Arizona republican., 1921-12-08
Life Story Of Roy
 Gardner Is Told
 Tn Federal Court

Tn Federal Court
 tContinued from Page D to California. He then robbed a mail car at Roseville, was captured, pleaded guilty again. and was given another sentence of 25 years. He escaped again and was captured 1t Centralia- He was taken to Nc Neil's Island, and escaped in less than three months.
 Activities in Phoenix
 Concerning his Phoenix activities, he said that he had been in this city 2S days before his arrest for attempt ing to rob a Santa Fe mail car at the depot here on November IS. His att torney, Carl A. Davis, then branched off into Gardner's personal life again and especially his religious beliefs Gardner said that his health was all ways good, and that no injury had ever bothered him except the one on his head at Bisbee. His father is alive, but his mother is dead. When young he went to the Methodist church, but his mother was a good medium, he said, and he studied the principles of spiritualism with her. They held seances together, he said, and attended a spiritualist conven- tion. He could hear and see the spirits which mediums talked about. he said, and always could hear and see them thus. He has two con- trols, he said, Wareeka and White Feather, whom he has known ever since he began to develop.
 Attorney Flynn here took up his cross examination, beginning with the incident in Bisbee which ended in fn4 h in ir1or a summary of his life in that city When Attorney Flynn had entered upon an inquisition into his religious beliefs, Gardner spoke again about his controls, when Judge Sawtelle asked:
 You do not mean to say, Mir Gardner, that your spiritual guides impel you to crime?'
 Attorney Flynn followed with:
 "Wareeka" and "White Feather"
 Were the affairs at San Diego, Roseville and Phoenix carried out by you after consulting with the spirits?"
 Gardner replied: "Whatever I've done has been done by my physical body.''
 Have you a mind?"
 Certainly"
 'what spirit control did you con- sult2"
 ''Wareeka always advised against it."
 Did you consult with your controls at McNeil's Island?''
 White Feather"
 'Is White Feather a good control?"
 Good and bad. He said that I would not be injured, nor would I pass on.' Either he was under another control or he gave me a bum steer for I was wounded"
 Gardner then said that he did not blame the spirits for the trouble in which he launched himself.
 Attorney Flynn then took up the question of Gardner's activities in Phoenix, asking him in particular where he had lived between Oct. 22, when he first arrived here and reg istered at the Bachelors Inn, where he stayed one night, and Nov. 1. when he registered for the second time there. Gardner refused to an- swer, whereupon Judge Sawtelle de- manded a reply. Gardner objecte that the authorities, by an answer to this question, desired to connect oth- CTS with him in the Maricopa rob- bery, but that he would not let them know who his friends were. Davis also objected to the question, but the objection was overruled and Gardner said that he had lived at Seventh and Fillmore streets.
 Prisoner Is Reprimanded Gardner then started to describe | his method of procedure in the Mari | copa robbery. He was reprimanded | once for asking Attorney Flynn ques- l tions. When he was interrogated con- l corning the missing mail sacks he re- | fused to tell where they were, giv- l ing as a reason that Inspector Chance l fr,s4 !, 1,., | Sawtelle had warned Gardner several times that he must answer, and when l Gardner made this answer and re- | fused to say more, Judge Sawtelle told the jury why he did not punish the prisoner for contempt.
 The testimony here turned to the robbery of the Santa F'e car at Phoe- nix, which resulted in Gardner's cap- 1 ture by Herman F. Inderlied. Attor- ney Flynn began his cross -examina- | ton on this subject by exhibiting a notebook which had been found | among Gardner'S possessions. and | which Gardner said he had found in | a small building at the state fair ] grounds during. the automobile races.
 Rotations in the book concerning
 Mack Gardner, local jeweler were explained by the prisoner as having been jotted down because of his in- tereSt Tn the TacC that the JeWeleT
 had the same name as himself, and
 not, as intimated by Attorney Flynn
 because he knew that Mack Gardner
 was a jeweler. Asked about automo-
 bile numbers found in the book l Gardner was requested to tell where he had got the numbers. He saiC that he obtained them to keep tai on a certain place in Phoenix. What place. asked Flynn. T won't tell you," he said. Answer to the question:" saiC Judge Sawtelle.
 'In front of the postofficei" Afternoon Session This ended the morning session After luncheon Gardner apologized t, Judge Sawtelle for his action of tn forenoon, and then he continued hi description of the robbery of tn Santa Fe car. He identified tw short pieces of cord that he had GU from a mail sack preparatory { \ using them to tie up the mail clerk