The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-06
DODGING THE PROCESS SERVER

OF course they are all poor when
they get into court. bu they are no.
all convincing. 1t is wonderful the
establishments those poor people
keep up and the way they dress often
outd es the glory of Solomon.
once when a process server was
irving to serve a woman OF society
he put a quarter where Il fitted 50
well that the darby at the switch
board of one Of the big apartment
houses let him listen to the talk that
happened t. be going on over the
telephone between the woman he was
irving TO reach and a friend. She
owed half OF creation and every time
she was hailed 10 court she swore
she hardly had money for carfarc.
But to her friend she was talking
as II losing $50 at bridge were a nero
baCatelle.
Women are as a rule the hardes
debtors 10 reach. \ man is bound to
come out Of his office eventually. II
a can have things sent in for
weeks on end. That may ne the real
reason why she is harder To serve.
However. her life IS apt 10 he more
| than a trifie uneasy when the sea-
| soned process server really gets down
: to business.
! At first he tries all of the good OH
, fashioned methods. When h woman
SAYS she is out when he knows sn"
isn't he sends her a note saying II
| will wait just three minutes for some
, word" That usually fetchcs her. 1t
sounds mysterious, and she doesn't
~. -. ,,l,,, A.. TrAf,y To ha mo
II she Is still "out" he takes stock or
the hallboy. II he looks young and
worldly a piece OF silver generally
! makes him look the other way while
the process server slips nimbly up the
stairs in search of his prey.
II the hall attendant chances 10 he
old and painfully incorruptible the
process server generally sits down
hands out a couple of cigars and has
a chat with him about the good old
times. Few old men are proof against
this temptation. Then the conNersa-
ton drifts to everything in general
leading up To what the non-payinG
tenant looks like and usually wear
Then when the elevator bell rings, rs
L is bound to do In time. and the an
Cient one IL well above the first fooi
the chatty youth can skip nimhly over
to the telephone switchboard. Thor
he discovers on which floor his VIC
tim lives. BY moving fairly briskly
he can he we'll up the stairs by the
time the elevator returns to the frs
floor. Once at the door of the apart
ment he has a sporting chance .
serve the paper.
The moment the door is opened HI
in~sinuates his foot we'll inside thu
threshold. BY that means the veto il
put on any idea his victim may have
of slamming the DOR when she dis
covers who the intruder l..
In a pinch people have been known t.
deny being themselves. \ man was ono
armed with a photograph of a woman
for whom he waited six hours. Whei
she finally came out he handed he
the Later he saw her read
ing il at one OF the front windows o
her house. But in court she denie'
that she had ever been served.
Poor persons are the mes it's n
fun 10 pursue. To begin with, the,
are more apt to he honest. Then, toe
they are easier TO find and they pa.
up more regularly.
If n working man IL to he served tn
place where he works is discoverc
when possible, or II he is married an
has children and only the vicinity !
which he lives is known the record
Of the public schools are looked NJ
when the children 20 home fror
school they are followed,
One woman who triod to evade
summons was finally tricked by tn
process server waiting in the ha
: lust outside her door from five min
, utcs before 10 until n little after IN
hour. When the children, comm
!. home for their dinner, pushed the he
down stairs their mother released bot
front doors. up stairs as well as dowr
, As she did 20 tho waiting process
server stepped into her rooms an
handed h"r the paper.
, The expert n h game usual
makes f., his business TO know I'll
=, family's habits. He ascertainS at wha
hour the woman markets ana ne NJ