Bisbee daily review., 1921-11-17


 been convicted of the offense of man ufacturiAg liquor.
 
 returned from his run today, when he turned it over to the officers. He identified five bullets as those he had taken from the gun. Two of the bull lets had wooden noses and the others had lead noses.
 Did Not Wish to Kill
 J. E. Wilke, special agent of the department of justice, who followed Inderlied on the stand, said that Gardner told him this morning that the bullets were so arranged in the gun that in case he had to fire, the wooden nosed ones would go first. Gardner explained, according to Wilke that the wooden nosed bullets con- tained small shot that probably would stop a man without killing him.
 Wilke also told of visiting the room that Gardner inhabited during the 23 days he spent in Phoenix previous to the robbery and a rope with loops at each end and in the center as well as a bag of bullets that he said he found in the room.
 After Wilke had finished testifying, Gardner asked him if he had search warrant authorizing him to search the room. Wilke said No"
 That other witnesses were police officers and others who wvnI tu t,re car ill response to Inderlied's calls. Their stories did not add much to that told by Inderlled.
 After Inderlied testified, Gardner asked him to demonstrate exactly how the attack on him was made. Then Gardner asked the commission CT to let him have the gun in order to make the demonstration more real istic. The commissioner refused.
 Wilke testified that Gardner told him that yesterday noon as he was in the local post office, he heard two bank messengers discussing a S15,000 shipment of money to Los Angeles. Gardner said he had reason to believe that shipment would go on Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train No. ITO last night. It was the mail car on that train that he attacked. Wilke said the money actually went on a Southern Pacific train last night.
 Gardner also told newspaper men here today that he had expected to find a negro clerk in charge Of the mail car last night and that he be- lieved the negro would have put up his hands when the gun was pointed toward him. Postoffice officials to- day said the negro was scheduled to take the run today.
 Tells of His Escape
 lt1r6nnrc iHanri.xr raNnnln1 fn- day when the police photographer was taking pictures of him. The noticed the likeness be- tween the prisoner, who had given the name of R. P. Nelson, and a pie ture on a poster notifying the police of Gardners escape from McNeil's Island. Comparison Or sne prisoner with the description on the poster and also with one furnished by post office inspectors in San Francisco completed the identification Then the prisoner admitted he was Gard ner and later told how he escaped from McNeils Island.
 uardner said that when he made his dash for liberty during a prison baseball game, he Was ,vounueG III each leg by shots from the guns UT the guards. He slipped into the pris- on barn, he said, where he stayed for three days, living on milk from a nearby herd of cows. Then he left the barn and spent two mure oays I'll the brush on the island, he said, until his wounds were sufficieE;:y ncaiuu to permit him to swim to the main land.
 Then he said he wandered down the coast, stopping at Raymond, Washington, where he said he touk an automobile in which he drove to Portland. Oregon. Other stops, he said were made in Oregon City, Red ding, California, Napa, California, where his wife and baby were; Los Angeles, Bakersfield, San Diego and finally reaching MeXicaii, Lower Cal ifornia, from where he came to Phoe- nix, via Yuma and Maricopa. Ariz.
 Most of his travelling, he said, was done on motorcycle, although some of it was on freight trains and the last part of the journey to Phoenix was on passenger train.