Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-05
BANDIT QUEEN
GIVEN CREDIT
FOR BIG FIND
$4,000 Worth Of Property
Found In Caches Near
KeltOn, Ariz.
USE MAIL SACKS
KeItOn Postmaster Believed
To Posses Auto Used By
Bandits.

That the babbling of Dolores, the
robber queen in her cell in north
ern Arizona Jail, where she was held
after her two men companions had
been arrested for robbery and the
shooting of a sheriff, is responsible
for the unearthing of one of the great
est robber rings ever heard of in the
southwest in the belief of Cochise
county officers tonight after the sec
ond day of work in unearthng veri-
( liable treasure in stolen property found
Nat Kelton.
Deputy Sheriff O. A. Ash of Doug
las was notified by his chief, Sheriff
Henshaw, Thursday that the woman,
Dolores, in the northern Arizona jail,
had talked of camping near Kelton
and Of making caches of stolen goods
there Ash went to Kelton on Thurs
day, and on Friday night more than
$4,000 worth of stolen property had
been transported from that district to
the sheriffs offices here and in Tomb
stone, and the work was reported not
yet half done.
Ash found where the robber gang,
the two men and Dolores, lived in the
Stidham ranch house near Kelton. He
found there a number of pictures Of
y the woman and her companions and in
uuiries about the neighborhood led to
the finding of number of caches of
stolen property.
Another startling find was that a
number of United States mail sacks
used to stow the stolen goods in.
Officers are now working on the pos
sibility that the sacks were secured by
the gang through a mail robbery, pos
sibly several years ago.
A car, now said to be in the possess
sion of T. j. McGinnis, the Kelton
postmaster, is also being closely stud
led as there is every reason to believe.
officers state, that it is the car the
bandits had used, and that it has been
at the scene of many robberies and
has had many different license plates
placed upon it at short intervals.
Deputy Ash stated last night that he
would be able to produce residents of
the Kelton district who would state
that they had seen the car come to
Kelton at various times with differ
ent license plates on it.
Sheriff George Henshaw, Deputies
Earl Reed and o. A. Ash of Douglas
and Deputy Giles of Kelton ,accompa-
nied by County Attorney James T.
Gentry completed yesterday the sec
ond day of an investigation into the
finding of stolen property estimated
to be worth nearly $4,000. The Off
GERS came in last night, Deputies Ash
and Reed to Douglas and the others
to Tombstone, with approximately four
automobile loads of goods. The list OF
articles included automobile tires and
tubes, chewing tobacco, shoes, jewelry
watches, more than 10000 cigarettes
and many other things.
The stolen property has been par
TALLY identified, officers stated last
night. They state that portion OF
the goods from at least four robberies
that have taken place in this state
and in New Mexico in the past few
months has been found. large
amount of goods which Deputy Sheriff
o. A. Ash states he is positive came
from a drug store in Thatcher, whicf
was robbed December 19 of last year
were found. A great many pairs OF
shoes, tallying with descriptions, ASH
states, of property stolen from another
store in Thatcher on January Is Of
this year, were found yesterday
1t is understood that the proprietor
of the Bankhead garage of Rodeo, n
NJ is willing to swear that large
number of the tires found were stoler
from his garage a few weeks ago.
T. P. McGinnis, postmaster at Keltor
and proprietor of a general store, il
with the officers in efforts to uncover
more of the stolen property, as tn
greater portion of it has been fount
near the Kelton store and postofifce
A large number of articles were founC
concealed in United States mail sacks
and one auto load was found beneath
the piers of the big railroad scales, o
which McGinnis has charge, Officers
state.