Show MET DEATH BRAVELY 1 I 1 i PETER EXECUTED FOR MURDER OF JAMES R HAY protested hla his innocence to the fact and maintained his hie wonderful self control to the last mon mom nt peter motten en the mui mill derer of his neighbor harng it 11 hy y was at the aoh prison friday morn mornine about persona bo be ing ina ill besent at the exec won itsou mot tell iiii a en 11 was wag shot to death his end while stated abed in a chir ii a it a ca coi nl lit of the arl prison on ynid ail our b bi i entered his body andy mo hh 1119 heart and two tio vissing ill und I 1 1 it ins ills life WA out laif tuitui liti and ail ny n y his d diali th 1 aia 18 at ab holu tel paink i 1 dl 11 rt imp and proto protected tild his innocence t the laitin i tit ditc e ment lie he 1 d I for to the public th the pies lo lie 10 said arnon other th nes ims to the QT I 1 wint want to way y and by tho the h ivena above aboa by the earth a 1 il I by all I 1 told hold dear on this ear 1 I i I 1 am not guilty of tint cowal cowa cowardly idly n nir dir of my dom cl onet e t friend I 1 I 1 ask heio foie no man mail s a pardon for aught that I 1 may inay have done in life the condemned mans last night on earth airth was nas spent in calm wid and peaceful s sleep leep and lie he ate a hearty breakfast on the morning of the execution did not ask for nor to 10 belve the seivi sei vices cec of a clergyman on the day of the execution from his attitude th the day pre previous flous it was expected that he would mould desire spiritual comfort during his last hours on earth but not once did he be even speak of such a thing peter atho bo was executed for the murder of james it ilay hay was born in richfield utah thirty eight years ears ago ills early years were spent there and when a young man he be removed to provo it was while living at that place that he e marbled man led a miss who Is s the mother of five children lived for a time in og den and while there engaged in the lumber business ile he owned a sawmill near there at one time which afterward was destroyed by fire it has been claimed since that he burned tho the mill himself since moving to salt lake city h has as i resided most of the time in forest dale and prior to hla his arrest arre tor for the murder of ilay hay was wag considered an upright and honorable citizen lie he Is said bald to have been a man with a great determination and a strong will and would generally succeed d ra fa whatever he undertook when he ha was nas arrested for murder on december IS 18 his left him and hent ent to ogden to reside ide wi with th her re relatives lathes never neer saw raw her cinci that time the refusal of mrs mra to have hane anything more to do with her husband has had a great influence on public sentiment the general belief Is that she took this step because she was convinced of hla his guilt the duider of james it ilay hay was committed on the night of IC 1901 and was convict ed on juno june 14 1902 ray hay had gone to s home to collect a funt of mon mona which owed the pa cible lumber company fo for whom ital ila was employed and ilay hay loft left the formers homo home together awl the latter was never again ag aln seen alive III body bodi wai aa di discovered covered liter later it hav haa ing in boen been burled in a pasture the man had boon been hot in the back of the head bead cn was na chiri chirped zed with the crime and after a hird li ii gal fight ila has paid tho the pendly pen illy with nith his life ilfe |