Salt Lake Herald | 1891-04-26 | Page 1 | A Convict Gets Forty Years

A Convict Gets Forty Years CANON CUT Colo April 25Spocial I telegram to THE HERALDJ Stampson a colored convict escaped from the penitentiary peniten-tiary here about eighteen months ago while acting as a trusty and outraged Mrs Robert Rob-ert Talman For several months the state officers and a vigilance committee kept on the lookout for him and he was finally recaptured re-captured and smuggled into his old quarters quar-ters Today his term expired and he was immediately rearrested and taken before Judge Campbell of the district court In one hour from the time of his discharge he was again within the walls and booked for forty years having pleaded guilty His SEntence cheats the vigilance committee as they were still awaiting him