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Show The Supposed Hcbber fanghL At about mijplght li-l Saturday night, William Wood, Jr., who lives at 41S Wall Strett, went home, aLinj with him a bag of culn con-aluiug con-aluiug jl 75. -HelaM the utjaey on ' a tabic and proceeloJ to eat a lunch before retiring Wuiir so engaged" heheirJs unls In another part of thelidUse, add as Ii- wM'mi thu point of liirel!llng, he was con-j fronted by a man who euddedly i entered the room aud covered him t with a revolver. The intruder relied the bag of coin and made rff with It. Kitllcr before or ntlrr this exploit, the robber entered another apartment of tlie houe from whiih he stoic a watch and some money lie was a regular dare devil, as Indicated Indi-cated by his manner. Suspicion attached to Kearn, one of the four prisoners who efCJpcd from the office of the Cnited States Marshal in this city a fiw days ago, and Deputy Marshal Bowman Can-nonand Can-nonand Sheriff Burt laid plans to1 capture him. On Sunday evening these two-cfllcers were at the R G. W. depot, when shortly before the I departure of the train Ior the east, Bowman Cannon suottcd his man. Tho latter was dressed stylishly and wore goggles. Handrails were clapped upon his wruts and he was taken to the couuty jail and searched. Upon his person wire foJiid a ticket to Denver, IIS) In ' cah anJ the identical wateli that ! was stolen from Mr. Wood's reI-j dtnee. Thu nloney lound on his person, with the price of his tiiket and some small sums he is known to have spent exactly equal the sum that was in the bag. At the time he escaped from the marshal's onice, Ktarn wasbcInK tried for rwitlng an officer. As thcoffeiiMs una nibsdcmeanor, hl trial could lawfully proceed in ills atmmie, and It did to, the result being a verdict of guilty. He will be sentenced for that ollenrc, anu his supposed connection with the Wood's robbery will also,the oflicers think, be satisfactorily proven. |