Arizona republican., 1921-02-02
|DEN THY MAN HELD HERE AS
 TEMPE BANDIT
Man Wounded In Holdup And Three Others Declare Tomas Roman Was One Of MurdererS

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 Of Murderers
 Thomas Roman, alleged slayer of c. M Spangler, night marshal of Tempe, and 10-year- old August Hintze, yes terday was positively identified by four people from Tempe as one of the bandits who held up the Baber-Jones store on the night of Jan. II, which re- suited in the death of Spangler and young Hintze and the wounding of H. c. Baber. The identification of Ro- man was made yesterday morning in the sheriff's office when Roman was brought before H. c. Baber, B. S. Tee ters, Annie Kyle and Virgil Washburn, who declared Roman to be one of the bandits participating in the crime.
 Roman was brought from his cell in the county jail to the private office of Sheriff John Montgomery, where the four people from Tempe were assem- bled As soon as they saw Roman, all said he was one of the two bandits. Baber, after looking at Roman for a time, declared Roman was the man who entered the store and held him up at the point of a revolver while he footed the top till of the cash register. Baber said Roman was the man who fired the two shots at him, one of which took effect in his shoulder, the other passing through his left lung just above the heart.
 B. $. Teeters, who conducts a meat market just back of the Tempe Nation al bank, said Roman was the man he saw running away from the scene of the holdup and murder on the night of Jan- Il. Yeeters said he was in the door of his market and Roman passed him by and he declared he could not be mistaken.
 Used Girl as Shield
 Annie Kyle, a 14-year- Told girl, said Roman was the Mexican bandit whc backed across the street from the Ba- ber-Jones store on the night of the crime and fired several shots from be- hind her. Little Miss Kyle declared Roman came across the street to where she was standing in front of the bank The Mexican, SC said, got behind hel and fired several shots. He did moi take hold of her, she said. A story going the rounds in Tempe is to the effect that Roman seized Miss Kyle and used her as a shield while he fired at the officers, but Miss Kyle declared yesterday that the Mexican did no touch her.
 Virgil Washburn, 16-year- boy said after he saw Roman that he wa. the man who pasesd him on the stree running away from the store. Wash burn said Roman fired a shot at hin as he passed. He declared he was abl, to get good look at the bandit. All who watched Roman walk said his limp was identical with the linn of the Tempe bandit.
 Roman declared the Tempe peopl, were mistaken in their identification of him as the murderer of Spanglel and young Hintze. His wife, Maria Roman, who has been held in the coun- ty jail since Saturday. Jan. Is, wal present while the identification of he husband was being made. She is be. I ing held as a witness in the case The Bandits Story
 Roman told Sheriff Montgomery h, had left Tempe the Sunday before tht holdup occurred. His story yestcrda, was essentially the same as the on, told to Hughes Carr, special investigat or for the county attorneys office, when he interviewed Roman at thu | hospital in Nogales following his cap 1 ture by immigration officers and cat | tlemen at Calabasas-
 Roman told the sheriff he came t Phoenix and then took a stage to th' 1 Gillespie dam in search of work H said he was at the dam for two days 1 and finding no work he went iron 1 there to Gila Bend and on to Mari copa- There, he said, he met Victori ano Martinez, whom he knew, and the. i had supper, after which Martinez drev l a gun and thrust it against his sid l and told him he was his partner iron l then on- Roman said he was afraid o | Martinez and had to stick with hin 1 They took train at Maricopa for Tue | son, he said, and Martinez gave him gun and some shells. Upon their ar
 rival at Tucson, he said, Martinez or
 dered him to get some supper, whic he did.
 Martinez then forced him to get O
 a train, Roman said, which the
 thought was going to Nogales. A fe'
 miles out of Tucson they left the trai
 and set out across the desert to
 ranch on the highway south of Tue
 son leading to Nogales. There, h
 said, Martinez divided some none,
 with him and after two unsuccessfl
 efforts they were able to get ses
 in a stage for Nogales.
 When the officers at CaIabases az
 preached them, the alleged bandit dc
 clared, Martinez told him they wei
 highwaymen and ordered him
 shoot. He said he drew his gun an
 fired shot and someone shot him
 the wrist and in the breast and
 fell. Martinez he said, took his gu
 and started to shoot, but was shot the neck. before he could use the gu i. While they were lying on the groun Il he said, Martinez told the officers H was the one who sacked the store Tempe Martinez, he claimed, told u officers that he, Roman, had nothir to do with the robbery of the store. In telling the story of Carr in N gales, Roman did not mention Ma tinez drawing gun and ordering hi to go with him. Mir. Carr says E has checked the movements of the tv Mexicans from Maricopa to Calabas and has his case complete. Upon t \ arrival of R. E. L. Shepherd from Ch cago today, the case against Rom; will be pushed with all rapidity, it w stated at the county attorneys offit t Roman and Martinez are alleged
 have secured about $50 from the Ter pc store. Young Hintze was stru with a bullet from a bandits gun \ he was passing the store with his f
 ther. Spangler was killed by a bull
 in the stomach in a gun fight with t
 bandits. H. c. Baber, who was alo ' in the store when one of the band N entered, was shot ill the shoulder a E in the left lung. He was severe \ wounded and was in the hospital u