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Show CALIFORNIA PRISONER MH FUGITIVE. ELM Warden Slorrs Asks De-i De-i scription of Man Held at Los Angeles ; Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES, Cab, July 2fi. Warden George H. Storrs of the Utah state prison has telegraphed for a detailed description ; of Charles Johnson, who is held in the county jail on a charge of assault with intent to kill A. Gapeautz, a taxicab driver. The telegram came in answer to one sent tho Utah warden informing him that the Los Angeles authorities believe the prisoner is. in reality. Charles Cu turnings, tu-rnings, a fugitive from the Utah state prison, and it asks if the local authorities will give the prisoner up in case their belief proves true. According to Warden Storrs. Cummings was sentenced in May, 1918, to serve thirty-five years for depredations committed at a sheep camp near Soldier Summit. In November of the same year lie, with a man named Ketchum. escaped from a road camp near St. Johns, and, stealing two horses, fled to the hills. They were overtaken by Warden Storrs and Sheriff D. M. Adamson of Tooele county. A pitched battle ensued, during which Ketchum was fatally wounded, but Cummings Cum-mings escaped to the hills and disappeared. disap-peared. Circulars were sent to all parts of the country, and tho telegram from Los Angeles was the first response. On the night of June 15 Gapeautz, an employee of the Alexander Taxicab company, com-pany, was engaged by Johnson and another an-other man to take them to Venice in a taxicab. Near a place on the road called Death Curve, the men held the driver ip and one of thorn .shot him. Johnson was captured but his companion escaped. |
