Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-30
TWENTY YEARS
FOR YOUNG THUGS
Richard Baker and Arthur Bowen
Sentenced by Judge Arm
strong This Morning.
MOTHERS KISS SONS GooDBY.
Dramatic Scene In Comt-Nirs. Baker
Faints After Saving Farewell
To Her Maynard Boy.

Richard Baker and Arthur Bowen
were sentenced to serve 20 years in the
state prison at hard labor for the rob
berry OF Eddie Green In Judge Arm
strongs court this morning. Both mon
pleaded guilty, The scene in the court
room when the two men were sentenc-
ed was made dramatic by the appear
ance OF the mothers of both boys.
When sentence was pronounced. Mrs
Bowen rushed to where her son stood
and showered him with kisses, sobbing
and shaking with emotion She Ioi-
lowed him out into the corridor when
the deputy sheriff led him from tho
courtroom in irons. AS he was taken
away she fell in a swoon and II was
several minutes before she could be re-
viVed. Mrs. Bowen kissed her son as
he was being handcuffed and pleaded
with him TO be better. This Is On aw-
full thing you have done, Arthur she
said between her sobs. AS she saw
Mrs. Baker fall to the floor in faint
ing spell, the sight seemed to divert
her attention from her son to the brok-
en-hearted mother who lay at her feet.
She assisted in reviving her and the
two women left the courthouse toSeth-
er Both were sobbing bitterly and no
one seemed able to comfort them.
BOTH MAYNARD BOYS.
Baker and Bowen were likewise af-
fected in seeing the sorrow that they
had brought 10 their mothers. Both
men are hardly more than boys, Baker
is 20 years of age and Bowen Is 81 years
of age Officers say that both boys
have given their parents much trouble,
that they have been unruly and until
in their present trouble they seemed 10
manifest little affection for their moth
ers and fathers. In their trouble, how
ever, they have turned to them as their
only source of comfort.
STORY OF CRIME,
Though charged only with robbery,
Baker and Bowen were spared trial
for their lives only by fate. Green, their
victim, was lured into a remote and
dismal portion of the city on Dec. 10,
1907. The men had told them that
they had some junk hidden near the
Warm Springs and that they wanted
Green, who is a junk dealer to go out
and lok at II. Green, unsuspecting,
took the two men in his wagon TO the
place, and when the men reached a
spot they had selected, they assaulted
Green with heavy hammers They
Fractured his skull and rendered him
time after the robbery and taken to a
hospital. There he fingered between
life and death. with death apparently
holding the winning hand. Fate stepped
in and defeated every natural law.
Several pieces of Green's skull were
removed, the pressure upon his brain
was relieved, and in the end he con-
quered. Every trick known to sci
ence was resorted to and GREEN'S case
stands as one OF the peculiar cases in
medical and surgical practise In the
United States. Doctors say that they
believ emo other case is of record where
a man so near death recovered.
The capture of Bowen and Green was
made possible by NJ. Globenfelt. He
was with Green in the junk wagon at
the time the assault was made. He
was one of the first to be assaulted,
and he rolled from the wagon into the
road Bowen and Green believed he
was so badly stunned that he could
not harm them-if, indeed, he was not
dead. After Bowen and Baker left
the place, Globenfelt crawIed to the
road and later gave the alarm. Bowen
and Baker were arrested before they
had gone mile from the scene of their
murderous assault.