Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-09
DEAD YOUTH MADE B|SbEE H|S
 REFUGE
Texas Youth who Defrauded Insurance Companies Out of $12,0O0 Is Caught After Several Years.
CAPTURE IN CALIFOR-
 MIA ENDS THE CASE
F. L. Williams Tells of Per sonal Knowledge of Youths Adventures which Read As Lurid Tale of Dime Novel.

In the early spring of 1913 a youth of twenty years, tall. with clean cut features and clear blue eyes. came to Bisbee walked the streets with non chalent air and casually entered Sas- se's candy store where he ordered a soft drink. There was nothing in his appearance to cause one to look twice. But his calm demeanor passed and he became nervous and restless as he noted that he was recognized by former fellow townspeople of Luf- kin. Tex.
 It is no wonder that members of the family of F. L. Williams expert enced weird sensations as they looked upon the countenance of Parsons. for he was the same young man whose death had been chronicled and whose supposed remains had been laid to rest in a cemetery at Lufkin. also. whose life insurance of some $12.000 had been duly paid. However. George Frank Parsons it was, and none other. 
 dead. their former casual acquaint- ance in the Texas town.
 Parsons however. failed to extend the usual courtesies of only a chance acquaintance. Instead. his calm de meanor passed. even as the ice melts before the sun of spring time He jams family followed. T. etaoinhrdlu hastened to make retreat from Sasse's store and sought the shadows of Castle Rock. The members of the Williams family followed. Parsons didn't finger. He ascended a flight of stairs near the great landmark. Noth- ing more was seen or heard of Par sons for several years. even until last Tuesday.
 On that day. in Palmdale. Cal. a young grocery clerk bearing the name of Frank Garfield was arrested and later confessed that he was guilty of defrauding insurance companies out of s12.O00 He was taken to Texas to stand trial This young man was none other than George Frank Par sons. the strange visitor to Bisoee.
 A story in the Los Angeles ENamin- CT. telling parts of the story of Par sons u.+ elievable career. was shown F. L. Williams. local E. P. & S. W agent.
 Mr. Williams fell into a reminis- cent mood as the incidents of years ago were recalled to his memory and remembered the youth now facing the prospect of long Imprisonment behind prison bars-then hard working young grocer's clerk. playing. indeed. role indentical to that he had as- sumed when apprehended in Palm dale. California.
 "Yes. I knew the boy rather well and he seemed a straight. industrious sort of fellow" said NIT. Williams. He was well regarded in the town. being the son of Methodist minister. dead some years before. The youth. then about twenty years of age. lived with his stepmother.
 Parsons was a clean-cut type Of youth and appeared to have the re- spect of the townspeople. He never worked directly for me but. after had left the town. he secured enl- ployment as ticket agent at the Hous- ton. East & West Texas depot in Luf- kin.
 The blowing up of the freight shed, ticket office. baggage room and freight cars. occurred on the night of March ?. 1913 Parsons had se- cured 200 pounds of dynamite which had been shipped to a local contract or. As it happened. the contractor called for the shipment during the day preceding the explosion. Parsons. however. informed him that the dyna- mite had not arrived. the youth hav- ing concealed the explosive in the station.
 That the boy had good streak in him was shown when he made sure that none of his fellow employees were in the freight shed or adjoining ofi- ces. at the time of the explosion. \ few minutes before he lit the dy1la-
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