Show PLEA FOR CONVICTION I County Attorney Putnam Begins the Closing Argument I The hour of halfpost 1 had arrived when Mr Putnam began the closing argument for the prosecution He will continue his argument on the convening conven-ing of court this morning after which the case will go to the jury Yesterday Yester-day Mr Putnam said in part John C OMelveney is dead Sometimes Some-times It Is I a heinous crime to be dead That Is true of him He was tried convicted con-victed sentenced ana executed by one man Executed too upon a charge which never has been proven Everyman Every-man under the laws of Utah and oC has certain every State In the Union constitutional rlghts before he can be punished for acts against the law of the land but John C OMelveney did not have one of the rights that this defendant de-fendant comes here now and Is offered And gentlemen bear In mind this defendant de-fendant bases his defense upon a crime that has never been proven You arc asked to have sympathy for this defendant but you will I am sure In that regard be governed by your duty gard and the first thing for you to consider Is what Is the law as applicable applica-ble to this offense Judge Powers says it Is cither murder in the first degree or acquittal The court will instruct you that under lime I charge you can convict con-vict the defendant of murder In the first degree in the second degree of manslaughter voluntary or Involuntary Involun-tary DELIBERATE PURPOSE Mr Putnam charged that the killing was done In cold blood that it was two or three hours after the defendant had heard the confession from his wife and that he had had time enough to reflect and become cool Then he asked why the defendant had gone to the Halls and said It was for that revolver that he did 1 not have the revolver with I him I but had gone there with the deliberate intention of getting it In order that he might kill OMelveney Mr Straup In tcriupted the speaker at this point In his remarks and Informed the court that Mr Putnam had no right to make such a charge that there was absolutely absolute-ly no evidence to bear out the statement state-ment The court said he considered that Mr Putnam was merely drawing his deductions from the evidence but that If he was staling it as a fact It would not be admlssable Mr Putnam described the attitude of the defendant while at the Halls that of a cool possessed man his manner as he passed along Second South street as that of a man who had a duty to perform one carrying with It responsibility He told of Mr MJllss apparently calm manner when he addressed ad-dressed Mr Crlfer and Mr Van Kuran SHOT WITHOUT WARNING Ho said hint the defendant shot his victim from behind when ho was absolutely ab-solutely without suspicion without thought of trouble or fear Ho declared 1 that the defendant hud never told OMelvoney that he had found It out I If he had and OMelveney had been guilty he would have been on his feet In an Instant for he would have remembered re-membered what defendant testified to having told him In the morning Counsel II Coun-sel argued that the very fact that OMelveney made no move to protect himself showed that he was an Innocent Inno-cent man and further said that It was a treacherous deliberate foul murder Counsel argued that the law upon whieh the defense based their easo did I not justify the act of Mills that if it did It justified the killing of ujiy Innocent Inno-cent man that the tongue of an adulteress I adul-teress I might name to her husband Mr Putnam denounced Mills h I I ns trenrher I OIIM because he went up behind the deceased de-ceased shot him In the hark of the hoiid without giving him a ehanee to speak a word make a denial or 1 offer a IHa I rAt r-At this stage of the proceedings court adjourned until t JM i this morning morn-ing |