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Show GOES TO STATE PRISON DESPITE STRONG ALIBI Special to Tho Tribune. OGDEN. Jan. 15. George Lowell, tho central liguro In ono of the strangest alibi ali-bi defenses ever heard in a Utah court, wus this morning .lontonced to servo threo vcars in the state, prison, aftor having been convicted last week of burglary in tho seeond dogreo by a Jury In tho district dis-trict court. Lowell wus charged with onlciing a Japanese rooming house on Lincoln avo-nue. avo-nue. lie set up an alibi as a defense to the charges ngnlnst hlni, and succeeding In proving by snvural attorneys and members mem-bers of tho 'alt Lake police department, that, at tho tlmo he Is supposed to have entered tho rooming house ho was In the Salt Luko City jail under a different namo charged with vagrancy and drunkenness, drunk-enness, and was not released until after tho burglary lu Ogden was committed. In diicct contradiction to this testimony, members of tho local polleo department, when sworn as witnesses, declared that Lowell had been locked In the city Jail since his arrest, after being caught In the rooming house. The fact that the prisoner shaved off a heavy beard and mustache whllo a prisoner here was proven at the tlmo. and It Is believed that he did so for the purpose of disguising disguis-ing himself and confusing ihc police. Deputy Sheriff nutchens took tho prisoner pris-oner lo Sail Lako this afternoon. |