The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-09-20
is SUCCESSFUL SLEUTH
She is Now On a Hunt For Man Who
Has Deserted His Family-Oth-
er Exploits of the Lady.

and maid belonging to one of thu
best families Of this state, descend
ant of one of Indiana's most re
spected sons, is making great repu
tation as a sleuth. She is Miss Su
san B. Noble, a grandniece Of James
Noble, who was United States Sena-
tor from Indiana from 1916 to 1881
and of Noah Noble, who was Cover
nor of the state from 1881 to 1887.
Miss Mobiles first exploit was to
arrest two men On the street and de-
liver them to the desk sergeant at
the police station.
She is employed by the Charity
Organization society, and for several
months there were complaints about
two men who were begging at houses
and on the streets. The two men APP
peared in different DISCUSSES, some
times as cripples, sometimes as the
sons of wealthy parents who had
cast them off, sometimes as unfor-
tunate investors in the West who
were trying to get to friends in the
East.
Miss Noble became satisfied that
the two men were working together
and after the police had failed to
bring them in she started out to find
them. Her search was painstaking
and for nearly a week was kept up
day and night.
Her First Capture.
One evening while passing along
Washington street she spied one of
her men. She walked up to him,
caught him by the lapel of his coat
and demanded that he accompany her
to the police station.
The fellow pulled back, but she
frightened her grip upon his coat and
pointed to big police
man at the corner.
eff you don't CO., she said, "I'l
call that policeman and have you Ia
ken down in the patrol wagon
The man looked at her, and seeing
in her manner, walked
with her to the police station and
was turned over to the officers as
vagrant. He refused to give his pal
away, but Miss Noble judged that the
other man was not far away at the
time of the arrest. This thought came
to her from the way the man had
looked across the street when she
first accosted him.
Going back on the opposite side of
the street she recognized the fellows
partner and arrested him, and in
twenty minutes he, too, was slated
at the station house for vagrancy.
A more difficult piece Of detective
work has just bee accomplished by
her, though the prisoner escaped at the
last moment through the bungling of
men. A man named Rhodes deserted
his wife and four children. Miss No
BILE was sent to catch him.
She learned that Rhodes spent
much of his time with woman who
kept clearinghouse, but the woman
positively denied any knowledge of
his whereabouts. Within a short
time she also disappeared, and Miss
Noble believed that she had gone to
Join the absconding husband.
She started out to locate the cou-
pie. but it was a month before she
could find even a slight trace of
them.
Searching For Wife-Deserter.
A relative of the woman inadver-
tently remarked that the boarding
house keeper had gone to Martins
Vile. and Miss Noble followed, but
no trace of the fugitives could be
found. She made several trips to
that city and finally the postmaster
that he had forwarded a
etter to the woman at Morgantown.
Miss Noble went to Morgantown,
out the parties We're not there. After
lays of search she went to the rail-
road station. described the woman to
The agent. and was told that he had
sold such a woman a railroad ticket
to Bedford.
Miss Noble followed to Bedford.
but there nothing could be learned of
the couple. She spent several days
liz the search. and at last was reward
ed by meeting a quarryman, who said
that such man as she described
was in Quarrytown and had recently
been ininad by his wife GOING To