| Show UTAH UT AM CONVICT SHOT TO DEATH I BY SQUAD N STATE mm PRISON Slayer Says lie Hes He's s 's of r Heinous Crime nt at Helper COMPOSED TO LAST i I Dead 62 Seconds After Receiving Volley Tolley V Voll oll y In His Breast SALT LAKE L CITY Utah Feb Joeb i 6 By By The Associated Press Fress- Fress ress- ress 61 Edward an cx- cx ex executed by a firing quad squad at al sunrise today loday at t th the state penitentiary for forthe forthe I the murder oI of or Bo Bob vlas Bli-vlas while Helper Utah Janul January y 11 l 2 McGowan calm caIrn and c composed to the last walked ed from his hili cell to the scene Ocene of ot hi his execution two two Sixty seconds after the shots were the tired negro was wall pro pro- pronounced flounced dead pro pro-I McGowan was Tat attended b by toe Boy nev William l G Greene nt i gro pator of or the local Seventh Dd Adventist negro lIe church and the Itee He William T P Hart tart Roman Catholic priest These men n walked to lh the chaIr with Ih hi con con- con derine ala ci ri WITH OD Durm his last hours bous MCGowan talked freely of his case and main main- maintained maintained tamed his hi Innocence to the last This is the first time lime 1 I hae have been In jail lail he said J I I have ha made I my 01 peal with God and hold to no hard u ft-u tc fe lings toward anyone any one I had faith In III the lh parole board and In hi Jesus Christ before the board denied mo me life lite said Mc- Mc McGowan Mc McGowan Ic- Ic Gowan after ho had been told or of orthe the final action Now I J have hac faith in m Christ only They ma may I kill thIs thu bod body bo iy but they cant can't kill killI this iou ou and the thc doomed man I b bae n his chest with his flat fIst 01 or I am- am am Innocent and ami andI I 1 am an read to 10 meet beet my my Maker What Is to to be bc II a nce which Jt surprised his keepers bo had expected him him to to break corn com EFt Edward McGowan Convict Convicted ed slayer of ot Bob Dob ln Ble thu thus terse terse- tersely tersely ly accepted War Warden lien II rt W message that hat the board I had denied commutation lon of or the r death ath penalty penally yesterday afternoon The murder wa was co d the night of or January 11 1924 In the Blevins home homa horn at Helper All par par- tics par tics lies to the thc tragedy were McGowan Is said to have bave had to the heme and to have been on friendly term terms with the family On the afternoon or orthe orthe the killing according to the record he went sent there under the Influence of liquor I 1 ShOOTS lS WITHOUT Blevins returning from mom work about A 6 f o'clock entered the th kitch- kitch kitchen hitch hitch-en en door of his house As he stepped over oer cr the threshold McGowan tired fired blank point blank without warning Men Men lIen acing Mrs Irs Ble and her adopted daughter Mary Barber 16 years old wIth with his hill revolver w It i compelled theta them to carry cally the th sounded to a cot In lii one Ofle of ot the bedrooms bedroom Subsequently and for nearly U 12 I hours he Bl DI Mary l Barber and I Barber Darber 14 H pris prisoners I In the th bedroom He refused them the permission to medical attention and un- un un toI I der under threats of af Instant death com corn compelled 1 polled them theta to 10 submit to gross erosa In- In dignitIes In IndignitIes Early lurly th the n morning looming he fled the place A surgeon was summoned but Blevins was vas as too far gone to respond to treatment and he died few rew hours ter l later |
