WASHED WHITE

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1925, Page 3

WASHED WHITE

— — — — A DETECTIVE’S CAPTURE NEW YORK, July 15. In singular circumstances John Durand, adopted son of a Chicago millionaire, and “wanted” by the police of that city in connection with charges of burglary, has been apprehended at Venice, California, a seaside resort. A fair was in progress there. Among the attractions in the centre of a lake, was a post with a small platform on top of it, on which squatted a negro. * i • i > t i A — 4- zx tx n XTT H G

A little lower down the post was a bullseye, at which, for sixpence, the crowd was invited to take three shies with a hard ball. If the bullseye were hit the platform would collapse and down into the water would come tumbling the darkey, to the delight of the spectators. Along came an amateur baseball

pitcher.' With a swift ball he missed the bullseye—but hit the negro, stunning him and knocking him off his perch. In the crowd happened to be a detective, a “first'-aid” expert, who helped to drag the ‘black brother” from the lake. The “darkey” proved to be a white man, whose face had been corked. The water into which he had fallen had washed off some of the black. Then the resuscitated man was recognised as the “wanted” Durand. He was taken to Chicago by the kindhearted detective.