The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-16
NOTORIOUS
CONVICT IS
CAPTURED
Roy Gardner, Who Els
capped Four Times, Is
Taken in Arizona.

Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. ia ban
dit caught here last night at the
Santa F'e station following an at
tempt to rob a mail car was identi-
fed by finger prints today as Roy
Gardner, who recently escaped from
the federal penitentiary at Nc
NeiPs Island, Wash
According to the police, Gardner
admitted his identity.
Police officers also attempted TO
identify the prisoner as Gardner
by a wound in the leg which he
was reported to have received from
the gun of a guard when he es-
capped from Mcneil Island. The
police were unable to find the
wound and the prisoner maintain
ed that none of the shots fired by
the guards struck him.
Police this morning said that
while there was nothing of unusual
value in the mail on board the car
attacked last night, a local bank
planned TO ship $4,000 from here
today and they believe the would
be robber had been tipped off" to
the shipment, but got the wrong
train.
Captured by Mail Clerk.
The robber boarded the car last
night 10 minutes before the train
was due to leave for Los Angeles.
Herman Inderlied, clerk in charge
of the car. said the first he knew
of the mans presence was when he
felt q gun pressed against his body
and turned around to find mask
ed man holding a revolver against
him. Inderlied, who is feet 2
inches tall and weighs about 215
pounds, struck his assailant, took
his gun away from him, and then
sat on him while he waited for Of
fcers 10 respond to his calls.
Then the bandit was taken to the
county Jail.
While Inderlied was holding his
prisoner, the latter said:
"You've Earned $1,000"
well, you've earned your $4,000
| tonight" referring TO standing
reward offered to mail clerks for
| the capture of mail bandits
Inderlied was called TO the po-
lice station to identify the prisoner
today as his assailant. AS he ap-
preached the prisoner, the latter
held out his hand and said:
you haven't got any hard feel
] ings, have yOu:
| "I've got a wife and child al
home" Inderlied replied.
so have l." Gardner responded
"and if you had had a gun last
night your wife would have been
widow today. l never hurt an un-
armed man. But next time a CUR
is stuck against you, you put VI
your hands-it might not Sbe Roy
Gardner behind the gun"
Refuses to Talk.
Gardner refused to talk about hi'
escape from Mcneil Island. He ad
mitted his identity, but when ques
tened about his escape he said:
I'm not going to tell any NOR,
than l have to. What do you thin
1 am, fool?'
Gardner told police officers tha
he had lived here for three weeks
He blamed the failure of his at
tack last night on the fact tha
Inderlied. white man, was IL
! charge of the car instead of tn
negro mail clerk that Gardne
thought would be in charge. H
! SAlU Nc WAS IAS
would have obeyed the command
to put up his hands.
Gardner confirmed the polio
theory that he intended to try L
get the $4,000 he believed was T.
be shipped, but he denied that b
had any accomphces. Don't yoI
know that 1 always work alone /?
he said when asked about|accomp
Ices.
San Francisco, Calf, Nov. 10
Roy Gardner escaped from McNei
Island, Washington, penitentiar
: on Sept. 5. 1921, by cutting his wa
through a barbed wire fence dur
: ing a prison baseball game an
running through the fields to cove
amid a rain of shots from tn
guards.
He committed two mail robberie
S in California and escaped from hi
guards twice while being taken /
Mcneil Island.