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Show HICK OBLIZALO PAIS PENALTY : WITOIS LIFE Convicted Murderer Is Executed Exe-cuted at State Prison Soon After Daylight; Protests His Innocence. - PRIEST ACCOMPANIES HIM ON DEATH MARCH Final Appeal Made to Governor Gov-ernor for Clemency for Condemned Man, but Request Re-quest Is Not Granted Nick Obllzalo waa executed ahortly after aunrla today. H was accompanied accom-panied on th death march by the Bey. Father II. J. M. Wlentjcs of th Church nf Our Dlvln Savior, who admlnletered extreme unction hi the condemned man paid the penalty for hie pert In the murder of Marco Laus. "Obllsnlo died an edlfvlnir death," Fnther Wlentjea aald. "He died man-V man-V fully and bravely, protesting hie In-, noeenr to th very end." Thoee Inalde the prison yard wer limited to the atatutory provisions for at-tendanc at-tendanc at an execution. But the weet wall waa lined with spectators. A number of women who asked to view the death scene were denied permission and they llnrered outside until the volley f rifle fire wld them It .was over. FINAL CHAPTER. Ohllialo's execution wrote the final chapter to one of the most brutal murders In the history of homicide In ITtsh. He and his partner, Stev Mnsllch. t.atlves of Dalmatla, were professional gamblers who preyed noon the foreign population of various Western cities. Marco Laus was a miner of thrifty' habits. Laus came here from Tellurtde. Colo, In July of 11 seeking employment In th Tlntle Rtandard mtn because hs had heard that pr pt.ty waa comparatively dry and therefor would not agarravat hla tendency to rheumatism. H carried "Ms savings In gold In a money belt about. his waist: but th Increasing board, well over a thousand dollars, waa becoming so weighty that It was almost a burden. I.nus encountered Mnsllrh and Obllxalo In a West Second Routh street resort. He confMed In them the secret of his wealth, and they endeavored to entlc htm Into a card game. "When Laus refused to play at cerds and later when he told them bo thought of putting his money on deposit, the pair decided upon robbery as their onlys rhance.of obtaining It. To or three plans were considered. A family with which Masllch was on friendly terms was made a party to '' one of these tentative schemes. But for one renaon or another these plnnt . filled of development. On Sattirdsy, August !, 1919. Laus asked a local bank to take his money In chnrge with the assuranc that whn he naked for it they would repny In gold. Wnen the bank wanted to take his gold but, would not promise prom-ise return In that metal. Laus discarded dis-carded his Intention to deposit. He next visited a local employment srency. through which he had applied for work In the Tlntlo Rtandard. This office wss ready to send him out. but he asked twenty-four hours delay in order to keep on- appointment with "frlenda." Thla appointment is thought to ve been a Sunday dinner engagement engage-ment with the family fo whom Masllch Mas-llch had Introduced him. On 8unday. August 3, Ius, accompanied by Mas. llch nnd Obllxato. entered an automobile auto-mobile and started, according to the i police theory, ostensibly for th home j of this fsmllv. Instead the machine was driven along th Parley's Canvon ' , road to a point just east of the prison reservation. Her they got out snd started to walk. DESPERATE STRUGGLE. When their Intention became plain I tn Laus he put up a terrific struggle, I as evidenced by the tracea left. For j more than a hundred feet detectives 1 found Indications of the battle. At last his ass.illants attacked him with knives. Inflicting more than fifty I wounds, several of which were fatal j In nature. They robbed the body and 1' fled. - Prison trusties sent to Irrigate a kl nearby strip of ground found the body 7X that evening. The sheriff's office ws notified and Chief of Detective Riley M. Be.'keted, then chief criminal deputy dep-uty sheriff, and Chief Deputy W. R ' Krhoppe Investigated. Final solution ' of the mystery proved on of th most I effective bits of detecflv work In lo- . cat records. Taking th tr!!, th sheriff's office was misled by deceptive clues, chief anions; wnicn waa tn nnciins or a womun's whit handkerchief near ths head of the body. Thla they took to Indleat the presence of some woman In th murder sans;. Descriptions furnished by members of an automobile automo-bile patty who had seen from a dls tanre the first beginnings of the struggle strug-gle also colored their search. Beveral arrests were made, but nothing tangible tangi-ble was secured, and after four days of futile huntlmt, Herbert Lelchter, present pres-ent thiol criminal deputy, outfit that tlm acting chief of detectives, waa appealed to. Lelchter aooepted responsibility re-sponsibility for tracing the crime on condition that he would not le ham-1 ham-1 pered by a counter Inveotigation by . th aheriffs fore.. Thee term wer I conceded and th police bureau took , up the hunt. . Lelchter. from his Intimate study of Crtm amor; men of all nations, lm-(Continued lm-(Continued on pas 11.)' NICK QBL1ZAL0 ; i (Continued fnan p 1 ) mediately named the nationality of the murderer and wiped out the deduction de-duction of the or lain I Investigator The wutte handkerchief he explained by a auperetltloua beilef of DalmetUna that any white object by a body lay Its ghoat. A cord. t flrat believed to have been used a a garrotte, wni placed hy I,dchter a a ahmjlder trnp to suspend some heavy weight, and thl weight he tentatively accepted a a money belt, thus giving him a motive mo-tive fnr the crime. He organised htg force, with Tetec tlve t,. U Isarson. Clifford Patten and Carl Blair anslgned to varioua phnaek of the inveatlgatlon. They concen-t concen-t ruled on the 1 alma1lan colony, and it hi n twenty -four hour had found bloody clothing In a mom formerly occupied oc-cupied by Obllsalo. lelchter's money belt theory proved out when the hedv warn identified and Inquiry at the . depot, where but little gold coin wa handled, established thnt two men had purchafied ticket within i he week with money of the type and denomination denomina-tion known to have been in La us' pos-senfllon. pos-senfllon. Police In Rutte, Mont., and Fly. N'ev., wni not:fied of the lca police sua plckons and within a dN or o Mhm Itch and (ihllxnlo were under arrest in i the respective cities. lnventiitadonB of their set ions In these plars showed them to have had a considerable i amount of gold co'n. li us' wealth was rsl Imated at $1 100. I .liter, cr- , respondence 'and other evidence In the . poi Mfonn of the t wo men w hen itr- iri'stcd fixed definitely the ran uK'ilost them. On hi return from Unite, Mh-llch Mh-llch made one attempt at escape. Hut on August 14 bot h were prisoners In Ithe city jnll. 'LONG LEGAL BATTLE. Then started a legal battle that lnsted nenrly three years. An Incident et the Mns!lch rrlitl accentuated the uHT!ii It ion which first put Ielchter on the rtrht trail. While awititlng a ft urn of the Jury one tiiht a black il o i flt-w Into the courtHMnn and perched on the Judge's bench directly In front of Maatlch, who became e-trrinriv e-trrinriv nervoiia Mitsllch. though tried lust, wa the Tret of the pair to be executed, he facing hi executioner execution-er January 70 laat. declaring hi own Innocence and Oblir.Mo'a guilt. ohllxalo was aided In his fight for life by a brother, John ihltznlo of Hpokane, who is s.ild to have spent i more than 17000 In defense of Nick. This brother attended the meeting of the board of pardons held speclully to consider Obllinlo' case Inst month 'After hearing Nick's story of hie ' nsMot'iatlon with Maslirh and an cx- planntion of the legal points, this j brother Is s:ild to have accepted 1 Nick's guilt as a fact. Hut he in-I in-I afsted that In the event no reprieve ! was granted Nlclt'g body lae given a j Christian hur'al. As the time for execution drew near. Obi J is In m.lde. desperate efforts to stay off hie fate. Kurly yesterday he requested en audlenc wi'h Governor i Mabey. which wii grunted. When ,the governor visited him in the death j cell, Ohllxnln denied ninny points In (his former etory, t'rorla.med hi in n ore nee and asked one week' re-1 re-1 prieve in which to prove this. fny j ernor Mabey laid the new version .before the board of pardon and that body decided not to Interfere with the death sentence. A last-hour appeal ap-peal was made at midnight, but Governor Gov-ernor .Mabey snld that every angle had been considered and the law slKiuld take Its course. Imbi evening bl!zaio broke down 1 and was sobbing when Father Wlentjes reached him cell. After visit -1 lng,with the priest, the condemned man I grew more calm. He was quiet through the night, but alept little and conversed on various subjects with member of the death watch, READS DEATH WARRANT. ' At 4:55 o'clock this morning Hher-' Hher-' iff Kmery rend the death warrant. I (M1; ralo had refused breakfast and ! naked only that he be allowed to j fjice hla executioner wHh unban-Mlaged unban-Mlaged eyes. He walked from his cell i with a firm step. He called goodbye In answer to well wlshea from other I convict. At the cellhouae dour he ; object cd tt having the death cup I plat ed over his head. Half way J across the prison vard one slipper earn loee nnd he 'stooped to fix It. ; Seated in the death chair he re-- re-- Iterated his ry,uest to have his eyes unbundled. "I wnni to see. i ain't 'afraid to die," he heKed. I At Q:i7 o'clock, it n oblixalo finished the sentence. "Just one word more," i the signal to fire wns given and the I first word of his next sentence wa I tilurred in the sob of death struggle. The death cap was removed at re- : quest of Kill her VlentJes. Kxtrem I unction was almlnfstered. Four minute min-ute later Ir. A. Cyril C;illlter, county physician, pronounced Ohllr.ilo dvnd. i , , . |