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Show ALEA Will EXPIATE I MURDER OF PRIEST I Sentence Will Be Executed J '.H Some Day This Week Under j j lH Colorado Laws. JU EXACT TIME IS KNOWN $ ONLY TO PRISON OFFICERS, ' Convicted Murderer Leads Life 1 H of Recluse and Awaits. '" i- H Death. j H DENVER, July 12. "With tho arrival j of todaj-, tho death sentence imposed upon Giuseppe Alia, the priest murdcror, , 1 jH began to operate. Alia will be hanged J in the Stnto penitentiary at Canon City somo time this week, but the day and ' - hour are known only to tho prison offi- i, " jH cials, and perhaps have not yet been j definitely decided upon by them. Tho custom in Colorado, long followed by , tho courts, is to designate the "week t when a convicted murderer sentenced to death shall expiate Iub crime, leaving it to the prison officials who actually , iH carry out tho sentence of death to sc- lect the moment when the sentence- , jH shall be carried into effect. The law j ,H requires that a certain number of wit-ncsses wit-ncsses bo present at tho time, and in -j previous cases it has happened that u. ' iH certain number of newspaper men havo tH been named in. this capacit-. In thia- aw ay tho public is mado acquainted with 1 t rH tho hour selected ior the hanging, but J. iH until some such source of inrormation j develops tho people generally must con- iH tinuc ignorant oi the details-of the plan j BH decided upon for any execution. This is true of tho Alia case, nnd it would ji not be surprising if the public received tho first news of the. actual arrange- nH m en Is for Alia's hanging after it is all jH over and the prison physician has pro-nounced pro-nounced him dead. i ' R-eprlove Improbable. ' That the death sonlencc under which. v Alia now rests will bo carried into of- ' " feet without interruption front the I pardoning power of the Stato is prac- M xically certain. Governor Buchtcl has iv said in emphatic languago that ho. will "TB not even reprieve him, because he be- iH licves the sentence imposed was lawful i iH and ,iust. In tho absence of Governor j Buchtol from tho Stato, the executive I duties fall to Lieutenant-Governor Hur- per, and in tho event of that contin- Ir'B gency arising during the wook. Alia will nave no better clianco of escaping Jl the nooso, for tho lieulonanl-jjovornor is known to be of the same mind in thia particular as Governor Buohtel. Real-lzing Real-lzing that tho shocking nature of hia . crime the killing of Father Leo Hein- ' richs at the. altar of St. Elizabeth ' -M church in this city while the priest was ' .H administering tho . sacrament at early -H mass Sunday morning mado impossible , the stirring of human sympathy in his 1 behalf, Aha waits only the coming of 'rH the moment when ho shall be summoned to his doom. Tho greater portion of ' tho time he lies upon his cot, his fnco buried in the covers, occasionally mum- 4 bling a word or two not intended for ' v anv cars but his own. When approached by any one .he fliei ' ' into a rage, oven resenting tho presence of tho jail officials. For a week ho has 'M absolutely refused to cat, though tho choicest of food has been placed beforo 'H him. On Friday last the prison physi- , cian, becoming alarmed at. his haggard: appearance, ndrninistercd milk by means 'M j ' .M of a pump. This hud tho effect of changing the prisoner's mind and sinco then ho lias eaten unassisted. j 1 ASIATIC EXCLUSION CLAUSE W AROUSES IRE OF JAPANESE TOKIO, July 12. The news of the ac- .H tlon of the Democratic national conven- ' tlon at Denvor, Including In Its platform a plank favoring the exclusion from th United States of Asiatic laborers, is taken here to bo dirocted against Japanese and 1 Is causing considerable surprise and dis-pleasure. dis-pleasure. In somo quarters Indignation Is expressed, and tho declaration Is mado that such a course Is an Infringement on iH tho trcnty rights of Japan and opposed to the principle of humanity that should govern tho relations of nations. Jt Is apparently belloved. however, by , 1 'H thopc familiar with tho political condl- tlons In America, that tho maporlty of Democrats are not antl-Japaneso in sentl-ment sentl-ment and that tho exclusion clause waa Incorporated In tho platform for tho pur-pose pur-pose of satisfying tho labor elomeuu |
