Arizona republican., 1905-01-23
FUGlrIyEs FROM JUSTICE
Police Capture Bad Han From Texas
 and Another From Iowa.

Among the incoming tourists who
 were delayed last week by the trouble at the Gfla crossing were Ed McCIafn alias k. Belmont, late of Des Moines Iowa, and Condy Barnett, late of New 1 Boston, Boyd county, Texas. The two men are relatives, though just how closely related they are has not been . learned. The transfer service at the
 Gila having been resumed on Friday
 they reached Phoenix at 8: 30 D. m. of that day. Being well known people in
 the places they came from, five hours after their arrival Marshal Kinney pro- vided them with hospitable entertain
 ment in the city jail pending the arriv-
 al of the sheriffs from Texas and Iowa,
 respectively, who will take Barnett
 back to answer the charge of jail
 breaking and his distinguished rela-
 tive to defend himself against the aI-
 legation of highway robbery.
 Last Monday the marshaPs office re-
 ceived from the officers at Pueblo a
 card bearing the pictures of the two
 men, with the information that they
 were wanted elsewhere and that they
 had recently been held there for three
 days on charge of vagrancy, then re-
 leased and given an hour to leave town
 When arrested they were equipped
 with cards and certain gambling de-
 vices marking them as sure thing op- orators, though it seems there was then no Knowledge in the possession of the Pueblo officials that they were wanted elsewhere, which accounts for their be- Ing released after serving the vagrancy sentence. The police were also inform ed by letter about three weeks ago that Barnett was wanted in Texas for jail breaking and that he might be found in company with a relative named Belmont, who was reputed to | have sick wife in some Arizona hos | pitaL The police were therefore on the : lookout for the men and false move ] made immediately on their arrival put | the officers next" to them.
 As soon as possible after they got | here the two men found their way to | the barbeeued meat dispensary con- ducted by Mir. Hinson on the corner of | First avenue and Jefferson street. They | loitered around for a few minutes then bought enough meat and bread to stay their hunger. for which they were | twenty-five cents. They man aged to produce two dimes and a nickel and when MT. Hinson opened his mon ey drawer he discovered that eighty cents in change that he knew was there before was gone. He Immediately sus- pected his recent patrons of having been through the drawer when his back was turned, and of having paid him for their luncheon a few minutes before 1 with some of his own money Howe ever, he did not see them take his money and before making any charge he went to ask Mrs. Hinson if she had taken the money. He found that she had not and when he returned the two men were gone. MT. Hinson at once the matter to the police, giv- ing them the description of the two men.
 Early that evening the men were seen by an officer in a Washington street saloon and placed under arrest. at the city hall they indig nantly demanded to know what they were arrested for. They were closely questioned concerning their arrival in town, etc, and when they admitted hat they had no place to sleep they were tendered quarters in a wOman's eell. They insisted that they were able 70 rustic a bed but the police told them here was plenty of room in the jail, md then, too, they could be the more easily found in the morning.
 The letters from Pueblo and Texas were then re-read and the pictures with the two men in custody, agreeing perfectly. When Barnett was asked if he wasn't the man wanted in Texas he said he presumed re was and said that if anybody want d him there to let him come after him. The other man refused to talk, but the pictures told the whole story and the guests were then placed in one of the nner cages. They said they would much prefer to stay in the woman's ,eH, but the police were fearful that they might take cold there, and then -oo. the woman's cell is considerably nearer to the outside world than the ron cages.
 Next the telegraph wires. were put to work and the officials both in Texas md Iowa instructed the marshal to lold the men and they would come af- CT them as soon as possible. They Ire expected here by Tuesday morn ng. The instructions from Des Moines gre to hold McClain at all hazards as le is wanted for highway robbery, hough no details are given The other nan was in the county jail in Texas for tome crime the Phoenix officers are not about, and managed in some way to break jail When the men be- anne aware yesterday that they were