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Show Three Arrested; Held for Officers J. D. Robbins, John E. Robbins ami j his wife, together with E. II. Moore. !were placed under arrest at the Gunnison Gun-nison camp grounds Monday morning by Marshal Tollestrup and Night-watchman Night-watchman Waldo Villard, on advices received from Arthur Vandevier, of Flagstaff, sheriff of Coconino county, Arizona. The local officers had no I difficulty in apprehending the party, and when confronted with the advices they readily gave in. The three men were locked in the city jail and held until Tuesday afternoon, when they were taken to Fredonia by Sheriff Vandevier and Thomas Jensen, Jr., deputy, to stand trial. The three men waived all extradition' papers and willingly accompanied the officers. i The three men are specifically charged with slaughtering an 8-menths-old steer, belonging to a cattleman cat-tleman residing near Mesa. It is charged in the Arizona complaint that the men had killed the animal and dragged it some distance, where the best meat was taken 'and the remaining remain-ing carcass left. Afler being placed under arrest here the three men admitted their guilt, and talked freely to The News man and the officers. They stated they left their home in Scranton, Pa., about three weeks ago, and were traveling tra-veling in two cars. When they arrived arriv-ed here the four, together with a big police dog, were occupying a Chevrolet Chev-rolet coupe. Besides the passengers and dog, the car was loaded heavily with bedding, grub boxes, suitcases, cooking utensils, and other luggage. In the outfit was the tell-tale portions of beef. John E. Robbins, spokesman, stated that the party had left Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and were enroute to Montana, Mon-tana, where the men expected work. Enroute across the continent, misfortune misfor-tune overtook the group and thny disposed of one of the cars. The returns re-turns from the sale of the car were soon exhausted and, unable to get work, the men were driven to desperation des-peration from hunger. While passing 'hrough Arizona, all were on the verge of starvation, and to appease the appetites they killed the young steer. "We did it because we were un-(Continued un-(Continued on last page) rhree Arrested; Held for Officers (Continued from page 1) ible to get food, and were hungry," leclared John Robbins. "We have ad-nitted ad-nitted our guilt and we are anxious o make reparations. That is why we ire returning to Fredonia in the : iope of making a settlement of some cind." John Robbins had honorable dis-iharge dis-iharge papers from the army officers. offi-cers. He enlisted in 1914, and was enraged en-raged in five battles while in France, e also served as a state policeman n. Pennsylvania, and carried an hon-irable hon-irable discharge from these duties. |