Show I TO TO 1 f V ANGE FOUND GUILTY I Ii i OF MURDER OF WIFE Y I Continued Continual from P Ii l c One all ail of oC these organs were normal and that there would therefore bo be no excuse ex- ex excuse ex cx- cuse for foi tho using of the poison I There was no contradiction o or of the girls girl's testimony that her father tather beat beatMa Ma Mary Vance Yance cruelly and said G Gd Cd Gou G C kill But Vance Yanc d d you ou Ill I'll you you ou was on the stand and could have denied dented de tIc- nied this if It it were not true truo Jurors All of Same Mint Mind Wo We c were were all of or the same sarno mind when we wo left the court room and the tho SO minutes were taken simply simp I to determine determine determine de de- termine the extent of or punishment And we wo finall finally agreed that the death penalty was none too se severe re Th The jurors after aCter the charges of or Judge Armstrong filed flied out of or the room at 2 12 1 o'clock and returned le le- turned at 3 46 I 6 It was generally be believed e- e lie ed that the they would be out of or the court room much longer lonel than an hour and a half but the tho room was tilled filled with spectators when tho word was wasIel given I el that the jury jur had i reached cached a I decision Judge Armstrong who had been In his chambers on the floor below came hurriedly into the court room and within a few minutes tho the Jurors filed In Impre impressively Lafayette Hanchett held the wrItten v verdict of tho the Jury jun with the th instructions In of the court Judge Armstrong asked ed Mr Hanchett If Ie the Jury had reached a a. decision and received the affirmative e answer Toe verdict was handed to the court who turned It over to Clerk Tanner The verdict read We c the jury In the above c entitled e line lied time the guilty of oC murdel murder murder mur mur- der del In he the lh t degree Signed Signal Li L Foreman Each Juror was called upon individually In Individually In- In to answer to tho verdict and each replied that the verdict was his Judge Armstrong then thanked the men and excused them I W. W L. L attorney for COt Vance was as str struck ck silent by tho the verdict hii hi hi- I head hanging almost as ns if a Q blow I had been struck He lIe had no word woid to offer olTer Pass Sentence Neat t Thur Judge Armstrong asked when sentence sentence sen sen- tence was to be passed and attorneys for the state and defense I agreed upon it J G next l Thursday o lI then announced that Thursday December J J. J at it 10 o'clock In inthe th the he would pronounce sentence It tr must b bo be death Thomas Vance sitting at the long Ions g tabla in front of the Judge dropped his hit h head ad when the tho T reading c wa was going on ou an anti and when his bleary eyes were again seen een they were filled with tears W W. L. L said saltI that the defense would woul take an appeal to the Supreme court but this course is doubtful owing owIng owing ow ow- ing to lack o of funds on the part of or orthe the Vance Vanco family This admission was made by Mrs A A. B D. Vance lat later Inter r. r when she declared that everything they had harl had gone sone into th the case casc and ind thc they had no more money with which to prosecute prosecute prosecute prose prose- cute the tho case In an effort to secure another another another an an- I other trial Many exceptions weT were made b by the defense to the instructions of or the court and these will b be bethe be the groundwork for the appeal 1 ii It this stop step Is taken Most lo t of the day was devoted to tin time arguments arg of the defense and ord t. I In the morning mO John F. F Tobin made madL madea a strong argument for for tor tho defense and was followed by W. W L. L Jg nie I I District Attorney Fred C. C Loofbourow followed and finished his argument at 1 55 Evidence The Tho case e of tho the state n ao as declared by Mr Loofbourow Loofbourow was chiefly circumstantial cir Clr- e evidence e but ho he argued how else elso was tho the state to get set evidence evidence evidence evi evi- dence of the tho poisoning He declared I that sufficient testimony had hatI been boen given gl by tho the state to prove pro the beatIng beatIn beatIng beat- beat Ing In but that only onlY one man knew cei- cei certainly certainly whether Mary lary Vance had been given poison polson And that man was Thomas Vance Loofbourow made mado a point of the tact fact that the defense h had d placed Vance on tho stand and that the their r one ch chance nc to disprove the charges 8 hud had come at that time but that they thy had hadi only pushed open the door ft a few i allowed the state Inches and antI had hatI not to examine cross-examine to see eee what lay hidden hidden hidden hid hid- II den behind that closed door What strength this had with the jury Jur Is shown In their verdict Mr Loofbourow played placed upon Ice the tho fact tact I that Vance Vanco had threatened to o kill his hi wife wire and that he and only he had had the opportunity to put tho the pol poison on In her glass of at water r. r For wh when n tin the poison was placed there Mr Mrs Vance was lying hying on the bed had hatI been there re all morning and was wag there afterward She had not gone one out of the tho room and the poison polson used pointed out the tho district attorney was the same as ns was later f found und concealed in Thomas Vance's Vances trunk in another room It was learned after the verdict of the Jur Jury had been rendered that five ballots had been taken before th the verdict of or murder In the first degree lc le was reached All were ere for COli conviction but four tour stood out against capital punishment punishment- On the tho fifth ballot however how how- over ever all hall had agreed upon murder In inthe tho the first degree without recommendation tion le leaving the tho death sentence alone to be inflicted I A t OR un A lT l Condemned Inn II p n Method of I Thomas Vance will have an opportunity 1 to choose tho the manner of execution tion the option n of hanging or shooting I being given by section Compiled Complied Laws of Utah which says YS The punt of or death must be Le Inflicted b by hanging the defendant by Ly bytho Lythe bythe the tho neck until ho he Is la dead or shooting him at his election It If the tho d defendant neglect or ot refuse to make mako aka the he election the court at t the time of rendering sentence must declare the mode and ande c e Ir i r tho the same as a part of the judg Judg- ment menI e |