The herald., 1894-11-03

Broadway, near Franklin street, passing
by the court house and Jail, which John.
son pointed out. saying he had been
there six days. Johnson gave him $3.50
and revolver, and after dark he
etarted back TO meet Thompson north OF
the city. He found him, and Thompson
said the money was not enough and he
must have more. They slept under q
tree, loafed around during the day and
at night made their way to the corral.
Here Thompson knocked and was ad.
mitted. He came out soon with " ana
they beat their way to Yuma.
There Thompson wrote to johnson TO
send the money, meaning the Mexican
dollars, to Phoenix. At Phoenix Thomp-
son received letter from johnson
which he burned. He answered the
letter and told johnson to send the
money by express to Tempe. They
went into camp outside oil town, and
Thompson got another letter. This
letter, which Etzler said he took from
Thompson's pocket and kept, was pro-
duced in court and WAS identified by
him.
The next day be got receipt by mail
and took out an express box. Thomp-
son, himself, and man named Peppers.
opened the box. divided the 600 Mexi-
can dollars into three parts OF 5000 each,
and started to cell them to Cinnamon.
+ zlsr says that while the others were
dickering with Cinnamon he went to the
city marshal and told him something
about the matter, but that official re-
garded it az fairy tale. He then went
back to the boys, and they succeeded in
selling the coin at 40 cents apiece for
the Mexican dollars. The party was
then arranging to buy horses and plan
another train robbery.
Etzler appears to have weakened in
the scheme, he says he never intended
at any time to 90 into 1t. and told the
others he was sick. Thompson gave
him $40 and he left them. He went to
an old rancher and tried to get work.
The rancher was suspicious OF him on
account of something Thompson let out
while drunk. Etzler says he made
statement to him and got him to com.
municate with the officials. and that au
arrangement was being made to arrest
Thompson. when he got wind Of ii and
disappeared. He was then brought on
to Los Angeles to appear as witness.
On cross examination line of ques.
tions was put to him to show that he
was more nearly connected with the Ros-
coe robbery than he had said; that he
wac in the vicinity at the time Of the
robbery, and that, instead OF being un-
acquainted with the country, he knows
it very well, and had borne another
name. He denied all these things, and
quietly answered all questions put to
him with seeming candor that was ex.
cellently we'll assumed il he is playing q
part.
The examination consumed the after
noon, but the case will be resumed again
this morning.
kid" THOMPSON.
The third man implicated in the rob-
berry by the confession of Etzler, John or
kid" Thompeon, is here in the
wilds OF Arizona or New Mexico, and an
officers are trying to locate him. The
kid" is bad man in some ways. He
is we'll known in this city. Etz.er's
confession, however ia tho first in
timation the officers had that
he would tackle anything OF the
magnitude of train robbery. Some
detectives doubt even in the face OF the
confession that the kid" had anything
TO do with the Roscoe affair. When in
this city he affiliated with a crowd OF
hoodlums and WAS looked up to by q
certain claas as a tough. He aped cow
boy garb and habits. Little attention
was paid to him in those days, but now
there are many officers who would like
to see him, for there is standing re-
ward of $1,000 for the capture OF the Kid.
and it will be paid by the state, Wells,
Fargo tG Co. and the Southern Pacifio
company.
The fugitive 10 25 years OF age;5 feat
10 inches in height; light complexion;
long features Roman nose turned down
at the point; light hair; sometimes
wears mousteche and small imperial
dyed black; large ''pop" eyes; weight
about 100 pounds; wearH No. 6 ehoe has
India ink marks OF heart and anchor on
right forearm letters "B B." on lett
aim; bullet scar on left eide OF forehead.