ESCAPEES CAPTURED IN PROVO

Published: Friday, July 1 1988 12:00 a.m. MDT

A member of the Provo Police Department special response team apprehends jail inmate Robert T. Murray. Murray and another prisoner, Jed A. Mortensen, are accused of escaping from the county courthouse Friday morning before they were scheduled to appear in court. The men managed to flee two blocks east of the courthouse before breaking into an unoccupied apartment. The special response team stormed the apartment at 10:14 a.m. after shooting tear gas through the windows.

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