Willmar tribune., 1909-02-10

'Adt "ouAu Oe " tue1r advantage. FER
haps, upon his return, he would be
willing to sell rather than to have the
detectives report sent where it would
be read with the greatest interest.
So the partner and the detective de.
parted. The partners visit dragged on
from week to week, and finally into
months, and upon each returning ship
came the reports of the man who had
been sent to watch him. But the re-
ports were of no interest even to the
men who read them. Their partner
seemed to be conducting himself ad-
mlrably, so far as his own interests
were concerned, though quite unfor-
tunately for those who wanted to buy
him out. But they knew him-or
thought they did-and waited for more
reports.
But the rest of the reports were like
the first, and the man himself came
home without his partners having OBJ
tanned the kind of information they
| wanted.
1t was then they shuffled the deck to
play what they believed was their
trump card.
Pretty Woman as Decoy.
One of the partners had very
pretty cousin, young woman She
was summoned to the home of her
relative and told that important busi-
ness considerations made it desirable
that she perform for them a very deli
cate task. She should appear at the
;; office and go to work, apparently as an
ordinary employe. Her purpose in do
ing so should be to cultivate the &C.
quaintance of the third partner. But
| she should bide her time. There should
| be nothing in her conduct toward him
to suggest to so shrewd a man the pos
sibility of a plot. Yet when the time
came she should recognize the moment
and play the game.
The time finally came. The partner
asked her to go to dinner with him
the next evening. She had been to
dinner with him before and had gained
enough of his confidence to know this
dinner was not to be like the others.
But she lost no time in accepting the
invitation, and still more promptly
told her cousin.
An hour later the cousin was in a
private detective agency with the
chief Carefully he told the story of
how he and his agreeable partner had
tried to buy out the disagreeable other
fellow and, having failed, had engaged
a man to shadow him to Europe. Even
more minutely he went over the mat
ter concerning the hiring of the pretty
cousin. Then he came to his point.
He wanted two detectives assigned
to shadow the couple, first to the the.
ater and then to their ultimate destina.
ton. Within a minute after the ar.
rival of the third partner and his com.
panion one of the detectives should
knock on the door, which the beautiful
cousin would thereupon open. The
other partners would at once appear
feign surprise, indignation and anger
and the next morning the third part
ner would be told he must sell out al
their figure or suffer exposure.
Shown Error Of Their Ways.
The detective chief listened in 81
!ence until the story was told.
do you realize" said he, you have
asked me to help you do something
for which we would both be sent tt
state prison?"
The gentleman expressed grea1
amazement.
"You have asked me to aid you ir
springing a trap by means of which
you plan to force your partner to sci
at a price fixed by yourself property
that he does not want to SELL Now
what would be the result if l were tt
do it?
"The partner of whom you are try
ing to rid yourself would go home ant
spend sleeples night. About eight
O'Clock in the morning he would sa,
to himself: I can stand this NJ
longer. l must 60 to my attorney and
seek his advice
He'd 60. His attorney would lister
to his story, take out his watch, note
the ttme-ntne o'clock-and say: :
want you to 60 with me at once to the
district attorneys office and swear ou
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