Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — A Detective's Close Call. [ARTICLE]

A Detective's Close Call.

“ The closest call I ever had,” said a detective, “was in Southern Indiana, where a posse of us had gone to capture some counterfeiters. There were five of us in the party, and, as I had previously been over the ground and located the house, I was deputed to watch the front while the others deployed in the rear, and we were to come together at a given signal and make a rush for the - house,which was a log cabin standing in an open field. It began to rain soon after we separated, and seeing a new weatherboarded house ahead of me, and knowing that I was in the right neighborhood, I concluded to stay there a few hours until after the rain subsided. There was no danger of the counterfeiters leaving. Knocking at the door, I was admitted. Inside were five men and a woman. They showed me up stairs to my room, and as the man who piloted me left I heard him turn the key in the door and I knew that I was a prisoner. Then I saw the house was of logs and had been recently weather-boarded. In a few minutes I heard them consulting together in the hall, and I felt that my doom was being sealed. Dropping out of a small window at the end of the room, I reached my horse just as they discovered my escape, and the ball from a rifle whistled past my head as I mounted the horse. A regular fusillade followed, and the bullets came close enough for me to hear them, but I succeeded in reaching my companions, and we surrounded the house just in time to catch them as they started home.” —[St. Louis GlobeDemocrat.