Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-24 | Page 2 | Boy, 14, Slayer of Pal, 'Not Afraid of Chair'; Life Term as Youngest Murderer Seems Likely

Boy By 14 la Slayer of Pal Not Afraid of Chair Life Term as Youngest Murderer Murderer- Seems Likely LOS ANGELES Aug 24 24 UP CUP Richard Jensen a snub-nosed snub barefooted boy of 14 with a mop of curly red hair may become one of the country's youngest term life murder convicts au authorities authorities said today Richard killed his playmate Billy BlUy Williams 13 He crusts d his head with a hammer stabbed him with a butcher knife and choked him with wire to silence his groans Richard who had been to reform school twice resented resented resented re re- re- re Billys Billy's taunts of ot How I does docs It feel to be an ex ex convict convict And Im I'm not sorry orry Naw Nan He got what was coming to him Richard boasted And I guess Ill I'll get what's coming to me Let em hang me or or electrocute me or whatever they want to Im I'm not afraid to die He was informed that in California Call Call- fornia no one under 18 years of at age may be executed but that a slayer layer 14 years of ot age or older such as himself may be sent to prison for life He lIe shrugged Superior Judge W. W Turney Fox will hol tomorrow to decide whether Richard is s a fit subject for juvenile court The county prosecutors prosecutor's office insisted insist Insist- ed he was not and will wUl demand that the boy go on trial a u ai an adult on a charge of first degree murder CHICAGO Aug 24 UP A P-A A new drug has banished pain from the dentists dentist's chair chair but but not an occasional occasional occasional occa occa- Ouch r More than P. P am G Gone one O 0 h h of the recently reU recently re- re U C developed Lives On wn have proved it u to be bc a definite improvement over others others others oth oth- ers the American Medical associations association's associations association's associations association's tion's health magazine said today The report made by Dr Fred R. R Adams a New York dentist said Until recently dentistry was largely a myth a phrase used by jy y charlatans and quacks to lure unwitting victims to their fly fly-by- night offices i But today every major dental operation can be performed without without without with with- out the least pain to t the e patient Theres There's still an outcry from the most expert dentists dentist's chair once Ina in ina ina a while because he said of f the psychic reaction of fear and entirely entirely entirely en en- Imagined suffering The drug which makes short work of pain has this chemical name Para amino mono mono benzoate benzoate benzoate benzo- benzo ate hydrochlorIde