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Show JENSEN MAY 8E A NOTEDJRINAL Boise, Ida., March 6. The officials of Tooelo county, Utah, arc now confident confi-dent they have within their graap one of tho moBt notorious yeggmen and criminals in the country in Paul A. JenBen, alias John Jones, who in 1910, while serving a three months' sen-.tonco sen-.tonco aftor almost killing George Cramor, a miner, by slashing him from head to foot with a knlfo, escaped and was not heard of again until ho was arrested at Twin Falls and tried and acquitted in the federal court here on tho charge of dynamiting the poBtof-fico poBtof-fico safe at Kimberly, Ida, Governor James H. Hawley has honored hon-ored requisition papers aud Jenson will be taken from horo tomorrow by Deputy Sheriff Itf. M. Bush of Tooele county. Bush declaros he will take no chances with his prisoner, who, he believes, Is a desporato character. Tho government made every possl-hel possl-hel effort to hold Jensen ou tho robbery rob-bery charge, but the Lesters, Goorgo and" Harry, wont on tho Btand and confessed "that they alone dynamited tho Kimberly safe Federal authorities authori-ties here believe this agreement was reached by them with Jensen. The authorities aro of the opinion that Jensen is wanted for a morp serious crime than assault or robbery, and they are leaving nothing undone to trace his history and career in order to fasten the crime to him. When tho fact became known at Tooele that Jonsen was being held here on a charge of poatoffico robbery, the authorities au-thorities thore lost no time In communicating com-municating with tho authorities here. They wanted Jensen and wanted him badly, not only for Jail-breaking, hut becauBo they believe bo is a dangerous wan to be at large. When Jenson escaped from the county jail at Tooele bo picked tho locks In three Bteel doors to do ao. Securing a piece of steel he sharpened it and when the opportunity came attacked at-tacked the stool doors. He warned his fellow prisoners that if thoy "peachod" on him ho would kill them. With this instrument he successfully picked the three locks nnd, having opened tho way to freedom. Invited his fellow prisoners to Join him, but they refused out of fear of Jonsen himself. ' The crimo for which Jonaen was convicted' to serve Bix months in tho Tooele county Jail was assault. Jon- I sen and George Cramer had trouble and later Jensen followed Cramer Into In-to a box car at Tooele and attacked him with a knlfo, stabbing and slashing slash-ing his victim repeatedly. oo |