Show I 1 illS HIS OWN CAUSE GAUSE 1 f Tells Board of Pardons the J Story StoY f 1 of Double T. T KII Killing 1 y mg f ti 1 NEWHOUSE URGES PARDON I t 0 tH I After TC of oC l Witnesses Ibexes cs Is Introduced Intro Intro- L' L 1 Cn o Coro o Is lal Taken Under Ad- Ad for n a Month louth J v t. t Ills His face fuce Cn c bleached by four COUl years cars of 1 f solitary confinement but hul with e eyes cs with life and lustre Dutch i i Charlie Botha under life sentence for Ol Olf V f the t tho double murder of oC his wife and C W William recited yesterday 1 In detail before berolo the llie state tate board a Ill I'll of oC par liar v dons the circumstances I leading up t to tho the tragedy r. r In his light fight for tor freedoms freedon he t talked linked lI ed with an earnestness that va was wasS was'S S 'S convincing Teats Tears came cume to his C eyes eye PS skins his voice trembled when hen he ad ad- ad- ad milted frankly that he killed 4 for fin the betrayal of or his wife His Ills con con- coni i I before the hoard board was that thal he I shot hi his wife wire accidentally when he attempted at at- atI I tempted to tu take lake her out of oC the till house Samuel Newhouse the multi mil Botha's cause In the Vv pleaded 1 f the Ic of nf humanity Mrs lira ra Newhouse use ac ae- him to the tho state prison t where the board held Its he hearing o of oC 1 s I c cases For FOJ fifteen minutes Mr h Newl New New- l k j house houe talked td to 01 the board He Ile state stated that he believed Botha Bolha was justified In killing rabbits and asked the board to give him his Creed freedom om After the tho testimony test tosU- 1 mommy mony mon of oC William Keller was heard the board took tool his case under uder m cr advisement nd f for tor torone one month r Stor Story of the he Murder Tie The double murder was committed 7 on ranch u a few miles from Uon San gan Juan count county In Feb Fob 1902 Dotha Botha was sentenced to loath th by lw Judge c J. J H. H Johnson Shortly Short Short- J ly before he was to be bo hanged he was given shen a hearing hearin before the thC board of pardons pardon His sentence was to UCo imprisonment Technicalities of the low law arose In regard to his sent sentence enco ence and It ht was waa necessary to take him to Monticello to be re sentenced Since Jl his Jus s sentence was commuted d his friends have been working to secure an unconditional un un- conditional pardon Judge Johnson who sentenced him to death signed I the petition for his release stating stating- that Ills his mind had been changed in view of tho the thoi evidence i which came to light Inthe in inthe inthe the research for i c evidence From Froin the time tine Botha Bolha landed In America until the da day he hc entered the state tato prison h he related tho the story ston of oC his life lite Botha Is a German and came to America thirteen years ears ago He I Is now 28 S years old and had hn been e n married but buta a year before beCore he murdered Botha bad a ranch not nol far Car from Tib- Tib 1 bits bits' kits I l uco wh where ro the tho murder occurred ed rn bi j itel h. h home homo oc occasionally 1 m InC 1 l h his yo young younge ng l 4 e Whenever Vh nove B Botha would g to to 1 Monticello o to hu buy huy Till ts is would go 10 to his house Tried to Win In Her lIer Affection On Au mc occasion when h he returned In hI found that had Induced his hh wife to take a drink of whiskey key and und her to leave Botha took her lter pe presents and tried in every u way to win her affections and pen persuade her to desert deport Botha Botho Shu Slum finally consented and umi went vent to 1 ranch house When hn Botha home one evening he h found his house dark and his wife gone The Thc day following he went to lo ranch He Ho knocked d at the tho door than entered Just as he ho opened the thedoor door his wife came out of the bedroom bed hell room loom She creamed and who was was was' h iii the kitchen rushed Into the roost room Botha Dotha leveled hi his gun glut at Tibi Tib- Tib 1 i bits l and a asked a him to make male an explanation Botha's s wife wire darL darted back Into the bedroom and amid closed tilt tie door Botha notha went tb lu the door and told her hel to come CIme out She hc refused to 10 open 1011 the tha door Bo Botha ha exclaimed In ht an excited manner i and he Ic each lach detail J 1 1 pushed pumped the dour door open and amI 1 took oli paid hold of her hel arm arni I told to stand where he lie was w-as that both bout of them had to face fael no mo limo and unil explain matters As A 1 J pullet pulled h her l' l through the door doer the te h at attempted to jark away I 1 I held my toy gun sun In ht my right hand and attempted to tu stop slop her lUH Jh gun Jun struck against t her 1 body and antI c. c killing her lter t r on oft She hc sank ank at my fuel feet and lid 1 up UI In tints to tv ico Iee rush rUHh Into the kitchen l k hu ho had be- be UlY d m my wife and 1 started after afler hh hull him He lie hel held tho the door and I told him to face me mo or OJ I 1 would shoot He paid pall 11 attention to lo me mc I shoved again on tho the door He turned the latch an and 1 1 Ho lie dropped l to the Moor floor I stood there thole dazed az d and bewildered When I recovered I rode rolle away awa leaving the ho bodies les where they fell Botha wiped beads bea s of f vom om his forehead as he sat at down by his attorney M. M C. C Davis A faint smile I passed over his countenance as Mr rose in his behalf and pleaded pleaded for for him The testimony ot or William Willlam Keller a it store keeper at Monticello Mon Mon- whom had told of oC his hla relation with Mrs Dolha Botha was presented present present- Ir ed the thc testimony Attorney Davis argued the case The of or Judge Johnl Johnson on and Cunningham a ar r rancher who knew character were introduced d and anti the tho case way waa 4 closed J Nick Ca Case Nick Haworth Haworth a orth sentenced to death eath which was afterward commuted to life imprisonment to for the murder of William VII Wil liam u Sa-u Sandal al at will be heard before tho the next meeting of oC time the board of oC IJar pardons ons Ills cato case will be reopened fur for oJ argument Ills Hili petition for COl a new lIew hearing was presented and granted ranted B Edward ard Smith was nJ granted a u. pardon pardon pardon par par- don by the board after aCter serving nearly a 11 year of oC hl his three year sentence Smith h was convicted of or grand larceny larcen Carl W. W Johnson sentenced to Lo two years for grand larceny was given a parole He has served about six months of ot hl his sentence The petitions of or Frank Wilson sentenced sentenced sen sen- lo tu serve ervo ten years for tor bur burglary lary John Juhn Waldon Valdon serving three years cats for Cor grand rand larceny larcon and Ezra Davis serving servIn three yearn for grand brand larceny were denied lI The fh board boad adjourned for CUl one une oRth |