Show MAY PLEAD GUILTY I Mary Ma Jane Smith to Save 5 State Expense of Trial 4 CHARGED WITH WIT KILLING RYAN I I IJU HAY YAT JU Y SENTIENCE FOB m IN con DEGREE I 4 Guilty Cuilty Guilt y of murder mar er in the second de dt degree degree I Ie gree e may tray be the p pa to which Mft Mary Jane JaM Smith the ss ill III enter w a hen tit n her herI I case ase is H called clIed for foi trial this tills morning before Judge C W M Morse ise Olee in fn the district t court The Information fIrd d against the wo woman woman woman man harges hargett mui mu dr r in the de degree degree gree gr the She is us actus d of i ing ingan an overdose of ot morphine to a whiteman whiteman white whiteman man tamed Dank DaD Ie I Ryan Hyan He had nad en ent entered t red her rooms room at tut 47 41 Victoria aley H lie He exhibited a considerable Nunn um of tit money mone It is 18 alleK all d l in the information tion to t recover recotr th t money by b robbing the man while he might Inight be in a stupor that Mary tary Jane smith gave cave him the pulson olson It was Vas lIO through a ar aIt r It lessens r boy who was summoned for tor that express ex ress purport I Morphine in Beer her After the morphine had been cured secured I beer bf er was purchased and ii to a glass gla of it th woman is ls alleged to have hae put puta a portion port On of the drug which SUP she had secured red When Ryan R n dropped off orr Into ino inoa a dose it is charged that he was re rf relieved f every cent he had in his pockets pocket and was wu then placed in an outhouse to sleep off on his stupor It is 18 claimed the woman gave Ryan a larr dose dOIle of ot morphine than she Intended for the man never neer awakened from his bis b is stupor When he was w found to the next nex t day he w wu dead The pollee police first w went nt on the theory of suicide or 01 ora ora J a natural death until The Herald pro produced produced facts and circumstances ces to t war wr warrant warrant rant the assumption that the tM man did not so come to his death that a foul c rime crime 1 Lad Iad ad been committed A fe days day after loner that Mary Jane Smith wu u arrested upon suspicion as u were also other Inmates Inmate of victoria alley Slowly but surely the police wound the t be web of circumstantial evi evidence evidence dence around the woman woma until it was w alleged that a confession was w secured from another Inmate of the tile alley aile who had taken a hand to a minor degree in the robbery robb ry To Secure light Punishment t tIt It is asserted arteel that tbt if U the woman wan does clou not change her ber mind before she aM enters eaters the court this hM th morning she will wig plead guilty to murder in ID the second degree decree in the hope of securing a lighter sen sentence tence than haD t she abe would receive if tt found feud guilty by a Jury It is claimed that convict i in fen n Is ls absolutely certain also sto that the woman appreciates appreciate that fact factor or she sh would not DOt have bave agreed several days lays a aKo afo o to plead to a minor charge to tl escape conviction on 0 the most t serious one ont in il h the criminal calendar eal Going on 00 the assumption that a jury Jun Junn In n Utah would not Dot recommend to the taM court that a woman be sentenced to death under r the tM existing circumstances the state tate will lose nothing by h permitting permit permitting ting tin Mrry try Jane Jaae Smith to plead g pUt pUtto Uty to murder In the tile second degree d The court ourt give ne her Iter a life Un sentence h i only ten years It If found foaad gu ty of murder In I the INt degree de the assumption amp ampI ion tion I in is that lat the t most she alto would get set would Mould I tae be life lite A twenty tw enly or thirty YeN year sentence aee would virtually mean n life to the ne P tte Kres as a she he is Ia about middle aged and lId like people peo l of her race trace a long lo term Nee of incarceration I is 18 practically the tile same cams as a aa R Ii lif life sentence for they do net as err a arule arule arule rule live U e long in h |