Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1909 — ON THE TRAIL OF “JACK THE PEEPER” [ARTICLE]

ON THE TRAIL OF “JACK THE PEEPER”

At midnight, the witching hour, Sunday night, Larsh Thomas, known to the denizens of the underworld as light-limbed Larsh, awaited expectantly in the lobby of one of Rensselaer’s justly famous hotels, a call which was to start him on one of the most intricate problems of criminal geometery, to-wit: Do lines running in opposite directions ever meet? He was to match his skill as a human bloodhound against a peeping Jack, who'with fiendish ease evaded the most carefully set traps for his taking. The call came shortly after that hour before mentioned, and Larsh was off on a chase not yet ended. He was met at the station—commonly called depot—by his force of man-eaters, Estil, Remley, “Happy” and Art Fletcher, Abe Simpson and "Bill” Davenport. The quarry was spotted three blocks west of Apple avenue, and the chase was on, Jack and pal going west and the detectives, with a bellow of rage, started east on a dead run, and if their wind holds out they may meet the peeper and pal on the isle of Bong Bong.