Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-05-26 | Page 7 | Mewhinney is Not First to Appeal to Washington

IS NOT NOTTO fIRST TO APPEAl WEN TO WASHINGTON In the event that t the case of or Harley Huley convicted of ot the murder of ot C. C L L. Erickson Is appealed d to the su- su premo preme court of or the tho United States It will not EOl be the tho first t case caso of ot this kind in Utah tt iii at elated In the mom morning ng papers paper today Fre Fred Fled Hopt alias Fred Welcome elcome convicted con con- of ot the murd murder r of ot Fred Turner son sont of t John Turner then of ot Utah county appealed from the Utah court ft tt tRice Co to o the supreme court of or the United bates tc f The murd murder r of young oung Turner occurred near fer tar Park City The murderer was Willi gar ar- ar rested a few to days daJ later near the Wyo- Wyo o the father tather of ot the murdered ing line lino by boy and brought to Salt Lake Ctt City This ru M in the farl early eighties Hopt or Welcome was walt convicted of murder In the first degree and appealed court of tho the United to to the supreme States which remanded the tho cue case back to the the territorial court for tor a new trial A A second conviction and anda ft second n. n appeal peal 1 to the supreme court of ot the United States followed A new trial was granted g and anda a a. third conviction con followed Hoot Hont or welcome was put to death at nt what Is 18 now nos the tho state prison i t t Wing Durin one of ot the trials of Hopt or 1 Welcome In what Is no now the Kenyon f hotel then tho federal courtroom a mob gathered to lynch Hopt It wa WM only b by him through a n. back way that the th mob tailed failed alle J in it its purpose John Tur Tur- t Tier ncr father of the murdered boy spent i every every cent he had in running down and re fe prosecuting the CM cu but lived long enough h to see sec that 1 the 11 law took its k With the he exception murder of the John D D. Leo r easel M e no other murder case in the Uw history r much attention from of of Utah LUh h attracted so flO theof the outside world orld as ns did that of Hopt HaDL