Bisbee daily review., 1918-01-11
.FATES PREVENT THIS DISTRICT FROM ACTS
 OF OUTLAW BAND
Sundeen, Schiller, Fruit and Others Planned to Rob and Steal in District, But Failed. Foiied in One Attempt.

Louis Sundeen and Barney Slhiller, who were sentenced on Tuesday to life imprisonment in the penitentisry st Florence. are now safely behind the walls at Florence. They were taken there Wednesday by Sheriff Niles and his deputies in two ma chimes. A force of extra deputies were taken part way 10 Florence on se count of the report that an attempt would be made to take the prisoners away from the officers and lynch them.
 Alfr5d Pruitt and the policeman. Nelson. are to he tried for being i'm plicate6 in the case and it is probable that both Schiller and Sun6een will be taken back to Tucson to testify against them.
 This community was fortunate that | it escaped with a few thefts by the gang and that it was not a Warren District citizen that was killed while they were trying to pull off a robbery. From the confession made at Tucson and admission made by both Schiller and Sundeen a number of plans were made 10 pull off stunts in this district but they failed 10 materialize through some cause or other. Sundeen and a man named Newton North. a room mate of Schiller'S. Paddy McElvoy. and the Pruitt boy. left here ir an automobile. according to the statement Of Schiller and Sundeen. and went to SaSco to hold up the Wells Fargo agent there, but they did not like the looks Of things and came back and it was a good thing for them that they did not try to pull it off. as Sheriff Rye Miles and two or three deputies were laying for them with shot guns icaced with buckshOt- This was just the day prior to the coming back of NcElvoy and the taking of his wife to ROdeo to keep her from being ar rested on a charge Of selling whisky
 Sundeen, according 10 Schiller and John Ellis Ross. also of Bishee. had a job planned to blow up a safe of a butcher establishment in Brewery Gulch some pay day night and get away with the money. They were to get the powder from the Shattuck mines where they were working Pruitt and Sundeen came back from Tucson and were going to steal a car a Hudson Super Six. that was al Os- born so they claimed. but when they went there il was chained down and they could not get it. but officers are now trying to connect the gang with the theft of Hudson Six at Douglas on the night of December sIst. when the car of Bert Hockett was stolen.
 According to Schiller he and Johr Ellis Ross had a job plsnnei to hold up an old man named Muidoon in the Johnson Addition whom they claimed was selling whisky. Ross went into his cabin and he says that he was buy ing some whisky and that Schiller came m and that MuldoOn. suspecting something. started toward Ross and called them names and that he. Ross. picked up a club and knocked Null 0ooR down tc his knees and that Schil. Ter lost his gun in the excitement and that Nuldoon was about tO get hold or II and that they both had to get out of the room for fear of being shot. Blaokie. or Schiller, wanted to 20 back and get the gun. but Ross talked hin, out of it. MuldOOn never reported the matter to the officers. but he was seen around about the time the alleged transaction was to have been pulled or with his head all bandaged up.
 Fruit. according 10 the others. stole diamond ring somewhere and it was pawned in Brewery Gulch so that he and Sundeen could get money 10 go to Tucson. Pruitt also claims that Sun deen was taken by him to Douglas and that while he was there Sundeen rolled a man of S1S5. but so far the officers have been unable 10 locate this man, and there was no report Of it made.
 The work of the officers in Pima and Ccchise county in rounding up the bunch of outlaws will meet with the approval of all law-ahiding citizens and will show to that element that southern Arizona is no place for them 10 ply their trade.