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Show BOASTFUL OFFICER IS HUMILIATED San Francisco, Cal , Aug 7. Thore is a detective in Chicago, who was invited in-vited to eat dinner as the guest of Sheriff Barnott of Alameda county, across the bay from this city, and, under tho mellowing Influence of the occasion, he became somowhat boastful boast-ful of his Bhrewdness. Thereupon Barnett abstracted from the Chicago man s pockets a watch and all the monoy there was in them Later in the cvonlng Barnett turned over the articles to the detective's assistant who was one of the parly and explained ex-plained the matter to him Nov:. Barnett displays with much glee the following lettor from Chl-' Chl-' cago: "I, the greatest detective of Chicago, Chi-cago, am disgraced and humiliated. Tho thought that 1 have slouthed through the most dangerous places In Chicago and New York and other wicked cities of the east, should travel trav-el across the continent to have my pocket picked by the sheriff of Ala-crada Ala-crada county Is so disturbing that I am being treated for Insomnia by my physician." |