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Show Philo Vance Must Solve Real Crime Author of Detective Tales, Now Police Commissioner, Has Real Job Of Sleuthing On His Hands holich and Eleanor Lanning, looked out of a Steiner factory window win-dow and saw the two well-dressed young men, one with a small mustache, mus-tache, fire at the messenger. He dropped, and as he did so the men snatched up the payroll in a canvas sack and ran to the car. Van Dine, or Wright, believed the bandits, after abandoning their car, might have mingled with the beach crowds, perhaps swimming. He requested a thorough search of all beach resorts and boardwalks , in New Jersey. Van Dine accepted the post of police commissioner recently as a lark. Later he tried to withdraw from the post but Mayor Borden held him to his acceptance. BRADLEY BEACH, N. J., Aug. 3. '(L'.H) Bandits today shot and killed George Danielson, 65-year-old bank messenger, escaped with a 57,000 payroll and left their crime for Philo Vance himself to solve. Willard Huntington Wright is police commissioner here. He also writes detective stores under the name S. S. Van Dine with Vance as his principal character and super-sleuth. Here are the facts of the holdup and killing as Wright found them. Danielson, employed by the First National bank, was shot down by two men who had been following him; as he was about to enter the factory of Steiner and Sons with the payroll. The robbers escaped, presumably presum-ably with a confederate or two, in a sedan, later found abandoned. A Panama hat was discovered in the car, as were two Pennsylvania license li-cense plates. Two young women, Pauline Mi- I |