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Show FINED FOR HANGING BOY TO A TREE Provo. Sept 9. Lars A. and John A. Johnson, who were accused of hanging 17-year-old Soren Peterson to a tree to make him confess to stealing $S. appeared before Justice Jones here this morning nnd each entered en-tered a plea of guilty to a charge of battery and were fined $40 or forty days in the county jail. The fines, totaling to-taling 480, were paid and tho men went back to their homes In Santa-quln. Santa-quln. Young Peterson was employed by the Johnson brothers and lived at tho Johnson homo. One day $S was missed and tho .boy was suspected of taking tho money. Tho Johnsons accused ac-cused tho boy of tho theft and It i.. said, took him to the orchard, and putting a rope about his neck, hanged vhim to a tree until a confession was extorted. |