Show i Navy Deserter Awaits Sentence In County Jail Robert Edward who was apprehended by Duchesne County Sheriff Dewey Meriwether and State Road Patrolman S. J. Hatch early Wednesday morning driving a stolen car is in the county jail at Duchesne awaiting sentence which he will be charged by Salt Lake City police who arrived In Duchesne today to take him to Salt Lake The story of Fessenden according to Sheriff Meriwether who was in Roosevelt Wednesday began about two months ago when he deserted the U. S. navy in Boston and hitch-hiked across the country to Soon he was on the road again and landed in Lake City Tuesday evening where he struck up an acquaintance with J. M. Holmes of Salt Lake The two men in Holmes' car drove out toward the Salt Lake airport and after an argument Fessenden struck on the pushed him into the back seat of the car and started He stopped once and made Holmes help him fix a flat then took off his own shirt and tied him shoving him once again into the back At Park City he stopped at a filling picked up some rope and tied Holmes' hands and struck him again over the head and beat him then put him in the trunk of the Victim Escapes Holmes was able to pry open the trunk door and roll out of the back of was driving through Heber Holmes notified Heber City Marshal Ryan who phoned ahead for Sheriff Meriwether to watch out for who was driving a 1941 With Patrolman Sheriff Meriwether set out west along the highway and met Fessenden about 15 miles west of Duchesne about a. m. Wednesday He caught up with him just as he was entering The young man was very the Sheriff to find his trunk passenger Fessenden was handcuffed and taken to the county jail awaiting Salt Lake officers who will probably charge him with the theft of the car or At latest reports Holmes was in a very serious condition in a Heber hospital with a fractured skull and an ear torn partly from his If Holmes does not more serious charges wiil be placed against Sheriff Meriwether |