The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-17

"Desire, you must get ready to come
back with me- replied the lawyer.
Besides the $500. 900. III give you
half interest In my diggings,' persisted
Desire.
The steamer sails in three days.
and the coach leaves tomorrow morn
Ing for San Francisco, get ready, De-
sire
"16y friend, do you know that I
could employe men to ldll you before
sunset, and that nothing would ever
be done about it?' asked Desire in
wrath.
mot very wen. Desire, when there
are deputies outside the door Al his
moment to see that you do no such
thing: pack up
And pack up the embezzf<r simply
had to. His lawyer captor brought
him safely to Charleston, where he got
q long sentence IN spite Of the wealth
and the deeds to his claim he brought
with him, and he died in prison . few
years later. The lawyer went to con-
gress and died fighting for the confed-
eracy.
1.-The detective who went from New
Orleans In 1856 to get William B. Dali
ton, who had Incorporated some
think like $50. 900 from a private bank
IilS It'll VI WHICH ne was d ul6IIlDCI,
and then struck for California by way
Of the Horn on a sailing vessel. left
his bones out there. Dalton killed him
and then blew his own brains out. The
absconder had made pretty fair strike
or his placer claim, n was easily
within reach Of 800, 900 when the de-
tective turned up. But Dalton's sue
cess had turned his head and carried
him into a tide Of dissipation, with
Tho .o-~rk 49, - 49, h>h4A
OF spending more Of his time c~arousing
in San Francisco than he did on his
claim, which he generally left to the
supervision of a friend with an ad-
joining claim while he was on these
San Francisco visits. Dalton was in
the midst Of one Of these San Francisco
debauches when the New Orleans de-
tective arrived on h Panama steamer
in the fall Of 1856, his headquarters be-
ing at the Golden Gate hotel. 1t did
not take this detective. Charles Nc
Clintock, long after landing to find gu
Dalton's whereabouts and h shape he
was in. He concluded that there was
no particular hurry about completing
his Job. especially as there was no way
for Dalton to get ava except by the
steamer, which did not go for two
weeks, and SO he decided to take in San
Francisco a little himself. He was a
4I10u WIN OIdAA PICkSy AACoVAy "AS ~
got started, n a man of that sort
had plenty Of company In San Fran
cisco in those days. So for five days
he hauled around town pretty we'll
loaded up all the time, meeting new
drinking and gambling mates every
day, and having rather too much fun
with himself in general than was K
actly right for g. detective who was on
so important a quest as his.
ION the night Of the fifth day of Nc
Clintock's carouse he, with W men he
had met in a barrOOm, walked into the
saloon Of the Golden Gate hotel. The
detective had been at h brandy so
long that his head was bad and he was
a little ugly. But he walked up to the
bar with the two men, and they or
dered drinks. While they were drink
ing a fine looking man with q good deal
of jewelry on his person strolled in
with a couple Of other ~well-groomed
men. His companions recognized those
with McClintock, the detective. and in
vitations to drink were exchanged.
The fine looking man, who appeared to
be the chief Of the party, was about
two parts drunk, and he ordered wine.
Finally his eye lit on McClintock,
whom he had not noticed before, and
who seemed to be in the taciturn stage
of drink.
".Pardon,' he said with some polite
ness, addressing the detective, but I
don't believe I caught your name?"
"'McClintock's my NAME" said the
detective. What's yours, If I may in
quire?"
dalton, William B. Dalton, from
up the gold country vas the reply.
"'Oh, by God, is that SOP exclaimed
McClintock with a sheer. Well, Dali
ton, William B. Dalton, from up the
gold country, Nv got q little package
of papers in my pocket that ought to
interest you; mean time, you're my
prisoner; and why in hell didn't you
have the sense to change your name
when you come out here?'
Your prisoner, am H. he shouted.
The DEVILS prisoner, you mean, and
enough Of this game anyhow, and I
want company Of my trip
"Then Dalton, before McClintock or
any Of the others knew what he was
about, snapped out a pistol, leaped
dack half a dozen feet, and shot Nc
Clintock right through the heart; then
he put the gun to his right temple n
blazed away. Both men died instantly.
They were buried side by side out in
the old sand dune cemetery on the
same day. Dalton's son came from
New Orleans. worked his fathers claim
and got enough out of it to pay up the
embezzled sum many times over"
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