Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-10-16
HE WAS H0MESIE k,
so HE WAS EASILY LUREa ACROSS
 TIE MEXICAN LINE.


 T never was in Mexico t,.t once, and then l went as an amateur detective, said the m:aing expert "It happened 1 this way. < friend of mine in Pittsburg had his confidential elerk-to whom hs had given an opportunity by trusting him fully--skip with $I0, 600. He IneN where he was, just over the border from Sam Diego. But he was safe, for he kept religiously on the wrong side l of the line. Several detectives had been sent down there to lure him over, bat in some way he had detected the detect 1 i've in them, for they often ucquiro i professional air in spite of their best efforts to Che contrary.
 I knew that my only chance would i be to go and live there as a fugitive 1 from justice myself and SO secure his entire confidence. [ decided to be a forger [ took up my abode in tho wretcbed little town and in about 24 hours was so 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 i'll deceney l owed him some return. Of course did not make the slick man S acquaintance. I was determined he should make mine He held off for sev- eral days, evidently thinking l was | 1 detective and expecting me to make, az they had always done, approaches to him. But l kept away, as if 1 were sus- l picious of him. The fellow was dread ] fully homesick, and 1 don { wonder, in 1 that place He used to go out on the ] desert and look at the stars and stripes l across the border and wish he dared go i back He evidently began to think hd was worse imprisoned than if he had l been in sonsa penitentiary
 1 Finally one day he ventured to ad. dress me. 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 como for gave him no spe- l eial Sstt tihfaetion until one day said that I had ce1nc for d change of air With the same l1ind,of air in the United States q ] few miles away This was. of course, ah surd, and he concluded, as 1 int9ndeo he should. chat l was thero for the salne reason he was, but piled him with no questions. Finally. i'll his impatience, he burst out with:
 ," WhatN the use Of keeping mp this preteuse longer? know and you know that we are both on the same errand down here IL is true. us you say. we can't live over there'-pointing to ward the country over the border. Lets own up and have done with the farce | So we confessed Co each other, he tell, ing me all about his crime, which 1 knew already, and 1 telling him all about my imaginary iniquity.
 That was as far IS we got for awhile, but it did him good. For 1t left him free to talk He was very home sick, and we both acknowledged that is would be almost pleasanter to give our selves up ard serve ont our terms than tO stay there @he rest of our lives. 1 OnC0 or twice hinted that 1 was ready to do SO But he wasn [. and l knew that DG ordinary indueelnent would get him where he could be taken But he had no opportunity Cf investing his money and his cupidity naturally forced hin. 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
 T had already interested him witl my stories of fortunes that had been made in lucky mine investments and told him 1 knew of one rich deposit which 1 had never reported to any one, intending to invest the amount of my forgery in its development if I could get some more to put with it. l told him it was iu an out of the way local ity i'll southern Arizona, and that we could get thero without detection if we would go on foot or burr0 back and avoid che railroads Finally he con clude3 that he was willing to take the risk if would and go and look at the property. The rest was easy. l wrote atonca for an officer 10 be ready to head us off while crossing tho Colorado river We had travelled some distance without being challenged or exciting suspicion ! threw off my preteuded apprehension. declared that we were safe from all iu- ierferenea and that we might as well take 1t easy. This proved contagious. and l saw that would have no diflcul ty in getting him to tho point had designated to the officers.
 We were riding slowly along in Che ] hot sun of the desert when suddenly from behind butte two men on horses shot out and rode swiftly toward us and I were upon us almost before we had time to realize 1t. Although had expected them. ] confess 1 was taken by surprise --it was done so quickly and success i fully. Of course they handcuifed me us 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 out l ill eurges and reproaches, especially when they confscatea what he had left of his stealings But he didn't ln fact 1 it was so great relief that he made no defense at the trial and took his sen tenee with great indifference. would