Show HAUNTED FOR YEARS 6 flight of defaulter who never was pursued guilty land man turned tramp surrendering after eighteen year years he found indictment had been quashed omaha neb himer E johnsoa was as a fugitive from justice tor for elgh teen years in that time be lie wandered through every state in the union but one and visited euy ey country in the world in an effort to evade the fed ed eral era inspectors and secret ser bervice vice men the other day he walked into the office of the united states liar thai at omaha and surrendered rendered Bur he lie then learned that the case against him was quashed fifteen years agu that he had fled when nono none pursued a and nd that the army of 0 federal who had been chasing him over the globe were ere only creations ot of bla his own guilty conscience cone clence johnson sat down and cried when told by the marshal that he be wae was a free man that the government did not want him and that for the last fifteen years he be might have settled down and lived an honest man in tead stead of wandering ai an a hobo over ever the world 1 I im in too old to make a new tart start now sail said johnson after he bad had braced up if I 1 had only known this years and years ago I 1 might have bave amounted to something if I 1 bad had stood trial and taken my ray medicine I 1 would have been out cf of prison fifteen years ago my punishment pun lehment would have lasted two or three years As a fact it continued eighteen years and anti its effect will continue throughout my life can t you lend me a quarter to get something to eat with and with the 25 cent piece in hie his hand he shut tied off toward a restaurant johnson Johi iBon was an official in the public land domce in del dal norte cal in 11 1893 he was found short 91 lie wan war indicted on a charge of embea embe klemert forfeited his ball and es for three years the govern ment inspectors Inspect ore kept a lookout for him then the case was dismissed and thereafter no further efforts were made to capture him on a cattle ship I 1 worked my way to liverpool said johnson I 1 I 1 war absent from the states about five years during which timo time I 1 practically every country in europe and nd many in asia and africa I 1 was simply imply a hobo but I 1 watched keenly f for r government detectives who my conscience conscience told fold me were ere always after me for eight years I 1 have been wandering over the country from the at bantle to th tho pacific from winnipeg if it ie lq gulf I 1 have worked a few day days la in actually hundred hundreds of 0 printing offices hut but I 1 made it an absolute rule never to work in a place for or more than a week then I 1 would move to the next top stop thus throwing the detectives off of my trait trail the morn liis I 1 struck omaha I 1 balku up the street and by the poet post offic and the thought struck me that had I 1 stood trial took my cine and served my time I 1 would have been a free man many yean years ago but sou would hive beep beer an ex con vict I 1 I 1 told myself that no worse than a tramp I 1 answered myself well why by not go in and der I 1 asked myself and before I 1 had an opportunity of baying saying no there I 1 was in the united states man abal bhala a |