Show SLAYER OF GEE Y Partner of row Located in Colorado Colo-rado Penitentiary Sheriff Bailey yesterday received t letter let-ter from the SherlfC of Canon City Colo Inclosing a plcturo of ono James Armstrong Arm-strong and stating that the rumor there was that Armstrong was wanted In Og den on the charge o murder The plcturo was that of John Young tho partner of William Brown who is wanted here for the murder of Gee Yen the Chinaman Brown having boon convicted of murder In the second degree for his participation In tho crlmo and sentenced to forty years In the penitentiary Later by telegraphic correspondence It became known that Young Is now serving a tCI ear term in the Colorado State penitentiary at Canon City on the charge of burglary The plcturo was turned over to Detoc tire Pender who with Officer Chambers took it out and showed It to tho China man who testified In the Brown case and the Chinaman Idcntlllcd the picture as being that of the man who had killed Geo Yen It Is the Intention of the officers to ask for requisition for Young and bring him back hero to be tried on the charge of murder Young Is ono of the most desperate criminals in the West He served a term in tho Idaho State prison under the name nf Jnhn 17 TTtnc 11 twIN fnn frilitl that Institution and ho also broke Jail at Sacramento at n time previous to his Incarceration In Idaho When his term expired in Idaho the authorities there sent word to Ogden that he was headed this way and he was met at the depot here by officers who refused to allow him to alight from the train He went on to Salt Lake but inibsequently returned to Ogden In company with Vllllam Brown and the two crlmlnal3lnan attempt to hold up and rob tho Chinese gardeners rarceners in their cabin near Sixteenth street ahot and 1 lcd Gee Yen The two criminals fled to Salt Lake and while the ofllccrs were working on tho caso here they committed com-mitted a series of crimes In the capital They were at length arrested on a charge of Holding up two young men In that city and shooting one of thor While In tho county Jail there they were identified by a Hardware olerk a being the two men who came to the Salt Lake Hardware store and purchased a Luctgcr revolver a German weapon of peculiar make In which Is utilized cartridges loaded with smokeless powder A revolver of this I make was used In the murder of Gee Yen Tho police authorities here Immediately Immedi-ately wont to Salt Lake and soon aufll cent evidence was collected to show that Young and Brown were the murderers of Gee Yen at Ogden rhe two men were brought to Ogden Young being placed In the city jail and Brown In the county jail Two ec < slat s-lat r Young made his escape from the city Jail and disappeared until hln arrest at Canon City His method of regaining his liberty has remained for the great part a mystory He was thoroughly searched each day and was dally changed from one ecu to anoiner in some way however he became possessed of n Wand W-and sawed two barn from his cell door and two bars from the cage thus gaining access to the Jail corridor outside tho cage From this corridor he gained liberty lib-erty by i means not surely known The evidence In the possession of the officers Is very strong and they believe there Is no doubt of the conviction of Young of murder in the first degree If he Is brought back for trial |