Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-09
LEGALLY DEAD YOUTH MADE BlSBEE REFUGE
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up,' exclaimed Parsons.
 Parsons went back and that wa!
 the last seen of him in the littl,
 Texas town of Lufkin. His friend started to eat his meal alone. Par sons borrowed a friends motorcycl,
 and, when the big crash came, wa:
 far away A few days later. the bor
 rowed motorcycle was fshed out o
 the depths of the Trinity River. sev
 enty miles from Lufkin.
 'The funny part of it, if one chooses
 to see the funny side" said MT Will
 iaTe, "is that the stepmother who
 secured the big insurance money. oI
 at least a part of it, brought suit
 against the railroad for causing the
 death of the boy. As a matter oi
 fact that explosion cost the H. E. &
 w. T. from $1S,000 to $25.000. Sixteen or eighteen freight cars were wreck. ed. Then, too, every plate glass win dow in the town was shattered, for that 200 pounds of dynamite made some explosion. Besides the station property. itself, many bales of cotton were destroyed"
 Fourteen or fifteen days later, Par sons was seen in Bisbee by members of the Williams family who recogniz- ed the youth, but were thunderstruck and. in fact, completely nouplussed, as the fellow has been duly credited as dead to the sorrows and jays or this life.
 Parsons entered Sasse's candy store where the Williams first detected him. He saw that he was recognized and started to make a prompt getaway. Followed by his former townspeople, he went to the shadow of Castle Rock, climbed a flight of stairs in that vicinity and was no more seen by his former acquaintances. It is be- lieved that he went to Mexico, re- maining> there until the time when he chose to re-enter the territory or Uncle Sam, via Southern California.
 Pinkerton detectives were sent to 'Bisbee but, as stated, the search prov ed fruitless. Developments in the case followed with startling rapidity. It was found that Parsons had juggled the figures in the records of a lodge of which he was treasurer and that there was a shortage of funds. It was alleged that railroad funds had been tempered with and some thought that one of Parsons motives in blowing up the property was to hide his perfdy.
 Parsons had well prepared himself for the getaway from the Texas town. He had secured two skeleton tickets, making it possible for him to route himself as fancy dictated For some reason or other, However. Parsons de cided not to stay with the "rattlers". long, at least those of the passenger type According to custom, the con ductor took up" Parsons ticket after he had left Fl Paso, bound for Tue son, at the time that Parsons retired to his berth When that official came around to return the ticket, in the Parsons had disappeared.
 Mir. Williams stated that he wasn't at Parsons apprehension as an attorney interested in bringing the youth to justice had telephoned him from Tucson, only week before, that he was hot on the boys trail and that he might soon send for NIT. Williams to identify Parsons.
 Below is the Examiners story:
 "A tall, hard working young man with child-like blue eyes was measur- ing out sugar in Irving's grocery store in Palmdale yesterday morning. At that particular moment he was Frank Garfield, clerk, The next in. stant deputy sheriff touched him on the shoulder and he became George Frank Parsons, dynamiter, defrauder of insurance companies and enigma
 Tt took nearly three years to trace this serious young man and the search as well as his ability to keep up the fiction of his death, which was attested by a jury of his peers has been without counterpart.
 Down in Lufkin, Texas, there IS court record with the entry, De ceased after Parsons name and there is a handful of bones in one of the cemeteries, over which has been placed a stone with the in- scription, George Frank Parsons, upon it.
 But the young man, who, 1t is al legged, blew up railroad station with dynamite so that his stepmother might collect his life insurance to s12,O00, is now on his way back home to provide corporeal affirmation of the fact that he is not dead.
 stepmother Gets s6,ooo.
 "The phase of the case which no one can explain is that Parsons, who wrecked freight Shed, baggage room and ticket office with 200 pounds of dynamite, and so cleverly planned the whole business that the inference ot his death was inevitable, has not pro | fted either by the hazard of his loss of identity.