Weekly journal-miner., 1921-04-13
QUICK WORK IF DEPUTY LANDS
 STORE LOOTER
From Wednesdays Daily)

(From Wednesdays Daily)
 That Prescott is due for disap- pointment in the matter of crime sensations, is the opinion of those who watched the speed with which the sheriffs office yesterday corral led, roped and rounded up one of the men implicated in the footing Of Ed Blocks clothing store oh South e Montezuma street early yesterday morning.
 Hardly had crime begun to wave in the city, than the officials decided it was time to try some other form of signaling, and within 45 minutes of the time the sheriff's office was notified of the latest in the five-day series of store robberies that have been furnishing copy to the report CTS. apprehensionS to local business men and sensations to the public, Deputy Sheriff Grant Carter had one of the suspects waving a white flag. His name is Fidel Segura, and he is now waiving crime in the county jail.
 When Block entered his store at 7:3O o'clock yesterday morning, he found that someone had smashed in a window pane in the outer rear door of the Wellington building adjoining his. store, had entered the place by opening the inner door with a skele- ton key, and had cleared the show window of its contents. The room was used by Block for display pur- poses, practically nothing but the show window being utilized. Eigh- teen pairs of Hamon and Douglas shoes, one pair of fine cowboy boots and a quantity of mems trousers were taken.
 Block speedily notified the sheriff : office of the robbery, and within a few minutes Deputy Sheriff Garter was on the ground to scrutinize the evidence. He didn't scrutinize long however, before he set out to trail the tracks of two men left in the soft earth One set of tracks had been made by pair of No. 8 shoes the other by pair of No. los.
 Trailing the men by the tracks Deputy Carter lost them severa' times where more recent passersby on we1l-used walks had blurred then but always he picked up the trai again, and when he saw people walk ing on the tracks, he shouted tc them to get off those tracks" They thought he was a harmless cuckoo and obeyed They knew he was : sheriff.
 The trail led north along Granite street, west on Gurley, across { vacant lot at the corner of Gurley and Mccormick, and once outside the business section, made for tho Santa Fe tracks. Then when Garter arrived at the power house acros: the Santa Fe tracks, his trail led hin straight to his quarry, in the. persor of a man making off with a grea roll of bedding over his shoulders
 It was Fidcl Segura, and Garter knew It was one Ot the men ne wa: looking for. An order to Segurs not to make any more footprints ii the damp earth, a quick investigation of the bedding roll and Carter haC his man. The search revealed the goods taken from Ed Blocks store and it also revealed pair of fielt glasses stolen from the repair shoI of Stitch & Cain Saturday night Evidently, the recent robberies haC been the work of single crew.
 Questioned by Sheriff Warrer Davis, Segura denied stealing tho field glasses, but tke shcriff'S office remains convinced that the prisoner is implicated iii Saturday night: footing, and that the loot is as neal at hand as was that taken iron Blocks store.
 The arrest of Segura'S partner 1T the crime is expected hourly.