Show CONVICTED MAN MN I I GIVEN SENTENCE CONDEMNED TO DIE FOR KILLING KILL KILLING ING WOMAN AT PARK CITY PLEADS INNOCENCE Man Is Sentenced for Third Time For Crime Which Was Commit Commit- Committed Committed ted Early In 1923 Will Pay Penalty on May I CoalvIlle Utah Pedro Utah Cano con convicted as aa tho murderer or of o Juno June SL iL ClaIr will expiate his crime be before foro a tiring firing squad In tho rho state prison In in- in inclosure closure In-closure closure at Salt Lake Latee City the morn morn- morning ing lag of or Friday May 15 District Judge William M McCrea passed sentence of or death on the con con- condemned condemned condemned man Twice Cano evaded the death chair first by appeal from the trial court judgment and then lien by reo re- reprieve re reprieve granted by Governor George GeorgeH II Dern the tho day before the execution date I Cano facing racing the court reIterated hIs claim of ot Innocence and In ans ans- answer ans- ans answer answer I to the query as to what reason there mI might ht by why sentence should not bo be Imposed replied that ho would like more moro timo time in which to search for Alemeda whom he as- as asserts asserts as asserts committed the tho murder June St Clair was killed the nIght or of March 14 1923 1023 in her shack in the Park City tenderloin district Hor I assailant stabbed her so several vera I times in the abdomen Cano who occupIed occupied pied a nearby house was arrested trIed and convicted Following conviction John TobIn counsel for tor Cano took the case on appeal to the state supreme court Cano divulged what he claImed to be bo the true truo story of or the killing Alemeda he saId had been his sweetheart and she be- be became became be became came enraged over a fancied affair between himself and their neighbor lie He returned at midnight to find her leavIng their place dressed in some ot of his clothing and she returned later la- la later la later ter and told him of or the tho lie killing es- es es escaping taping caping before tho the arrival of or officers hIs story held hellI The supreme court denied a new nev trial The date originally fixed for his execution was In September er 1923 The appeal to the supreme court aut aut- automatically automatically stayed this but when that body denied the appeal he ho was sentenced re-sentenced rev re- sentenced to be bo shot on January 3 30 1925 Meanwhile Canos Cano's stubborn fight to escape the death chair clinic attracted many supporters to his cause The Tho Thoc torso c ie been become the s subject of ot notes ex- ex exchanged ex exchanged changed between the American and Mexican departments ot of o state Fin Finally ally upon the rho representations ot of Cano and his friends that It if given time he could prove Mrs Alemeda guilty governor Dern granted the re reo reprieve reprieve which was terminated at the tho thelast last session of or the board of or pardons Attempts to locate the Alemeda woman were futile Recently Sheriff SherIn J C Clark dark ot of Coalville received n a lengthy letter purporting to have been written In Ophir but postmark postmark- postmarked ed Salt Lake and carrying the signa signature ture Refugia Alemeda The writer corroborated Canos Cano's statements as to the crime declared his Innocence and accepted full tull blame for tor the tho murder This letter in the opinion ot or Slier Sher Sheriff iff Clark dark and others who have haye exam examined ined fined it Is a spurious document fak tak- taked fak- fak faked faked ed by someone Interested In Cano Canoy |