Arizona republican., 1918-12-15

soon as possible that he might be spared the loss of more time than was necessary.
 An effort was made 10 identify Craig with a Mohave county gang which has been operating in the southern part of the county for some months and IS supposed to have furnished the greater part of the bootleg whisky that has been brought into Phoenix. Craig de- nied that he was in partnership with anybody, though he admitted that he knew, and was on friendly terms with the leaders of the gang, though he dis claimed any knowledge of their trans actions in whisky.
 About every other traveller who comes into Phoenix over that route reports that he has been held up by a class of men locally known as high iackers." It is supposed that they are looking for whisky that is being brought in by others than regularly or dained members of the gang. Some times they are masked and at other times they represent themselves to be rangers or deputy sheriffs engaged in the enforcement of the prohibition law. They have contented themselves with taking such whisky as they,have found,
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 Craig said yesterday that he had been stopped by several men who told him of the presence of the officers ahead and advised him to cache his scargo He did so but later he said he went back after it and found it had been stolen. He began a hunt for 1t and recovered half of the IS cases kwith which he said he left Needles on Wednesday. His story of his misad- ventures with the high -jackers' is re- garded by the officers as a fairy tale In the first place he could not in that time have covered the ground he said he did and have conducted such an exhaustive search for his stolen whisky as he has described.
 Then, again, the sacks in which the bottles were enclosed were still damp and covered with sand, indicating that they had recently been buried in the bottom of some draw" Craig said that he had recovered the stolen whisky from behind bushes over large area of the desert. The officers. l therefore, believe that this whisky was | not lately brought into the state, but 1 that it is a part of a large cache | which, according to information that i has reached them, consists of $35,Oo0 worth of whisky.
 Craig bears striking resemblance | to the late Jack London. He is of pleasing appearance and talks with apparent frankness, looking straight 1 into the eyes of his hearers. But the manner in which he sped over the | desert left no doubt of his dare- devil character and the fact that he was armed with a revolver, pump gun loaded with buckshot and a knife which would be a murderous weapon at close quarters, leads to the belief that he would make a finish fight against officers.
 Craig did not say that this was his initial venture in the transportation of whisky. He said that he had gone into it for the money there was in it, for he was in most urgent need of money to pay for lot of cattle on which ne had paid s4000. He stood to lose that much if he could not complete pay ment.
 Further questioning of him brought out that he knew most of the best known bootleggers who have operated in this section, among them Brown, who was killed by Constable Burch last summer. When he was told that Burch was the slayer of Brown he said: If I had known that I would have stopped my car sooner than | did.'