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Show CONVICTED M GIMME CONDEMNED TO DIE FOR KILLING KILL-ING WOMAN AT PARK CITY, PLEADS INNOCENCE Man Is Sentenced for Third Time For Crime Which Was Committed Commit-ted Early in 1923; Will Pay Penalty on May 15th. Coalville, Utah. Pedro Cano, convicted con-victed as the murderer of June St. Clair, will expiate his crime before a firing squad in the state prison in-closure in-closure at Salt Lake City the morning morn-ing of Friday, May 15. District Judge William M. McCrea passed sentence o death on the condemned con-demned man. Twice Cano evaded the death chair, first by appeal from the trial court judgment and then by reprieve re-prieve granted by Governor George H. Dern the day before the execution date. Cano, facing the court reiterated his claim of innocence and, In answer ans-wer to the query as to what reason there might by why sentence should not be imposed replied that he would like more time in which to search for Refugia Alemeda, whom he asserts as-serts committed the murder. June St. Clair was killed the night of March 14, 1923, in her shack in the Park City tenderloin district. Her assailant stabbed her several times in the abdomen. Cano, who occupied occu-pied a nearby house, was arrested, tried and convicted. Following conviction, John Tobin, counsel for Cano, took the case on appeal to the state supreme court. Meanwhile Cano divulged what he claimed to be the true story of the killing. Refugia Alemeda, he said, had been his sweetheart, and she became be-came enraged over a fancied affair between himself and their neighbor. He returned at midnight to find her leaving their place dressed in some of his clothing and she returned later la-ter and told him of the killing, escaping es-caping before the arrival of officers his story held. The supreme court denied a new trial. The date originally fixed for his execution was in September, 1923. The appeal to the supreme court automatically aut-omatically stayed this, but when that body denied the appeal he was resentenced re-sentenced to be shot on January 30, 1925. Meanwhile Cano's stubborn tight to escape the death chair, attracted many supporters to his cause. The case became the subject of notes exchanged ex-changed between the American and Mexican departments of state. Finally, Fin-ally, upon the representations of Cano and his friends that if given time he could prove Mrs. Alemeda guilty, governor Dern granted the reprieve re-prieve which was terminated at the last session of the board of pardons, j Attempts to locate the Alemeda woman were futile. Recently Sheriff J. C. Clark of Coalville received a lengAy letter purporting to have been written in Ophir, but postmarked postmark-ed Salt Lake and carrying the signature, signa-ture, j,'Refugia Alemeda." The writer corroborated Cano's statements as to the crime, declared his innocence and ' accented full blame for the murder. |