Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-10
Now in Custody With Ola Mathews Is i. Apprhended After Vicious Attack on
 w. H. Carter -S1 200 Stolen From Man
 Who is Then Left and Thought Dead
BSbee Two Months Ago. Arrested by Fl PaSo Police at Wrestling Match Being Put on in That City Recently

Charles Irwin Crouch, who wa: born and raised in. Bisbee, is under arrest in Eastland, Texas, on z charge of robbery and assault to mur der. He was arrested in Fl Paso with a woman who gave her name as Ola Mathews, alias Helen Dean, and was taken back to Eastland on Mon day. They are charged with attack ing and robbing a man named w. H Carter, of tue sum of $1200 on the 16th of June this year
 Crouch is we'll known in the War ren district, he has been in the police court a number of times for fight ing and other charges and several years ago to save himself from going to the penitentiary on a charge of pandring he was allowed to marry a young girl of the Warren District He lived with her only a short time and seerredi Q divorce and was then married to a young lady by the name of Maud Krump of Mace, Mrs. Crouch is at present living at Low ell.
 Crouch has not been in the Warren District much for the past two years, he was in the navy, came back here and stayed a few months, and left for the Texas oil fields about two months ago.
 The local police were notified by wire several days ago to hold Crouch and his female ,accomplice if they ap- peared in Bisbee and to notify Sher- fff IT n I Tawranoa of TaofIond Taxoc The police also were asked to hold all money found on Crouch in the event he was picked up.
 The Ranger Times of Saturday, July 5th,' has the following to say about the case:
 "Six hours of gruelling cross-ques- tioning, wearing down the patience of officers and prisoner-six hours of denial and refutation and conflicting statements-then John R. Rayburn, youthful oil field worker, broke down at police headquarters last night and told the officers what they wanted to know. The signed confession to the part the police believe he took in the vicious attack on w. H. Carter, who was cruelty beaten up and robbed of $1 200 on June 16, is in the hands of the police.
 Irwin Crouch, 22 years old. and Helen Dean, other member of the trio who are charged with the robbery are under arrest in Fl Paso and local officers are on their way from the border city with the pair
 Pacing a blank wall in the way of evidence pointing toward the identity of the alleged highway trio, Chief of Police G. G. Flournoy's officers fol. lowed what meager clues were left and constructed a chain of evidence the story of which reads like page torn from the Tip Top Weekly.
 Garter, the victim of the robbery, from the day that he staggered into police headquarters, aided by Bob DaI- ton. to whose hotel he came, bruised and bleeding from the attack, up to the moment of Rayburn's arrest Fri day evening, gave the officers little help. They must be given credit for persistent work in the face of the big difficulties.
 Garter boasts of Sioux Indian affair formerly was his sweetheart, the pOllce say. lie cuOSe lne lIl- dian's idea of justice and would have kept to himself what he knew of the robbery, after he had recovered con sciousness and was able to talk
 1.-TWO hours and more of question: ing at the Ranger hospital, were nee essary to elicit from Carter what little he would tell. He had met Crouch on the day of his arrival. He had been invited to the shack with Crouch and the Dean woman for supper. and there met a lad they called "Slim. " He knew no other name for this man. It was Rayburn, officer Haynie states. Carter had never seen Crouch before that day and knew him only as a drinking companion, the officers say.
 Horribly beaten up, he recovered consciousness early next morning on the floor of an abandoned oil derrick near Ranger and grouped his way to the Dalton hotel.
 Carter at the Ranger hospital