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Show HURRY BREWER CONFESSES TO IlLEIIRDER Young Man, Who Is to Be Shot Next Thursday, Talks Freely of His Crime. BLAMES SELF ONLY FOR PREDICAMENT Declares Frank DePretto, His Partner, Had No Actual Connection With the Killing. Harry Brewer, under sentence to be shot next Thursday for the murder of Eugeue Allen at the Miners' mercantile store in Carr Fork, Bingham canyon, April 15, 1914, admitted his guilt yesterday yester-day afternoon in the presence of four witnesses. Brewer 's confession was characterized by a simple and engaging frankness of demeanor. Incidentally, Brewer exonerated Frauk DePretto, though there was no apparent effort on the part of the man facing death to do more than be just to his partner. ;He wns a party both before and after the fact, but had no hand in the actual killing," said Brewer. Brewer maintained, during the interview, inter-view, tho. contention that he was a slayer, as the result of a moment's impulse, im-pulse, and not a murderer by premeditation. premedi-tation. "The last thing 1 intended," said Brewer, "was to kill any one when we undertook the robbery of the Miners' Mercantile store I killed in a moment when judgment failed me and impulse alone served, the impulse of sclf-preser-vation. If I had knowu, as I have learned since, that Allen was not armed, he would be alive today and I would not be here. But that is all past and cannot can-not be corrected." Dodges the Question. Ashed if he believed in a hereafter, Brewer answered in the tentative vein that characterized his entire attitude on the question of his position, outside out-side of the actual facts of his guilt. "I don't know anything about the matter," said the condemned man, "and I don't know that my opinion on the question would be of any real importance after all." - Efforts of interviewers to coax Brewer Brew-er into some sort, of statement that would furnish the basis of a moral were fruitless. He did not strut; he was not braggart; he was simply frank and undisturbed. un-disturbed. Though he was only five days removed from death, the fact seemed to warp his perspective not at ail. "To myself alone"' answered Brewer, when asked to what he attributed the responsibility for his unhappy situation. He declared that he did not "blame society; soci-ety; that he had no theory of crime. H o was like nothing so much as the scientist who refuses to generalize upon the data from a single experiment. "1 left homo -when T was 14 years of age and just drifted," explained Brewer. Brew-er. "I hoped that T might some dav land a stake that would have made it possible for me to get a start in some legitimate business. 1 fell down in that, killed a man. and am to pay the penalty, t blame o one but myself." Matter of Drifting. Asked if he had any theory as In v,hv young men go wrong, Brewer protested that such a theory would be ridiculous; the reason, in his opinion, being possibly different with each individual. "It is largely a matter of drifting, so far as my experience goes, and T was convinced con-vinced that there was nothing for mo to do unless I could win a chance to get on my feet by one bold stroke. "I doubt, however, if mauv murders are actually premeditated, and if 1 could undo my net and make rnparat ;on for the sorrow that the mother and other relatives of Kugene Allen have suffered through his death at my hand. 1 would gladly do it. Killing is usually a re suit of blind impulse to protect one's seif. 1 should say. However. 1 don 't know what mieht. be true about anv other than my own cape." The clarity of the man '? expression puz'led his interviewers. Thcv a?ked about his education. He smiled. "I quit school in a hour the fourth (Continued on Page Tblrtecu.) , j BREWER CHESSES JMLEI MURDER (Continued from Page One.) I grade, ' ' said Brewer. ' ' T ran away j from home, as I. told you, at H ycar I of age, the reason for which T do not ! care to state. That was the beginning ; of what landed mo here. 1 will a.y, however, that if I had been given a ; sentence of five years ' imprisonment ; a few vears ago I would have been ; saved of this desperate situation." - Blames Only Himself. Here the question was asked as to whether or not he thought prison sen- i fences for young men often served to save them from linal, desperate acts ot ! criminality. "I don't know," answered Brewer. "It would be presumptuous to say. 1 simply realize now that it would have carried me over to where my developed judgment would have prevented me from doing what I did in a moment of impulse. ' ' Answering reiterated questions. Brewer said, in matter-of-fact manner, that, he did not have any complaint to make against society; "that he had played his game and lost; that circumstances circum-stances were such that he was due to die for his impulsive act, and that he had no complaint to make. Asked why he had told his story, the man said that since there was nothing to be gained by himself for further secretiveness there would be no good reason for holding back the facts in the case. "I shot Allen. 1. 'had not planned to do it, but did not know what else to do. DePretto was not near, but in another part of the store upstairs al the time. He had no part in it. After he knew what I had done he was for our giving ourselves up. I would have none of it. Talks of Arrest. I "When I was arrested in Memphis caught in the act of breaking a safe I and Sheriff J. S. Cojdess of this coun-1 coun-1 ty came for me, I decided that I was : disgusted with life and the game and came back here without fighting extradition. ex-tradition. Afterward, of course, 1 i fought conviction. Under the law of j Utah, one has to plead not guilty to j a first degree murder charge, anyway. " I Following the interview two of the I interviewers reached impulsively I through the double set of bars to shake I hands with the man. The aisle was too (wide. Brewer's extended hand fell short of the hands of the others. "Let it go at that,V said the condemned con-demned man with a smile. "We seem to understand each other." Brewer will be 2; years of age on January 1, 917. He" admits that he will die under another than his true name, which is not unusual in the history his-tory of executions in Utah. He is confident con-fident that his relatives will not connect con-nect the execution of "Harry Brewer" with his real identity, although he admits ad-mits that he might "be wrong with regard re-gard to this precaution, as many criminals crimi-nals are in many instances. Liking for Mechanics. Asked what he would have liked to be other than a " crook, ' ' Brewer answered an-swered that he had never considered the matter seriously. He said that he had a liking for mechanics and might have liked electrical engineering. "Did you ever have a sweetheart?" was asked. " Xot exactly," said Brewer. "There is a girl in Memphis, Amber Stanley, who was very square with me, although she is of what is styled the underworld. under-world. ' ' He admitted that he saw Joseph Hillstrom led out to execution and knew of the fight that he put up in his cell. View of Hillstrom. "Hillstrom was not afraid," said Brewer. "He was just playing for publicity. He thought lie was dying as a martyr, for a cause. I am dying simply because I made a ; mess, of things and I can't avoid it." Aslicd if he thought his nerve would sustain his composure to the crucial moment of his execution next Thursday, Brewer answered: "T haven't the least idea. That is a matter that remains to be tested out. Whether it does or not, the ultimate result will not be much different. ' ' Brewer stated positively yesterday that he would not appeal to t he state board of pardons. If his attorneys chose to do so, he said he had no objection. ob-jection. Frank DePretto 's case is now pending with the board of pardon?. In ; view of the informal ion in the hands of the board that DePretto did not have an actual hand iu the killing the-commutation the-commutation of hi- sentence is ex-I j peeled. Brewer Nab! yesterday that it j on Id be the right I hing. i |