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Show . uo WEIR REID SENT TO PENITENTIARY BY HOWELL In Judge J. A. Howell's division of the district court today, Weir Roir was arraigned on tho charge of grand larceny. The young man pleaded plead-ed guilty and was sentenced to the stato penitentiary for an indeterminate indetermi-nate term, which must be for a period peri-od of not less than ono year nor more than ton years. Tho lad was given a sound lecturing lectur-ing by the judge and was told that he had started out on a criminal career that would hold him In tho penitentiary peniten-tiary the major portion of his life, If he persisted In following It Tho court admonished him to profit by his past experience. Reld Is the young man who escaped from tho Stato Industrial school a short time ago and was arrested by Salt Lake officers in the vicinity of Garfield, after he had been away from the school a number of dayr. Whon arrested He had in his possession a horse and buggy which he had stolen from Lawrence Brown of Pleasant View. He confessed to the court that he stole the rig, and that he also burglarized bur-glarized the Cragun Brothers store at Pleasant View and robbed the school houso of pens and pcnclla and Ink. When questioned a little further respecting re-specting his episode, Reld said that a young man named Walter Wiggins, who also had escaped from the Industrial Indus-trial school, was with him when the depredations were committed, but that Wiggins left him and returned to the school. He also said that he was associated with two girls from the school who accompanied him as far as Salt Lake in the rig. |
