Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-08
HE WAS HOMESICK.
so HE WAs EASILY LUReo ACROSS
 THE MEXICAN LINE.

How an Amateur Detective outwittca an
 Embezzier-Posing as Forger In Exile
 Who Knew Of Rich Deposit of Ore
 That Had Never Been Reported.
 T never was in Mexico but once. and then ] wens IS an amateur detective ' said the mining expert. 'sft happened this way: 4 friend of mine in Pittsburg had his confidential clerk-to whom he had given an oppeesanity by trusting him fully.-skip with sl0, GOO. He knew where he was. just over the border from San Diego But he was safe. for he kept raligiously OH 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 . professional air in spite of their best efforts to tue contrary.
 T knew that my only chance would bs to go and live there as fugitive from justice myself and So secure his entire confidence. I decided to be a forger. I took up my abode in the wretehed little town and in about 24 hours was so sick of it that 1 was on the point of throwing mp the whole scheme and going back. But my friend had done me many 3 favor ill busire.s,, and in decency owed him some return. Of course l did not make the slick man B acquaintance 1 was determined he should make mine He held off for gey ef&l days, evidently thinking was a detective and expecting me to make, as they had always done. approaches to him. But kept away, aS if 1 were sus- pioious of him. The fellow was dread. fully honiesick, and 1 don tb wonder. ill that place. He used to go out on the desert and look at the stars and stripes across the border and wish he dared go back. He evidently began to think he was worse imprisoned than if hs had been in some penitentiary.
 ssFinal a ca he ventured to ad. dfess inv. l re .siiad 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 l had conIe for. gave him no spe- eiAl satisfaction until one day said that 1 had come for change of air With the same kind of air in the United States a few miles away this was, of course, ab- sugd, and he concluded, as l intended he should. that nas there for the same reason he was, but : piled him with no questions. Finally, in his impatience, he burst oat with:
 - What the use of keeping uD this nrstense longer2 I know aud you know that we are both OH che same errand flown here. It is true, as 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 to each other. he tell ing Inc all about his crime, which l knew already, and l telling him all about my imaginary iniquity.
 That was as far as We got for awhile, but iy did him good For it Jeff him freo Co talk He was very home sick, and Yse both acknowledged that it would be almost pleasanter to give our. selves up and serve out our terms than 10 stay there the rest of our lives. 1 once CT twice hinted that | was ready 10 da SO But he wasn't t, and l knew that no ordinary indueement would get him where he could be taken. But he had no opportunity of investing his money, and his eupidity naturally forced him to see that he had made a very poor bar gain If ali he was to get out of his ras. cality was to sir 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 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 it's development if could get some more to put with it. told him it was in an out of the way local ity in southern Arizona, and that We could get thers without detection If we would go on foot CT burro back and avoid the railroads Finally he con eluded that he was willing to take the risk if l would and go and look at the property. The rest was easy. l wrote st once for aa officer 10 be ready to head us of while crossing the Colorado river. We had travelled some distance without being challenged or exciting suspicion. 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 I saw that I would have no difficul ty in getting him to the point had designated to the officers
 We were riding slowly along in the hot sun of the desert when suddenly from behind butte two men on horses shot out and rodo swiftly toward us and were upon us almost before we had time A1:.- 4 1Al.-.....l. [ l-..la ...r.not.l