Show J MOTHER SEEKS TO SAVE GREEN GREENBY BY FINAL PLEA Circulates Pet i t i ion o 0 n ii L f t for Commutation of Sentence r 12 S With his mother circulating a petition pe- pe in his behalf Delbert Green Greenvill Greenwill will vill make a last desperate bid for life ife Saturday when he ho again will Vom submit his case to the state pardons board oard In what wha Is expected ed to be merely a pause on the road to a aIring firing Iring squad July b 10 S The convicted murderers murderer's third request for lor a commutation to life sentence Is scheduled to be heard heardy by y the board which has denied the v k two wo previous pleadings s. s S Greens Green's mother Mrs LUlie Lillie Mae Green Alexander is working desperately desperately des- des in Davis county locale of or orthe the he three three- murders in 1929 and among her friends in Ogden where she is living The petition asking commutation of ot the death sentence to 0 life Imprisonment is addressed to the hc governor and the pardons board and alleges the condemned man to tobe tobe be insane It reads To His Excellency th the thC Governor and the Hon Honorable rable Board of ot Pardons Pardons Pardons Par Par- r dons of the State of ot Utah The citizens of ot the state of ot Utah respectfully petition the honorable bo board rd of pardons of ot the state of Utah to commute the sentence of death of ot Delbert Green to life lite imprisonment S I F Mental Condition Because of ot his mental condition and in the light of ot the opinion of ot otmen men of ot science upon that matter maUer and in view of all of ot the circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances of ot this tragic case and aU all that has transpired since the happening happening happening hap hap- pening we feel teel that the ends of ot justice will be best served by this act of mercy S Mrs Alexander could not be bo reach reached d In Ogden wh where re she has changed residence but the phraseology phraseology phraseology phrase phrase- of ot the petition aroused speculation speculation lation as to who might nave drafted dratted It IL One of ot Greens Green's attorneys Arthur Woolley of ot Ogden disclaimed any knowledge of ot its origin and the theother theother theother other member of ot the counsel John W. W Davis of Ogden was was in southern Utah The attorneys working without without without with with- out remuneration have fought his case in every possible way for more than six years No other recourse co rs att after r Satur Satur- Saturdays Saturdays Saturday's days day's appeal for tor clemency was seen for Green Every path to the courts courts' has been taken tAleen unsuccessfully except except ex ex- appeal to the United States supreme supreme supreme su su- su- su preme court and counsel has re reiterated reiterated re- re iterated d no such action ever action ever has been considered The last appeal to the state su supreme supreme supreme su- su preme court failed tailed several weeks ago when that tribunal refused to direct Judge Eugene E. E Pratt of Second district court who had fixed July 10 as the execution date to grant the triple flayer blayer layer a sanity i hearing t e Whether Green would appear In N person before the board as he did didon didon on his second petition for tor commutation commutation commutation tation was not known 79 On Calendar Two other convicted slayers slayer are arc among the 79 prison inmates whose names appear on the calendar for Saturdays Saturday's session which will be bethe bethe bethe the last until September A They are Mrs Alfred T. T Faerber S Sand and Paul von Bode convicted to together together together to- to gether as a result of ot the death of ot a girl from an illegal operation five years ago Echoes of ot the knife knite slaying of ot Ora Thornton convict by Richard Cotti CoW a fellow Inmate at the prison several several sev sev- eral oral weeks ago may be heard when the application of ot Dewey Miller and andRe andRex andRex Rex Re Brown who ask termination of sentence are heard Miller and Brown witnesses at atan atan atan an inquest which held Cotti killed in self sell defense were pals paIs of ot Thornton and asserted members of ot ofa a n rumored prison clique which according to Cottis Cotti's testimony at atthe atthe atthe the inquest had threatened the knife wielder 5 T |