Arizona republican., 1920-01-05
ARREST SUSPECTED SAFEBLOWERS AFTER
 MILES OF TRACKING
Tolleson Store Robbed And Attempt Made To Crack Safe - Suspects Trailed And Captured

Dogged and daring work on the part of Deputy Sheriff A. C. Dewitt early yesterday resulted in the discovery and i arrest of two men known as trank Hendricks, alias Frank Hargent. and Frank Campbell who are suspected by officers of dyanmiting a safe early yes terday at the IT. H. McNeil store in Tolleson and Of rifling postoffice money drawer in the Tolleson store. Hendricks and Campbell are being held for investigation.
 The amount of money taken from the drawer is being ascertained. Manager McNeil stating that some money is known to be missing, but the contents of the safe were found intact. The safe door was wrecked. the knob of the combination lock being blown clear across the room and the lower half of
 the door curled up like so much sheet iron The safe was an ordinary office
 size. probably standing about A inches high. McNeil says he heard three blasts.
 When examined yesterday morning
 it was found that the crack around the edge of the safe door had been soaped i after the fashion of experts, but the officers considered the dynamiting job l had been bungled. Three sacks of su- gar were piled against the door for deadening the sound, and that much
 sugar now is off the market. The in
 ner door of the safe was untouched The vegas entered the store by means of a one-inch bit or augur with which they bored 13 holes around the lock of
 the main door and thereby removed the lock entirely. The bit was found short distance south of Tolleson by man whose name was not learned by Dewitt.
 Deputy Becomes Human Bloodhound Qualifying as a human bloodhound, Dewitt picked up the trail at the place where the bit was found and followed it for six miles through the rain and
 mud. He and Deputy Sheriff Gilbert Blanco had left here for Tolleson early in the morning. immediately after Me Neil phoned in word of the robbery. and Blanco stayed at the store while Dewitt went alone to the place where the bit was found
 He discovered the tracks of a mans ! shoes, broad round toe. broad heel. ap- bearing to be a No. 10 size. and he proceeded to follow the trail down the
 railroad track. The track led him along the ties for six miles back toward Phoenix, but in all that distance he i never lost sight of it. in spite of the i track passed a deserted adobe house. continued for a short distance, and ! then doubled back to the house. De Witt did the Doug Fairbanks act 1 then by stalking straight into the house, even though he had noticed by the tracks that his quarry had com panion and that both men appeared to
 be bigger than himself. He found Hen driclls and Campbell in the house. The deputy had gun handy in his coat pocket and had his hand on it. Dewitt did not attempt to arrest the ! two men at once. but talked to them. They told him they were going to
 Buckeye, and he asked the distance to Phoenix. but they appeared to have no knowledge of the country Then he left and started mil nd hal
 walk to the nearest phone He met a man on the way whom he posted as guard to watch the house and soon aft erward met an auto carrling Police Of ficer J. B. Blea. Deputy Sheriff Evan Wilson. and c. B. Arnold. who is rec ognized here finger print expert ! Arnold had been at the scene of the crime to photograph finger prints | found on the door of the demolished safe, and he claimed to have secured 1 some clear and satisfactory mementos Of the visitors.
 Arrest the Suspects
 The three accompanied Dewitt back to the adobe house. found the men still 1 there. arrested them and brought them
 to the county jail. The men denied the
 allegation Of robbing the store. but their finger prints are said by Dewitt l and Arnold to tally with those photo gr2phed on the safe. Hendricks was lodged in the county jail and Camp | bell was given birth in the city jail both men being held pending further investigation. No personal effects of | importance were found on them The prisoners are big men and appear to be Americans.
 Manager McNeil. who lives across | the street from his store. told the of | ficers that he heard the first "shot" on the safe at about 4 30 a. m.. and that
 two more shots followed almost inn mediately. He went to the store at
 once. he says. but discovered no traces of the intruders. He phoned to the sheriffs office at a. m.. the sheriff all the deputies, and number of the