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Show When Amateur Sleuth Lost Interest in Case accident In which a woman, after driving through a store window, had backed up and driven away. The I xing Islander Immediately went to work on the cose. He solved It, all right but he did not report bis success suc-cess to the station. For he discovered that It was his wife who was fhe guilty culprit and thut the police bad known it all the time when he went out to solve the mystery. New York Sun. . M"ost men possess a huge contempt for the detective ability of the police and nurse a confident belief that if It were put op to them they would solve any mystery In Jig time. On Long Island lives a man who not only believes that Sherlock Holmes was a slouch compared to him, but who geta In some active practice. If a crime Is committed In his locality he makes a bee-line for the police station and starts In to help" the department The police do not relish his Interference, but they've get to humor him because of bis Influence. But this man proved to be too good a detective One day he called at the station to see If there was anything doing and was told of a motor car |