Arizona republican., 1910-06-14
HELD AS SUSPECTS
 IN STREET CAR HOLD UP
SAM AND WILL HUMPHREYS,
 BROTHERS.
Until Lately They Were Employees of
 the Railway Company.

Will and sam Humphreys. former
 employees of the Phoenix Street Rail- ] way company, were arrested yester- lday morning as suspects in connec- ton with the holdup of a street car manned by MOtOrman F. A. Smith on Sunday night sam Humphreys was 1 discharged from the service of the company for knocking down" two weeks ago. His brother quit without notice on Saturday, having previous to that, while taking what the street car company thought was a lay-off obtained employment at the & F.. F. X r. freight house. sam Humphreys since his discharge, has been working at the M. & F. rOundhouse.
 The evidence on which warrants for their arrest were sworn out in Justice JOhnstone's court yesterday
 morning was very slender, hardly more than a suspicion. though it has since been apparently strengthened.
 IL was the opinion of Superinten-
 dent Mitchell yesterday, when the circumstances of the robbery were re-
 lated to him in detail. that the job
 had been done by some one who had
 been in the employ of the company.
 I ne pDlliOH was DdStu OH the use or a single expression by the robber with the gun. After he had divested the motorman of all his cash he said to him. Turn your trolley around and run to the west end" The west end" is an expression used by all the employees and attaches of the com pany. other people speaking of it as
 West Adams street" When the mOtOrman offered some demur, the robber replied, you got to do it." That is an expression that had been so frequently used by Will Hum- phreys in his three or four months service with the company that all the other employees had noticed it. The circumstances also under which the Humphreys had left the service of the company was considered to be against them.
 Deputy Sheriff Jeff Adams, armed with the warrant of arrest, found Will Humphreys at the Santa Fe de- pot and Captain ConnOrs of the police force arrested sam Humphreys at the roundhouse. The one was de- tained all day at the city jail an6 the other at the county jail.
 Deputy Sheriff Adams later visited their house on East Adams street, where they have been boarding them selves since they have been in town where he found a large and miscel- laneOus and suspicious collection which he took to the sheriff's office
 The property consisted of two re- volvers. A caliber, one a blue steel gun like the one that was held at the head of Motorman Smith. There were several eighteen-inch saws for saving iron and steel, and a dozen or more very small ones for the same purpose There was d lot of rubber tape. such as is used in the insulation of electric wires. several cog wheels of different sizes. a lot of steel dies uhed for stamping numbers on iron, a die cutter and a drill for cutting iron. There were two motormen's badges. Nos. 36 and 3S. and several packages of transfers. report blanks, etc, a bunch of keys and a motor mans whistle.
 sam Humphreys had about s5l in cash and between them they had dozen or more pennies. There was no such collection of small change as had been taken from the motorman. The boys accounted for the iron saws and the miscellaneous junk, saying that they had brought the stuff with them from the state of Washington, whence they had come to Phoenix. and that they were using il in the construction of some sort of machin- cry.
 Both brothers vigorously denied all connection with the robbery and last night young man called at the office of the sheriff and said he was with them down town between 10 and II o'clock. about the time the holdup was taking place. The brothers will be arraigned today
 The brothers said their home was in Oklahoma. though within the last three or four years they have wan dered all over the west