sentences:  He was taken into custody and convicted of murder and sentenced to life in Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California.John Sontag's younger brother, George Contant, testified against Evans and hence acquired the lifelong hatred of Evans' family.After Evans served for seventeen years at Folsom, he was paroled in 1911 by Governor Hiram Johnson, a liberal Republican, who had been elected on an anti-Southern Pacific campaign theme.