Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-12
TEXAS BANDIT
SUSPECTS SLIP
BISBEE POLICE

BISBEE, Jan. IL (P)-Arizona police
officers are requested to stop three
young men in a blue Chevrolet sedan
with a North Dakota license who
left here suddenly this afternoon after
/. talking themselves out of Jail Tuesday
night as suspects in the Vinton,
Texas, bank robbery.
The trio had told such straight
story that the police permitted them
to go to a local hotel for the night
after they had promised to return
to the police station at A o'clock this.
afternoon. They were seen in the
city as late as 1:3O p. m. today. but
when they failed to report to police
at O'Clock wires and telephone calls
to the authorities east of here were
sent out, asking that the men be
apprehended and held until further
check could be made on them
All three OF the men, gylo were
between 25 and 30 years. tailed with
descriptions OF the bandits. who rob-
bed the Vinton bank OF about so one
dollar bills and other currency and
a watch, which had a locomotive
design on the back. The police found
25 one dollar bills and other cur
rency on the suspects and watch
which had a locomotive design on the
back. However, the watch was OF
gold instead OF silver as described
by the Vinton police
BiSbee police authorities still be-
lieve the trio are innocent of the
bank robbery, but their sudden light
indicates that they may, be wanted
for some other crime probably . in
connection with the automobile they
we're driving, as their departure quick
ly followed the taking OF the engine.
number by the chief OF police at
1:30 this afternoon.
Local police officers were thunder
struck yesterday when they learned
that Bisbee officers had released three
men who vWre apprehended in that
city shortly after midnight Tuesday
through the cooperation of the Doug
las officers
Night Lieutenant Leslie Gatliff OF
the Douglas police received a tele-
phone message from Felix Jones,
sheriff at Lcrdsburg, N. M, Tuesday
evening saying that three men driv-
ing a Chevrolet sedan and suspected
of being wanted in Texas as ROBBERS
had passed through his city headed
fer Douglas.
Jones gave Lieutenant Gatliff a
complete description of the men and
their car Deputy sheriffs were noti-
fled and started out to stop the, flee
ing fugitives on the highway. Only
about five minutes after the deputy
sheriffs had started from the police.
station the car containing the three
wanted men drove into a local service
station.
The Douglas police had warned the
service station employees and as the ,
car pulled away after having taken
gas and oil the license number was
taken down. The man had been
watched at the station by one OF
the local officers who had not been
notified that they we're wanted. The
service station employe reported toI
him, he called the night lieutenant. !
The car number and the description
of the three men seen at the service
station tailed exactly with the in
formation sent in by Sheriff Jones
of Lordsburg.
Lieutenant Gatliff notified Deputy
Sheriff Charles Locking in Bisbec
and Sheriff George Henshaw in
Tombstone In talking to the Bisbee
officer over the telephone Gatliff told
him that there was little question
but that these were the men wanted
An attempt here to organize a chase
and catch the men on the highway
before they could reach Bisbee was
finally given up when it was found
that the deputy sheriffs who had
gone out to watch for the men on
the highway east OF this city had
driven out sc far thev could not be
located by police officers in time
to make certain OF overIaking the
wanted men.
The Bisbee officers had been in
st1ucted to call back as soon as the
men were captured SO that the police
here could notify Jones in Lordsburg
The wanted men left here before
midnight and the Bisbee officers did
not call back until after o'clock in