Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-09-03

saw that, ! went to-a detective who OPP
perates in that district to see what lie
knew about the matter. He wasn't
in, but one of his Operatives said he
guessed. he knew who the woman was,
and he would pipe her OFT" Mean
while | had . suspicion that possibly
the woman might be connected in
some way with u party who had figured
quite prominently in the courts of late
years. Not knowing the woman by
sight got another detective to goover
the ground" which resulted in PROV
ing this theory wrong Next | heard
that another reporter had watched for
tile letter carrier and "boned HIM for
the facts, which said the letter carrier
promptly refused to reveal Then
went 10 the Office Of the chief special
agent ofthc post office department for
this district, and he said he would look
into the matter and advise me. When
called to sec him again found anote,
which politely stated that while the
writer was anxious to oblige me in
every way in his power, vet in the
present instance he could not do so.
He had investigated the matter, and
finding ii entirely legitimate, was pre-
Guided by official rules from giving the
woman's true address. After that !
made other inquiries, which satisfied
me that while there was woman III
il. there was yet man III front Of her
whohad procured the insertion Of the ad-
vcrtisemcnt, and arranged with the
postal authorities for the delivery of
Elizabeth Days mail ut the Office.
With this thought in mind | studied
over the personal once more, and
in running my eye down the column
containing ii, discovered the follow
ing:
DERSoNAl. Wanted To permanently ctn-
poy Il lady IN the detective business; work
mostly outside Of st, Louis; must be between ~
aud 81 years Of age, good looking and capable;
none other, need apply. AL. y, 3 this office.
The inference was that both personals
were inserted by the same party, and
on examination they were found tn be
in the same handwriting, and to have |
been left by the same messenger ut the
same time Clearly, if the messenger
who called for the replies to X 3 had |
been followed, the whole secret would |
have been discovered An attempt
had been made to do this. but owing to
accident the watch was off duty when
the messenger called, The next thing
was to write letter to Elizabeth Day, |
asking for her services in umraveing Il |
case, with woman in it, |
and requesting meeting ut certain |
place Pending the delivery and ans
wcr Of this letter the personal was
again examined, in another light, and |
after much time and trouble success
fully identified. On this result went
to II certain wcll.known business man
not fur from Sixth and Olive, taxed
him with the authorship Of the person
als and made HIM own up to them. |
Next day met the woman ut the Lin
dcll and obtained her real name and |
address TIE whole scheme was got
ten up merely to get business of n Ger
tain kind out Of which legal fees could |
be made. The more bothered party |
about the whole business was the letter
who found nearly al the re-
portcrs in town on track of the item
and still away off from any real solu-
ton of the problem.
And then the detectives INDUCED in Il
general conlab about fictitious cores
pondcnce, and told marvellous tales Of
that ingenuity in discovering the real
authors Of these cpistolary efforts which
deceive the unwary,