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Show Pi K Fl) ' r UitoULII Overtaken by Athletic mU Policeman After Ten- VH Block Chase 'VH Nov.' York. Feb. 2S. Policeman LLm Martin Sheridan, who in his unofficial H capacity is a world's champion weight H throwor, sprinted ten. blocks thts H morning to arrest three men who arc H charged with a series of attempted ,H holdups in West Side saloons. IH It was Just after midnight when ll tho three men, masked and armed tl with revolvers, entered the first sa; Hl loon and told the bartender to throw lll up his hands. Ho did so. but when ll ono of the holdups tried to vault the ll bar to get to tho cash register, thg ill bartender felled him with a blow in IH the face. Tho two other masked men yH fired several shots and then ilea, j-vkl dragging their compajilorwltlvJiefciJIH Within tho next hour they IneaTho fiB same tactics at .two. other saloons, but H met with resistance at each place. H Sheridan heard the shots and pur- 1 sued thc trio as they ran from the lfl last place they had visited. The trio H jumped a flying southbound car, but Sheridan is in training for the Olym- H pics, and he continued in pursuit. He jLLm was able to keep tho car in sight, and fLLl watched the men as they dropped off jl ten blocks below. AXcw hundred feet LM from the corner he caught them and, H with the aid of .reinforcements, ar- jl rested all throe. In one of their re- H volvers he Ifdund flvo bullets had LLt been sharpened at tho points. .H |