Salt Lake Herald | 1896-06-24 | Page 8 | Thiede is Cheerful

THIEDE CHEERFUL I I Hopes to Get Commutation of the j Death Sentence I Since his incarceration in the county I jail where he will be confined until the day of his execution ho has shown a cheerfulness of spirit Which is not always ways manifest among men whose days are counted Several friends have called upon him and have told him they were getting a petition for executive clemency quite extensively ex-tensively signed and that they believed executive clemency would be extended and his sentence commuted to imprisonment Imprison-ment for life and that being the case he might hope for a pardon after a term of i years This news has had an effect of I I making him feel very good and he is apparently as happy a a man can be who hopes to escape the halter He cats well and sleeps well and is holding his I own a concerns flesh He talks with the death watch upon numerous subjects and shows a lively interest in what is going on In the world Owing to the fact that Sheriff Hardy has been ill for some days information anent the execution is scarce When he gets out again it is expected that the preliminaries will be arranged