Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-11-14 | Page 23 | Young Man Receives Stiff Jail Sentence

YOUNG MAN RECEIVES STIFF JAIL SENTENCE . Held Up Chinese and Robbed doodle Joint; Came From Eas(. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Nov. IS. Tho career of crimo which ho is believed to have-started have-started in this city was cut short today when District Judge- A. J. IIowcll sentenced sen-tenced L. J. Markham, aged twenty years, to servo seven 3'cars in tho State penitentiary for holding up and robbing Loo Hung Jan", a Chinese- proprietor of a Tw'ouly-fillh street noodlo joint. Markham entered tho placo tho evening even-ing of November .1, and. at tho point, of a revolver, held tho Chiucso whilo he wont, through tho cash drawer, from which he took $S. Ho was npprohouded tho noxt da3r, and after a vigorous "sweating' confessed con-fessed his crime. Ho entered a plna of guilty last week and was brought into court today to rcceivo his soutoiicc. Markham came hero from tho cast several sev-eral months ago, and had beon working in a tailoring establishment prior to his crime. At the samo time sentonco was passed upon Markham, Judge Howell sentenced C M. Soybolt to two yours in tho penitentiary, peni-tentiary, after ho had pleaded guilty to tho chargo of forgery. Soybolt signed t.ho nanio of Frank Alvord to a 450 check, which ho cashed at tho First National bank, and got out of tho city. Uo was arrested at Ottawa, Kan., and brought back to Ogdcn a week ago. Seybolt pleaded guilty.