of sordid reality" present in early British drama films.