Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-17
HE WAS HuM ESLGk.
so HE WAS EASILY LURCn ACROSS
 TIE MEXICAN LINE.

Embezzier Posing 8 Forger In Exile
 Who Enew of Rich Deposit Of Ore
 That Had Never Been Reported.
 ''i never was ill Mexico h.s.t once, ant then wenr as an amateur detective, v said the mining expert. "Tt happened this way: \ friend of mine in Pittsburg had his confidential clerk-to whom hs had given an opportunity by trusting him fully.-skip with $l0, 000 He knew where he was, just over the 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 q professional air iii spite of their best efforts to tho contrary.
 C knew that my only chance would be to go and live there as a fugitive from justice myself and so secure his entire confidence I decided to be q forger. l took mp my abode in the
  hours was so sick of it that was on tho point of throwing up the whole scheme and going back. But my friend had done mo many favor in business, and in decency ] owed him some return. Of course 1 did not make the slick man s acquaintance. 1 was determined he should make mine. He held off for sev- eral days, evidently thinking I was q detective and expecting me to make, as they had always done, approaches to him. But 1 kept away, as if were sus- picious of him. The fellow was dread fully homesick, and I don t wonder, in that place. He used to go out on tho desert and look at the stars and stripes across the border and wish he dared go back. He evidently began to think hd was worse imprisoned than if he had been i'll some penitentialy
 Finally one day he yentured to ad. dress mo. l replied very coldly to his salutation, which only made him the more anxious to know me He began to inquire into, my business and find out what had come for. 1 gave him no spe- eial satisfaction until one day said that I had come for q change of air. With the same kind of air in the United States few miles away this was, of course, ah Gurtl, aud he concluded, aS 1 intandee he should, that was there for the same reason he was but piled him with no questions. Finally i'll his impatience, he burst out with:
 
 !" Whats the use of keeping up this pretense longer? 1 know and you know that we are both on the same errand down here. It is true, as you say, we can't liYe over there pointing te ward the country over the border. Let, own up and have done with the farce. So we confessed to each other, he tell, ing me all about his crime, which 1 knew already, and l telling him all about my imaginary iniquity.
 That was as far as we got for awhile, but it did him good. For it left him free to talk He was very home sick, and we both acknowledged that 1t would be almost pleasanter to give our. selves mp aIsl serve out our terms than Co stay there the rest of our lives. 1 once or twice hinted that was ready to do so. But he wasn [, and knew that no ordinary inducement would get him where he could be taken. But he had no opportunity of investing his money and his cupidity naturally forced him to see that he had made very poor bar gain if all he was to get out ef his ras- cality was to sit and spend it slowly in that little hole of Mexican town.
 II had already interested him with my stories of fortunes that had been made in lucky mine investments, and told him 1 knew of one rich deposit which l had never reported to any one, intending to invest the amount Of my forgery in its developments if 1 could get some more to put with it. l told him it was i'll an out of the way local ity i'll southern Arizona. and that we could get there without detection if we would go on foot CT burro back and avoid the railroads. Finally he cen cluded that he was willing to take tho risk if would and go and look at the property. The rest was easy 1 wrote at once for an officer to be ready to head us off while crossing the Colorado river We had travelled some distance without being challenged or exciting suspicion. i threw off my pretended apprehension. declared that we were safe from all in .erference and that we might as well take it easy. This proved contagious, and saw that 1 would havo no difficult ty in getting him to the point had designated to the officers.
 We were riding slowly along ill the hot sun of the desert when suddenly from behind butte two men on horses shot out and rode swiftly toward us and were upon us almost before we had time to realize it. Although had expected them, confess was taken by surprise Lit was done So quickly and success fully. Of course they ha,dcuffed me as well as him But before we had reached the railroad station they had released me, and be understood how he had been fooled. l expected he would burst out in eGrses and reproaches, especially when they contiscatea what he had left