Arizona republican., 1908-01-03
TWO SUSPECTS
 ARE JAILED
Story of the Recent Safe
 Cracking Jobs
Evidence Only Circumstan. tial But It Makes a Good Chain.

A man known to the Phoenix police
 by the name of Mickey is in the city
 jail and another known as Pete Sulli-
 van, is in the county jail. both being
 held pending developments. There is little doubt but that they are chief
 conspirators in the recent safe crack ing episodes in Phoenix and Mesa City. Nor is there less doubt that a half a
 dozen or more others were concerned
 by act or knowledge and that all are typical representatives of the genus hobo. But the deplorable feature of
 the situation is that there is fear that
 sufficient evidence to convict them
 and send them to the penitentiary, is
 lacking. even though the chain of cir cumstances which connects them with
 the crime is fairly well established. IL is rather a long story. a hobo story at
 that, but it will interest the reader if he has Sherlock Holmes taste The arrest Of Mickey was made by Marshal Moore and the arrest of Sullivan by Deputy Sheriff Wayne Davis. the two
 officers having co-operated, within
 and without the city.
 Mickey has been d personal ac- quaintsnce Of Marshal Moore for sev-
 eral years and the latter has always
 suspected him of criminality from his
 associations and his personal stand
 ing with the criminal world. though he has never been able to fasten crime upon him. He has utilized his friend ship on many occasions to possess
 himself of needed information in one
 criminal case or another. and has fav-
 ored him whenever he could without
 compromising the law. by granting his
 request for tbe release of this hobo
 or that one. oh condition that Mickey
 float the undesirable citizen out of
 town or into a respectable job. The
 officer has usually found Mickey to
 be man of his word in these things.
 and one who was rather proud of his
 ability to secure the attention of the
 official ear when he had anything to
 say. He is not exactly the road type
 of hobo. being a miner by trade. and
 one who. when driven to it, does good
 work in the mining camps. He drifts around from one part of Arizona and
 another. and is a sort of diplomatic agent between real work and the globe
 trotting element that visits Phoenix and sometimes has to secure an intro duction to real work when other
 means of a livelihood fail. He knows the police. and he knows the criminal element. and plays his hand which ever way seems to serve his purpose.
 Not long ago Marshal Moore jailed two hOboes named Morley and Will
 Hams. but placed no charge against them. intending to bluff them out of town next day. He had known Morley for several years. as Phoenix was fre- quently on his itinerary. He believed him to be a crook all the time. but could never catch him at anything worse than Vagrancy. The next day. Mickey appeared and asked for the freedom of Morley and Williams. say ing he would take them out of town and get them employment at the mines. Mickey was refused, but on his earnest pleading the marshal re- tented. thinking it good riddance to bad rubbish. They failed to leave town. and that night Morley and Will Hams were arrested and sentenced to 
 escaped and Williams served.
 The next incident serves to give a line merely on the character of Mickey A man named 'Dobie" Harris came down from Roosevelt with about $500. and got into jail. Mickey knew him of course. and persuaded him to give up S10 to get two other hOboes out of jail. A day or two after. Mickey asked the marshal if Harris had any more money. When told that he had left some in his possession, he requested the marshal to give it to Harris, who owed him s7, and he wanted to collect. The marshal, suspecting that Mickey merely wanted to get Harris roll where he could put his hands on it, refused and gave Mickey Il pretty straight talk. Had he done as Mickey requested. there would probably be another story.
 This incident happened last Monday and made Mickey pretty mad. Monday night the Evans and Arizona Laundry robberies occurred. Tuesday the of- ficer met Mickey and was himself in an irritable frame of mind. doing a lot of thinking. but unable to put charge against Mickey. However. he gave him lecture. saving he was a fine sort of working man, who could afford to spend most of his time travelling. During Tuesday Mir. Moore learned where two guns belonging to Mickey were secreted. but they were taken away before the officer could get to the place. Mickey was also not able by his absence from his accus- toned haunts. Tuesday night the safe was blown in Mesa City. Wednesday morning the marshal learned that Mickey had departed the night before. via the NJ. & P
 The officer was at the depot We'd nesday morning when the train from Mesa City arrived. and Mickey climbed off it. The conductor told Moore of the Mesa job, and also that Mickey had come down on the train with him. The marshal made a date with Mickey who was permitted 10 go and get a shave first When he reported at the city hall, his first remark was to ask for the release of a hobo named Miller who had been locked up Monday night. The request was denied. and Mickey was promptly jailed himself and ac- cused of connection with the safe blowing. He denied it promptly and a ffactad fn ha tuftI,