Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-12
MADRID SPINDLE IS RUN ID ITS BURROW
 BY STAINS OFFICERS
United States Cannot Act but Spain Investigates
 and End Is Near
SOME OTHER METHODS

J H. Jack, whose receipt of let ter from Madrid resulted in the pub hcations of articles in The Review disclosing the latest buncO scheme that was being worked. upon the re- ceipt of the letter which sought 10 interest him in get something for nothing scheme. took the matter up with the United States post office ot:cials. and Is in receipt of letter on the subject which states that the laws of Spain require Q crime to have been completed through the mail be fore prosecution can occur, and that it is understood they had under in vestisatiOn the matter referred 10. Such investigation was without the province of the United States authori- ties, since the letters emanated from without the borders of this country.
 Other advices received. from San Antonio as well as elsewhere, tell Of arrests having been made. and the gang probably having been broken up. The following has ES~~ ssGeiyed from San Antonio:
 A few weeks in the wake of an in- fluX Of letters from Spain to several people in Houston asking monetary aid to retrieve some great fortune, comes the news that a gang has been arrested and broken up in Spain, which for ten years has perpetrated the Madrid Swindle" all over the world. One of the men taken into GUS tody during the raid at BilbOa was the ring leader of the gang who has secured international fame among police records as The Spanish Fiis- cner.' This title was given him be- cause the letters sent oat by him and his agents apparently were written from some Spanish prison
 All the letters recently received by people of Houston were of the same tenor Each letter was written apparently in a Spanish prison and told at length of the imprisonment of the writer who was heir 10 millions in gold if he could secure his release. The writer appealed to the addressee that if he would forward a certain sum of money to him to buy release from prison he would show his appre- ciation by dividing half the fortune, which he named, immediately upon release from prison.
 One method which The Spanish Prisoner worked apparently to the greatest success followed the close of the Spanisn-American war His operations first attracted public at- tention after the war when certain Spanish soldiers, who had been guar tered in Cuba began to receive mys- tcriOus letters. The gist and nature Of the letters was, that fair Ameri- can heiress, whose brother had been in Cuba. had often heard her brother speak of the addressee, until she be- gan 10 entertain for him tender af- fection: and would he not send her his photograph. Usually the youthful romantic Spaniard, although not re- memtering the brother, complied with he request Then succeeded a cores pondence. which finally developed the fact that the girls brother had died and that she had been left with the great wealth without any protection but q wicked guardian, who would force her to marry him so that he might become possessed or her fort une. "Oh for only a few hundred dollars" that she might fly to hei Spanish lover. who would know how
 10 thwart the wicked guardian, Usually the son of Spain fell into tho trap. All over Spain there are sad eyed youths waiting for the appear ance of fair and wealthy American | senoritas.