The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1919-04-11
MURDERER IS
BROUGHT BACK TO
UTAH
LEFT ROAD CAMP AT COTTON
SOME TWO YEARS AGO.
Located At Tuscon. Aria. Living
Under His Right Name. Married
and Prominent In the Affairs Of
That City-wifo Returns with
Him to Lend Aid and Comfort.

luCiVu DriskvII, murderer ana uu
escaped life tcrmpr has been living
iu Tucson. Ariz. since July, 1917 rs
"a respected citizen and under his own
name lie was made head man Of the
most fashionable restaurant iu that II
city and waited ON the chief of police. \
shcriffs of different counties and n
other officers without detection for /.
almost two wears The love of a good
woman is said to have made the
change in the convict = manner of hv-
ing. Driskcll married Truth is
stranger than fiction. saws Warden |
George \. Storrs. who has returned |
from Tucson with hi- prisoner and |
the prisoners bride When Driskell |
wa. brought to the station 10 bc re-
turned Ia Salt Lake Ciiy be- had won
such q reputation for honesty aud
good character in Tucson that "a large
delegation of respectable and promi-
lnpui citizens came tu see him off
Drskcll escaped from the rad camp
lup near Cotton In July. 1917. aud
went ut once a. Santa Cruz. Gala. to-
see his mother lie managed to So
Icurr n stake there by working u short
/ time aud then went 10 Tucson. lie
secured q position in q leading rcstau-
rant at that city. lie felt ia love with
The cashier and from that time on be-
was "a changed man.
According to the police ut Tucson,
Duskcll was promoted To head man
lot ihc restaurant IN short time. lie
cpnfidrd his love Ia the girl cashier
land then told her that De- was wanted
lbs the authorities of Utah and that "a
crash might come Ia hig uircnsilc Of
freedom aud n different life 90 any
time Nevertheless, uhc married him
land this time he was under his own
name. lie waited ON the Officers Of
the law every day mud no one idcnii.
fled him us an escaped murderer aud
bandit one day recently q deputy
Noticed that n finger was gone from
1.-The right hand at the head man in
thc restaurant. The muiilatcd hand
seemed To interest him and be- return.
Irl constantly to the restaurant. In
going over the old circulars which mr.,
sent about by the ruihuU.l.eA offer
ling rewards for the arrest ~ escaped
cnnyicis, he came upon "a likeness oi
nriskcll lie Rt once confronted
Driskcll and asked him II he was th,
murderer who had made a spectacular
escape from the Cotton prison roat
camp. Drskcll made mo- attempt {,
deny the accusation, but treated IN,
matter M lightly that the officer wa
almost deceived. lie made inquirici
and nj last determined that Driskel
was wanted Ia this state The urrcsi
followed. -
Driskcll's wife nj once oxprcssc,
, her determination 10 stand by hci
husband aud has returned with hii
10 Utah. She has secured u position
/ az cashier with firm la Salt LAX,
, lCity. She says that she Will bc con
tent Ia see him occasionally and III
. near the place of his confinement
, Driskcll shot e. G. Riley, n police of
. ficcr, IN Salt Lake City in 1910. III
was sentenced 10 life imprisonment
but escaped from the road camp II
q Carbon county after serving abou
, seven years. Warden Storrs stoppe'
r ia Los Angeles to see ABE" Majors
/. lparoled convict from the Utah peni
Itentinry, who was recently arrested Il
q that city and charged with being ian
I lplicatod Ia some extensive iewely rob
4 berries. Majors protested his inno
= ccnee 10 the warden, Storrs state,
that he would withhold Judgment un
lea the California authorities ha
made further Investigations.