“Captor Made Captive Fate of County Cop,” Toronto World. August 19, 1908. Page 01.

“Constable McBain of Cannington, With Handcuffed Prisoners, Falls Into Local Tolls.

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The plain unvarnished narrative of what yesterday befell County Constable Lachlan McBean, Cannington, is evidence once again of the pitfalls of a great city.

Constable McBain arrived in Toronto Tuesday with a fourteen-year-old boy, John Kelly, whom he had arrested in Guelph, and who is wanted in Cannington on a serious charge.  The boy was secured by handcuffs attached by chain to the constable’s wrist.

The twain missed the train for Cannington on Tuesday night.  It appears that Constable McBain’s ideas of time and locality were rather vague.  Anyway, he did not reach the union station in time. However, he plaaced his charge at the Children’s Shelter for the night.

Yesterday afternoon, P. C. Reburn, who is on duty at the station, beheld the constable with his prisoner still firmly attached by chain to his wrist among the waiting throng.  The policeman, after careful scrutiny, decided that Constable McBain was not staggered under a sense of responsibility alone.  He was either the victim of mental suggestion that he was on the heaving deck of a vessel laboring in a surging sea with frequent necessity to grasp the taffrail, or he had quaffed deeply.  P. C. Reburn accepted the latter theory and took captor and captive to No. 1 station, handcuffs, chain and all.

The boy will be sent to Cannington to-day.”