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Show I TOOK IN A WHOLE TRAIN.' - I' " ' . John Smith's Darinc ltobbery . From the Pen to the Asylum.' The notorious John Smith, arrested and placed in the penitentiary two years ago for holding up an entire Utah & Northern freight train in Cache Valley, has worked the insanity act most successfully and been adjudged non compos mentis by the jury of the First District Court at Ogden. This morning Smith was taken to the Territorial Insane Asylum at Provo, on the Rio Grande 11 o'clock train, and those best acquainted with him say that he is sure to regain his lost reasoning as soon as placed in good comfortablo quarters quar-ters out of the sight of a prosecuting attorney at-torney and a scrutinizing jury. At tne Penitentiary Smith made several sev-eral attempts to run the whole institution, institu-tion, and so far succeeded in his determination deter-mination that it became necessary on one occasion to use the united strength of four guards to subject him. He is pronounced pro-nounced the most dangerous prisoner the authorities at the Penitentiary have had anything to do with. On one occasion he feigned a fit of insanity and started in as though to annihilate the whole museum. The guards had nothing but guns to control con-trol him with, and he cared no more for the muzzle of a seven-shooter seven-shooter than as though it had been a dinner horn. The guards were then provided pro-vided with officer's clubs, at the sight of which he at once came to time and gave them no more alarm. The circumstances attending the daring robbery are in brief as follows : Two years ago Smith, who is a powerful young man, 28 years of age, got aboard the Utah & Northern freight along with several other passengers to points in Cache Valley. Shortly, after leaving one of the small stations he flashedva revolver in "the tn r.ii . .. liiuea ui muae occupying tne car with . an order to be quiet. Beginning Be-ginning with the . first scared mortal on the end of one of the long side-seats of the coach he very coolly rifled every pocket and divested each one of what he fancied needed appropriating. The train hands were treated likewise, and Smith, loaded down with his plunder, then withdrew.. The robbery partook of the daring of a "Burton" or New Mexico "Kid," and was the work of a dangerous man. |