Arizona republican., 1894-10-03
THE TRAIN ROBBERS.
Armer is Wisely Silent Con-
 corning the Crime.
His Two Companions Still at Large and Their immediate Pursuit
 Abandoned.

Nothing more has been heard of the fugitive train robbers. Southern a. eific Detective Breckenridge arrived in the city yesterday morning from Mari eopa and later in the morning Felix Mayhew and an Indian trailer came into town. They had followed the trail from the scena of the robbery to point about six miles below the city. Alter noon they went back to the point where they had abandoned it and taking it up followed on to the camp where Armer was captured thus directly connecting him with the robbery. The railroad detective and Deputy Prothero went ont to the camr and care fully examined the ground around the bushes but could not find a trail of the companions of Armer. There IS a bare possibility the officers believe that they are still concealed in the thlcket but they are much more inclined to believe that they are not.
 In fact the officers are of the opinion that they are now concealed in PhHnlX awaiting an opportunity to go into the Tonto country which would afford the safest if not an absolutely safe asylum. They could easily have left the un- guarded thicket on Monday night and have come to town by the same way sheir pursuers had come. There would have been no means of discovering their tracks. On the other hand if they had gone out by any other route their trail would almost certainly have been detected.
 The horse of Ben Anderson stolen from hitching post OF First avenue on Monday night has not been found and some of the officers have settled on the belief that 1t was ridden away by one Of the robbers. No report has been re- ceived of any other stolen horses.
 When tha firing between Sheriff Murphy, Deputy Widmer and Armer commenced in the thicket, the other two robbers ran in different directions. They were traced for a considerable distance and the farther they went the wider apart they got. It is unlikely that they came together afterward but escaped from the thicket by different ways and so if they reached town they did not come together. It was said that one of them Oscar Armstrong or Rogers came ip late on Monday evening and Cennors or O'Brien is probably the man seen about noon in the Capitol ad- ditlon by the street car employees.
 Detective Breckenridge says five men were engaged in the robbery and that two of them left in a northwesterly direction evidently headed for Tonto. He sent party of pursners after them with instructions to return Ii they lost the trail. When he lett Maricopa he had not heard from them.
 A party was also sent out from Flor euce to cut off their entrance to the Basin.
 Sheriff Drais of Pinal county arrived in town yesterday with a posse and tht direction of the hunt was turned ovel to him by the local officials since tht erime was committed in his county.
 It has been discovered that the rob bers Jeff Phoenix on Friday night anC went into camp on the Indian reserva tion. They returned to Tempe on Sun day morning. There were five men il the party at that time.
 The officers are certain of the ldentlt. of three of them. The leader is Osca Armstrong alias Rogers, alias Walford He is the ''tall man" who has'hgured il all of the four robberies which are nov known to have been committed by part of the gang of five, though uuti the train robbery more than three wer never engaged at the same time. An other mem Der is O'Brien or Connors and the other is John Donovan. Wh the fourth man is is matter of som conjecture, though the officers ar reasonably certain that they have h! name and description.
 Thore is necessarily some doubt as f which two were with Armer but it believed they were Armstrong an O'Brien. This belief is based on tn fact that these three were old acquain ances and were all Tonto men.
 Another circumstance connectin Armstrong alias Rogers with the tral robbery was the finding of a Gi county poll tax receipt issued to "( Rogers"
 Armer is as noncommunicative on tf subject of the crime as ever though l talks freely to the prisoners on oth subjects. His condition was great improved yesterday. He was able walk about the jail apparently lit the worse for his rough experience
 the day before. Dr. Hughes who h had charge of him turned him over County Physician Mahoney.
 He will be removed to Florence
 soon as the physician thinks advisab