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Show Chicago Promises Horwood to Be Good A' 't - t S . ; , J Chicago announces that if Sir Wll-lura Wll-lura Horwood, chief of Scotland Yard and commissioner of metropolitan police, feels like leaving London and lsltlng the Windy City to recuperate, t will do its best to prevent anyone ;'rom selling him the Masonic Temple for (5 or the stockyards for $15. You ee, somebody sent to Sir William a box of poisoned candy at detective headquarters and of course he ate some of it Yes ; he'll recover, the doctors doc-tors say. And there's more to the story. It appears that November 3 a cardboard box posted In a London suburb was received at Scotland Yard . addressed to the Hon. Trevor BlRhara and Major F.lllott, two of the assistant commissioners. commis-sioners. This contained cake. The assistant as-sistant commissioners were suspicious nd turned the cake over for lnvostljrn-ijnn lnvostljrn-ijnn and analysis. The rundy box ulno liud been posted In a I.on'lm ulurl. uml the hundwritlng tiud the printing of the label wns similar to that tn the cake pnekape. Miss Enid Drysdule, the commissioner's private secretary, opened the box and the commissioner offered her one of the chocolates. She took a bite, and, Ootectlng a bitter toste, told the commissioner so. "Don't take one," die snld. But the commissioner, thinking that the chocolates were from friends, luughed at her and ate a couple of them, i " |