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Show CONVICT TELLS Of CIPMHIil Considerable 111 feeling has been arounsed at West Weber over tue claim made by two residents there for the state reward for the capture ol Convict Gus Johnson, who escaped the other night from the convict construction con-struction camp maintained by tho state near Willard. Prom reports received, it appean that no one in particular was entitled to tho reward, ns the man had not been arrested, nor had he been identified iden-tified as tho missing piisoner until after the arrival of Deputy Sherltr C. H. Ellsworth, who was sent hur-iiodly hur-iiodly to the scene by Sherifl Harri-bon Harri-bon when he learned that a suspicious suspici-ous character had been seen asleep under a loaaing piatform of the West Weber cannery. Those who saw him did not make any attempt to place him inder arrest and the only part' they took in tho affair was to muster up enough courago to telephono the sheriff that they thought they recognized recog-nized the missing convict. When Deputy Sheriff Ellsworth arrived ar-rived on the scene, lie npproached tho sleeping man and polling him in the ribs with his Tevolver, ordered him to surrender and come out from under the platform Covered by the weapon tho convict slowly crawled out from under tho platform, shoes in hand and gave himself up to tho officer, who immediately handcuffed him and I took him the the count jail I On tho way Johnson, after much coaxing, acknowledged thut he waa the missing man and told his captor thai had he had a gun ho would never have been takeu alive. Upon being told that he was only a few miles from tho camp, Instead of being be-ing many more as he imagined he said that lie was too weak to walk on account of hunger. "Yes," said ho. "I did give my word of honor not to escape, and 1 kept It as long as the prison officials kept faith with me. "They violated their word to treat us liko men, and agreed to allow us to have fifty cents a day for food. Instead, we wore treated worse than dogs, and tho food, such as It was, was not enough for men who were doing hard work that we were doing. They treated us like slaves and fed us bad and insufficient food. Do you blame any of us for trying to get oway? "I am not squealing because I was caught, but had I been stronger, you never would have got me. It is all right, if In my case an Investigation in made into the reason for my escape es-cape the governor will find that I am right, and the conditions at the camp inhuman and unbearable." |