The herald., 1894-11-13
PRESSING THEIR CLUES.
ALVA JOHNSON AND "KID" THOMP-
SON AND THE DETECTIVES.
The Men Now Charged With tho First
Roscoe Ho'd-Up-"Col." Tuppsr
Accused OF Being an
Accessory.

Evsnts are following somewhat rapidly
at present with reference to the Roscoe
train robbsries and the attempt to se-
cure sufficient evidence to fssten the re-
sponsibiity for tho crimes upon Alva
johnson and kid" Thompson.
Alva Johnson has already been held
.or trial By Justice Bartholomew. and
yesterday kid" Thompson and Tnomas
Topper, sometimes called "Col." Tupper,
were brought into the same court hand
cuffed together to be arralgned.
Thompson was charged jointly with
Alva johnson with the second Roscoe
hold-up OF last spring, and yesterday
Tupper, who was arrested with Thomp-
son in Arizona, was arraigned under q
complaint charging him with being ac
cessory after the fact. Itis claimed that
he helped Thompson and Etzier to die
pose OF the Mexican dollars when they
were shipped to Arizona BY johnson.
Thompson and Topper were repre-
sented yesterday by Messrs. Willis and
d. X. Trask. Counsel could not agree
on time for the examination and it
WAS agreed to continue that matter
until Thursday, when the time will be
set. ompson's bail was set at $l0,0 900
and Tupper's ct $4,000, which they did
not give.
FRESH COMPLAINT.
Later in the afternoon new develop
ment took place, when Constable Frank
Dowler swore to q complaint charging
Alva johnson and w. H. (Kid) Thomp-
son with the frat Roscoe hold-up of
December %, 1898. They will probably
bs srraigned under it today.
1t was learned that the prosecution
relies upon newly discovered evidence
to bring this crime home to the two
men. 1t is said that two men have been
found, one of them the tramp who was
on the blind baggage the night of the
robbery, who can positively identify
Thompson aud J Johnson.
The counsel 70. the defendants affect
to deride the value OF the evidence thus
brought forward. They claim that
Etzler and Thompson know who did the
robberies, but that they will be able to
show Alva Johnson's innocence in the
whole thing beyond doubt.
THoMPsoN's MoURNFUL JOURNEY.
The following is from the Phoenix,
Ariz., Gazette:
WIN. Thompson and Thos, Hopper (al-
has Tuppsr,) the desperados captured
at Reno mountain, were taken last
night in chsrge by Detectives Smith
and Breckenridge, of the Southern
Pacific company, and started on the
evening train for Los Angeles. Thomp-
son will get there in good time. for his
confederste. Johnson. is now under
indictment. Hopper is being taken
along Rs an accessory, though he was
not concerned in the least in the Ros-
coe train robbery. He is. in fact, a lad
but recently from the farm of his
parents in Ksneas, and had Joined
Thompson simply with the idea of be-
coming o western dsspsrado. In this,
it must be admitted, he was succe ssful
in the highest degree, displaying re-
marksble nerve in standing up before
the rities of a party of Tonic creek cow
boys who were shooting to kill. The
lad took chances that q man with or
dinary sense never would have taken.
And yet in the whole transaction, up to
that time, he was blameless, and if he
had stepped out and let his companion
make the hopeless fight alone. nothing
of harm would have bsiallen him. He
is only 10 years of age. and 1t is sad
that his life should be started in an act
that will probably get him long term
in the penetentiary.
There 10 considerable discussion as to
the amount of the reward to be paid for
the apprehension of kid" Thompson.
The detectives say $1,000. but others
claim that the state, Wells-Fargo and
the railroad rewards together foot up
much higher figure.
Will Moore, Ivy Crabtrse and Club
Watkins. OF the capturing party, leave
this morning for Mesa City, where
Moore has . small farm. There they
will make stay Of day before pro-
cesding On their way to Tonto.