Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-10-16 | Page 3 | Two Burglars Escape from the Penitentiary

oo- Two Burglars I j Escape From ' The Penitentiary SALT LAKE, Od 16 Frank lohn-son. lohn-son. 4f years old. and Marcus Callahan, Calla-han, eseaped fro mthe I'tah state prison yesterda morning by climbing through a window on the first floor of the administration building. Both I prisoners were serving indeterminate sentences lor second degree burglar Johnson is a painter Aceordiuc to A. ; Dyer, acting warden, he was working 00 the third floor of ihe administration ad-ministration building yesterday morning, morn-ing, and Is believed to have gone through the warden's department to the first floor and out onto the street, t'allahan had been working in the boiler room, but is thought to have Joined Johnson a few moments before be-fore the escape. According to IH'er, both men wer." observed by a street car man on the Sugarhouse line as they were crossing cross-ing Twenty-first South street after leaving the prison grounds. Mr Dyer said the men had gone north a short distance after coming from the prison, pris-on, and then had turned west. Johnson Is said by the police to bave secaped from prison in Kansas before coming to Salt Lake. He Is credited with several burglaries at Salt Lake before his arrest at First avenue ave-nue and N street, February 15, by the police. Callahan has no local record the police say, but was sentenced to the prison lor second degreo burglary In February. Warden George A. Storrs Is 1n the east attending a conference of prison wardens. oo