Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-10-06
THE TRAIN ROBBERS.
One of Them Captures Ten Buckshot
 and is Himself a Prisouer.

One of Them Captures Ten Buckshot and is Himself a Prisoner. The Phoenix Herald has the following
 account of the train robber captured
 near Phoenix yesterday:
 About three o'clock Sheriff Murphy
 with Deputies Widmer, Prothero and J. Slankard, started from Phoenix for
 Maricopa, armed and mounted. A short distance from Phoenix they decided it was foolish to go to Maricopa as there
 were already large number of officers on the trail from that place and as the robbers were the same men who had so successfully evaded the officers by hiG- ing about Phoenix it was ss likely as not they would return here, and know ing pretty we'll also who the men were,
 they turued and started for the old Kline place about seven miles west of Phoenix on the Yuma road. When they arrived there they surrounded the place and entered the house only to find none of the men there. The party then sep arated, Murphy and Widmer going into the sage and Mesquite bushes while Prothero and Slankard went farther south.
 After going 8 short distance Murphy ana Widmer found fresh foot trail leading to the house and back again and folio wing it soon found two more trails and then the trail of three horses. Following these trails they came upon a camp where they found three horses, two rifles and a ,hot gun. Taking pos sesson of these they started to beat the bush and soon succeeded in starting their quarry in the shape of Frank Armer who jumped from the bushes in front of them and started off on a run. The officers shouted to him to throw up his hands and in reply he turned and began shooting. The firing was return ed by thu officers who brought their man down with several ugly buckshot wounds. He was placed on one of the horses and brought to town where he was placed in the jsiior's room in the conIt house and Doctors Hughes, Dam TOE and Walker summoned.
 As soon as the prisoner was brought in Deputy King, Constable Garfias and several other parties started immediate ly for the scene of the capture to as- sist Messfs. Prothero and SlaDkard in effec:ing the capture of the remaining tw 70 robbers.
 ca tue person ct the rob5er captured was found two geld ws cbss and sixty dollars in money.
 The dect0r found ten woulds on him, one in the threat and tight in the right arn, and side, which had been made oy buckshot and one Gt ha base of he spinal column, evidently from a forty live revolver. None of tha wounds are serious.
 The watches found on tue captured robber were supposed to be the ones taken from the conductor and motOrman of the electric street car which was held up last week III Phoenix, but both men examined them and found they were not the ones tak,.I at that time.
 About noon Deputies Prothero and S]ankard returned without having seen B trace of the other two men and re- ported that Deputy King, Constable Garfias and several others were still there searching.
 The injured man rested comfortably all day sleeping most of the time, hls wauIds giving him very little trouble. fruitless and he would answer DO ques- tions that would tend to criminste him. self or slow the whereabouts of his con- paniops.
 Up 10 the time of gong to press none of the posse who were out after the other bandits have returned so that it is not known whether they have located them or not.