Show fix Convicted Sl Slayers Seek Seed Clemency I Ii r 77 17 CASES GASES DUE FOR HEARING BY P PARDON ARDON BOARD Appeal for Markham Sentenced to Face Gun Squad Delayed Marked Mark by an unusual prevalence prevalence prevalence preva preva- lence of convicted slayers seeking clemency six of th them m. m the board of pardons met In monthly session at the state prison Saturday to consider a calendar of 77 cases An appeal for cl clemency mency was slated in behalf of John Markham slated to face a firing squad for forthe forthe forthe the murder last year of J J. J G G. Smith elderly Salt Lake newsstand operator but the board on a legal technicality continued hearing on his request for commutation to life sentence Markham was sentenced to death by Oscar W. W McConkie then a Third district court judge He appealed to the state supreme court on grounds the judge erred in not following a jury recommendation recommendation recommendation dation for life imprisonment but lost the appeal The board continued hearing on grounds Markham has not yet formally formally formally for for- mally been in district court as a result-of result his reversal inthe in inthe inthe the supreme court The board was not expected to reach the other slayers' slayers cases eases until un tf til later in the day because of a number of witnesses appearing in incases incases incases cases near the top of the list A case heard during the morning session involved the only Utah woman now in prison as a felon Mrs Vernalia Vernalla Fadiga 29 convicted arsonist now serving a term of from two to twenty years at the Canon City Colo prison where Utah women felons are are sent Convicted I Of fArs Arson m w 7 Mrs Fadiga was convicted with two law in Darl Danl and Carl Lan Lance e twins of arson at her home in Salt Lake county Her mother Mrs Myron Mott told the board that Mrs Fadiga who has served six months of her sentence was an innocent victim in the case and that she was dragged into it in a plan to collect insurance on her home Convicted slayers in addition to Markham seeking clemency were Robert HMcCoy H. H McCoy slayer of A. A Roy Heath Salt Lake business man in Davis county in 1924 seeking termination of a year 25 term which was commuted several years ago from a life sentence Asks Termination Alfred F Faerber erber serving a life term for second degree murder in connection with death of a girl in inan inan inan an illegal operation seeking nation Conrad D. D Hansen convicted of second degree murder of Edmund G. G Hines Salt Lake grocer in 1931 asking termination Harry Prather convicted of second second second sec sec- ond degree murder in slaying of his estranged wife in Salt Lake City in 1935 seeking termination Victor Montano convicted of second second second sec sec- ond degree murder in the so-called so desert rat slaying of Sherman Cad Cadwell well in Tooele county two years ears ago seeking termination on application application application cation for Jor termination of a year 15 term which was denied last SepI Sep Sep- I I |