Arizona republican., 1900-10-01

her that their future tracks. if they made any, would differ materially from the imprint of the trail from Mesa to Tempe This fact and other things which the sheriff is keeping to himself for obvious reasons, stood him in good hand when he learned of the jailbreak. He at once confided to Deputy Moore a description of the kind of tracks the men must have made when leaving Tempe
 They were not long in finding the kind of track he expected, and took up the trail at once. which led toward Phoenix. the two men travelling south of the river. between the river and the road taking a ZigZag course, evidently for the purpose of throwing eff any pos sibIe pursuers. They followed the trail clear into town and to the Santa Fe passenger depot. There it seemed to stop, but in the course of an hour or so one of the men, who gives the name of Leonard Collins was identified by the
 sheriff in the southern part of town and taken into custody. The vicinity of the capture was searched for some trace of Collins companion, but at late hour last night he had not been apprehended. It is presumed the men got into Phoenix sometime Saturday night One or two trains left the city between the time of their arrival and the capture of Collins, but it is hardly thought that Collins companion would leave him until there was-some cause for alarm. A close watch is being kept, therefore. and it is believed he is still
 here and will be captured.
 | Collins had visited d barber shop somewhere on Sunday morning and had
 partially changed his appearance by
 shaving off his moustache and a short
 growth of beard. which he wore while
 in the Tempe jail. But his clothes
 were practically the same and the dis
 figured shoes made the identification
 complete.
 | As yet none of the booty has been re ! covered. The men, when arrested in
 Tempe only had $3 or $4 in their pockets
 and if they are the guilty parties they secreted or disposed of the stamps and
 money somewhere between Mesa and ] Tempe. Their trails were followed ! closely from Mesa to the freight house at the Tempe depot and back to where ! they were arrested between there and i the town. There is therefore no possl- : bflity of d doubt that Collins is one of l the men followed from Mesa, and if the l booty can be found anywhere between 1 Mesa and Tempe along the line Of the | trail the evidence against Collins will
 be as conclusive as though the men l were caught in the act of burglary. i This is d point the sheriff's office is not ] overlooking and competent deputies, as i well as the officers of Tempe and Mesa | are making a thorough search for the
 stolen property. Stamps to the value
 of Sl 0CO make a package of consider ! able size, and though there are q
 thousand places where they might
 easily be concealed, their lack of time
 and the plainness of their trail would
 suggest that they could not have been ~,Ver-ri-e in theii choice. Unless thcrc
 was a previous understanding with other parties for the disposition of the i booty there is reason to hope that 1t may be found
 7 That the postOffice safe was blown 1 open with giant powder is evidenced nv | the fact that the sheriff found a part of | q stick there the next morning. Th@ i tools with which they entered the 1 building were taken from a neighbor-
  | counting for the tools with which the safe was bored. The report that after | the jailbreak at Tempe the men went to the office of the justice of the peace and recovered their shoes was erroneous, as their shoes were never taken away from, them.
 Alexander Kerr of Mesa was unfor-
 tunate in that he suffered a severe in dividual loss by the robbery, though 1t
 was made good by the kind hearted people of Mesa on Saturday. MT. Kerr
 is not man of great means and his
 family has suffered greatly by sick ness. In order to provide the necessary medical attention he borrowed $lO0 on Friday giving as security a mortgage on his home. He put the money in the postofIice Friday night for safe-keeQ- ing. and Saturday morning it was gone. When the fact was made known Sam [ Elder circulated subscription papEr and $1Ol was secured with which to re- imbuISe him.