Show i Cbt 5alt gatic Saturday cc 28 6 'A - February v—i P ' 1943 I (Continued from Page seventeen) wing Dquafd Takes Utah Slayer's Life Killer of Ogden Detective Dies Stoically Crm t i n tied Pace Seventeen frnm ei ) "This is the sheriff Walter" he said "Do you have Anything you want to say or any request you'd like to make7 But from the black hood there came no answer The group moved back From the blind 20 feet away there came a light rustle as the guns were inserted in small slits One of the five rifles was loaded with a blank but none of the five expert marksmen from Weber county Will ever know whether his was the weapon with the harmless shell The identity-othe executioners was known only to Sheriff Watson and two deputies As the witnesses stood tense in a light blanket Of early morning snow Weber county Deputy Sheriff Earl Thompson standing behind the blind gave the order to fire The volley rang out and four bullets struck the mark At 8:23 a in Avery was pronounced dead by Dr Johnston Avery was convicted of first degree murder on March 12 1941 Second District Judge Lewis V Trueman sentenced the convicted man to die on April 24 1941 The execution was delayed by state Aver2s two appeals to the supreme court: one for a- retrial and one for a rehearing of his petition and an appeal to the state board of pardons- All three petitions were denied He was arrested February 11 1941 in the Safeway store 301 Twenty-fourt- h street Ogden ifter he had fatally wounded Detective Hoyt L Gates 37 when the detective had discovered him in the act of robbing the store Avery served with the United States marines in Nicaragua during part of his enlistment period which ended in 1929 He served a five months' jail sentence in Carson City Nev in 1922 for burglary was convicted for conspiracy and sent to McNeil Island federal prison for a year and a day and later served two years and six months at Leavenworth federal prison for use and possession of f - ton and I took r paces on either side othim on the narrow cot Dr Coombs had administered a ''shot in the arm" the first one since his incarceration in Ogden city jail the gnig-h- t of the grocery on Februstore ary 11 1941 "not as the prison doctor but as his personal physician and friend" And then began a most unusual night Taking rapidly most of the night Avery alternately spoke seriously of the terrible effects of narcotics when "a man gets hooked en junk" of the fatal shooting his arrest and trial His only expressed regrets were that he had not had a stronger defense at his trial and that who had me dead to rights' had been "unnecessarily rough and brutal" In their treatment of him after his arrest And incarceration Then he ahovyered praises on Joseph E Evans Ogden attorney who took over his ease after his conviction and sentencing to death and made the futile appeals to the state supreme court for a new trial and to the state board of pardons for commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment "No attorney no matter how big or how smart could have done a better job than Mr Evans and I want the world to know it" he said in his low husky voice had been represented during his preliminary hearing and dis- trict court trial by Richard J Lathrop court appointed counsel who later moved to California Showing nervousness only in the continuous gesticulations of his hands and in "tidying up my room before I go" he brewed coffee all through the night and drank cups it and a can of grapefruit juice ho:dup-shootin- ficers as the night passed slowly toward dawn He had a tiny electric coil on Nvhich he did his cooking Reiterating his previous denunciation of "dope" he urged "you and all newspaper men to give the drug traffic hell because if society wants to really do something for itself it'll kill the return of the tremendous dope traffic when the war is over and it can be obtamed freely again" Growing sleepy he was urged to lie down and at 3:40 a rn he dropped into a sound sleep He awoke with a start at ft :15 and again resumed the strange vigil "No I don't want to sleep he said when again he again" was urged to do so "nu a short timer—I don't want to miss any of the few hours that are left and I -don't want to sleep my life he chuckled Then look- awaying at Father Moreton's watch he added: "Well it'll be all over in two and one-hahours and do you know what I hate most about that chair? It putting that damned hood over my head I'd like to see the chair The body claimed Mrs Roverda Avery 372 East First South iff Watson said the requested cremation - The part a colony of Japanese-America- n citizens at Keetley Utah is playing by increasing crop production for the war effort is decribed by Galen M Fisher in an article for the February issue of Survey Graphic magazine The A'roup of Japanese-American- s under the direction of Fred Wada Oakland 'Cal business man leased a 3800-acr- e ranch from George A Fisher and have turned the mass of sagebrush into acres of well cultivated vegetables the author relates Ile further explains that most of !he colony is composed of JapAmerica ns Who are desirous of putting forth th eir best efforts to help win the W ir and are demmonstrating this ambition in the agricultural field ' ) A mounting toll of sheep andbe used to institute a bounty by Abe Hansen of Ricl-fle- i ca ttle being taken by coyotes tem will be held 7tondav at 11 a A conference of the association's necessitates a state appropriation in the office of Don E Kenanimals committee member of some $2 5000 to finance a joint predatory of the state ll I 6 -- ' - the and began and shine them "I just want to for the party" he grinned and put them on in place pers he had worn every get-the- L4f slip-o- EVENT 2d TO 6:00 10:00 P M "11 Is THE TIME TO MELT IN A GOOD WARM WINTER COAT! 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