The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-08
THEIDE EXPIATES
HIS AWFUL CRIME

tons to proceed in said cause according
to law to carry into effect the judgment
of said district court of the territory of
Utah.
And, whereas, this court made an or
der on the 9th day of June, 1896, pursu-
ant to said remittitur, fixing this day as
the time for the fixing day for the car
rying into execution the judgment SO
affirmed, and this defendant, Charles
Thiede, with his counsel, A. n. Cherry,
beng present, and also c. O. Whittemore,
county attorney for Salt Lake county, ON
behalf of the state, the court fixes Friday,
the 18th day of August next, between the
| hours of 10 o'clock in the forenoon and 2
O'Clock in the afternoon of said last
named day as the time for carrying into
execution the Judgment and sentence
against said defendant so affirmed and the
warrant of death is accordingly ordered
to be issued. OGDEN HILES,
District Judge.
Attest: c. E. STANTON, Clerk of Court.
[Seal.l
WARRANT OF DEATH-MURDER.
State of Utah, for the County of Salt
I Lake.
State of Utah VS.. Charles Thiede.-War-
rant of Murder.
The State of Utah Sends Greeting to the
Sheriff of Salt Lake county
Whereas, on the twenty-fourth day of
September, a. d. one thousand eight hun
t.,
Charles Thiede, was indicted by the grand
jury OF the district court for the Third
Judicial district OF Utah territory of the
crime of murder in the first degree, and
whereas, the said defendant, Charles
Thiede, was tried by the jury of said
court in the manner provided by law at
the September term, 1894, OF said court,
and a verdict of guilty of murder in the
nrst degree found and declared against
The defendant by said jury on the twenty
first day of October, A. D. one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-four;
And whereas, said court having on the
second day of November, 1894, fixed and
appointed the fifth day of November, A
D. 1884, as the time for a new trial and
defendants motion pronouncing judg
ment on said verdict, the defendants
motion in arrest of judgment having been
on said second day of November, 1894,
overruIed, upon motion of Andrew How
at Esq, assistant United States district
attorney, for judgment upon the verdict,
the court asked the defendant, Charles
Thiede, to stand up, and the defendant
having stood up in open court, the court
inquired of him whether he had anything
TO say why sentence should not be pro-
nounced against him, to which the de-
PENDANT replied that he was innocent of
the crime with which he was charged,
and that he had nothing further to say;
Whereupon the court said to the defend
ant: you were indicted by the grand
jury of this judicial district of the crime
of murder in the first degree, and you
have been tried by a jury in the manner
provided by law and have been found
guilty of the crime. The penalty affixed
by the statute for the crime of which
you have been convicted is death, and
must be inflicted by hanging you by the
neck until dead or by shooting you, at
your election. Which mode of death do
you elect shall be inflicted upon you?"
WheTeupon the defendant said that he
refused to make his election as to the
manner Of infiicting the death penalty,
but left it to the court Whereupon the
PENDANT as follows: 1T is the judgment
OF the court that you, Charles Thiede,
be taken from hence to some place of
confinement until Tuesday, the eigh-
teenth day of December, 1894, and be-
tween the hours of 10 o'clock in the fore
noon and 2 O'Clock in the afternoon of
said last named day, in the yard of the
jail or place where you are confined, or
in some other private place in this jul
dicial district, you be hanged by the neck
until dead
And whereas an appeal was granted in
said cause from said Third district court
to the supreme court of the territory of
Utah;
And whereas on said fifth day of No
vember, A. D. one thousand eight hum
dred and ninetyfour, a stay of proceed
inSS on said judgment was granted until
said appeal should be disposed of;
And whereas the judgment and SEN
tence of said judicial district court so ap-
pealed from were on the sixteenth day
of March, A. D. one thousand eight hun
dred and ninety-five, affirmed by the SUI
preme court of the territory of Utah;
And whereas, a writ of error was sued
of affirmance of said supreme cour: of
the territory of Utah to the supreme
court of the United States;
And whereas, the judgment of the su-