Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-17
IMPORTANT ARREST.
CRImINAEs suouLD GIVE CELIA COUNTY
 wBDE RERTB

The unwhipped rascals fleeing be- fore unayehged justice, thinking that in the remote fastnesses of the Mazat- gal mountains they would find safety, failed to take into consideration the manhood and love of justice which ever animates the citizens of our county
 Advices had reached the police off, COTS uf this county to be Oh the watch for Che apprehension and capture of the robbers that held up the Southern Pacific near Roscoe, Cal, last Febru- ary. The story of the arrest is an ex- citing and dramatic one. Will Moore had been warned to be on the outlook by the Sheriff. His home is at the very foot of Tonto Basin, the gateway to the famous and picturesque Reno Pass. He, together with Ed Keith, Ivy Crabtree, John Kemp and Club Watkins all of Gila county, made the arrest R J. Adams, mail carrier from Tonto brought the report to Globe of the capture. He says that the prison CTS claimed to have come from Php- nix where they had been for a month. One of the prisoners hsa Kid" cut on the handle of his six-shooter. Moore tells the story of this exciting event in the Gazette as follows
 Tuesday morning he learned while at neighbors that two suspicious customers had taken breakfast there and had gone on over the mountain, taking the pass road into Tonto Basin. Moore secured the assistance of young Ivy Crabtree and succeeded in passing the fugityes unperceiyed and lay in wait for them at favorable spot near his home. The men rode into the am buscade without suspicion.
 "When called upon to surrender, Hopper, who is only 19 years of age, laughingly observed: "Well, you've got the drop on us p but when he raised his hands as directed he had a revolver in one of thetn and opened fire upon Moore and Crabtree in the face of almost certain death.
 ''Then, with rife bullets raining around them, they turned their horses and raced back the road they came. When the pursuers again caught sight of their quarry, they had turned into a narrow and very rough canyon to the south of the Reno Pass, where it became necessary to abandon the horses.
 Moore and Crabtree, jumping from the shelter of one rock to another, ex- changiaE occasional shots with Hop pei abd Thompson, soon ran their men into a rock fortress, where they prepared for siege. Several nearby stockmen were summoned to the aid of the besicgers. Moore shouted to the men in the rocks that they were surrounded and to come out. The only response was in several shots that narrowly escaped his head This character of wgIfare proceeded all afternoon. Thompson shouted in an- swer 70 one of the many commands to surrender "We'll die firstp' One of his bullets killed a dog that had accom- panied Moore.
 'rhe night on the mountain was bitterly cold, but the four watchers kept their vigil, the men in the can yon making no attempt to escape
 At the break of day, as summons to come out brought only a defiant answer, the stockmen commented a systematic fire into the rocks, though only the rifles of the two men could be seen.
 ''At last Thompson shouted he had enough and, assurances being given of a "squara deal, " the two left their retreat holding their hands above their heads
 Tn the natural fort were found the revolyers, 44-caiiber Colts, with which the men had been armed, dozens Of exploded cartridges and at least two hundred rounds of unused ammuni- tion.
 ''The eighty mile journey to Phoenix was accomplished without incident till near Phoenix, when Thompson and Hopper made an unsuccessful attempt to slip their bonds and escape.
 '"The Gazette says further: Detee- tive Breckenridge, of the Southern Pa cifie fofce, lett last Saturday for Los Angeles with Thompson, the captors first desiring assurance of the sixtesn hundred dollars reward. Hopp6r, who is only 19 years ofage. is accused of no crime, but accompanied Thompson in a boyish spirit of adventure. He will be tried in Gila county, for bis re- sistance to arrest
 ''The horses they rode were the same on which they had covered many hun. dreds of miles in eluding the dozen officers activity on their trail. Both belonged to Thompson, one of them, gray mare, branded on the right shoulder, having beeh raised by Chub Watkins, one of the captots It had been traded for at the head 6f the Ari- zona canal by Thompson. The other was z bay mare branded "C"
 ''Their flight from Phonix had led them to the Arizona canal head, thirty miles, thence west to Agua Caliente 130 miles, thence back to Phoenix, and after hiding several days at a near by ranch, they had started unperceived for Tonto.