Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-07
HAD AN EYE ID BUSINESS MOsIey Was Easy Game in Bel
 den's Hands. NEW LIGHT ON THE CAPTURE hosIey Was on the Same Steamer With the
 Fugitive. HE ALMOST DIED OF HEART FAILURE When He Found That He Had Paid Out $500 for Man Right Under His
 Noss-Ward Was Returning
 to the States.
HE ALMOST DIED OF HEART FAILURE

mining engineer, who arrived here on the steamer City of Dallas after seven months spent in Honduras. throws new and altogether different light on the sen sational capture of A. K. Ward, the Memphis defaulter, by Chief of Police Mosley of that city. Pannell is on his way to Jacksonville.
 According to MT. Pannell's story the work of capturing Ward devolved upon Ward himself. It was Ward who found Mosley and not Mosley who found Ward. Pannell formerly lived in Memphis and knows Ward and Mosley well. His rela- tions live there, and he has letter of introduction to whom it may concern from Col E. w. Carmack, editor of the Commercial-Appeal. Pannell says:
 was an eye witness to all the incl dents in the capture of Ward, and know ing the man and the nature Of the crime for which he was a fugitive, was of course greatly interested. Long before Mosley set out to look for him Ward had concluded to return and give himself up Anybody who has spent any length of time in the interior of Spanish Hon. duras can appreciate how much more preferable life in a Tennessee jail IS to freedom in such country. ward health was broken down under the suS- pense and the trying climatic conditions, and the situation had become unbearable to him.
 He came to Puerto Barrios and pur- chased his ticket for New Orleans the day before the City of Dallas touched there He desired to come to New or leans and find his way unrecognized to Memphis, and to that end he secured steerage passage on the Dallas. When the ship arrived Ward went aboard. Mosley and Derance were on deck put they did not recognize him. Neither did Ward know of their presence.
 Mosley's plan was to stop at all coast towns and make short incursions into the interior in search of his man. He stood little chance of success, however.
 Ene hunter and his quarry traveled toEcther on the Dallas to Puerto Gortez, the hunter in the cabin and the quarry in the steerage When few hours out of Puerto Barries Ward discovered Mos lev was on board. Ward kept under coV- CT and debated with himself the pest thing to do. The ship lay twelve hours at Puerto Cortez and Ward could easily have left the ship undetected. but he never faltered in his purpose to give himself up.
 While at CorteZ man named Be1den, an engineer on the Spanish Honduras road, came aboard When Ward hrse ar rived in Honduras he made Beldens ac- ouaintance. telling him all the circum-
 
 ing arrangements with Belden to keep him posted on the movements of any body who might arrive at the coast ter minus of the road in pursuit. For this service Belden was to be well paid, and was paid. MT Belden came aboard the Dallas and was passing through below decks. Ward attracted his attention by pulling his sleeve. Then Ward whis- pered: Ed Mosley, chief of police of Memphis, is aboard above and is looking for me- I want yo;: to carry this note to him.
 .swhatw said the engineer. Do you intend to give yourself up?"
 "Yes: why not? I'm going home any, way Mosley is an old friend of mine I went to school with him. He IS good fellow"
 "AlI right" replied Belden; but you can keep out of his way if you want to-"
 Belden took the note, but did not deliv- CT 1t at once. He had scheme of his own He took out train of bananas and returning found Mosley. l "I understand" said he to the chief, i.you are looking for Ward the forger"
 "I am," said the chief. "Do you know anything about him?''
 "That depends" said Belden; "there is a reward of $500 for him, isn't there?"
 ''There is"
 Do get it if show him to your"
 "On the spot: but remember, sir, no trifing," said the chief.
 Whereupon Belden handed him the note. As Mosley read the note and real ized how he had let $500 go he almost died of heart failure but he revived and went below to meet Ward. From Puerto Cor tez Ward came as a cabin passenger, en- toying all the freedom of an ordinary passenger This, says Mir. Pannell, is the true story of how Ward was cap- flred