Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1920 — IS GOING BACK TO THE FARM [ARTICLE]

IS GOING BACK TO THE FARM

"Chief of Detectives” Traces Clew to Grief—Fined $25. Noblesville, June 22. —After graduating from a Chicago correspondence school with the degree of “chief of detectives,” Joseph Conley, age 24, of Otterbein came to Noblesville Monday afternoon on his first “case” and met with disaster. Conley says he had a sweetheart here and he thought she was trying to evade him. He found the home where he thought she was staying and deputized a man to watch the rear door while he displayed a copper star and entered the front way. A short time later he was arrested for impersonating an officer and was fined $25 and costs in the circuit court. “I am through with detective work already,” Conley told the court after he was fined. "If I can get enough money together I am going back to Benton county and work in the harvest fields and on thrashing machines.” Conley said he paid S2O for the course in the correspondence school and after he had completed the work he bought a star for 36 cents. Then he came to Noblesville.