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Show HIGHWAYMEN PLEAD GUILTY District Attorney Places Only One Offense Against Them, But Claims That Will Be Enough En-ough to Hold them in Prison for Life, if the Board of Pardons is Guided by Information to be Forwarded in Regard to the Career of the Holdups in Ogden. hen Thomas Martin, James Maxwell Max-well and Oscar McSwiggin, confessed highwav robbers, were arraigned before be-fore Judge James A. Howell this morning only ine information was read to them and to onh one count of robbery were they called upon to plead. The1, all entered pleas of agilltv and the court announced that sentence would be pronounced at f o'clock next Friday afternoon The men showed no hesitancy In their answers of "guilty" to ihe charee of robbing M. Biel of $10 at his place of business on Twenty-fifth . street, July 21, and. they advised the court that they did not care for the services of an attorney Apparently' they were pleased to plead to the in-dictment in-dictment on only one of the counts and throw themselves upon the mercy of the state board of pardons. After the reading of the Informs tinn K',f.ln k )-, a p.. n, , V. DUI place, the court asked If the men were not to be arraigned on the other Informal ion. t,. which the district attorney at-torney replied that he did not care io have them arraigned on the other charges at this time. The court showed some impatience in Ihe matter and said that a plea to all the charges should be entered The attorney replied that he preferred prefer-red to have the arraignment on the Exchange saloon robbery passed un til after Judgment In the other case and the court ih--n consented, staling , however, that the court could do nothing noth-ing more than sentence the men to the tate penitentiary for an Indeter minate period. nisatlsfactlon over the manner of disposing of the desperate character? irai xpressed after adjournment oi court bv citizens, and District Vttor ney Davis was questioned reardine his attitude, to which the attorney replied that he would assume all the responsibility for the arraienmeni as he believed It was the most expeditions ex-peditions and the better way to dig-I dig-I pose of the cases. While he dl not .Intimate that a compromisp had been entered into with the prisoners, re) he stated that it Is understood that Uie recommendation of a life term will be forwarded to the state board ; of pardons on the one count. Mr Davis stated further that It would be Impossible to give the men I more than a life term in prison and that th board of pardons could release re-lease them ironi their Incarceration I at am time on a half dozen counts: ;i- well aa on one. and, furthermore, 'hat the information on the other counts, and all facts connected with the men s crime In this cit on July 21. would he placed at the disposal ot 'lie pardoning board for its guidance guid-ance However, it g the opinion of many that the men should hare been called upon to answer the other charges and a record made in the district court Whether the other information aealnst the men will be dismissed rnn r n 1 , I, ., i..kj.j i .ui . i , w..., i u i j jtrv i u I n i tin; iiiui- but an inference is drawn from the at titnde of the district attorney today I that he will mow for a dismissal ot i the other counts At least, they will hP lofl in Abeyance, unless the dts- I trict attornej changes his mind The prisoners appeared neath dressed, with well -omhed hair and clean hands and faces. The did not have the appearance of criminals aa the stood before the judge and there were oo tell tale lines of desperation on their faces The sheriff sas they have been good prisoners and et the officers are of the opinion that tho have been in prison before The appear to understand the ways of prison life The were unmoved and showed no slcns of discomfiture when thev .nterpd their pleas and seemed to understand their rights under the law when the told the court the did not desire the aid of legal counsel coun-sel 1 Marcan was also arraigned before Ijdge Howell on ln? charge of forg Inc the namo 0f a. C. Nelson to a ?2S check. Inly 21. He asked for the statutory time in which to enter his I plea which was fixed at 6 o'clock I Friday evening. |