Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-01-17
] WAS HO1IESICK.
.,s MAS EASILY LJRED ACROSS THE MEXICAN LINE.

..xv,ar-Posing as D Forger In ExiIe
 xrow of a Rich Deposit of Orc
 Had Never Been Reported.
 ,, aever was i'll Mexico but once, and
 went as an amateur detective, ,"
 tbe mining expert "It happened
 ,rav: A friend of mine in Pittsburg
 s b;s confidential clerk-to whom he
 X dven an opportunity by trusting
 m f6plly-slsip with $1o,o 900. Ho knew
 tsre he was, just over the border
 sm san Diego But he was safe, for
 topt religiously on the wrong side
 4ba line. Several detectives had been
 <. down there to lure him over, but
 .,mo way he had detected the detect,
 ,s in them, for they often acquire 8
 ,fessional air in spite of their best
 hrts to the contrary.
 u1 l1ew that my only chance would
 s to go and live there as fugitive
 t,, Justice myself and So secure his ! ntIvo confidence. I decided to be a trnr I took up my abode in the
 srtehed little town and in about 24
 smrs WAS so sick of it that was on the
 spt of throwing up the whole scheme
 ,a eoins back. But my friend had
 hno me many q favor ill business, and
 h decency I owed him some return. Of
 ourse did not mako tho slick man'a
 snuaintance. I was determined ho
 aonld make mine He held off for sev.
 eal days, evidently thinking I was a V htectiye and expecting mo to make, as
 bey had always done, approaches to bln. But I kept away, as if I were sus- M ucious of him. The fellow was dread 3 bIy homesiek, and I don t wonder, in 3 that place. He used to go out on the 3 iosert and look at the stars and stripes 8 gross the border and wish he dared go # hck He evidently began to think he 3 gsB worse imprisoned than if he had l ben in some penitentiary.
 Finally one day he ventured to ad- | dress mo. l replied very eoldly to his alutation, which only made him the more anxious to know me. He began to lnquire into my business and find out what l had come for. I gave him no spe- Gal satisfaction until one day I said thas lhad come for 8 change of air With the amo kind of air in the United States hw miles away this was, of course, ab- ard and ho concluded, as intended he should, that l was there for the same ieason he was, but I piled him with no questions Finally, ill his impatience, he burst out with:
 Whats the use of keeping up this petense longer? I know and you know .hat VIC are both on the same errand down here. It is true, as you say, we ant live over there'-pointing to- wand the country over the border. Let'a own up and have done with the farce. Bow confessed t1 each other, he tell ing me all abeaa lis crime, which H hew already, and I telling him all sbout my imaginary iniquity.
 That was as far as WIG got for awhile, but it did him good. For It left him free to talk. He was very homo dck, and WIG both acknowledged that is 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 I was ready to do 30 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, and his cupidity naturally forced him to sec that he had made very poor baE- gain if all he was to get out of his ras' cality was to sit and spend it slowly in that littlo hole of Mexican town.
 T had already interested him with ny stories of fortunes that had been made in lucky mine investments, and told him I knew of ono rich deposit which had never reported to any one, Intending to invest the amount of my lorgery in its development if l could got some more to put with it. told nm It was in m out of the way lecal- ity in southern Arizona, and that we could get there without detection if we would go on foot or burro back and sVoid tho 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 an officer to be ready to head us of while crossing the Colorado river. We had travelled some distance withous being challenged or exciting suspicion. threw of my pretended apprehension, aeclared that we were safe from all in- terference and that we might as we'll ake 1t easy. This proved contagious, and saw that I would havo no difficult y i'll getting him to tho point had designated to the officers.
 Wo were riding slowly along in the aot sun of the desert when suddenly nom behind @ butte two men on horses mot out and rode swiftly toward us and were upon us almost before we had tima z X realize 1t. Although I had expected mem, confess was taken by surpriss -at was done. so quickly and success iuiiy. Of course they handcuffed mo as < seii iis him. But before WIG had reached 'ae railroad station they had released ae. and he understood how he had beea iooled l expected he would burst o1s