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Show f V Does Crime Pay? i 4 i WASHIN'GTON, March 17. John Mcllenry. 24 was hanged today for the murder of n Washington City de-tectlve de-tectlve and an automobile dealer Effort to obtain a commutation to life Imprisonment for the youth were continued to the Inst, but failed. President Presi-dent Harding having refused to Intervene. Inter-vene. An attempt to provent the hanging hang-ing todav was made by tho local branch of the Sons of Irish Freedom whose officers said th taking of Mc-Henry's Mc-Henry's life today would amount to a deacratloi) of the feast day of Irel.iml s patron Kaint. SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 17. George Donnelly, a prisoner at Folsom penitentiary, today faced sentence of death as the result of the verdict of a Jury finding him guilty of first degree de-gree murder for stabbing fatally Earl .Morse, u fellow com let last tfoventber Donnelly j. sted slth th" prOBeOUt Ing attorney after the verdict was returned re-turned and Invited the attorney to attend at-tend the execution. The killing of Morse follow i i quarrel. Donnellv will bo sentenced March 21. ThTlaw provides only the death penalty for such cases. PHrL.ADEL.PHI A, March 17. Walter Wal-ter A. Unger Thursday pleaded guilty In quarter sessions court to nine Indictments, In-dictments, embodying 19 counts of om- besslement. fraudulent conversion and I larceny from the Kvans Dental invti-tute invti-tute of the University of Pennsylvania, I of which ho was assistant treasurer. He faces a possible sentence of 64 j years In prison. OMAHA, Neb , March 17 Da id ' mniots. 24, former employe of the j Woodmen of the World c ha reed unh I forging checkH amounting to $7000 be-, be-, longing to the order last December, ; pleaded guilty before district Judge Fitzgerald this morning and was sen tenced to the state reformatory from One to two years. CHICAGO. March 17 Getting down on (his knees betor J idge John Sullivan in criminal court, Patrick I'aul Tlerney Thursday pleaded that he be hanged for tho murder of his wife and three-year-old son. whom he hacked to death with i h itcliet tevaral months ago Tlerney vaul h i was Biillt and wanteil no COllhSSl, j but Judge Sullivan In.'ormed him Jiat the law required that he have an attorney, at-torney, and appointed 6ne for him and set the trial for March 25 Tlerney said he commuted tne I murders because he :hougiir. his wife 'was going to leave him. lie gave himself up to ,the pohco the next day. voluntarily confessing;. |