Show execution of the execution of pat coughlin is a sad esequal to a rough boyhood life he began his career at park city along petty larceny lines and then ended as a dime novel desperado he and another young man now undergoing life imprisonment resisted arrest and wound up by killing two officers the present execution may have a good effect on young utah it seems that crime runs along certain well defined grooves and officers are of the opinion that the two young men in sanpete San pete who shot sheriff burns and successfully evaded arrest had an effect on coughlin and comrade there was so much in the press about that time about the sanpete San pete murder and kindred spirits no doubt had in their hearts a deep sympathy for the san acte criminals there is in the country life in utah a certain mischievous criminality among boys which is regarded at first in the nature of sport boys are given to carrying off property and hiding it not for the purpose of committing petty larceny but simply to gratify a wild craving in their natures for something sensational A gentleman who often visited spring city the home of the boys who murdered sheriff burns told us that the boys there for years have been in the habit of annoying strangers by taking wheela off their vehicles carrying away aar ness straps ete and in that same daredevil dare devil spirit they sometimes held up travelers not to rob them but simply to see the one held up quake practices of that kind if correctly reported to us would quite naturally produce boys like kofford and mickle or like pat coughlin who had to pay the penalty of his boyishly desperate deeds with his lifes blood it is certainly true as he told prison few days ago boys this life is not what it is cracked up to be sooner or later they are bound to run us in |