Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-08-22
F0RTNFR INTENDED TO COME BACK Says He Was Completing a Business Deal When
 Arrested.
HIS STATE HISTORY
He Once Ran a Newspaper for Sen. atOr Thomas D. Patton. at
 Cotton Plant.

Little Rock. Ark. Aug. 2l-..l was in Paris on business the closing of which left St. Louis for and is soon as my mission there was completed l intended to return to St. Louis to continue my business. dealing in real estate.
 For the first time M Dwight For,ncr. the ArkanSan who was arrested in Paris the mIudle of May upon charge of for. cry preferred by H. C. Fully of St Louis. has told why he was in the capital of the French republic Continuing. Fortne" who failed to complete conferences ar ranged for yesterday, discussed he events l4.ding up to his arrest with more free dom than he has heretofore shown
 HIS ARKANSAS RESIDENCE. He discussed his residence in Arkansa- more fully. also saving he made his home with his parents at Brinklcy for many years attending the high school .lrrc nnti he was 13 years of age. He then workrd in newspapers offices at Brinkley until h. was Is and went to Cotton Plant to ,c- cept the management of the Cotton Plant ArkansaD. the property of State Senator l~Thomas D. Patton. He edited the pap" for d year, after which he went to EnG fish. on the Arkansas river below Pin Bluff, where he employed a ycir Il l. w. Jones. q planter The next year he went with Henry G. Hall on his plant; tion.
 The following year he with the of Hotel Trulock in Pine Bluff and th" ! Ouachita hotel at Camden. This was III first experience in hotel work. Remain ing there Is months, he came to Litn Rock. where he entered the Keys Busi ness College He was offered employnent by the Thompson -Ritchie Grocery Com pany at Huston. La. and he left Little Rock, returning when F. (. Wrhrfli1z the machinery man, wired him an "fG~ oi employ incnt here.
 WITH CAPITAL HOTEL. Ip the fall of .vu1 he entered the em ploy of the Capital hotel under manage l Irwin. leaving the following spring to go to the Gayoso hotel in Memphis. 1 After two years in Memphis he went t. the Jefferson hotel in St. Louis for ! months. after which he travelled for ; time and later engaged in real estate a' St. Louis.
 Fortner declares that Miss Hallcn, his | stenograpbcr is above reproach in every i particular "I have not been able to see her nor talk to her since my return, huf I know there is nothing wrong in any oi her actions She is innocent of any crime. Of this l am perfectly sure.' | From St. Louis Fortner says he went to Panama where he spent two weeks on business, from which place he went dlrctt' W to Paris. where he was arrested by th" French authorities
 Fortper met many of the friends o' former years yesterday afternoon. last
 night and today, the majority or whoh'
 called at the Hotel Marion to meet him. Those who desired, through morbid r'lri
 osity. to gaze upon the man accused "i obtaining s11,OOO through fraudulent means, were present, as well, and take" altogether, he stood the ordeal, which him it apparently was, fairly well.
 A BIT SPECTACULAR.
 Inclined bit to the spectular, he ai' peared in various suits of clothing Whll'
 here, each wing with its predecessor D it's extremity of cut an excellence o'
 texture. Accompanied almost invariaht' bv Thomas D. Lawler, his chief counsel
 Eortner made numerous excursions eabou the building and short trips to various
 buildings in the business districts, in'en' cpparently upon conferences with variou people. the names of whom both refuse' :. ;. ., ....f;4g.'