Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-04-04
CAUGHT.
A Robbery Successfully Traced .pd ,h.
 Culprits Jailed.

A Robbery Successfully Traced and i'm. CulpriIs Jailed.
 On the second day of March a bold and mysterious robbery of a trunk filled with valuable articles of wearing an parel was perpetrated at the residence n, +. b. Pomroy, on South Main street The only information to be had at tLe tune was, that the trunk had been sh- stracted from the hall. Chief But,ns, was notified and he succeeded in find ing the empty trunk in the fields b,.l,,r on the Santa Cruz bottoms, in a elnmn of bushes. Not clue to the perp.,ra. tors could be found, but the Chief eve, bore the circumstance in mind and never lost an occasion to identify the stolen property from careful dsserint,or given him by Miss Pomroy, it's owner.
 Last Sunday, while at church. Miss Pomroy recognized bonnet worn nv n glrl, that WAS Tn the trunk at the time if was stolen. An emissary of Chief Buttner was present, with specific instructions to Closely observe any person wearing ths stolen goods as identified, and report to the Chief, and upon the Tee, gnitiop oi the goods the Chief was promptly noti- fled.
 On Monday he called at the house of the parents of the girl who wore the stnlen bonnet, and found that it had been purchased of China Mary. The Chef at once found Man, but she stoutly denied having anything to do with the crooked transaction. A search warrant broupbt to light many other of the stolen arti- cles, but some of the more valuable goods could not be found. Finding her denial of the matter was useless, Mar, then told the Chief that the goods were brought to her by two AmerIcans from Casa Grgnde, and she gave a description of the meu. They were speedily found and taken into custody and. finding the Iig was up with them, they gave the whole transaction away. All the goods have been recovered aud the culpr,t. have been held in default of $500 bonds each and China Mary in defau,t of $500 bonds for receIvIng stolrn goods
 The parties who stole the trunk are two tramps, and when h"r attention WAS called to the fact, Mrs. Pomroy recalled the circumstance of a tramp having aehcu TUT iOOu upOu tue uaN the tleft was committed and that she had given him a meal Tn the hall in plain view Of the trunk, but she had mt uefnre con nected the circumstance with tue theft. Being brought into the presence nf the prisoners she at once recognized the cue whom she had fed. Chief Buttner is tp be congratulated upon the successful result of his management of the intri cate, case particularly from the fact that he had not the slightest clew upon which to work until be conceived the idea of placing person at the disposal of the lady who lost the goods to identify any one whom she should designate as wearing some Of the missing apparel.
 Chief Buttner has also been very sue cessful ID the recovery Of other stolen property recently. Some goods belong Iug to 8 colored man was recently re- covered, and large amount of lumber taken from the yards of NIT Mason and Mir. Wilson. was traced up and returned. 1t is safe to say that the ordinary thief ID Tucson has very little chance Of get ting away with hIs 'swag" so long as Chief Buttner Is on the alert.