Arizona republican., 1918-02-21
PEROXIDE bOB' |S ROUNDED UP
 |NLOS ANGELES

When Robert St. Clair, convicted in the Maricopa county superior court of stealing bicycles, was sen fenced to serve from eight to ten years in the state prison at Florence. those who knew the man were free in expressing their opinion that he would never complete his term. As a jail breaker he was known to have few equals. As a smooth article in the criminal line he was consid- cred about without peer So little wonder was expressed when he walked out of the gates of the peni- tentiary a few weeks after he had been committed and disappeared com pletely. All the officers did was to institute a nation-W wide search for the man.
 Now comes word that St Clair, under the name of RobertaC c. DueVey. alleged to be a bigamist, forger and master crook by his own confession, is under arrest in Los Angeles for jumping bail furnished on August &, 1916. for his appearance on January ?. 1917, charged with victimizing the Farmers and Merchants bank out or $500 by means of forged certified checks. Following his arrest and con- fessiOn of victimizing the Los An geles bank a searching investigation of DueNey or St. Clair was begun by the Los Angeles detective bureau.
 First of all the Los Angeles off, cers succeeded in locating Mrs. Laura Games, a scrubwoman in the Story building in Los Angeles, who identi- fled DueVey as the safe blower who choked and beat her when she dis covered him at work on the safe in the office of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company.
 That's the man. she said the in- stant she saw DueVey. DueVey es- caped from the Story building leaving behind d quantity of safe cracker tools.
 Officials of the Farmers and Mer- chants bank are said to have iden- tified DueVey as the man who cashed forged certified checks on that bank to the amount of $500 several weeks ago.
 No man arrested by the Phoenix police in recent years has given the officers more thrills or more to think about than DueNey. When he Was first known to be operating in Phoe- nix he was thought to be connected with a gang of alleged crooks and confidence men. Later it was shown that he was operating in Arizona without the assistance of anyone. He stole several bicycles and it was in disposing of these that Plainclothes- man John J. McGrath ran across his track. He was arrested and locked up in the city jail. Less than AS hours after being incarcerated he managed to make his escape by pry- ing the top of his cell door out far enough to admit him to slip over the top. The outer door was opened and he easily made his way from the city hall building.
 It was nearly a month later that word of St. Clair, as he was known here was received by the police. A man had been acting strangely on East Mckinley street. Policeman McGrath and Strathy answered the call and when they searched the house where neighbors said a strange man was in hiding they encountered St. Clair. But it was not the St. Clair of a month previous. He had bleached his hair until his hirsute appendages were real Irish red, whereas St. Clair. when he escaped ndQ raven DIdCk- ndlr. Sl. NldlI smiled weakly when the officers told him the jig was up and that they recognized him.
 When he was again locked up at the city jail he was placed in an in- | ner cell, double locked. His arraign- ment was brought about speedily and 1 he was soon on his way to Florence. | Since his escape from Florence he | has been traifed to Texas and to Las | Vegas, N. M. The last word from
 him was that he had joined the woman with whom he is declared to
 be infatuated and who had gone to : California. It was this woman who 1 for weeks hid the little man in her l trunk and fed him at such times as l the coast seemed to be clear. It was on an occasion when he was stretch | ing his cramped limbs and breathing
 little fresh air that the East Me
 Kinley street people informed the po-
 lice of his whereabouts and brought about his re-arrest.