Show I r 9 to Save Fails Gallows Gallows' Ends Life IWARD ARD KU K SAYER EXECUTED Al AI PRISON f iver Youth Pens Po Po- I to Mother and Goes Ito to Death TER fER SENDS WIRE 1 l ks' ks W Warden arde for Mak ng It Pleasant ling It L OM PRISON cat Cal Feb eb 4 Edward K Sayer 25 of erA was hanged here today for forty ty in the murder of a ae e woman at n placer Je t L In November 1924 e ap was sprung at 1006 1 Sa Sayers Sayer's ers mother and father ID and his wife from San Sans as aso s o parted from him last night spent the day with Was dead d ad elev- elev mutes and t twenty twenty-Ev seconds Ii eing hanged E drew up p in front fronte Ie e wardens warden's office a a. half hour nour e hanging to take the body youth to San Francisco Jis is e closest relatives await It nother's oth rs r's request Sayer de- de representatives an v iw w thIs but sent that he thanked th them m 11 o f t effort his behalf Lot tor their Courtesies I Wp s M. M W lie be w 1 ayel de a a- a poem i s 5 m It asas iiI IJ V z L' L Q l l laUghter 13 ass s its I lone r joy when tile b We Is Ison on- on is forgotten o begun p stay too long at b tur r ugh road is dreary to tray travel l ou t and smile mile wh ri n your our is through na ma doubt this today youil l rit it is true tr e. e f. f nt fret too much when failing I e had nothing to toffy ay as he het t the rpm the he eon chamber There were were a Umber of ti witnesses ER WIRES shortly he left his u ei e a te from his Edith I h in Denver T The le ines- ines es- es ad rl e rest brother brother Ed Ed I want 12 0 now nOW that I am an thinking of 2 riy I that you are elf an aM will go o to a brave boY boYan boY an only hope dear brother rother In the world here here- e happiness prevails pre Ii c not be taken talen from w. w say say goodbye my lit ht going ve m. m YoUr Ur dear ister sti EDE orge rg Connell Connelly attorney for San an aJ rear 4 r E Edward ward Man Many thanks lOUr ur beautiful letter B re I ve done everything wYth Jower Cod od bless you re e plainly c ed the G Continued on A a e 11 EDWARD K SAYER ON GAllOWS IS CAlM 10 lAST Continued from page 1 1 pallor but seemed to have perfect control of himself as he stepped out upon the gallows A moment before the noose was adjusted he turned to the warden and to Father ather Hogan Kogan and thanked them for making it so very pleasant for me There were about a dozen Japanese Japa- Japa nese among the witnesses Sayer having been found guilty of participating participating in the murder of a Japanese woman The hanging and nd all ot of its preliminaries preliminaries pre pre- worked tike a a. a well well- regulated clock The taking taking- of the condemned man from the Uie death cell to the gallows cham chamber er fifteen minutes minutes min min- utes before the hanging hangin Is a new departure for Folsom This prison officials say lessens the danger of ofa a collapse and saves the condemned from the humiliation of being paraded paraded pa- pa before a usually long lone line of witnesses witnesses FOLSOM l uSO I PRISON Ca Cal Feb 4 AP execution today of Edward Ed- Ed ward K Sayer ended a legal egal battle in in California courts waged since more than two years ago when three men drove up to a small store in Penry t and ordered a Japanese w woman man to op open n a safe containing The woman and a Japanese clerk ran and Arthur Muller of Sacramento Sacramento Sac Sac- It was later established at atthe atthe the trial tria tired fired the shot that killed her f Muller went to Sacramento told his father about the crime and then went to San Francisco The rhe following following follow follow- ing day he was found ln in a I rooming house VV V V Sayer and R Ray y Arnold who was hanged last Friday at Folsom prison pris- pris for ic on were tried jointly comp ity in the crime The jury ed them and they were sentenced to hang A motion for a new trial was denied and an appeal was fn filed d with the state supreme n court Th The de decision islon was upheld A rehearing was granted pr the higher court Fourt and the decision decision- of the trial court wa was a again d. d i Arnold was a member of a prominent prominent I nent Sacramento family amny and Sayer ayers ayer's s 's I family are Influential residents of Denver Scores of friends of b both families Interceded with Governor C. C C. C Young for tOI clemency The governor govern gov- gov ern or after a revIew of the case Issued a formal statement in which he said that he found no g grounds Cor for executive cem clemency ncy I I |