The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-08-18
THE PRIVATE DETECTIVE.
one OF the Chicago Variety, "A Husband
Vic and Revolver.

Wife and a Revolver.
Detective" c. j. Won Arnold was
held TO the criminal court bv Justice
K. ii. White III $500 bonds on two of
eight charges of obtaining money by
false pretenses, preferred by persons in
Hyde Park who paid Won Arnold So
each for stars and certificates of mer1.
bershlp IN his agency. Justice LYON
held j. w. Woodman, Won Arnold's
lieutenant, in $500 bonds on similar
charges.
The result of Won Arnold's latest
piece OF business was that pretty
young woman, stylish,y dressed, and
wearing a neat little bonnet that set off
piquant features and slightly turned up
nose to perfection haunted the corner
OF Wabash Avenue and Randolph
Stree. from 2:30 o'clock until long after
3 Sunday afternoon. Just around the
corner III doorway tall, tine-looklng
man stood impatiently awaiting devel-
opments that failed To develop. The
pretty woman was Mrs. Minnie Moon
and the man was her husband, Fred
who keeps restaurant at No. IS Rush
Street. The object of their attention
was c. J. Won Arnold, the detective
who had made an appointment to meet
Mrs. Moon on the corner. On July 9th
Mrs. Moon engaged Won Arnold the
detective, To keep a watch on her hus-
band. She made contract TO pay the
detective $50 as she supposed, but the
paper subsequently came to light in the
form of an agreement to pay $3.50 Mr..
Won Arnold would not undertake the
work until Mrs. Moons mother, who
Is quite wealthy, Endorsed it as security
for the payment of the money. Then
he went on the trail, ana Tor several
days Moon was shadowed by two men
wherever he went. Won Arnold made
frequent reports to Mrs. Moon of the
improper conduct of her husband, and
Minnie, believing what the detectives
told her, WAS as miserable as possible.
When the pretty wife was We'll CON
WINGED of her husbands bad conduct,
Won Arnold, she says, proposed a
meeting. This aroused Minnie's sus-
picions, and she Immediately went to
her husband and made clean breast
of the whole affair. He told her not to
pay Won Arnold any more money, but
she was not quite satisfied, and met the
detective as he suggested. She kept
the tenor of the conversation down to
strict business principles, and asked TO
have the bill of $50 reduced. "Filty
dollars y Won Arnold was surprised.
1t was $3.50, and there WAS the contract
He, however, consented to reduce it to
sol if Minnie would meet him at the
corner of Wabash Avenue and Ran
dolph Street Sunday. She wouldn't
and Won Arnold then said business
was business and he would have to sue
her. Mrs. Moon did not want any
publicity and compromised on the
basis OF $3.50. and agreed to meet
Won Arnold, Thoroughly convinced
of the detectives pertidy. Mrs.
Moon told her husband all about the
affair, and he accompanied her to the
rendezvous. Whether Arnold's arrest
for obtaining money by false pretenses
from the citizens of Hyde Park occu-
pied all his time, or whether he saw
Mr.. Moon on the corner be ore he COM
mitted himself is not known, but Won
Arnold is not confined TO his bed to-
day, and Mr.. Moons revolver still con-
tains five loaded cartridges.