Arizona republican., 1913-12-14
THE GOODS
 THEN THE GANG
Police Make an Important Catch and Seemingly Have Found Solution to Series of Previously Mystifying RObberieS

lowing the taking into custody on Thursday of Carmen EiIlarail, the police believe they nave accomplished about as neat bit of work as has been brought about in many months. | That the three now in custody are at 1 least the best part of one of the most notorious gangs of sneak thieves opcr- ating in and about the city, there 1 seems to be little doubt, especially i when it is taken into consideration 1 that the plunder recovered in the liar rison street house occupied by the NilIarails and Lopez and identified i variously as the property of the pro i 1 prietOrs of the Q. K. store. the Gar rison automobile camping party and ! 1 various other individuals, was about ] all it was possible to conveniently | store in the private office of Chief of ! 1 Police Moore.
 ] Early Thursday morning Proprietor 1. l BinkIev of the .. K store notified the | police that his establishment had been ! l visited by thieves during the previous l | night, and that a large quantity of 1 1 goods had been stolen Policeman [ i IEgly hurried to the store and. having | l arrived before there had been any | 1 considerable amount of travel in that ]
 vicinity, was enabled to follow a pecu- ! l liar footprint from the store south on l | Seventh avenue to Harrison street and ! then east to Sixth avenue where 1 they ended at the back doorstep of d 1 small house.
 Fortified with this discovery. Egly
 called Chief of Police Moore, and to-
 i 9ether they planned q campaign. It
 1 was found that the men who lived in
 l the house were ostensibly engaged in
 | pcddHng fruit and vegetables and
 that they had departed about day
 light on one of their usual trips. \
 i woman was found in the house and
 she was taken in custody. She ad-
 mitted that there had been some
 shady doings about the place. but in
 sisted that her husband had nothing
 to do with them. She said that he
 and man named Lopez had started
 out to sell vegetables intending to go
 as far as the Agua Fria river and
 l return with load of wood.
 search of the house revealed
 hundreds of dollars worth of prob , ably stolen goods There were hams, groceries, some chiIdrens trousers } and practically all of the goods re- ported to have been stolen from VII
 liam Garrison and his party encamp
 ed south of the city earlier in the . week. Among the goods taken from
 the Garrison party was d handsome 5 Russian pony coat. silk dresses. stock ] ings, waists and beautiful hand worked tabecloth. These were easy to identify. Eleven watches. chains and charms were also in the plundcr With Mrs. VillaraiI in custody. the I problem then confronted the officers of experimenting the men who had driven away in the morning. It was T l II la g,F \ goods was somewhere in their pos I session. Accordingly. Policeman Thurman was detailed to keep con \ stant watch over the house. In the z meantime Motorcycle Policeman Will z Hams was sent toward Tempe in the \ hope of getting line on the two I men if they were travelling in that a l direction. while Chief of Police Moore, q with Constable Jim Murphy. went 1 down into the Buckeye country in 4 an automobile in the hope of learn s ing something to their advantage. E Both of these trips were without re- suit.
 S Yesterday afternoon the long vigil of Thurman was rewarded with the appearance of the two men wanted. They drove up in the rig with which they had gone out on Thursday 2 morning. Thurman immediately placed them under arrest, and they q were taken to the police station. Later, Lopez was transferred to the q county jail in order that he would have no opportunity of communicat- ing further with the partner of his two days ride. Neither of the men < was notified of the apprehension of Mrs. Nillarail.
 When Policeman Egly was investi- S gating the manner in which the men effected an entrance to the Q. K M store he discovered the broken handle N of q claw hammer lying just outside | the building. A search of the house where the three had been living re- % vealed the presence of the claw ham E mer minus the broken part of the @ handle which fitted exactly. When q Mrs. Villarail was arrested it was & discovered that she was addicted to M the use of morphine. Yesterday a ! search of the woman's husband gave evidence that he, too, used the drug d hypodermic outfit being found in his pocket and an ounce bottle of morphine being stored away in the leg of his trousers.
 An effort will be made today to l induce the prisoners to reveal the hiding place of the balance of the # plunder it seems certain they have H knowledge of The woman insists E that none of those arrested had any & thing to do with the thefts, but that N boarder was responsible thieving al night and bringing the plunder tc # l her house. The police have been un- S able to learn that the women ever E had a boarder since she and her hus- 4 band occupied the house, except. o1 q course, Lopez, who seems to have E been a partner of the Woman's hus- 3 band.
 a There is also a suspicion in the E minds of the police that the horses