The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-07-05
A DETECTIVES RUSE.
Clever Method by Which He Secured
Some Evidence.

Some Evidence.
Il had to resort to a queer rus,
once to get an admission from
man | was AFTER" said a private de
tectiye. ''There had been som,
trouble at club between two young
men. One threw a glass of wine
into the others face. The othe1
did not resent the insult as ht
should have done. When his fa
ther heard of it he threatened tt
dlsinherit his son unless he whipped
the man who had thrown the wine
IN his face The father was a mem
Der OF the same club, and he made
wager OF 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
whipped him. The fight occurred
on a prominent street, and as two
of the young mans friends were
with him at the time there was tall.
of an aston against them and his
father for conspiracy. Our agency
wee retained to get the evidence
1T was decided that it would be
necessary to get an admission from
the father of the young man who
had made the assault. l was told to
get it. l tried many ways and failed.
tie did not know l was a detective.
He had known re for a number of
years, but thought l was engaged in
other work. / had another plan to
get from him what I wanted. told
him a New York publication was
having the affair written up and IL
Illustrated.
Il said l had seen the picture of
the fight which had been prepared
for it. He was pleased at the pub
hcity 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
insult. | intimated that if he'cared
to see it i thought l could get him
the pictarS bat 1i.att had beer prepared
for publication. He was eager to
see it.
Il had friend, newspaper art
ist, who made me a picture. He
made faithful copy of the street
scene where the fight occurred, and
he made a fair likeness Of the fig
ures in it. The picture showed one
man stealing up behind another and
striking him from the rear. Behind
him we're two other men, who were
supposed to have accompanied him
to see fair play. The father was
thought to have been in the neigh
but as he wasn't seen he
was left of the picture. He exam
med it carefully.
"Who are these two menY he
asked, pointing to the two onlook-
ers.
"'They are the two Blacks, who
vent along with your son to see
hat he got fair play l told him.
"'That's all right he said, but
who is this?' pointing at the man
who was striking at the other from
behind.
Why, that's your son. told
i'm.
That's a lieP he exclaimed.
Ny son stood right in front of him
md hit him squarely in the face.
old him to do that and stand up in
,ront of him all the time. I was
light across the street, and the two
nen who were with my son were
lose enough to see all that happen
ID. They will tell you that he did
lot hit him from behind. He faced
i'm fairly and whipped him fairly.
That was the way we made it up to
10. Shat's printed III whip the
nr<Ab made it.!
"S%asn't printed, nor were there
ny court proceedings taken on &C 3
cunt of the alleged conspiracy. The !,
nen concerned in it on both sides
'ot together and settled it out OF a
ourt. Exchange.