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Show GOV. CUTLER ISSUES IIEPIIOI PAPERS Tvo Men and a Woman Will Be Brought Back 011 Charge of Murder. Governor Cutler Tuesday issued requisition re-quisition papers on the governor of Colorado for the return to this Stato of Jack Harper, George Harper and Mrs. Alary Armstrong. The trio is now in Denver, Avhero they are being held by the authorities, awaiting extradition. Tho prisoners- are charged with tho murder of Ezra Penii' and his son, George Penny, in the Frisco hills, in Millard county, in the fall of 1S0S. Tho skeletons of the two murdered men were found nnd identified by Edward Ed-ward Penny, another son of Ezra Penny, Pen-ny, after eight years of "search. Sheriff Black and W. P. Payne of Fillmoro left Tuesday for Denver and will bring tho prisoners to this Stato for trial. Say They Can Prove Alibi. An Associated Press dispatch from Denver Tuesday night -says; "Accused of tho murder of Ezra Penny and his son, Georgtt, in Millard county. Utah, in 1S9S, George and John Harper and Mrs. Mary Armstrong, who ! were arrested Monday at the request j of tho Utah authorities, assert they j will easily prove an alibi and will soon j be released. The three prisoners will be held in separate cells until Utah officers of-ficers arrive with extradition papers. "Mrs. Armstrong, who is, (51 years old, says sho has not been outside of Denver for eighteen years, George Harper Har-per says he was never in Utah, except when he passed through in 1900 as a member of the Thirteenth infantry on his way to tho Philippines, and 'John Harper is equally as emphatic in denying de-nying that he was in Utah when tho murders were committed." |