Arizona republican., 1916-12-09
OFFICERS kN0N
 BANDITS WHO
 i ROBBED BANK

The men who robbed the bank of Buckeye and killed Charles Miner. are Manuel Garcia, Francisco Rivera, Pedro Cano and an unknown MeXi- can. The man who fired the fatal shot was Cano. Garcia lived with his brother Jesus Garcia, near the Wash ingtOn school CanO lived beyond Peoria at a little settlement called Al.aloma.
 This information came to the sher- iff s office through the discovery on Wednesday by young man near the Washington school. of three saddles in field near that place He hal heard Of the bank robbery and the murder and of the pursuit of thre. or four Mexicans He sent word to town and when he went back to the place where he had seen the saddles. they were gone. Acting on this in- formation, Sheriff Adams went out to the place accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Murphy. They found where the horses had been taken into the field where the saddles were seen and then trailed them out of the field to point north Of the Arizona canal where the horses then were. Two of them were identified as horses be- longing to Jesus Garcia. The other nobody knew anything about but it is believed that il is the property of the strange Mexican. These horses filled the description of the animals ridden by the bandits from Buckeye and Jesus Garcia seemed to be closely connected with the crime. But t was later shown that he was innocent and that his brother Manuel was one of the robbers
 The facts were drawn out of him and his wife slowly. The woman was questioned at first regarding the saddles. She said that one of them belonged to a neighbor. Ortego, who had called for it that day but it was gore. Replying to the sheriffs ques- tion why Ortego had asked for the saddle. she said that he had heard that a bank had been robbed. She could not connect that knowledge though with the anxiety of crtega ;o recover his saddle.
 But finally tEe woman told an she knew. She said that Manuel Rivera. and the unknown Mexican left the house on Mondav night. that they were joined on the way by Cano They returned home on Wednesday morning and having taken the ho1sos into the field where the saddles were found. they led them out to the vicinity where thev were found and where
  summer and fall. They returned tn
 the tent and slept all day. They told what they had done: of the probable death of . man at Buckeye shot hv 1 Cano and tken Manuel gave Ter sl5
 Manuel told her he was going away
 that night He had a team of mules
 and he told the woman to tell her husband to sell them and make any , use he chose of the money. Soon
 
 horse and buggy. The four men put the three saddles in. climbed in and left toward the west.
 | Jesus Garcia was tot at home at
 the time but he was curiouslv near the scene of the robbery and mlr- der In fact. he witnessed it but did
 not know what was going on and siiN less did he suspect that his brother Was engaged in it. He had been em- | ployed hy Charles Davis to assist in ! driving some cattle to Buckeye for shipment. He with several others
 were engaged about the cattle varf .orle distance from the Buckeye bank
 when they heard the shooting and
 saw people running and heard them | shouting. Davis said be climbed upor a freight car and witnessed the scene though he did rot then know what it meant
 After midnight of Thursday, th..
 sheriff and Deputy Murphy went to the home of Cano at Altaloma. They ! found only his wife and a boy. The story told by Mrs Cano of the move ment Of her husband since Monday night agreed with that the officars had heard from Mrs. Garcia. He ar ! rived home from the Buckeye raid ahead of the others and it is. there 1 fore. believed that he is the lone ! horseman whose trail led away from ' that of the three bandits followed hv the posse and now and then led back
 10 il again. Finally it left the trail 1 of the three and 1t was then per ! haps. that Cano struck out stra Sht (Continued on Page Two