Arizona republican., 1908-05-16
BURROUGHS IN JAIL
 STORIES CONFLICTING
Took Out a Life Insurance and Gave in Payment a Check.

C. Burroughs, an account of whose extensive financiaIt exploits was printed in yesterday mornings issue. 1 transferred his headquarters from the Hotel Adams where he had been housed IuXuriously. to an apartment in Hotel de Hayden, above o'clock yesterday afternoon. The complaint on which he was locked up was the cashing of a worthless check for S25 at the Hotel Adams where he is also owing some $40 for board and room. Manager Griffis had been extremely lenient with him, giving him a chance to make good on some of his state ments, but after about forty-eisht hours of forbearduce it ceased to be a virtue, and his arrest followed d lengthy conference at the hotel in which Judge Baker appeared as Bur r0ughs' attorney. No other conclusion could be arrived at than that Bur roughs was a crook and had been stalling and four flushing all tEe time
 Wednesday night after it came to light that Burroughs other transac- tions had been crooked. a telegram was sent to the Oskaloosa bank in Iowa, asking if the check given the Adams was good. Yesterday morning about 9 o'clock a reply came, saving that he had no account at the bank and that he was not straight in his dealings. This confirmed the belief regarding the worthless paper. Bur roughs story was that he had a rich brother in Denver who had arrived in Tucson only the night before. Sher- if Hayden telephOned Sheriff Pach- eco to look at all the hotels in Tucson for one wealthy Burroughs of Denver, but diligent search yesterday UncOv- cred no such person in the city Bur roughs also claimed that he had s. 0O0 in one bank and that his wife had $22, 900 in another He kept giving one excuse and one story after another, evidently playing for time. pr. Stew art, who met him. inquired if only $50 was needed to keep him out of
 why he did not pawn that watch on the end of his fine gold chain Burroughs replied that his S150 watch had been dropped and broken. pulling out at the same tipe one dollar In gersol After his arrest his room was searched and nothing of value found.
 The exact manner in which his deal ings came to notice and his game queered was learned yesterday. While Burroughs was in WickenbUrg. after having just visited the old Grijalva mine. he met and engaged in conver- sation Wesley Hill who believing him to be a man possessed of considerable predatory wealth. introduced the sub ject of life insurance. Burroughs was an easy convert to the idea and i'm mediately took out policy for S1O,- 000. giving MT. Hill a check on the Capital City State Bank in Des Moines. Iowa. To make certain that it was all right Mir. Hill had the Valley Bank to wire. The reply was that he had no account and that he was a dangerous man. Burroughs tried to get two other checks cashed but was turned down.
 The life insurance deal reached Dave Goldberg and he at once became sus- picious that the certified checks for SG. 300 and SS, 700 were forgeries. This proved to be the case. Burroughs had knowledge of crooks methods of es- caping the law. He had made the cer- tification on one of the checks to read @The Capital State Bank" leaving out the word city and scraWling an illeg- ible name for the cashier. thereby committing no real forgery. Burroughs is also somewhat of a practical joke smith. While riding from Wicken- burg to Phoenix with A. \. NcCarver, the superintendent of the mine, he was negotiating for, he asked McCarver what salary he would want for going about the country looking after his interests and the mine. MT. McCar- yer said he considered his services worth $5.0O0. "Oh. we'll" replied Bur roughs. 'I will do better than that, $500 a month or S6.OOO per year" He later cOnfided to NIT. Griffis that there was lot of stock out in the old Gri- jalva which he could buy at cents a share. and gave him the names of the persons who he alleged had the stock. He told him to go out and cor ner it and he would buy it all in at par. But Mir. Griffis had already sized him up early in the game and had weather eye out for something to turn up about as they later did. The state ment that Burroughs was wanted in Pasadena for an offense appears to have been a mistake. His wife is sill in the city and called last night and had a long conversation with him at 1 the jail.