Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-24
HE WAS HOMESICK.
80 HE WAS EASILY luRED ACROSS
 THE MEXICAN LINE.

Embezz1er- Posing as a Forger In Exiio
 Who Knew of Rich Deposit of Ore
 That Had Ncyer Been Reported.
 t'I never was in Mexico but onco, and l then 1 went as an amateur detective, said the mining expert Ut happened this way; A friend of mine in Pittsburg had his confidential clerlx--to whom he had given an opportunity by trusting him fully--skip with $l0, 900. He knew where he was, just over tho border from San Diego. But he was safe, for he kept religiously on the wrong side of the line Several detectives had been sent down there to lure him over, but in some way he had detected the detect, i've in them, for they often acquire . professional air in spite of their best efforts to the contrary.
 1T knew that my only chance would be to go and live there as fugitive from justice myself and so secure his entire confidence. I decided to be forgor. I took up my abode in the wretched little town and in about 24 hours was SC sick of it that was on tho point of throwing up tho whole scheme and going back. But my friend had done me mnny favor in business, and In deceney owed him some return. Of course did not mako the slick mans acquaintance I was determined hs should make mine He held off for sev- eral days, evidently thinking was a detective and expecting mo to make, as they had always done, approaches to him. But kept away, as if were sus- picious of him. The fellow was dread fully homesicl, and don't wonder, in that place. He used to go out on the desert and look at the stars and stripes across the border and wish he dared go back. He evidently began to think he was worse imprisoned than if he had been ill some penitentiary.
 Finally one day he ventured to ad- dress me. I replied very eoldly to his salutatien, which only made him the more anxious to know mo. He began to inquire into my business and find out what I had come for. gave him no spe- cial satisfaction until ono day l said that had come for change of air. With the same kind of air ill the United States few miles away this was, of course, ab- surd, and he concluded, as I intended he should, that I was there for tho same reason he was, but I piled him with no questions. Finally, in his impatience, he burst out with:
 What's the use of keeping up this pretense longer? I know and you know that we are both on the same errand down here. It is true, as you say, we can't live over there'-pointing to- ward the country aver the border. Let's own up and have done with the farce So we confessed to each other, he tell ing me all about his crime, which knew already, and l telling him all about my imaginary iniquity.
 ''That waS as far as wo got for awhile, but it did him good. For it left him free to talk He was very home- sick, and WIG both acknowledged that fl would be almost pleasanter to give our selves up and serve out our terms than to stay thefe the rest of our lives. once or twice hinted that I was ready to do l ordinary inducement would get him ; where he could be taken. But he had no opportunity of investing his money, ana his cupidity naturally forced him to sec that he had made very poor bar gain if all he was to get out of his ras- cality was to sit and spend it slowly in that little hole of Mexican town.
 ''I had already interested him with my stories of fortunes that had been made in lucky mine investments, and told him I knew of ono rich deposit which I had never reported to any ono, intending to invest tho amount of my forgery in it's development if I could get some more to put with it. I told him 1t was ill an out of the way local. ity in southern Arizona, and that we could get there without detection if we would go on foot or burro back and avoid tho railroads Finally he con cluded that he was willing to take tht risk if would and go and look at ths a property. The rest was easy. wrott h Rt once for an officer to be ready to head q q us off while crossing the Colorado river i, We had travelled some distance without 7 being challenged or exciting suspicion e threw off my pretended apprehension declared that we were safe from all in terference and that we might as vel take it easy. This proved contagious and I saw that would have no difficult ty in getting him to the point had designated to the officers.
 "We were riding slowly along in th' hot sun of the desert when suddenl, from behind butte two men on horses shot out and rode swiftly toward us anS were upon us almost before we had tim, to realize it. Although 1 had expected them, confess I was taken by surpris Y lit was done so quickly and success fully. Of course they handcuffed me 8 we'll as him. But before we had reaches tho railroad station they had releases me- and he understood how he had bee' fooled. expected he would burst ou in curses and reproaches, especiafi, se when they confscated what he had lei of his stealings But he didn't. In facs 1t was so great relief that he made n 2e2enEa at the trial and took his
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