Arizona republican., 1918-02-03
|S CHARGED BY MEN
 IN COUNTY WORK

A woman's alleged attempt to tip off her husband and his half brother is responsible, the police say, for the breaking up of what may have been the biggest ring of wholesale bootleg gers operating in this city.
 The arrest in Buckeye Friday of Mrs Belle Evans. her husband, Cole Evans, and his brother. Earl Erwin, who were taken into custody early yes terday morning after a sensational chase with the officers in which shots were exchanged, and the subsequent arrest of James Mclaughlin and J. A. Mcdonald, who were captured driving truck laden with Wi.;skey. featured the joint activities of the sheriffs of- flee and that of the county attorney for the past 24 hours.
 That there may be others in the al- legged gang" is the belief of the au- thorities. who noted the escape of one of the automobiles as they trailed that of Evans. A shot was fired into the car that whizzed by the officers. but whether it took effect upon the occu- pants is not known. There were no cutcries as the machine passed on it's way to Phoenix from the Buckeye country.
 No Liquor in Car When Evans and Cole were captured their car was empty of all liquor, the men having started downward double tracking through Palo Verde and the desert, and going back over the ground toward Phoenix. Quick work of the deputies resulted in a quantity of liquor being found in the brush on the desert and confiscated.
 Both Evans and Cole protest their innocence. They invited the authori- ties to search the car, which resulted in the finding, it is said, of particles ef a broken bottle storm curtains and saturated robes
 The officers have definite informa- = tion relative to purchase of liquor by two men from the Boone Spring Disti1lery company of Los Angeles on January 2S. the exact quantity being 31 cases of Cedarbrook whiskey, to- i Scther with F bottles alleged to have | been appropriated for road use, and g burlap sacks, also sold by the liquor 1 company at II cents each. It is un- ] derstood that the total bill paid by 1 them to the company on January SC was $e3350
 For some time the sheriffs office i has been suspicious of the group whose arrest has been effected. On Thurs day night the authorities suspicioned so they say. that Mrs. Evans, who is the proprietress of the Den, was tC give warning to men transporting liquor from California to Arizona tC be on guard for the officers. Mrs Evans, it is said, left town in a rented Hudson Super Six for Buckeye, the deputies following closely.
 All of Friday night and until day break Saturday morning. Deputies F, J. Warren, Charles Nafzinger, H. F Watson, Don Johns and Officers Trac, and Jones of Buckeye watched ant waited in Buckeye for the expected liquor-laden car. Finally two machine approached, and seeing the county car parked on either side of the road. tn driver turned out his lights and sho ahead at full speed when the orde came to halt. The driver is said t have fired the first shot, which me with return shot from the gun of al officer. One of the cars turned t the desert, over which it had travelled and where it is believed the liquor wa disposed of and which later was re covered. and then made for the roat Here the car was halted and Evan and Erwin placed under arrest. Tn other car, in the meantime. made
 getaway, but the occupants are know to the sheriff and the arrest is locke for at any hour.
 l Mclaughlin and Mcdonald als caught in the Buckeye valley. wer bringing in what is believed to hay been part of the same lot of liquo purchased in Los Angeles. They hay been charged with transporting liquc within Maricopa county because tn evidence. the officers claim, is nc plain as to whether or net they brougf the Cedarbrook over the Californi line.
 Evans and Erwin have been charge with transporting liquor into the stat and Mrs. Evans is charged as bein an accessory. The bond of the thre has been placed at sI5o0 by Juds Stanford.
 Mclaughlin has been in the loc
 courts on a charge of violating tf
 prohibition amendment and failed 1 appear. A bench warrant was issue
 for his arrest, and the first time u
 officers located him was when the
 discovered him driving the truck ne;
 Palo Verde