Show r BOTH A INVOKES UNWRITTEN UN lAW Pardon Urged by Samuel New Newhouse Newhouse Newhouse house Endorsed by Trial Judge The to law latr I that code cod which justifies a tt man ulan man in ht avenging the sanc lanc sanctity sanctity of his home ome and the honor of o his wife that Thy law which overlooks killing and sets all nil manmade manmade law at naught will wm be invoked before the state pardon board this morning to save Charles Botha S years car of age from serving a aliCe lift liCe sentence In the penitentiary for forthe forth the th murder of his beautiful young wife and her paramour William in San Juan county count count in March 1902 The story of the love JOo of the young German for his Ills wife of hiS Ms efforts orts to please her every whim of how her dire desire for a more pretentious i dwelling and more mOl of the comforts of or life led Jod her to listen to the glowing promises of better things made her by b i I i tic thE aged 35 SS years her senior I of how her husband trusted and be bc believed believed in Mr hr h r until finally he discovered I her h r unfaithfulness and In his despera desperation espera lion Uon murdered her bel and the man who I had destroyed his hilS humble home will willbo willbe be bo told to the hoard board in all Its tragic tra ic de details I talk tails for the first time tine It will wil be e to toby tart by M if M Warner r the prominent local loca I attorney who has Interested In Inthe ini i the young Germans case and who ho has hasI I j Investigated and substantiated all aU the I facts fact he will present I Newhouse Is Interested I i Samuel Newhouse se the multimillion multimillionaire multi aire alte mining millins kin has also taken a deep interest in the case and with his wife will till he be present at the hearing today Mr 11 and Mrs Newhouse visited Botha in his cell ceil at the penitentiary yesterday morning accompanied by b Mr 11 Warner and heard the story ston as a to told tod d by b the young man in his own on simple way wa The case euse is a noted one me In the crim criminal crimInal criminal inal annals of Utah It was tried at Monticello in the spring of 1902 1002 AVil Wil William liam Ham Wanless formerly of Salt Lake appearing for Botha Wanless Vanless arrived on the f scene cene just before the tho trial start started started started ed and no witnesses were there in be behalf behalf behalf half of the defendant Whose hose story was not believed by b the jury He was vas convicted con convicted of ot murder in the first degree and sentenced sont to death eath by b Judge Ju ge Jacob Johnson Mr 1 Warner Varner finally learned some SOlD of the facts In the case and ap appealed appealed pealed it to the supreme court but there thEr was no error in ht the th record and the Judgment ju was affirmed Finally in June 1901 1501 the pardon vanIon board corn com comI u I I muted the sentence to life imprison imprisonment imprisonment I ment and now a full pardon is desired New Testimony Offered In order to prove proc that Botha is not a murderer at heart a dramatic story of ot othow how after he had Imd been sentenced to death he could have easily escaped will willbe willbe be told for the first time He was wasI I placed in charge of Deputy Sheriff Sherin Woods W who was suddenly taken with witha I a fit lit while alone with Botha Dotha and fell cutting utting a big gash in his head Botha although sentenced to be shot did not take the gun and an escape but picked pickel him up un and bathed the wound I and afterward promised Woods not to relate the story as the latter was afraid it might co cot cost t him his job j b Attorney Warner Varner has some startling new testimony in the case ease in the shape of affidavits from J M Cunningham of La Sal and William Keller KeUer of Moab loab to the effect elf ct that had told them he was trying ing to steal st al wife Judge Jacob Johnson who tried the I case cafe has also come to the front and recommended an unconditional pardon |