Hemlock Hoax, the Detective

Hemlock Hoax is a detective who has little respect in the small tropical town where he lives, despite the fact that he thinks he is a better sleuth than Sherlock Holmes. A pair of boys decide to play a trick on Hoax and tell him about a murder. Hoax rushes to scene of crime where he discovers a shred of cloth, later finding that a tramp is wearing the same type of clothes that he found. Eventually, Hoax captures the tramp with the aid of a police officer, and returns to the victim's body with the man.