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Show U. S. MARSHAL AFTER PRISONERS lerlh1 Jamea Grlms and George Mil-n Mil-n ?, C.l men arrestcJ lu tbia city VnuL oyB ftB0' w,u nnaw?r to the hin.7 latC8 government for tho n?mi S ot a Postofflce safe at Fort liS I' New Mexico, has been csUb-mI-u Y tUe arrival ot United States m I tal1 Ben Williams, of Albuquerque Albuquer-que New Mexico. rtn, . fcderal official arrived yestor-n yestor-n T rnoon and Identified the men the riartlca charged with Uie Fort rvf0r affaSr' Ho Ql9 Identified r . a.8 a man WD0In he had arrested ar-rested six years ago for a federal ,"m. and ho served several ycartr n the fedoral penitentiary. In addition to robbing the postofflce Tik Sumncr the men aro charged with blowing a Bafo in the offlco or the 8anta Fo railroad at tho same Place. There wan three men lmpll- Ih H,iIn tho -,obB Rml ,l b'ecme that the third member of the gang was cap- iirnd and "Peached" on Grlms and -Miller. T. O'Leary, a railroad bpeclal agent from Pueblo, Colorado, accompanied accom-panied Marshall Williams to this city. As tho men aro government prisoners pris-oners it will not be necessary to secure se-cure extradition papers for their removal re-moval from the state and thev will be taken direct to the Now Mexico Capitol. Marshall Williams left this afternoon with tho prisoners. During their stay in this city It has been impossiblo to secure a confession confes-sion from tho men regarding their supposed robbing, of the Mooro grocery gro-cery store and the mail boxes in this city. Detective Pender and Plncock had Grlms In the sweat-box for more than an hour yesterday morning endeavoring en-deavoring to wrench from him a confession con-fession of this crime. Grlms stated that he had nothing to do withtho blowing of the Moore safe and stuck to the story of his Innocence In-nocence so vlgorouslj that botii officers offi-cers wore convinced of its truth. Grlms dreads going back to New Mexico Mex-ico and Btated that he would much prefer taking his chances in this Btato than in New Mexico. "If I were connected with tho Moore robbery," he said, "I would gladly tell or It to escape going back to New Mexico." Both men also positively vleny any connection with tho robbery of the Frtl boxes In this city, although an "fforKiins bA-made to draw from uieiu an SMto1 a of this crime. |