Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-12-23
HE WAS H0MESICK.
So Hs WAS EASILY LuREo ACROSS
 THE MEXICAN LINE.

said the mining expert. "It happened this way: A friend of mine in Pittsburg had his confidential clerly-te whom he had given an opportunity by trusting him fully--slzip with SIC, o,ooo Heltnew whore he was, just over the border from San Diego. But he was safe, for ho kept religiously on tho wrong side of tho line. Several detectives had been sent down thcre to lure him over, but in somo way he had detected the detect, i've in them, for they often acquire Q professional air in spite of their best efforts to the contrary.
 ''I knew that my only chance would be to go and live there as a fugitive from justice myself and so secure his entiro confidence I decided to be @ forger took up my abode in the wretchcd little town and in about 24 hours was so sick of it that was on the point.o2 throwing up the whole scheme and going back. But my friend had done ma many 6 favor in business, and in decency owed him some return. Of course did not mako the slick mans acquaintance. was determined he should make mine He hold off for sev- oral days, evidently thinking was & detective and expecting mo to make, ae they had always done, approaches to him But kept away, as if I were sus- picious of him. Tho fellow was dread fully homesicl, and I don wonder, ia that place. He used to go out on the desert and look at the stars and stripes across the border and wish he dared 70 back. He evidently began to think he was worse imprisoned thapSif he had been in some penitentiary
 Finally one day he ventured to ad. dress mo. l replied very coldly to his salutation, which only mede him tho moro anxious to know me. He began to inquire into my business and find out what had come for I gave him no spe- cial satisfaction until one day said that had come for change of uir. With the same kind of air in tho United States few miles away this was, of course, ab- surd, and he concluded, as I intended he should, that was there for the same reason he was, but piled hin with no questions Finally, in his impatience. he burst out with:
 What tho use of keeping up this pretense longer? I know and you know that WIG are both on the same errapd l down hero. 1t is true, as you say, we can't 1.-Two over there'-pointing to- 1 ward the country over the border Let's | own Tl, and have done with the farce So we confessed to each other, he tell ing me all about his crime, which ' l knew already, and telling him all | about my imaginary iniquity.
 s.That was as far as we got for awhile, but 1t did him good For it lefe | him free to talk. He was very home | sick, and we both acknowledged that is l would be almost pleasanter to give our selves up and serve out our terms than to stay there the rest of our lives. once | or twice hinted that was ready to do | 50. But he wasn't, and knew that no ordinary inducement would get him where ho could be taken. But he had | no opportunity of investing his money, aud his cupidity naturally forced him l to sec that he had made very poor bar- | gain if all he was to get out of his rus | 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 l knew of ono rich deposit | which had mover reported to any one. intending to invest the amount of my forgery in it's development if I could | get some moro to put with it. told | him it was i'll sn out of the way local | ity ill southern Arizona, and that we could get thero 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 the | risk if would and go and look at the property. The rest was easy. wrote l Rt once for an officer to be ready to head | us off while crossing tho Colorado river We had travelled some distance without being challenged or exciting suspicion l threw off my pretended apprehension, declared that we were safe from all in- terference and that we might as we'll | take it easy. This proved contagious, and saw that Iwould have no difficult. ty in getting him to the point had | designated to tho officers.
 "We were riding slowly along in ths hot sun of tho desert whon suddenly from behind butte two men on horses Shot out and rode swiftly toward us and were upon us almost before we had tinaa to realize it. Although I had expected them, I confess I was taken by surprise
 it was done so quickly and success fully. Of course they handcuffed me as well as him. But before we had reached the railroad station they had released me. and he understood how he had beea fooled. l expected he would burst out in curses and reproaches, especially when they conhscated what he had left of his stealings. But he didn't In fac& 1t was so great relief that he made ny aGGenEe at the trial and took his
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