| Show — Wf — "yi — - S' a ( t Vol 234 No 137 £ak jHj" — y-- y iJbtm §f Salt Lake City Utah— Saturday Morning— August 29 1987 Death Row Somber in Wake of Execution The gurney that became Pierre Dale Selby’s deathbed at the state prison domi r nates the makeshift execution chamber where the killer of 3 took bis last breath I Painless Death Came in a Tube A Violent Killer’s Last Sleep nesses and a Corrections Department escort — and the plane of his face and the flat of his nose were just visible above the rise of his chest making his expression difficult to discern By Stephen Hunt Tribune Staff Writer The curtain was jerked back revealing the pale bare soles of Pierre Dale Selby’s feet They loomed large seemingly close enough to reach out and touch were it not for the window separating him from us Lying face up clad in a white jump suit and bound to a gurney with heavy leather straps Selby lay motionless in the brightly lit white room His body lay at an oblique angle to the 10 of us — nine media wit V it i' T His eyes appeared to be closed He might have been sleeping stead of waiting to be killed in- The gurney was mounted on a steel pedestal bolted to the floor near a pane of one-wa- y glass From a small square hole beneath the window ran two plastic tubes that disappeared into ii'-- white towels wrapped around each of Selby’s outstretched arms On the far side of the room stood two men in suits Warden Gerald Cook looked straight ahead at the condemned man Near him was Bruce Egan associate director of corrections the man responsible for the arrangement of tubes syringes and lethal chemicals hidden behind the one-wa- y glass for the Except regular rise and fall of Selby’s chest the execution room seemed frozen timeless — dead The newly painted walls and See A-- 3 Column 4 By Carol Sisco Tribune Staff Writer DRAPER — Pierre Dale Selby's final thoughts and words were of his William Andrews as he bequeathed Andrews his money while awaiting death Friday morning Just before the injection started Friday morning Warden Gerald Cook asked Selby if he had any final words “Nothing" was Selby's reply "But 1 just thought ask the pastor to send any money left to William Andrews" The pastor referred to was Central Seventh-da- y Adventist Pastor Roy Fernander who received Selby's personal effects Wednesday “I asked him if he had anything else to say” Warden Cook said ‘‘He said: ‘I’m just going to say my prayers thank you’ ” Selby’s estate consisted of only $29 in a prison charge account No one asked Andrews Friday if he knew Selby left him the money The triple murderer’s body was released to an unnamed mortuary Friday following examination by the state medical examiner a medical examiner’s spokeswoman said She declined to identify the mortuary Pastor Fernander is expected to claim the body later And Seventh-da- y Adventist Julia Vernon — Selby’s friend who witnessed the execution — said funeral services are pending The body will be buried rather than I cremated Prison officials said the mood was somber Friday in maximum security and especially on death row “It was quiet last night” one source said Friday afternoon ‘‘The mood today is also quiet There’s no change in '- V' '"‘Vi that” ' Some inmates remained awake for the execution but others didn’t prison spokesmen said "There was some I' K inmates last evetalking among ning during and before the appointed hour" one said 4 Andrews who could be executed as early as January for his role in the Hi-Shop murders appeared more "intense” than usual Thursday and See A-- 2 Column 1 3k Defense attorneys Ronald Yengich and Andrew Valdez leave Utah State Prison after final meeting with condemned killer Film Legend John Huston Dies at 81 l! '' II n By David Pyle Associated Press Writer MIDDLETOWN RI John Huston a restless talent who bucked Hollywood drank hard and directed classic films including "The Maltese Falcon” "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” and "The African Queen" died in his sleep Friday At 81 he was on the location of yet another movie In a long adventurous career the stuff of movie legend Huston caroused with Humphrey Bogart and Ernest Hemingway broke his nose in a fistfight with Errol Flynn directed Clark Gable in his last film and unwittingly led Katharine Hepburn into ' - !i i! vvjKV John Huston “Last of Greats” All-Ti- an elephant stampede Huston won Academy Awards for writing and directing “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" in which his father Walter also won an Oscar for best supporting actor His daughter Anjelica won an Oscar for "Prizzi’s Honor" which Huston also directed His 40 films encompassed the Tennessee Williams play “Night of the Iguana” and the elaborate musical "Annie” “If there’s a pattern to my work it’s that I haven’t made any two pictures alike I get bored too quickly” he once said His battered good looks and rumbling voice led to a second career as an actor in films and commercials Huston a longtime smoker who in later years was tethered to an oxygen tank died in his sleep at a home he was renting here during the filming of “Mr North” said Patty Raya production coordinator for the movie Huston’s longtime companion Marcella Hernandez was at the director’s side “John Huston was one of the true greats in the motion picture busi- - Chuckle Today’s know You you’ve when your Lefty right-han- d got problems man is named ness” said first lady Nancy Reagan father who had known him and his “Literally millions of people the world over were entertained by John’s films and he leaves a rich heritage of excellence in entertain- ment” Tom Shaw production manager on "Mr North” and a colleague of Huston’s for 33 years said he didn’t think Huston’s last year was a happy one “He didn't like people fussing over him He didn't want to be dependent on anybody And I think toward the end he thought he was getting too dependent on too many people” Shaw said Huston would have been See 3 Column 1 A-- 42 Die 136 Wounded Aquino Crushes Coup After a War 20-Ho- ur "'"A ‘V- - 8 it — UPlReulw Photo white flag tied to a rifle tells tale of rebel surrender A r By David W Jones United Press International MANILA Philippines — Troops loyal to President Corazon Aquino Friday crushed the gravest coup attempt against her government after 20 hours of vicious street fighting that turned Manila into a war zone Aquino’s only son was wounded At least 42 people were killed and 136 others wounded in the coup attempt according to hospitals witnesses and military sources Thirty-thre- e people died in street fighting while another nine were killed in the battle for the armed forces general headquarters Two helicopter gunships and two World War planes bombed and strafed rebel positions inside the armed forces headquarters at suburban Camp Aguinaldo setting fire to the command building and routing hundreds of mutineers after a daylong occupation Defense Secretary Rafael Ileto said only “mopping-u- p operations” remained “We have broken the backbone of the crisis” he said in a radio interview adding he was confident the operation would be over by Saturday morning Ileto said rebel leader Col Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan former chief aide to Aquino archrival Juan Ponce Enrile had abandoned his men and that his four key commanders had surrendered won’t “A handful of mutineers bother us anymore" he said Aquino looking grim and angry See Column 1 A-- 4 C '£v v a'":ci Rescuers work to free handicapped chil- dren from a school bus after a truck alleg- - i I - V? vv —Associated By The Associated Press Three convicted killers went quietly to their deaths Friday while a fourth got a stay on the busiest day for the death penalty since the Supreme Court allowed states to resume executions in 1976 Wayne Eugene Ritter 33 convict ed in the murder of a pawnbroker died in Alabama's electric chair Pierre Dale Selby 34 convicted in torture-murder- s of three the “Hi-Fi- ” people and the maiming of two others was executed by lethal injection in Utah Beauford White 41 who stood guard while six people were shot to death in a robbery at a suburban Miami home was electrocuted at Florida State Prison near Starke That brought to 90 the number of executions since the Supreme Court permitted states to reinstitute the death penalty in 1976 It was the nation's first multiple-executio- n day since July 8 when death penalties were carried out in Texas and Mississippi The last time three people were executed the same day in the United States was Aug 8 1962 when three people died in California's gas chamber said Watt Espy a researcher from Headland Ala who keeps records on capital punishment Serial killer Gerald Eugene Stano 35 who has claimed responsibility for killing 41 women received an indefi nite stay from a circuit court panel last-minu- Press Lasnrphoio edly ran a stop sign and slammed into its side killing six people in Bronson Fla Truck Rams School Bus Killing 6 A truck BRONSON Fla (AP) slammed into the side of a school bus carrying handicapped children home from school Friday killing six people and injuring 17 at least three critically The dead all from the bus were the driver four boys and a girl said Levy County Sheriffs Department spokeswoman Ola Crews The flatbed truck loaded with large tires for logging vehicles and traveling at 40 mph apparently ran a stop sign at the rural intersection said Florida Highway Patrol trooper Theresa Allen The school bus carried 19 handicapped children from the Williston Middle and Bronson Elementary schools along with two adult aides and the driver said Janice Levy County School Board 3 Put to Death But a 4th Gets a Stay Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers on 3 A-- Today's l orreas! 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