The San Francisco call., 1895-12-03
The Fortune He Won in tht
Gold Fields Squandered by
a Wanton.
HIS ESCAPE FROM PRISON
Wounded and Recaptured and His
Companion Killed-Will Be Ar.
raigned To-Day.

counterfeit United States coin. 1t is alto
gether improbable that he viii escape
punishment, as there appears TO be no
flaw in the evidence now in possession of
United States Marshal Meade. The story
OF Young's strange career, gained from
interviews with both accused and accdser,
IS one OF many Iives-a recital of honest
endeavor and upright integrity betrayed
and led astray by woman's wiies.
Il was beneath the low-thatched roof of
8 many-gabled farmhouse that nestled
amid the waving grainhelds around
Quincy, H., that James Young first saw
the light OF day twenty-eight years ago.
His parents were upright, honest people,
and somewhat disposed to boast that no
one OF their blood had ever disgraced the
family name. Every evening before retir-
ing the old father-ior James was the
youngest child-wouId stand in the glow
Of the blazing fire and read from the
family Bible. Under such influences was
James Young reared, until he left them to
tempt fortune in the golden West. For
years he was a miner, and for years an
honest man.
About five years ago in the course of his
wanderings Young came to Arizona and
secured employment in the mines located
in the Prescott District. Standing in water
up TO his knees and bad ventilation were
causes that finally undermined his health,
and he left his work to go out among the
hills prospecting and in search of health.
He made several strikes in the hills east of
Prescott, and finding fortune almost with
in his grasp, returned to the city to sell his
discoveries. To further this object, he
took a partner IN the person of Farley
Smith, clothing merchant in that city,
and with the proceeds bought saloon, the
presumption being that mining men who
wished to sell, and consequently, those |
who wished TO buy would seek him out. |
An arrangement was also made under the !
provisions OF which Smith was 10 send /
those he came in contact with, and regu-
lar brokerage business was to be carried on
over the shining bar OF the Sun Shine
saloon.
The purchase of this saloon proved to
be the cause OF Young's downfall, for soon
after becoming its owner he commenced |
TO consort with frankie Farnsworth. no |
tOrious woman whom he hired to sing for |
his patrons, after the custom OF Arizona. |
All this occurred about two years ago. |
frankie made the money fly" and so |
rapidly did it disappear that Young soon |
found himself penniless, his saloon mort |
gagged and his mines gone. All Of the lat |
ter but one had been sold, and in this he |
yet holds two-thirds interest. This in |
terest, however, he tried to sell repeatedly |
IN order to get money to save his saloon, |
but falling to pay the interest the mort |
gagee foreclosed about sixteen months |
+rr-o5 5ah+ tina bao to phoonI-
With him to PhenIx he brought moth |
ing but his empty pockets and bad luck, |
for Frankie, after the manner OF her class, |
had found it convenient to leave after hav- |
ing spent his money. 1t was while stand |
ing here on the corner one day during the |
latter part of last Augut that Young, &C.
cording to his story, was approached by a |
man whom he did not know who gave him |
about SIS in counterfeit coin, telling him |
how TO make il, and persuadfng him 10 60 |
in ''cahoots" with him in the manufacture |
of the stuff. This, he says, he refused to |
do, but he Kept the coin and carried it 10 |
his room. To what purpose he put the |
money is not now known.
When Johnny Moore. a gambler here, |
takes the stand tomorrow he viii furnish |
a valuable link in the chain of evidence |
which has been woven about Young. |
Moore will tell how, in going home one
morning, ne found a lot OF plaster OF paris |
sprinkIed over the floor and upon his |
bureau. He called the landlady's s attention |
TO the fact that woman had been in his |
room. The Iandlady denied this assertion |
and told him that Young and man named
Murray had been in his room boiling |
something over his oilstove. As soon as
Moore discovered what this powder was
his suspicious were aroused and he pro-
ceeded Immediately 70 the Sheriff's Office,
where he informed Deputy Sheriff William
Widmer and Deputy United States Mar
shall J. ". Standard.
These two men will go upon the stand
and state how they proceeded to the room
jointly by Young and Murray
and found complete counterfeiting outfit,
composed of a mold for quarters and
dimes, can full of oil, the kind usually
used by counterfeiters to grease the molds,
q large quantity of plaster of paris, some
Babbitt metal and some half finished
coins.
When this was found Murray and Young
were arrested and confined in the County
Jail. Both of the men stoutly proclaimed
their innocence. Ihey were put into the
strong corridor, however, and held to await
the next sitting of the court. In this cor
ridor was also confined a man named
Price, convicted of murder. Price and
Young soon became fast friends and con-
cocted scheme for breaking Jail. This
was successful and the men escaped last
Christmas day while the iailer and guards
we're at dinner. They were followed as
far south as Aiajo, mining camp in Ari-
IONA, about seven miles from the Mexican
inc. When oyertaken they showed fight.
but, after q hard battle, in which Price
was killed and Deputy Sheriff wounded,
Young was captured. He, however, did
not give up until he was severely wounded.
He was returned to the hospital ward of
The County Jail here. where he has since
been confined. During the last term OF
court Murray escaped through some tech
nIcality in the complaint.
Young has brother living in Butte
County, Cal, sister in Colusa County of
the same State and a cousin, who is the