Arizona republican., 1911-11-24
COOPERATIVE
 PURL0|N|NG. Murphy Jai|s a Quintete of
 Shop|ifters FOUR MExICANs, ONE JAP Nearly all the Big Stores in Town Contributed Un- willingly to the Hitten General Merchandise Stock of Thieves.
FOUR MExICANs, ONE JAP

The office oi Justice C ". John stone had the appearance of d depart
 ment store yesterday afternoon, due to the activities Q: Constable James Mur-
 phy. who as a preliminary to the com-
 mercialiZing of the courl room had
 jailed Eman Martinez. D. Martinez. Maria Gusman, Jesus Ventaque. all MeNicans, and tine last two women, and T. Teramato, d JapaHeso.
 The above intr)'!Erns the story Q.
 the most comprarrns: 70 episode oc lshoplifting and petty sneak -thievery
 that has occurred in this city for d
 long time. It is not known how much
 nas been stolen and disposed If. or
 how much has been >tO,cn and is still
 secreted, but roughly estimated abnat
 S200 worth ot mer"har'I,S.. was rechv- cred yesterday t belonged in part
 to nearly all :he leading stores. There
 were suits 2f clothes, trousers. Edis
 overcoats. chi !Icn: clothing. scores
 of neckties, mirrors. about a dozen
 silk and satin G-cs5as perfectly new. a new bicycle lI:Ip, q revolver two
 watches. etc. The clothing was all
 identified and most of the other goods
 though the bicyc'c lamp. revolver and watches had not been identified last n ght.
 The New York Store and the Valley Clothing Store were the greatest los CTS, Justice Johnsr)na r"mar>ing that from what he had learned Manager Mansfield of the iatt.'r store was futu- nate in not being kidnapped himself Other stores .denIifsnS property are tie Boston Store. tin Goldberg store. 4 l.. Boehme- and others. Constable
 Murphy says thJI l:c hal been ap- piiSed q week ar tyyl hcipre by NdTi- CnS merchants of ti:c city. particularly the Boston Store, that systematic sEoplifting was In progress, 5ut IT, could not secure q clue until MCdnes- .Gay night about r. o'clock. hen hc met q Mexican who delivers papers. The Mexican told him that iu going his rounds in the evening. vhen hc room IS in the old brick building at Fifth and Jackson streets, where he had to deliver a aper. h2 saw d couple of women trying on new and gaudy silk dresses 'ic watched them for d miTuts or two until h. had seen garTIcrts in spn.e variety pass before tn, w.ndow. Then he ap- preached the door rapidly and knocked and called paper" they opened the door and he threw his paper in. talk ing a hasty view of things at the same time. The fact that the women were trying to secrete the finery in their I, reported the incident to Constable Murphy The officer kept his eye on the situation until yesterday after noon when the people he wanted were at home, then invaded the place with a search warrant and put the people under arrest, after finding the prop erty referred to. As he could not leave. Mir Murphy sent word to the police for assistance and Officer Dan Hosmer came to his relief. He stood guard over the premises while MT. Murphy summoned the leading mer- chants of the city and their depart ment chiefs to go to the address given and see if they could identify any of the property.
 For the next hour or so Murphy and Hosmer held q soirce down in the shack on Jackson street. The natives in that part of town must have won dered what was going on to so popu- larize Ethe place, for from the process sion of business men that passed to and. fro it might easily have been imagined that the board Of trade had taken up new quarters. After enough property had been identified to make the case a certain one. the plunder was removed to Justice Johnstone's court and the prisoners to the county Jail