The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-17
Il DETECTIVES RUsG..
ne Clover MstheA ~ which He e.
Cured Some Evidence.

Se1O0 DVA0 WVAS08COs
II lad to resort TO queer russ once 10
get An admission from . man was after, )"
said privste detective. "There lad been
some trouble ct club between two young
men. One threw glass Of wine into the
others faee. The other did not resent the
insult - he should have done. When his
father heard Of It, he threatened to disin-
herit his son unless he whipped the man
who had thrown the wine In his face
The father was member Of the same club
and he made wager Of Q wine supper
that his son could and would whip the
other fellow. Soon after this the son met
the man who had insulted him and whip
ped him. The fight occurred on promi.
nent street, and as two of the young mans
friends were with him at the time there
was talk of an action against them and
his father for conspiracy. Our agency was
retained to got the evidence needed.
1T was decided that it would be neces.
sary to get an admission from the father
of the young man who had made the as
sault. was told to get it. tried many
ways and failed. He did not know was
q detective. He had known me for q
number Of years, but thought was en-.
gagged in other work. had another plan
to get from him what I wanted told
him New York publication was having
the affair written up and illustrated.
II said I had seen the picture Of the
fight which had been prepared for it. He
was pleased at the publicity that the fight
was to get, for the story of the affair at
the club had been printed, and he wanted
it known that his son had avenged the In.
suit. I intimated that If he cared to see
1t thought I could get him the picture
that had been prepared for publication.
He was eager to see it.
II had a friend, q newspaper artist, who
made me picture. He made a faithful
copy Of the street scene where the fight GO.
CURED, and he made fair likeness of the
figures In 1t. The picture showed one
man stealing up behind another and strik-
ing him from the rear Behiad him were
two other men, who were supposed to have
accompanied him to see fair play. The
father was thought to have been in the
neighborhood, but as he wasn't seen he
was left of the picture. He examined ii
carefully
"'Who arc these two men2 he asked,
pointing to the two onlookers.
They are the two Blacks. who went
along with your son to see that he got fair
play, told him.
That's all right, he said, but who is
thisr pointing at the man who was strik.
ing at the other from behind.
why, that's your son, told him.
"'That's a lier he exclaimed. My son
stood right in front of him and hit him
squarely in the face. told him to do
that and stand up in front of him all the
time. was right across the street. and
the two men who were with my son were
close enough to see all that happened.
They will tell you that he didn't hit him
from behind. He faced him fairly and
whipped him fairly. That was the way |,
we made it up to do. If that's printed. |
I'll whip tho man who made It'll
ut wasn't printed, nor were there any |
court proceedings taken on account Of the |
alleged conspiracy. The men concerned
in it on both sides got together and settled |
it out of court Publishing News.