Arizona republican., 1894-10-20
RUN DOWN. Accessory of the Roscoe
 Train Robbery In the Hands of a Detec- tive in Phoenix.
A Companion Of the Notorious
 Kid Thompson.
The Kid Is Somewhere Near Phe- nix-The Other Robber Quietly
 Jailed at Los Angeles.


 The Roscoe, Cal, train robbers seem to be meeting with greater difficulty in getting themselves into custody than they encountered in robbing the train.
 Southern Pacific Detective Brecken- ridge left with one of them yesterday afternoon for Los Angeles, but the train was unable to go beyond Kyrene and he returned with his man. His name is Etzler and he is little more than boy.
 The story of his adventures in Arizona is picked up from many sources, gathered from many detectives and told in part by Etzler himself. Except for certain corroborative evidence which hereinafter appears there would be good reason to doubt if any of it is true
 The details of the Roscoe train rob- bery last March are yet familiar to most persons on the coast and par ticularly familiar to the. Southern Pa- cific detectives. who have ever since been looking for clues.
 Etzler, the man who is now with De- tective Breckenridge, claims to be able to point out not only the robbers, but the buried treasure. He. came to this part of the country three weeks ago with Kid Thompson. youth who had served term at Yuma for horse steal ing.
 Etzler and Thompson established a camp about half wav between Phoenix and Tempe anf. notwithstanding Thompeon's criminal record, did not attract the special attention of local officers until after the Maricopa robbery. While the de- tectives were trying to fill the quota of five or six robbers they nat urally thought of Thompson, who had been associatlng with Rogers. Armer and Donovan. It was later pretty we'll established that Thompson was not at 1 Maricopa, but in the meantime the fact that he was one of the Roscoe robbers had begun to develop.
 He approached Marshal Molloy one night and wanted to give l himself up as zone of the Roscoe robbers. The marshal naturally took no stock in the confession, but thought the Kid only wanted to gain little cheap notoriety. Last Sunday Dep uty United States Marshal Slank- ard began an investigation and visited ! the Kids camp He was not at home and the officer left word with a man who lived near for the Kid to call on l him at the court house. He never called, but that night rode off in an op- i posite direction.
 i The circumstances which go to show 1 that the Kid was. as he and Etzler claim, one of the Roscoe robbers gre as follows: A week ago last Wednesday a i package addressed to a man named Parker was received by express at Tempe. Ihe package WAS teken up by Thompson, and it is learned that 1t contained Mexican dollars, which, by the way, constituted the bulk of the plunder of the train robbers. Thomp- son afterward turned the contents of the package over to two Phoenix China man and received American money in exchange. Since then Thompson has been very mach in demand but his old wish to surrender himself seems to have been diss1pated.
 The officers having satisfied them, selves that the Kid was not about the city, and he had broken camp, Officer Slankard and Detective Will Smith set out last Monday morning for Mcdowell where he was supposed to have gone. Officer Slankard returned on Wednes- day, but the detective having got trace of him kept on in the direction of Flor ence, and at one time was within three hours of him. The trace was eventually lost, or, at any rate, the detective claims that he does not know where he is.
 Etzler in the meantime had not es- capped notice. Capt. lily Mcdonald and Southern Pacific Detective McClarty. were cultivating his acquaintance and very lately induced him to tell his story. He said that he had not taken part in the train robbery at Roscoe but got acquainted with the robbers after ward and consorted with them. He was long time making up his mind about what he would do. He thought sometimes of being tram robber hlm- self. At other times he thought he would enter into a conspiracy with his new friends to rob another train and give the thing away to the officials He also had notion to surrender his friends for the Roscoe affair and get 6 part of the reward that had been of fered for them. In his undivided frame of mind he had done nothing. He claimed to know where the Roscoe