Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-11-01
FIGHT TO SAVE.
MANSENTfNCED
TObE EXECUTED.
Mexican Under Sentence to
Hang Dec. IA Arrives at
the Penitentiary Accom-
panied by Partner.
Legal Fight Expected to Sc
cure Stay of Execution
Through Appeal Supreme
Court Jury in Madison
County Passes Sentence.

Outwardly much calmer than his
partner In crime who Is under life SEN
EancA, vlsente RAmires, q Mexican
Bentenced by a Jury at Rexburg, Madi-
son county. to suffer the penalty of
death by hanging by the neck until
dead, arrived at the state penitentiary
"Wednesday night escorted by Warden
Frank DeKay who made a record
breaking trip to the southeast to get
bis wards. Unless the court interferes
Warden DeKay will have to spring the
trap that will launch Ramirez into
sternity. There Is a possibility he will
not have to hang Ramires on the date
pet for the execution, Dec. IA. because
of the legal fight promised by the de-
PENDANTS friends to save him from the
Hallows. They expect to perfect an
Appeal to the supreme court for a re-
view Of the case and thereby seoure a
way Of execution.
COLD FLOODED CRIME
Tho crime for which the two Mexi-
bans were found guilty. was one of the
most brutal. It was committed in a
black ON the outskirts Of Rexburg.
They attacked q fellow countryman
banned Frank Bisoarra, killed him by
brushing in his head with an axe and
xhen buried the body. The murder was
pommitted out Of jealousy and revenge
because Of the attentions paid by the
unfortunate victim to a woman all
Were Interested In. Another Mexican
much older in years than the defend
ants saw tho crime committed. Under
threat of similar treatment he was
frightened for the time being into say
Ing nothing about the crime. Later he
went to Salt Lake and there informed
the Officers. telling of the place where
the body was buried. An examination
of the premises resulted in the remains
of the murdered man being exhumed.
The arrest of the two defendants fol-
lowed. They were charged with first
degree murder, tried and found guilty.
JURY FIXES PENALTY.
Under the Idaho laws a jury sitting
In murder case has the option to
Inflict the death penalty or give the
defendants life. The following Is the
verdict Of the fury:
I'VE, the jury, duly sworn and ON
pannelei in the above entitled cause,
md the defendants Vsente Ramirez
and Pedro Espinoza guilty of murder
IN the first degree and fix penalty for
Visente Ramirez at execution and for
Pedro Espinoza at life"
Ramirez was recognized by the jury
following submission Of the evidence
rs ringieader in directing the murder.
He La a single man. Espinoza is mar
ried. Following the return Of the YER
dict Judge James G. Gwinn signed the
Meath warrant, setting Dec. IA as the
hate when Ramirex is to pay the death
penalty for taking tho life Of another.
FIRST FOR MANY YEARS.
Warden DeKay says that Ramirez
was the calmer of the two prisoners,
baking his sentence to death coolly and
nnworr4sd. Espinosa was more ner-
voua. The former was committed to
khe death cell at tho penitentiary and
ths latter will be put to hard labor.
Ramirez IL the first man to be given
he death penalty in the state of Idaho
For some years. II he is hung he will
be the drst prisoner who suffered the
death penalty in this state at the peni-
kentiary for almost 10 years. Shortly
Nfter John Shook, former warden, was
nnauguratcd, he was called upon to
hang q murderer sentenced from north
Orn Idaho.
Neither Of the prisoners gave War
Aen DeKsy any trouble while he es-
oorted them from Rexburg to Boise
and the penitentiary.