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Show DDUTRE SENTENCED. The Murderer of a Snake Valley Ranchman Goes to Prison tor 13 Sluyrisii Years. He Preferred Death to Imprisonment but the Court was Unable to Accommodate Him. A TURNKEY OUTWITTED. The Prisoners Overpower and Looking Him in His Own Empire Take Frenoh Leave. DOUTRE REFUSED TO GO Ami So the Court Took Two Tears Off th Number He had In Stare for the Slayer of William W, Stephens. The last act in the career of Trefley Doutra as a natural born tragedian was closed at Provo this morning when at 10 o'clock Judge Blackburn commanded him to stand up and sentenced him to imprisonment foi eighteen years for the murder of William W. Stephens, a ranchman over iu the Snake Valley, near the Nevada line. In pronouncing sentence Judge Klackhirn ptated that it was his intention to have sentenced the prisoner to confinement Eor Twenty Years, but that having refused the opportunity to mska his escape in the jail delivery that had taken place last nhfht lie would reduce it to eighteen The prisoner was deeply affected and stated that he preferred death to the loss of liJwrty. Sentiment generally has been prejudiced againot Dontre, who was once before .convicted, jointlv with his brother Aleck, of murder in th second degree for the killiuir of a neighbor fc a feud that has existed almost since the settlement of the valley. On this latter occasion it was t-bown that he had murdered Stephens when there wa no reasonable provocation, and that his careei1 of crime might be brought to un end the public generally fought lor a term that would practically over the Kf-maining Measure of a Lifetime. Dontre could have easily made his escape last night when the jail birds made the br-ak for liberty, lib-erty, but refused the chance. The delivery was a clever one. Jailur Mitchell who was made hia own prisoner behind the liars of the prison over which he himself presides, states he was serving veoper host to the prisoners when P iediuan, a convict, who was thern from the pen it. .jtlarv overpowered huu from the rear whik! Frank Pierce, a tramp who was recently arrested for burglary, confronted him W ith a Large Knife and threatened to disembowel hini if he sounded the alarm. .Joined by two others Mitchell was drilled to ilie jaifud the door was locked uixm him. The prisoners then whirled and made their ocape leuving the turnkey under his own strong lock and key. A posse started in pursuit but 0M fugitives were still at large at 2 o'clock this afternoon. |