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THE BANDITS IN HOC.Sheriff Truman Captures the Robbers after a Week’s Chase.Sheriff Truman returned last Sunday having In cli irge Pearl Hurt unci Joe Bout, who robbed the Florence nnu lliohti stage al ivaio Springs ou Saturday, May 27.i Immediately on receipt of news of the boid-up the Sheriff proceeded to the scene of the robbery and with commendable persistence followed the rubber* to a point about twenty milea north of Benson, *in Cochise county, where he arrested them ou Saturday, June 3d, just one week after the crime was coal ini tied. The rain had obliterated tho trail, and rhe Sheriff had been, thrown off tho trank when-Bool came into Mammoth after supplies and wu seen-and recognized by a man who -informed the ofllccr, but too late to catch him there.Proceeding on up the 8an Pedro Sheriff Truman stopped at a ranch house over night, being assured by the owner that no one conld pass wit boat ht« does giving the alarm. Imagine hhi*urpri*c next morning WosOe thetracks of the rubber*’ horse* plais tlie road, and the dogs had failed to give him notion. Procuring the service* of J. M, OrovQO be followed the plain trail to a point but a abort diMtanot from tne house, where ieu mu# U*e tangled brush, iicrc they dismounted and proceeded catttlously, when tuey soon came upon the rob ben fs*t asleep. Pistols In hand they softly approached until they stood over the sleepers, whoa they emitted a yell that would hare wakened the dead. The woman jnrnped to her feet and •creamed, but the man was slower in responding, and had to be warned a second time before he held up his bands.They were searched and all of the booty, $469 and five six-shooters were secured. The party than prooeded to 'Benson, where they took the S. P. train and came at ouee to Florence where the prisoners were lodged in 4*H.A Thibuttr reporter interviewed the woman, who give her name as Pearl Hart, though she said it was not her true name, as she was married to a man named Dan Bandaian. She was dressed in blauk shirt, blue overalls and high boo la, and said she waa 23 years old; was boro in Canada and had a mother in Toledo, Ohio, who was very sick. Her object in committing the robbery was to secure money in order to go and see her mother. She is email and slight, weighs about 115 nouudfi and la cot bad lookingoatd she came, from ruoeoix u» Mum- ■ moth some time ago in response to a letter from a who wanted in-mates oi a sporting house, but when ,•.he frarod the writer of the letter wasit.enhsinaelistockSB.odn.soy thing to do with her and secored a lent aed went into business for lieraelf.Here she met Joe Boot, whom 6he took up with aud with whom ehe planned and executed Use robbery.An examination of the prlsouera was held before Justice W. H. Ben son on Thursday and they were bound over to appear before the next grand jury in the snm of $1,000 eacb.O. J. Nell, of Tempe, who was relieved of |200, a six-shooter and a gold watch (and was much more relieved to get them back) was the principal witness, though the prisoners were also examined and were very free In admitting tbeir guilt, of course with all the extenuating circumstances they could invent.The woman is well known in Phoenix, where she w*s a resident of Block 41. She Is a confirmed morphine fiend and requires ten grains a day to keep herself in shape. The man Boot seems to be a harmless sort of an individual, and evidently much the weaker of the two, though he was man enough on examination to take most of the blame upon himself.
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Florence Tribune
Florence, Arizona, US
Sat, Jun 10, 1899
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