Arizona republican., 1905-03-24
A CONSPIRATOR CAUGHT
Harry Bernstein's ReprehensibIe Way
 OfRaising Money.

Harry Bernstein, a young New York ! CT. the son of a wealthy merchant, slept in the county jail last night and | the indications are that he will spend other nights and days there. Bern stein has been in the city for three or four months and has been in receipt i twice a month of S6O from home Not | long ago he developed a mania for gambling which exhausted his remit tances as fast as they came. He was compelled to resort to many dishon- est practices to bridge things over but he had never before got on the crim- | inal side of the law.
 Yesterday morning a young man went into the New York Hat factory with 2 suit case which he wanted to sell. The proprietor. Mir. Farquhar, ! had no use for the case and refused to buy it. But the young man was anx- ious to sell; he was going to sell it to some body for something. whatever he could get. He said it was filled with clothing and that it was going at S2. That figure was so attractive that MT. Farquhar took it and the young man went away.
 Within a few minutes another man who proved to be Bernstein called and recognized the case as his property and proved it to the satisfaction of MT. Farquhar, who, however. was not dis posed to lose his $2 without a strug- gle. Bernstein told him that he had the case with him in a saloon and hay ing occasion to leave for a few nom- ents he put it in charge of a roulette dealer. This custodian became engag- ed in his business, forgot about the case and a thief, presumaS;y the one who had sold it had carried it off.
 At the request of MT Farquhar Bernstein accompanied him to the of fee of Justice Johnstone where he again told the story of the theft of the case only he varied 1t this time stating that he left it on the steps of the city hall while he went inside MT. Far quhar then called him a liar and told him he believed that there was a con- spiracy between him and the man who sold the case. The justice stated that he was inclined to take that view of the matter whereupon Bernstein filled with righteous indignation said he was an honest man.
 The justice surprised him by telling him that he had no doubt of his hon. csty; he had heard of him before He heard that he was rooming at a house Sn the southwest part of the city and GSat he was in arrears for his rent to
 
 landNady from day to day and in the meantfs2le stole his clothes out of his trunk at2ight until he had emptied it.. Then he was-scen no more at the lodg- ing house and then the landlady dis covered that the trunk was empty.
 Bernstein did not deny this relation but said that, he had always intended to pay the land lady and would do so yet. Bernstein was allowed to go but the police were notified and a little later Officer John Moore arrested him. He put him through a sweating process and finally Bernstein admitted that he had conspired with the seller of the case to beat somebody out of what ever they could raise on it. But Bern stein said that his fellow conspirator was a stranger to him; he did not know his name or where he could be found. A search was begun for him but at a late hour last night he had not been located. Bernstein who had been kept at the city jail all day was last night taken to the county jail. He said he would employ a lawyer this morning to fight the case.
 Bernstein is about twenty-two years of age and oes not look as if he had been on the path of crime very long.