EXECUTION IN UTAH.
PRISONER CHOOSES MODE OF DEATH. By Teleßrapli—Press Aesoeiation-Copyrielit (Roc. September 27, 9.55 p.m.) New York, September 27. A man named Harry Thome lias been executed by shooting at Salt Lake City for the murder ot' a clerk during llio hold-up of a grocery store. The Utah laws permit a prisoner to choose his mode of death, and Thome was tho first, prisoner to choose shooting. Ho asked that Ills eyes should not be bandaged, but his request was refused, lest the firing squad should be disconcerted. The prison Governor said Thorne was the gamest man ho had ever seen die.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1557, 28 September 1912, Page 5
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103EXECUTION IN UTAH. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1557, 28 September 1912, Page 5
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