Arizona weekly miner., 1877-05-25
STAGE ROBBERS CAUGHT.
One Mortally Wounded and the other in
 Prescott Jail.
TWO MEN SHOT IN MAKING THE AR.
 REST.

Yesterday we received the welcome news
 from Yuma, by telegraph, of the capture, at | Ehrenberg. of two of the mail robbers and
 the wounding of one of them, which will probably prove fatal.
 | The robbery took place about two and
 one half miles west of Wiekenburg on the
 4th inst. by three or four masked men. Sher- l if Bowers was aboard and robbed of several | hundred dollars and his six shooter. Mir. | Frank Luke of about $65. After having
 committed the robbery il appears that the robbers separated and divided the spells, | two of them taking the road to Ehrcnberg and the others another direction. The men captured are, 1t is believed, brothers, al- though assuming different names, one of them passing for Tom Johnson and the other
 as John Sutton, both known in this vicinity, having come here from Nevada. MT. Evans, | Agent of tic C. X A. Stage Company at | Ehrenbcrg, suspisioned these fellows and at
 once, after their arrival there, proceeded to
 make arrangements for their capture, obtain ing the assistance of O. Mercer, driver, and Mr. !. Nj. Bryan, freighter, proceeded to
 make the arrest. Upon Evans demanding the two bandits to surrender, they imme- diatcly commenced shooting. MT Mercer receiving a severe but not dangerous wound in the shoulder, and Mir. Evans q sight wound in the temple. Johnson received the full contents of q doublc-barrel shot gun loaded with bird shot in the head, which
 was, at the time, in the hands of Mir. Bryan. The shot brought Johnson to the ground, nevertheless he fought ike tiger, as did
 his brother and companion, keeping up n continual fire on their captors. After hay-
 ing cmptied their SIX shooters. Sutton made for a house, driving the occupants out and succeed in finding Henry rife owned
 by the occupants, which he made use of, fighting from within as best he could; he
 was, however, after little time, captured. Johnson was not captured until he had re-
 ceivcd thirteen wounds from pistols and guns, from the effects of which il is thought
 impossible for him Co recover as he was
 bleeding inwardly and was in a very weak condition at the time of the departure of the stage which left Ehrenberg on the t1th, bringing Sutton in irons to Prescott where he arrived this morning and was lodged in jail.
 Mir Evans has done his duty nobly in this, as did he in the stage robbery last winter when Berry and Vance captured the treasure box near Tonto Springs, and were arcs ted through the energy and activity dis played by Mir Evans in returning to Prescott by a short way, giving information and getting help and immediately starting out and capturing the robbers on their way into camp near Prescott.
 Quite an amount of bullion, in bars, was found on the prisoners persons which bear the stamps of Mir. Blake, the assaycr, and is the same shipped to San Francisco by C. F. Head lS Co, on the stage robbed. Fifty dollars in currency and twenty dollar gold note was also taken from them together with Sheriff Bowers revolver. We are in hopes that Sutton will not be allowed to escape from the jail, but that justice will be mctcd out to him in manner that will put terror into the hearts of q certain set of confede- rates who are at large.