Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-29
JUMPS FROM TRAIN AFTER ARREST FOR
 IMPORTING LIQUOR
]. B. Merck Arrested Near Apa- che With Large Consignment of Liquor in Trunk; Attempts Escape But Is Caught.

Captured near Apache at 10 o'clock . Saturday night with 20 cases of whis- ky and four barrels of beer, and after making sensational jump from a moving train and a fruitless dash for liberty J. B Marck was jailed in Douglas Sunday morning on the 1 charge of introducing liquor into the state according to Sheriff Harry . Wheeler who was in Bisbee yester- day. Justice of the Peace R s. Ma clay placed his bond at S1,OOO which ! he furnished.
 The preliminary hearing will take place Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock before Justice of the Peace Herman Precht at Apache Frank w. Doan will represent the defendant 1 Merck was arrested by Constable O. E. Patterson Of Apache. He was ar ! rested about a mile and a half this side of the town in the Willys auto truck belonging to the Douglas Trans fer company. The truck was broken down at the time and Driver P. E. Gravitt was endeavoring to make the necessary repairs. Merck did not re- sist arrest and the prisoner and motor truck. from which beer was leaking, were taken to Apache, where the booze was stored in the store of J w. Richhart Gravitt was not arrested.
 Sunday morning Constable Patter- son started to take his prisoner to Douglas on the morning train Just as the train reached the top of the grade at the long curve at College Peak. on some pretext Merck went to the coach platform and then jumped l from the train. Almost as quickly Patterson dropped of on the other side and turned several somersaults in doing so, due to the speed of the Itrain
 ! Merck thought he was unpursued, as the curve hid Patterson from view. He was making all haste possible, however, but the constable was trail ing him and keeping just out of ! sight At the end of half mile Pat lterson recaptured his prisoner He then walked him on toward Douglas l but a mile or SO the other side of Lee station MT Glenn came along in his auto and brought the two men into ! Douglas.
 Loaded at Rodeo
 Patterson returned to Apache later in the day with Bruce Stephenson, as sistant county attorney. and Constable Sam Hayhurst They went as far as Rodeo and Stephenson gathered eyi- dence. It is said the liquor was ship
 ped from El Paso to Rodeo where
 it was loaded onto the truck
 Geo. Goss, proprietor of the Doug las Transfer company. said yesterday
 morning that Merck rented the truck
 with a driver, from him Saturday even
 ing, saying he wanted it for a long "trip Goss said he did not ask him the nature Of the trip, as he consid
 cred it none of his bushes. GOss
 went 10 Apache Sunday afternoon and
 returned the truck to Douglas last
 night. An effort was made to hold it
 but after discussion he was allowed
 to take it.
 ! The 2O cases or WHISKY cohslSleu oI
 both quarts and pints and was divided
 among old Taylor, Sunny Brook and Bond & Lillard The four barrels o
 Blatz beer contained both quart anC
 pint bottles
 One story is to the effect that Pat
 terson made the arrest purely by ac cident, being attracted to the trucl
 because it had stopped in the middle of the road and had no lights. Mor'
 reliable information, however, is tha
 the officer was watching for the trucl , and purposely allowed it 10 get b. , Apache before arresting Merck. Merck is resident of Douglas an' is we'll known. Until a few month
 ago he conducted a cigar store ol , Tenth street