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FULL,WIRE REPORTS OF THE UNITED PRESS the day book 500 S. PEORIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 353 Vol. 1, No. 310 Chicago, Monday, Sept. 23, 1912 One Cent ARE MAHONEY AND BURNS TO BE THE GOATS IN THE CANADIAN BANK ROBBERY CASE? , From the amount of bunk that is being printed about the bank robber case, it is evident that someone wants to "get" Police Captain .Mahoney and Lieut. Burns. It doesn't need an awful lot of figuring to guess who the some one is. Andy Lawrence never did like either Mahoney or Burns, and the Hearst papers have hard ly printed one true word about the story, " 5 Theactual facts in the case, so far as they are known, are as fol lows : A gang of ten men made a hang-out of the saloon of John Sidias, a Greek. Sidias suspected i the men were crooks, and told At torney Miles Devine about it. Devine. went to the Maxwell street police station, and told Burns of Sidias' suspicions. Burns said he would look the. men up. Devine did not tell Burns the men were bank robbers, nor did he say anything to Bums about tHeir having a large amount of Canadian money. Burns dropped into Sidias' sa loon that night. Kone of the sus pected men was there. ( Burns went bapk the next night. He did not disguise him self as a street car conductor. He, merely put on an old coat over his blue suit. The men were there the second night. IThere were two women with them. Burns got into con versation with them. Burns was sure that the men had police records, but could not place them. He drew them out, and the men got suspicious. They got up to leave, the saloon. Burns then drew his gun dnd told them they were under arrest. One of the women threw her arms around Burns and kept him from shooting. The two men jumped Burns, beat hjm up and escaped. Burns did not then suspect that the men were the. Canadian bank Tobbers, and did not report the matter because he did not actual ly know the men to be crooks. Then someone fold Assistant Chief Schuettler that an officer had been beaten up in Sidias' sa loon. Schuettler investigated and got the story. Schuettler did nol suspect the men were the Candaian bank rob bers at that time, nor did he until the he'ad of the Pinkerton Detec tive Agency told him so. Isygjj ifefrijfcit.