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Show Manzione Slayers Hear Date Set for Execution AA 1J- l, Mill , v to Jkv Vl.,.,..i. A - ''' i j.r After 18 months from the date of their first sentencing, Vern Alfred Braasch, 25, second from right, and Melvin Leroy Sullivan, Sul-livan, 21, right, were sentenced to be executed on August 21 for the holdup slaying of Howard (Duke) Manzione on Oct. 22, 1949 in a Beaver service station. They are shown in the Cedar City jail just after having been sentenced by Judge Will L. Hoyt in the Fifth district court in Parowan. At left is Sheriff Arthur Nelson Nel-son and Arch Benson, Parowan, deputy sheriff. The State Supreme court had unanimously una-nimously upheld the conviction of the two men and they have left only an appeal ap-peal to the State Board of Pardons to save them from the firing squad on August Aug-ust 21. |