| Show A Real Detective St Paul Globe j TALL thin wearing a aH H Sherlock Holmes glare and a large tin star prowled into the Union station yesterday about dusk ad took up a where he could see tite crowds passing both ways through the gates The star ws concealed In such sucha a way that every forty feet see It and the glare In the mans eyes showed that he was a detective even without the additional evidence of the star starA A Globe man watChed him for about Lou minutes and then diffidently ap approached and asked the detective for a match This was the signal for an cx tended which verified the judgment of the newspaper man Yes Im a detective the lengthy person the Globe man wIth his eye I am here to look for a man who Is wanted In Luverne for stealing two cows Im the district superintendent of the detective association out there and I think I have ii clue The newspaper man looked the de detective over admiringly and questioned him about thu star that stuck out from his coat and covered a large part of hI necktie The detective tried to look as if he was surprised but the attempt was a failure Then the man took tooka a position beside him and asked Shout me how you detect Certainly replied the sleuth NoW you see looking man just coming through the gate Well he is isa a crook I can tell em every time Just watch me get him You see I just look at one of those fellows for a feu minutes and if he gets uneasy lies It With this explanation the detective stared at the quiet looking victim un sure enough the man began to display other signs of nerv nervousness He openly took off his watch and chain and thrust them Into ills trous trousers ers pocket and backed Into a shadow where the detective could not see him from his position In front of the gate Ive got im hissed the sleuth as he prepared to land his prey one of the gang sure and his cad In Innear near Just at this juncture two little maids walked in arid caught sight of criminal They him and cried Oh papa we thought ou were lost Tle face was wreathed In smiles as he patted the little heads and j glanced toward the detective That In Individual however had the making ofa h had van The supposed criminal turned to the Globe man and remarked I am the Rev t of fanis Can me who man Is Fre at in for ten as I was robbed In about ten years ago I was nervous pocketbook and watch He was Informed the man be hind the stare was a detective looking for a cattle thief As he started to take tie eastbound I train he said Come on rs I am anxious to get away The detective tall tg make another j |
