The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-09-12
This Time he l3ecites Tale Of
Mixing in Secret War.

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NEW YORK, Sept, 1HS-The Span
ash Prisoner, the most ancient and
time honored OF successful swindles,.
has bodied up again. this time with a.
tale so heart rending that the Eng
lish language fairly cries out for
mercy in the telling OF 1T. He Is NJ
longer mere unfortunate and very
rich-Don, writing from bis prison
death bed to tell you the secret Of his
great wealth and of his darling daugh-
ter and Of the good priest who Is VIII
ing TO help ship the daughter right
OF to America as soon as you supply,
the necessary cost OF transportation,
In return for your share OF that hid
den fortune, sone-fourth of which will
be yours as the darling daughters
guardian.
The poor prisoners pred:cament Isl
about the same, however, as it was
twenty-five years ago, when he first
began relieving tender hearted and
avaricious soulds of cash for darl-
ing daughters departure, but he has
landed in prison this time by a nawi
route. He is war victim-a poor
unfortunate neutral, whose desire. to-
swing Spain to the allies has got aim
all tangled up in the welt politik.
1t has been some years since no
last took his pen in hand, The ar.
rest in 1912 OF a sang OF swindlers In
Balboa dealt rather a severe blow .o
the Spanish Prisoner business. Also
Official warnings from the Departments
OF; state at Washington put Americans
more or less on their guard. But now
the European war seems to have Civ
enshtm fresh courage and chance to
weave a war theme into his old plea
that Is too good to miss
& Tie Prisoners Letter.
And SO, almost any morning you
may be prepared to hear from, Yours
very truly, Enrique do Fonesca, which
is the new name of the Spanish Pris-
oner. now that he has disguised him
self in war paint. The letter, done in
a fne delicate hand, SO neatly print
ted that you might easily take it for
genuine handiwork, Is from Madrid
and begins:
MY dear sir: Being placed in a
very grave situation and cannot BY,
myself resolve great struggle that
surrounds me take the liberty to
write you the first and perhaps the
last time due to my health. Although
I am not known to you when say
that my dead mother, Mrs. Anna was
your near kinswoman you will know
our relationship"
Continuing you find that Enrique's
dead father was contractor Of the
Spanish army" and that when the war
came the Spanish government selecy-
ed Enrique to visit the center Of the
operations Of army in French" OF
course "once In the center Of the ac-
ton could see myself the actions
done by the betligerents and for this
reason ! write here to my republican
friends telling them to work for break
our neutrality" The plot thickened
nicely. and Enrique was sent to Lon
don to purchase war material. He
took with him all his fortune (which
amount to eighty-five thousand seven
hundred pounds"
Spain was on the brink of join-
ing the allies when the plot at home
was discovered and all. Enrique's fell
low conspirators were jailed. To make
matters worse Enrique's wife died, so
he had to hurry home. but he was
careful to deposit that fortune Gin al
sure bank of London" and to get a
check payable to bearer, and that he
hid sin secret partition I made my.
self in one Of my trunks impossible
to be discovered for ANYBODY"
In jail Again and Wounded.
Once back in old Madrid, Enrique