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Show PRISONER SHACKLED; WAS ABAD HAN" "I am urptised at this man's avpeur-ance," avpeur-ance," said Warden Pratt at the pen!-, tentlary yesterday when Sheriff Oscar Beebe of Emery county brought John F. Parker, a negro. Into the State bas- ! tile to serve a three-year term. "He has been well ironed." commented j the Sherliff. Parker clanked his chains of steel, rattled his handcuffs an4 marched into j the prison. At home, which was in the I vicinity of Green River, he has won j the reputation of being a "hard nut." 1 The man wat arrested some time ago for burglary. It was charged that he had broken into a saloon at Green River, stole several boxes of cigars, the contents of a nickel snt machine and then tried to drain the contents of a whisky barrel and escape. The load was too great for him. It Is said, and he was found within a short distance of the place. When he was sentenced, he loudly declar-?d that no one would be able to take him to prison. Sheriff Beebe promptly placed him in irons and brought him to Salt Lake City. |