Arizona republican., 1921-11-20
ROY CABINETS
 WIFE HERE SAYS. SHE WILL STICK

Jail And Reminds Him
 Of Past Promises; She
 Will Remain For The
 Trial
 Resolved to do everything in her power for her erring husband and to continue until the end of his forth coming trial the ministrations Of her affection and sympathy, Mrs Flor ence Gardner, whom her husband calls .'sDoll,'' arrived in Phoenix yes terday from San Francisco.
 Displaying in her words and &C., tions during the day no illusions con- corning the Roy G. Gardner who for two years has played hide-and- seek with the police authorities of the West after attempting two of the greatest mail robberies in the history of the Pacific coast, Mrs. Gardner met her husband at the county iail with just that mingling of affection and disapproval which showed her to be what her appearance had indi- cated when she walked into Marshal J. F. Dillon's office after leaving the train-wife who loved her husband, and woman who knew that he had taken the wrong path.
 Mrs. Gardner is an unusually at- tractive and pretty blonde, but her features are regular and her com- plexion is of the real peaches and cream type. Her 24 years-five of which have been spent as the wife of Roy Gardner-rest easily on her, and she seems even younger than she is. Dressed smartly but unobtrusively, she presented a trim picture as she str hof Io la .f terday morning behind which Gard ner, in faded blue trousers, khaki shirt and wrinkled tie, greeted her and talked with her for more than an hour and half.
 Greets Husband Through Bars
 Mrs. Gardner went to the office of the United States marshal imme- 6iately after having arrived here and registered at a hotel. Marshal Dillon admitted afterward that when she stood before his desk and told him that she was Mrs. Roy Gardner and that she desired a pass to enter the county jail to see her husband, he had to think twice before he had erased from his mind his preconceived idea of what Gardner's wife should look like. The pass was made out and the marshal accompanied her to the jail. NCLt eSliy a6lls ndS dIollS1 . comment as she stepped before the bars of his cell and clasped his hands through the steel. Then, sitting on a prison cot outside the cell. Mrs Gardner talked with her husband on all subjects near to them-their A. r-old daughter Jean; his escape from McNeil's Island; his wander ings; his personal appearance; her life since he began his ramblings on Sept. 5; his present entanglement and it's probable results, and the charge which has been preferred against him | by Mexican girl. It was just such talk, barring the sinister words that
 must be spoken when the dull clang of prison gates strikes upon the
 minds of the speakers, as any hus- | band and wife would have after g
 short separation. Through it all | however, ran the note of Mrs. Gard
 ner's disapproval of her husbands
 actions, and especially his leaving 1 McNeirs Island and the consequent | blasting of his hopes, as she believes Of shortening his penitentiary sen l tences.
 Notices Changed Hair Color II After commenting upon his appear.
 ance, which she termed haggard, sh'
 noticed his hair.
 Since when have you become ,
 blonde, Roy?" she asked.
 Gardner laughed.
 Peroxide seems to become me
 doesn't it, dear?" he replied.
 After a few other words she aske'
 him about the assault charge whicl
 has been preferred against him by
 Mexican girl.
 Nothing to 1t at all,'' he said, "n
 more than that stone wall there. YoI
 know I wouldn't do anything lik that"
 He then told her that he had som other clothes and that he also had little money. Immediately the ques ton of his escapades came up agair "Why didn't you go into Old Mex ico and stay there? Why didn't yo be good?" asked Mrs. Gardner. T didn't have chance" "You did have a chance" Mir! Gardner said vehemently. In you letter to President Harding yo promised to be good. I'm going t talk plainly to you. I don't approv of this-not at all.'
 Then she told him that he had a much chance as she -aid-that she ha worked and that was what he shoul have done. He answered her ques tions easily and humorously, with a that cheeriness and quick wit whic has made friends for him during hi entire lifetime.
 This characteristic was show when Mrs. Gardner told him that sh liked his nerve in taking her maide name (Nelson) when he was arrested Well" he retorted, T had rigt to it. You took my name, didn your"
 Glad She Game Then they talked about the daughter, of the long hours whe Mrs. Gardner waited for her hus bands return to her after his escaE R from McNeiPs Island. of such domes tic things as the taste of her hC biscuits at home, and of her refusi \ to answer letters which had bee k smuggled to her from him at tf island. When she left Gardn' \ pinched her cheek through the bar k She turned and said: Are you glad I came?" You bet" said Gardner, you bet M During the day Mrs. Gardner ws busy with Carl Davis, local attorne who is representing Gardner. ar with her husband, whom she visitt K again. During diner, which she toe at a cafe, she was interviewed ar \ opol-e onenIv and without reserve