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Show a U-'kiwi, 1 La ta a. . ww. ..,1 Laia Vxi-v Probably, the youngest female ever sentenced to the State prison In this State is Isabel Larsen, who was sentenced sen-tenced to a year In that Institution by Judge Armstrong Saturday afternoon.. ' The girl says that she Is 18 years of age, but the officers assert that she Is not yet 17. She was arrested at her home In Mount Pleasant about two weeks ago on a charge of grand larceny. lar-ceny. The girl had been employed In the home f Mrs, Smart In the northwest north-west part of the city as a servant. One day she left the house, taking with ner $50 in cash and about $50 worth of clothing. Isabel is. not unused to prison life. When she was a little more than 12 years of age -she gave her parents so much trouble that they were compelled to send her to the State Industrial school at Ogden, where she remained until about a year ago, when she was released on parole. A short time later she married a young man named David Hanson. She lived with him for about a month and then left him. - Coming to Salt Lake a few weeks ago she secured work In the Smart family, and at the first opportunity committed commit-ted the theft for which she was sentenced. sen-tenced. She declined to ask ' the court for mercy, and with an oath declared to an officer that she did not care if she did have to go to the penitentiary. On account of her belngr married It was impossible for the court to return her to Ogden. |