Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-05-02
MISS DAVIS STORY.
Further Details of a Chicago
Detective Plot.
PERSISTENCE OF THE acHENERs.
Zee TO Publish Their Infamous success
The Audaeious Rascal at 100 Hiehi-
gsn-How He Detained His Victim Tn
I'll the Patrol Wagon Got Around

gzn-How He Detained His Victim Tn
Til the Patrol Wagon Got Around
CHICAGO, May 2-The raid made
Wednesday evening on the house Of i'll
fame al ls1 Michigan street has brought
10 light conspiracy which was 50 care
fully planned, 50 eieyerly carried out, that
only the oyerZealOusness of the prime
movers in the scheme prevented its ALSO
lutte success. The conspiracy Is 80 far
reaching and 30 contemplate in the ends
sought TO lie attained that the grand jury
should waste no time in making a compre-
hensive and thorough investigation of the
whole mater. The scheme as il was car
ned out was 10 deooy q Young woman, Mss
Cora Davis. into disreputable house and
then have the establishment raidsd BY the
police. thus causing her arrest and thereby
forever blasting her reputation
The Breseh-of-Promise Suit.
There are two features connected with
the case which add 70 it, seriousness The
first Is that Miss Davis Is at present the
plaintiff in a 5000 breach OF promise suit
against z Chicago dentist named Frederick
NJ Merrill, who has an Office in the Amer
lean Express buil.iing. - Monroe street,
and the other j. that the police Of the city
Of Chicago were a party 10 this very Pc
culiar raid About two months ago Dr.
Frederick u Merrill. a dentist, was mar
RED 70 Mss Lister, the only daughter Of
Joseph Lister, the millionaire glue man.
Couldn't shake On the Old Love.
The newly-nade benedict had scarcely
begun To enjoy the pleasures Of the honey
moon when the breach of promise suit
was begun against him by Miss Cora Da-
Wis, a young woman formerly in the doc
tor'- Offic., and living with her widowed
mother at IsO North Clark street. Miss
Davis had b-en engaged since early last
summer to DR. Merrill. and was 10 have
BEEN married this spring. when the young
dentist Iurei by Miss Listers more sub
stsntial attractions shook OF the old love
and married the new
The Plot TO Rain . Reputation.
Since the beginning % the breach-of
promise suit Miss Davis has been pestered
| almost 10 death by private detectives dog
ging her every footstep and making her
life a burden. shorty after : O'Clock
Wednesday evening there came message
70 her that some one in the pari0rs below
Miss Dayi- and her mother live in pri-
waite hOiel-wished 30 se- her When she
answered the call the messenger told her
that an intimate friend Of hers desired to
see her al Ia0 Michigan street Suspicious
Of some shady business. Miss Davis de-
clined 10 go, telling the messenger that if
the alleged friend wished an interview he
| might come himself and state his bust
ness
Persistent sehemers-
less than half an hour later, said Miss
Davis yesterday, relating the story, \ was
again called down stair When | went
down saw IN old darkey woman. who
said that ! was wanted very badly, and
that Il I would 20 would hear OF some
thing 10 mas advanj age
Who j. /; wants 10 - me- asked of
| the messenger.
/ don't know, mann. answered the col
ored woman, 'bu7 he lows he ! frien' o
yours
i asked her II my friend had told her
his name. and she SAID no | again de
clined 70 60 but shortly after -he came
back again
The gem 'maa, miss, sly, j. name Is
Mac-McD0unrll He say, you knows i'm
| we'll
ConeIRJs, to Obey the Cali
One 81 my dearest friends ia Indiana.
where We lived before coming 10 Chicago.
was a Nr Mcdonald He had ben a true
friend 81 mamma and Of mine
What shall I 10. mamma I asked
mother
Well perhaps you had better 10 and
SEE what be wants
The moment got inside the house I
knew | wss trapped. The man who had
seat for me was an utter stranger. ]
wanted to get ont. bat he took hold Of my
arm and forced me TO sit on the sofa For
upward Of tive minutes-POS>ibl eight OF
ten-he conversed with me, endeavorins To
persuade ne tha; be had met me before. /;
was while he was talking this way that
the patrol wagon drove up
4 Clear Gaze Of Conspiracy.
The keeper Of the house. 100 Michigan.
says she never saw Miss Davis before, and
IS sure that that the young woman never
saw the decoy until Wednesday night. he
cause her prOtestations to that effect were
evidently truthful Wednesday night two
men called at The Times office-after the
arrest Of Miss Davis-and tried 70 get the
item into the paper. but were
suspected. ard failed in their
plan, which was evidently to spread abroad
the alleged facts Of the arrest and blacken
Miss Davis reputation. DR.. Merrill, when
seen yesterday, refused TO talk. declaring
that be knew nothing about the matter.
II tranSpires that the police knew moth