Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-19

would satisfy the requirements of the
he would be free to take his place I'M
molested among his fellowmen. Had
he chosen, he could easily have made
his way to some other country and
started life afresh with small chance
of ever being recaptured; but his
conscience would not permit him to
ishirk the punishment he believed he
had Justly incurred.
FORTY-FIvE YEARS OLD.
Pace was As years old at the time
he committed the deed which brought
about his trial for rnurder. He owned
large farm at Foggia. in the south
of Italy. and according to the modest
Italian standard was accounted we'll
to-do. He lived In comfortable house
and employed several hands. He was
a. supplemented, thrifty. industrious
fellow, genuinely devout and held in
high esteem by all his neighbors. His
besetting sin was violent temper
which he strove In vain to control. 1t
was generally understood that ii was
on this account he hadnever married.
bachelorhood being one of the penal
ties which he imposed upon himself
because of his inability to repress his
outbursts of rage
Among the men who worked for
him was Emanuel Marco. a big, surly.
morose, ill-favored fellow. who took
great delight in provoking his masters
erx pcl1x NJ, rot ha nj h.af-
hands, who We're devoted to Pace be-
cause, despite his hot temper, he was
an indulgent employer. frequently
warned Marco, as was brought out In
the evidence at the trial, thai he
would go too far some day and Pace
would do him serious injury.
WHY HE HATES.
II would like to see him strike me-"
he was wont to reply on these occa-
sions II am match for him or any
other man. Anyhow, l would like a
chance To get the law on him. Then
/ should be even with him"
Even with him for what?" he was
once asked.
Just because i hate him.
But what do you hate him for?"
"Oh, Just because he Is he ana 1 am
t.
And this unreasoning hatred IL was
which ultimately cost Marco his life
and Pace eight years confinement In
living tomb, which the law refuses
to recognize as furnishing any ground
for mitigating his sentence.
One day Marc ill-treated some of The
farm stock and when taken to task by
Pace replied insolently that he knew a
lot more how cattle should be dealt
with than did Pace, and that II Pace
wanted another lesson he would soon
show him that he was the better man
OF the two.
In n ut OF blind fury Pace sqized Il
fence rail and struck Marco over tho
head with II. killing him almost in
stantly.
GRIEF AND REMoRsE.
PAGES MAD rage instantly gave way
10 uncomfortable grief and remorse.
He asked that the police be sent for at
once and that he be given up TO justice.
Al his trial he rejected all the pleas OF
extenuating circumstances which his
counsel advanced In his behalf. He
declared that he was murderer and
besought the Judge and jury Ia make
his sentence as heavy as they could
There IL no excuse for me-" he ex-
claimed. u have broken Gods law;
have taken human life and Divine
Justice demands that ] should be pun
ished for ~
More merciful than Pace himself, tho
Jury brought In a verdict OF man
slaughter, and he was sentenced TO 10
years Imprisonment.
Pace WAS taken TO a local taIl 10
await transportation to one Of the state