Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-07-25 | Page 36 | Dead Cracksman is Identified by Ure

DEAD CRACKSMAN IIA IS IDENTIFIED BY URE BERT SCANLAN is s TRUE NAME Deputy Warden Says He Did Time in Utah Prison for Burglary roo L- L 5 ure oi ot me inc state tato prison yesterday established the Identity jf of Sam Lyon cracksman killed In a duel with Patrolman Arthur Arlhur M Mer- Mer I r r. r rick and Alfred 1 Hargrove e In avenue carl early Wednesday morning as asBert asBert Bert T T. Morgan an who served ser a sentence In the state Mate prison nn from rom October 5 5 I 1502 O until January 7 27 27 1005 IlOS Mi ti IJ Uro Ure said last night the thc true nam of or Lyon Lynn Is Bei Bert t Scanlan and that t ho ile was a nall native of Illinois hut but came to tn Utah xv when hen ho was a about 15 Hi years old n hn Mr Ir lire Ure went to Leavenworth Ran Inn In 1 1909 09 for Chat Charles lex Bishop an escaped convict let whose sentence had harl been terminated In n the federal prison I he paid a visit to th the state slate prison a at aLansing aLansing Lansing Kan There he found Merger time lime for grand rand larceny un the name of or Burns Scanlan J was released from lh the Kansa prison cud and came cam back to Utah lie He liea a was arrested In O Ogden den and was sent sen seu- l t to eighteen months In the stat stal prison for burglary In the Iho second do rip grce gree November o 22 22 1911 After Alfr com corn his second term In the Iho Utah state stale prison he wa was discharged 10 1913 Though prison officials heard of or Lyon Ion alias Morgan Ilor alias Scanlan Marshal Sells Nells C C. Peterson of or Logan re rePorts re- re Ports that 20 0 of this year ear he ar arrested arrested rested the man nian he Identifies Identities n a aIon aLyon a Lyon Ion on a charge chars of b begging K ln for which Lyon Lon was to thirty days lla's In Jail JI Meanwhile Iho tho Logan Loan marshal marsha marshall l learned In I rJ from Cram Pres Preston ton I Ida dl that thai Lyon Ion hail had 8 served In Jail there then lb Ilo says also hat Lyon left tho ho Jail at Lo Logan ant an and was arrested at Vale Ore with the theft of oC stationery statIoner from the treasurers treasurer's office of Malheur county Or Oro Marshal en also claims claim to I have Information that L Lyon on blew a safe safo at Ontario Ore after aCter being released release 11 I from the tho lie county count Jail at Vale It WaR wan learned from Crom prison officials official last nl night ht that thai nothing had lad been ht heart heard from John McGuire who vio escaped from I the tho convict con camp nt at Lay Layton Larton ton with Stephen Olds JIJI July t 5 Olds was ar arrested arrested ar- ar I rested a few fow hours after he started hi his flight for tor liberty I I