Show fi ove Lei Led to Killing Asserts Borich ELlVIA MA ELMA ADKINS OFFERED SACRIFICE AS-SACRIFICE AS AS' TO MANS MAN'S AFFECTION FOR ANOTHER Convicted Murderer Tells Why He Murdered Mother of Babes Illustrates His Tale of Slaying With Himself I as Victim Believes Governor or the Board of Pardons Will I Save His Life By Kayem Crier Grier Not hot even death can prove the folly of 01 a wasted love Blood atonement cannot inspire remorse nor j justice gul guide e the way of the heart For love is stronger than conscience stronger than even life Ufe or death From the same man there can issue bravery or cowardice virtue or sin love or hate In every man man there is a lamb and a lion One is a beast of evil and the other Is a beast of ot good But love is the master of ot both The foregoing is the queer philosophy philosophy phy of a man about to die It is a frank admission of lifes life's conception from John Jolin the young Austrian murderer who will wUl be shot to death by a firing tiring squad at the state prison next Friday morning Borich is heart strong and soul free tree ire lie endures no remorse for tor his fiendish fiend fiend- ish act of ot murder lie believes the state will pay too big a price if it takes his life lite lIe He feels in his heart that Ithe If It he goes down to death Justice will wUl be cheated and humanity will suffer a heavy loss BOY IN MIND For Borich has the strength of ot a aIla Ila gladiator and the heart of a Romeo But his mentality will barely equal that of a year old lIe He I says the lion Uon in him is dead and the good of tho lamb I can assert itself now f that t the beast e of e evil r 1 is dead I That is John Borich's only appeal for mercy lIe He says he is strong and vigorous vigorous vigorous vig vig- orous and able to pay tenfold in manual manual manual man man- ual labor the worth of the life ute he took In broken English he wails walls a frenzied plea for his life Ufe to the death wat watch h hand and all others who visit him In his cell at the prison wanted to make a statement or rather he wanted to converse with someone who would strengthen his mea meager er hopes I visited him In his death cell and after two hours of Conversation Con con- conversation I purposely told him there was no hope to save his life CALM AT NEWS Ho Tie did not waver nor show emotion as 88 I expected Calmly he sighed shrugged led his shoulders and smiled blandly Well no hurt me when I am shot so 80 I 1 no care he said I 1 am strong and young and eef I live I I I hard and pay da state for dat woman 1 I keel But off eff I am shot I Ican i lOk eil can do no work weel no hurt When hen I 1 am dead da state never getta paid for dat woman I keel But not until the tho firing tiring squad has acted and the last death struggle le of the human target has ceased will John Borich abandon hope for his life Ho lie I believes the governor go and the board of ot pardons will be c converted to his theory of ot law and Justice and snatch l him im from death In the last moments Beyond a perceptible mental weakness weakness weak- weak ness Borich is III normal Ho lIe seems everything but Insane He lie is a distinct and unusual mental enigma lie He Is Ignorant ig ignorant ignorant Ig- Ig of ot American law and Justice and land possesses that typically foreign conception of 01 Indifference m to life lito TELLS OF KILLING sat on the edge edle of ot his ce cell bunk and related in every detail the gruesome stor story of how he killed Velma Velma Velma Vel Vel- ma Adkins that night a few months ago on the Lincoln highway near noar Tooele In th the tho most calm culm and antl composed composed com corn posed manner he Illustrated how he choked her hEl to death lie He placed his own large and rower power powerful ful fingers ers around his throat I Ills white whito lips opened and hl his hilt Jaws set Met revealing a hideous smile He lie clenched his hili throat as all ho he talked and his hia voice subsided under th the thee pressure of t his powerful hands hands- I want to keel her and i 1 I choke so mooch oon soon she die said as he slowly relinquished the j grasp on an his throat Thus did he show m me tn in vivid ghastly manner how he killed Velma Adkins His voice was clear and strong and his actions unaccompanied by nervousness He lie showed no f emotion and expressed no remorse I 1 asked him If ho he was sorry lie He said he was sorry because e of ot the trouble it had gotten him into TELLS TALE OF LAMB Buc nUt the sordid Illustration of ot h hiss hw w hf he killed Velma lma Adkins Is II the story of t tho c lion that was In him The Tho lion linn died with Velma A lint hut the In mil Continued on I. I 1 I VELMA ADKINS Continued from page 1 still sUII lives he says and he told that story too A year before ho Ito committed the the- murder for which he will give his Friday morning Bench married an American girl girt He lIe sal said 1 that for Cor al almost almost almost al- al most a n year ho he gave ave her every ery cent ot of othis othis his carnin earnings s She squandered the lie money he h. said and when he was out of ot work he alleges sho she deserted him lie He made another stake And his wife camo back squander his earnings earnings earn earn- ings IllS's again on fineries and amusements according to his hili Eito story Just before he h met mt Velma Adkins he said laId his wife left him She tol told him not to come back until he had a afew afew afew few thousand dollars to give her he said He lie wanted his Ills wire wife and to get Iet gether gether I her he ho needed money Ho lie says he professed professed pro pro- a false falM love lovo for Velma Vlma and conceived conceived conceived con con- the plan of Insuring her lIfo life and then killing her to o collect on the pol pol- Ic icy BREAKS INTO TEARS It was In ht telling of the tho love he held for his wife that proved him him- an enigma He lie burst Into tears teara when he ho spoke of her and showed the only emotion and warmth that seemed to lurk in his soul When hen he spoke of ot the affection he held for tor the wife who he said Fald spurned him he wept with tender sorrow But nut when hn he lie spoke sloke of ot the woman he ho mur mur- dered the tho the mother he had taken taleen from three little babies there babies there were no tears no emotion no sorrow But that Is another story the story the tale of or the lion that Inspired his fiendish act Borich blames all upon the tho wife who ho he said ald spurned his love Yet If It he were free he would take her hack back in proof that love is stronger than con- con stronger stronger than ev ever C r. r life or death df |