Show TAFT AND LENINE TARGETS FOR SOCIALISTS GARDNER MAY FACE FIRING SQUAD FRIDAY His Appeal To Escape Death Sentence Under Advisement DECIDE WEDNESDAY Slayer of Deputy Not Mentally Responsible Claim S Special 1 Dispatch DiP SALT LAKE CITY May 19 19 Geor George e Gardner convicted slayer sentenced to face tace a firing squad at atthe atthe atthe the state prison ne next Friday will know hi his fate on application for tor commutation of ot sentence on Wed Wed- Wednesday Wednesday afternoon according to a decisIon reached by tho the board ot of pardon After devoting I practically the entire days day's session I to the Gardner case It was de- de de decided elded to postpone a decision until Wednesday at 4 p mIt enIt m en mIt It Is believed believe that the postpone postpone- postponement postponement ment was due duo to the absence Postpone I from the state of ot Governor Charles R Mabey who Is now ow In the east cast RI I Governor Mabey Is scheduled lo to o I arrive arrise homo home next Wednesday and the decision In the Gardner case andI I W S therefore postponed until his i 1 In T- T the tho absence tf ot of the tl- tl I governor Secretary ot of Sl St te teH H E I Crockett presided at to today's days day's ses- ses session sos ses session sion elon of or the board MAN JUAN APPEALS LS After Arter a n number of ot witnesses had appeared before the board In hadI hIs I behalf during the morning sessIon the cOQ convicted 1 man himself appealed ap- ap appealed ap appealed pealed to the board members in inthe Inthe Inthe the afternoon to reduce the zen zen- sentence sen sentence ap tence of ot death to one or of o life liCe len len- imprisonment Im Imprisonment In a th flight bt of ot emo emo- emotion tion Gardner told ot of having been hounded by Joseph Irvine his law in brother In and p partner In f farm venture Tho The slayer who I Iwas was wits convicted for the murder ot of D Deputy Sheriff Gordon Stuart I as-I as- as assorted as asserted sorted that the tho Killing of ot the otc otc- officer ceras was as purely accidental ATTORNEY EXPLAINS INS Attorney E U 1 F Alien who de- de defended de defended fended tended Gardner In the district court outlined to the pardon board what ho he termed mitigating circumstances In connection Ith tile the murder He declared tha that ta b Fact the tho shooting was accidental that Gardner had a fancied grIevance grievance ance alice and that thit the crime was corn com committed com committed because of ot this grievance whIch had wrecked an already weakened mind ID ED WIPE WIFE Gardner Gardnor was ens subnormal he said had always been so that he was irritable and that thit while whilo In Inthis inthis inthis this Irritable frame Crame of ot mind had at one time threatened to kill hili his wife A petition containing hundreds or of names asking commutation ot of sentence was wIS w ns presented by Allen Four of ot the signers sh-ners were jurors who voted for Gardners Gardner's convIction tion Mrs L of ot this city told the board that she had known Gardner tor for six or eight ars Mrs Gardner Gar herself also 0 lesti fled to 10 o the board that U she a ly lv Iy was in tear fear of ot her h Ish that for no reason what r what ver he showed violent temper to choke her dro drove e her from their home borne and that when lien a short time she would return un an I II Iho I he would be quieted seen rd id not noti co cognizant ot of hat ehat he be had d die le or i I saidI said Isis Mis IS Gardner said sold that Gar I lie had hd a II violent aversion to Ins Irv iW and that she had warned Irie 0 of this but that des despite pit the ears ear's Ing log he camo citinG to the Gardner Iome on the day ot of the tragedy eol ing her husband to become o 0 tenth enra enraged ed SEEMED SUD STO OI ORI I tb P A Sorensen a reald-at reald c ct ef t Mention Mendon declared that he h b hail had known Gardner educe childhood land and that he had bad always see scented to 10 tobe tobe be subnormal both mentally nd s-n s physically H He lie said that In child child- C Continued on OD Page rase 11 e Two Tiro 1 2 fACING DEATH I from Page Pasc e One quarters quarter that the they had been win I drawn to insure the tb safety of the foreign prisoners In response to the outlaws ultimatum I IThe The corps corpa headed beaded ty by j dean J 1 B D the Portuguese minister twice has hns called on the Chinese Chines got eminent to speed peed up negotiations for tor re- re release ro lease of ot the fifteen foreigners hedIn hed heid Ila In the temple-prison temple of ot WA Arl t n I 1 WASHING ON May l 19 all uro I lire ure or of the Chinese government to effect release of ot the car cap cap captured toI I by bandits bandit in Shantung led officials of ot the tho tb American legation In 1 I eking to cable the th state stat le- le I today that either 1 I II guarantees or intermediaries seem serin I i I to bo be necessary to produce results Direct negotiations between thu th I thI and Chinese ChinosI officials official the dispatch declared apparently are arc I impossible because of mutual dio I IOn On the th other band liand Ur the dl oils oils- dis I II I Patches reported that the tho military governor of ot Shantung had offered I commissions In the tho regular ml- ml I v tarv forces of that province to th the bandit leaden leaders pro provided the cap cap- cap captives lives tives should l be released j NEWS Whether this thi offer otter will be foun foon 1 acceptable is not known here and 11 further Information Is anxious I awaited I I Minister Schurman and other I foreign diplomats have hav demanded I again acain that the Chinese government apprehend and punish the bandits bandIt Officials here however are mom e concerned over the th of ot t the bo rs on rs than over the question ot of how the th outlaws shall hall be iliad iliad- I It Is their belief belle that the Pelting Peking diplomatic corps will exert Its lt tint and forcibly to bring about release and take the Question ot of punishment later even eten though the bandits at that time tim may be b Incorporated In the tho Chinese Chines army ormy Incorporated Reports that troops in brigades of ot the Chinese army in 10 Shantung have been without pay for tor 18 II months and are selling am- am amMunition am ammunition to the bandits have led officIals here her to fear tear that a 11 defection defection tion of ot these troops may moy make a abad abad bad situation worse orse orse show that there aro ore bf- bf between be between tween and banditt In Shantung province Should they bo be by any considerable body of dissatisfied troops of ot the reg reg- ula reir-ula ua- ua ula army the result re might be bo to f delay Indefinitely the release of ot th the thi captives cs u II |