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Show SLAYER BORiCK is puttd ram Murderer of Velma Atkin Faces Firing Squad at State Prison. Farewell With Prayer to Be Forgiven for Crime Rings Out Steadily. Cwl-Wooihwiiy u.i .!:sind tu murder mur-der of Veima Atitiu, alma Volma (inim. Jolin Hoiirh went, to :,Ih i?at:i yntriay morning a. S:'S! o'ciwk t V'.io Wale prison In expiation t tho crime. After listening to tllu reading of the .feath tmr-rant, tmr-rant, ho aroc.-, combed his -1:1 1 r and Maid, "All rlici't, I am K-a'ly." Ho walked down the corridor eating an app. Willi firm and steady step I'.o walked mound tho comer of the prison, a distance dis-tance of aoout -! feet. Hefnro lie leached the c'.lair, officials placed tlfe. black cap ovnr hi eyes. Xcvcr faltcrlnsc. liti reached tho chair and sat down. "llavo you nny'.hlr.g to say, John?" f::!d Sherlif. !),iv.j M. Aca.nso'.l of Tooelo county. "I t-irs uoriy I did t'-il.", and I hope I V. Ill he forgiven.," rang 0111 the steady, voice. "Good-cy, Warden; good-by, rj,t'o; good-by, prh-on: good-hy, everybody! every-body! God blesu you all." Ihillets Find Mark. "With one report four of Cue bve suns barked out their niesdUo of cieatli and tho figure In tho chair crumpled over. Each of tlio four bullets reached ita mark. The lirst meaner rays ui tho sun a ho no down on the pray prison walls and the little wooden chair in which Eoiicii was strapped. More than l-'O spectators b.ilvcrlnsy awaited the momejn when the live guns note J their way through the apertures in tho wall opposite the chair :ind aimed at the. mark pinned over the heart of tho doomed man. Shortly before Kolnf; to slep Thursday nlht, Ltorieli wrote a message to be given to the warden of the prison. He said in the mesMSri; "10:15 p. in. To my , wife: I lived fur you and 1 died fur you, and I am sorry for what I did. Good-by. Good-by. Warden; good-by, friends; nod-by, everybody! tiud bless you. (dinned) John Porieb." iSIept Through Night. He slept well and wna awakened at 7 o'clock and ate a hearty breakfast. According 10 Dr. T. J. Howella, county physician, who examined him before leaving leav-ing the prison ceU and after ho took his seat in the execution chair, his pulse never went above D5 and his heart action ac-tion w as good. "lie was a perfect specimen of physical physi-cal health," said Dr. Howclls. "without any sign of dissipation or 111 health." The body will bo turned over to tho University of Utah for medical research work. Borieh, who is an Austrian, born in the province of Dalmatia, maintained throughout the planning of tho murder and tho subsequent trial and execution a stoicism which enabled him to stage the tragedy with the indifference of an actor playing a part. According to his confession, he met the womn n he killed in the summer moHths at one of the city parks. Ho wooed and won her affections and suggested sug-gested to her that she allow 'him to have her llfo Insured. This was done and the two posed ns Mr. and Mrs. John Green. "ITo admitted having thought of the murder mur-der before ho paid the life Insurance premium. Woman Left Her Babies. On September lt he persuaded her to So with him to Tooeie. She had come from Twin Falls. Idaho, where she was Uvtng with her husband and her two children. chil-dren. When she started on tho fatal trip to Tooelo she left tho children In the caro of the landlady at a local hotel. After reaching Tooele the couple walked down tlio road. Porkh had made up hta mind to commit murder, but lie said he was nervous and shaking. The woman asked him what was the matter and he sprang at her and, gripping her throat 'a his hands, choked out her life. She struggled desperately and in the struggle she was bumped against a barbed wire tp.ee and badly mutilated. After dragging the body to the center of tho road ho buried the insurance policy and a number of letters and telegrams she had written to him in a field about three hundred yards from the spot where he had ended her life. Then he went back to town and, posing" as a distracted husband, began a search for her. When her body was brought to the undertaking parlors he staged a tragic scene. Weening, he held the body of the victim to his breast and evinced f-reat griefat her untimely end. Witnesses Wit-nesses v. ere heartsick with "sympathy for' him. believing him to ho her husband. Informal Will Written. After he retired to his room ho put aside the hy st 'eric role and calmly went to 1 ed and to sleep. His plumbers were interrupted in-terrupted by Sherlf Adamson, whose suspicions sus-picions had been aroused by the actions of the man. With a little cross-examination, Borich broke down and confessed, al'eging that there was a John Green who had helped him plan the crime. Later he admitted that he alone had conceived the ljlot and executed it. In the back of an ola" diary he wrote - Instructions for the disposition of his pffects. Some of them he requested be sent to his wife, Jennie Borich, at Du-rango. Du-rango. Colo. A watch he said he would like to have given to his wife's little son by a former marriage. He asked that the remainder of his things be sold and the money tent to tho two children of Mrs. Atkin. F:':'or:s are being made by the attorneys attor-neys for the est a" to of Mrs. Atkin to have tho Insurance money paid to her i o children. A statement by Borich, mr.de a;tor he was certain lie was gofng to die, was to the effect that William 1 :,-v. :na:i, agent for the Kquitable Life ' Assurance Society of the United States. h:.ew that his name was not John Green ;:) that he knew him as John Borich. Great e-mifort seemed to be gained by t ' 0 condemned man in his communion v illi the Iter. Father p.. J. Cotter of Our " :idy o.' Lourdes church and Father x "rands A. Sell ert of the Kearns St. nn's orphanage, who were with him to |