OLD WOMAN'S RUSE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 52, 11 February 1913, Page 2

OLD WOMAN'S RUSE.

TRAP TO CAPTURE CRI.MINAL. Ail armed criminal was arrested at tlie 13 russets Palace of Justice through the presence of mind of an elderly woman independent means named Mine. Van. Houter. She had received threatening letters demanding money, says the 'Soil.' One afternoon recently a man called and told her lie had a letter signed by a police official, asking her to place notes for the sum demanded in an envelope so that the police might deliver it at the appointed place. She 'had her suspicions and delayed the man until a policeman was met, when he was given into custody. The pseudo-policeman •was at first indignant, hut later he consented, at the instigation of the authorities, to take a letter from the woman to the Salle ctes Pas-Perdus at the Palace of Justice, where two police officers arrested him. There he was found to be carrying a loaded Browning pistol. Threatening letters found on him included one. saving that he would kidnao the baby of a woman, and that for* each dav she delayed sending him the money he demanded he would cut off one of the child's fingers.