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Show STEVE MASLO TO DIE FRIDAY Nothing Done Yet in Way of Reprieve for Condemned Con-demned Man SALT LAKE, Jan. n -8teVi Mas-lloll, Mas-lloll, sentenced to die on Friday next, will br. executed unless his attorneys apply tn Governor (.'harlos H. Maboy for a reprlovo or for a pardon to tho board of pardons The matter was akcn up by th at torney general who In tine, assigned the cas,. to W. Hal Fan. hie assistant Mr Farr has looked up the matter and finds that his office is barred absolutely ab-solutely from taking any action looking look-ing o a reprieve or to any application to the board of pardons. No application had been filed with the governor to, lay seeking S reprieve or pardon SO that no special meeting of tho purdons board could he culled In the event that the governor -hould reprieve Masllch, the reprieve could .oily run until the meeting of the pardons par-dons board next Saturday when do-i clslve anion could be taken The pardons board has made effort several times to lnduco tho lower courts In the passing f ..i iitenco for a capital crime and In which the pun-, lahmerft Is flX'-d ,,t dex.'h. to not fix the sentence, to be carried boforo the' third Saturday in the month so that In tho everu'. thnt It became neceasary ! to have a session of tho paidons board it could act and thus save the prls- oner from having to be resentenced, but the lower courts have acted otherwise other-wise It will be recalled ths. In th lltll-strom lltll-strom case he was Sentenced t.) death I four times before tho execution Of the law was carried out. Tho only reason an application for a roprlevo or pardon could be mad for Masllch Is that his partner Ohllralo, who was convicted With him and the death penalty Imposed has been grant-1 ed a stay by a court order until tho: Efahruery term of the supremo court oo |