Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-06 | Page 1 | Two Convicts Escape from Idaho Pen

Two Convicts Escape pm From Idaho Pen 1.1,1 One Is Recaptured, the Other Believed L , ' y to Havo Been Drowned in f- (t Boise Pviver. i BOISE. Ida.. May 5. TIarry Miller and j ! 'H Charles Smith, convicts, escaped from the custody of the guards be- 11 tween 3 and I o'clock this afternoon. i! Miller w:us later retaken, being captured j ' on an inland In the river back of the Nuta- n i torlum. It is thought Smith went into the river with him and was drowned, but 'ji Miller has so far refused to talk. Miller j" and Smith were members of a party that tfi , had been working In the penitentiary garden near the river. Taking advantag . of a moment when the attention of Guard , ' Conklln was directed toward tho other end 1 , of the garden, tho two men sllppetl into ( the brusn and got away. Bloodhounds traced them to the river. Mlllor Is serving t a term of three years for biirslftry com-mltted com-mltted in Bannock county. Smith was ' j i , scutcncwl from Bingham county for two i , VM years for forgery.