Arizona republican., 1909-08-10
FRANK THOMPSON RETURNS
 MENTALLY SHATTERED
A VAGUE RECOLLECTIONS OF
 PAST EVENTS.
He Had No Intention of Stealing That
 Land Scrip.

Frank Thompson. member of the firm of Hildreth & Thompson, was returned to the city yesterday morning in the custody of Deputy Sheriff Ad- ams who had brought him from Den yer where he was arrested on the charge of embedding S60O0 worth of land scrip the property of clients of the firm.
 He spent the day in the woman's cell of the jail where his wife visited him soon after his arrival and remained with him throughout the day. An other of his carly callers was his part ner, Fen $ Hildrcth.
 Thompson is mental wreck at present and in his condition he invites pity rather than blame. There is con siderable doubt whether he meant to inappropriate the scrip. When he is able to speak coherently of his move ments he says he did not; that he had no recollection of putting it in his grip. He remembers taking it from the office to his home as he had ire quently done for safe keeping for there was no place in the office where it would be secure. He evidently made no effort to dispose of it or any part of it. Certain changes would have had to be made before it could have been offered for sale and they were not made It was found yesterday wrapped in the same paper in which MT Hildreth had wrapped it on the receipt of it and the package had the appearance of not having been opened at all.
 Thompson said that he left here ac- companied by his cousin William Rob- inson who had frequently urged him to leave the town. They went directly to Albuquerque whence Robinson went to Denver. Thompson bought ticket to Chicago but on reaching Kansas City he decided to go no farther and tore the ticket up.
 Soon after his arrival at Kansas City he received a telegram from Robinson at Denver saving that his money was all gone. Thompson wired him $25 and directed him to join him at Kansas City He did so and in a few days they both returned to Den yer where they were arrested.
 When Deputy Sheriff Adams reach ed Denver the police officers told him that Thompson was mentally unbalanc- ed at the time of arrest and had been so ever since. When the deputy sher- if met him and told him that he had come to take him back to Phoenix. Thompson said that he would not go; that the trouble in which he found himself wodld be adjusted by eight o'clock that night; that he had no wish to return to Phoenix for his wife was dead He said that he knew what was going on in this city all the time through secret wireless messages he had been receiving.
 The next morning when the deputy went around to the police station he was told that Thompson got worse during the night and had been taken to the hospital. The deputy sheriff brought him back to the station and that night left for home. Thompson accused him of having cut his grip to pieces The officer showed him that it had not been injured. He then accused the officer of having taken $500 from his trunk. He was finally convinced that the trunk had not been opened.
 l. was reported when he was arrest cd that he had S7OO in cash. The Den yer officers turned over $200 to Dep uty Sheriff Adams. It is therefore possible that there Is still $500 in the trunk which last night had not been examined.
 The condition of Thompson had been made worse after he was locked up at Denver by cutting him off from whis- ky. The deputy sheriff gave him all he wanted to drink on his way home and that seemed to restore him to a normal condition It was then that he could talk Cohcrentl- of his move ments. He said that he had only the vaEuest recollection of events that oc- cured immediately preceding his de- parture from Phoenix He had been