The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-08
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A"LEMON" FOR THE LAWYERS
Attempt to Bribe a Private Detective ant How it was Exposed

political pull throughout the state. still another was at that time in good stand ing at the St. Louis bar.
 What will it be worth?" inquired Harbaugh
 ''We shall be willing to pay you a fee of S10,060 as soon as the will is broken" the lawyer answered. Fur thermore, we will send you to the Paris exposition. paying your fare and all expenses up to the value of $5000'
 We'll" answered Harbaugh thought fully, "youu have to give me a few days to think the proposition over. It's too big thing for me to decide off, hand"
 The lawyer agreed to that, and Har- baugh left that evening for St. Louis, where, the next morning, he came to me and told me of the proposal which had been made to him, asking me what l thought he had peter do about it.
 There seems to me to be only two things that can be done in this mat ter" I answered. "One is for you to ignore the proposition completely, as there can be no doubt of the rascality of all the parties who are in any way connected with the scheme. The other and, in my opinion, the right thing to do is to try and locate this man JoSpeh IT. Miles, and apprise him of the con sp'racy that is being worked up by
  we keep quiet and ignore the matter, they will, in all probability, secure a man who will accept the propositton. and we would be parties to this con spiraey because we failed to expose it.
 Well" answered Harbaugh, you are the boss and it is up to you. l have told YOU all | know about the matter ] told this lawyer that his proposition was very important one and that l should require a few days to think 1t over He approves of this and expects an answer from me in about weeks time
 at once set to work to locate Jo- seph IL Miles and succeeded after the lapse of about 12 hours. l found that he lived at Falls City. as I have said. and that he was president of the First -,ational bank in that place. He had a bank iir another Nebraska city and a large interest in a bank at York, Pa. He was very well known and much es- teemed. After locating him l wrote him a letter which ran as nearly as l can recall. as follows;
 MT. Joseph H. Miles,
 Falls City, Neb.:
 Dear Sir: If you are the son of the late stephen B. Miles. and have a broth CT by the name of Samuel Miles, and a number of nephews aud nieces who re- side in Kansas and Nebraska, l have inn 
 npart 1t personally if you will come to St. Louis.
 "I would suggest that you bring you lawyer, as l believe my information i'm 7ortant enough to justify you in so do ing.
 "On receipt of this I wish you would telegraph me, stating when you wtl leave Falls City, and- at what time you will arrive in St Louis. On arriving al St Louis go to the Planters hotel, look at the register, where you will find my name, and you can then come direct to my room, where I will be waiting for you and your attorney.
 "I am using fictitious name, for req sons that I will explain to you when see you. Yours very truly"
 On receipt of tl.s letter from me, Mir Miles at once telegraphed that he would leave Falls City the same evening, ar irving at St Louis the following morn ing. via the Burlington route, and that he would carry out the instructions