Arizona republican., 1903-12-18

1 They had evidently been working on 1 the bars and the wall for several days and had probably received their tools 1 from one of three persons who had 1 been admitted to see Stiles.
 1 Before the beginning of the term of 1 court Marshal McCord had wired to | Washington for permission to employ 1 eight guards for the removal of Stiles ! and AlvOrd to Tombstone and to watch ! them while they were there. When All
 word pleaded guilty and was sentenced l to the penitentiary and when Stiles. on l the United States charge, had been 1 granted change of venue to this coun- l ty, the authorization of the marshal to i hire guards ceased.
 At the time of the break Deputy
 Sheriff Porterie was guarding Browning and Brown in the city hall. They had not been locked up in the county at all. for Alvord and Stiles had threat ened to kill them if they could get at them. When the news of the break spread, it was reported that the out
 laws were going to kill the two convict witnesses before they took to the hills.
 The city hall was soon fortified and
 bristled with guards armed with sawed Ott ShOt2 unS.
 The first four days after Alvord was taken from Phoenix to Tombstone he
 was not locked up in the jail at all
 but was guarded in the office of the sheriff by deputy United States mar
 shals. During that time he showed no disposition to escape. The marshal be- lieves that if he and Stiles had not been finally put together the escape would not have been planned.
 There are perhaps in the United States no two more picturesque crim- inals. Before they engaged in crime both were peace officers and good ones So far as is known the Cochise holdup was their first Offense. Alvord did not take an active part in that robbery but | he planned it. It was carried out by 1 Stiles and Matt Burts. Alvord was at
 that time a constable and deputy sher- if and Stiles and Burts were trusted assistants of Detective Thacker Of Wells, Fargo & Co. They also hap pened to be the men Thacker sent out too look for the robbers. They spent some weeks hunting fer themselves and finally gave up the search as hope less.
 These three were not seriously sus- pected of the crime until after the Fair bank robbery. Burts. Stiles and an other man planned the robbery of the Southern Pacific train at Benson
 Stiles; as usual, took the lead. At the
 last moment his consederatas weakened
 and as he was about to mount the en-
 zine, he looked around and could see nothing of his companions. He did not get on.
 After the first escape of Stiles and AlvCrd from the Tombstone jail they
 did not leave the country but stayed
 around in the hills and amused them selves by sending impudent messages
 to the officers who were supposed to be
 hunting for them. The next to the last
 time that Stiles was captured was at
 Casa Grande, where he was living Qui-
 etly with his wife, relying upon the promise by the officers that he would
 not be prosecuted after having turned
 states evidence. One night just as
 he was about to start out to arrest
 a party of cattle rustlers the sheriff
 of Cochise came upon him and at the
 point of gun put him under arrest
 Stiles was shackled While the sheriff
 was waiting for the train he took Stiles
 into a- saloon and meeting several oth-
 CT persons there he invited the house
 to drink. When the crowd had lined
 up at the bar Stiles embraced the op- pcrtnunity to sneak out into the dark
 ness. He somehow got the shackles
 off and took refuge with friends in the
 Sierritas, where he remained for sev-
 eral months. During this time he used
 to come to Tucson at night and tell
 stories to the newspaper reporters.