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Show "SLAYER OF FOUR - JAYS WITH LIFE . CARSON CITY, Jan. H t Luther Joaes, 32-year-old ex-convict w&o murdered four men near Elko, KV, In a 140 holdup last October srt jaid"wiUrhl Hf1irths stats prison's lethal gas chamber today, ienes entered the (as chamber ( at 1:10 a. m. (m. a. t), muttering priysrs, and at :2V he was pro-i pro-i nd)inced dead by Theodore J. Blu- chen, prison physician. The former Indiana and Montana ronvlct who embraced religion while ' !nthe Nevada penitentiary, ap-I ap-I peered calm as hs was led Into the 1 chamber. The chemical pellets were dnepped Into the bucket of acid un- dr the chair where Jones was seated, seat-ed, at t lt'i. and a minute and a hM later he slumped forward un-eohsciaus. . M Witnesses approximately 40 wltneasee were present, including G. F. Arraacada. i brother of one of the victims; and ; W;- 8. Dreasler, brother-in-law of OtXo Heitman, another of those " slam. Jones wss convicted last November No-vember by a Jury. He was arrested: arrest-ed: shortly after the bullet riddled bodies of Heitman, 42, Douglas roonty commissioner; Walter Godecke, 19, Carson City; Manuel ranches, and Johnny Ellas, Elko reehise, wsre found. a Jones asserted confession outlined out-lined the following events: Released after completing a aen-tence aen-tence in the prison at Deer Lodge, Mont, on October . 1936, Jones tame to Ogden, Utsh. He k:d- t raped a taxi driver and forced him to . drive to Montello, Nev., where he( forced the driver to leave the rib and board an eastbound freight train. . Holdup, Slayinga Jones then drove into Elko. Because Be-cause of machine trouble he started walking along the highway. Passing the Elko stockyards he noticed Heatman, Arrascada and Godecke in the yards, where they were discussing a cattle shipment. Jones held up the trio and atarted tn march them down to the willows when he saw Elias coma out of the cabin. He forced the four into the rfbln, required Elias to bind the three. When Elias objected to being be-ing tied up he shot him, and then ehot the other three men. I as- |