The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-03-28
4 DETECTIVES RUSE.
Clever Method by Which He Secured
Some Evidence.

Clever Method by Which He Secured
Some Evidence.
81 had to resort to a queer ruse
once to get an admission from a
man | was AFTER" said 6 private de-
tective. "There had been some
trouble at a club between two young
men. One threw a glass of wine
into the others face. The other
did not resent the insult as he
should have done. When his fa-
ther heard Of it he threatened to
disinherit his son unless be 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 talk
of an action against them and his
father for conspiracy. Our agency
was retained to get the evidence
needed.
sit was decided that it would be
necessary to get ali admission from
The father Of the Young man who
had made ~ a7ea1lt. I was told to
get i. ] nany ways and failed.
lie did ROT know ! was a detective.
lie had known me FOR a number OF
years, but thought ! was engaged in
other work. had another plan to
get from him what wanted. / told
him a New York pabiieation was
having TIE affair written up aid il
lustrated
81 said I had seen the picture ol
the fight which had been prepared
for it. le was pleased at the pub
licity that &c fight was to get, fo,
the story OF the AFFAIR at the club
had been printed. anl he wanted il
known tha h.s on he'd avenged the
insslt. I i1t:sn ;:e.l that if.he cared
to zee 1t | thought could get him
tx, ,.stetGce that bad ',eess prepared
for pabiic;;. tt''o-I. iie was eager tt
see it.
81 had fr:cad, q newspaper srt
ist, who made re Il picture. He
made a faithful copy Of the stree
scene where The fsht occurred, ant
he made far likeness of the fig
ures III it. Tie picture showed one
man stealing up behind another ant
striking hirl from the rear. Behint
him were two other men, who were
supposed to have accompanied hin
to see fair play. The father wa
thought to have been in the neigh
borhood, bat as he wasn't seen h,
was left off the picture. lie exam
ined it carefully.
"'Who are these two men?' h,
asked, pointing to the two onlook
ers.
"'They are the two Blacks, wh'
went along with your son to SCI
that he got fair play told him.
"That's all right he said, 'bu
who is this?' pointing at the mai
who was striking at the other from
behind.
why, that's your son. I toll
him.
"'That's liep he exclaimc
MY son stood right in front Of /
and hit him squarely in the face
told him to do that and stand u
front of him all the time. l Va
right across the street, and the tw
men who were with my son wer
close enough to see all that happen
ed. They viii tell you that he di
not hit him from behind. He face
him fairly and whipped him fairly
That was the way we made it up t
do. II that's printed I'll whip tn
man who made itv
'It wasn't printed, nor were ther
any court proceedings taken on &C
count of the alleged conspiracy. TIL
men concerned in it on both side
got together and settled it out G
court" ."--Exchange