Show CONVICT HAS CRI lINAl RECORD IN INMANY MANY lOCALITIES Charles Phelps Jailbird Has Followed Career of Crime for Years Charles rh Phelps lp the tho news nes of ot whoso whose arrest ar ar- ar- ar rest at Hood River Or for a murderous assault upon John May In a card game at atthe atthe atthe the saloon Buhl Buhi Ida on March CO 0 o was as published In the Salt Lake City newspapers yesterday has a long crime record and on numerous occasions he has visited Salt Lake City It is said since his release from the Utah state penitentiary penitentiary penitentiary where he was sentenced to serve time for the murder of ot John Egan In Salt Lake City about City about fifteen years ears ago It Is believed that Phelps was in Salt Lake City last September when whan he rounded u up a gang of crooks rooks who had been hiding here hore and led th them m to Elko Eiko Nev Ney where numerous holdups and robberies robberies robberies rob rob- were ere committed The gang is 18 said sald to have come coma to Salt Lake City to evade the Nevada authorities and they likewise evaded c tho the police pollee here At Jarbidge the new mining camp Phelps and his followers are reported to have operated upon the gold seekers with big results Later Phelps went to Buhl Buhi with his pockets filled with gold It was hero here that he engaged in a card game with John May fay who played with unusual luck and soon had Phelps on the hip Phelps became enraged at the other mans man's winnings winnings win win- and jumped upon May stabbing him several times in the abdomen Phelps mado made his escape from the gambling house while the other men In the place held their hands high in the air at his com corn mand While was Phelps a bartender at the theold theold theold old Senate enato saloon in Salt Lake City he committed his first known murder when he be killed John Egan Egan who was believed to have hae considerable consid able erable To money Tony ny in his S Wi pockets came to nt the saloon for a a. drink Phelps put poison I In Inthe inthe the mans man's glass and Egan fell teU unconscious clous to the floor whereupon Phelps and his pal Jesse Tesse McMillan Ic robbed him of ot all nil his money Egan died shortly after he had drained the contents content of or the glass McMillan was sentenced to serve twenty t ty years in tho the state prison but was pardoned pardoned pardoned par par- after aCter a a. brief period Phelps had numerous acquaintances who worked in his behalf and he was also pardoned after after atter af at- ter ho lie had served a comparatively short time In the Utah penitentiary Phelps also served time In Idaho for the murder of or lieber Hebe West of Pocatello but was released on a pardon from the Idaho Idabo state prison also |