Show F A Brutal Slaying r I 0 irHE HE horror of Don DoA slaying by ty byr t r I 1 Sheldon Clark near Gunnison Friday grows m more re re shocking a as as the public learns further details of the case Clark faces indictment in the Seventh district court at Manti on a charge of first degree murder Sheriff authorities that the incriminating ing chain of evidence against Clark points to o the act as one of the most gruesome and heinous murders that ha has taken place in Utah I The slayers slayer's whole plea of justification is that he lie struck in self Yet the victims victim's head was crushed terribly terribly frac frac fractured nine times by fiendish hammer blows The slayer said he dragged not more than ten feet from the road A careful in investigation investigation investigation in- in showed officers that the victim had bad been dragged fifty ty feet to the side of the road into a a. gully and then down the gully about feet Yet Clark has the effrontery to call that an act of self Authorities ties call caU it a brutal murder murd r with robbery as th the motive Clark took more than 2200 from the pockets of and left him dying He sped away in his companions companion's car to Manti his home town there to strut before his old friends He proudly displayed his victims victim's automobile as his own own and flashed a 1000 bill to convince his boyhood friends of his affluence nce S 'S S Such ch cold-bloodedness cold I Only a i little while after beating a mans man's head to a ap p pulp v The prosecution of Clark should be carried carried car car- ried ned on on without delay The indications are that the defense efforts will be mainly to 10 show as a man of perverted characteristics characteristics characteristics char char- If the defense can put the deadmans deadman's deadmans deadman's dead deadman's deadmans mans man's past on trial it will help to lift the accusing accusing- finger from Clark But tle bru- bru of f the slaying and the robb robbery ry of the the- victim seem such cold-blooded cold acts that its it's hard to see where a jury could decide it was anything but outright murder It is a case where society's need for protection a against killers demands that there b no subverting subverting subvert subvert- ing of justice |