El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-11

in Jail in a New Mexico Town.
Charles E. Waller, a drummer for
leather goods house of Chicago, is an
other distinguished citigen who has re-
Gently played his part toward exploit
ing the name and fame of the Hon. Pat
Grove, late of South Omaha, Neb. Mr..
Mr.. Waller, in recounting his eXper-
fence in this line to an Express repor-
ter at the Maverick hotel, Wednesday
afternoon, said:
Yes, 1 am the only original Pat
Grove; at least that's what a couple
of beardless officials in Deming. New
Mexico, tried to make me believe on
February %, last, at the Harvey house
in that city. l had come in there on
my regular run to take orders for my
firm, and was sitting at the writing
desk working like n mailer trying to
catch up with my delayed correSpon-
deEce, when / was quietly tapped on
the shoulder by forbidding-looking
individual, who nervily though trihe
nervously stated that he wished to see
me privately in the back room. | sized
him UP for n common hobo. and told
him to trot along: that I was busy and
had no time to waste in the interests of
philanthropy. He insisted that he
wished to see me privately in an adj
manded that | come at once. This an
gered me somewhat. and | told him ii
was quarter he wanted and he could
have il If he would clean out and let
me alone. The jolt never touched him.
apparently. and he grew insolent in
his demands and ordered me TO follow
him to the next room. Rather than
create a scene l get up and walked into
hte adjoining room. closely followed
nv h1r dir NJ LS-h n
seemed to be his pal. After reaching
the room designated. the commanding
officer stated thar he was an officer.
and ordered that I remove my hat. l
did so. and he exclaimed:
Aha, Thought so. Now he order
ed. turn up your right sleeve I COM
piled. Aha he calculated, with a lit
tie more emphasis. I have a scar on
my right wrist. Open your mouth.
Open went my grub hopper, exposing
a missing tooth or so. Aha he eN-
claimed again with little more de-
cided accent. as he confidently winked
at his side partner. BY this time YOU
may imagine l was getting pretty hot
and demanded what in the name of
certain favored winter resort I was
wanted for. anyhow. That if | was
supposed to be some desperate Grimm
al; if they wanted to go with ne to the
baggage room 1 would show them 500
pounds Of baggage which [ was carry
ing as travelling salesman for Chi
caSo firm. l exhibited my order book.
cards. etc. and told them my name.
The boss officer broke his silence end
asked:
DO you know of Pat Grower
Il replied that / bad heard of him.
but had never had the pleasure of see
ing the distinguished gent Here he
showed me half tone picture of the
famous kidnaper. and said:
Come, sir. you may as we'll confess
up: we've got you
We'll. when they pulled the picture
of Pat Grove on me nearly collapsed.
/ thought of home and friends and
mother, and wondered what my best
girl would think if she knew my cias-
steal features had been compared to the
repulsive phiz OF the despoiler Of do
nestle peace. / said:
Now look here. marshal. if this is a
joke III set EN- UP. but I am very busy
and want to get to work.
oh no. We don't he replied This
is no joke. but serious matter. You
will come with me-
Things did begin to look serious
then. and / cut loose cnt tina duet of
alleged officials in a way that would
make your hair curl. / cursed and
swore and argued and laughed alter
nately, and they took it all rather pa
tiently. but remained firm. They evil
IDENTIFY ttoukht they had \ good thing
and could afford To- take a little abuse.
After / had worn myself out and eX-
hausted NV vocabulary of invectives. 7
said that If they would let me telegraph
my house i could show them in very
short time who I was, and that | had
told them the truth. Thinking that
perhaps ] wanted TO wire a confederate
the marshal replied that if there was
any telegranhing done he would do it
himself. / concluded. therefore. that I
was in for it. and went along with them
and was safely locked in Jail. The
marshal then telegraphed J. J. Dona-
hue, chief of police of Omaha. about
his catch. and that astute official wired
my firm as follows:
Have YOU n party named G. T.. Val
lier in your employ now in Deming, n.
NJ. Answer quick
This dispatch was shown the reporter
by Mr.. Waller. who had obtained it
from his firm in Chicago.
The house. of course. replied that
they had and that they We're ready to
furnish any information or financial
aid that might he necessary to- eStab-
lish the fact. After this information
was received by the honorable city
marshal OF Deming he reluctantly
turned me loose after keeping me in
durance vile over night. The laugh. of
course. was on the marshal. and as il
get over the town the next day | sold
mare goods than | evei. die in my life
in n town of that size.
The present city marshal is a sor of
the famous Marshal Scarborough. who
was an old ranger. a crack shot. and
an all-around successful officer in get
ting his man dead or alive. He was
killed a short while ago in attempting