Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-03-07
TIN BOX.
The Trouble it Causes Two People From Prescott, whs are Visit
 ing Los Angeles.

The Trouble tt Causes Two People
 Prom Prescott. whs are visIt-
 ing Los Angeles.
 It was only few weeks ago that a man named Moore, brick mason, who had been employed in Prescott. and Mrs. N. A. Boggs, an old resi- dent we'll known here, left Prescott in each others company to see the sights of Southern California. and then visit the Midwinter Fair.
 Their trip seems to have been broken square in the middle, accord ing to the following story from the Los Angeles Times
 Several days ago a comedy and well-preserved woman of 4O CT thereabouts, called at police head quarters, and, after introducing her self as Mrs. N. A. Boggs, of Pres colt, Ariz., announced that she wanted little personal matter in- yestigated. She stated that some time ago she met a man named Edgar Moore. with whom she be- came on very intimate terms, aud both weie la visit the Midwinter Fair together. Accordingly, about the middle of February she came to Los Angeles, and took room on Hill street, near Second. Before leaving Prescott, however, she packed a quantity of iewelry and ! other valuables, including a bar of 1 gold, S220 in small gold coin, gold certificate for <iO0. and a xl0 piece, in box, which she deposited for safe keeping in the vault of the county treasurer, whom she knew very we'll.
 After her arrival in this city 1 Moore called to see her very ire quently, and escorted her about town, much as he had done at Prss- colt. Consequently, when he called at her room one evening, and, after producing three of her letters to him from his pocket, asked her to write her signature upon the blank of one of them, in order that he might compare it with those on the letters, she laughingly complied, and thought no more of the matter. A few days latter, much to her surprise, he intimated that he could not carry out his plan of going to the fair just then, but would do so in May, and suggested that she re- turn home in the meanwhile.
 This, however, she refused Co do. and a scene ensued, when he insisted on his proposition being carried out. After he left Mrs. Boggs thought the matter over, and the more she thought about the matter the less she liked it. Finally, her suspicion being thoroughly aroused, she sought the assistance of the police. The matter was placed in the hands of Detective BOsqui, who very soon learned that a box, similar to that described by Mrs. Boggs, had been received at the local Wells Fargo office. 1t was addressed to "Mrs. Moore, Los Angeles" and had been called for by Mir. Moore, but was not delivered to him, since he was not known. It was, however, de- livered to the First National Bank, at the request of J. NJ. Elliott who receipted for it, and, after remain ing in the bank all night, was re- turned to the express office. On the afternoon of February 23, how ever, the box was delivered to Mr. Moore, upon an order to that effect telsgraphed from the agent at Press colt, and several days later it was reshlpped to the later place, and again deposited in County Treasurer Divers vault, but, upon being opened, was found to have been rifed of its contents.
 At the result of his investigation Bosqui arrested Moore at the Natick House on Thursday last and locked him up in the City Jail upon che charge of grand larceny. At the time of his arrest Moore had $5S3 in currency and coin upon his person, but no trace of the gold bar, which bears the Prescott assayer's stamp upon it, or of the other stolen property, was to be found. l When confronted with his victim in | the detectives room, Moore frankly | admitted that he had received the box, but boldly asserted that he had l taken it up to the woman's room at i her request, and that she had taken what she wanted from it, and asked | him to return it. She, of course, denies this claiming that she never knew that the box had left her friends vault at Prescott until Bos- qui so informed her. Moore insists that, in order to get even with him for having quarreled with her, the woman "put up job' on him.