Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-17
ROY GARDNER is
CAPTURED BY MAIL
CLERK AT PHOENIX

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to shoot him both before and dur
! ing the scuffling.
Identifies Bullets.
Inderlied said he kept the CUR
he took away from the bandit UNI
| til he returned from his run To-Day
when he turned it over to the OIL
GERS. He identified five bullets as
tt, Sc he had taken from. the gun
TWO of the bullets had wooden
noses and the others had lead
noses.
]. c. Wilke, special agent of the
department of justice, who fol-
lowed Inderlied on the stand. said
That Gardner told him this morn
ing that the bullets were so ar
ranged in the gun that in case he
had to fire, the wooden nosed ones
would go first. Gardner eX-
planned, according to VIII"
the wooden nosed bullets con-
tanned small shot that proua 4 .
would stop a man without killing
him,
Wilke also told of visiting the
room that Gardner inhabited dur
ing the twenty-three days he spent
in Phoenix previous to the robbery
and a rope with loops at each emu
and in the center. a3 well as Dag
Of bullets that he said he found IN
the room.
Had No Search Warrant.
After Wilke had finished TESTIFY
ing. Gardner askee MIN II ne nad
a search warrant authorizing him
to search the room. Wilke saln
mo"
The other witnesses were police
officers and others who went 20
the car in response to 1nderlied $
calls. Their stories did not add
much to that told by Inderlied.
After Inderlied testified, Gard
ner asked him to demonstrate eX-
actly how the attack on him was
made. Then Gardner asked me
commissioner to let him have the
gun in order to make the demon
stration more realistic,
Wilke testified that Gardner
told him that yesterday noon as ne
was in the local postoffice. he
heard two bank messengers dis
cussing a $4,000 shipment of
money to Los Angeles. Gardner
said he believed that shipment
would go on Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe train No. 10 last night
It was the mail car on that train
that he attacked. Wilke said the
money actually went on q Southern
Pacific train last night,
Gardner also told newspaper
men here today that he had ex-
pected to find a negro clerk In
charge of the mail car last night,
and that he believed the negro
would have put up his hands when
the gun was pointed toward him.
Postoffioe officials today said the
negro was scheduled to take the
run today,
Identity Revealed.
Gardeners identity was revealed
today when the police photogra-
pher was taking pictures Of him.
The photographer noticed the like
ness between the prisoner, who
had given the name of "R. P. Nell
SON., and a picture on poster no
tifying the police of Gardeners es-
cape from McNeils Island. Com
parison of the prisoner with the
description on the poster and also
with one furnished by postoffice
inspectors In San Francisco COM
pleted the Identification. Then the
prisoner admitted he was Gard
ner and later told how he escaped
from McNeirs Island.
Gardner said that when he made
his dash for liberty curing a pris-
on baseball game. he was wounded |
in each leg by shots from the guns |
Of the guards. He slipped into the |
prison 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 !
.wo more days in the brush on
he island, he said, until HIS
were sufficiently healed to
permit him to swim to the main.
and.
Wandered Down the Coast.
Then he said he wandered down
he coast. stopping at Raymond.
Wash, where he said he took an
automobile in which he drove to
Portland, Ore. Other stops he
aid. were made in Oregon City
Redding, Calf, Napa, Calf, where
MS wife and baby were, Los An
5eles, Bakersfield, San Diego AMI