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Show SERMON IN CRIMINAL'S FATE mm Homicides Weary of Pen MORAL:" KEEP NARROW PATH Murder will out! Thia old axiom apptara to baar aa much truth today aa aver and it con-veye con-veye a moral to all who road. Probably William Hohenzollern ia meditating en the truth of the old axiom now, in that trutb ia being ahed on the world and expoeee hie atroeioua erimee. Juat aa certein aa murder will out, Hohenzollern Hohen-zollern reelizee that justice muat have ite day. I The old axiom providee a aermon through local newe aourcea today. One etory ehowa where homicidaa aeek release, while another ahowa vvh.ro a youth attempting to defeat the ende of justice was ahot and will be crippled for I life. The moral ia that it paya to go right. Here are the two atones: j Roy's Criminal Instincts Be-lieved Be-lieved to Be Due to Injury In-jury Caused by Fall. AT the age of years Harvey Ketchum fell from a flight of stairs In Los Angeles. Today, the boy, who is ! scarcely 18 years of age. lies in a precarious condition at the state prison as the result of a bullet wound in his spine received while trying to elude the officers following a break from a ! prison road camp. Physicians say. if , he recovers, he will be a helpless cripple crip-ple all his life. According to certain physicians and j h)s mother, there is a close Conner- j tion between his fall as a child and j the wild career led by the boy and his j subsequent arrest, escape, capture and injury. Rett hum was arrested in I'tah and , con vie-ted of stealing an automobile. ! After some time spent within the walls J of the state prison, he was sent to a . road camp in the southern part of the j state. Several weeks ago he escnped ; from the camp, in company with another an-other . youth named August Cum- i mi tips. j I Two Slayers Seek Freedom. Asserting They Have Done Penance. AS'THONV T. DA Y. colored convict, con-vict, has applied to the board 1 i r punning for ui mm.unm oT" I , sentence. The hearing on sev- ! ; eral pVas for pardons, paroles, com- ! f mutation and termination of sen- tences w ill be held on December 21. j Pay's crime Is well remembered among the veterans of the police force, j although other murders committed during the last twelve years have I overshadowed the event. According to j George Chase, veteran detective, i twelve years ago a colored man named B. Voms helii a great prestige in the f colored Community. I 'Hay was Jealous of Voss, and when I the latter corrected him several times! while renting a story he earned the! eternal enmity of lay. Vosa grew to j be quite- a politician and his influence grew, while Day grew continually I 1 more Jealous. At last Iay In alleged to have openly declared his intention ! to "shoot Voss on sicht." TOTES SMOKE WAGON. fin went about lanjlng a huge eis- shooter and declared thai he was "a bad mnn." n October 13. 190. Iwy ( encountered V.oss on F.dion street and proceeded to make goortiis threat. J oss died instantly and Day was con- i I victed of his murder. j ! Harley V. McWhinney, another con- ; I vict. has applied for commutal ion of I sentence. McWhinney and another) ; man entered s'TtnVtnond shop on Kast j Se-ond South street un October j t f T t . and. according to Chase, they t attempted to rob the proprietor, in j the meantime holding him under range of revolvers. The proprietor! screamed out that he was being mur- ' dered and the robbers fled. ' McWhinney entered a rooming house, j w here he was intercepted by ( ieorge i Christenarn, a civil engineer. In at - i tempting to escape from the man. McWhinney Mc-Whinney shot him dead, according to Mr. Chase. He was later captured by the police In the street and convicted of murder. SH0CKLEY SEEKS PAROLE. James McPherson Hhockley, who shot and killed Torn HriKhton, a conductor, con-ductor, and Amos Gteasoii, a motor-man, motor-man, fifteen ears ag". haa applied for a parole, Hhockley has served almost al-most fifteen euis for his crime, and i according to the wardens of the state! prison who have had charge of htm! since his incarceration, lie has been a j model pr:soiier. Shock lev was a young man- with a head of curly black hair on his entrance to the prison. Today BULLET HITS BHInlfc. Warden George Storra and Sheriff Adamson of Tooele trailed the escaed convicts and overtook Ketchum. who refused to halt. The sheriff fired and - i he boy 144 with a bullet near his spine. Cummings escaped and is still at liberty. Ketchum was not expected to recover and was carefully conveyed to the state prison and placed under medical attention. According to Warden Storrs. the boy comes of a good family. "We often contemplated having an operation performed per-formed on our son." aaid the mother. i-oOowmg his fail there was a auntie chance in him for which we could not account. He had always tecn so J K'od and submissive before.' j PRESSURE ON BRAIN. j Warden Storrs is confident that the j vouth received an injury to his brain j in the fall which he received as 'a child. He expresses the opinion that j there is a pressure on some center of! his briun which caused him at times to give way to criminal Impulses that were ordinarily foreign to his nature. na-ture. According to officials who have come in comae! with the boy. he Is apparently ap-parently f surprised at his actions, at times, as "Wose w ho are about him. The mother ia heartbroken. The boy'a father died several years ago. His mother married again and resides in Los Angeles. The family historyhows no previous criminal taint. The boy's brothers and sisters are healthy, normal nor-mal children, and the family has always al-ways been highly respected, states Warden Storrs. An operation on the boy's skull might ' have rendered htm entirely normal. 1 Now he is doomed to te a helpless cripple crip-ple all his life, and his career has ! brought untold grif to his family and ; trouble to the officers of the law. ( i in Hair i ii ii Shockley was a gambler, and. run-; run-; ning short of money, he attempted to ! rob a streetcar. One of his victims drew a gun and Shoikley shot him : dead. The other man was unarmed, j but in his confession Shock ley stated - that he believed the man to be armed, and that he shot him when he found him in the way of his escape. I Itetci ti e Gf-orge Ghsse, aci ompa-ried ompa-ried by three other officers, captured Shockley in a local rooming house. A former assciate of Shock ley's had Informed In-formed the police where he might be found. Shmkley has expressed the greatest regret for his crime and has changed in eerv way during bis fifteen fif-teen years in the prmon. according to the wardens. He has written much fi-toMi for nwcazm- |
