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Show Sheldon Reed Glark Gets Manslaughter Verdict Nationally Famed Trial' Ends and Jury Finds Verdict In Three Hours After Clark Gets Sentence Saturday. Sheldon Reed Clark, the 23-year- old confessed slayer of Don Solovich, 37, was found guilty of manslaughter by the jury of twelve men in the dis-I dis-I trict court at Manti Monday night. The jury deliberated a little mora than three hours. It is reported that the first ballot resulted in one for first degree murder, two for second sec-ond degree murder, one for acquittal and eight for manslaughter. The penalty for manslaughter in Utah is from one to ten years in the penitentiary. peniten-tiary. Judge Dilworth. Woolley, who sat in the case, set Saturday as the day for passing sentence. The findings of the jury was not met with much enthusiasm in Gunnison Gun-nison and Manti, and strong criticisms criti-cisms were offered, the general being be-ing that Clark is escaping punishment punish-ment that he is justly entitled to. The case, which started may 21st, would have been concluded last Saturday Sat-urday only for the fact that Lewis Larsen, defense attorney, asked for the reopening of the case Monday morning. Evidence as to blood on the clothes of Clark, regarded by the defense as important, was introduced, introduc-ed, in an attempt to show that Clark was not trying to get away even though his clothes were smeared with the blood from his victim. The evidence evi-dence was immaterial and had little bearing as compared with other damaging dam-aging evidence given throughout the trial. The slaying of Don Solovich is still fresh in the memory of the citizens of Gunnison and the entire county, it also became nationally known, as celebrities in the motion picture world at Hollywood, Cal., were frequently fre-quently mentioned in the evidence during the trial. None of them, however, how-ever, were present as witnesses, re- fusing to appear and disclaiming" any i knowledge of the associations be-I be-I tween Solovich and Clark. Clark's trial was the first in twenty years in I Sanpete county, and naturally . the citizens showed considerable interest, inter-est, the major portion believing tlv t : Clark committed the deed with a sole intent of committing robbery. ! The crime which Clark will serve from one to ten years, was committed commit-ted January G of this year. The spot selected was about a mile and a half north of Gunnison, and in a canyon frequently travelled. The horrible slaughter was committed in the early afternoon as the two men were supposedly sup-posedly on a trip from Pasadena, California, to Salt Lake. Edwin Larsen, Lar-sen, road worker for the state, discovered dis-covered the body of Solovich in a wash about fifty feet from the highway high-way and the man was yet alive. Larsen and Marshall Tollestrup carried car-ried the dying man to Gunnison and as soon as he was placed on the sidewalk side-walk preparatory to taking him to Dr. Hagan's office, he expired. The head of Solovich was battered to a mass, a hammer having been used to beat the victim to death. Three gaping gap-ing holes in the face and three on the back of the head, any one of which would have caused death, was the receipt given by Clark for the money, clothes and jewelry taken from the lifeless body. Clark, after committing the crime, made a hurried departure, going to Manti, where he displayed large su of money. Later he left for Snlt Lake. With the finding of the bedv of Solovich, County Attorney C. M. Edwards, got in touch with county officers of-ficers and the night df the munVr Clark was placed under arrest at i:t" home of his grandmother at Salt Lake. |