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Show ALLEGED CROOK EVADES EVADESJUSTICE EVADESJUSTICE EVADESJUSTICE JUSTICE BY JAIL BREAK BREAKA A confidence man who it is alleged allegedhad allegedhad allegedhad had defrauded citizens of Elgin Grand Grandcounty Grandcounty Grandcounty county , out of several hundred dollars dollarsevaded , evaded justice Saturday night when whenhe whenhe whenhe he escaped from the county jail at atBeaver atBeaver atBeaver Beaver , , Utah The alleged aIleged crook , H HW HW HW W . Porter , was being bemg held ! at Beavel Beavei Beavelpendmg Beaveipending Beavelpending pendmg pending the arrival there of Sheriff J JB JB JB B Skewes of Moab , who had intendedbringing mtended intended mtendedbnnging intendedbringing bnnging bringing the prisoner back to Grand Grandcounty Grandcounty Grandcounty county for trial When Sheriff Shenff Skewes Skewesand Skewesand Skewesand and son . , Art Skewes " , reached . Beaver BeaverMonday BeaverMonday BeaverMonday Monday after making makmg a long , , hard hardI hardauto hardauto hardauto I auto trip , , they-found they found theyfound they.found - _ . that Porter had hadescaped hadescaped , escaped fro f from r o m jail , , having sawed sawedthrough sawedthrough i through several bars with a hack-saw hack saw hack-sawwhich hack sawwhich - , whIch had been smuggled into mto the theJaIl thejail thejail thejailPorter I JaIl I jailPorter Porter , it is charged , was formerly 11 a 11salesman asalesman asalesman salesman for the Investors ' ' SyndIcate SyndIcateUsmg SyndicateUsing SyndicateUsing Usmg Using information , printed prmted forms and andother andother andother other company literature l1terature which he stilI still stilIhad stillhad stillhad had in his possession he induced mduced Mrs MrsD MrsD MrsD D B Shaner and the G A Harr Harris Harrisfamily Harrisfamily f.am11y fam11y family . , of Elgin EIgm , to surrender to him himbonds himbonds himbonds bonds which they had purchased from fromthe fromthe fromthe the syndicate , agreeing agreemg to return bonds bondsof bondsof bondsof of more value to the owners He Hefraudulently Hefraudulently Hefraudulently fraudulently represented that he v.as vas was wasacting v.asacting . wasacting acting on instructions instruction from the syndi syndi- syndicate syndi- syndi syndicate syndicate - - cate After getting gettmg the bonds in m his hisposseSSIOn hispossession hispossession posseSSIOn , he went to Denver , wherehe where wherehe wherehe he sold them , appropriating appropnating the money moneyto moneyto moneyto to his own usePorter use usePorter Porteras Porter was \\as as \ . arrested .arrested at Beaver on a asImilar asimilar sImilar charge , but the case there therewas therewas therewas was dismissed for la lack k of prosecution prosecutionLearnmg prosecutionLearning prosecutionLearning Learnmg Learning that Porter was in Beaver BeaverSheriff , . Sher1ff Sheriff Skewes wired the sherlUf"there sherlUfthere sheriffrthere sheriff'thereto sheriffthereto sherlUf"thereto sheriffrthereto " ' ' to hold him 1 m , but the confidence man manmanaged manmanaged manmanaged managed to make his get-away get away - just justbefore justbefore justbefore before the local officer reached Beaver BeaverSheriff BeaverSheriff BeaverSheriff Sheriff Skewes Skewe.s . and son returned toMoab to toMoab toMoab Moab Wednesday . |