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Show "WCMANWHOT SLEW BABES GIVEN LIFE SALT LAKE CITY. April 12 Srrs. Ila Peterson, slayer of her son, Kenneth, and foster daughter Margaret Mar-garet May Bateman, Monday was smtenced to life , imprisonment in the state penitentiary by, Judge L. B. Wight. - Mrs. Peterson pled guilty to sec-nid sec-nid degree murder Without nnyidis-play nnyidis-play of emotion: Preliminary hearing hear-ing was waived, and time for. passing pass-ing of sentence la-lso was waived. The -woman requested! to i be. allowed al-lowed to say good-bye to her. .villi-1 (lieu at Murray, and the request i was gl-ant-.-d; but when. Sheriff Clifford Clif-ford l'atlcn ,vas starins for. that place,, she ,.c)iiiiged 'her, mind and asked to .bo. taken direct Jo tile prison. pris-on. , . '( .' i - M - ' The .murder, of the two babies attracted at-tracted wiile-spread attention a few weeks ago. It was attempted to show; that some enemy of the fatnily h.-lil poisoned the food which caused the do. lib of, the two babies, but invest in-vest ion revealed that Mrs., Peterson Pet-erson bad secured the strychnine bersi'f. After questioning, she con-t con-t ssed I he act. |