Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-11-12
A SHARPER.
E. G. Davidson, Alias MT. Crosby,
 Alias Wm. Wilson.

safely Lodged in the Tucson JaiI---Aftei
 BiIking Parties in this City. san Fran
 cisco and Chicago---An Account of some
 of His Operations.
 Some time ID August an account of
 the exploit of E. G. Davidson in a
 partially successful attempt to blk
 Wm. Kane < Co.,, of this city, was made
 public. He purchased and had packed
 a bIll of goods amounting to several
 hundred dollars to be shipped to Mutt
 Station, New Mexico, where he rep
 resented he had store. He subse- quently deposited package of what he
 represented to be drafts in the safe with
 Mr. Kane and borrowed S25. It is
 needless to say that he never pad the
 money or called for the drafts which
 were simply worthless paper, but left
 the city. EmbOldened by his success
 he returned and on Saturday was
 arrested and IS now lodged in jail. He
 registered at the iaIl as Wm. Wilson.
 HIS EXPLOITS ELSEWHERE.
 For the past few months some sharp CT has been in tho habit of going to business houses in San Francisco with forged letters of introduction from prominent ArizOnans, negotiate for mining machinery, and deposit drafts and secure temporary loans, but inya- riably he has never returned and the drafts have proved forgeries. Since the arrest of this man he has been confront saft af taa zf 6 aF s.T transactions.
 It appears that after leaving this city on the 7th of August last he went t. San | Francisco, visited Hinkle, Speers < Hays letter of introduction from | E. B. Gage, Supt. of the Grand Central | mine at Tombstone. Here he negotiated | for about 5000 worth of mining machin- l cry, deposIted some worthless papers | effected loan of SSj, was taken out to the Cliff House, wined and dIned and royalty treated according to the usual That was the last they saw of lim. There be gave his name as MT. Crosby. The letter of introduction was ient to MT. Gage who of course never law 1t before.
 On Mr. Cages recent visit to Chicago case of a similar nature was brought O his attention. A party representing himself as Ham Light went to Fair ,ank, Morse < Co. with letter of intro luction purporting to be from Richard iird. Here he negotiated for a large tOck of scales and after banking hours Tith the draft dodge secured loan of il5O. That was the last they saw of him. lr. Gage was given the papers in this ase and the handwriting shows that he party was the same as the one who ' sed him as an endOrser to Hinkley, { peers * Hays. He IS in the city to- ay and recognizes the handwriting of /. Vm. Wilson as the same as that of the ' arty who persOnated Ham Light in hicago and NIT. Crosby in San Fran L iscO. He has also ben identified bv E ir. George E. Ames, of Prescott, Scott =, Co, of San Francisco, as a party who ad little crooked business with that S Ouse. It appears that he went to a rescott, Scott & Co. on the 2lst of Il Iarch last with letter Ot introduction P to have been written by cI aul MOrOney, of this city. He repre- W ,nted that he wanted mining machin- Il v and made out an order, was wined ly ld dlned and after banking hours se- g lred a loan of S2O0 on tine draft game. h hat is the last they saw of him until } was recognized by Mr. Ames who ar tG yed in the city this .ave-oevn t.,' .es ...I hi he realized little less than tf zoo, but it cannot be possible that that m nall amount would stand man of his SC .bits from the 21st of March last Co e present time, SO we expect some II her parties must have contributed to b s income. It is likely that the tax payers will 10 r some time to come provide him q ith home and food and raiment. We r e waiting returns from other parties s' hom he has bilked. He will have to ID lswer to the charge offOrgery. SC One gentleman from whom he bor- u wed ten dollars gays that his real IT me is Wm. Gordon and he was for V erly a clerk in the International hO- al l at Virginia City.