Show ENDS OF JUSTICE TWO convicts at the Utah penitentiary I I serving life sentences for murder were ringleaders in the September prison riot which was built up for a wholesale escape Guards were injured and a convict killed The state law provides that upon conviction conviction conviction tion for attempted escape a life Ute shall pay the death penalty The two men men men- Pfoutz and Elliott already Elliott already had a narrow es escape escape escape es- es cape from execution following their conviction conviction tion of the murder of the town marshal at Moab Their second escape from the death penalty penalty penalty pen pen- alty came when one Jury in the Third district court ourt voted acquittal and another disagreed The evidence appe appeared red quite plain that these two lifers figured very prominently that September morning when the penitentiary was vas as thrown into a panic But both juries declined to take the re responsibility responsibility re- re for an extreme penalty which Indicates that neither was in favor of capital punishment The verdict In at least one case might well have been not guilty by reason of extreme extreme extreme ex ex- ex- ex penalty In the other there was an indication that capital punishment had some supporters I The verdict and the disagreement might be construed as an expression on the part of both juries that they were convinced the ends of justice had been served by the slaying of an criminal arch-criminal who tried to scale the walls Instead of one of the guards of the prison All of which had nothing to do with law and no relation to evidence If the grain stabilization corporation gives that forty million bushels of wheat to the unemployed it will be another way of castIng cast- cast casting Ing lug bread on the water to be returned in inthe inthe inthe the form of real dough |