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Show DEATH BY SHOOTING ; . H FOR JOHN ANSELMO - Judge Loofbourow Pronounces Son-tenco Son-tenco to Be Carried Out by Exccu-turners Exccu-turners May 25. Betweon suuriso and suntct Mondnv, t May 2o. John Ansclmo is to be shot to death for tho murder of Tatrolmnn Thomas F. Griffiths unless tho su- j preine court or tho state board of par-dons par-dons stays the hand of tho executioner. Sentence was pronounced upon him bv Judge F. C. Loofbourow in thc district court yesterday morning. It is under-stood under-stood an animal will In. fnkon in iha alLH bupremo court. -H Motion for a new trial for Anvelmo was overruled bv Judge Loofbourow last Tuesday. A Asked if ho had any reason to set forth why ho should not ho sontenced to death, Anselnio answered that he tLmH bad nothing to say. He then elected to be shot rather than to bo banged, and tho scntoncc was pronounced ae-corditigly. ae-corditigly. Ansclmo nhot Patrolman Griffiths last June, following n quarrel with an-other an-other Italian in a west side saloon. Ho was captured, twolvo hours after thn killing. At his trial, which concluded w January 1 of I his year, Ansclmo AH pleaded temporary insanity caused by - LH epiliptic bcizuros. |