Arizona silver belt., 1892-01-23
BULLION RECOVERED.
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE STAGE ROB-
 BERY CASE,
CooD WORK EY THE OFFICERS.

and the subsequent robbery Jan 9th,
 committed at the same place, under similar circumstances, gave a serious aspect to affairs, and httle hope was
 entertained that tho robbers would be fsrreted out. It was therefore doubly gratifying when Sheriff Thompson re- turnsd from Salt river on Friday last with Henry Blevins prisoner, charged with being implicated in the last rob bery, and against whom, f is claimed, important evidence of 0 circumstautial nature has been obtained. Nothing further was heard from tho River, where Deputy Sheriff Geo. Pemberton had remained in the hope of securing additional evidence, until last Wednes- day afternoon, when that officer put in an appearance with one of the stolen bars of bullion, thus not only recover ing | large part of the booty, but con firming beyond reasonable doubt the theory of the officers of Gila county as to who the guilty parties really are. The bar is stamped Rescue, No. sl, and is valued at about 5000.
 After several days search by officer Psmberton, and J. D. Thomas, of Pinal county and when they had about con oluded to give 1t up as bad job, the bar wss located in a slough within 200 yards of Henry Blevins' house. This was on Sunday afternoon about sun down. Footprints were found in jhe sand on the border of the slough and npon log lying in the water Penn barton concluded to sound the slough and stepping onto the log, he pushed stick down into the water and was en- encouraged by striking something hard which corresponded in dimensions to one of the missing bars. Thrusting his arm into the water, which was only little more than a foot deep, Psmbar- ton grasped the object aud with some difficulty raised it to the surface. Sure enough it was bullion. The other bar could not be found and evidently had been hid in some other place. From the log the tracks of two persons were treiled back to Blevins house.
 The pursuit from tho bsginnirg has been prosecuted with intelligence and tact by the officers To J, D. Thomas, of Pinel county belongs the credit of having followed the ircil it's entire length. Leaving the public road ons and half miles from the scene of the robbery the trail led north across the ,Gils river ard up Walnut grove canyon to the summit cf Pinal mountains, thsuce northwest to within milss of the town of Piual, followed the Rsayis trail to ons-fourth mile below Reayis farm, in canyon, Here the robber (there was but one riding horse and leading another with parll wps seen by Mexican who could not identify him, however, as he had taken the pre- caution to cover his face with red handkerchief Here the robber had doubled on bis tracks and after going up ths canyon some 300 yards, took northeasteriy course through he Super stition mountains to the head of Cave creek canyon, thence down the canyon to upper Salt River valley and into Il. Blevins corral
 Sheriff Thompson, Deputy Pember- Ion and two Indian trailers returned to Globe from their first scout, on Sun day, tho 10th inst, purposely creating the impression that they had been un- successful in finding the trail, which was not the case, however, having struck tho trail at Mesquite Springs. in the Finals. On Monday morning Thompson started for the Superstition mountains, where he again struck the trail and arrived at Bleyins' place on Tuesday
 Deputy Pembsrton went direct to Salt river to await the arrival of Thomp- Con HS saw King Usssry, one of the parties suspected of being implicated in the robbery, but not hayiug seen Thomas or Sheriff Thompson, he had no evidence connecting Ussery with tho robbery, and fearing to frustrato their plans and perhaps destroy ths chance of securing valuable evidence, PSmborten thought it best to await the arriral of the other officers before mnk, ing the arrests. Ussery taking alarm at the presence of an officer, and having heard of Thomas presence in the vel ley, suddenly disappeared or Tuesday, and has not since been seen. The con yiction is general that 1t was he who robbed the stage and was seen ou the trail, by the Mexican, and shat Blevins assisted him in secrstng tho bullion.
 The officers are in possession of in- formation not made public, and which makes the chain of circpmstantial eyi- dsnce against Ussery and Blsvins very strong. About 75 yards from Blevins'