Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1913 — AMATEUR DETECTIVE LOST HIS QUARRY [ARTICLE]

AMATEUR DETECTIVE LOST HIS QUARRY

“Uncle” Billy Myres Thought He Was on the Trail of the Parr Store Burglars. 1 Recent store robberies at Panhave shown indications, of local talent and all law-abiding people have alike been interested in any effort to bring to justice the thieves. “Uncle” Billy Myres is regarded as the reap'Sherlock Holmes of the community and he recently indulged in a bit of amateur detective work that resulted in Jiis many friends having the-joke on him, and they have been kidding him since then almost past the point of endurance, and if Billy wasn’t able to hand back an occasional jolt he would probably have to take a va cation until the incident was forgotten. The story as The Republican gets it from Parr is to the effect that Billy was closing his place of business at about 10:30 o’clock one evening recently and had just locked the door when he heard a strange low whistle. He looked in the direc tion of the sound and stood very quietly with his ears ready to catch any sound. Only a few seconds elapsed when there was another whistle some little distance away, apparently an answer to the first. “It’s the burglars,” thought Billy, and he sneaked out the back way to avoid being seen and ran to his home and got his gun. He' was bent on extermination. He returned very cautiously and was about to plant himself in a place to- command a view approaching the business buildings when several boys gave him the “horse laugh." It was they who had done the whistling while engaged in a game of hide and seek and they had been watching him all the time. The men and boys of the town enjoyed a big laugh at Billy’s expense the next day when some one dubbed him the “amateur detective."