Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-26
IIE WAS ff01iEs1CK. .
80 He WAS EAsllY luReD ACROSS
 THE MEXICAN LINE.

Embezzier-Posing as Forger In FriIo
 Who Knew of Rich Deposit of Ore
 That Had Never Been Reported.
 l never was in Mexico but once. and then l went as an amateur detective ;, said the mining expert. "It happened this way: A friend of mine in Pittsbur9 had his confidential clerk-to whom he had given an opportunity by trusting him fully-siip with $10, 900. Hoknew where ne was, just over the border from San Diego. But he was safe, Cor nc kept reiigiously on the wrong side of tho line. Several detectives had been sent down there to lure him over. but in some way ho had detected the detect. i've in them, for they often acquire 6 professional air in spite of their best efforts to the contrary
 T knew that my only chance would be to 60 and 1.-Two there as 0 fugitive from justice myself and so secure his entire confidence. I decided to be & forger. l took up my abode in the wFetehed little town and in about 24 hours was so sick of it that was on the point of throwing up tho whole scheme and going back. But my friend had done me many 0 favor in business, and in decency owed him some return. Of course l did not make the slick mans acquaintance. was determined hs should make mine. He held off for sey- eral days, evidently thinking was a detective and expecting mo to make, as they had always done, approaches to him. But ] kept away, as if I were sus- pioious of him. The fellow was dread fully homesiek, and I don't wonder, in that place. He used to go out on the desert and look ut the stars and stripes across the border and wish he dared go back. He evidently began to think he was worse imprisoned than if he had been in sorne penftentiary.
 Finally one day he yentured to ad- dress mo. I replied very coldly to his salutation, which only l~a3o him the more anxious to l,aofy lie. lIe b,.15...i to inquire into my business and find out what had eemefor l gave him no spe- eia1 satisfaction until one day I said thas 1 had come for change of air With the same kind of air i'll the United States g few miles away this was, of course, ab- surd, and be concluded, as 1 intended he should, that Twas there for the same reason he was, but piled him with no questions. Finally, in his impatience, he burst out with:
 s' Whats the use of keeping up this pretense longer? know and you know that we are both on the same errand down hero. It is true, as you say, we can't live over thore'-pointing to- ward the country over tho border Let's own up and have done with the farce So we confessed to each other, he tell lng me an about his crime, which I knew already, and I telling him all about my imaginary iniquity.
 That was as far as we got fos awhile, but 1t did him good. For 1t left him free to talk He was very home sick and we both acknowledged that ie would be almost pleasanter to givo our selves up and serve out our terms than to stay there tho rest of our lives once or twice hinted that was ready to do so But he wasn't, and know that no ordinary inducement would get him where ho could be taken. But he had no opportunity ef investing his money, and his cupidity naturally forced him to sec that lie had made @ very poor bar gain if all ho was to get out of his raS. cality was to sit and spend it slowly in shat 1ittle hole of q Mexican town.
 1T had already interested him with my stories of fortunes that had been made ill lucky mine investments, and told him I knew of ono rich deposit which I had never reported to any one, intending to invest the amount of my forgery in its developmentyif could get some moro to put with 1t. told him 1t was in m out of the way local ity in southern Arizona, and that we could get there without detection if we would 90 on foot or burro back and avoid tho railroads. Finally ho con- oIuded that he was willing to take the risk if l would and go and look at the property The rest was easy. wrote Rt once for all officer to be roady to head us off while crossing tho Colorado river. We had traveled some distance without being challenged or exciting suspicion threw off my pretended apprehension, declared that NC wero safe from all 1n- terferenco and that we might as wou take it easy. This proved contagious aud l saw that would hayo no difficult fy in getting him to tho point had designated to tho officers.
 seWe were riding slowly along ill tho hot sun of tho desert when suddenly from behind butte two men on horses ahot out and rode swiftly toward us and were upon us almost boforew WIG had time to realize 1t. Although l had expected them, confess l was taken by surprise it was done so quickly and success fully. Of course they handcuffed me ss well as him. But before NC had reached the railroad station they had released me, and he understood how he had beea fooled. I expected he would burst ons in curses and reproaches, especially | ..s.. II, ,1~ ,,,,,, {lcoa fnd what he hn0 Ie1E