Arizona republican., 1921-08-28
RUBY RAIDERS
 CROSS BORDER
 INTO MEXICO
NOGALES OFFICERS BELIEVE APPRE-
 HENSON OF MEXICAN BANDITS M.
 PROBABLE; PEARSON AND WIFE
 BRUTALLY MURDERED BY BANDITS
tRepubIican A. p. Leased wirel

MORALES. Ariz., Aug. 27.-Me-i- can fiscal agents are hunting for the seven bandits who killed Postmaster Frank Pearson and his wife at Ruoy, Ariz.. yesterday. according to an announcement made today by F. J. Dyer, American consul at Nogales. Sonora. The bandits, who were re- ported to have been Mexicans. are believed to have gone back into Mex ico after killing MT. and Mrs. Pearson and robbhg the pos toffice and store at Ruby, three miles north of the
 international boundary.
 - MT. Dyer made his announcement following conversation with Gen. Carlos Plank. commander of the fis- cal guards in Sonora. whose head quarters are in Magdalena. General Plank told Mir. Dyer that he had number of his men. who correspond to the customs guards in the United States, hunting for the bandits.
 Lieut. R. D. Knapp. a United States army flier of the Twelfth aero squad ron. stationed herr, returned this afternoon from a flight over Ruoy and along the border. He said he had seen no sign of the bandits but did see a bunch of deputy sheriffs and others near the line on the American side. He said they had bloodhounis with them.
 Lieut.. Knapp said he recognized one of the men in the posse as Bgrd
 Yoas of Tubac, and he assumed that Sheriff George J. White of Santa Cruz county had gathered up several
 ranchers in the vicinity Of Tubac and Pima Blanca to send in pursuit of the bandits.
 The flier could nor make landing
 at Ruby, but he did land at the Der
 nard ranch not far from the village.
 He was unable to learn any addition al details of yesterdays shooting, however.
 Apprehension of the bandits is very | improbable according to a report sent
 to United States Marshal J. P. Dill
 lon of Phoenix by Chief of Police J.
 J. Love of this city today. l W. NJ. Purcell of San Marcos, Tex. | a relative of Mrs Pearson, has or
 dered the bodies of bctl. MT. and Mrs Pearson brought to Nogales and cared | for. His message to a local bank | said he was leaving for Nosales in- | mediateiy.
 The bodies of Mir. and Mrs. Pearson
 were brought here. arriving in No | gales about II o'clock The party bringing the bodies here was delayed four hours by washout at one point l in the road.
 | The 1lrSt 0eIalleO account or yeS- | terday's shooting also were brought here by the undertaken who brought | the bodies to this city.
 | According to the undertaken. the seven bandits, all wearing loaded cartridge belts, entered the Pearson
 store at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and said they wanted to purchase some canned goods. As MT. Pearson | turned toward the shelves to fl1l their order. the undertaken said. the oan- ! dits began firing. MT. Pearson inn mediately fell wounded but fired five shots at the bandits as he lay on | the floor.
 Mrs. Pearson was in the living room. but the bandits went there and i dragged her into the store. the u1- | dertaker said. He declared that the | bandits then ordered her to open the safe. She either would not or could
 not open it. the undertaken said. and | the bandits then shot her five times l Mir and Mrs. Pearson each received ! two or three wounds in the head. in | flicted after they had fallen, accord | ing to the undertaken.
 Miss Elizabeth Purcell of San Mar ! cos. Tex, sister O. Mrs Pearson,
 who was wounded by the bandits, i fired one shot at the attacking party before she tainted, according to tEe ! undertaken. It is believed. that Miss | Purcell owes her life to the fact hat she tainted when she was wounded in the hand. It is thought that this 1 caused the bandits to think she w4
 dead.