Imperial Valley press., 1921-08-31
FRYING PAN
INTO FIRE:
FAUNCE:'S
JUMP
Whiskey Smuggler Arrested
Near Here Is Alleged Bos-
ton EmbezZler Who Got
Away With $4,000.

The latter part of May Customs IN
spector Morris picked up on the road
near Brawley a fine large Cadillac car
registered in the name of X. NJ. Good
rich, Los Angeles.
The man in the car stated that his
name was Maurice or Martin Fauncc.
The reason Inspector Morris stopped
him is that he hed tip that Faunce
had u lot of smuggled liquor with him
that had been brought across the line
at Calexco.
A search of the car revealed 36
quarts of S-year-old Brookhill, bottled
in bond, worth in predry days $43 at
retail and at ruling prices of today
almost that much per bottle.
Mr.. Faunce was transported 10 Los
Angeles and lodged IN Jail there
charged with a violation OF the Vo'.
stead act in that he was in lllegai
possession of lot of intoxicating IL
ouor The big Cadillac was confis-
Gated. 1t was then that Faunce was
found to be Goodrich.
When he was arraigned before U. 5.
Commissioner Long in Los Angeles,
he was bound over for trial in the dis
trjct court and his bail was fixed at
$1,000 He put up the cash and then be-
gan preparations for defending HIM
self-against a prison term.
He learned in a few weeks that 1t
took money to hire lawyers and pre-
nore a defense. His cash on hand soon
ran out. There are so many ways cash
simply melts away when you are de-
Tending a criminal charge with all the
evidence AGAINST YOU. He then thought
of the idea of going to Jail and secur-
ing his cash bond to pay for more
lawyers. :,
Consequently Faunce voluntarily
surrendered to the U. S. marshal and
asked that his bail be returned that he
might have the money to finance has
defense. He was accommodated and
was sent to the county Jail after
check for his $1,000 had been given
him.
Therein Faunce or Goodrich made
a grave mistake. In the county jail
he was recognized as man long
wanted in Boston for the alleged en-
beZzlement of $50,000 The Boston
nolice were communicated with and
Detective S. J. Flaherty. who knew
Faunce we'll came out to Los Angeles
to look him over.
Detective Flaherty recognized his
man at once and yesterday with the
Federal charge of illegal possession
of liquor temporarily held in abeyance
Faunce began the long trip back to
Boston to face the embezzlement
charge.
He'd better staid where he was in
the irving pam" said Flaherty just
before he left with his prisoner, "rath-
or than try to get himself more law
yers and fall into the fire instead"
Faunce or Goodrich protested his in
nocence of the embezzlement charge
and stated that he had no fear of the
outcome Of the ease.
The prisoner was well known in
Calexico and Mexcali and frequently
his big car flashed through Ell Centre
on trips to and from the border 1t
was his persistent habit of going
across the line at Mexicali and seem
ingly transacting no business there
that first called the attention OF The
customs inspectors to him and they
laid n trap to catch him. This trap
was sprung May 25 and as FlahertV
said has resulted in the prisoner jump
ing from the frying pan into the IRE
The finest climate in the world Is
said to be found on the Island of Ma
iorca, off the coast of Spain in the
Mediterranean Sea. The tempera'
ture remains practically at 76 degrees