Arizona republican., 1921-11-22
Roy Cardner's Trail In The Maricopa Mail Robbery Is
 Laid Bare By US. Officers

<7A exercised in testing every link of the chain of evidence forged around the accused, and the completeness with which the facts in the pro posed action are nnarshalled and arrayed have rarely been shown so clearly, in the opinion of federal officials, as in the case of the United States against Roy G. Gardner in the matter of the rob Eastern company at Maricopa on the morning of November 3.
 This case, in which Gardner is to be charged with the robbery. ac- cording to United States District Attorney Thomas A. Flynn, will be presented to the grand jury tomor- row for an indictment against Gardner, who is charged also with the attempted robbery of a Santa Fe mail car at the santa F'e sta ton on the evening of Tuesday, No Vember To.
 The governments case was said yesterday by Attorney Flynn to be one of the most complete cases ever prepared in his office, and is the result of the efforts and con- centration upon the matter in hand of Fred A. Weage, United States deputy marshal; E. D. Chance United States postoffice inspector and B. Kelley, special agent for the Southern Pocific company.
 Start At Once On Trial
 When it was discovered on the morning of November that mail car No POS, Arizona Eastern Rail- way company, had been robbed oi two pouches of registered mail be- tween the hours of 3:45 a. m. and ( K lnp started immediately upon an inves- tigation of the case. Within a few hours the greater part of the loot in the pouches had been found most of which was insurance papers and other matter of no val ue except to the senders. A la yalIiere, which was one of the two valuable pieces in the consignment was found in the dust
 A check upon the matter con- tained in the pouches was insti- day had ended it was known that the only valuable piece of matter ir the stolen mail sacks had been . lady's wrist watch belonging to . young woman in Hayden
 With this watch as basis 1ol operations the officers continued their Investigations, building up . case slowly but surely. and a case which led always back to Phoenix although developments in Casa Grande also engrossed their atten- tion. Then came the attempted robbery of a Santa Fe mail car ai the Santa Fe station here on last Tuesday evening, ana the capture oi the robber by Herman F. Inderlied. railway mail clerk in charge or tne car and Nick Papo of the city po- lice department The capture was followed, the next morning. by the startling announcement that the man under arrest was Roy Gardner nationally known mall bandit, loI whom a search had been conducted by federal officers since September ,, upon which date he had made 2 spectacular escape from the fed eral penitentiary at McNeil Island Puget Sound. where he had 0egnr to serve, just 72 days before. twt 25-year sentences for mail robber' ies at San Diego and Rosevlille both in California.
 Slowly forge Chain
 The attention of the federal ac' thorities here who were concernet with the Maricopa robbery was ini' mediately focused upon Gardiner and while the newspaper readers ol the country were engrossed in thu story of the Santa Fe robbery al Phoenix, at the capture of the ban dit who for two years had been prolific source of thrills for all th' | limited States, three men. Weage | Chance and Kelley, were uncovering
 piece by piece, the clue that pointed
 to Gardner as the man they wanted
 for the Maricopa job.
 Slowly the evidence unfolded l .-of7 after his ina he had been in Phoenix 24 day. The robbery of the Santa Fe mai ear had occurred on the evening o | November Is. Twentx-four day. before that was October 22. Th' three officers. Weage, Chance anC Kelley. found that on October Z. 1 Gardner had registered at the bach' elors Inn, IA East Adarns-anS
 from this starting point what ]: l declared to be perfect case Hal
 been established
 had taken a trip to Casa Grande
 and that he had been at the Bacn elors Inn only on the night or th' 22nd. Then his movements baci 1 and forth were told by the note l register. while a bit of evidence here and another there were added
 surely to the story which neareS l completion every oay
 Has Key Made
 The lady's wrist watch, wnlcf
 had been taken from one or th' stolen pouches was given to the authorities by Mrs. Collins, 10 WhoIl Gardner had given it as security l for room and board. It was idenu- fled at once. Then Let's k Templin. a locksmith, said that h' had made a key for Pullman locl for a stranger who. on October Sl | had brought Pullman lock To hin after he had been informed that { key could not be made unless the lock were used Now, there are 1oul Arizona Eastern mail cars wItt these locks-and none were missing An expert mechanic looked at th' lock on the end door of car zo5 which had been entered by the rob 1 Der, and was unable to tell wheth'
 CT the lock had been removed was taken off and shown to Temp lin, who had placed his private l l. of fn