’ (Tuesday ) in the state penitentiary at I
’ Laramie. About five years ago Parker ,
held up ami rtfbbed Paymaster Bash of
the U. S. army of $7,000 at Antelope
Springs. He was alone at the time. He
was arrested for this and tried in the
criminal court and found guilty. For this
crime he was sent to the state peniten- |
tiary, and today he will be liberated, only :
to be rearrested and tried for a crime of a j
great deal worse character. Previous to !
coming to Wyoming he, so it is charged,
killed a man in Texas upon a very slight
provocation and fled from the state to
avoid being strung up by an infuriated
mob in Wichita county. Before his time
was half served out in Wyoming, Texas
detectives had trailed him down and the
officials of that state have kept an eye ou
the criminal refugee ever since. Under
the United States statutes prisoners are
1 allowed two months out of each year for
- good conduct, but Parker never received
a day out of the five years. Only Satur
day Parker asked the warden at the prison
how long he would still have to serve, and
when told he would be liberated today he
- remarked. “It is only three days more.
