EXECUTION IN UTAH
MURDERER SHOT BY FIRING SQUAD.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.)
(SYDNBI SUN CABLE.)
NEW YORK, 18th January. Omer Woods, a former Supreme Court Judge and one of the leading citizens of Utah, was executed in Salt Lake City by a firing squad at the State Penitentiary, protesting to the end his innocence of the murder of his wife.
The crime was a particularly brutal one, committed a year ago. The woman, who was heavily insured, was burned to death. Woods claimed that burglars beat him, killed his wife, and placed her body on a bed saturated with kerosene, which they set afire.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1924, Page 7
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