Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1907-04-03
TEXAS sHERrrF's WILD GOOSE
 CHASE.
(From Friday's Daily.l


 an Indianapolis, Ind, detective, had a noted fugitive from justice of the Lone Star state under arrest here; inveigled into making a long and expensive trip to this city, only to find that he had been duped by the so.calicd detective; such was the experience of Sheriff John F. Robinson, Jr., of Texas. who left Prescott for his home in Del Rio, Texas, last night, by tho southern route.
 With an angry red dying his cheeks, the big Texas sheriff stood on the steps of the train, at the depot, last night, and vebencntly remarked to a Journal.Mincr representative, the while he longingly fingered the butt of his wicked.looking "six ix.shooter:' "When l arrived here yesterday and discovered that the man I am after, and who Schroeder declared was un. der arrest in your city, was not in the jail, l was hot enough to have shot schroedcr's eye out"
 Thc irnte Lone star sheriff pulled red b,ndana handkerchief from his pocket, wiped the precipitation of | anger from his brow. showed his pistol n bit further into if scabbnrd. and continued:
 "I don't care n-ahcm for the ex. pcnsc incurred on the trip; the thing | that makes me sore is 10 think that the dub calling himself an eastern de. tcctive should hand me such a 'lemon.' l believe Schroeder is n fake. and if I had the time I'd make him produce his credentials from the Indianapolis agency or institute criminal proceed. ings against him for impcrsonating an officer"
 After taking time to cool oG bit. and deftly rolling q cigarette. Sheriff Robinson said:
 "About n week ago this fellow Schroeder wired me that he had the man Tn after; a clever criminal. badly wanted in my town for robbery he pulled oT last November. When I got that wire ] was plenty glad, for the catch was m important one, and meant great deal to my reputation and bank account both. l sent a mes. sage 10 Schroeder telling him to hold on 10 the fellow and would come i'm. mediately. ] took the next train out of Del Rio for Prescott.
 "On the way out here, knowing that the crook was slippery duck, and might possibly try 10 gain his liberty through habeas corpus proceedings, kept the wires hot sending messages to Schroeder io hang on to the crm. inal at all costs until l got here.
 ''I got in yesterday morning, and did quick stunt to the local shcriG's of. flee. l found inc iailer and told him l had come for n certain party who was, 80 1 thought, safely behind the bars. Imagine my suprise, chsgrin and anger when the jailer informed me that no such person a- described was in the jail here.
 "Thinking possibly the city police might have him, l hunted up the chiei and told him what l was after. Again l was informed that there was nothing doing My disappointment got the best of me, l guess, for know that insisted 60 strong iha: my man was in either one Jail or tho other, that the local officers for awhile thought I was 'daify.' However, when I had eluei. dated clearly, they accorded me every courtesy in their power.
 "Being convinced my man was not in custody. did not help my franc of mind a bit, and ] started on a still hunt for Schroeder, the alleged detec- tive, who had strung me. After a time ] located him. registered at the Sehuer. man house, under the alias of Charles II. Reynolds.
 ''when l walked into his room and introduced myself l guess he was sur. prised some. He stalled around for awhile, until l made it understood that l wanted the fugitive. He assured me he would have him in custody for me in less than an hour.
 "While he was dressing Schroeder confessed that he was sailing under an assumed name, stating that he did not want anyone to get next to him. When he had completed his toilet we started out, and after several hours we ran across q man in the Wellington saloon. whom Schroeder pointed out to me as the man he was shadowing for me. The fellow in no wise corresponded to the description of my man, other than that he had the same number of arms, feet and legs, and played poker