| Show J E e ti TIlE HIE DEA DEATH WARRANT TIIA T I READ TO TI SEN SENit ti it hollowing is the full text of the death warrant that was read to the prisoner ln by Sheriff in III whose hands the work worl of the execution was placed I IThe The rite State of Utah sends greeting to the Sheriff of Salt Sait Lake County Whereas On thc sixth day of February A D 1902 the defendant Peter was charged by the district attorney of the Third judicial district of the state slate of f Utah by I Ilion lion duly filed on that date of the u cru crime nc of e m in the first firt degree j and J Whereas Thc said defendant Peter was tried 11 by a JUI jury of said court in the man ncr provided by law at the April A D 1902 term of said court and a verdict of guilty of mur I Ider 4 der in the first degree was found and declared against said defendant jury on the lite kith day of Jane J ne A D 1902 and t Whereas Said court having fixed and the second day September A D 1902 as the time for 01 on said t verdict the motion for a new trial r antI and the defendants in arrest of having been theretofore overruled upon r 0 motion moLion of Dennis C district ct attorney er f far r upon the the flue court asked the defendant Peter to stand up and the said defendant having stood up in etch I court count the court informed him of the nature of the charge against hint him and asked the said de lie he had any legal cause to show why judgment should not be pronounced against hum him to which the defendant replied that he wn was innocent of 01 the crime with which n hick he wn L charged and aud that all legal reasons which lie he had to present hal had theretofore been presented to tile the f court and by the court passed upon and aliI that lie he had nothing further to say sa thc court said to the Tire penalty provided hy by the thc statute of this I r state for murder in the first is death to he be inflicted either by hanging you by the neck until dead or by shooting you at your our election i you OU may now note make the election as to which I mode of death shaU be inflicted upon you ou the defendant said that he clec ed to be executed by shooting Thereupon the court pronounced judgment upon the thc as follows felines It is the thc judg judgment ment of the court that you Peter he hc taken hence to sonic safe and secure place oi of confinement anI and that you OU there he be kept until Friday the day of October A D Igo 1902 and between the hours of to 10 in the forenoon and 2 in the afternoon o of said day of October A D 1902 within the exterior walls of the State prison of the State of Utah f 4 you he be shot until you OU are dead And All An appeal was granted in ia said cause front from said Third Judicial District court of the thc State of Utah to the thc Supreme court of said state and it Whereas On the day clay of September A D 1902 a stay of sail said judg judgment ment was granted until said appeal should be disposed of and anel Whereas The judgment antl sentence of said Third J Judicial District court so from flOm on oil the 1 2 h da day of August 1103 affirmed by the thc court of the State of W Utah as duly ill in the thc remittitur of the Supreme court of said sait state on file in iii this court ant which remittitur directs that the ju judgment and sentence of said district court be carried t into effect in conformity with law all allt and t Whereas On the rd day da of October A D 1901 the lotion mo in for fot a new trial GI J having been submitted su to the court and by the thc court t overruled I Cl I upon motion 0 of f 0 Dennis C Eichnor Esquire district attorney for or the Third judicial district of the State of Utah for a to I the h I te and I till of nr the Supreme court of f the state tI file court asked the Peter to sI stand up and the defendant having stood up open 1 court the court inquired of hint whether he had anything to say why the judgment of the thc court as heretofore pronounced against hinl should not hc be carried into tuta execution pursuant to the II of the court I to which the thc defendant replied he was of the thc crime with which he was charged Ii the court said to the defendant At the time the thc judgment of the thc court was H against you ou on the 2nd lay dar of September A D ro you informed what the hr I Ilaw law of this state is with reference to 10 the different modes of punishment at that time ou elect elected cd to hc be shot do you OU now desire to make any change in that election to which the defendant 1 I No sir 1 Thereupon the thc court pronounced the thc following fallowing judgment to wit tivit Pursuant to the else clec lion tion you ou made at that time and the thc mandate O of the thc Supreme court of this state it is the judg uncut of this court that you OU be taken hence to a place of safe and secure confinement and that I until the loth of A D and that you be bc I there in Friday day 1903 between the hours of to 10 in the forenoon and 1 in the thc afternoon of said day a aI of November r A D I 1903 with within ill the exterior walls of the State prison of the State Stale of Utah f you be shot I until I you OU arc dead 1 ca d Ii 1 I Now therefore you the said sheriff of Salt Lake county Utah Uth are arc hereby commanded and required to take into your our custody custod the said saki und that hat within five days clays nn 11 this limo date you ou hint him the said Peter to tit th State prISon of the State of Utah Ulah and deliver him to the warden thereof there to o he hc held in confinement until lri Friday ay the i of November A D I 1903 and between the hours of to 10 in the forenoon nud 2 z Cluck ill fn the thc afternoon of the last day within the thc exterior walls of the said State prison rJ or of the State y J Utah Ulah you OU do shoot him the said Peter Mort until hr he s s dead and make tire I return of your doings cr J Witness Iny hand this fifth la Ia of A D 1903 i CHARLES W J 1 Attest of the third Judicial District State of Utah Ulah Seal JOHN JA JAMES mS County Clerk 11 o i r i L |
