Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-28
THRILLING RIDE ENDS IN ARREST OF b|SbEE
 COUPLE
Robert Hughes And Wife Af- ter Stealing Car Here And Going East, Are Arrested At Colorado Springs

After having enjoyed themselves to
 their hearts content, travelling in a
 stolen machine and with stolen money
 and goods obtained under false pre-
 tences and with Logug checks for the
 past six week, through large part
 of the United States. Robert Hughes
 and his wife, of Bisbee. are now be-
 hind the bars of the county jail at
 Colorado Springs, where they are
 now being held on a charge of grand larceny and with another charge here .or the same offense awaiting them, should they be released there.
 About the sixteenth of March, Hughes and his wife, after having
 purchased goods from nearly all the
 merchants of the city and giving
 bogus checks for them. hired a ma chine from Messers Bosse and Moss Curg to go to Douglas, as they stated.
 The car was driven by young man named c. c. Jones. Everything went
 well until they reached point near Douglas when Hughes pulled a gun on Jones and told him to continue on through Douglas and toward Fl Paso. After they had passed Douglas, they compelled Jones to drink whiskey that had been drugged and he was then put in the back of the car.s He
 was taken to Fl Paso and left in a hotel, where he came to after Hughes and his wife had taken all his money and his watch as well. Jones wired back about what had taken place and secured money to return here on, but for while his story was doubted, but later trace of the couple was obtained in Texas and they were traced through several towns but were always just a few days ahead of any word that was sent to arrest them. Then, for several weeks nothing was heard of them until about the twelfth of this month when Bosse and Mosseberger received a bill from a garage in Mil waukee, Wisconsin, for repairs and Jil and gasoline that had been made and furnished the couple. As soon as this information was received Deputy Sheriff Cannon got busy and wires were sent to the officers in that locality as well as to Colorado, where one of thew was known to have relatives.
 A reply was received from Miiwau- kee stating that the couple had left that locality and had started for the Canadian border. Yesterday. low ever, a,telegram was received byl Deputy Sheriff Cannon from Sheriff Dird,r -to haf Hughes and his wife were in custody but were being held for a similar of fense committed there and that they would not give them up as they had a good case against them. Deputy Sheriff Cannon then wired for further particulars and late last evening re- ceived another message which stated that Hughes and his wife had re turned from Milwaukee, through Chi cago, St. Louis, Kansas City and Denver and that they had sold the BisDee car for $500 and then had gone on to Colorado Springs and stolen another car, but had been cap tured and were now being held fol trial.
 The telegram further stated that tllG llic Ol tAC Bisbee car and that the car was now in the possession of Sheriff Birdwell. | but would be returned to the owners here but that the man who purchased it in Denver was willing to pay $500 for the car as it now stood. The car was reported as being in good condi- 1 tion after its long drive through the i country.
 Messrs Bosse and Mossberger could | not be located last night to ascertain what they would do in regard to | sending for the car or accepting the | offer of the Denver man.
 Deputy Sheriff Cannon is to be con graduated for his work in keeping | after the Bisbee couple in this case and he would have had them arrested I .or the Bisbee crime had they not | pulled off the stunt in Colorado i Springs as he had information that | they were headed that way. He had | secured a picture of them and was about ready to mail out several hun | dred circulars with their picture and I description tS the various officers in | all parts of the east.
 There was a reward of $25O for the | arrest of the couple and for the re- | covery of the car. A reward of s1OO will be paid for the return of the car. |