Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-18 | Page 9 | Girl Rescued from Desert Blizzard Sweetheart, Friends under Arrest

Girl Rescued From Desert Blizzard I ok Was on Way With Convict Ex-Convict 4 I Sweetheart Friends Under Arrest I Suffering agonies from exposure pretty Mildred Seddon 17 17 daughter of Mrs Mildred Seddon East Seventeenth South street told the p e Wednesday of ot how she had fallen in love with an ex-convict ex and joined In a wild adventure that almost cost her life Her sweetheart Joe Buckles 27 of South Fifth East street ana anahis anahis anahis his two twp friends Gene G. G Stanfield 27 alias OConnor O'Connor and Walter Vatter Var- Var ness ness are arc on their way to Salt Lake Lale from Wendover in custody of ot deputy sheriffs and are believed by bythe bythe bythe the police to hav have parti participated Inthe Intile in inthe the tile robbery of the tho Metropolitan store South Main street on January 7 when 2000 was taken from the tile safe Stanfield also has a long prison record but no DO record has been found for GAVE UP SWEETHEART I 1 fell in love with Joe said Miss Seddon who is a former West high school pupil and I gave up another sweetheart here Joe told me that he h had d served In a reformatory reformatory reforma reforma- tory and also in the tho Utah state tate prison but I did not net let lct that stand In n the way We tried to get a marriage Ii H- H here last Friday but wo we were refused on account of my age We Ve planned to elope to Ely Nevada Stanfield and offered U us us a aride ride in that direction According t to the police the trio had a Drive It Drive Yourself Yourself car Miss 1 Seddon said that they started start start- ed out Saturday morning After passing Wendover the car burned burped out a bearing while Willie they were Inthe in inthe inthe the desert We started to walk walle said Miss 1 Seddon but after five miles my feet gave out Night came ame and three of ot us overcome by fatigue la lay down by the tile side of ot tire tiro r road ad using our suitcases for pillows FEET FROZEN I Stanfield Stanfield decided to travel travel on to Gold Hill to look for help h We had only one overcoat between bet the three o oot of ot us I could pot not sleep and soon soona a blizzard swept down upon us We Vc nrose arose and tried to go on I fainted and my feet were frozen The men had to carry me as we started back toward our car We Ve had nothing to eat cat Afraid to venture out hi m n the tile snow snow we we stayed in the tile c car r all Sunday It was terrible Monday at midnight I saw a light approaching A man manIn manin manin in a cai ca took us us' us to Gold Hill Th There re remy my watch was sold and Joe and anel I got a ticket back to Wendover on the train 0 Tire other men men said they would walk wall Joe got a job in Ina a hotel According police an at attempt at at- tempt on the tIlo part of or Stanfield and to sell the car for which they could present no bill but of ot sale led lcd to the arrest of all concerned Tho The girl was placed on a train alone bound for Salt Lake after the Salt Lake police had been notified notified noti not fied fled to meet her She is now in th the th emergency hospital SERVED IN IDAHO Joe Buckles served time in the Idaho reformatory ac according to tire police In 1923 be he was arrested In Montana on n a burglary charge and sentenced to servo serve from one to four years He was released before the four years cars had expired Later he lie was arrested in Juab county coun Utah on a charge of grand larceny and sentenced to serve a year In the Utah prison on January 15 1926 His Ills term expired on January 15 1927 but he lle was as given a a. month off for good behavior 0 St Stanfield ld served twenty five months In a Minnesota l prison and was paroled He lIe was returned to custody later latet and released at the I expiration of ot his term In 1022 1922 he was is-as sentenced to a term in the Utah prison for robbery and released in 1926 upon the tile expiration of his sen sen- ten tence e. e He lie is also said to be a deserter deserter de- de from the tile nav navy 1 Tried to Elope e T c 11 0 0 0 0 A MILDRED SEDDON