Show HEA TS IS ON PREY r tall ali Farmer Convicted rl a Fiendish Crime ills Cills Hi Himself self on Day i 5 Receive a Sentence SentenceS S GUN IN BED BEDI I m of CrimI Crim- Crim und Guilty nal I 1 Assault on Girl at I I b H Had d Other e Against Him Choosing death rather than to toa tor a term of from twenty rs r 0 life imprisonment in in the thet t S. S prison on con conviction of nig m assaulted Criminally a girl years of age at Kaysville rn V. fj W. W Pree a fan farmer ler com com- t tM ed j suicide at 7 5 o'clock S morning at his home hoine by ng ing himself through the left as with a shotgun ece was 47 years rears old a aU awe U we of Davis co county nty He was wa gr grandfather having married i ugh ers arid and a son grown to tol I I l od He is survived by his I his mother who is 64 I of f aleja and nd married married ars age aze a son f Sl J f's rM y 9 w- w r wiio live iye iye at Kaysville d a married daughter daught i r living i ini at t irm ton Ireece e was arrested last October on harge harg of having laving criminally assaulted S 2 years of of age age ge at Kaysville e. e crime was committed October 7 1 ar ar arest est st following almost immediate- immediate I v e was s hel held f fr r trial in th the district Ir t Og Ogden en ari and ad was released on oo 00 ni rial on this charge was begun Judge J J. J A. A How Howell Bowell ell at Ogden morning and continued J Ji i The jury visited ei ene ne neof of the tM crime Friday and late y afternoon after having been I twe twenty four hours returnee returned t of guilty I Death Plans I Ir r wife rudge Howell Howel fixed 10 o'clocK this i irl rl riling as the time when sentence imposed and nd s bond bon permitted to stand until the sen sen- was passed upon him reece ece returned to his home at Ka Kaj Rays Rays- sIe s 's s Ie night nigh t remaining there lil today Jarly this morning he heC hese I se se C and upon one ne pretext and an- an I first his wife vite and then other I of or th the family t to t the e homes omes neighbors nearby I hen he was finally alone Treece noved d his shoes retired to his bed bed- m 1 and seating himself upon the bed ed the stock of a large bore shot shot- r 1 t the foot t of the bed bcd directing the z lcj toward his is left len breast reece ce had cocked d the gun prior to tos s nd d when all was in readiness he eithe the trigger er with A stick The irge rg entered his left breast tearing Iy y through his heart and both ome of the pellets of lead pass pass- through the body to the skin kin at the iB 1 Death was instantaneous i dow Finds Body was was' the first to return the house and found her husband ln lie the room was still cloudy with will smoke mokA from flom the shotgun She screamed in horror and others were attracted by her cries The office of Sheriff E E. O O. Reading at Farmington was notified by tele tele- phone and Sheriff Reading and Prosecuting Prosecuting Prose Prose- Attorney Ezra C C C. Robinson wen went at once to Kaysville to make ar al' in investigation in- in The circumstance o of death were learned by these thes officials who were convinced that tha death had been self inflicted had worried greatly over hi his bonds it is 19 said His mother who lives live at was one of those wh who had gone sur surety ty for him She it I Isaid is said had declared yesterday that when was through with this case sh she would wash her hands of his troubles Other Charges Over Him in addition to the charge on which he was convicted in Ogden facca faced a a. charge in Salt I Lake ake of attempted criminal assault alleged to have been committed ten days ago and was a at liberty under bonds The date o ohis of his trial on that case cate had ri not nt t been fixed was arrested many years ag agat ago at Farmington on another charge o othe of the same characters character It is stated a it t Kaysville today but was cleared after a a. stubborn legal battle his father fathe paying large amounts of money to sc se SC- SC cure his freedom father led died last August at had confide with a friend 1 It Itis itis Is said today that he believed a se sentence sentence sen sen- tence of life imprisonment wo would ld b be e imposed upon him today When Judge Howell convened cour court this i morning orning counsel for presented presented presented pre pre- a formal motion asking aRing for Jor Jord Jora a stay of execution in caser a aa d the court that had ended too took J the matter matte his life Judge Howell I under advisement pend pending ng ej Ju judicial u d CI 1 with the cour court t information being filed that was dea |