Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-12

The Fl Paso Times, of February 10, says:
 l A. L. Lewis. vice-president of the defunot Nogales bank, which failed last Saturday a week ago. with many thousands of dollars of depositors' money in it anc carrying down with 1 it many deposits made by the labor- 1 ing people Of that vicinity, was ar rested in the Parlor saloon last night lby Captaiu Mitchell. acting on ad- vises from the Nogales officials. on a charge Of alleged bank wrecking Mir. Lewis has been in New York for several months and when he heard Of the bank failure he immediately wired the officers at Nogales that he was making preparations to leave for Nogales. Several of the depositors had sworn out warrants against the president of he bank and the cashier. as well as for ice-PresiGent Lewis, and it was upon hearing this that he ! decided 10 go to Nogales to face the charges. He asked in his telegram to the officials that he be not arrested | in New York and said that he would come voluntarily to answer the charges.
 1 That was next day or so after the , failure of the bank. As time went i on, however. and MT yewis did not show up at Nogales. they became un- easy and yesterday learned that he was in Fl Paso and wired the Fl Paso police to arrest and hold him.
 The police began to investigate and found that MT. Lewis was registered a. the Orndorff hotel. He was out at the time that the telegram came asking for his arrest, but Cap tain Mitchell soon found him in the Parlor saloon and he was placed un- der arrest. He expressed his willing ness to so back to Nogales willingly and without the formality of extradi- tion proceedings.
 He was last night detained in his room under the surveillance of Officer Witt and will leave for Nogales as isoon as an officer arrives to accom- lpany him.
 Judge Barnes a well-known lawyer land MT. Lewis attorney from Tue lson, came to Fl Paso last night to confer with his client about the case lagainst the latter there. He came in answer to teGegram from MT. Lewis
 The judge was last night in confer
 ence with ihe police relative to secur-
 ing a guard for his client, and Chiei
 Wootton agreed to allow him to have one.
 When seen at the hotel last night
 by Times reporter and asked for his side of the story, he stated tha there was nothing to the charge ex
 cept that he was unfortunate enough
 to be an officer of the bank when il , Hailed.
 The whole thing is preposterous |, land ridiculous" said he. If had
 really done anything there, is it natu
 ral that should be going back of my , own free will? Of course not. Wher II was informed that the bank had
 failed by telegraph and that President lDesart and Cashier Swain had f0ccu pfdCcu u1ucI offcCt SAh1 @A]<>e warrant had been sworn out agains'
 me, charging us with bank wrecking
 II immediately wired the ofncers al
 Nogales that would come of my cwI free will
 T was sick in bed at the time, but
 began preparations to come to No lgales. and I am on my way there now
 Why they should have had me arrest led here cannot understand. but suppose that it Is the work of some malicious person, as tHe whole thing Iappears, and I think that I am in the lend prove it to be.
 If there has been anything wrong
 at all in the management of the Ibank's affairs. which ' am inclined tc
 eoubt, am in 70 wise connected witf it, as have not been in Nogales since leariy last December and that was the
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