Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1894 — English Police Get Evidence. [ARTICLE]

English Police Get Evidence.

Westminster Gazette. The Birmingham police are ingenious men. Desiring to effect an entry into a tavern suspected of Vein g used as a betting house, they procured a hearse and a mourning coach, and attired themselves as ioachmen, mutes and mourners, thus disguised they reached the Lavern, entered, and true to the imnemorial custom of funeral parties, irdered refreshments. Then they boked about them, found evidence j>f guilt, and summoned the tavern ceeper. He must have felt much as Hamlet did about “inky cloaks” and “customary suits of solemn black.” They are indeed things that men may feign, but he would probably sail them in this case “ti-aps” rather than “trappings.”