Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-21
Given Knockout Drops and Left on Desert After
 Being Robbed.
OFFICERS CONFIDENT
 THEY HAVE BAD GANG.
Deluded With Promise of Work Man Who Showed Roll Tak- en for Drive and Left on Road in Precarious Plight,

William McGee, a miner, was lured out on the desert between Bisbee and Naco last Friday, and after being ad- ministered a strong drug was robbed of $S0.40 and left to lie in the burning sun until consciousness returned. Diamond Steve" whose real name is said to be Stevens, Harry Allen, Dan Sullivan, Fred Mccoy and a man known as Spot" have been arrested by the officers and are in jail. Stev- ems is charged with highway robbery, while the others are being held under the vagrancy law. Their preliminary hearings will come up today. , In the arrest of the above five men, the officers are of the opinion that they have broken up what they say | is the toughest gang that has operated in this locality for years.
 Stevens, who came to Arizona on refugees ticket from San Francisco, is said to have brought with him two dissolute women. both of whom are now here, one in Bisbee and the other in Lowell.
 Sullivan has already been arrested in Bisbee, he being charged with car rying concealed weapons a short time ago, at which time he was fined $35 in Judge Murphys court
 Spot" is said to be a hanger-on about the Lowell Livery stables, and is thought by the officers to be a lookout" for the gang. which, they say, is strung out from Bisbee's ten- derloin to the joints of Naco, between which points they are alleged to ply their nefarious occupation of thieves and thugs.
 With the exception of the man Spot, the gang was arrested in the Cow Ranch saloon at 3 o'clock on Wednes- day morning. Spot was taken into custody at Lowell.
 The crime leading up to the arrest and jailing of the Stevens crowd was committed last Friday. William Mo Gee, miner who recently came to Bisbee from Cananea, was seen last Thursday night seated at a game of poker in one of the local gambling houses. On Friday morning he was approached by Stevens, so he alleges. and asked if he was miner. When he | informed Stevens that he was, Stey- ems offered him work at $3.50 a day. McGee was to go 10 claims alleged to | be owned by Stevens and there do as- 1 sesSment work. The understanding was that McGee was to do his own cooking. This was agreed to, and to- gether the two men repaired to the Brophy corral at Lowell, where Stey- ems hired rig.
 Before leaving Lowell, Stevens en- tered one of the Lowell saloons and twice came out with beer which he gave to McGee. The pair then start ed for Stevens mining claims. What followed none but Stevens and Mo Gee know.
 McGee's next recollection of the af- fair was when he regained conscious ness and found himself lying on the ground about a mile and half north of Naco. He also found that s5O.40 which he had on his perscn when he got into the buggy with Stevens at Lowell were missing.
 He made his way to Naco, but was unable to impress anyone there with the truth of his statements. Penni- less and sick from the effects of a strong drug, his face and breast burn ed with the same liquid, McGee was | forced to walk to Bisbee.
 He reached Bisbee late Friday even- 1 ing. and the officers here being ap. prised of the mans condition and | plight, started at once to work on the case.
 Late Tuesday night Officer Frank Johnson, together with Deputy Sheriff George Humm, or Lowell, made a
 hard drive to Naco, in the Cow Ranch finding their men Pricr to leaving Lowell for Naco Johnson and Humm took Spot into custody ard placed him behind the bars at Lowell. Proceeding to Naco Johnson and Humm found Stevens aud Alien drink ing at the Cow Ranch saloon. The men submitted to arrest without any show of resistance, notwithstanding
 the fact that Stevens was armed witt a loaded six-shooter.
 i Scarcely had the officers placed their men under arrest wllen two prostitutes, said to be members of the gang, accompanied by Fred Mccoy, drove up to the saloon. They were also placed under arrest The women this city. Mccoy was brought back with the otf CTS and placed in jafl. | Arriving in Bisbee after the arrests, l Luc OLuSclo looS hO SkAAS HI s
 up Dan Sullivan, known to be intimate
 with Stevens, and Sullivan is now in jail here with Allen and Mccoy. Stew
 ems is in. the branch county jail on o. K street, while Spot is lodged in the Lowell jail.
 As the warrant upon which Stevens
 was arrested was sworn to before Jus. tice Hogan at Lowell, Stevens will ap pear for his preliminary hearing at Lowell. It has not been decided
 where the others will be given their
 hearings. It is thought that new
 charges to fit the testimony which the officers have gathered will be Lodged against those now held under a vagrancy charge. This also will be
 decided today.
 McGee was yesterday brought tC the branch county jail and is said to
 have identified Stevens as the man
 who started in the rig with him tc Naco. Stevens admitted as much in
 McGee's presence yesterday.
 Tie man who rented the team to