Williams news., 1913-03-08
TOUGH KID GANG
 LAND IN THE PEN

at Ashfork last Thursday night and wounded one of the trio, he made a much better shot than he even dreamed of. The results of that shot cleared up the mystery of the burglarizing of the store of Hill & Kennedy here, and the recovery of all the loot carried away by the bur glars.
 When Allen Whitaker, the bur glar kid who was shot, was taken into custody, he gave the names of his two companions, Ray Morris and Leo Burris, and it was not long before they were safely behind the bars. They are all mere boys, none of them looking to be over twenty years of age, but from the confes- sion of Whitaker they are profes- sionals when it comes to robbing stores.
 The Prescott Journal-Miner of Tuesday gives the following details concerning the attempted robbery: Another batch of eastern kids, disciples of the romance of cheap dime novel literature, have run their, race and are now in the cus- tody of the law in this city and Flagstaff.
 They started from their cozy homes in an Illinois town in the stiffness of quiet rural environ ment, and ended up at Seligman, after a series of burglaries that started at Albuquerque, N. M., and included every town and settlement, ending in a cyclone reception at Ashfork last Thursday night.
 There were three of them at the Iiump-off, but when they were rounded up had separated. Freddie Whitaker, an unsophisticated and beardless youth, and with only IS years to fill his Black Bart or Nick Carter book, was taken into custody on Saturday morning at Seligman, accused of being one of the burglars who entered the Babbitt- Poison store at Ashfork. His two com- panions were picked up at and near Williams, while they were making a nasty return home, after giving limitations of the bad man of other days. Whitaker was traced to a doctors office in Seligman, where he went to receive medical attention for a bullet wound in his right shoulder, received when the Ash fork burglary was committed.
 Claude Poison was asleep in the building at the time, and when the three were helping themselves to various articles Claude opened with a fusilade, and Whitaker got some lead into his body. He also had the three fingers of his left hand creased with the flying bullets, and the gang then took to the open, talk ing in their fright two panes of the pate glass windows, Whitaker got away, however, with fine pair of boots, and these led to his down. fall the next day, when he was seen in Seligman equipped with them, and placed under arrest by Deputy Sheriff Frank Burnell. His asso- ciates are now in the county jail of Coconino county All have ad- mitted to the crimes charged against them, which include burglarizing stores in Albuquerque, Gallup, Hol- brook, Winslow, Flagstaff, Will jams, Ashfork and other places.
 The wound of Whitaker. is pro nounced a serious one, and as yet the bullet has not been extracted. He wants to go home. He should never have left home.
 The two kids, Roy Morris and George Burris, waived examination on Tuesday afternoon before Judge Rounseville, and were held to the Superior court in the sum of $25OO each.
 Ii On Wednesday they were taken before Judge Perkins, pleaded lguilty and were sentenced to from lone to fifteen years each and were Itaken to the penitentiary on Thurs