Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-06
AN OLD CROOK NAILED WHILE
 CAMPING HERE
Clever Capture of An Old Off, fender Made By Local Off, ceSr-Man Served Time in Colorado Penitentiary

McCommlck, alias J. P. Ray, alias ". w. Wo,Eerton. beyond doubt a mo- torious forser and crook. was arrest cd m th s city Sunday afternoon zn a warrant from DcGglls. Spzc al OH- cer Frank Johnson worked mn tbe case under City Marshal Jack Stevens and he and Constable Denny Two mey mad the arrest. McCommick -aas waived his pre- i'm nary -hear.ag at Douglas and will be taken to Tomb- stone to await the meeting of .be grand jury unless he gives bond which is improbable.
 McCommicz lad been in Bisbee at the t.me of h.s arrest. During his stay here he deposited a checK for collection at the branch Bank of Bis Dee in Lowel. The check was for S5,OO0 and on a Joliet bank. Saturday he rushed into the'bank and asked for an advance of a couple of hundred as ne had been called to Courtland on business. The bank officials were next, and h. was refused the money. In Douglas he was more successful cashing one check fer s62 and several for smaller amounts.
 As No. 1914 McCommick served a term in Canyon City, Coo. for hIgh- way robbery at LeadyilIe in 1897. The officers here believe that he is undoubtedly the man who is wanted for operations similar to those at tempted here. covering a period of six years. He worked the bIuff in Clif- ton, according to telegram received here last night by NJ. ]. Cunningham, cashier of the Bank of Bisbee. lie has recently operated in New Mexico,
 and probably in Oklahoma. McCom- mick mas not confined his operations to banks, giyIng evidence of his yer sadl-ty and imp5rtiality by us ng Wei ii-FargO money orders on the side.
 So far as appearances ana ability go. McCCmmick has everything in his layor. It is the opin.on of the of oers and bankers here that they have captured noted criminal. and one who is wanted in any number of places for offenses more serious than those charged against him at Doug las, and tlOse winch he attempted here. This high financier is of i'm posing appearance. as keen as br.er. and eXperi need in the work where unto he has set himself. Six feet in height, well dressed. smooth shayen. and adorned with fine suit of gray hair, he looks ths part of a success iul business man in every detail.
 MCCCmmick came to B.sbee the early part cf last week. He was ex- Eected here and was under surve r. fence pract caily every m-ment of his stay. lie tOck quarters in the Hol- brook house across t.-e road from the cid slag dump, and appeared scarcely at all in pubic. Ills breakfast he took iB Lowsll, h's lunch and dinner In the EdelEeiss cafe, waking along 0. K. street and into Brewery Gulch To ayCid observation.
 He was very anxious to secure a number of We1s-Fargo blanks. and last Friday spznt about twenty min, utes on l.s way to dinner s ziug up 1 tho express CfTice on o. K. street. To confident he made tJe statement that he WLnh give $500 dollars t1 secure the Hanks in the office. lie ! wOull undoubtedly have broken into | the office Aad his plans called for | such action. To this same ccnfids nt ] he outlined five CT six different plans whicA nc intended to use if necessary in cgder Go secure funds.
 A search of the eff cts of the check artist showed that he had checks from practically. every bank in Ari- zona and New Mexico. with many from Oklahoma, Missocrf and Monta, Ia. He 1ad a so many formulas for eTasiEg ink e every kind from paper Two Ne is-Fargo crdeFs. one for 8 dollar and one for twenty-five ceats, which u2d5ubt dly it VAS his pur- pose 10 raise to larger amounts, were found is ais traVeii1rg bag
 Police and detective headquarters l throughout tIe United. States have bsen notified of McCommiek's capture and developments are expected.