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Show Assault Yith Deadly Veapon Brings Prison Sentence To Denny Whipple Displays Courage In Disarming Assailant Who Held Gun In His Side A sentence of penal servitude for not less than five years and perhaps per-haps for life was imposed in court Wednesday against Edward William Denny, who waived the right to council and entered a plea of guilty to the charge of assault with a deadly weapon in an attempted robbery of John L. Whipple on the streets of St. George, Saturday, March 14th. Hailed into court Monday morning morn-ing for the offense, the accused was advised of his right to council both before and after the accusation accusa-tion was read and was fully advised ad-vised of his rights and privileges. He, however, declined council and asked for immediate hearing. Lives Endangered Fortunately, especially for the many people whose lives were endangered en-dangered by the attempted robbery, rob-bery, the weapon was wrested from the youth before he succeeded in carrying out his threats, and no lives were lost, though several were endangered. The Judge's sentence condemns the offender to not less than five years in the Utah state prison, with a possible life sentence. Mr. Whipple reports that he picked up Denny near Anderson's ranch at about 5:30 p.m. That Denny had in mind stealing the car and possible snooting Mr. Whipple can be seen from the report re-port of Mr. Whipple to the effect ef-fect that after he had picked him up, Denny claimed that the bumper bump-er was dragging and suggested that he stop to invest'gate. Mr. Whipple questioned the statement, but said he would investigate when he stopped to pick up two CCC camp boys just ahead on the road. When he got out of the car to investigate he took his keys with him, thus averting any chance of Denny stealing the car. Let CCC Boys Out When they arrived at the fork in the road just east of town, Mr. Whipple stopped and told the boys that he was taking the left fork instead of continuing on into town. The two CCC boys got out, but (Continued on page eight) Whipple Hold-up (Continued from first page) Denny stayed in the car, keeping keep-ing up a conversation. When the other Ixiys left the car, he pulled a gun, put it in Mr. Whipple's side and told him to "get going", that he had "killed one man and that: he wouldnT hesitate to kill him". Mr. Whipple stated that he argued with the boy for a few minutes, then decided to drive into town before attempting to disarm him. As they came into town Denny warned him to "keep going and not to wave or talk to anyone". As they came opposite the Thomp-son-Arns garage Mr. Whipple swung his hand down off the steering wheel and grabbed the gun, pointing it into the back of the seat. In the ensuing tight tor the gun, he found it necessary to take both hands off the wheel with the result that the car swung into a passing pick-up owned by Elmer Christian, hit a car owned by Owen Wright and then smashed sideways into Art Mitchell's car, thus ending up headed back the opposite way from that which he was going. Boy Subdued When Mr. Whipple brought both his hands into play, he smashed Denny down into the bottom of the car. Denny received a bad bruise on his head in the ensuing crash. It is thought that in turning to wrest the gun away from Denny, that Mr. Whipple may have turned turn-ed the wheel of the car with his body, thus causing it to crash into Christian's pick-up. A crowd immediately collected, including several officers and Denny was immediately taken into custody and lodged in the county jail. Estimated damage to Mr. Whipple's Whip-ple's car was set at $400. The other cars were not badly damaged, dam-aged, although some repair work is necessary. Sheriff Antone B. Prince left this morning (Thursday) for Salt like City with Denny, where the "boy will be placed in the state penitentiary. |