An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal...

A framed clerk is freed in time to save his daughter from being murdered for her inheritance.

'An unemployed labourer is driven to burglary when he is unable to find work.' (British Film Institute)

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.