Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-05-17
SIEUTH TRAILS
MAN 1000 MILES
DETECTIVE MARKED FOR DEATH
.t. COMPANION SLAIN.
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Longest Continuous Pursuit OF FHgI
tive Ever Made-Thftlls IA
Every Move.

Every Move. a.
John Jones got John Smith AID
brought him back nom Honduras
IL cost $4,000 IN the currencies OF
half 4 dozen or more tropical nations.
ID, p0o miles of travel. a murder. =
shipw reck and a bookful OF -xperien
ces replete with thrills on jungle trails
and mountain hedges. With poisonous
reptiles. swamp levers. hurricanes aud
sIiled crooks and demimondaines dip
lomats and al lease one President vi
4 republic
in ChIcago's Criminal Court John
-. Smith, atlas Singleton. alias Singer,
erstwhle president OF the Citizens
National Ba4a OF Dixon. Tenn, former
lumber operator with connections
here. Mas put on trial charged With
embezzlemrnt.
lie is alleged 10 have obtained $751;
900 from The National Bond and In
ses,ment Company by bill OF ladihs
frauds.
John F.. Jones, a Chicago detective
Told the jury how he had captured
Smith and brought him back TO the
United States from Honduras. II was
the longest continuous pursuit OK i
fugitive ever made. il is said.
Detective Jones traled his man
thru Dixon and Nashville. Tenn. IL
Indianapolis, Charleston, W. Va. Gin
cinnati. ST. Louis, Hot Springs, ARK,
FL Paso, Texas, Juarez, Mexico, Ma.
zatlan, Mexico; Los Angeles. san
Francisco, Portland and Sacramento
AT San Francisco Smith sailed ioF
Guatemala, Central America, and left
The ship AZ San Jose Nov. and tray
eled fast 10 Guatemala City. Puerto
Barrios. Guatemala. Belize, BrticE
Honduras, and the Isle of Livingston,
in the Caribbean Sea.
There he met Capt--William Grace.
"A professional insurrectionist, former
Texas Ranger and favored contractor
under President Diaz of Mexico
Smith had SCI 900 and he and Grace
planned a venture But Grace left
Smith after both survived a hurri.
cane in IA dugout canoe trip to Port
Of Cortez. Spanish Honduras.
A bubbling insurreclion led Smith 10
San Pedro Sua, where he met Nine.
] Ray Rose, an adventures, formerly OF
> New Orleans.
Meanwhile Detective Jcnes had
reached Barrios. He cabled the State
lercepted. The exiled criminals plot
ted To poison his coffee, but failed.
A former United States consul at
/ Guatemala City, accordin. to Jones,
ewarned the detective to desisi, say
ins
z Lay or Smith of I'll have You
Killed
Jones refused. Capt. William
Owens, another eXiled American, who
had aided Smith to flee Livingston Is.
land, and several aids attacked Jones
that night in the Hotel Imperial
Guatemala City
Jones went TO Tela. honduras, and
mel a negro opium smuggler from
Costa Rica. They made common cause
and went TO san Pedro
Jones then located Smith in Macul
leo, Spanish Honduras Next morn
ing squad of barefooted soldiers.
headed by the chief Of police, under
orders from the government. thrust
their bayonets at Smith from all sides.
He was locked up,
That night while Jones slept beside
his negro aid a bullet crashed thru
The window, piercing the natives
head.
The native lay where Jones had
been earlier in the evening sec
ond bullet killed Jones mule.
Jones then fell i'll with the black
water fever, tropical disease with
high death rate. For thirteen days
death impended. His recovery was
FASTENED by the arrival at his bedside
of Sergt. John Murphy, States Attor
ney Maclay Hoyne's riehthand.man
hearing from Presidents Wilson an OF
fetal demand for the delivery OF the
prisoner The demand was obeyed.