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Show WAS PLANNING A JAIL BREAK Young Man Behind the Bars Had Requested His Wife to Supply; Hdm With Saws For the Purpose of Cutting His vVay to Liberty Prisoner Proves to Be a Boy From San Pete County. It seems as though tho criminally embarrassing entanglements of jouug J. T Barker are endless, and the outlook out-look Ib Surely discouraging for a youDg man of only 20 years. Barker was arrested a short time ago for stealing a horse belonging to R. T Adamson of this city and aa bound over to await the action of tho district court He confessed tho theft and soon thereafter also confessed t'i tho theft of a hcrso at Layton. Up has since confessed to the crime of forgery committed In San Pete county, coun-ty, but the last serious act is an attempt at-tempt to secure saws by which no might cut his way through iron bars to freedom. Information regarding his attempt to get saws was obtained in a communication com-munication from his young wife, who resides at Farmington, addressed to him. Sheriff Harrison intercepted the letter last evening and took a copy of it before turning it over to the prisoner. Mrs. Barker tells her youthful youth-ful husband that she would not fui-nlsh fui-nlsh him with saws with which to make his escape and that, further, she would not assist in hi6 escape in any manner. She criticises him for asking ask-ing hr to do such a thing, telling him that he has brought all the trouble on himself and that ho wlU hac to make to best of it. Mrs. Barker complainB that her husband has brought untold disgrnco and hardship on her, simply because he was not man enough to getjout and work for a living as honest men do. The letter discloses the fact that Barker's parents reside at Fairfield, San Pete county, for she asks him whether she should Trile his mother, tolling of hlr predicament In order to induce her to come to his rescue with bail Lovingly she closes the letter by telling him that she encloses a "bunch of IoIets"' as a token of her love, noplng that he "vIU be a good boy," even in Jail The sheriff of San Peto county ad vised bherilt Harrison esterday oy letter that Barker is wanted in that county for forgery, enclosing a photograph pho-tograph of the yoftng man. making the identity of joung Barker certain When confronted with this charge by Doputv Sheriff Ellsworth, Barkor stated that he committed the forgery and that he secured $145 in the transaction. tran-saction. He forged the name of A R. Anderson to a check and succeeded in cashing it. Barker states further In relation to the matter that two other young fellows were implicated in forging checks but that he does not know how much they realized He gives their names as James Bills and Fred Anderson, residents of Fairfield. Barker says he and his two friends conceived the Idea of getting money thiough forgeries and that they secured se-cured a blank check book and wrote a number of checks in the name of Anderson Ho cashed his check but he has not been advised as to whether the other boys got any money Sheriff Sher-iff Knudsen of San Pete has been Informed In-formed of Barker's confession, that he may apprehend Bills and Anderson Tho officers here did not see the letter Barker wrote to his wife but tho answer indicates conclusively that Barker had sought to persuade Mrs. Barker to furnish him with saws that he might break jail. |