Miscellaneous

Charles E. McCandless, gentleman at large in the Southwest, marched into Baltimore police headquarters and credited himself with four murders in Texas and New Mexico. "They didn't believe me," he told reporters afterward.

To prevent incendiarism, special police guards have been placed at every Catholic church in New York during Lent.

In the elevator of a Chicago business building Henry C. Hart, New York jewelry salesman, was held up and robbed of $100,000 in diamonds.

The new Detective School of the New York police force will open March 10 to instruct 100 guardians of the law in the finesse and strategy of criminal detection.