At dawn on Nov. 29, the morning after Thanksgiving, a Burns man in a bellhop getup rapped on a door at the Markeen Hotel in Buffalo, 7 miles from the crime scene. The drowsy fellow who answered found himself fitted with handcuffs. He proved to be George Clinton (Red) Duke, 24, a Toronto-based malefactor who knew his way around Buffalo’s alleys. Duke had been charged in a $23,000 Toronto bank robbery the year before.