Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-11-29 | Page 8 | Prisoner Asks Death Penalty

PRISONER ASKS DEATH DEA TH PENALTY LOS ANGELES Nov 29 ff It W-It It had always been Dallas Egans Egan's boast that he was no coward He was a product of street gangs gangs fighting fighting stealing and ever ver at it t odds w with th the law In superior court on trial for the thc murder of W. W J J. KirkpatrIck coal m merchant of Battle Creek Mich during during dur- dur ing a holdup holdups Egan made good his boast yesterday I 1 have ha always said that if I 1 poisoned pot poi R a well I could drink fr from m It Egan told Judge Isaac I I want the full penalty The judge granted his request and sentenced him to be hanged Egans Egan's attorney who had been pleading his client was insane sought to interrupt the killers killer's request for forthe forthe for forthe the death penalty With alt all respect to my attorney Eg Egan ln exclaimed I want to say I plead guilty to this murder while in m my sound mind When I committed the crime I was also in my sound mind None of us Is entirely sane You yourself your honor probably arc nrc not entirely sane According to standards by which humans arc are judged I 1 am as sane san as any man Egan made no attempt to involve his two codefendants George Georg and nd Homer Rogers He took the full tun blame I carried a gun all aU the months I I was out of Folsom prison he said I intended to use it to get money noncy and kill anyone who tried to atop me Egan who had been in fri criminal records records' since he hc was 18 years of age and who had served three prison terms including three years in solitary solitary solitary soli soli- tary confinement made only one re re- re quest I 1 want to be hanged at San Quentin Quentin Quentin Quen- Quen dont don't want bunch tin he said I a of of officers who abused me while I Iwas Iwas was wao nt at Folsom prison standing around beneath my scaffold grinning in my I face He will be hanged at San Quentin