DESPERATE OUTLAWS. HOW THE FOUR ARIZONA TRAIN ROBBERS WERE CAPTURED.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 373, 1 June 1889, Page 4

DESPERATE OUTLAWS. HOW THE FOUR ARIZONA TRAIN ROBBERS WERE CAPTURED.

A Salt Lakh; dispatch of April 10th states : — The four men who robbed the train at Canon Diablo last month were brought here to day by four Arizona officers, having been captured in Southern Utah. The officers had a hard trip over a desolate country, and first sighted tho robbers on April Ist in Wahwee Canon, about forcy miles east of Canyonville, in this Territory. The officers called on the men to surrender, and were answered with a volloy from their 6-shooters with which they were all armed. The country being heavily timbered, both parties wore well protected and a battle ensued. After about fifty shots had been exchanged, tho robbers concluded it was getting too warm for them, and leaving their horses they beat a 'hasty retreat on foot. The couulry is covered with a dense growth of underbrush, which made pursuit very difficult, but the officers persisted and soon overhauled Bill Stineau, a noted desperado, and probably the leader of the gang. Next day Charles Clark and John Smith were captured, and on April 4th James Quince was taken. The officers had now succeeded in their object, bub to return with their prisoners over the road by which they had come would be difficult. It was decided, theiofore, to press on to Milford and then go to Denver, by way of Salt Lake, taking tho Santa Fc road at Denver for Pre&cotb. It is nob known how much money was stolen, but that found on the men amounts to over one thousand dollars. On the way up one of the prisoners made a full confession, so that there is not the slightest doubt as to the right men having been captured. All of the prisoners are well educated, and Smith says he is the son of a Baptist minister. They wore quite jolly when first arrested, but are beginning to show signs of drooping. Train robbing waa made a capital offence by tho last Arizona Legislature.