Arizona citizen., 1877-08-11
Hoy WinSIOw. atlas Moor". Swim
 dIed Banker ParrOIt.

The progressiyeneSs of California k
 nowhere more clearly instauced than
 in the new and ever varying swindlipg lodges by which ingenious sharpers
 gain q living. The smartest one late
 ly, and one in which Tiburcio Parrott
 has again proved the victim of ms
 placed coI fidence and dishonesty, is
 that practiced by stephen $. Moore
 alias Wnslow, whose flight to Arizo-
 na, his arrest, escape and subsequent recapture and eyentful return tO this
 city are still fresh in the minds of the reading public About the first of
 May last, hOore, who is about sixty
 years old and ought to kn6w better, indulged in poetic flight of fancy
 and coniured up in his imagination a
 number of rich mining lodges in one
 of the rich districts of Nevada yet un-
 developed, but teeming with the pre- cious metal His imagination was so strong that he finally came to believe
 that they really existed, and he then cast about for some means of turning
 them to profit. His first move was to Grass Valley, where he had two ac- quaIntances, J. C. Johnson and A. E. Dibble, the one a prominent merchant
 q s1 fFlI q. .frf lawyer of that lovely town. To them he merely said that he had located claims in Nevada in their names, not desiring tO locate too many in his own. All he desired from them was 90 quit claim deed To the property, and when
 the mills were up and everything
 lovely their kindness would not be for
 gotten. The quit claim deeds were made out for S2 900 and s GOO, respect ively, though no consideration Whdtev- CT passed. He then went tO Oakland,
 told the story to J. X Nash and got a
 quit claim deed for SJ,OOO for the tic- Uuuus bonanza, which stood in Nash'S name. David Williams, of San Jose, was also kind enough 10 give him d similar deed of Sl0,OO0 the whole
 transaction beng as fictitious as ,he others. Ills plans thus laid, he went
 tO TihurcIO Parrutt an told him of
 his good luck The mines were un- dOubledly rich. Ncssrs Dibulc, John son. Nash and others valued their in
 terestS highly, and altogether it was a fine chance for a smart business man like Parrolt, and a good chance for a hard working man ike Winslow to make a fortune. WuslOw'S appear ance was in his favor. be being a roughly dressed, honest looking man, i whose age and appearance indicated
 anything but the sharper. Mr. Par rott accordingly first advanced him
 S1 .OOO. aud aftcrw rds S2,OOO to get ! the Grass Valley deeds. Nin>luW se-
 curing hlm on paper and then contin
 ned to let him have money Co get con ' troi of the m inc until the sum of S9,- ! $50 in all had been advanced Al ihIS time, either believing that his golden
 goose had been pluckcd as bare as f
 would allow, or fearing that the fraud would come out, Winslow pocketed
 his gains and skipped The teie- graph wire related his doinCS and gave his description to the sheritls in all
 directions, and Mr. WinSlow was final lv caught at Tucson, Arizona. He broke jail there. but was rccapturcd, and Detective John Colley, after ob-
 taining a requisllion from Governor Stafford. started for this city with his
 prisoner. The case came up for exam
 inaiion after series of cOntinudnces
 in the Police Court. this morning, and Moore. alias Winsluw, was held tn an Swcr in four charges, with bail set a' S2OOOO.-San Francisco Post, July 3l.