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Show BQRIGH TO Bit TQDAYATSUNUP Slayer of Velma Atkins Faces Firing Squad at State Prison. Makes Deposition to Aid Children of Victim to Get 'Insurance. f ' "' ' "When v the. Tlrit" fxvn. of..-tai3.B,uji creep over the mountain Tops this "mornlnK. John r.orlch. confessed murderer of Vclm.i Atkins, alias Green, will face a firing squad at tho slate prison. The execution will tako place between 8:20 and 8:30, which Is the time the sun Is scheduled to como up today. Dorich appeared beforo the state board of pardon.H yesterday and asked that hla Bentonco be commuted to life Imprisonment, Imprison-ment, but 4ils plea waa denied, after fifteen minutes of deliberation by the board. Ilorlch asked that he be allowed to live, pledging himself to a lifelong labor to pay for his crime. lie appeared calm when he realized that he had been refused a reprieve, nml when Sheriff Pave Adamson of Tooele county, where the crime occurred, void him that he would come for him thiii mnrnlnir and read the death warrant, war-rant, he a:M: "All Hihl. Mli.'ter Ifcivn, ; will wiiik out with yuu tuid not muko you any trouble." . Borloh. aooorxllnj to his story, met Mr. Atklnn In one of the city parks laat siiiiiiner. She forgot her loyalty to Tier huM'Wid and her motherly duty to her tD bablps and loveti Iinnch enough to at-ree wlih hlin that she have her life Insured. Horich p.isf-d as her huxhaud and l he two went under Ihe names of 'Mr. and" Mrs. John tir'-en. The insurance policy waa for JJOOti Incase of ihe n.auial uaj h of .Mrs. ilrrrn and JaohO In case she died from accident, Ssi.ysj .lie Loves Wife. : It was to (fet Hie money on this In-mirai'ic.i In-mirai'ic.i that ll.frl.li lured. the' unsiispect-lnN- woman to a lonely spot on the outskirts out-skirts of Tooek'. and slranffl'd her to death The inoufv, ho salil. would havo helped him win b;..k his wife, whom he clalms. to. l..vc. and who. t, said, had left him because he was Mi Austrian and a poor laborer. r shorllv after pelnK notified of the refusal re-fusal of'tho iK.ard of panhms to exerqla any c.leinencv In his caw, Ilorlch made a further ..r supplemented Ftaternent yes-1,,-Oav coneert.ln Ihe circumstances of tilkini out Insurance on lh: life of Mrs. MUins c.overlns- details In -.addition to Iho-e att' sird In bis deposition last Tues-iWy. Tues-iWy. i;oth, deposlilons were taken in compliance with court orders. Tho I act of TilfftvrirtiMe -report- upon T, is, -petition to the board was not men-ion.'d men-ion.'d until after the deposition w-as Ollif r.u-lse cpnudctV. , ' . Vhu did (lie warden tell yon that the l.oird of pardons had decided?" asked Mtornev Holand It. Wool ley. who represent repre-sent the estate of Mrs. Atkins and her children In-effort to collect for them the, Insurance on the policy. Accepts His Fate. T'eeUU-d that I had to cro," Said Itorlch. - ' Thru you had to go?" "Ye ' Ilorlch paid that ho had no desire under Die circumstances to t ell ar. -fhlnif -but the truth. The point of ypaterday's statement state-ment was as to knowlede;e on the par; of -Vllliarn r.owman, at-ent for the KQultable ).if-' Assurance Society of the United States, that the correct name of the man with whom he dealt in connection with the Insurance policy as John Clreon, was reallv John Korich. Horich Insisted, in answer to repeated questions, that Bowman Bow-man -knew him as Ilorlch. though arranyr-InK arranyr-InK for the Issuance of the lvilcy in the name of tlreen for Mrs. Atkins In 'the. name of Velina. Green, and issuing re-celpis re-celpis for money to IJorlch a.s John Mreen. lHwlch lesiltled that he was well acquainted ac-quainted wilti Jlowntan before the policy-was, policy-was, taken out, that he frequently played pool with hlin :it '-.loe Vincents place" i on Kast .-Jecond South street. .Tills of Alias. The condom ncrt man further teetiflrd that Jtiiwmin had. examined an insuritic J poKcv heM by Jiorlch on hU own life, in j whloii hi et'Vroct name of John l!orioh appeared. This was at a time when V.ow- ; man wa.s oinioi ori iik to j ft Itorleh to j take Insurance In the linkable, ami the 1 volley waa shown as a. rcadon for not dolns so. lloric.h rdtcraU?d . him testimony, that hfi did Tiot I'omvlve ihe UU;i of fcilHni; trs. AtVMns to pt the inuranfo' inonpy unt il-;if Ler th jmilcy had ttp.eu taken out, hut beiwoon that tlmft and tho tlme-of-ita in I' -fry to Mm by lion-man. j :fIrf,senta.tlvos of the lifiine cn-.- ,;. 'w.r :n t Tf.-eriT. y.-ttri,-i' aft ; r- I v thoi:.;h T"'''' '. frrr.rl ixr,', A uTuf ' J. H. .H-t-J. c-iv..-v, v.r re I iiof'".1. :hr. nr.;rx r-rcr f'T ".-.tkiii-v h :- I'-'lLr-.t" " -'p.; j;-.!i".rn. r. Hi.;ri w;p ; rc--i. 1:,v; 1 ---'. a1' ArA cro:-? -cxarr 1 "c:..-h i: v v. h'.i s'.&.;?mr.t a; thxt V.rr.fi. : fZ.'.-n'r :n yesr.l.'iy v.v. -:..:!- j c.'a'-'.i-i ic; Kv AiTiHT-fy vv-'i-y. : 'o: 'uh K;.oif f.al both d-j'tf.tlons a Tier j the had b?'?a tyrcv-Titlor.. -j |