Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-21

A forger, arrested on Tuesday in New York,
has led an eventful life since he committed his
crime, about two years and half ago. He was
a native of Ohio, where his father was a rich
farmer. In September, 1869, the son was about
thirty-fve years old. What his course of life had
been before that time does not appear, but he
then presented at the bank where his father had
on deposit very large sum- forged check for
$4,000. The money was paid without inquiry,
and with it he fed TO New York and engaged in
cattle specalations, and soon lost the whole OK
cept few hundred dollars. With this he went
TO California, and found employment in a lum-
Der yard at a good salary. A few months at
this work satisfied him, and he then tried
the gold mines of Arizona. That kind OF
labor was still less to his taste, and he
tired Of it in six weeks. Herding cattle
in New Mexico was his next experiment;
il pleased him better and he kept at it for six
months, when he was taken with a malarious
fever which laid him Up for some time On his
recovery be made his way to Fort Sill, in the In
dian territory, where he worked at odd jobs
about the post for two months, going thence to
Fort Scott, Kansas, and from that place to Des
4Ap4tANNS ioNa 1uClG NC ibEliu GlIplO1 HleuL as
a farm laborer, but his chronic disnclination for
steady work soon disguised him with this, and,
no other resource presenting itself be concluded
to write to his father for help The old gentle
man FASTENED 10 Iowa and saw the prodigal,
who persuaded him to leave with him $1,000,
on the assurance that with this sum he could
quickly make a fortune in the lumber business.
Whether be conld have done so or not was never
ascertained, for, as soon as the money was in
his hands he started for Leayenworth, Kansas,
and a short time squandered his capital in
riotous living Prescott, Arizona was the next
scene Of his adventures. He arrived there in
September, 1871, two years after leaving home,
and again tried his fortune at gold mining. He
did not prosper, and in few days set out for
Denver, Colorado, anas arrived there quite desti-
tute He applie&1again 10 his father by letter,
and received 800. With this sum he deter
mined tQrTry his luck again at Prescott, but on
his way there he, with some companions, was
Surprised and captured by party of Apaches,
who bound their prisoners 10 their horses and
carried them through the Gran Canon, proba-
bly, with the intent of killing them at
leisure, by slow tormcnts, after the i'm
memorial Indian fashion. While the
capuyes lay on the open prairie at night,
firmly tied together, aud guarded by two
Indians, one of them managed to gnaw through
the thongs which confined him and to Hberate
his fellow prisoners without attracting the at
tenion Of their keepers. They then made
rush for the horses each mounted one and all
escaped. The man whose adventures we are re-
latng seems BY this time to have been stated
with his experiences of border life, and set out
By way of San Francisco and Panama for New
York, where he arrived about the middle OF Feb
ruary, and found work as conductor Of street
car. But justice bad been on his track ever
since ms crime was committed His descriptions
photograph and the offer of a considerable re-
ward for his arrest had been sent TO New York,
while his guilt was still fresh, and the officers
who make study Of such things had not for
gotten it. One Of them recognized him on
Monday, from his resemblance to the photo
graph at police headquarters, and the next day
he was arrested. He did not deny the crime,
and now awaits a requisiton from the governor
of Ohio. Even Mr.. DeForest or Mayne Reid,
who are more fertile in the invention of surpris-
ing incidents than most other writers Of fiction.
would hardly compress more adventures within
the same space Of time, than were experienced
by this wandering criminal.