Show A COUPLE courle OF CRIMINALS two stage robbers under sentence for life this ni morning orning air mr geo froman guard of the penitentiary in boise city uit I P id idaho a ho brought down two hard loo looking ing specimens of humanity whose feet were heavily shackled with chain and ball they were taken to the county jail and given lodgings in one of those strong cells which afford ample time and repose for meditation the prisoners were wm mays aged 30 and henry 21 years old both native Ameri catis the former is tall powerfully built and bears a resolute countenance whose determined expression is rendered more dark by ills his black hair and mustache has a ful face on which however crime crime has already its indelible stamp he is smaller of stature than his companion but none the less strong and and muscular both fellows are evidently up to every physical exertion and endur endurance alice unfortunately on the path of vice they arc are althou although h but at the very threshold of mail manhood bood under sentence for life to serve their terms out probably at auburn N Y i whither U S marshal chase will take them tomorrow to morrow on oil the of november 1879 they attacked A and robbed a U S mail stage coach at pilgrims springs idalio pursuit was made on the them malid and they were finally overtaken in oregon and brought back to idaho idalio on jan 1880 they the received their sentence cpr several years imprisonment at hard labor in the boise penitentiary from which they escaped in the following september in in company with two other convicts they roamed about for months often going hungry bull ry for days hunting for game themselves the eagerly Filin hunted ted game of all the officers of the law who at last surrounded them on boise river where after hard fighting on both sides in which two or three officers ficera of and one odthe of the con convicts viets fell victims they were forced to surrender they were taken to boise city and placed under d e r close surveillance while their former sentence was changed ined the one indicated above in conversation with our reporter they strenuously asserted their innocence and denounced their sentence as unjust still they appeared by no means depressed in spirits its nor noi ailing in physical well being eing they gave the officers in charge oi of them testimony y for kind treatment and seemed not t at all dismayed by the ae gloomy gloom y pro prospect speet of a life lif lifetimes times incarceration at forced labor |