The San Francisco call., 1899-05-06
WELBURN KEPT
A DIARY OF HIS
WANDER|NGS
He Had a Very Hard
Time of 1t.
LAB0RED ON THE DOCKS
WILL BE TAKEN INTO COURT
THIS MORNING.
United States District Attorney
Coombs Will Ask the Court
to Fix the Date of the
Trial.

"sca NJ Welburn,, no longer seeking
hide his identity under the name Of
o.ir II. Bedell, or beneath the garb of
private In the regular army, will be ar
rHGued mt II o'clock this morning in the
. Eited States District Court on an in
dictment found shortly after his disap-
utar.uce from this city. In each Of the
th.-N-one counts the indictment contains
Doc is .harged with failure to turn over to
t1e Federal Government moneys collected
Ir him while acting as its disbursing
agent this point. At the conclusion of
-.. .r-7gnment United States District
a".ru Coombs will ask the court to set
-H ,a 9f trial. The prisoner will prob
ably He represented by Frank II. Gould
and Gavin McNab, who successfully de-
Tended him in former trial.
The wife and son of the prisoner called
-a him early yesterday morning at the
County Jail. He took no pains to conceal
his .E at the meeting. and from that time
o~ made no pretense that he was other
than the eX-Revenue Collector for whom
the authorities had been looking for a
ECa- and q half During the day. while
rhe s.l was seeking sureties to go on the
bond .f his father. q number of former
acguaintances Of the accused called at
The M and chatted with Welburn. He
returned their hand grasps. but did not
ttIA'A VI q ulSDOSlIlOQ TO talk.
Later iu the day he requested Chief
Jauer Ford to refuse callers. saving that
le did not desire to talk about himself or
his case
JIG was said yesterday that Welburn' 5
only idea in denying his identity was a
sire 10 prevent the news of his arrest
reaching his family before he could com
municate it himself. Any hope he may
have had Of keeping up the deception
|.H
certain indication that he was as unbal-
aActd as his attorneys, in their answer
H-cu IN the Circuit Court have declared
ne was A score of witnesses stood ready
- swear th2t he was the man. and in ad-
dluon among his effects at the Presidio
We're found photograph of Mrs Welburn
ana a rough diary of his wanderings dur
ing the months he was a fugitive from
Justice. When Deputy Marshal Moffftt
drew forth the photograph from Wei
"GTn IN, 5 Tallse va E. the prisoner said;
Ihat strong Strong being his tent
mate. Moft1tt. who knew the features OF
Mrs. Welburn, replied: WHY WeIbIru
you know that's your wife's photo
me diary which is in the possession of
ltaishdl Shine, vas also found in the
IaNs". II is an irregular sort of record
htll "llh0ut system and fun of figures
mat m}stty the authorities although
LLeE are taken to stand for sums earned
tE The fugitive under the dates under
which they We're entered One portion of
lAe diary Is more Ineligible and tells the
--.-- va tlit 9tIdllS To WnlCh MelDurn
was put In his search for the wherewithal
70 keep body and soul together while flee
iNB from the law. For several months il
SHOWS thHt the eN-ReVenue Collector who
had IaNlshed thousands in this city in
ponies ana pleasure was reduced to work
on the docks as longshoreman
me scene OF TINS SerVitude was Calves
ton harbOr and the work that of loading
grain and sugar into ships-the hardest
KIND or labor. among the most uncouth
lou ol men. II was a strange reversal Of
condition, but. If the entries in the diary
are not hctions the former Revenue Col
rector dld II day after day holding up his
night maybe with the worst Of them The
change 70 soldering must have been a re-
lief TO such man. for even though il
forced him into corner where he might
suffer arrest it allowed him some let rp
from unacCustOmed toll and offered the
chance OF new land and a new start on
the road TO prosperity he had missed in
this city.
Weburn can attribute his arrest TO his
own sheer carelesSness the wonder of it
all being that he did not fall into the
hands Of the authorities several days be-
fore he did. The minute he reached the
city Nearning TO see his family took
possession Of him. IN the interest of tenn
porary safety and the hope of future re-
union he suppressed the feeling for sew
eTal days 1t finally proved too much for
him. and last Sunday night, according to
his son, the fugitive visited the family
residence on Fulton street. The boy did
not at first recognize his father in the
blue-coated man who claimed that rela-
tiOn. There was a fearful reunion in the
home that night. at the conclusion of
which the hunted man stole silently away
In the shadows to the camp where he re-
mained until his arrest on Thursday.