Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-27 | Page 23 | Goden Slayer is Sentenced to be Hanged

GOLDEN SLAYER IS SENTENCED TO BE HANGED Arthur H. H Mitchell Must Pay on Gallows for Murder Mur Mur- Murder der of Mrs Bryan an Sentence Sentence Sentence Sen Sen- tence Declared Murder i 1 GOLDEN Colo Jan 26 26 Arthur Arthur H H. Mitchell l convicted slayer of Mrs Georgia B Bryan an at the Andrew H. H ranch house near Golden on the morning of ot October 23 today to today to- to day was sentenced by Judge Samuel W W. Johnson to hang some time durIng during during dur dur- ing the week beginning ming May 18 and ending 1 May 25 Sentence was passed after Judge Johnson had Jo do- riled nied a motion by bj Mitchells Mitchell's attorneys attorneys attorneys for tor a new a-new flew trial Mitchells Mitchell's attorneys were granted sixty days b by Judge Johnson In which to perfect an appeal to the state supreme cort tort The attorneys originally had asked for ninety dasin days das in which to perfect the appeal CONFESSED CRIME The crime for which Mitchell was as sentenced to to pay with his life lite was was the slaying of Mrs Georgia Bryan wife of William A. A Bryan assistant fire tire chief of D Denver nver The bodies of ot Mrs Airs Bryan and Andrew Sheerie were found by neighbors on October 23 at the Sheerie home They had hail been shot to death Mitchell later in m the day confessed the tho double sla slaying to his wife a minister and to the police poUce He declared his in infatuation in- in for tor Mrs lira Bryan was re responsIble responsible re- re for the deed S. S D. D Crump attorney for Mitchell Mitch Mitch- ell in asking an arrest of ot judg judg- judgment ment declared If it tho the court sentenced sen sen- tented Mitchell l to hang it will bean be bean bean an unlawful taking of human life Ufe Declaring the Colorado Colorado- law prohibited the Infliction of the death penalty penalty pen pen- alty alit except upon the testimony o of ot f eye witnesses to a murder Crump Crum declared Mitchell had been convicted convict convict- ed on circumstantial evidence MURDER IF HANGED In In the law it will be murder if this man is hanged Crump de do- de- de I Glared At Mitchells Mitchell's trial the court held het d I that Mitchells Mitchell's confession of ot th the e killing was the m most st direct testimony testimony tests mony that could be had No eye eo witness of ot the killing testified tes tes- titled at Mitchells Mitchell's trial Mrs Barbara Mitchell divorced divorce d wife of the condemned man t to o whom he first confessed the crime ime r and who took him to a minister b be before be- be fore tore whom Mitchell repeated the confession told newspaper reporters reporter s today she believed her husband In in- in Mrs Mitchell declared she be be- be- be l her husband had returned to the ranch after leaving after leaving It and found the bodies of ot Mrs Bryan and Sheerie Sheers Sheer Sheer- i ie s and In his Intoxicated state believed believed be be- be- be he had Idl killed ed them