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Show CONVICT'S BODY MUST Bt RETURNED WHERE ESCAPE WHS HADE Aged Fugitive Killed, aad HU Remains Will Lie la Lane Wilderness. Death, while playing the rols of a ban-ait, ban-ait, and burial In a secluded spot In Washington county near a new road that la being hulK by his former fellow ran. vtcts. Is ths termination of the notorious career of K. it Orant. who sines hs was it years old haa spent forty-two years in paaal servitude. As sn sacaped prisoner the aged convict became a hunted fugitive fugi-tive Hungry, and shivering In hie Uttered Ut-tered rags, he attempted a bold robbery Tuesday night and died after he waa mortally wounded by a revolver shot fired by Samuel Basis, a rancher la Kane county. coun-ty. Orant far many years has noon known aa a highwayman and had Just entered tha etate prison on aa sight-year term. The place where Orant lost his Ufa In his last unlawful depredation waa fourteen four-teen miles from a tslephons, and It waa not unttl late last night that the news reached Warden Arthur I'ratt of the penitentiary. pen-itentiary. The body of the dead convict will be taken from Kanab, Utah, to the convict camp, from whence ha escaped, and will be burled slons near the road althout funeral aervlcea or ceremony. The body will have to be hauled nearly forty miles by stsge. but II Is the determination of Wsrdsn Pratt to havs Orant returned to the camp where he had been working for the state. Done la Self Defease Representative C. John Smith of Kane county la of the opinion that Mr. Basis shot merely in self dsfanss when lie unwittingly un-wittingly earned the IM reward offered by the state for the capture of Orsnt dead or alive. Representative Smith said this morning that Mr, Basis had bssn employed by tha Grand Canyon Cattle oorapany aa a watchman for the laat four veers. "If Seals killed the convict." said Rsp-reeentatlve Rsp-reeentatlve Smith this miming, "It waa I evidently tn self defense." , Grant a criminal history began years I ago In California. Since that time he I hae served sentences In many prisons. His I last sentence wss from this county for I ths attempted burglary of a drug store In this city. He was srreated October 1',. I tail, by Patrolmen Lund and Radrllff and t received an eight-year sentence on October Octo-ber 81 for second degree burglary. |