Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-06-09
A MODEL DETECTIVE.
us Plans n Robbery and Gets Caught
In HIS Own Trap.

He Plans Robbery anu GotS S""s"~
In His own Trap.
nprom the Buialo Commercial Advertiser, 9o'l
We have often read Of the marvellous ex-
ploits performed, and the almost superhIu-
man cunning and acumen displayed .Dy
that truly remarkable French detective
Vid6coe and had settled it in our own
n,{bd Niat we should eIiever leok upon his
like again. but recent feat of one of our
Niagara frontier detectives, proves that we
vera mistaken, sand that we have had in
our very midst, all along, rtnbeknown to
ANYBODY az officer upon whom the mantle
of that great Frenchman might worthily
descend.
It seems, from particulars which came to
our knowledge yesterday, that this N. IF,
P. whose name--as he is q very modest
man, and does not like 10 have his doings
heralded through the press--we omit. A
day or two ago, be conceived the brilliant
idea of havinga raid made upon one OF
our banks, the vault broken open, the safe
blown up, and the money carried off In
pursuance Of this scheme, he had an In
teryiew WITH three sports of the city to
whom the plan was revealed, and the pro-
position made: that they should do the
work; that he should "detect" them alter
wards; that the bank should be made to
"whack up" in consideration of q return OF
fthe money stolen; that the robbers were to
share in tho proceeds, and that they should
be suffered to escape punishment
The parties to whom theproposition was
made, taking 1t for granted that they were
TO be victimized, at first thought they
would give the deteNiye drubbing, the
remembrance of which should abide with
him during the course of his natural life;
but it was finally determined to seemingly
bite at the bait, and in the end make him
the victim. -,
1t was settled that the robbery should
take place on Tuesday night about IL
o'clock, and early in the evening the three
s'burglars" met the detective and placed in
his hands weighty box, containing, as
they informed him, a complete set of tools
for ''eracking" all sorts of "cribs." This
box they desired him to take care of, as
should any Of the other officers see 1T i'll
their possession Suspicion would be eX
cited. After giving them dollar to buy q
dark lantern the deCctive was left to HIM
self, and the trio proceeded to invest the
dollar in cocktails cPassing up Washing
ton street betweenI 8 and 10 o'clock, a
prominent official-1hot q member OF the
police force, however, met the three funny
chaps, who told him what was up. After
going a short distance, he came across the
detective, being on the steps of house at
the corner of thJpivision street, with
the box of tools besj9S him, his mind ap-
parently SO absorbed in the business on
hand, Aat he did not answer until spoken
to several times, when he uttered some
mysterious words about tina box, the tools
and the work to/be done, and enJoIDed
silence. Leaving him With q promise to
return, the official went back to the spot
where he had left the men, and suggested
to them that they had carried the joke far
enough, and persuaded them to take pos
session of the box, which, by the way, con-
tanned nothing but paving-stones Ap-
preaching the spot where the detective was
still reclining, one o4them engaged him in
conversation, while'another succeeded i'll
removing the box without his knowledge.
Upon discovering that the box was gone,
the detective BECAME considerably excited,
while the bogus burglar declared that the
kit it contained was worth $3.50, which sum
must be refunded He actually gave his
watch to them, as security, until he should
succeed in recoyefing the tools, which he
promised to do ina short time.
Yesterday the detective called on the Of
fetal alluded to, and it was not until then
that he was undeceived, and made con-
scious of the extent to which he had been
duped. He was completely dumbfounded,
and signihed his determination to resign
his position on the force We think that
the sooner he does so, the better.