Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-11-16
The County Treasury of Yav= apai is Robbed of
 $l5,3OO.
Jim Storm is Bound and Gagged in His Office Election Day and Pass es the Night Locked Up in the Big VauIt.-What the Victim Has to Say.-lndefinite Descriptions Given of the Criminals and No Arrests as Yet are Made.

When Miss Hattie Storm, daughter of County Treasurer J. P. Storm open ed the door of the trea5urer's office on Wednesday morning about 9:30 o'clock, little dog belonging to her father bounded gleefully at her from the inside of the room.
 Mr Storm had failed to report at home during the night after election but this circumstance had not occa- stoned particular apprehension on the part of his family on account of the excitement usually accompanying election times, and the proneness of politicians to keep late hours.
 When the daughter however discov- cred that the little dog, which was a pet of her father had been a prisoner all night, in his office she immediately | became alarmed and remarked to a person near her that she believed something had happened to her father.
 She immediately went to the door of the vault and turned the combina- tion and to her great astonishment found her father seated on pile of books, bound and gagged with pieces of heavy wire.
 The gag was made of a white hand kerchief over which was a piece of wire which extended around his face and neck and the ends of which were securely twisted together at the back of his neck.
 His hands were also bound behind his back with a similar piece of wire although his feet were free.
 MT. Storm was at once released and told the following story as to how he came to be in this position:
 CT was sitting in the office about 30 yesterday afternoon reading pa per. had just come from the pol ling booth. Suddenly heard a voice saying, Throw up your hands,. Turn ing around I saw two men standing behind me, one pointing big pistol at me. I threw up my hands, and then the man told me to go inside the vault, which was open. walked in, keeping my back to the robbers. When inside they gagged me with my own handker- chief, and then tied my hands. Then they went to work ransacking the safe and it's contents. There were several sacks containing about S1,000 each in the vault. think they got about S9,- GOO or S10, 1000. Then 1 was left in the room and the door of the vault closed. guess the men then walked off. l began to kick and stamp to attract some attention. 1 waited hour after hour all plight, and until late today before anyone came.
 "That is all 1 can tell about it. One of the men seemed to be tall and the other shorter. I did not see the one behind very we'll, as he was behind the front one, the one with the gun. The one I saw good had white handker- chief around his face from his eyes down."
 The announcement that the county treasurer had been gagged and bound and the treasury robbed, created quite a sensation on the streets and formed the principal topic of conversation during the day, showing politics into the background for the time.
 Little groups of citizens could be seen on the street. corners during the day in animated conversation the sub- ject being this sensational robbery.
 The sheriff's office was immediately notified and under Sheriff Carter was the first one to enter the office after the discovery was made, but not a single clew was obtainable upon which to hang a theory as to the robbery or the perpetrators nf it and the officers were as much in the dark a Mir. Storm was when in the sealed vault.
 The greatest surprise was manifested that he came out of the vault alive after an incarceration there of seven teen hours with gag in his mouth.
 A short time after being discovered he accompanied the officers to the de pot on an observation tour, and to discover if any supsicious parties at tempted to leave.
 Some time after the report of the robbery had gained circulation a con- mittee of Mir. Storms bondsmen took charge of the office which was kept locked greater part of the day.