Caught by Wireless Filming Locations

In Ireland, Paddy is having troubles with his rent collector who has also made advances to Paddy's wife. The rent collector enlists the aid of the Black-and-Tans and Paddy has to flee to the United States. Much later the rent collector is charged with theft and to also flees aboard a ship to the U.S. Paddy has done well in America, and sent his wife the money needed to join him there. She and the villain are on the same ship and she recognizes him and has the ship's wireless operator send the New York Police a message that the wanted-man is on the ship. When the ship docks, the rent-collector is met by Paddy, who is now a NYC policeman, and Paddy arrests him. This 8-minute short was incorporated into an RKO Flicker Flashback in 1948, along with "Eldora the Flower Girl."