The oasis., 1908-07-25
A THIEVES SAFE HARBoR SHUT.
The Effective Service in Honduras of United States Consul Albert w. 6riekwood, Formerly at Nogales.

of the New Orleans Picavune of re. cent date, with an extended ac count of the arrival at that port of three extradited rascals who had fled to the republic of Honduras. long considered a safe harbor for criminals, who had been returned to the United States through the energetic effort of the United States consul at Puerto Cortez, Mir. Albert w. BricGwood Jr., we'll known at Nogales and in Sonora, as it was at this place that he entered the con- sular service, several years ago. The principal of the offenders es- capped after his capture, and his escape was through the carelessness or negligence of the New York police official who went to take him to New York, after Consul Brick wood had secured their extradition. Their crime was use of the United States mail to defraud. The ac. count in the Picayune is so inter- esting that It is reproduced here. with:
 But back of it all there is dramatic story that eclipses, perhaps, anything ever before heard of in the annals of financial buccaneering. The chartering of great ship, loading her down with $200, ,0O0 worth of plunder, rush trip to the tropics, wild orgies in Honduras, then the arrest and return-with prison walls possible ahead-that, in q few words, is the tale of the wild adventure of New Iork's frenzied capitalists. The imaginings of tietion's cleverest writers never conceived story of more thrill- ing character.
 \ few months ago the three men now in custody, along with fourth, Francis W. Bailey, whose sensational escape forms by no means the least interesting chapter to the novel, were considered as worthy of fairly high place in New York's commercial world But the fever of money-getting became too strong for them and, stepping beyond legitimate means, it is alleged that they defrauded large number of people
 Their means was rather unique one. During March of this year they ad- dressed to a large number of firms and corporations letters stating that the Export Shipping Company had received d commission from a prominent foreign customer for a wide variety of mer- chandise. They asked for catalogues and price scheduIes.
 In response to the letters, catalogues began pouring in, and many firms and their agents paid the Baileys personal visit. About April all these firms were sent orders for goods, with request that they be shipped immediately. It was stuff secured III this manner that made up the immense cargo carried aboard the steamship Goldsboro, which de- parted from New York early in May. and which reached Puerto Cortez, Spanish Honduras, on the 18th of that month
 Here the four men represented them selves as capitalists, and declared that they had come to invest in Honduras and that they had brought everything with them to immediately develop any concessions which the Government might grant them, They bought big ptdHtdtiolls anu upon revocation or the British charter for their boat had the vessel put under the Honduran flag, to be used i'll the coastwise service.
 Spending money with lavish hand. and playing the part of millionaires, the quartette entertained the chief digna- taries of the nation with a number of elaborate suppers, and had completely won themselves into the confidence of the authorities, when their game was ex- posed, they were thrown into prison and their ship seized To-day three of the party are looking into the very gates of the penitentiary, while the other, Francis W. Bailey, who was really the ringleader, is being searched for through out Honduras.
 The escape of the President" of the Export Shipping Company, Francis