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Burly Captain Schemes To Abduct Ingram’s Prize
On the Aeron Burr Captain Stites and his mate plot to abduct Miss Meta Shields, the so called Finance Queen, to Buffalo. Detective Daniel Ingram exposes the plan, turning the scheme into a bunco, with a payoff demanded and a later note revealing the whole affair as a fraud.
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Aeron Burr
Mr. Baines
Aero
All Hands
Ingram
Chicago
Buffalo
Meta Shields
Hisself
Shorty
Baines
Daniel Ingram
Stites
Cap
Miss Shields
Ridge
Guardian
Jim
Jin
Uae
Skipper
Irie County
Aaron Burr