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Show Boys in Their Teens Held Up Train in Arizona Phoenix, Ariz, May 13. It was two boys, still in their tecus. who held up the train a mile out of here Wednesday Wednes-day evening, and, after a chase acrt.s the desert, were captured last night The boys gave their names as Ernest Woodson. 18 years old. and Oscar Wodson. 17, and say they were raised. In Oklahoma City. Okla., and havo been in Arizona hut a short time. The capture of the boys was accomplished ac-complished without any shooting, probably due to the fact that part of the pursulDg posse used an automobile automo-bile The boys. were preparing to makx caniD five miles south of Casa Grande when the automobile came along. The. 3-ounger bov. thinking the car contained con-tained tourists, stepped out and. halting halt-ing the machine, asked for w-aler. He was immediately covered with a revolver and surrendered, and his companion . then submitted to arrest. Sheriff Carl Hoyden and the posse arrived at Phoenix today with the Maricopa train robbers In custody. ' Ernest Woodson, the younger, emerged from an arroyo In which they I were hidden near the Ylkxl mine w hen t Hayden's auto appeared. He demaud-I demaud-I cd water and was told that he wes under arreeL The youth was so famished fam-ished ihat be paid no heed, only appealing ap-pealing for water again and a-ialn and drinking almost a guUon. Ills brother. broth-er. Oscar, with a show of resistance, was languidly taking his rifle from the saddle scabbard under cover of a scant growth of mesquite, but desisted desist-ed on command. Both men were temderfeet" and too weak after their SO-mlle desert ride to make a fight. The two young bandits were veritable verit-able walking arsenals when captured. They carried a rifle, four revolvers and two bowie knives. |