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Show ON A IITtoWUS. A Very Juysterions Case Being Ventilated Before Judge Anderson and .Local Authorities. CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT. The Prisoner Defies the Allocation and Dadares His Intention of Figut-I Figut-I jug to a Finish. , For the past twenty-four hours the stuff artists at police headquarters have had a very genteel if not a very distinguished distin-guished prisoner under theirospionago. 1 In has not been given the liberties of the city, but there were so many things in his favor, person and circumstantial, that Captain Parker, like the court and the jury, deemed it incumbent on himself to give his guest the j benetit of the doubt. lie is a young ! man who requires six feet of attitude, a j blonde wlio was probably blonder before be-fore he reached the ago of wisdom, wears plain but tailor made garments, and is slated under tho namo of VV. J. ('ration, fugitive from jimicr. The prisoner made his appearance In this city on Tuesday evening , last. and already Ollicer Eek-lund, Eek-lund, who is chairman of Marshal Mar-shal Voting's reception committee was on hand to meet. him. Among other ' birds of passage whose autographs fell ! upon the register at tho Walker house was his. Nothing striking about it i either, unless it was a little woro than the average for the reason that ho had been in the dark and desolate ! period of life, engaged in literary j work. Ollicer Eeklund invoiced him and saw - that at midnight he was in bed. Yesterday morning, however, how-ever, the sleuth was around with the 'ark and after Crafforl hail thrown a '-quare meal under his belt he was taken in custody upon authority of a telegram Iroin New Mexico instructing the do-I do-I pai -intent at this point to hold hiui for embezzlement. Since then ho has been in the custody of the officers and , this morning began his defense. He had in the meantime, however, secured the services of Lawyer Costeilo and an application ap-plication for a writ of habeas corpus was piled before Judge Anderson with notice to arguo it at 2 o'clock this afternoon. |