Show CASE OF I lAUS MURDERERS i Convicted Men Have Secured Secured Se Se- cured Lease of Life I I I II Sentenced to die October 3 of this this this' I year Nick and Steve Masi Maslich Mas- Mas i lich IlIch found guilty of the murder Mas-I Mas of ll Marko Laus in October 1919 willI will j I elude the gallows or firing squad for I perhaps another six months because of the great volume of work worl attached to toI I the transcribing of the testimony for forthe forthe forthe I the supreme court before it hears the I case on an appeal from the district court I and Maslich l were condemned condemned condemned con con- to die by District Judge Harold Harold Har Har- old M. M Stephens The date set was the anniversary of the brutal killing I Har-I of Laus The attorney for the condemned condemned condemned con con- men Thomas Ramage filed an appeal carrying the case to the su supreme supreme supreme su- su preme court of the state and the transcript of testimony for use by the I higher court urt cannot be made ready for fOI forthe forthe I the trial before January The hearing I II of the case may take considerable time I and It will probably be well wen Into 1921 I before the convicted men meet death if the supreme court sustains the ver- ver verdict I diet dict of the lower tribunal I I According to Attorney Ramage there are arc more than pages of I testimony to be transcribed Laus Laus whose dead body having sevI seventeen seventeen sev sev- sev- sev enteen stab wounds was found near I I the Utah state penitentiary was supposed supposed sup sup- posed to have been murdered for 1100 I in gol gold he he h had o on his person when when for last seen alive The killing was most bru bru- tal The trial of the accused men oc occupied occupied oe- oe many days Both and Maslich l were alleged I to have confessed confessed confessed con con- but denials were entered by each of them Many dramatic details attended the trial I I |