Show LOCA LOCAL POLICE GIVEN BOUQUET Kansas City Chief Praises Department for Work in Nabbing Drug Robbers Telegrams In the office of or Joseph C. C Sharp chief of or detectives show that the Kansas Kansa City police department dc and officials of or the Ell Eli El Lilly Wholesale Drug DruS' company of that city were notified noti neti- tied fled b by tho the Salt Sal Lake department of or the alo alleged e Intentions of or Jack Howard Joe Kinney and Harvey Patton Patton Pat Pat- P ton to rob the tho tho the day before tho the burglary burglar was as committed Stran Strangely Strange Strange- ely e- e ly the telegrams according to tho the ca eastern east east- tern t- t em ern men prematurely laid bare to t the Kansas City police the details of ot the proposed forty-eight forty hours In advance but for some seine reason the authorities authorities authorities au au- au- au o of tho the Missouri city failed to thwart the plans and the thieves mado made off with more than worth of oC nar nar- The telegrams which passed between the tho two departments prior to and after the robber robbery reveal re In a mea measure tho the magnitude and Ingenuity of Chief Sharps Sharp's plan to smash tho dru drug ring and ant capture the leaders and ant their loot According to William Wilam McGibbon head of ot tho Kansas City branch of ot the LI Lilly company the local police polee recovered per cent of or the stolen narcotics I have ha had dealings s with Ith police departments departments depart depart- ments all al over tho the United Mr last night and tho the work of oC Chief Sharp and his men l is the thc greatest reate t example of or teamwork and nd po police po- po lice efficiency that has ever come to tomy tomy tomy my attention It was the tho biggest I narcotic nar nar- c colic cotic ic burglary burglar over ever committed In this country Howard HowArd and his colCa colleagues ues would have havo realized more moro than from the sale of oC the drugs |