Box Elder News Journal | 1912-02-29 | Page 1 | Escaped Convict Captured

ESCAPED CONVICT CAPTURED On Tuesday william jones escaped convict from the convict camp at wll lard nov alth wa in by the police at portland oregon and the warden of 0 the utah stat prison was notified ot of his capture it will be remembered that jones struck afi aff across the hills on the evening of november ath and he was trailed along tho the mountain side toward this city for a considerable distance then all traces ot of him completely disappeared and after several days of searching the officers gave up the chase all the peace officers along the line were given a description of him however and the result is his capture jones was serving an IS months sentence for burglary arid and on account of his hie excellent record was given a place on the road crew where he also served faithfully until tho the night in question ile he had served sufficient time together with his big credits to have received his release on the first of the present month now he will go back to begin all over again loosing all the credits and perhaps getting a few months an