Show TWO YEARS AGO next month I viewed with police officers the naked body of a handsome young man lying face down in a snow-drift snow in Silver C reek Creek Can Can- yon He had been murdered by two Salt Lake thrill seekers who killed in cold blood at least five before they were cap cap- Monday morning their pictures pictures pictures pic pic- tures appeared on the front page of the Tribune smiling well-fed well apparently in perfect health returning from Burley Hurley Idaho Why arent aren't they dead THERE ARE some occasions in which delay of executions may have some purpose In the case of these two men I can see absolutely no excuse As long as they remain alive they are a menace to society the society th the theman man in Burley who stopped one in his wife's car is lucky he didn't get his head blown off Only because they hadn't yet been able to find a weapon This is no place perhaps to deride prison officials for the escape of nine men not missed for 12 hours from a MAXIMUM SECURITY prison But did you ever h hear arof of anything so ridiculous ridiculous ridiculous ridic ridic- ulous in all your life WEVE WE'VE BEEN AROUND prisons s meIn Anamosa Iowa is the m mens men's Qs Q's r reformatory J but its it's really a nosed hard-nosed prison handling the worst criminals because the older men sent to Fort Madison Iowa are almost always anxious to peacefully wait out their terms Those younger law-breakers law will go to any extreme to get away And yet except for an occasional occasional oc- oc cas ion a I walk walka walk away a way froma from a trusty farm escapes from this huge institution are rare indeed If nine men in Anamosa's Anamosa's Anamosa's Ana- Ana mosa's maximum security were gone for 12 hours without being missed heads would be rolling overnight We went inside the walls often for athletic contests Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas parties and su such h affa affairs rs Always there was the charming young man or two trying to slip a note to somebody outside outside outside out out- side because he was wrongfully incarcerated only w wrote rot e a one bad check because his faithless faithless faithless faith faith- less wi wife f e had cleaned out the bank account or robbed a astore astore astore store because his children were starving or the jury was bought off or orr it was just a joke and he didn't know the gun was loaded F FAIRLY AIRL Y OFTEN a man como completes completes com com- o his sentence and resumes his place in society and becomes a good citizen We never knew any murderers because t the they h e y were sent to Fort Madison But do you think those two men who tossed that lads lad's body into the Silver Creek Canyon snowdrift snowdrift snowdrift snow snow- drift will ever become good citizens WHY ARENT AREN'T THEY DEAD On Monday morning two dangerous men are still at large in Utah They've had time to get almost any place At your back backdoor door tonight maybe It seems the has de departed departed departed de- de parted t tad today o d a y from its usual effort to entertain only rather than to e express x pre s serious ria u s opinions And so to get back on the customary track there we were re a c couple a u pie of c chuckle h u c k I e anecdotes at Anamosa which bear repeating Several of the boys in the canning factory seemed to stay a little high Search revealed nothing but the obvious intoxication intoxication intoxication cation continued Finally the guards practically tore down the building and found a very cleverly concealed still with the alway revealing always revealing s-revealing fumes piped into the furnace THAT THA T WAS the best peach brandy I was ever permitted to taste There was a good printing plant in the prison and when we broke down we could take the forms inside and run the paper off on the prison press This happened one day and as usual I was nervously watching the time to hit deadline The prison pressmen were dawdling I protested protested protested pro pro- tested to the shop foreman Gosh Bill I said cant cantwe we hurry a little Ive I've only got 20 minutes Take your time he replied Youve got 20 minutes Ive I've got 20 years Mac |