Arizona republican., 1897-09-21
ARREST OF ]. X. PHI LIPS
On a Charge of Trying to Burn
 His Confectionery Store.
He Was Tracked to Ills Residence By Baying Bloodhounds-He W'li Be Given a Preliminary Exam:n :n- ation This Morning.

J, A. Phillips the confectioner, IS in iail for arson. His arrest early yesterday morning was one of the most sensational events in Phoenix within years. The contributOry ele- ments of the sensation were the re- spectabi1fty of the family of the ac cused and the utter recklessness of consequences by the man who started ~the fire. For if it had attained head way the loss of property ~would have been incalculable and loss of life would have been probable. The incl dent of the arrest of Phillips was in itself more than ordinarily sensa- tional.
 A little after 4 o'clock yesterday morning Officer Steve Bailey, stand ing in front of the Palace saloon, saw a glare of light in the confectionery store across the street. He hurried across and broke in the door. Officer Hale and others followed. A fire had been started in the ice cream parlor Immediately in the rear of the store and another in the kitchen back of the parlor. ln the kitchen there were several boxes containing excelsior and other inf1ammable material, over which some infiammable fluid, no doubt gasoline, had been poured. The (ame kind of fluid had been poured upon the carpet of the parlor, which had evidently been fired first. Both the front and rear dors of the estab- Ishmaat were locked. In the kitchen was- ffve-gallon gasoline can, and near it an ice pick with which the tin had been cut. Everything indicated incendiarism and the crudest species of incendiarism.
 The fire was quickly eXtinguished, for it had hardly gotten under way. The incendiary, whoever he might be. must have been locking the rear door while the officer was breaking in the front one.
 A hackman was sent to Phillips residence to notify him of the fire and bring him down. On his way he saw man standing behind a tree in stone-yard at the corner of Third av- enue and Washington streets He hard ly noticed the hiding man and would not have remembered him but for sub- sequent events. On arriving at Phil lips residence he was surprised to learn that Phillips was not at home. For the first time he entertained a sus- picion, though had been expressed by persons who had been foremost at the fire. The hackman was accompa- nied back by Garrett Phillips, a son. Alter crossing the canal on the return the hackman saw a man crouch be- hind pepper tree and a clump of bushes. He believed he was the same man he had seen in the sIone-yard, and he further believed he was Phil lips.
 On the return of the hackman, Al Galpin and his bloodhounds were sent for. The hounds savagely took the
 at the back door of the confec-
 ry store, for it was fresh. They
 rapidly to the Dublin corral,
 they lost it, but soon picked it
 rain. Their baying was enough
 aken the town as they followed it ds ehe south side of Jefferson street, for the, trailed man had sought the shade and avoided the light. At Third avenue the trail turned north. At the tree m the stone-yard the dogs stopped and one of them tried to climb it, for the man had leaned against it while the hackman went by Then they circled about and found it again. They ran rapidly, howling frightfully, until they came to the pepper tree and the clump of bushes oenind which the hackman had seen a man crouching The bloodhounds went crazy again, but finding the track they ran on to Phillips yard, up the front steps and rushed against his door with noisy clamor
 fGalpin chained his dogs and Mar