Arizona republican., 1913-04-07
MIR. MANOER|CH
 SOME TRADER
Sheriff's Office Conducting Search for Owners of Wheat and Alfalfa Seed Which He Has Been Sell ing for Some Months.

There is more than suspicion about the sheriff's office that there IS in custody there the champion thief of his age His name is Sam Mandarich. who lives in the western part of the city and has a ranch d few miles west of town. The opera tons of Madarich were brought to the surface by the theft of fifty bags of beans from Goldman's warehouse a month or two ago Suspicion at llrSt attached to a lot of Mcxicans who had come across the border d short time before to escape from the turmoil in that country. but they could not be connected directly with @hte enterprise. The beans were found in the possession of a Chinese merchant who said that the man who had sold them could not speak spanish and could not speak Eng fish very well. He said that he had gwen a check in payment for them.
 He had also taken d receipt.
 Ever since this discovery Sheriff Adams and Constable Murphy have been working on the ease Through the bank where Madarich caahed the check he was traced and oVertake He said that he had raised the beans on his ranch. but when the officers visited the ranch they found that it was all in brush except two acres and that had been i'm milo maize.
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 darich were investigated the more confusing they became. It was found that since last July he had sold s550 worth of wheat to the Valley Flour
 Mills at Tempe and 5000 pounds of wheat to the Valley Mills of this city. On Saturday the sheriff and
 Leo Goldman visited the ranch anG found two blows, one gang blow and one of a kind handled in this valley only by Goldman & Co. The latter blow is believed to have been stolen but it is stated that Mandarich traded roo pounds of alfalfa seed for the gang blow.
 The wife and five children of Mandarich have been infesting the jail and court room ever since his arrest until last Saturday Mrs. Mandarich represented that she was dependent and when her husband was locked up she said that she would have to apply to the county for help. She was sent to Miss Gifchrist of the Associated Charities. When that was brought to the notice of Con stable Murphy he hurried there and arrived just as Miss Gichist was writing an order for provisions The constable stopped her and told her that the Mandarichs owned house and lot in the western part of the ! city. a ranch west of the city stocked l with horses and other animals, and no doubt had ample provisions in 1 the house at that moment. He took 1 the woman and Miss Gilchrist out | to the house and they found there very much more than the average | family keeps on hand at one time l four, canned goods by the box, beans 1 a bale of table salt and other things 1 There were also two bags of aif- alfa seed worth about $50.
 | There was fund at the ranch along l with other things several spoois o1 l wire and several empty spools. I was the opinion of MT. Goldman thai tho wire and the salt had been stoler at the time the beans were carried away
 There was found at the ranch along
 seed sacks. some of them bearln! the name of Price Brown. ranch man living near Tempe. MT. BroWl
 was called up by the sherifts olflc and he replied that he had sold hi alfalfa seed to A J. Peters.
 ! No complaint has been made t the sheriffs office of thefts of Whea and alfalfa seed If any one ha missed either and will communicat
 with the office the work of unravel ing the mystery will be facilitated. l Man,larich told the sheriff yeSter
 day that he had bought all thi
 stuff and had been trading in 1t bu
 could not remember the name of man from whom he had purchase l either alfalfa seed or wheat