Show TERRIBLE TRIP ACROSS DESERT Strange Instinct Which Guided Steps of Crazed Man Homeward FOUND RICH PLACER MINE Slur Stor Story of ur William llam Crl Crash's hs Daring Venture entre I Into the thc Land of the In the Santa Rosa flora nOg hospital at ut San Sn Antonio Tex Is a man who If It his Ills history story tory I Is trUe truo has lias recently through an ordeal more terrible teri-ible than thai Kipling's Man lanho lan Who ho Was as Crazed I h by his hits suffering the man whose hose name nanie Is William llam talk talks constantly constanty of a 0 gold old mine In II Sonora Mexico and anel In his delirium lives l onra over a again aln the hardships of his escapes from frum time tho YaquI I Indians II 11 am who iio l killed fell his partner and amid drove e him from Crom the he Sonora hills his When hen Crnich Craigh was discovered sev- sev cal eVal weeks ago agh wandering about th Iii streets o of San A Antonio III In a demented condition a it 1 small sack containing con con- taming live five l e large lan nuggets ts of pure Inure U II gold golc was found round suspended about his neck nechen When hen au nun al was made to tu re I I time the sack Mcl acl Cral h fought the lie hIke Hi a h wild man muani and HI now tIO as h he lie lies les i hill hi hI bed hed In iii the hospital his hand hamid up Ul and II the time sack every few minutes as if it to 0 assure asure himself that tha the he tl gold ld Is still sll there CI City Detective G George O e Shoat Sheaf im t on 1 th the lie street about two w weeks week ok ago aso 11 Ills clothes s wore vere In tatters hi his hair antI and beard long IonS and amid matted and amiul hi his II bleeding feet protruded from rota the tIme holes in III his high top toll boots boots' Time The detective de lie- le- le questioned and anil ns as ll lit hut could not miot understand vhal hin was said Id to him the arrested him for or being a n vagrant I Actions Strange l. l was taken to the time el city jail ji and locked IncIted up but his hl actions were ero so strange that the lie desk sergeant summoned sum sum- mooed a physician After an examination the tIme doctor declared the lie man demented de tie- aton and that lint his condition was wa caused h by exhaustion anti and starvation h was al at once removed to the lie Iw hospital and amid given careful attention nursing After several days In the hospital t he the man recovered to talk and he confided to lie tho doctor the stor story of his wonderful oHl gold mine lie le did not miot tell tel lie tho story connectedly but Jut lit littie little lit lit- l- l tie tle te b by little tutu UIG doctor heard hearel tho he tale talf tall tallo of o the lie wonderful escape eSCalO and journey of if the time little Irishman A year ago h was as discharged from ui the lie United Slates States arm army lit lie le formed a partnership with another ex- ex CX- CX named Wilson Ion and ammi the time two men started on a prospecting expedition expedition tion through the mountains of or if Ari Ail zona After Afler several months o of hard work and his chum decided to tor tory try r ry thick their thel luck hick In imi tho lie forbidden land it r the thc Yaqui Indians In tho the state of ol onora Mexico They were warned not to trust their Ives lives among tho the but the stories storie if lr the he wonderful guarded mines of ot the theonora theonora onora mountains lured lure them Into bite nto thai hat country Placer Mine lne After several weeks of prospecting x 1 pincer placer mine of wonderful richness as vas discovered The gold was found n Ii the bed of a stream and accord accord- nS ng to the de descriptions given Iven by Crl h he I sands ands fairly fally sparkled with the hit clous metal metal Indians strike however as J lightning strikes when least expected Return Return- ng nS' from flom room a hunt h found the amp looted and amid Wilson lson lying dead dem eside s lc time the burning sluice boxes Tin Thu TIl ti of the time unfortunate Wilson was wa In a a. horrible ille manner maimer and amid ho lie hOr horses es wore stolen 0 realized that tho time mere rl probably searching through th UK- UK alley for him and amid iem well e liable lable to re- re urn can at an any moment so hastily gath- gath ring IO together a n few scraps of or food ic me climbed the mountain sub side amid and anc himself in lie tho rock rocky ca i oar meal the time top The ihme handful of if m nuggets ls In the buck buck- 1 Kin hum ln sack aele hanging around his neck nee a vas nil all ni that lint remained to him of thu- thu of r gold thai hint had hind been his that n n JH began begam began th lie tho most tt trying journo that hat a n human being ewer ever undertook undertook- i t Joun-ey Joun that hint led through the moun- moun northern Mexico l aimis a nd deserts of oC mil ended ll In imi the he jail jai at San Sami Antonio Texan Without a ho horn e Craigh's progress pro Inn gress rus through h the time mountains was as slow i ind IHl as he iii dared not miot shoot at gamo mo fOI for car ni of attracting the he attention of In- In 11 lians linus h- h was vas forced to cat eat roots iOoS and arid berries M gathered along the time water water- ar ed Cra h by When hen finally emerged from be lie h. h mountains and started d to 0 ero cross the Jah plains he lie was sas crazed by hi 1 the lie he hu had halt endured and lost Int all ni ense nse of direction Ho lie clung cung lo to lie a di-a that help could be he found to the ami pressed on In that thiat dicion three three- dic ion How low long ho lie hI walked he lie Il does Ilot unit nut now v hut but as he lie lay upon his bed bee In he hut hospital he hue talked continually of ofIe ofIe l Ie e terrible sun and ancl lIeg begged ee or 01 water Finally ho lie staggered Into Inlo the thc camp campIt campf It f a company of if Mexican I soldiers and amid time they can cu cared for or him luini and anul gave l a ilm mimmi food and amid I a water It II was waR IliUm many days ho lie could coull tell of his Journey Overjoyed at the lie sight of the time rs ls IS he lie told old them o of the lie gold Johl mine maine anti and of or Us Its wonderful richness h story tor of time the mine mile excited d tin the I u i l- l of li the soldiers tl and amid time the lieu lieu- Ilu In iii command of the time party part de- de untitled that Crl h guide cuille them hac back backo I. I o 0 the hue spot This Craigh refused to toJo toJo Jo ho and amid by th the he orders ordem's of the lie officer Oel ic was beaten n with wih a whip and amid told tole hat lint he lie would be beaten to lo death unless un- un less he lie led the time soldiers to the lie mine I From That night mana managed ll to sl steal al way and aHI escape eSCH from fol the lie tl soldiers tIme the effects of his ili weak wal from rom tl through h the he desert ho lie again el met his face tace to the lie eastward le nIghts Craigh's memory of what took tool taco lace after his escape from the hue sollers sol sol- lIers' lIers lers camp J Is vague asue Most of if the lie thelme ler time imo ho hue must have been demented lie He c says BS B'S that lint he lie remembers finding streams of ot water waler and lying down to 10 wallow allow full Cull length in the hit tl lIfe giving givIng fluid walow then lien leaving the time stream to lo turn his ils footsteps to th the ti-ic cas east I. I Later Latr he lie reached rached lie Iho more thickly portion porton of or the tho country and amid the peons icons ons und ranchmen fed him The rhe Mexicans looked upon his strange- strange I. figure und and staring eyes and said aid that lint he lie was a n loco loco and In iii man need never want a crazy eras ne er for or food or shelter as time the natives native look ook upon him with wih superstitious aw awe The Time strangest par part of oC Craigh's story I I II I I is s the thea a way ho lie followed time the lu true course COUO I like fie a n homing pigeon straight sti to hits his ol old home borne for his father who formerly for for- merly meily lve lived in imi Chicago hl has lias n a u turin farm near Tex twenty miles mies east last of San Sami Antonio and amid it I Is h supposed that hint ho was making for tor or his hh fathers father's farm when he was arrested arm With fh his mind made a n wreck IJ by tho time terrible hardships he hl had imad endured and ancl with only hl his voice ulCe of oC Instinct calling him home William JIun h hushed finished his Journey journe father and brother are now at nt San Sami an Antonio The They corroborate his story up Ui to the lie lime ho lie heft lef Mexico for fOI the lie country and amiul mIl show a letter leler received from fromn him from that town There is little do doubt ubi that time the tl wonderful mine really exists there Is some talk of tal organizing an amm al expedition to search for Cor U. U I. I The doctors say MJ thai tha It I will wi bo he many moan weeks 8 before will wi bo be able to 10 o Ilen leave the tho hospital Chicago Chron Chron- icle ide I |