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Show CONVERSE AT THE PRISON . DOORS rT7 " wM m BBBJ; f C. H ?Bjnvcrse. sentenced In r March, lOloJLo serve vino year in the V state ponitenUary for grand larceny, B appeared in Jpdge Howell's division H of the district coSirt this morning- un- B ' der an order by the court that he, or H his hondsmen, appear for the further j execution of the sentence, H Tho court stated that, inasmuch as Bv the defendant had made his appear- ' ance In court1, thero was nothing for B tho court to do but to remand him H to tho Custody of the sheriff, flic B b her iff to execute tho sentence. B, Since his appearance in court this H- morning. Mr Converse has been in H- the custody of Sheriff Harrison, but B. lias not been locked up and It Is llke- . ly that he will not bo taken to Salt H Lake before tomorrow. I ,U1, UUtlDU piuiubli, Ulb I11UU- H ccncc, but stales that he and his wife H concluded that it was better to .serve H time in tho penitentiary. If necessary, H' than to be a fugitive ftom justice and B- have a sentence hanging over hla PPHt head It was not the amount of the PPpV, bond, $500, he said, that caused him PPH' to return from Los Angeles io serve PPBm time in prison, but he was Influenced H by his business relations and his do- HiF siro to bo free fiom any charge PPH against him. PPPBT "I am known all over the western PPHh, country," said Mr. Convorsc today. "I PPPh' own property In different places and I PPH feel that my credit would be Impaired PPH, were r to evado the sentence o( the PPHV court in thie matter by forfeiture of PPBBt a bond of $500. My wife Is in very B poor health and she desired that I PPH'' ta'ko this course. I am not in the B . penitontlarypo'et, but I am very near PPBB, H. I cannot say what may be dono, PPBB hut I can say that I 'was not treated H' altogether right by some of tho wit- PBBm- nesses against mo in tho trial. My PBBB attorney is in Salt Lake thi3 after- H noon, but I have no idea what ho will PPBB accomplish. The least that can bo said B the newspapers about my caso, the better it will suit me. I think I have H' had too much newspaper notoriety BBBJ' It- Is understood that an effort will B .. he made to havo the slnto board of B pardons, at the head of which 16 Gov- H'i ernor Spry, consider tho caso witli a B view to pardoning Mr. Converse. PPBfl. It will bo recalled that ho was con- Hi Tided of stealing- $100 worth of hat B plumes. Converse claimed he pur- Hf chased the plumqs .and declared ho PBB v as not at tho ilac6 of the theft at Hu the time. The caso, was taken to the H' supreme court on appeal, that court PPBS. affirming the judgment of the lovcr PBBHj3 |