Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-22 | Page 6 | Carlisle's Career

penitentiary for life, his sentence was commuted in May of this year to a minimum min-imum of twenty-fivo years imprisonment. imprison-ment. He escaped from' the penitentiary peniten-tiary on the fifteenth of this month, celebrating his new-found freedom by I holding up a Union Pacific train near Medicine Bow, taunting the authorities and dispatching a similarly taunting message to the railroad officials. Carlisle" still is at large, performing feats which will not feature a film enterprise, en-terprise, but which make the professional profes-sional film ' bandit" resemble the traditional tra-ditional thirty cents. And. as in the film stories, the finale doubtless will parallel the usual' fate of the road agent of motion picture variety, with, perhaps, some real blood-letting. Wyoming' still maintains the traditions tradi-tions of pioneer days.. CARLISLE'S CAREER. Not all the thrills aw fo be found reflected re-flected on the screen before gaping motion mo-tion picture audiences. Wyoming ins been furnishing a very superior quality of drama in which oldtlnic wild west conceptions are brought down to the moment, with William Carlisle in the stellar role. The career of this bandit, who may be called the are of train robbers, has been spectacular enough. Born in Pennsylvania in 1890, larlislo camo west several yars ago and, immediately began to mako criminal history-. In February of 1 91 rt he held up a UbJOO Pacific train in Hweitzer county, Wyo-ming, Wyo-ming, repeating the huMness in Lara-mio Lara-mio county about two mouths later. lie escaped arrest, want to Denver and went Cjuietlv about receiving InMrur-tions InMrur-tions in guitar playing. Ho tied of the muse and returned to thn train robbing businsas. Between holdnpa he taught a railroad Samday school class In Central City, Colo., presumably in Indulgence of his desire iri uccjuiro versatility. ver-satility. Toward the end of April of 1016 lie gave a Denver QgWgpgpgf a Up thai he would hold up a train 011 a. certain day. He kept Ms word, a t ji ion Pacific Pa-cific train beiug Filnp:i and tin- pas sengtra robbed in 1 nr!iu county. Then the law grabbed Him anil lie wns taken to a .(nil at Itawllns, Wvn. Tried and convicted and sentenced to I he