| Show lOW ARD DE WEESE MUST DIE D R Of FE TO J FACE AC i S SQUAD UA i O ON f I I I I Pardon Refused by State I Boa Board d and Governor SayI Say Says I There Will Be Bc No I tive ve Clemency in Case Cas CasI I I H FT OWARD VAnD D DE BE must 11 die I The state board b a d of elf pai pardons clous after after af af- af- af ter a half ho hours hour's rs session session this morning una unanimously l ruled that thaI I. I I it could ouId not in ill justic commute the sentence of the man convicted of the lie thoI murder of or h s wife lu in SlIt Salt Lake more I than a year ago alO There will bo be ho DO executive clemency clemency clem clem- ency and Do De will be forced to face the tho firing squad when the first fin t rays r-dYS of tho sun him peep POCI over the thea Wasatch a Wa- satch atch range Friday morning Governor Bamberger said Hail follow the meeting of the pat don board I the state board had wry vry d- d the facts hd th the could be no other decision rendered upon the tile evidence submitted UTAH SENATORS WIRE United States States' Senators Reed teed Smoot and William H H. King of Utah wired the pardon board that it had bees been represented to theta them that Dal Do Dc is an n honored resident of volo oto rado and they requested that the the- board carefully weigh the tho evidence m IU the case caso before passing passin final juds judg- ment nt Dal Dat DC father fattier of ot the condemned condemned condemned con con- I man was not present at this mornings morning's session of the board According According According Ac Ac- cording to a statement made by him upon his llis arrival in m Salt bait alt Lake he Ito will return immediately to his home homo in Canon Git City Colo Cob an and will not ot re rc- rc main mam hero here for the tho execution Tim Tho decision of tho the board will not prove a surprise to the man waiting in tho the death cell at the tho state pen pent pent- I He lie ent entertained no hope forI for fora a pardon from the tho board he hc said last Sunday I Scores of telegrams and letters lotters from Colorado officials including James R n. Noland secretary of state of Colorado Colo Cob rado and Supreme Court Justice Morten Morten Mor 1 ten S S. S Bailey were received The I two predominant features of these missives were brought out In the tho inferences m in in- that the evidence convicting convicting- the man JUan was circumstantial and that capital punishment should not be the tho penalty LAW TO BE ENFORCED As long as the state has provided for capital punishment it must be enforced en en- enforced forced said Governor Bamberger With the I I. I W W. Ws W.'s committing acts of lawlessness throughout the state the only recurrence is the law of capital capital cap cap- ital punishment As the man has been convicted and sentenced I see of no noI noway noway way except to enforce the law as asit asit asit it on the statutes of the state According to the governor both ho and the state pardon board are convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced of De Weese Weese's s guilt One vital fact Introduced In the evidence before the board Saturday convinced him that the self confessed burglar was wasi guilty the governor stated yesterday c on pa pare page 6 6 I I I i 1 I I M MURDERER OF WIFE IFE Continued u from page 1 This was in the time form of or a postal card alleged to have been written by De Dc DeWeese Weese eese after the murder of his wife in Salt Lake from Denver The TIme card was brought to the attention of the time board by De Weese's attorney 1 It I 1 was addressed by DC Do Weese to the tIme children of his dead wife tho time missive missive mis mis- sive being signed M and F. F for Mother and Father and stated that they would soon send them the children money mone It is the governors governor's opinion according according accord accord- ing to his statement this morning that this card was merely part of or a cleverly laid plan by De Dc Weese to establish an alibi that alibi that he already knew mew of his isis wife's death and merel merely wished to protect protect protect pro pro- himself against any future in- in crimi nations COLORADO APPEALS The telegram from the secretary of the state of or Colorado presented be before before be- be fore tore the board this morning stated that he was confident that public publio opinion would sustain a commutation of sentence and that it was largely I advocated by the thinking people of Colorado Supreme Justice Bailey of ot Colorado said in his message to the Utah board that in view of the fact that the conviction conviction con con- of or De Dc Weese appears to rest on circumstantial evidence the state |
