Show Abe Majors Majors' Pal in I Alleged Burglaries Is Former Utah Convict Convi t a RECEIPT of the news that Abe Majors who was released d thirteen months ago from the state prison after serving twenty years for the slaying of Captain William A. A Brown of the Ogden police department had been arrested for burglary in Los Los Los' Angeles caused the police today to investigate the record of theman the man said to have been taken in the same raid As a result the I I record of Leon Soulard shows that he was also a convict in the i Utah state penitentiary and served two terms for burglary in the I second de degree ree I Majors and Soulard are said to have met while in th the state prison and to I have become become fast friends Other j 1 members of or the tho same Los Angeles gang gang of burglars are said to be at I large and they may be convicts who were also acquainted with Majors Majors' I while he was in the state prison I WARDEN AS ASTONISHED I It certainly surprised me to hear hear that Majors was under arrest said Warden Varden George Storrs toda today lIe I Ihas has been reporting to mo me regularly since l his is release from the state prison I have a letter which he wrote two weeks ago In which lie he says that he heIs heis Is holding a good position as a shipping ship ship- I ping clerk with a Los Angeles firm II He had every recommendation from employers for whom he re worked since I his release r Leon Soulard Sou lard was arrested for fol i burglary In 1908 and sentenced to I Iw serve two w years ar I lie was released el June 4 1916 and d committed m te more burglaries He was sent up again December 27 27 1910 for eight years I and he was released on October 30 I 1915 lie He Is now 34 years of age i ilie lie was a model prisoner and a bright brightman I man In many ways He was a Frenchman and worked as a cook and I walter waiter I EVIDENCE LOOKS BAD I IThe The Los Angeles police say that they caught Abraham R. R Majors following his attempt to sell stolen jewelry Two suitcases filled with jewelry and a large quantity ot of melted gold and silver sil- sil Ilver Il- Il ver found in his room acI according ac- ac I cording to the police A second room which he used for tor emergencies In another another an- an other hotel was found to contain two more suitcases full of stolen goods th the I 1 police st state te I P. P Soulard was arrested about the same time and Is said to have confessed confessed con con- that the gang committed more than twenty burglaries of the most fashionable residences in the city The loot which was discovered In the possession possession pos pos- session ot of the two men Is said to be valued at several thousand tho sand dollars MAJOR UTAH RECORD Majors and his elder brother Archie I robbed Fred Hanson of Brigham City on the n night of April 29 2 1899 Majors 18 t il was 18 years of age and his brother 22 Shots were exchanged between a I posse and the bandits at Hot Springs I but the fugitives escaped Into the I mountains Later Latel the bandits fired on the posse as they were cornered on the side of a mountain Ca Cartain tain Brown and Archie l Ia Majors ors were killed A Abe be Majors was convicted of murdel murder mur- mur del der In the first degree and was sentenced sentenced sen- sen to be sh shot t. t A motion for tor a anew anew new trial was granted later and Majors Ma- Ma jors was sentenced to lo life imprisonment imprison imprison- ment after being found guilty a Ma-I Ma second second sec sec- ond time I |