The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-02-20
He PLAYED DETECTIVE
And Got Detected Himself and
Then Sent to Jail.
SHREWD SWINDLING GAME PLAYED
On Man Over tho I.ivcr--Pcouiiar
Actions Of u Man from Maynard,
Prominent In Buslncss Thoro--iIis
Plea was That ho was Drunk when
ho Did II,

Yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock
Officer Bowers, OF tho city police force,
arrested man OH Market street, In tho
Second ward, and took him to tho city
building. lilo gavo his namo as j. NJ.
Mcmillan, and claimed to DO II grocer
from Maynard, O., out tho c., L, & W.
railroad, whcro no said no was in bust.
moss with his brother.
There woro two suspicious thinss
about tho man-ho had on ialso coatec
aud no carried revolver. IIo was
locked up OH charge OF carrying con.
cealcd weapons. but back of this Tics Il
moro series accusation. Joseph Schu.
bert, who lives at Hamilton, o., charges
Mcmillan and another man with obtain.
lug from him by false pretenses tho sum
OF $50. schubort's story is that no had
been at tho Wheeling creek coal works,
over tho river. to visit his brother.in.
law, and was walking along the road
near there. when no was approached bv
TWO men. Ono OF them called
h htm ba BY name w,, and said aid
him Tor tho illegal sale Of LIQUOR. Ho
protested his innocence, but the mon
showed badges and pistols, and finally
induced him to give them an order on
his wife for $50. to secure his release.
lilo thon came to Wheeling aud went to
Goodtriond's boarding house. There
he told his story, and somebody sus.
gested that he was tho victim OF swim.
dlers. Ho telegraphed his wife not to
pay the order. but the men had already
boon thoro and collected it.
Schubert notified Chiot Bennett, and
IN order was sent out for the arrest Of
tho men II found here.
Mcmillan when brought TO the lock.
up denied tho charge emphatically. lie
was locked up, however, after being
searched. without finding anything in.
eliminating on him but the revolver
aud false goatee.
Last night Capt Bonnet found among
McMillan's possessions certificate OF
his connection with tho National De.
tecsive Agency" OF Indianapolis, aud
also credential card from tho same
concern. This is merely company or.
ganized to sell such certificates and Gre.
den.ials. badges and the like to gillies
who would be detectives.
Tho chief then interviewed Mcmillan
again, and after very short talk began
to get at "the milk in the coacoanut"
Mcmillan said he cot the SIS. He met
Schubert on tho road, and asked him il
he were not Schubert. He said he was.
Mcmillan said: you are running away
from the grand jury at Steubenyille, !"
and showed his badge. Schubert, he
says. excloimed:
Yes: and suppose you have caught
me up"
Then he asked what he could do 10
get out Of it, and Mcmillan told him he
could 60 for S95, and on getting the or.
der he let him 20.
Mcmillan said the man with him was
man named Matthews. He admitted
that he knew he was committing a
crime in taking the money. and his only
excuse was, III | had not been drinking
lwould not have done it." Capt. BEN
nett asked what he had done with the
money, and he replied laconically:
Guess l got drunken on it"
What disposition will be made OF Nc.
Millan's case has not been decided. The
sum taken is said TO be too small to
make the crime felony in Ohio, in
which case requisition cannot DO OBJ.
tanned. There are other features, how.
ever. which may make tho crime moro
serious.