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Show O D KILLING OF MASLICH. At 8 o'clock this morning. Sttne Maslieh was put to death at the state prison, a firing squad Inflicting the tatal wounds which broupht to an end ;t worthless life. Two years ago Maslieh and a com panlon Induced a friend named Lefts to go to a ravine near the state prison, pris-on, where they murdered the man tor Ids money. Maslieh later was captured cap-tured in Butte and brought before a jury in Salt Iake which found him gnllty. Laus. the evidence showed, had ;-truggled to escape from his assailants assail-ants but was overpowered and stabbed stab-bed to death, twenty knife wounds having been Inflicted on his body. This is, In brief, the story of a deliberate de-liberate robbery and murder such as could have been planned by no one not debased and brutalized Men of the type of Maslieh can serve no ood purpose. They are a menace to uciety and should be swept from the face of the earth It would be useless to attempt to sire a Maslieh. There Is nothing In i man so low on which n build hope for redemption. |