Show HOPT MOST DIE After seven years of trials sentences appeals and affirmed judgments Fred Hopt the murderer of young Tohn Turner is condemned to die His case has been heard by the highest tribunal in the land and from its decision there is i I no appeal The story of how Hopt won the friendship of young Turner induced him to start on a journey and then brutally murdered him with an axe has been rehearsed so often that it is still fresh in the public mind The further particulars of the capture of the criminal by the father of the murdered boy will I I also be remembered The case has been tried four times in the Third District Court of this Territory and ineach case has been appealed to the Territorial Supreme Court The judgment has been the same in every trial and it has in each case been atllrmed by the superior court Finally it went to the Supreme Court ol the United States and about a month ago that tribunal confirmed the decision of the Territorial courts This morning Hopt stood for the last time before any earthly tribunal to receive re-ceive final sentence The Court set the I 11th day of August next as the date of execution and ere fifty more suns have risen over the prison walls Fred Hopt will have paid the penalty of his fearful crime The murder was committed on the 3d of July 1880 a few days less than seven years ago Hopt has been in confinement ever since and the hardship has told upon him All the bravado he exhibited upon his first trial is gone and he now stands a contrite and no doubt penitent man awaiting the execution of the sentence of a just law His trials have been fair and he has had enough of them to assure the public that no mistake has been made He has been given the advantage of every possible doubt and still the black finger of death points to him as guilty and the soul which has abused the sacred privilege of life must give up the earthly body and retire to another world The long years of imprisonment and anxiety have been a fearful punishment and worse by far than a quickly executed penalty but still the example must beset be-set and other men must see that murder cannot be committed in our midst without with-out the retribution of an awful doom I The death sentence is a touching sight but in all the court room this morning there was no one less affected than the r prisoner himself His confinement seems to have hardened his feelings or dulled his senses and ho listened to the naming of his death day in the solemn voice of the Court without moving a muscle mus-cle His face however tells a tale from which a painful picture of anxiety and I suffering can be drawn but this is not M the only pke where grief has struck I Read the hearts of the parents of the murdered boy see the desolation in i the home the murderers hand has despoiled then look Justice in the face and tell her hat her verdict has been a righteous one That Hopt murdered is sad that Hopt must die is only just |