El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-11-29


20 days TO get the vessel ready for
sea, which led him to decide that the
act Of confiscatlOn should not take
place for that length Of time. Why
waste government funds IN fitting up
the vessel when the poor sucker who
thought he owned her was so willing
20 spend his own money for the pur-
pose?
Next morning L learned the name OF
the Italian engineer who had raised
the steamer. 1t was important to
know where he stood.
Italian Ready to Help Germans.
So I hunted up signOr Lenore. in
/ troduced myself as from an unnamed
I country in South America, IN reality
{ there to purchase the Morelos, but
! concealing my true mission from the
{ Germans under pretense Of practic-
Z ing medicine. I offered him a com
mission Of $4,000 pesos 10 see that I
] got the morelos. Not to make too
long a story, let It suffice to say that
7 found out the Italian was pro-Ger-
man, but ready to do anything for
money; and that he would do his part
I 20 turn the vessel over to the Ger
mans unless he was headed Off BY
appealing TO his cupidity with q big
bribe, I sewed him up and prevented
him from carrying out his intention
to help the Germans.
The Morelos affair was spread out
over several weeks, during which
on hand, as may well be believed; but
not to spoil the narrative by giving
L in fragments, let me say that after
the deal with the Italian engineer the
matter was dropped for some time.
Tor I had found out the precise date
on which the confiscation was to be
onsummated-
Hint on Combination Plan
In this interim 1 hunted up a close
personal friend OF Arzak, through
whom ! conveyed a hint that Carran-
"a proposed TO confiscate the vessel
but giving no clue IS TO the time-in
fact, I wanted ArZak 10 Worry as
much as his Mexican temperament
would allow, which was a good deal.
knew he could find no buyer. but
the Americans. and wanted them TO
get good bargain.
Arzak was left TO stew In his own
anZieties until Nay E. when / went
TO him upon returning from a little
excursion, which viii be described IN
q later instalments and announced that
was ready to close the deal All
went as merry as the prOVerbial mar
rage bell until happened TO men
ton that ] was going to pay him
100000 in American money, which at
current rates OF exchange was equiv
alent to 100000 pesos in Chilean
money.
Arzak Protests violently.
Ihereupon Arzak protested most I
violently, saying that I had promised (
10 pay $500, 900. but by producing my F.
cablegrams which distinctly said
pesos he had no alternative but to
admit. with many anguished obiur- /
cations that he must have misunder- ]
stood me about the dollars" Then T.
ne 1latly refused to carry out his part
OF the bargain.
assured him that was very sorry (
ne had misunderstood me. also. I re-
gretted that he was going 70 lose I.
MS steamship altogether, as II was I
70 be confiscated on the 10TH that T
had seen q letter to that effect
This had the desired effect. That
very evening Arzak hunted I'D
the two representatives Of the san
Francisco firm who had been
waiting for him TO come to HIS
senses and at 7s15 p m closed the
sale for s120.OO0 American gold.
I had wen the game.
Daring the 81 DAYS that Wazatlan ]
vas my headquarters I turned u an
other Interesting piece OF ship news I
IN place where ship news Is not I
usually harvested.
It win be remembered that gov
ernor Iturbe had disclosed the fact I
that the gambling houses IN Mazat- /
ian afforded him a substantial reve-
nue. The gambling houses were able 7
70 pay the hush money, thanks 10 lib
eral patronage from the German j
AGENTS and spies who swarmed about I
the town Hence became a habitue
OF the gambling houses and other
resorts.
At this time American submarine
cnasefs ana large Warcraft were daily
visitors at Mazatian They would
come, stay a little less than the az
-oWable "a hours and put TO sea and
return One evening in a gambling
nonse German acquaintance said
we are going 70 have some fun
HowT
To Blow IT Q. s. ButtIeuhip.
We are going TO lay some mines
"a the harbor 70 blow up the Amer
lean battleshlp Oregon"
BY manifesting only so much IN
-erest as q good German not directly
engaged in the plot might properly
exhibit learned full details. A SAIL
ng boat was 70 30 out a few nights
.ater and lay several Mexican mines