Bisbee daily review., 1903-07-15
WORKED BENSON NEW K. P. HALL.
LEAVING THAT TOWN SOMEWHAT
 THE WORSE FOR IT.
A. L. Morris, of the Bisbee Mining Journal, Is Still Grafting-selfing Encyclopedias.

W. R. Humphries, who spent yester- day in Benson, and returned last even ing. brings back the news that A. l.. Morris. notorious as the promoter of the Arizona Mining Journal. has been in that own since leaving Bisbee, and if the tales of his escapades there are true, Morris, or Morse, or whatever his name may be, is a smoother grafter than his work in Bisbee showed him to be.
 On Friday last there appeared in Benson a man who gave his name as w. J. Morse, and represented himself to be an encyclopedia agent. His game which worked well, was to procure or. ders for the work for which he claimed to be salesman, and then get an ad- vance payment on the goods. So far as can be learned, Morse succeeded in taking four orders and working his patrons for the first cash payment After doing the little junction town for all it was worth On the book agent graft, he obtained several sums of money from the business men, on the strength of his statement that he was to get remittance from Tucson.
 That this man Morse vas certainly | A. l.. Morris there is little doubt, for among those whom he tried to gather Ensign, managers of the Douglas Building and Lean association. Botf of these parties knew Morris while he was engaged in this city as reporter and also while he was prominent about 1 the lobby of the Copper Queen hotel, a: promoter and general manager of the mythical publication he claimed to bt able to get out here in Bisbee. There is little room for possibility that eithel Ferguson or Ensign could have beer mistaken in the man, for he tried tn, rush act" on them without avail.
 To strengthen the statement of these men, a printer, who claims to have known Morris while the latter was here. told several that he knew that man." and that he had acted as edito of the Miner during the absence o Editor DeSouza-"
 It seems that before coming to Bis bee. Morris had stopped over in Ben the shelter in course of construction there. The foreman of the job clam! that he has seen Morris in Los. Angele andrthat at that time he was. engages as erier on the floor of one of tn pool rooms of that city. s-.7-, -.- n, Judging from the nerve displayed b. Morris in operating so close to tn scene of his r journalistic bunco, tn, people of Bisbee have good cause t, hug themselves with glee that the. were not taken into camp in a greater degree than they were. There arr that in A L. Mrris Bisbee had the so ciety of an escaped jail bird. It vii be remembered that on his arrival il Bisbee he bore the marks of having been in contact with the barber's clip pers at no tar distant date.
 Had those who were so anxious tt bring about the apprehension of Mor ris. on the discovery that his check were bad. been willing to put up tht price of telegram to Benson, as Off cer Casad desired, they would nave had the satisfaction of seeing him be hind she bars in Tombstone long ago Owing to the reluctance on the part O the bitten ones, Morris was enabled tC stop over in Benson and operate there at his leisure.