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Show DETECTIVE IS MAULED Sherlock Holmes Scheme With Robbers Fails to Work Chicago, Sept. 18. Failure to capture cap-ture two members of a smg of safe blowers who stole $271,000 from a bank of Nova Scotta in Vancouver, B. C, wag made the basis of charges to-dnv to-dnv by Chief of Police McWeeny against two of his oubordlnates, Captain Cap-tain John J. Mahonoy and Lieutenant Benjamlu Burns. It is alleged that Mahoney and Burns, knowing that the robbers were In a saloon hore engaged en-gaged in a Sherlock Holmes attempt to have Burns, disguised, tako the thieves single handed. Burns was beaten unconscious by the robbers and now Is in the hospital. |