River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-06-11
MATRIMONIAL DETECTIVES
How Fathers Learn the Private Lives Of
Their Daughters Suitors.

From the Now Yori, Telegram
"Of course, there are tricks in every
trade. and there are few in ours, " said
q well known private detective, with
smile the other dav The ms and
outs of the detective business are deyi.
GUS and mJ,Iy
DO criminal cases ray the best p
asked the Telegram reporter.
BY no means. The bulk of my
work IS tracking private individuals and
asccrtunug then daily life"
WHO are your best customers ?"
MY best customers are nsuaIly wom-
en- Tracking criminals is laborious
aud difficult. not 10 say dangerous. In
the first place. man with a crime on
hs conscience is suspicious. That fact
alone makes his capture the more diff
cult aud dangerous, although lively
conscience. particularly when reflected
In % MANS actions, often gives him
aNav, and be- himself furnishes the
groundwork upon which we weave the
uet III cuuyictiue evidence against him.
With old crooks however, there is no
such timing ts conscience, and they OF
uil others are the most difficult to cap
turc And. again, an old one mt the
ims.ny. S il usually desperate and does
not hesitate TO adopt desperate means
whoa rarurred On the other hand,
'sputtr e. reckless Young men for their
swestae5rts. wild sons for their fathers,
ana suspected wives, and husbands is
what vou would call i snap You
would be surprised Mt the number of
suspicious minded persons IN the world.
Only "a few weeks ago | had il call
from house ON Thirtv-fourth street,
almost uulcr the shadow Of the Stewart
mansion. [ responded IN person, and
am elderly white haired gentleman re-
eeiysd me i'm his library. After conSid-
cradle heating about the bush, he men
toned his daughters name, and surmis-
ing the rest, | said
% She has Il sutton, and she thinks
good deal of him, and wants to marry
hmm; and Won want to know something
about tho young gentleman 2 said |.
Yes. yes. i ess my soul how
did Won know. said he really astonish-
Ell Finally. after much talk, / sue
cccdel in getting all / wanted ont Of
the old gentleman. and went away with
apartlag injunction 30 be very careful,
the oil man eEclajmiug Bless my
soul. but / think lie is a wicked young
man.
That 1ight followed the young gen
u oman tier he ana his hetrothed had
returned from the opera and lie had
IT, her ut her fathers door. The first
p ace lie visited was u saloon, where he
..I good, still horn of whisky. On
top If this Ire visited the Havmarket.
whore he spent the best part III tine night,
gettiug home about In the morning.
made my report to the old gentleman,
who said, Bless my soul. just rs
Thought Try him again might ]
dill, and the Young mans operations
were about the same, only varying the
Havmarket Tor IA faro bank. where he
lost heavily and went home pretty we'll
loaded That was enough for the old
gentleman. and when the young man
called nest Time instead Of the warm
welcome of hls betrothed, he was met
be she angry old gentleman. So you
sgr how he lost pretty wife ana hei
fathers we'll filled money bags. The
uld gentleman was deeply grateful 81
ua anal gave me check for 500. and
when / said it was q good deal lie re-
Piled Why, bless my soul, Won saved
my daughter, SIR; you saved my daugh
ten and the old mans eyes were filled
with tears.