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Show Two Bingham Men Sentenced to State Prison for Burglary John Webb, 19 and Orel Bird, two Bingham men, were sentenced this week to indeterminate terms in the state prison following a plea of guilty to charge of burglary. Sentence was imposed by District Judge Ephraim Hanson after the pair had waived their rights to being heard in Summit County, where the burglary burg-lary was committed. Considerable loot taken by the men! in the burglary at Park City, as well as places in Salt Lake county, has been recovered by Sheriff J. C. Clark of Summit County and Sheriff Clifford Clif-ford W. Patten of Salt Lake. Webb and Bird were arrested as they were in the act of burglarizing the Welsh, Driscoll and Buck Hardware Hard-ware Store. The pair were jailed and Webb made a sensational escape, baffling baf-fling the officers who were sent out in pursuit. The sheriff's office in Salt Lake was immediately notified and a close watch was kept of Webb's home in Telegraph. Tele-graph. Last Saturday he was seen by Deputy Sheriff Oscar Fullmer going in the back door of the house. Deputy Fullmer sent word to the house asking Webb to surrender, but the latter refused. re-fused. Deputies were then stationed outside and Deputy Fullmer went inside in-side and made the arrest. In addition to his Park City activities, activi-ties, officers declared that Webb had confessed to an attempted hold-up of an oil service station at Forty-eighth South and State streets. Webb declares de-clares that at this time he was accompanied accom-panied by Bird. Webb told the officers of-ficers they cautiously made their way to the station and found the attendant asleep under the window through which they proposed to enter. Bird suggested, said Webb, that he, Webb, go to the door and call to the attendant, attend-ant, telling him he wanted some gas. Webb did this, but the attendant opened the door with one hand and in the other he held a gun. Realizing the danger of attacking the attendant Webb and his companion fled, followed by several shots from the attendant's pistol. Webb has also confessed to the burglary of a Midvale pool hall, securing secur-ing several dollars from a slot machine. ma-chine. s |