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Show I prisoner THOUGHT 10 BE HUG 10 HELD OP KENT Within five hours after William Kent, 2231 Lincoln avenue, reported 10 the police and sheriff depart ments that lie had bfen held up and robbed of $250 in money and a gold watch by a 'hug weighing about 150 pounds and havlns red hair a telegram "as received re-ceived by the sheriff s department that a prisoner answering that description had escaped from an officer near Rock Springs last ni"h' According to the report made to the officers Kent said that he was en route to his home at 4 o'clock this morning, when near the corner of Twenty-third and Lincoln avenue, a man dressed in , a dark suit of clothes, webbing about 160 pounds and having red hair came toward him with a pieee of gas pipe In 1 his hand. The thug struck Kent over' the head with the pipe and he fell to the ground When Kent recovered a few minutes later he lound hi? money and a gold watch missing He immedi-1 ately made a report of the affair to the officers. At 8 -45 o'clock this morning Sheriff James Ford, en route east, reported from Rock Springs that a prisoner had escaped from him at some point be- I tween Ogden and Rock Springs last night. He described the prisoner aa j weighing 145 pounds having red hair, about five feet seven inches in height. 1 black slouch hat and black suit of i lothes with a white stripe. The mes- sage adds that $100 reward will be i paid for the recapture of the prisoner. The fact that the prisoner escaped from the officer last night and that a Height train arrived in Ogden shorllv alter 3 o'clock this morning would give i he thug an opportunity to reach Or,-den Or,-den and hold tip Kent. That the prisoner pris-oner was a desperate one is Indicated by the chances he took in robbing Kent. |