Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-26
Prison Officials Have Theory Re-
garding the Jail Delivery
OF Two Weeks Ago.
LOVE LETTER FROM WAODELL.
Authorities Believe that Johnson, the
Trusty, Escaped to Avoid Punish
ment for Part He Played.

II is now strongly believed by the
prison authorities that u. p. Johnson,
the trusty who escaped from the state
prison last Wednesday, WAS implicated
In smuggling into the prison the re-
yolvers which We're bsei by the con-
victs in the recent break for liberty.
II is also thought that the willingness
Of Harry Waddell, one Of the main
leaders OF the break, to tell how the
reyolvers were secured, Is the cause OF
Johnson leaving the prison to escape
punishment for his part Ia that event
full incident. Waddel, 1t IL believed,
won Johnson's friendship and also the
friendship of the latter's friends, sim
ply to use them In the plot TO escape.
Johnsons capture will probably be
effected In q short time. Mrs. S. c.
Larson, the mother Of the two girls
who had frequently visited johnson at
the state prison, Indignantly denies
that she would shelter an escaped
convict. She declares that II he comes
to her house she will at once notify
the officers and assist in his capture In
order to disprove the suspicion which
has been cast upon her and her daugh-
tiers.
COMPROMISING LETTER.
A letter, written by waddell to one
Of the Misses Larson, is now in the
hands Of the authorities and Is be-
lieyed to be convincing evidence as 10
the intimacy which existed between
Johnson and Waddell. The letter, when
is affectonate In the extreme, follows
~. S. r., Sugar Utah, Feb. q, 1903
10 1 p1 al 70 ~
Utah;~-My Dear Miss Larson-l would
address you as my dear friend il
dared but until | prove myself worthy
of your friendship and earned 1t 1 am
denied this privilege. Although until
this moment have never expressed to
you a written or spoken word, | regard
you as my friend, indeed, ! feel that
| have known you for years, yet | Lave
seen you but several times. II may
seem strange to you-it does to me-
that |, an entire stranger to you, can
feel thus. | would tndeavor 20 explain
this paradox, but why try to explain
the ineXplicable phenomena If the hui
man mind? One may experience sem
timent, an emotion or passion with
out knowing its oausation, ! might see
q person but once and never exchange
a word with her OF him. as the case
mind nvoluntarily profound regard
or pronounced dislike for that person.
So II Is In this case. AS ! said, have
seen you only n few times, and then an
influence as irresistible as It II mex
piicable. These reasons, | trust. Will
excuse me for writing 10 you, strang-
er, as | do, The instances when | saw
you were when, IN company with your
sister, you visited Mr.. Johnson at the
penitentiary. 1t was some time, how
ever, after | saw you for the first time
that was emboldened to speak TO Ed
ward to whom | have become very
much attached, OF you. Well, he told
me what | wished to know, he taught
me to know you as you are; he con-
WINGED me that my intuition was not at
fault that the opinion | had formed
of your character vas correct
"The fact that you, in your angelic
goodness are as far above me as the
blue volts of the heavens are above the
earth tmbarrasses me, and causes me
to hesitate In asking Of you that for
which my heart yearns. But as you are
20 exalted / know YOU have a great
kind heart, sensitive to the sorrows and
pain of others So feel confident that
you will not say nay, that you will
not deny TO me your friendship.
Believe me, dear MISS Larson,
though | am a convict and stranger
in strange land without a friend. Did
you know the history of my life, did
you know my character as II is-not as
II would be painted by my enemies
you would not, feel assured give me a
stone when pray you for bread,
AN IsHMAEL
"I feel that every mans hand Ia
raised against me, as a criminal But
that Is because | attempted TO escape
from here about year ago. II Is
rather perverted reasoning, ! think,
that prejudices men against their fell
low simply because he endeavors to re-
gain his God-given liberty,
Because ! was loyal to those whom
/ believed my trends | was convicted
Of crime Of which l am innocent My
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