The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-02-28
\ Detective
Scheme
BY JOHN GALLAGHER. j..

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grows so grows the region of vice
Many are the devices of the detectives
or plain clothes men, as they are call
ed, to trap those they are after and
land them in Jail. One would suppose
that hiding IN a crowded community
would be easy compared with the coun
try, where everybody knows every
body else's business and any IL un.
accounted for attracts attention. But
the police say that If they can get a
crook they are after into the munich
pal net they are sure to land him-that
IS, If they pounce upon him so suddenly
that he can't have time to slip through
their fingers.
The underworld has its society as
well as the upper world. though 1t Is
far more transient. AS to dancing, as
the Turkey trot song goes. Every.
body's doing it." The social bottom
has its soirees as well as the social top.
One evening a young man entered
a dance hall in Philadelphia where
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ed tougher than any other man in the
room. a %stovepipe hat was mashed
down over his eyes. under which were
a pair of bleared eyes. a flaming red
nose and a stubble beard. He was
very agile and put on a good deal of
style, which was comical in such a de.
graded person. Marching up to one of
the women, he made u crooked bow
and crooked his arm at her. She took
It and strutted off with him, putting
on all the airs Of the upper ten thou.
sand.
Look at 'em!"
What %illigance!"
Where did the bloke come from?"
"And the ~leddy-she'd make a pea.
cock ashamed of itself!"
The music struck up. and the dance
began. The couple who had attracted
the attention of the company continued
10 hold it by their remarkable antics
In the dance. The gentleman seemed
made Of rubber, and the lady didn't
seem to care as to showing her ankles.
Now and again the former jumped
three or four feet from the floor. and
every time he gave a whoop. And aft.
er every jump OF the man the woman
would jump higher and whoop loude::.
The dance over, they separated and
danced with others, but later in the
evening the man approached the Won.
an again, jumped in the air before her,
made a more profound bow than be
fore, and they sailed away together
In a round dance, spinning like a tee
totum. They evidently enjoyed the
amusement they created, and in order
TO increase it they began to bump cou.
pies they passed. This feature was
more successful with the onlookers
than any other.
But very Don the bumps they gave
began to come back to them with in.
terest. One couple after another ran
into them and presently began to run
into one another. The humping be
came not only general, but increased
In force. Then the bumpers began to
Gre up.
In less than half an hour after this
swell couple started the innocent pleas.
antry of knocking dancers of theil
pins the assembly resolved itself into
. free fight. There were bowling and
swearing and w%hooping, and no man
made more noise than the stranger and
no woman more than the strangers
girl. The proprietor jumped on a table
and yelled Mt the top Of his voice:
what do you want to bring down
the police on the house for? Shut upw
He might as we'll have tried to still
. tempest with a penny trumpet. 1t
was bi6, biff, bif! with here a growl,
there a yell. a screech from some wo-
man occasionally sounding shrill above
the uproar like the wind bowling
through the rigging of a ship.
Presently two policemen rushed into
the room. One of them cast his eye
sver the assembly and, seeing the imi-
tator Of swelldom sparring with a red
headed man, a c IN his left cheek,
went up to him and arrested him. AS
he pushed his prisoner along the lat
ter said to him:
Got ZEN blocked below?"
Eyes. Who's here?"
Cant tell. Take In the lot and sift
Nem out"
There was a wild rush for the door,
but a dozen policemen stood in the
way. Then some Of the men went to
the windows. but the hall was ON the
third story of a building and nothing
between 1t and the ground. There was
q skylight. and some tried to get out
on to the roof, but there were no means
Of getting up to it. The clang of pa
troll wagons sounded below, and one
hy one the recent jewellers were taken
down past a line Of policemen. put into
wagons and driven to the station.
Among the others were the hilarious
stranger and the girl who had helped
him amuse the company. The police
ma who had arrested them said some
thing to the officer at the desk. and
they were led into another room, where
they stripped off their outer clothing
ind both appeared as men.
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