Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-05-03 | Page 9 | Youth Recalls Hanged Brother's Advice Too Late

Y Youth Re alls Hanged Brothers Brother's Advice Too roo Late CHICAGO May 3 AP AP Nick Nick Vlana Viana killed a Ihan man eight 3 years ears ago and they hanged him for it Nick was only 19 which was young oung to die He Ile had played around tv with Uh the boys of the tho no notorious notorious notorious no- no gang Ono One of their victims had resisted and had been shot dead b 1 rom From his pockets Viana and his pals paIs got 8 and anda a few pennies and on 10 December 10 1920 the state hanged him Mrs Viana Vlana Nicks Nick's s 's mother went to the the- death house on the eve eye of the execution for a last word with her son son son-he he who had once been beena a choir boy At her side trudged the condemned mans man's year old brother Paul trembling at the sight of his big brothers brother's chalk white whitt face itce and the gloomy prison wansIn walls In the morning said the mother to the tho little boy your brother must die because he he did wrong Promise me Paul that you sou ou will always be good I r promise said year old Paul Viana And in tho graying gt-aying dawn of the following winter day Nick Viana Vlana walked to the gallows singing a song that came tumbling to his lips from a forgotten childhood Avo Maria Maybe u my death will do more good than my life lite could have done ho said to the guards Maybe l it will be a reminder tomy tomy to tomy my kid brother to go straight t. t Then he lie was hanged Yesterday Paul Viana remembered too too late Ho He stood before Judge Comerford and heard the court say The motion for ai a an n new new w trial is overruled it is the Judgment of this court that the defendant Paul Viana be imprisoned In the state penitentiary for a term tern of one 3 year ear to life The sentence was for highway robbery with a gun The kid brother broth broth- er er had held field up a street car conductor con con- ductor and robbed him of ot 8 22