Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-12
IRE TRAIN ROBBERS.
Thev Prove to be Duck Creek and GIia River Cowboys, We'll Known
 Here.

Here.
 The CITIZEN published @ dispatch some days ago in relation to the arrest of a certain party, who was supposed to have been iu the Gage robbery, but whose name, and the names of bis associates were withheld at tue tune, for prudeH t.ai reasons. The name of the party ar rested iz George Washington Cleveland, @ negro, aud the story which was at that time told the CITIZEN was substantially toe same as tbe one below, which We take from the Silver City Enterprise. and Is as follows:
 Events have trauspirei in the past few weeks that lel5 the officers to be- lieys that the party that committed the robbery organized and started from thIs city, but detectives Hume and Harris Wells. Fargo E Co.'S men, could get no date ou ther first visit to Silver City to assist them in le-rctiug out the mur- derers. 5he officers here being occupied attending court at that time and they neiue uuwillu. tI coufde their busi- nes- Co strangers. They departed 10 work ou other ci1es until such time as the officers here could devote a few days to them. In the meantime A. E. Eaton informed the officers that couple of men had visited his hay camp near Gage station under suspicious cIrcum- stances, telling contradictory stories as to their business at that point. Eaton scrutmizad the animals rode by the men and also took the prec aution to have his help take an identifying glance at the supposed rustlers, for such he took them | Co be. These men visited EatOA camp on the 2lth of November, the day of l tue train robbery, about o'clock ID the 1 afternoon.
 Some three weeks after, the mule ! rode by one oi the men was found m Silver CIty owned by Mike Fleming, | whl hud traded tu a cowboy formerly ID ;heempioy of A. Parker, horse for | the samr It WAS also learned that ! Frank Fa-gOrt vas fine name of the cow ! who bad traded the animal to Mike Fleming. IaggarJ, in the company of ! Mitch Lee and "kid" Joy, a former en- pl5ye of Harvey WhiteEiil's, have been siuSe=sly knocking around the Duck 1 creek country for several weeks, where 1 tue negro Cleveland was employed. This much was learned from tho GIla and l Duck crgek folks.
 At 1uc of the cGm mps made by the rob ! btrs canned goods of various kinds were ! found. aAI particular attention was | gwen Co an smpty pickled pigs feet can ! oi the Star brand, manufactured in Gin | ci-ua-i by Fisher ,c Co. A copy of the ] Plactr, CslIfornia, Herald of November 1 lOsh WAS also found, in which something | had evidently been wrapped. From this paper gu important clue was obtained. l Detective Hume telegraphed the pup l Esh-r, asaIu- who iL thls section sub l scub,G for tle paper, aud the answer WIS returned. Johnnie Ross, Reg Sa- ! loon. Si.ys. CIty.' The detectives upon ! their arrival here interviewed Johnnie : as Co whether he had received the issue ! of t..v date, nat he had forgotten . whether h- mad or pot. But the officers ! were satisfied that the robbers had pur- ! chased tobacco or some other artlole at the loon previous to their departure for the scene of the robbery. They
 also interviewed BIgelow S Weldon ia regard Co who purchased the l plckled pigs feet, but those gen. tl6u.u could moi furnish any infor- nation, but have since become satisfied
 that Joy and Lee were tine men. The 1 officers were upW -atIslei that they were ou the right trail. but could not posi- lively put their hands on he right men, and concluded Co investigate other clues mt, sgrl time as they couid sll work
 togethe-. Hume and Harris departed for UemIn- ard Old Mexico to make sure shat the robbers had not got out of tho country lD that direction.
 Many other things trauspired here during the abseDce 1f the detectives
 that convinced Harvey Whtehili and
 Sheriff Woods that the negro, Cleveland,
 aud jhe other paJaes named were the men wanted, and efforts Co eutrap them
 were made, but their friends, who are ! known Go the officers, informed them
 trst 'arg were iu danger of arrest and
 sesra-ri them. ite negro bad left for Suer-rg. auI iis whereabouts having become known t1 tue officers, he was arrested b. Harvey Whitehall, lao iu- iormel him rtet the others were cap
 tUrei and had "-lueaied' on hIm. Ile uegto then made 50 full confession f the
 whole ailsIr, which was taken in writing,
 and Is iu the hands Cf the Olficer5 lie says Mich Lee killed Webster, the en- CIneur. Cleveland is large, ugly look jag ue-ro. about slx feet ln b ght, black
 9s E-chu-, and Las been in this neigh
 bUrlayi iur nearly two years. He came
 t. this section of country with the John son boys. wa1 lr one time had a ranch
 iu the Bu-r.- and sal tho Silver City corral
 a party composed of Doc Belt, John Chino and Harry Losue, who have probably been joined by cihers ere this,
 are sUt -eI.rJ- tho hills for Mitch Leo and "kiL' joy, IlgCart having left ;he caCl,ry. lt is hGt a matter of few w.eEa ulll this entire band will be captured. la their lutecedeuts arr well known t1 tle .ilcsr=. who vIil never rest
 until tH- death u- engineer Webster is avenged a..i tse v-TI0us rewards offered axe reaptd.
 Since iae above was il type the pos @
 E.va returned unsuccessful ID their slcCa ,1s t-g bandits, stating that the eu.ra cowboy clement west cf here are frl-l i- O. tla Luri=re--, and that the movement of .h- officers are too fsmIlier
 Go them t5 effect thcir capture while
 -uey choose Co 2. llaiu 10 the Duck creek . and G.la r.vec con fry.
 Mitch Lee ruI 'hii" Joy stola two horses from Lyons E Campbel's Mule . sVlurs ranch ou Friday last. and started
 westward towards tle Biuo country. and are probably iu Arizona at the present . rrr-HFrr-