Distress (Ecole du Malheur). 1907.

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I had trouble following this Pathe short as well. A man steals bread for his daughter and is caught. I prison he steals a guard's uniform and escapes. (Or I thought he did.) Then he becomes respectable, gets a job as a sort of construction worker, but falls off a building. The daughter is taken home by another policeman and later visits her father's grave.
Now, since the father stole the policeman's unirmorm (or a guard's uniform), I thought the policeman in the later scenes was him and got all mixed up.