Salt Lake Herald | 1895-03-09 | Page 8 | Bad a Possible

BID AS POSSIBLE I otmg Tough Who Curse the Judge I ttnd WitipS n Policeman Ian I-an Francisco March SIn the I superior court this morning ffohn Wilson Wil-son an 18yearold criminal was sentenced tenced to forty years in the penitentiary penitenti-ary on two charges of highway robbery rob-bery John Smith Wilsons accomplice accom-plice pleaded guilty on one charge and was sentenced to twenty years Before they could be taken out of the court room Smith cursed and abused the judge in the vilest language and finally attacked the policeman who arrested ar-rested him giving him a bloody nose and knocking him to the floor tAn other charge of robbery is pending against Smith They are members of a gang of four youthful highwaymen who came here from Chicago and Kansas City They held up c street j > car in the outskirts oC this city and also robbed a grocer gcer