Show I 1 ITO HEAVY SENTENCE GIVEN TO RUNAWAY CONVICT Thomas h La Cross Crass Cr ss Gets E Eight Ebi I bi I t Years Additional Prison Service for Assault Thomas rhomas LA Lx Cross declared to be a degenerate te who e escaped from the Toquerville convict cOn camp In Washing Washing- Washington tou ton county count January i 1 but was Wll recaptured recap recap- In seven hours is back In the state stale with eight years heaped upon the theten theten ten tell he had hall been serving r rho The additional addition addition- al nl eight is for tor attempting an assault upon a Il mall mail carrier whom thom he m met t on the road while making his dash for tor liberty Several Se years year ago La Cross was Wa caught In the act of oC committing a like Uk offense and sentenced to ten years H He had lad served ned A term of or seventeen nt e en years I In a California prison for tor a to similar crime Ills lUs case caso has attracted the at attention attention at- at att t of or man many surgeon surgeons Until his c escape from the Dixie convict convict con con- vict camp La Cross Crolls Is js said to have ha displayed displayed dis dis- played deportment which would have resulted in his discharge from th state prison in two years His escape and the attending attending- sentence means that he willbe willbe will be stripped of or all his credits mal making It necessary to serve out the full ten years cars to together ethel with whir the additional eight years I |