The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-11-23
ROY GARDNER|S
TAKEN IN ARIZONA
SANTA FE MAIL CLERK FoILS
ROBBER AS GUN IS HELD
AGAINST BODY; GETS 5000
Prisoner Claims He Acted Calamity
In Sparing Life or Railway En-
pIoye Because He Saw Man
Was Brave and Unarmed


here last Tuesday night at the Santa
Fe station, following an attempt to rob
4 maiIcar, was identified by finger
prints Wednesday as Roy Gardner. who
recently escaped from the federal peni-
tertiary at McNeiI's island
According to the police. Gardner adj
Gitted his identity.
Police Wednesday morning said that.
while there was nothing Of unusual val
,s in the mail on board the car at
acs;ed Tuesday night, local bank
tanned 10 ship $4,000 from here We'd
.esday, and they believe the void be
obber had been tipped off to the
shipment. but got the wrong train
The ma;Icar attacked Tuesday night
gas on Atch;son. Topeka & Santa Fe
train No. 10. The robber boarded the
ar ten minutes before the train was
.le 10 leave for Los Angeles, and il
: the theory of local officers that he
attended To ride TO a nearby station.
here, they believe. lie had accom-
8lices waiting for him
L Charge OF the car. said he was not
1oking when the wouIibe robber got
Il the car, and that The first he knew
Il the others presence was when he
teit gun pressed against his body anil
urned around to find a masked man
holding a revolver against him. Inder-
ed. who is 6 feet inches tall and
Weighs about 2I5 pounds, struck his
tssaEIant. took his gun away from him
nd then sat on him while he waited
or officers 10 respond to his calls
Then the bandit was taken to the
county Jail. where he said he was r.
p. Nelson of Chicago"
Inderlied went out with his car Tues
lay night.
While Interlied was holding his pris-
}ncr. the latter said. SWELL. you've
canned YOUR $500 tonight" referring
% d standing reward offered to mail
clerks for the capture of mail bandits
Another Santa Fe train was stand
NJ on track at the local Station.
lust few feet from No. 40, and a
rine guards in the mailcar. was at the
Southern Pacific station quarter of
= block away, when Interlied was at
tackled.
Interiied, who returned 10 Phoenix
Wednesday. was called 10 the police
station TO identify the prisoner formal
| " Us his assailant. As he approached
lie prisoner. the latter held out his
| hand and said. 'Tou haven't got any
hard feelings have you:"
I've got wife and child at home"
Interlied replied.
| $50 have L. responded Gardner.
and if you had had gun last night
| YOUR wife would have been a widow
| today. / never hurt an unarmed man
But next time gun is stuck against
YOU. you put up your hands. 1t might
not be Roy Gardner behind the gun"
| San Francisco-Roy Gardner escap-
| ed from McNeiI'S island. Washington
| penitenIiary. September ). 1921. by
i cutting his way through the barbed
wire fence during Il prison baseball
game and running through the fields
to cover amid a rain of shots from the
| guards.
A Gordon was thrown around the is
land and watch kept for weeks. but
Gardner was not found Prison off.
Gals later said they thought he reach
ed the mainland the hight after the
guard was withdrawn.
Two convicrs. former soldiers a,
Camp Lewis. serving life sentences fol
statutory offenseS, also made a dash
for liberty with Gardner. One of them
was killed. the other wounded
Gardner committed two mail robber
les in California and escaped from hi:
guards twice while being taken TO pris
on The first robbery was of mai
wagon at San Diego in April. 1870. h:
loot being $500. all of which was ne
covered.