Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-03-28 | Page 1 | Convict Admit Wrecking Train

i CONVICT ADMITS AilTS V ECKING TRAIN Says He Planned to Rob U. U U P. P Flier but Got Cot Cold ColdS S Feet and Fled I nA RAWLINS Wyo March l 23 28 P V I Derailment of or the Union Pacific railroads railroad's fast f t Portland Rose Roe passenger ger r train near here Friday night was the work of oC an ex convict who fled without u a penny in loot althou although h his motive was as robber robbery officers di dis disclosed dis- dis closed today Sc Scores Scares of or passengers ers narrowly escaped escaped es es- death 0 or S Injury as six six coaches and the locomotive of the transcontinental train train piled up in a ditc ditch I Horace G. G Lovett Lo fa sold fald d by Sheriff John to be a form former r Colorado Colo Cob rado rode and convict Is held in jail it here McP McPherson eron said he con con- The Th prisoner oner according to Me- Me Pherson told o of prying pring up up a track obis and some orne spikes When hen th tha tho transcontinental train truck th the loose loos rail the thc locomotive nd si Ei n CO coaches were wrecked L Lovett eLt helped B n. W W. engineer enner from under a pile oile of coal and then started to go o through the overturned o coaches However the wreck caus caused d to ao o little confusion amon among passengers passenger's who were thrown from th their ir berths that Lovett Love t sot got ot cold feet and fled led Lovett has been held in jail here since inc Sun Sunday l but the arrest was not until last night