Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-05-06 | Page 3 | Forty Years in Pen

FORTY YEARS IN PEN Bass and Reese Sentenced to Thirty and Forty Tears Imprisonment Harvoy Bass and William Reese convicted con-victed or murder were yesterday scn I lenccd by Judge Rolapp to servo thirty and forty ear reapectlvuly In the Utah State prison When tho men were arraigned Cr raigned Judge Rolarip asked thm If they had anything to say why he should not pronounce sentence upon thorn Recwo repll d that he realized the duty of tho court to iwsn sentence upon any one con vlcl sl r crlmo but Cl that l they were 1 Innocent In-nocent The court answered that If I they were Innocent they wore certainly very unfortunate but that lury had I pronounced pro-nounced them guilty nnd he must pan sentence which he did by giving Bass JlnJ the younger of thA two men thirty In and Reese forty Kccso wept bitterly when m 0 he realized that he was to bo Incarcerated practically for life The crlmo for which Boss and Reese will In all likelihood spend tho remainder remain-der of their lives In prison was the murder mur-der of J Fred McCabo last December shooting him while attempting to hold him up for purposes of robbery