Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-08-30 | Page 11 | Judge Arraigns Convicts in Penitentiary 'Court'

J Judge dg Arraigns Convicts S in Penitentiary Court Earle Humphries Bound Over on Ass Assault and Larceny Larceny Larceny Lar Lar- ceny Respectively ly Two Utah Ulah state tate prison convicts stood before the bar c of l justice Thursday Thurs Thurs- day this day this time behind prison walls walls- and heard City Judge W W. Douglas Beatie Beatle hold them for o trial in district court one on grand larceny charges and the theother other on charges charge of assault Meek and nervous Robert Earle 27 with a months month's growth of ot beard who made a sensational escape over the pr prison son walls waits I last t Armistice day only orly to b. b be recaptured red i in Portland Ore and nd extradited to Utah tah waived examination on charges of assaulting Joe wall guard during the escape and will stand trial with a possible sentence of five ye years rs to life Since Earles Earle's ret return rn to the prison August 9 he has been confined in a solitary cell ceIl and kept apart from the theother theother theother other prisoners on rations of ot coffee and bread Prison officials consider him one one of the most dangerous dangerous' men men in the penitentiary Earle entered the prison September 27 1933 for a term of one to hen Iten years After the hearing Earle indicated he lie would plead guilty to the charge of ot assaulting assaulting assault assault- ing tag As Earle walked Back to his cell celIo another prisoner Pete Humphries 26 26 was brought before the court for preliminary hearing on grand larceny charges harges growing out of theft of 14 fur coats valued at 1200 from a store at East Bro Broadway dway Humphries is alleged to have committed the theft during his parole Humphries was paroled from the prison September 27 1933 1033 after serving serving serving ing approximately a year of an indeterminate inde lade terminate ate sent sentence nce on sec second nd degree burglary charges He was wa-s recaptured July 4 4 1934 in Salt Lake City Police Police Po Po- lice say that Humphries also served a 60 day 60 sentence for burglary in Kansas Kansas' City Mo while on n parole parol from Utah state prison If If convicted Humphries faces a sentence of one to ten years 11 in us addition n to the sentence he ejov now is 15 serving 7 4 z zM M 4 c I Robert Earle top and Pete Humphries