Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-08-23
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,HE rLoRENcR srAeE RonpEns.

| excitement here over the cold blood
 ed, merciless andgwantoh assasina
 ton of Wells, Fargu 6 CO.'S expres
 messenger last Friday night by tn
 two robbers who stopped the stag
 coach above Riverside on the Glob,
 road as there was last year over tn,
 murder of messenger Andy Hall or
 game route, yet the community i: deeply stirred, and there is feeling of indignation that will not be abat-
 ted until full justice is meeted out to the perpetrators. At this u1omen' it looks as though the crime will
 meet with sure retribution. A de-
 termined pursuit of the robbers has
 met with unlocked for success
 This morning Sheriff Doran and
 Depute Scalan brought in two pri'
 soners thought to be the principals; one agains. whom they have certain
 evidence as accessory, and another
 whom they can prove to be 8 har-
 borer and abcttor. Their names arc
 Frank Carpenter anh Joe Futile, supposed to be the principals, and Len Redf1eld, whose fahch on the San Pedro is rendezvous of robbers and one of series of stations bet s7een Riverside and the upper San Pedro to Benson, where the gang to which these ficnds belong are harbor- ed and get fresh relays of horses while fleeing from Inc scene of their robberies. This capture was effect ed by Sheriff Doran, assisted by De- putty SCalan' ex~Sheriff Pete Gabriel, Deputy Sheriff Fred Adams, Thomas ?. WeediD, editor and proprietor of the Florence Enterprise and special Deputy sheriff Wm. Harrington Gabriel effected the very important capture of cosfeder, tt known un- der the aiiase- of Jack Averii and Jack. Elmer. but getie al y known as Red Jacket Mr. Gabriel has hot yet arrived W it'll his prisoaer, bu, is momentarily expscted in. Detects i've John Brent, of Wells, Fargo & Co.'S force, IS stopping here ct the Silver King hotel on business cons uected with the recent robbeties. On the receipt last night Of information that the robbers had been Captured, a Jn nseting Was called and was ai- tended by the eading busincss men of Florence. The numerous out- rages committed on the various routes of travel; and the best means of putting a1 end to this state of things, the rare conviction of crimi- hals before the courts, etc ., were dis> cused and a determination arrived at that proper means be taken to in" sure speedy justice in this case Judge Hinson Thomas has set the preliminary examination of the pri- soners for Saturday at 10 o'clock a. m. It is possible that only one of the captives will be convicted as principal, but the results of the ex. petition are very important in the discovery of the redezvous, etc, and certain facts will guide officers in future and will doubtless lead to the breaking up the gang.
 THE FLORENCE ROBBERS.
 SAN FRANCISCO. August 1S'-An Exam incr special from Florence, Arizo ma, says: Sheriff Doran and Under Sheriff Sedan arrived in town yesterday, having in charge futile, Carpenter and Redfeld, charged with robbery of Wells. Fargo : Co.'s box on the Globe stage, and the of messenger Collins. The evidence is circumstantial. They were taken before Justice Thomas, and the examination continued until Saturday. Redf1eld is farmer by the San Pedro river. A United Sta- tes mail bag of a former robbery was found at his place ExsSheriff Gabriel and Wells, Fargo's Detect i've Thacker have arrested an access sorry a. Benson. If they are the right parties, summary justice will be dealt.
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 BIsBER, August l8.-Jim Wales, one of the fireman employed in the hoisting works of the Copper Qneen mine, was seized with an epilectic fit at about 4o'clock Thursday norn- ing and expired three hours later The mine shut down long enough to permit the men to attend the fun- eral, which took place at 5 o'clock this evening. The attendance was very large. He leaves wife and one child in Bodie.
 MORALES NOTES.
 MORALES, August 16.-On the fourteenth itstant, on the arrival Of the train at Calabasas with special detective Casenega, of Wells, Fargo & Co.,, on the trail of the Globe stage robbers he was told that such men as he described had been seen in town. In the afternoon he took the train at once for Nogales, think- ing they would cross into Sonora here. Immediately on his arrival here he and MT. BrickwoOd started to watch the Sonora line. They went a mils and half into Sonora returning here about one a. m., on the fifteenth convinced that the rob- bers had taken the Santa Cruz val ley route into Sonora. Nothing has been heard from the robbers since '. It is presumed they got through to Sonora with the thirty five hundred dollars from the Wells, Fargo & Co.'s box.