Show PO POWERFUL ERFUl FORCE wo WORKS r TO SAVE E S S. S L. L MURDERER Friends Try toI to toi i I Obtain Leniency In Hansen Case 4 S Hope to Prevent Slayer From Serving Life Term in Prison PrisonS S SE SENTENCE E N TEN NTEN C E WEDNESDAY Peace Officers Point to Ao Acc tion on Tice Powerful influences arc at wark to save Conrad Hansen confessed murderer murderer mur mur- derer of Edmund G. G Hines from life imprisonment in the state penitentiary penitent ary it was learned Monday Hansen who will wm be 21 years ears of ag age ag next October confessed shooting Mr Hines 72 last October in one of the most cold-blooded cold premeditated murders mur mur- ders in local police pollee annals He is is to be sentenced sentenced- Wednesday morning by bj District Judge James H. H Wolfe Grant H. H Tice his in m the brutal murder already has been sentenced to life me imprisonment and and while influential friends and relatives of Hansen are working to obtain leniency leni heal ency law enforcement agencies are calling attention to the Uie fact that Tic Tic Tice had no powerful friends to intercede intercede intercede inter inter- cede for him FIRED FillED FATAL SHOT SnOT They call attention also to the fact that Hansen is the one who fired th shot that killed the aged grocer in his store at at t Eighth East streeL street Hansen and Tice Tire were charged with murder in the first degree but the prosecution in both instances accepted accept accept- ed pleas of guilty for second degree murder when it became apparent that the jury might be reluctant nt to convict convict convict con con- vict without recommendation o of merc mercy Up to the time they changed their pleas Tice and Hansen stoutly maintained maintained maintained main main- their innocence and an alibi was vas in m process of forming for Hansen T Tice ce originally pleaded not guilty to o a charge of first degree murder but on the third day of his trial waS was al allowed allowed allowed al- al lowed to withdraw his original plea and plead guilty to the lesser charge ARRESTED J AS BURGLAR Hansen who was born October 14 1911 was first arrested on a complaint issued April 29 1929 for the burglary of oC th the homes of Charles Spence J. J J. J Coles J. J C C. Dick W. W J J. J J J. J. J Walsh and J. J F. F Russon Four days later he was sentenced to the state in industrial industrial industrial in- in school at Ogden The youth admitted that he intended taking inking the loot from his burglaries to California in a stolen car and dispose of it it and that he lie hoped to join a California California Cali Call fornia gang of thieves He had a homemade blackjack and a revolver The latter was stolen from one of the homes he looted What started him on the downward path he declared to police v vas listening listening listen listen- ing tag to the trial of ot three other youths accused of oC burglary and auto theft They had been sentenced to the in industrial industrial industrial in- in school but were released at atthe atthe atthe the end of six weeks through the in influence influence influence in- in fluence of powerful friends Accordingly Hansen told police he did not see any my great danger in committing committing com corn burglaries and thefts A few few- months later Hansen at the head of ofa a pang gang prowled a number of homes home and W was caught emerging from one of ot them The loot W was recovered After serving a short time at the industrial in industrial n I school Hansen was paroled |