Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-07-29 | Page 5 | Father of Victim Sentenced to Die

FATHER OF VICTIM SENTENCED CED TO DIE OLYMPIA Wash July 29 9 By By ByThe ByThe The Associated Press Sentence Press Sentence of death passed on Wallace C. C GaInes of oC Seattle by the King county court for forthe forthe the murder of his daughter Sylvia Sylvias was s affirmed Thursday by the slate stale supreme court The murder of f Miss Gaines Smith s I 2 tt college CO gee graduate t whose e brutally iy beat beat- beaten en and abused body was found Cound on the shores of Green lake not far Car from Gaines home in Seattle June 17 17 a oj 4 year ear ago was one of the most son son- crimes in the history of the state She had been visiting her father after aHer being away from him 16 c years jears urs The trial of GaInes t two t o months later ater was marked with bitter con- con controversy controversy controversy I and a fight lasting almost three days over the admissibility of evidence over the relations existing between father Cather and daughter formed the basis of an appeal to the supreme I court