Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — A DETECTIVE’S STORY. [ARTICLE]

A DETECTIVE’S STORY.

The Sweetheart Robbed to Pay a Man’s Courting Expenses. “I was disgusted a few days ago at a case I workecl up,” remarked a detective to a Washington Star reporter. “A young lady who was possessed of and a number of jewels sent for me. She had been robbed, of sonic diamonds valued at several hundred dollars. I finally found all but one pin, they having beeu pawned. I obtained a description of the man who borrowed money upon them, but for several weeks could not locate him. When I did his landlady said that he had left that morning and was going to Baltimore. I watched the depot, and was soon rewarded by seeing the man step out of a. hack. I seized his arm and said: ‘You are arrested!’ ‘What for?’ he asked, in a tone that showed he was not much surprised, but greatly frightened. ‘That will be explained at the station,’ I replied. There was a feminine shriek from the hack, and, glancing into the vehicle/ I saw it was my fair client. They had just been married and were starting on their wedding trip. I took in the situation at a glance, and then realizing that I was powerless under the new order of affairs, I said: T sec ndw that you are not the man I want,’ and let him go. Then he began to bl uster.and.takinghim aside, I gave him to understand, I knew of his robbing the girl, to pay the expenses of his courtship, and lie quieted down very suddenly.”