Arizona republican., 1920-07-09
BLANCETT MUST
 HANG DECLARES
 GOV. LARRAZOLO
Petition for 9O-Day Reprieve Denied by New Mexican Governor - Condemned Was Found Guilty of Murder of Clyde Armour In 1916
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 SANTA TIE, N. NJ, July S.-Elbert W. Blancett's long fight for his life, in which he was aided by he pleas Of his mother, ended in failure today when Governor Larrazo1o refused his attor- ney's petition for a 90-day reprleVe. Blancett will be hanged at sunrise to- morrow morning in the santa Fe Jal yard for the murder of Clyde Armour of Sioux City, Iowa.
 Blancett's attorney sought the re- prieve to permit time for further inves- tigatiou of the condemned mans sanity. Prisoners To Pay Funeral Expenses
 The funeral expenses will be.paid by his fellow prisoners. who have taken up a collection of niclxels and dimes for that purpose. His mother, Mrs. Baker of Friday Harbor, Washington, who has visited the prisoner daily for the past two weeks, will remain in the city dur ing the execution and until after the funeral
 On the eve of his execution, the pris- oner showed no emotion whatever.
 The crime for which Albert w. Blan- cett was convicted was the murder of Clyde D. Armour, near Glorieta, N. AI., about 20 miles east of here, October 23,>1916.
 Armour. who lived at Sioux City, Iowa, where he was employed as chief clerk in the passenger office of the Northwestern Railroad company, left his home September @, 1916, accom- panied by his mother and sister, en route to California in a new eight cylinder automobile. On arriving at ClarlSs, Nebr., the sister was taken i'll and when recovered sufficiently to travel, she and her mother proceeded to their destination, Fresno, Calif., by train. Clyde Armour continued the trip by auto. He arrived in Denver, Octo- Der 19.
 He asked the '. M. c. A. at Denver to T by auto to the coast. The "Y" being unable to find such a man, Armour in serted want ad in one of the Denver papers, which was answered by Blan- cett, an agreement was reached and they started westward.
 Armour never reached Santa F'e, but a man representing himself to be Ar mour arrived here October 23, regis tering at a local hotel. When he did so he committed the first indiscretion which led to his arrest later on, as, when he started to write "C D. Armour" the first letter he made was "E." This he changed. making a "C"' over the letter "E'' which he had first written. He remained here until Oc- tober 27, going then to Albuquerque. where he sold the automobile for $5o0- The night of October 30 he boarded a train at Albuquerque and evidently went straight through to California.
 Telegram To Mother Forged
 By November B Mrs. Armour, who, with her daughter, had reached Fresno became so alarmed over the failure of her son to arrive that she began inves- tigation. Her son-in-Ia,w, AIyron T Sawyer, went to Needles, Calif., from which point Mrs. Armour had received q message, purporting to be from hel son. to the effect that he had sold the car and would continue his trip tC Fresno by train. Inspecting the orig inal of this telegram, Mir. Sawyer al once decided it was a forgery. Sawyer went to Saf Diego and Los Angeles ant finally came on to Albuquerque anC Santa Fe.
 About this time, Armour's two brothers arrived here from Sioux City to take charge of the search They learned that the man who posed a. Armour, during some of his converse lions, had said that he once lived neal Aztec, San Juan county, and mentioned the name of his mother, who had re married following the death of her frs husband, Blancett's father. This is be Heved to have furnished the officer with the clew which led to his arres at the home of his mother at F'rida. Harbor, Wash, December 31, 1916, tn family having moved there from Ney Mexico.
 After Blancett was arrested he re quested permission to step into a cool shack to say goodbye" to somebody moment later there was a report O a gun shot from the interior of tn shack. Investigation showed tha Blancett had almost ended his life b firing a charge of shot into his neck When asked why, he replied: 'I couldn' tell mother here" Armour's body wa not found until January II when a do belonging to Antonio SandovaI y'Grieg walked into the house carrying a paI of a human leg bone, on which a sho still remained. Antonio followed tn dog on the back trail and found tn bones that remained of Armour's bod, in an arroyo 300 yards from the mai road. About 20 feet away from tn skeleton lay shot gun and som clothing Marks on the clothing an papers in the pockets served to indi cate that the clothes were Armour At an autopsy Feld later on six shot were taken from the base of the skull indicating that the fatal shot was fire from behind, severing arteries and in fIicting a wound from which the vfctil quickly bled to death.
 Claimed Shooting Accidental
 Blancett was placed on trial in tt Santa F'e county district court Apr 13, 1917. The jury returned a verdi, of guilty of murder in the first degre April 24. Blancett, when placed on tT witness stand, admitted shooting Al mour but said it was an accident. F said they got out of the car to hul
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