Show AND TO BE EXECUTED AUGUST 3 3 MU DR f lA B H I Death Sentence on Twain Will Be Carried Out o on Anniversary of the Day I. I of Their Crime in 1919 and and Steve NICK Maslich charged harg d jointly with the murder of Marko Laus Lans Lausin Lansin in a ravine near the state prison will be shot to death at the hands of ot the law law on the anniversary of ot their crime August 3 j Sentence the men was pronounced pronounced pro pro- by Judge Har Harold ld M. M Stephens In th the Third district court ourt today Both the accused elected to be shot The laws laws' of ot Utah provide that a con convicted con murderer may choose death by shooting or hanging I LO MASLICH ACCUSES MASLICH Prior to the passing of ot sentence I Judge Stephens asked the prisoners if Ir they wish wished d to address the court I Both replied In the affirmative and was the first to to make a statement To a large extent he repeated repeated re- re the statement which he gave last Saturday when the judge postponed postponed post post- sentence until toda today I declared he was innocent of ot the crime with which he was wa charged and that Maslich was w.-vs tile the murderer He asserted that the gloves found near the body of Lau and Which belonged to him were I taken by IasU 1 h in a acar car to near the I scene of ot the crime I I do o not want vant to give my life liCe I I away for someone else said zalo adding that that was was was' the therea rea reason son he made the statement I had nothing to do with It it but Maslich l knows he is guilty dram It declared as he look looked cd toward his fellow countryman H I said that he should ive h-ive told ev everything he knew at the I ry hear ng but tapping ins head with his h hinds exclaimed No I home He wont won't lose his his' KP for me like lose my life for him shrieked who wh further that I he did not want to see anyone killed or put in Jail r MASLICH PASSES IT BACK BACI Maslich l h when called upon by th the court stood by A grin grinI I spread over features ISI as S j I Maslich MasUch- addressed the court I I r am not ready yet fo for sentence I j was his Introductory remark Then he went on to assert that J the gl ves and bloody trousers which 1 figured in hi the evidence against the couple belonged to I He cant can't get awa away from it smiled at the remark and andI I I nonchalantly leaned against the wit ness ness' chair I I Ji never ver rob Qed a per pert pert-on on of a I since I I was born continued Laus was wa killed supposedly for 11 in gold which he is s ld to have ha car ried on on his person Maslich 1 declared the gave him OO and told him to I keep een his mouth shut on OIl the theda da day of or the Ute murder He stated tate that also gave him other mone money which h th the prosecution charged at the hearing was taken from the body bolly of or Laus After both men hall had delivered ered t heir Jr statements Judge Stephens Stephe-ns with the prosecuting and defending attorneys went Into his chambers to consider the transcript of the statement about forty five minutes court rc c SENTENCE PASSED I Judge Stephens as he he resumed lifs seat asked as to whether ny statement might be made Thomas Thoma's Ram Ramage a ge counsel for tor the defense de sa-d sa adhe I. I he considered that there vas Avas nc new evl- evl t dence In the fact that Maslich l h d confessed to The motion for or a. a new trial was overruled Sentence was then pronounced both oth men standing stoically at attention its as they heard their doom Alter After the sentence Mr taid Co Continued t l. d on page 10 MURDERERS OF LA LAUS US V Continued from page 1 that he withdrew as as counsel for Maslich Mas Mas- lich Uch who in the course course couise of his statement statement statement state state- ment to the court declared that he had hadnot hadnot hadnot not had a square deal The court thanked Mr Ramage amage for the conscientious conscientious conscientious con con- way in which h he looked after Maslich's l interests and Maslich MasUch Dalmatians will be taken to the state prison within with with- in five days They will b be within a short distance of where they stabbed V Laus to death and twelve months to the day on which they killed him jn in a ravine n near ar the state prison they will face facea a a firing squad V |