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Show TWO OUTLAWS "GUILTY" FACETHE PEN ALEXANDER CONVICTED, COOK PLEADS GUILTY The district court in session at Parowan a few days since made short work of the cases of grand larceny lar-ceny against the Utah outlaws Alexander Alex-ander and Cook. These are the gentry gen-try that discovered the aerial copper mine. They were members of a roving rov-ing band who have made a living through thefts of various things ranging from live stock to just the ides of other people's animals. The men seeing the heavy copper wire belonging to a power line stretched for many miles and apparently idle decided to put the wire on the market. mar-ket. They do not claim that the act was from a spirit of patriotism owing ow-ing to the needs of their country. They didn't even take the country into their confidence. But at night they hired a sixteen-year-old lad to climb the poles and cut the wire. It was some job to take down that ten miles of copper wire and the enter prising copper miners paid the boy well for his work. When they were traced and arrested they apparently forgot the lad. They were defiant In their-attitude. They tried to break jail after they had Ijeen placed in the vermin breeder at Beaver. Can you blame them for that? When the Alexander case was called at Parowan Paro-wan he went into court apparently with a confident front that he could not be convicted. When the lad was called to the stand and told in detail, however, all the movements of the parties to the copper-stealing stunt, Alexander's bold front collapsed and his hopes rushed down cellar. When Ed Cook heard of the calamity ca-lamity which had befallen Alexander he quit, plead guilty and pronounced a severe "blessing" upon the head of his late employe the sixteen-year-old pole climber. Thus the men stand guilty before the law of grand larceny arid the penalty provided is from one to ten years . in the State penitentiary. Sentence had not been pronounced up to time of going to press. |