She Beat tta
Detectives
Zy RICHARD MARICELY
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{Copyright, 1917,. Western Newspaper Union.>
|w?AskonV^iCM had been carried and
'we Th. ^"18 tour w1"'
a hotel Ta?'? were ut dinner at
entered L n U.ny when u Police,nan
Jwinfleld. Mr? S"],'""1 arrested
Biriinto/i k . [ ",nfleld was much
Ithat a niiat i ? ''ustn'nd assured her
s;s",rts,u.r;-ss
Wlnfleld was taken before a Judge
khTchlLern?im ^ one of
*to tlie nn ? of lmP"rtanoe
[h?, h Prisoner. It was. What was I
IWs business? Wlnfleld said that he
flee LTlVr? and had hls of
Pe? In n certain building in Buffalo. I
?Whereupon, the Judge ma&e out pa- i
tohWv^'t theKpoUce t0 send Win
i York, where the accusation
,against him had been made. j
)nJ^'^e!(1 had been barged with hav- '
jlng obtulned money under false pre
tenses?that he would give checks lust
before a holiday, on a banTlfa <?f.
id!^fCUy'.?orglng the name of some
?depositor of the bank.
thiYlnfeld'Vreat had occurred Ink.
.this wise: The scoundrel had been In*
Albany on the third of July and had
inj"?etIi?ted hls "aual swindles there,
hI v!'nS t0 haU from Buffalo, where
^he had an office for securing patenta
?in au thBt he was 8t0PPln8 While
at the same hotel as Wln
f*f- The latter being the only recent
(arrival registered from Buffnlo, the
jpollce arrested him on suspicion. His
;st?ry of his business and residence
confirmed the charge.
Wlnfleld was taken to New York,
inhere he was identified by certain
fcr?s??g man who had given
forged checks signed \yilUam Spang
H?, began now to be much trou\l
bled. Tho Identification of these per
sons wus a very serious matter. Evi
dently the forger must resemble him.
However, he had no difficulty In pro
? unng ball, and went home to his
bride.
lutunately, Wlnfleld was a man of
mean.-: and ho employed the best de
tectives he could find to get on the
.track of Spangler. The detective went
,to Buffalo and made inquiries at the
building In which Wlnfleld had his
office tor a man who resembled tho
patent lawyer. He did not succeed
in getting a trace of any such person,
lie also visited persons whom Spang
ler hud operated upon In different
cities, but met with no success in get
ting on the frack of the refil swindler.
He had Wlnfleld's likeness with him,
which he showed the swinuled'putiles
some of them Identifying Wlnfleld by
it as the person who had passed the
forged checks.
Wlnfleld was spending n g^od deal
of money to clear himself of the
^charge against him; his trial _was
coming on, and the matter looked very
Iserlous. His wife bore up well under
ithe strain and took considerable inter
est in the efforts to find Spangler. But
ilt was evident to her ns well as tho
others that, they were as far off the
track as when they began the search.
The day before the trial was to
come off she took up the photograph
fher husband had given the detective
and which had been pronounced a
likeness of the swindler, mile look
ing at It she noticed that one foot,
being In an advanced position, ap
peared very large.
Alec, she said to her husband,
anyone looking at this photograph
would think that you have an enor
taoua foot,"
Wlnfleld was noted for having a
very small and remarkably narrow
IOOt. *
"That's becnuso of the position. X
was sitting with my legs crossed and
that foot was nearer the camera thun I
the rest of me. Consequently It was
taken cn a larger scale." ? ?- i
Mrs. Wlnfleld made no reply. She i
Tvas still'Intent on the photograph.
"A penny for your thoughts, dear,"
leald her husband.
"I was thinking that maybe tho i
[swindler didn't have your narrow foot. I
Did hte buy any shoes with a forged
check?" "?? _
Wlnfleld ran to his wife and gave
her a bear hug. ' i
"Sweetheart," he exclaimed, "you've '
beaten the detectives and all the rest
or us. Oae of the swindler's victims
Is n Ne.v York shoemaker. We can
get flio size of l.ls foot fnm this
party."
The next day at the trial Arthur
Packard, a clerk In an expensive shoe
store, was called ns a witness. He
(Identified Wlnfleld as the ' man to
"whom he had sold several pairs of
'?hoes and had received a check
^ amounting to thirty-two dollars, on a
bank in Chicago. The transaction oc
icurred on the day before Labor day.
"Do you remember," asked Wln
fleld's attorney, "the size of the shoes
you sold the defendent?"
"I don't remember the size, but I
do remember that it was a very large
islze."
"Broad or narrow?"
"Very broad. I had difficulty In get
ting shoes broad enough for him-"
"That'll do. Mr. Wlnfleld, put your
foot upon that chair so that the Jury
can see It." - ,
Wlnfleld put his foot on the chair,
j displaying his f>V4-A shoe.
It lo needless to say that the ae.
tnised was acquitted without the Jury
leaving their seats. He took his wlf?
|In his arms, saying:
I "I owe my vindication to yon," J
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