Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-10-09
HE WAS HOMESICK.
so HE WAC EASILY LuREo ACROSS
 HE MEXICAN LINE.

[ never was i'll Mexico but once, aud then l went as an amateur detective, said the mining expert "It happened this way: 4 friend of mine in Pittsburg had his confidential clerk-to whom he had given an opportunity by trusting him fully.--sl,ip with slO. GOO He knew where ho 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 10 lure him over, but in some way he had detected the deteet- i've in them, for they often acquire 5 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 fugitive from justice myself and So secure his entire confidence I decided to be forger I took up my abode in the wretched little town and in about 24 hours was go sick Of it that was on the point of throwing up the whole scheme and going back. But my friend had done me many favor in business, and in decency owed him some return Of course 1 did not make the slick mana acquaintance. 1 WAS determined he should make mine. He held off for sev- eral days, evidently thinking was Q detective and expecting mo to make, as they had always done, approaches to him But kept away, as if l were sus- picious of him. The fellow was dread fully homesick. and l don't wonder, i'll that place He used to go out on tho desert and look at the stars and stripes across the border and wish lie dared go back He evidently began to think he was worse imprisoned than if he had been in some penitentiary.
 Finally one day he ventured to ad- dress mo. 1 replied very eoldly to his salutation, which only made him the more anxious to know me. He began to inquire into my business and find out what l had eemafor gave him no spe- cial satisfaction until one day I said that had come for s changeof air. With the same kind of an in the United States q few miles away this was, of course, ab- surd, and be concluded, as I intended he should. that was there for the same reason he was. but ! piled him with no questions. Finally. in his ilnpatience, he burst ont with:
 What 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 1.-Two over there pointing to- ward the country over the border. Let's own mp and have done with tho farce, , So WIG confessed to each other, he tell. ing mo all about his crime, which knew already, and [ 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 it would be almost pleasanter to give our selves up and serve out our terms than to stay there theTest of our lives. l onee or twice hinted that I 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 a very poor bar gain if ell he was to get out of his ras- cality was to sit and spend it slowly in that little hole of Mexican town.
 T had already interested him with my stories of fortunes that had been made ill lucky mine investments, and told him 1 know of one rich deposit which l had never reported to any one, intending to invest the amount Of my forgery in its development if l could get some more to put with it. i told him it was in an cut of the way local ity i'll southern Arizona and that we could get there without detection if VIC would go on foot CT burro back and avoid the railroads. Finally he con- cluded that he was willing to take the risk if l would and go and look at the property The rest was easy l wrote atonce for all officer to be ready 10 head us off while crossing the Colorado river We had travelled some distance without being challenged CT exciting suspicion. 1 threw off my pretended apprehension, declared that We were safe from all in- terference and that we might as well take it easy. This proved contagious. and saw that would have no difficult ty in getting him to the point had designated to the officers.
 We were riding slowly along ill tho hot sun of the deSert when suddenly from behind q 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 l had expected them, confess was taken by surprise it was done so quickly and success fully. Of course they handcutfed me as well as him. But before we had reached the railroad station they had released me. and he understood how he had been fooled. expected he would burst ont in cuiges and repFoaches especially when they confisoate1 what he had left of his stealingS But he didn't In fact, it was 50 great relief that he made no defense at the trial and took his sen- tenee with great indifference. I would hardly have been surprised if he had thanked nc for tho favor--he was so thoroughly sick of exile Chicago Times Herald
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