Show AN HABITUAl CRIMINAL I John Gray So Declared by a Jury f j 1 JL < i SPENT MANY YEARS IN JAIL Wright Riddle and Lyons Brought in for Trial for HorseStealing But They Were So Well Known in Previous Cases of a Similar Kind that a Jury Could Not be Obtained form the Present Venire Burglary Case Against John Richardson Dismissed Dis-missed I John Gray a criminal who has spent many years of his life In jail and who Is now serving sentences in the penitentiary peni-tentiary for burglary and grand larceny lar-ceny aggregating ten years was tried yesterday before Judge Norroll and Q jury on the charge of assisting a prisoner pris-oner to escape from the penitentiary and with being an habitual criminal with the result that he was again found guilty Assistant County Attorney Gunter prosecuted and i Attorney A T Sanford defended the accused The specific act charged against Gray was that on July 5th oc last year he aided and assisted Goldle Brown to getaway get-away from the State prison Brown after making his escape succeeded In reaching RawlJns Wyo but was there captured and brought back to his former for-mer quarters In the penitentiary Tho I case against Gray wan proved by the prison officials who testified to his aidIng aid-Ing Goldie to get away The defendant did not testify on his own behalf The case reached the jury late In the afternoon and n verdict of sullty was returned This Is the first case in the State of Utah where Q prisoner has boen declared an habitual criminal by a Jury The effect of the verdict Is to give him a more severe sentence than If I he had not nal been declared an habitual criminal crimi-nal |