Arizona republican., 1910-05-14


 even to De regarded as an overshadow ing object of curiosity. compensates in part for hardship and toll in the past and punishment in the future But the compensation Ernest and oscar Woodson the train robbers believe. is so inadequate in their ease even for what they have gone through. tu say nothing of wat is before them, that they would not undertake to repeat their achievements
 No such crowd. since the time of the coming of President Taft last fall had throngcd the grounds about the Arizona Eastern depot as awaited the coming of the train yesterday morning for The Republican had appriscd the populsce that the bandits were to he brought in
 There was not room enough for all ot the crowd there. SD that another throng had gathered about the court house plaza. There were citizens in automobiles. in carriages. on horse back and on foot on the streets.
 But the NoodsOns were not brought to the depot. Sheriff Hayden and the posse took the prisoners from the train near the entrance to the city limits and brought them to the jail. But half of Phoenix got view of them and in the course of the day many were per mitted of enter the corridor and have a look at the notable prisoners who have the southeast cell of the cages.
 FELL IN THE LAST DITCH.
 The boys were not utterly cast down. The younger. oscar. laughed as various incidents of the robber, of the NJ. & r. train and the flight swere referred to and now and then the fea- lures of his brother relaxed into a smile. They added little to what was already known about them and which had been told to The Republicans cor respondent at Casa Grande on Thurs day night when they were brought in from the desert
 The younger said that when they were taken. they were all in. as well as their horses He said that if they had had water they would not have been taken but they were in such a shape that they did not care what happened to them.
 They. were willing to surrender their freedom for years for drink of water which they had not tasted since nine o'clock the night before and had since ridden for hours across the burning desert. "-I thought" said one Of the boys. that l had been thirsty in my time but I never knew what thirst was until Thursday afternoon" Their lips and tongues were swollen They had nothing to eat hut a box of sardines since they had taken breakfast at t'the Garden City restaurant carly Wednes- day morning
 They said that they suspected that the automobiles contained officers. They saw the dust ii was making from long distance and heard the chug chug of it hundreds of yads away. Whether it was bringing officers or not they decided to disarm themselves. If it contained travellers only they did not want to be seen to be armed and if there were officers there was no use in making a fight. The older broth CTS pride moved him once to offer. 4 show of resistance but he thought bet ter of it when Inspcc tor Crcnin's gun was pointed at him. Whats the use?- he thought to himself Maybe the peo- pie in the automobile had water. But there Vsas none. for the automobilists had given all of it to the posse on
 
 that there was water at the yel1ol if the machine should have to go that far
 THOUGHT OF THEIR PARENTS.
 The greatest concern of the boys was that their parents should not hear of the affair. They would not say where their parents were They might be in Oklahoma or they might be in Kansas or they might be somewhere else.
 Of the events on the train they had little to say. once when they were asked what they would have done if a passenger on the train had resisted and had fired shot. the younger said. with a smile, "Of course. we would have jumped off and run: that was what we were there for"
 Their armament consisted of a 36- 3a Marlin rifle which they had hired at Davidsons Cash Store, two new Colts revolvers and cheap revolver of the Smith and Wesson model. beside the handsomely chased revolver which they had secured from Deputy Sheriff Sturgis.
 They told of theit hurried flight aft CT cutting the ropes which held their horses in the brush and the nasty ex- animation of the pocketbool,s they had taken They stopped at an Indian well south of the mainline tracks about nine o'clock that night and got some