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Show CONVICTWPTURED Late last week a convict,' Heaton by name, tried to escape from the road-camp in Trice canyon. Saturday Satur-day he was captured at Duchesne. Warden Storrs came in Sunday and early Monday left with his man. The convict was a trusty. Some years ago he broke into a bank and was given a twenty-Dve-year sentence. sen-tence. He has been one of the best of prisoners according to the Warden. War-den. Day by day he has been adding up credits and would soon have been turned loose on parole. The man is a college graduate and has a high degree of intelligence. He does not seem to have criminal tendencies. When asked by the warden why he tried to get away he answered that he did not know. Thirty minutes before he broke away he says he had no idea of doing such a thing. When the idea entered his head he did not stop to think but just started off. As he was a trusty he could go where he liked and was not missed for a little while. A picture of the man was published publish-ed in the Salt Lake papers and also sent to the county sheriffs. Wr. C. Perry was reading his paper down on the bridge across the Strawberry Straw-berry when the man came along. He immediately thought of the picture and made comparison. Coming up town he told the sheriff, who summoned sum-moned two or three other men and went after him. He was taken up town and examined but did not admit ad-mit who he was. The men who made the capture thought the joke was on them and bought the man a dinner and made due apologies. Later they looked at another description which the sheriff had and decided that they were right after all. So they took the man and escorted hlra to the locker. Sunday morning he confessed. Now he goes back aa a prisoner denied the privleges that he was enjoying, robbed of bis credits and with a longer long-er sentence than before. As to the fifty dollars reward. Maybe W. C. Perry gets It. It may be that the sheriff gets It. It may be that the Red Cross gets it. |
