Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-04
MUCH DETECTIVE WORK
 INVOLVED IN CAPTURE

Postoffice Inspector Butler. who ar rested Jen Spurlock one of the gang of train robbers who were convicted it Tucson in the United States Dis 'riet Court last Saturday. tells an in 'eresting story of his capture that reads almost like a ten cent novel or detective story The men robbed the Golden State Limited last Sep ember al Apache between Rodeo and Douglas on the Fl Paso & South western and foolishly robbed the mail which was the cause of the gov ernment detectives taking their trail, and finally ended up with their con yiction
 Buck Bertholf was the first one oi the gang arrested and 1t was two months after his capture in Purcell. Oklahoma before Spurlock and Joe | Davis were caught It was discover ed that Jen Spurlock had a sweet was kept on her movement but roth. 1 ing was accomplished until she was | taken sick and went to a hospital A ! government detective who had been watching her also went 10 the hospital as a patient and by informing the superintendent of his identity he was given the room next to her and ! through the nurse who attended her [ kept track of the mail she received The girl got letters occasionally 1 from Texas and the letters she wrote all went to Texas. which puzzled the | authorities who were satisfied that | Spurlock was far from Texas. al. though they did not know just where he was. It was finally discovered l that Spurlock wrote to a woman he knew in Paris. Texas. inclosing let. | ters to his sweetheart and that the woman forwarded them. to the girl in | Purcell. She in turn sent her let ters to the woman at Paris. who for | warded them to Spurlock.
 Finally from a letter taken from the girls room by the nurse one night while the girl was sleeping | soundly il was discovered that Spur lock was in Sioux City. Iowa. and the detectives went there to run down their man. They found out that he was working for the Armour Pack in Co. but did not know the name he was working under at the packing house nor did any of them know him when they saw him. By watching the postofiice they found that he did not get his mail at the general de. livery and at last discovered that he got il al certain Greek restaurant.
 They then watched the restaurant In relays watching for him to come and claim his mail The detectives ate their meals in this restaurant from early morning until late in the evening, each man taking about an hour to eat and immediately when he left another operator took his place so that a continual watch was kept on the cashiers desk. On the evening of the third day about : o'clock in the evening Spurlock came in to the eating house and asked if there were any letters for the name under which he received his mail, Henry Chadwick.
 The detective got up from the ia. ble where he was sitting less than ten feet from the cashiers cage and stuck his gun in Spurlock's back and another government secret service man who was outside came in and put the handcuffs on the wrists of the much wanted man. They will be sentenced shortly to terms in gov. ernment penitentiaries due to their robbing the mails. The old saving that the government never quits held true in this case, and all of the ex- pense Of the long chase counted as nothing with the government. compar. ed with the results accomplished.