Arizona republican., 1921-11-17

sion Of the gun during the struggle and receiving a negative answer, ne said:
 Did the party to whom you refer have the gun during the struggle
 He did.'
 "Why didn't he use it?"
 'T don't know"
 Did he press your body with the gun?"
 He put 1t close to me"
 'In the struggle did you grab the gum"
 "No, I grabbed the party's wrist"
 Could you have kept the party from shooting you?"
 T don't know
 Re-enact Dramatic Struggle
 When this colloquy had been ended Gardner stepped from his chair to the witness stand, and he and lnderlleo staged a dramatic rendering of the scuffle. He and Inderlied are about the same height, and both looked hhe real s'he-men" as they faced each other. Gardner asked for the gun, whereupon the audience laughter and Flynn told him to proceed. Carrylng his hand as if there were a gun In II he slapped at Inderlied's hands as II brushing the letters from them, ana then seized him by the back of the neck, forcing him nearly to the floor. When he released his hold, 1nderned, whose face was near the hand sup posed to hold the gun, suddenly grabbed the wrist and seized Gard ner by the back hair. As he held Gardner's right hand with arm out stretched from the shoulder, the pris- oner slowly turned his wrist until the imaginary gun pointed straight at Inderlied's head, and then, looking the witness in the eye, he said:
 "Could I have shot you?"
 Gardner then continued his cross examination by asking Inderlied if 1t was the Iatter's custom to take off his gun when entering the mail car before going to work, and then said:
 Who is this party in the mask you talk about"
 Inderlied looked sQuarely at the prisoner and said:
 You"
 shove Knowledge Of Cars
 Gardner then caused another laugh when, in asking Inderlied if the lat ter had laid his gun on the paper table in the center of the car, he dis played his knowledge of mail cars. In general.
 "Where did you lay your gun!" he asked.
 1On the table" Inderlied replied. What table?"
 "The table at the end of the car" Then Gardner smiled as he in- quired:
 "The shorseshoe' table?' And while the audience laughed rnderlied smiled and said: "Yes, the horseshoe table" This ended the examination of h. derlied. The next witness was Nick Papo, motorcycle officer with the Phoenix police department. He told how he had gone to the Santa Fe station in response to telephone call to the police station. and how he and Officer E. A. Edwards entered the car and found l.. J. Swarens, special officer for the Santa Fe, already there. Gardner, or .'Mr. Nelson" as Gardner called himself when arrest ed and Inderlied, were still scuffling on the floor. Papo seized Gardner's arm, he said, and twisted it. where upon Gardner said:
 Don't break iti"
 Mentioned Accomplies
 Papo and Edwards then took Gard ner to the jail, where they asked him. Papo said, why he had tried to hold up a mail car in Phoenix.
 .sWhy does a man try to hold up any mail car?" the prisoner replied
 Then they asked Gardner, Papo said. where his partner was ,,,
 q think the son-of-a-gun Is stin running" Gardner is said to have l answered.
 Papo then Identified for the gov- ernment revolver scabbard and belt which the police had taken from Gardner at the jail. The belt, oi woven khaki, was slung around Gard ner's neck under his shirt in such fashion as to bring the gun directly over his heart, where it could DC reached quickly by his right hand. Papo was then cross examined D3 Gardner, who brought another smile to the faces of the audience when ht 1 asked the officer if it was his custom | to twist the arms of mail robbers whereupon Papo replied with another smile that this was his first experi- ence with any mail robber. Was After Currency Shipment | The next witness was J. D. Wilkfe special agent of the department O | justice He told of interyiewint | Gardner yesterday morning, whel | Gardner showed him the tattoo mark | on his arm. Gardner told him, h. said. that he was standing in tn I postofffce lobby yesterday when tw' 1 bank employees came in with pack age which Gardner took to contail l currency. When the bank employe went to the registry window he sai' l that he followed them and hear lthem consign the package to To
 Angeles, and overheard enough of tn
 conversation to learn that the pack age contained 15,000, which was be ing shipped by the National Bank 0
 Arizona.
 He immediately made up his min
 that the money would leave on tn
 Santa F'e train in the evening, am
 laid his plans accordingly. He woui
 not reveal. WillSie said, how he SC
 into the car, or when. He was ther'
 however, when Inderlied enterted i