Show IGAME I OF HiE AND SEK I A Convicts Stubborn Fight for I His Liberty i ii HE IS STILL I JAIL A TRINITY OF TOUGH ONES SENT UP YESTERDAY 1I 1 I urvivors of the Recent Reign of the Roughs to Do Time An Alleged Al-leged Ravisher to Be Tried Today To-day CondensatioiiH front the Courts I II I cbnvict Charles Allen the escaped convict who has thrice baffled his captors is again a prisoner having languished during the night in the city jail whence he will be taken before Judge Merritt this morning upon a third writ of habeas corpus The effort to liberate himself was renewed yesterday morning when the application for his release on a writ of habeas corpus was sustained On Saturday Sat-urday Judge Powers and Morris Som mer has procured his release upon a similar process whereupon he was arrested under the nose of the court on a warrant charging him with haying hay-ing committed an assault in Ogden I was upon this latter charge that he appeared again yesterday and was again discharged Then in company with Attorney Sommer the dusky fugitive fu-gitive disappeared with the sleuths close and hot upon his trail He disappeared I dis-appeared within the doors of his attorneys torneys office where his wife awaited I him and a half hour later was upon the street At the alley leading from Main to State street he made another dash for liberty and speeding through i with the sleuths in hot pursuit was driven into Detective Pauls embrace em-brace At that juncture Allen disappeared disap-peared as completely as if he had been swallowed by an earthquake Word was quickly borne to his attorneys by friends who have been doing their utmost ut-most to liberate him and Judge Mer ritt was again appealed to This time the writ was directed at Acting Chief Donovan and Chief Davenport of Ogden Og-den whom counsel alleged were attempting at-tempting to evade the writ and to circumvent the previous order of the court Writ No 3 was placed in the hands of Sheriff McQueen who served it upon Chief Davenport as he took the early afternoon train for Ogden Meanwhile the sleuths had changed their tactics and with Allen in cus tody a move was made to intercept the outgoing train and turn him over to Chief Davenport at Woods Cross They were baffled again however and in obedience to writ No 3 the prisoner pris-oner was again brought back to the city He is now held on the warrant charging him with assault at Ogden and this authority having already been silenced by the ruling of the court Chief Donovan stands ready to nab him on a fugitive warrant which he carries in his inside pocket All the while the officer from Missouri Mis-souri is making close connections and will be on the ground with documents upon which to hold the fugitive in the next few hours |