Show GOT NINE YEARS VEARS ed force sentenced to colorado penitentiary for horse stealing the tha trial of earle foree better known in vernal as ed force for horse stealing was waa set for tuesday of una week at grand junction colorado beauty sheriff ily hy meeks who captured him on the reservation went over to the junction on monday to appear as a witness for the state the statement sent out from grand junction to the effect that force murdered his hia tell cell mate in the wyoming penitentiary is not true according to a letter received by ily hy meeks from fram the private secretary of gov brooks of wyoming the letter says that force is wanted for smuggling dynamite into the state penitentiary at rawlins the dynamite was waa exploded by another convict ile II 11 was killed by the explosion as was also one of the guards in the penitentiary tent iary when the facts are fully known it may devello that force is charged with complicity in the murder of the guard it is ia reported that foree was waa pardoned from the wyoming penitentiary last june and that immediately after that ho he went to his former homo home in missouri where he remained for afew a few weeks and then returned to the west about the first of last october ho he made hla his way back to rawlins with the dynamite and 11 smuggled it to the prisoner november list this prisoner attempted to escape killing a guard ile he failed to escape after all and in his desperation ho he exploded the dynamite which killed the guard and himself foree who was still in rawlins at the time of the explosion now made his hia escape into colo rado and soon afterwards we hear of him leading a stolen horse through utah offering him for sale and the horse and thief were both picked up just as wo we are about to go to press a message is ia received from ily meeks who is at mack that force was waa tried in the district court at grand junction and that the jury after a short deliberation era tion returned a verdict finding defendant guilty of horse stealing as charged the judge sentenced him to nine years in the colorado penitentiary sheriff horton of rawlins wyoming went to grand junction armed with requisition papers duly signed by governor buchtel of colorado and demanded that the sheriff of mesa county turn foree force over to him but tho the colorado sheriff refused to do so sheriff schrader in his refusal to surrender foree to the wyoming authorities acted under instructions from the district attorney at grand junction who beclar ed that the governor hod had no right to interfere with the courts or to order force turned fumed ever to the wyoming officials meeks meeka will reah vernal tomorrow to morrow night there is probably no reward offered for force in wyoming or meeks would hive h ive said something about it |