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Show Youthful Convict Shot; Posse Pursuing His Companion in Valley ' UTAH PRISON Ofimies Fugitive Flees to Bleak Skull Valley Wilds in Hope of Gaining His Freedom From Laws ONK boy lies at tho point of death with a broken back in the I'tah penitentiary today, while another youth is hiding away in some mountain lair in the ragged wilderness uf Skull valley, the hunted prey of a posse of officers and armed' guatris. j The plight of tha two boys. Harvey Ketchum, 17 years old. and Augustus f'umminffs, 18, Is the result of a break for liberty wh'ph they made from the Lincoln highway cunvict camp at j Johnson's Pass, near St. John. I Ketchum was shot through the back j I by Sheriff D. M. Adamson of Tooele, j ! when he and t'umnniigs filled to heed a command to halt from the officers. The two fugitives were being pursued j by a posse headed by Sheriff Adarn- j son and Warden f.eorge A. Storrs of J kthe I'tah state prison. . POSSE PURSUES. I ( The two youths made their, break j from tfce. prison camp on mules. They j fled up Skull valley and, upon reach- Ing the Ieseret Livestock company's j ranch, they commandeered two horees ( and continued. A posne was quick-Iy organized and the convlcta were intercepted inter-cepted near Dolomite. They were comma ndeil to halt and, when this failed to stop t hem. Sheriff A damson fired. Ketchum waa brought to the ground, the bullet having truck him tn the hack and shattered the spinal column. 'ummings continued his flight and at a lat hour this afternoon wm reported re-ported surrounded in a can von in Skull valley. KETCHUM DYING. .Warden Storrs brought Ketchum to Salt Lake. He la being cared for in the prison hospital and little hope is held out for his recovecy" The wounded hoy was sentenced to j six months imprisonment for burglary J from Salt 1.ake. t'umminga win convicted con-victed In Provo of grand larceny and ws serving a n Indeterminate sentence. |