Suop escapes from the Penitentiary; Soe-Go-Up and Queep are later pardoned by Governor Cumming

Copied from The Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, Tenth Annual Session, 1860-61, Elias Smith, Public Printer, Great Salt Lake City, 1861.

Pg 43: “Gnup [Queep], Soe-got-up, and Snop [Suop], Indians, sentenced June 11th, 1860, to six months, for burglary.

[…] Three pardoned by his Excellency, A. Cumming, Governor of U.T.; viz: Thomas Colburn, May 16, 1860. Soe-got-up and Gnup [Queep], Indians, Nov. 20, 1860. Yodes and Snop [Suop], Indians, made their escape, Yodes on the 28th March, and Snop [Suop], June 25th, 1860.”

Copied from the Deseret News, July 4, 1860.

Escape and Recapture.

Three of the convicts, confined in the penitentiary, the notorious Charley Clark, —- Green, and an Indian [Suop], on the evening of the 25th ult., escaped through a hole they had succeeded in digging from the vault of a privy under the outer wall.  Clarke and Green have since been recaptured between the city and the Weber on the road through Parley’s Park, on their way east, and returned to the prison.  The Indian has not yet been found.

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