Arizona republican., 1912-06-25
ABUSED CONFIDENCE
 OF DETECTIVE FRANKLIN
The Jennings Family Went Away
 Despite Espionage.

Robert H. Jennings is a man upon whom no dependence can be placed. Never in the world could he now in duce Bert H. Franklin the Los An geles detective to go on his note for an amount large enough to cripple MT. Franklin if he should have to pay it. MT. t'ranklins estimate of MT. Jennings was formed yesterday afternoon sometime after one o'clock.
 MT. Franklin is the head of the Franklin Detective Agency of Los An geles. He Is better known as the star witness in the trial of Attorney DarrOw at Los Angeles on the charge of jury bribery. Mir. Franklin had still earlier come into prominence as chief detective in the McNamara de- fenSe and in that capacity was ar rested in the act of offering bribe money to Juror Lockwood. But all this has nothing to do with the case of MT Jennings who is wanted at Los Angeles on the charge of em- beZzlement to the amount of about $4000. It is alleged that he got away with a lot of goods the property of former Congressman Hale of Ala bama who had engaged in some sort of business at Los Angeles
 Some months ago, Jennings accom- panied by his wife and twenty year old son came to Phoenix and added himself to the commercial life of this thriving community. He opened a small store on the Tempe road and had ambitious plans for the extension of his business.
 He was located here by the Frank lin agency and the head of it accom- panied by two detectives arrived here last Friday and instituted a quiet in vestigation resulting in their finding of Jennings who was operating un- der the name of Lewis.
 Franklin had no warrant of arrest but he sent for one and in the mean time he met Jennings who told him that nothing would please him more than to go back to Los Angeles to clear his good name of the aspersions which rumor had cast upon it.
 Being a detective, however, Frank lin believed it would be well enough to keep an eye on Jennings until the warrant should come His assistants established a kind of espionage and Franklin helped some in keeping it up.
 But yesterday afternoon it was dis covered that the Jennings family had vanished How, was not known at first But a little later it was learned that Jennings. his wife and son went to Tempe in an automobile taking with them such luggage as they could carry. There they bought three. sec ond class tickets for Cleveland, O.. and took the passing train which leaves Phoenix at one o'clock. This discovery was not made until quite late in the afternoon when Franklin applied to the office of sheriff for re- lief. "A message was sent to Tucson directing the arrest of Jennings and his wife there on d warrant which Franklin had hastily procured from the court of Justice JOhnstone. But by the time the message was received the train had passed Tucson. The railroad office there suggested that telegram be sent to some point fur there along the road and the office wired the conductor of the train to point out the Jennings family to any inuuiring officer. Accordingly early yesterday evening telegramS were sent to Wilcox and Bowie. It is certain that the fugitives will be overloaded at one of those points.