The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-14

mi ,b,condrrs-All of Them Unhappy
and Man, Leading "a Wretched Existence.
.ro, number Of years past We had it in mind,
IN an Idle ,urtof way, to wnte n brochure Oh 'Fugi.
five, Thai, | Have Met, " said an oticcr Of the
p,,y fear, however, that | don't possess
~. industry To DO II, and SO IN tell you about
some q lrm During the past twenty years,
IN I'M, progress II several unusually conn rehen.
,y. cruises. | have crossed the trail II or met
mn with rerhaps two scOre or more Americans
ny,ng cut II the reach ot American law in various
p,ns At the world. \ few u them have been in
,ouutrrs wi,h which the United States had ex-
,t,dllon treaties, but most ot them looked 10 the
safety end 81 It 10 tho exclusion Of everything
.l.c and settled IN lands where the arm Of the
Tinted States law did not extend at their time Of
fight quite n few of them have been famous,
all IF them have been more or less infamous
| refer particularly 10 several Of them who e,ored
with tie funds IT poor peoples savings banks
and none ol them, that | can recall. has looked
~ me- Ike \ man IN the enjoyment ~ peace u
mind - happiness have happened upon tho
majority n' these ahscouders. forgers, embe2zlers,
d|pfaulters, what you will, myself. possess
a>ruug paru,llty for the good old English word
',hler A. most applicable to them-in Central
and South AMERICAN ports, in Egypt, AMI in
Japan remember a couple Of them who lived
IN small towns on the west coast Of Mexico.
"NeXlc1 used 10 be the first stop of the Am.ri-
can fugitive an his way to Central or South 4 er.
ira. IN the brave days before extradition treaties
were negotiated with nearly all Of the countries
that ofered Ravens for men who needed to hide.
Now when YOU refec, that embelzlers or abscond
ers Il high dsSree, as NEST II these chaps, young
and I'd. that | have met, were in the extent u
their thrf's when you consider that these fellows
we're, without exception, luxurious, pleasure
loving men, its hard to understand why they ex.
hiblted such a peculiar and unanimous penchantfor
striking outi for Contra or South America | could
never sse where either Central or South America
worked their way into the picture when 1t came
70 a matter Of having fun At the time that most
Of these fellows Jumped there were Spain, Turkey.
Alglsrs, Holland, cuba and Japan open to them,
none IT those countries Al that period having had
eyraiilon treaties with the United States Then
why Central or South \mrrica' | know all Of
the countries It both 81 those Americas pretty
vel, and, as ! say, there isn't much fun in any
oi them for a man used 10 the whirl in cities II
the United Statei On tho east coast II South
America there Is, of course, a lot ot high-rulling
In some Of the big cities, and the man who wants
10 forget himself and his past may plunge into u
feverlsh way Of living in some few II these places
and throw dust into his own eyes until he wearics
Of that game but had | been, before the day
Of practically universal extradition treaties, a
top-notch, high grade embaLller. capable Of get
nng away with a large, satisfying pile, | wouldn't
have 1T out for any Of the Americas. I'd have
iona attIar q, I.na, .r Er-,t 40 ,,,r.. II
the chaps who struck the Americas brtur. the
negotiation of extradiuOn treaties have now got
to stay where they are. They're immune from
the United States law, having hit their Ravens be-
fore the ratification Of the treaties, but they We got
TO stick where they are They can't go to Egypt
or Japan now
There's comfort for hiders in Egypt, for there
the fugiuves from oil countries fraterniLe on
perfectly even terms and get all the pleasure out
OF life that may come To men whose consciences
bother them, provided thew have such incun-
venent Affairs az cOnsciences. EgyptS a better
place Ia J. in than any country | know in & en-
trail or South America. too. While In Central
and South America the man who Is known to be \
fugitive from the United States IL not looked
down upon TO any large extent, but goes his way
on even terms with the best Of ia lluyes-some
Of them even float around IN the best society -
that an American thief who settled in Japan
or Egypt had 10 do in order to establish himself
give n out ,hat he va sn e,,I. ~ n 81 ,icaI ~
Hanres and ha nn, nj .snrnJ ~, ~ ro"ueai VI,
tne Oest, Out he WAS looked upon as something
OF a inquire. even as a sort vt mysterious lion. |
States the Az v reya a. annHn, ~ ~. 80 80
was considerably above the 81, 900, 900 mark.
Most Of the United States fugluves | have
with them m ,beir nsv bnn'ns ssnJ riins
into some sort Of biIsinass az o,hsy III wsI -
the go-of. recall a lew excepjons IN his rula
however, For example, | once Stood and watched
for an hour or t,y" a man vb" .n ,u a.
merry-goround in Truniiin Pe,r "a INN q
! wouldn't live in for Ave wears f,r lass ,han
u. 900, 900, cash in hand This man who was
prematurely white haired, though under middle
age, was surely A hard workaT and M. arnrrv
be devoted TO whscking the mule Thai furni .hSsd
the motive power for ihs msrTy'yo'r r,,nd and in
collecting the coppers of the hall Indian women
and children whn pstroni,ei tha mia, uos " wm,,h
watching. There was some SORT nf a fsir gninv
on in Trnxillo at the time. and | supprse thn merry,
go-round man, al the end Of a hnrd DAYS wnrk
picked up the equivalent Of So or 81 in our money
this man at hs work, that he had bsan " tha r q shfer
OF a Chicago savings bank. and thht while his
peculauons had amounted Ia AVER S3OO oO he
had only got away about S5O.OOO within cash
| addressed him nv his rirbt nsme AMI I faI, go,
Of sorry 10 see the fellows face become So ashen
In hue as il did asked him hnw much he hnd
got away with from the United states in the
course ofthe talk we had after he had beCome some
what reassured, and he told me what / already
knew, that when he Jumped Ihicagn he had clrsa
on 10 $50, 900 in gold i'm two leather trunks. and
Mat he had been robbed Of every dollar Of II Inv
bngands while crossing Mexico When he had
struck the west coast Of South \merira no vas
broke, with the exception of his ievelrv and he
had pawnel that 10 gel his merry 20 rnInd nut-
a. With which he had made a living, hauling il
$40, - Ef'fb f'''''0 ~