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Show HAD BETTER STAVED IN PRISON. Otteof the Jfttlbreftkar. Frozen to Death Another will I. owe His Feet. t mm "r. .Ian. a. Two of the prisoners who escaped from the jail hero New Years eve have been recaptured. One Is dead, the "her almost dead. They are K ingcu, the wealthy aud notorious ' cattle thief, and Charles Miller, the hoy double murderer. Kingen is dead, succumbing to the cold aud hunger. Miller rallied and was able to tell the story of their Bight and struggle with famine fam-ine and the blizzard. The escape was i planned by William Kingen, the notorious i rustler, lie let Miller and Johnson, the j daring moonshiner, in ou the ground tloor for excellent reasons. The lad's absence would divert the hnnt to the railroad, and I Johnson was strong and desperate. Miller, who is now recovering, but who will lose both f"rt. says that Thursday night, with the thermometer showing 7 below, they made twelve miles, most of the way on the run. At a smsll rauch they rested in the ham, lunched on chicken, and at break of day left with an old horse that they rode by turns till it quit. The made camp near the V'au Tassel ranch at noun Friday, aud hovered over a Are a couple of hours. Kingan and Miller were then suffering with chill and over exertion. It wai agreed to make for the house of a friend of tho range thief, twenty-wren miles away. The darky walked ahead. The white men lagged and were threatened threat-ened with desertion hy the black fellow. The latter finally proposed to Miller to leave Kingan, who now labored along painfully, and insisted on taking a sleep. Kingan offered Miller money to stay by him, aud they told the coon to go on. Finally all three .at down in the little valley of death. Some time in the night Miller was awakened by groans from Kingan, who complained of the cold. In the morning the boy found Kingan dead and robbed by the Idack, who was gone. Miller says that Kingan had t;i"l) given him by an. attorney. |