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Show NEED SHERLOCK HOLMES Thief Makes off With Pound Notes British authorities would he very happy had the renowned Sherlock Holmes been real and available, since the country was facing two aggravating and puzzling problems. Someone had stolen seven sneets of one-pound sterling notes, amounting amount-ing to approximately $560, from the extraordinarily guarded bank of England printing works. As an added poser, someone had been going around smashing stained glass windows in the Wolverhampton Wolverhamp-ton area of the Midlands. Circumspect, Circum-spect, well-behaved Britons couldn't understand how anyone could do either of these reprehensible 'hings. An idea of how hard-to-catcn may be the pound-note thief is provided in the fact that the money, stolen last summer, had only begun to circulate recently. |