Arizona republican., 1912-06-17
LOWELL GIVEN
 A LONG TERM
Criminal Arrested Las t December by Phoenix Of ficer for Murder in Mon tana Sentenced to 22 Years; Story of Flight

City Marshal Moore has received letter from O. A. Fallang of Big Timber Montana sheriff of Sweet Grass county. advising him that Mall B lowell was convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to serve 22 years in the penitentiary. Local interest in this case exists through the fact that Mr Moore ar
 rested lowell here on the 21st of
 last December and held him until Falling came for him. The case was a very interesting one, from the na-
 ture of Jowen's crime and his long flight from Montana which was at Itended with rigorous hardships He had had some trouble with an officer or was associated with others who had had trouble, for which reason his arrest was sought. He was found in a public place in the company of friends and when the arrest was attempted one of them hit the off cer over the head a blow that might have. been fatal, while Jowe!is shot him and fled.
 During his stay in the Phoenix jail lowell wrote out the story If his flight emitting any mention 0g the crime or its causes, merely re6iting the hardships he had endured This story he gave to Marshal Meg.r It was of no particular value the Montana officer in the pr ltion and MT. Moore retained it.
 The story recites how he fled on horse back. riding all that night and the next two days before he secured d wink of sleep or anything to eat. He tells how on one occasion he was within five miles of three different posses who were hunting him and at other times he was almost in hailing distance Of some of them After long circuitOus ride for a couple of days he reached his own ranch in the night, where he hoped to get some thing to eat and get a little sleep. only to see on peering through a crack, the members of a posse sit ting around his stove enjoying them selves and waiting for him, Sheriff Fallang: being among the number Tired and almost starving as well as nearly crazed for want of sleep. he went to the barn. picked out the best horse in the posses bunch and turning the others loose and leading second horse he struck into the hills again.
 All the sleep he got for several days was in the snow banks and almost in freezing cold. yet he dared not reveal his presence by building fire On one occasion he went into little store in the evening to get something for a luncheon and a young woman clerk after questioning h; +, ! being disabused of her suspicious by false answer. recited to him the facts of the murder and told him that a posse in search of the outlaw had just left the store By a circuitOus route he worked his way over into Wyoming and there took the train for Denver, thence to La Junta, Al buquerque, Ash Fork, Prescott and Phoenix by easy stages, being engag ed in manual labor here when ar rested in December The killing was done on the night of November Is and it was four days later when he really got to a place where it was safe to sleep for any length of time.
 In closing his recital lowell says: "Of all the men that were in the chase after me from the time I left Melville. the only one I dreaded was o. A. Fallang, sheriff of Sweet Grass county He has the endurance and nerve to stay long time and the only way I figured that I had it over him was that I might outride him and that the nights were longer than the days so I had the most time to ride in. l knew that after a weeks hardships the most of the posses would give up the chase. It was diff ferent with the sheriff He never gives up, though I beat him once only to let him catch up with me by foolishy writing a letter.