Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-11 | Page 9 | Halvorsen Slayer Given 25 Years

HALVORSEN- HALVORSEN HAL SLAYER GIVEN 25 YEARS I I Pleading guilty to a charge of second second sec sec- sec sec-I ond degree murder G Gilchrist C C. Booth 17 alleged slayer of John P. P Halvorsen 32 insurance salesman on January 23 was sentenced to serve 25 years in the state penitentiary by District Judge JudEe David W. W Moffat Mon Mon- day Booth originally was charge with first degree murder in connection with Halvorsen's death but the charge Monday was reduced to one of second second sec see ond degree desree murder Pearl Medley 15 alleged accomplice accomplice accomplice in the slaying is serving servine a five- five year term in the state industrial school Joseph Medley 18 Pearl Medleys Medley's brother ori originally charged with first degree murder in connection with the slaying pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of being an accessory to the slaying and was sentenced b by Judge Moffat to serve five years ears in prison Execution of the sentence was suspended suspended sus sus- until April 16 when Medleys Medley's attorney J. J Louis Brown asked the court if a n formal application from the state industrial school charging Medley was a parole violator had been received