Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-01
A CRIMINAL CAUGHT.
An Ascending Bank Cashier From
Lake Charles, La.
he Had Taken Trip to the City Of Mexico,
But Was Captured When He
Came to Laredo.

Special to the Gazette.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX, Dec. SI.-on the
18th day of this month Diario Sanchez,
sheriff of Webb county, received the fol-
lowing letter:
Lake CHARLES. La. Dec. 10. 1858.
To the Sheriff of Laredo, Tex.
DEAR SGR-On the night Of November
80, 1888, one T. H Mccain, the cashier
of the J B Watkins Banking Company
of our city, absconded a defaulteF Of
many thousand dollars, the funds of said
bank. Now, sir, it is known that the said
McCann has gone west with the intention
Of entering Mexico and there meet
his old and intimate friend A D.. c. Gordon,
who has been for some time past in the
auditors Office Of the Mexican National
Railroad of your city. 1 am told that
the office has been transferred TO the City
of Mexico. If so, my man has no doubt
gone into the City of Mexico and there
joined his friend Gordon. However,
it may be the case that Gordon
has not gone from youI town and thereby
afforded an opportunity of locating my
man; and again my man may stop and
lounge around SAID railroad Office in your
city, thereby giving you an opportunity
arrest and delivery in any jail in the
United States. If the said party is not
at present in your city he has passed
through or win pass through. That is
the point he is making for. The party
would have been pulled before he bad
reached 200 miles but for the reason
that il was not certain that he was de-
faulter. By examination of the books
false entries have been found, hence the
defaication has been found. / would be
pleased to have you look up this party ,.
and if he is in your city, or arrives there,
pull him and notify me by wire, for
. which will pay 500. Would be pleased
par from you at an early day.
am your obedient servant,
d. J RIED, Sheriff
ST. enclose you a photograph of
bird, T. II Mccain, the defaulting
shier At the time of his departure
rom here he wore black soft felt bat
{ Ii business. 1t is his habit to wear n
tlerby hat mostly always, Prince Albert
for a dress suit, with fine dark colored
foyercoat He is great cigar smoker
and tobacco chewer, about twenty-five
or twenty-six years old, shaved clean as
you see by the picture. l feel confident
you can locate him if lie is or should
come in your city.
Upon this notification Sheriff Sanchez
and his deputies have been on the look
out for the young man described. Last
Saturday morning. a passenger arrived in
New Laredo CT the Mexican National
train from the City Of Mexico, and dur
ing the day crossed the Rio Grande and
registered at the Veteran house. Last
night, Sunday, Eugene Yglessias,
the chief deputy of Sanchez,
came across the young man
on the streets of Laredo, and notwith-
standing he had cultivated q moustache
and goatee since he left Lake Charles,
the vigilant officer spotted him and called
upon hiTl to surrender, instead Of which
Mccain broke and ran toward the river
A shot 49, the air above his head had
iSaS..srG =, his fight, GRa he at
to the officer. Upon
fund a siX-shooter, which
eTempt to use.
brteT called upon him in the
this evening and asked if he
hia any statement 10 make regarding his
arrest. He refused TO answer further
than shat he was the man described in
the letter from the sheriff at Lake
Charles, La, that he had gone out TO
Mexico by the FL PasO Route, and would
make a full statement of the charge
against him when be reached Lake
Charles, and that he would take no action
in regard 70 ms arrest until
The papers for his extradition
arrived, which would be closely scruti-
njzed by his lawyer. To-day it is ascer-
tanned throughIMr. Calvin Stultz, son of
the gentleman who is constructing the
street car aud wagon bridge across the
Rio GTande at this place, that the young
man arrested was former school mate
of his and that his family reside at Zanes-
vile, Ohio, and are of the best people
III that city. Sheriff Sanchez telegTaphed
the arrest this morning to Lake Charles
aud received a reply TO hold McCann at
all hazards. The prisoner is confined at
present in what is known as the ''run
around, - and is treated with all the len
iencies the circumstances will allow.