Show IS TO BE SHOT snot t lerten sens execution fixed d for november condemned man pleads most eloquently for life before jude judge C CW IV Morse peter reter Morten sec rn made rdo a long speech in own behalf for a new trial saturday afternoon at salt lau lule city in judge morse becela e court I ater he was sentenced to be shot on frid ay iy november for tho the murder of aft on the night of december 10 1901 hie ills appeal for another opportunity to prove his hi innocence was madeam made at tho conclusion of a four hours argument by his attorney tho latter asked forn for ft new trial tor for hl client on do the ground of newly discovered eil evidence dence relative to the alleged misconduct of tho jury while visiting the seen of the murder and tho the home of the norte usen naked asked for a new trl icausi as ho he eald said almost at thu beginning of hia his remarks i 1 I am innocent of this thi crime the speech of hortensen Morten aen which lasted about an hour and a half halt was one ot tho most remarkable e ever er heard in any court of justice lu itt utah it wag was pl pleading cading at times ahen it seemed that his fleer would break through the stolid crust of seeming indifference and cause tears to cou courso their way down town hh his checks y t on theae veral several occasions morten ben was begging judge moria u for a new trial rial that he might bo be gl ghan an another opportunity to prove hie his ikuo ace cc nce or else ho lie was imploring Imo loring the tile guage to remember his wife and their five e little children he would grow alereo in alb at toward the district attorney and would flay Elch nors course of procedure in tho the trial suddenly without any apparent idason lor for it he would control himself for a fow few minutes during these he would argue his case in a manner that surprised hia his most friends they neer thought he lie had the oratorical ability that lie would then dilola dil pla but those spells not last long between them the man ft as either scoring the dIst district riot attorney heaping abuse upon tho newspapers of ot bait salt lako city or saying things about the tile court which under 0 no o other circumstances would they have permitted but Mor teneen was ingliss last appeal apponi tor for life and und judge morse allowed the man to wander along in hij his erupted |