Show evl f PLEADS FOR HIS LIFE pr r makes Pass passionate ionato appeal to judge for new trial before judge morse in the district court in salt lake city on saturday peter convicted of the thel murder of james R hay was sen fenced to be executed on friday november when unless a further stay Is granted he will be shot to death the condemned man having chosen that mode of 0 execution when the judge commanded the prisoner to stand up and receive sen tence and asked if he had anything to say as to why sentence should not be passed replied that be he had and tor for an hour and five minutes addressed the court mal ing an earn est appeal for another trial declaring that he had been unjustly convicted that he vas aa the victim ot of prejudice and manufactured sentiment and that he waa wag entirely innocent of tho the crime he made the declaration that the press and slid sharp s revelation were re tor for the public sentiment against him which resulted in his con and find declared that if given a hew liew thal ti lal he would surely prove his innocence in his opening statement he said I 1 have the best reason in the world to offer why I 1 should be granted a new trial the best reason in the world that a man can offer for a new trial is that he is innocent of the crime charged I 1 have that reason and I 1 have other reasons in the first place I 1 have not had a fair trial the presumption of innocence is with a man until he la Is proven guilty but not once during my trial was that presumption given me in speaking of the revelation test mony of james sharp father inlaw in law of the murdered man he scored the dis brict attorney for allowing the wit ness to have been placed upon the stand he ile said he be saw the faces of tha the jurors mormons and non mor mons alike light up when the revelation testimony was given ridiculous it seemed to him that a man should have a revelation from god as to where the murdered body of his son was lying and then not go at once to the spot sharp he said had taken a street car and gone up town with his daughter instead of going to the grave in closing said my life is at stake and I 1 ash ask you as a christian man to give it consid oration I 1 ask you in all candor to give me another chance to prove my innocence and I 1 say do it he ile asked the court and the people of the state to remember mrs hay and her parents but at the same time not to lose sight of his wife and little chil dren the blow falls harder on t them hem than on me I 1 can die but once and I 1 am ready to meet my maker I 1 h have harmed no man I 1 say do not lose sight of those five little children who bear my name the name of a murderer I 1 ask you in all fairness to give me another trial I 1 am as in of that crime as you are that is all I 1 have to say on the day set for the execution will pay the penalty tor for the crime of which he has been con evicted unless a certificate of probable cause Is issued by judge morse or one of the supreme justices and this Is not 1 gadded as probable |