Arizona republican., 1894-10-04
NO HOPE FOR ARMER.
Fully Identified As One of the
 Train Robbers.
Arrival Of the Engineer and Fire man of the Plundered Train
 and Detective Will Smith.

All the Southern Pacific train robbers except Frank Armer, are still at large and what IS worse no clue was obtained yesterday as to their whereabouts. up was firmly established, and what ever possible doubt of hls guilt that nav have existed was removed.
 The engineer Lon Holladay and Fire man Jerry Cerino of the plundered train came in yesterday morning and readily identified the prisoner as one of the unmasked men who intimidated them with cooked revolvers last Sun day night. The watch found on Armer was also recognized by Holladay as the one taken from Express Messenger Mitchell that same fateful night. More than this the engineer and brakeman easily identified the three horses cap tured with Armer by Sheriff Murphy and Widmer as the horses ridden by the bandits that night.
 The engineer had good view of the horses. For some unexplained reason the robbers conducted him and the fire man behind the mesquite trees where the horses were hidden. They may have wanted to show the trainmen that they were well prepared for flight and that 1t was useless to back into Mari copa for the purpose of organizing suit They may have had no motive at all, and this worse than foolish exhibi- tion Of stock was one of the unaccounta- ble ways people have of driving nails into their coffins. Anyhow the case ia than aroinlt 4 m his coffin would still be securely nailed even if the engineer had not seen the horses.
 The story that posse was following a trail northeast toward Tonto is with out any foundation, A posse did start out in that direction but only for the purpose of intercepting the supposed flight of the robbers in that direction.
 A report reached town yesterday that man supposed to be Oscar Armstrong or Rogers had been captur- ed near Goldfeld. The report was true but the prisoner on being brought down to Tempe yesterday afternoon was able to establish his identity and good character. The arrest seems to have been based entirely on the two circumstances that the suspected per son was a tall man and a SWede. Persons of extraordinary stature and Scandinavian blood are hereby warned not to venture far from home or out of their own immediate neigh borhood until Rogers is caught or until the pre- sent wire edge of the hunt is worn of.
 Brakeman Cerino in following time honored custom among brakemen on the Southern Pacific nearly kicked him. self into the hereafter last Sunday night. When the train slowed up he stepped out on the platform to ascer- tain the cause of the stopping. Just at that moment two suspicious looking in dividuals climbed on the platform. The brakeman was not thinking ot train robbers but he was on the alert for buns. He kicked the nearest one and ordered them off An instant later the light of his lantern threw a gleam on two revolver barrels and he was ordered inside on pain of being blown te hades.
 The famous Southern Pacific detec- tive, Will Smith. came in from Los Angeles yesterday morning and will assist Sheriff Drais Of Pinal county in the hunt. Detective Smith believes that that there were six instead of five men engaged in the robbery. Felix Nayhew and the Indian trailer who followed the robbers in from Maricopa, are still in town.
 Deputy Widmer and Sheriff Drais were at Mesa yesterday but returned last night without having learned any thing to their advantage.