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Show Off on his Ear. j Last week John Curran, alias Pat-scy Pat-scy Marley No. 2, was convicted in a Pioche court, and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for robbing a stage; but Patsey didn't like his prison pris-on quarters, and on Friday waltzed off on his ear, leaving his keepers to mourn his loss. He first cut off hia hackles, then tore an iron braco from hia cell, and thus armed he soon dug a holo through the wall and escaped. es-caped. He left a letter for the judge bet re whom he was tried, stating that ho robbod the stage as charged, but a person who was in jail awaiting trial as an accomplice, was innocent. It is safe to say that Pataey, if not captured by the Pioche authorities, will soon turn up in some of tho western west-ern jails. There U scarce a prison west of the Rocky Mountains that he has not occupied at some time in his life, and from mot of these places he has escaped. He owes a term of service to the' Utah penitentiary. |