Malvern daily record., 1917-10-16
ARREST ALLEGED
 BANK ROBBERS
Trio Arrested Here, Charged With Robbing the Bank of Huttig, on Sept. 7th. Young Arsenal Was al- so Taken.

so Taken.
 What is considered one of the most important arrests to have been made by local officers i'll many years, was made here this morning, when sheriff J. E. Stanley and Deputy D. s. Bray took into custody, Carl Lewis, his wife, Jaunita, and c. L. Taylor. Lewis is charged with being the lone bandit who robbed the Bank of Huttig, after lock- ing the cashier in the vault, and made his getaway with several thousand dollars, on September 7th. The trio were locked up in the Hot Spring eouh- ty jail. Lewis was later taken to FL Dorado, by officers from that city, and Sheriff Stanley will take the other two to that place on Thursday.
 Sheriff Fin Craig and his deputy J. W. Perritt, and C. H. Murphy, presi- dent of the Bank of Huttig; Prosecut- ing Attorney J. K. Maloney and detee- tive D. D. Rockwell, connected with the Pinkerton agency arrived in Malvern this morning from ElDorado, after being on the road since one o'clock this morning, after getting a tip that their man was in Malvern. Lewis was formerly resident of Union County and had been seen around Huttig, for some time before the robbery. Shortly afterwards, however, officers say, he disappeared, and was traced by Pin kerton men and local officers to Kansas City, where the trail was lost. A letter written by him to some one in ElDora- do, give them the clue that he was here and the officers started for this place Upon arriving here, the sheriff's office was immediately notified, and Deputy Bray, spotted his man, while leaving the postefice, where he had rented a box. As he entered the store of ". H. Cooper & Go. Sheriff Stanley and De putty Bray, followed ordered him to throw up his hands. He was slow, but finally complied. whereupon the sheriff removed from him a 32 Savage Colts Automatic revolver. He was then placed in jail. The woman and Taylor were later arrested, when they came to the Sheriff's office.
 Upon being placed in Jail, Lewis was searched, but had only a few doll- ars on him. After he had been in jail short time, he borrowed a match from negro, and set fire to roll of bills, which according to the negro amounted to several hundred dollars. It was described as being six inches high. Jailer Billy Roberson, was ca1l- ed and succeeded in putting the burn ing currency out. but not in time to save any of it. It is said, by negro, who is ia iail, that he nipped his coat and took the money out of the lining where it had been placed in several large rolls.
 Officers immediately searched the trunk belonging to the pair, and found one roll of bills amounting to S146: $19 in one dollar bills and a grip full of pennies Besides the money, the pair were well fixed for protection, with three 45 Cit automatics; one No. 12 Winchester and one 30-30 Marlin rife and several hundred rounds of cartridges.
 The woman was searched at the jail by Mrs. Billy Roberson, and upon the first search. S780 was found. Being suspicious by her actions, Mrs. Rober- son gave her a second search, and was rewarded for her trouble by finding S205 neatly folded up in her clothing. Several pearls were also found.
 IA. pings from newspapers, telling of diff erent bank robberies were found. One in particular. which attracted the off, eers attention, was clippine from the Arkansas Gazette telling of the Hut tig robbery.
 The trio arrived in Malvern on Sun day and have been here since They were having several large boats made, and had already placed two of them in the Ouachita river.
 They also had several tents, a quan- tity of tenting, and from all indications were preparing to take long trip down the river. One bunch of keys found in the trunk contained 26 keys of all kinds and descriptions.
 A peculiar incident connected with the affair is that it was discovered, they had bored a small hole in the door of their room, and in several doors in the rooms adjoining theirs. A quan- tity of ether, and a large amount of copper wire, was also found. In fact everything connected with the trio, looked suspicious, and it is the belief of everyone, that the local officers and the Union county officials have made very important arrest, and the peo- pie of Malvern are very thankful that they are removed from our midst.
 The only one of the trio who would do any talking was Taylor, who claims to have been employed by Lewis, and states that they were going down the
 river fishing. They were certainly
 prepared for most any kind of an ex-
 pidition When arrested Lewis was
 buying a pair of overalls. Mrs. Lewis
 sets quietly in jail. calmly reading her
 Bible. She protested vigorously, how ever, when placed in a cell.
 Sheriff Craig and Detective Rock well are positive in their identnfca-
 ton of Lewis, and state, that while he Is a former resident of Union col1ntv