| Show HOPIS DEATH KSELL KNELL he Is to be launched Liu inched into eternity within fifty days in the third district court today to day dav the date of the execution of 0 fred hopt indicted under the name of fred welcome was fixed for the fifth and in all human probability the last time on the afif fifth ala of july 1880 young john P F turner son soa of sheriff john turner of if provo was brutally murdered near park city utah by having his bis skull crushed in with an axe fred hopt was arrested and fur four times has he been tried on each of these occasions the jury rendered a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree three times the ho case was appealed the HC tion of the third district court in each instance being affi affa mod med by the territorial supreme C urt art and the la latera action reversed by the supreme court of the united states and the case remanded for trial anew the fourth and last trial took place in september 1883 1885 and on october lath following hopt was sentence sent euce I 1 to be executed on the of november he be choosing to be shot by tue tiie appeal the date of execution was passed over and the action of the trail court being sustained on the furth hearing bearing 0 the murderer was ordered brought in today to day to have the final limit placed upon his earthly career alii morning shortly before 10 0 I 1 alck he was brought down from the penitentiary and taken to the united states marshals office he appeared p perfectly calm 10 it it was that the experience of I 1 the lie past seven years has told severely oil oa him though only eight ears bears of age he be looks auly ten tea years older and the general pinched up appearance oi of his face be tokens the anxiety lie he hai felt ahu h trying to appear composed ho he moved unea uneasily siy ibous the mail room ben sheeks eq one if she he eitt attorneys orneys d to defend him i 1 0 iversen i h him it low ones I 1 or a short time during which boat LJ opt who waa wa not noc encumbered with irons sm ed a cigar after lis his attarde departed the prisoner beut to th ih boolin booling W glass 0 carefully brushed hi S hair and dusted his black blach cloth suit then at a signal sh 0 nal from an officer he be left for the court room accompanied by several deputies court room a large assemblage 0 bad gathered as SP spectators ecta tors A number of lidies lad lies were present and all seemed anxious to pel get a glimpse of tift th n condemned man judge 11 Z ines countenance wore a expression as he took his bis seat lu in the farther corner of the room frum from the enar en trice kree sat sheriff turner looking ratLer sad from hiis hi position tion he be bad a full view view 0 of f the murderer mui derer ot of his boy and frum from the time lima be entered the DOHI until he left fhe he Slie sheriff riff never dever etl lis his gaze gaza from the prisoner ioner hoot copl walked up the aisle and in in an apparently unconcerned way W ay took his bis seat beside P L williams Villi ains esq who had bad also taken part in hi bis s ue bense sir mr sat at next and ou on the to the ii liba ht of the prisoner eat district IL strict attorney Alto Atto iuey iney peters petera ho for a few minutes with his bis altor nei abea court was waa opened and all nv MUS us bushel I 1 tle the court of sheeks and Wil willaims Willi litins ims Ge hava you TOU td 13 pay bay wid aud ro re cei cc ived ved a reply in the iho negative 1 egra tive stand ut IA aft hopt ai ill jadao hudso zone zane and the pi arose to bis feet he stood e eat equate ly at tile the jud judye 0 o out ou of lis bis steel gry eyes which acre espres Bion leaa I 1 while the court was speaking hopt gave pot the slight sli alt c eat cst st evidence of any feeling on oa liis his part i not iota a move mote was wab made not a muscle quivered the court pi ocee dei at a former term of ibis cour you were cull vicle evicted 1 of murder in the first do doreo degree reo you appealed to tle the territorial su prime pre 0 Curt B here the indge judge a meat meak was affirmed from rom that judgement jud gement you appealed to the curt court of the united states which affirm affirmed eil the do da gsinn of if the territorial courts and the judgement jud gement of this ibis curt stands now aff affirmed irined in the mean time the day set for your exe ution has passed and no leyal bezal reason ref tOll now 1107 app appearing earing why that judgement jud gement should not now be carried carrie ct ina effect it becomes the duty of tile tha court to fix the time of judgement jud gement the laws of the territory armil you yoa to choose either of certain modes of death you have se selo cletT lacter to be shot shor tho the law gives the couri our discretion in fixing judgement jud gement at not less than tinny nor more than i siy days in order that you 3 00 may have time to prepare for death anit anil for the realities that may be beyond the time of y byoir conr execution will be fixed for the alth day of Ani august being forty nine days from today to day on that d ty the jud 0 of the court w will 11 be carried into execution that ii all I 1 the juda judgement jud gement ement of the curt C art recites that between the hour of 10 in i the fu forenoon and ana 2 0 clock in the afternoon of said da dav lArl Angll 11 1887 in the yard of the jail or place where you are confined or in im some ot er private place in the territory you are arc to be shot until 3 ou are aeki do id when thi th court ceased speaking alting hopt sat down and rs res lined his conversation with bi tm i attorneys A of voices arose from the audience but no demonstration was waa made I arshal dyer stool directly behind where mr peers um aai and a glince at his face revealed the fact that he be real imil the serious and unpleasant nature of the d duty uty 1 m posed upon bim in his official capacity the court adjourned aud and tale lasbal ireci apt t the cf fice chrt about cooil and sent bahi bialt to the decerce news jane 24 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