, 1886-10-19
A LONG CHASE.
Detective smalIey's Pursuit and Cap
ture OF 3. J.. Nash.

In the early part Of September NJ. A.
Arnold of this city, sold four mules to
one s. J. Nash, taking III partial payment
therefor a mortgage on the stock for 5000.
This mortgage Mr.. Arnold conided to
Mr.. Nash with the understanding that he
was to Immediately place it on record.
Nash was a sub contractor on the
Cheyenne & Northern grade, and a short
time after the mule purchase referred to,
he left the country to escape paving his
debts. taking the mules with him. Mr..
Arnold missed his man, and on making
inquiry found that the mortgage given
by Nash had never been placed on
record.
The case was put in the hands of De-
tective Smalley, and that officer took
Nash's trail. After some preliminary
c%ircling, he ascertained that his man had
entered Colorado. and struck for the
grade of the Midland railroad. Through
Colorado Detective Smalley followed, and
on arriving at Colorado Springs he found
that his man had been there. remaining
several days in an unsuccessful attempt to
sell the mules.
Failing to dispose of the property III
Colorado Springs, Nash ven to Denver.
Smalley went to Denver, too, and was
not long in getting in a portion OF his
work. Nash had sold a spar of mules.
wagon and harness to NJ. Rainey, of Dem
yer, for 800, giving a bill of sale Of the
animals, guaranteeing them from all in
cumbrances, mortgages, etc. Another
mule he had sold to the Witter Brothers,
giving the same bill of sale.
From Denver, however, Nash had dis
appeared, and all efforts to trace him
were unavailing. At last he heard Incl
dentally, that Nash had a brother who
owned II ranch fifty miles south of Gree
ley, Colo. Coming back to Cheyenne the
detective took a team, and struck out for
the neighborhood Of this ranch. Stopping
at an adjoining ranch, he represented that
he was io~Ling for a place to locate, and
had taken a fancy to the neighborhood.
The conversation which followed, was
adroitly turned by Smalley to the Nash
family, and the detective hal soon the
satisfaction of learning that the man he
sought was at that ome in Greeley
confined to his bed by an attack ofinfam
matory rheumatism.
Returning once more to Cheyenne. the
detective took the earliest train fol
Greeley, where he found his man in the
condition described. Application to the
Weld county sheriff, resulted in that Of
fetal becoming responsible for Nash until
he could be removed. Yesterday Mr..
Smalley received a telegram from the
Greeley officials, saying hat Nash was in
condition to stand the journey to Chey-
enne, and the officer will probably leave
for Greeley this morning, and return this
evening with his prisoner.
Nash made a clean breast of the whole
affair to Smalley. He said that he did
not record the mortgage to Arnold be-
cause he intended to beat the "old man.
and thought the mortgage was valueless
if not on record. He had given his brother
in Colorado a mortgage on the mules, anC
the animal he had not disposed of wal
now on his brothers ranch. He said tina
on this last mortgage he was safe, as his
brother would not proceed against him,
and that he was equally safe in the Arnold
matter, as that mortgage was not on rec
ord. 1t looks, as far as the brother is
concerned, as If there is a very large sized
individual Of African descent in the wood
pile.