Arizona republican., 1895-10-12
ID LIFE IMPRISONMENT.
Fate Of the Dry Lake
 Road Age nt.
Quickest Conviction Known in
 Arizona.
Onsg ght Nays From the Deed 10 the Tlne SantenceiS Is
 Pronounced.

President A. J. Doran, of the terri torial legislative council, arrived yes terday in the city from Florence where he assisted in the rendition of the last act of a criminal drama that had few counterpaTts in the courts of Arizona.
 As was chronicled exclusively in Thursday mornings Republican, the Dry Lake stage rObber had been cap tured near the Mexican line by Trail CTS Mayhew and Stiles and had been returned to Florence to be tried.
 It was but October when the Florence and Casa Grande stagei was stopped and the incidents of the oc- casion are still fresh in the minds of the readers of Arizona In it Mir Doran gained not little honor by boldly grappling with the robber and struggling for the possession of the revolver that constituted the road agents arsenal
 On his arrival at Florence, sum- moned there by telegraph from Pres colt, MT. Doran found everything plain sailing. Juan Sais, the prison CT, had confessed, not only to the rob bery of the Sd, but to the robbery at the same point a year ago. The United States grand jury had found true bill and a jury had been en- -panelled.
 It was the easiest sailing that ever came to a criminal case in Arizona. Sais wanted to plead guilty, but the plea was ignored by the court and United States District Attorney FL linwood and witnesses were exam ined to gauge the gravity of the case. The story of the holdup was told by MT. Doran and by the driver, and the prisoner positively identified as the guilty individual. Though the confes- sion had made the testimony unim- portant, Sais, who was masked at the time of the robbery, has peculiar pop eyes that would be remarked anywhere.
 The jury took but little time in bringing in verdict of guilty, which, under United States law, means noth- ing else save life term in prison Sentence to that effect was pronounced yesterday morning by Judge o. T. Rouse
 All this happened in eight days, speed unprecedented in the annals of AriZonan jurisprudence.
 Sais, who is Mexican of more than ordinary intelligence and education, is the most surprised individual of all. He speaks English fluently and many a quaint oath garnishing his discourse, wonders why such fuss should have been made over such beggarly sum as S4.s0, for that was the total of the booty. He had spent few cents when captured, so of the two plunk- lets lost by Doran, only $50 could be returned by the sheriff.
 The prisoner bewailed his capture as something that would not have been had he not underestimated the greed and energy of the ''gringo." ]" Yet when caught his horse was broken down and nearly dead from fatigue. If I had had the horse that I held up the stage with before mournfully said he, 'IsTouldn't have been taken and I could have come again when there would have been more money in the job
 -@eOxer at Florence" said MT. Doran, yesterday to a Republican reporter, i've knew the fellow as general bad character, who turned up occasionally. He came with a bad reputation from Tucson, where two years ago, it is learned, he held up and robbed an old man on the highway
 Doran is now getting quite reputc 7tion as stagecoach hoodoo and Mere are men who would hesitate to travel with him. It was but year ago that he was held up near Congress, and with a number of opulent fellow pas sengers, forced to disgorge to the ex- tent of fine watch and much poodle. Yet the robbers of that coach, Armer and Rogers, both have come within the sweep of the laws heavy hand and now the Dry Lake robber will vex the road no more. It is possible that the genial legislator is a hoodoo to 1awbreakers rather than to stage cnachnS