Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1938 — Page 11

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SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 27 (U.P : v »P.). John Deering, 39-year-old confessed murderer, faces a firing squad MonJay to pay the extreme penalty for Hime hin) Jaye CHY Prshenem a pting to steal his If everything goes as sche duled, 8 ov minutes after dawn Deering ww be led from condemned row i 2 black cap over his head, and pl aced in a high back, oaken chair neath the brown stone walls of the Utah State Penitentiary, A prison physician wil la ce 8 arget over Josey es as a . the chair. Pus End lst to

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sheriffs, their identities carefully guarded, will take their place behind a screen, 50 feet from the chair. Only the barrels of the rifles will protrude from the screen. In one of the guns, no one will know which, will be a blank cartridge to ease the conscience of the riflemen. Sheriff in Command Sheriff Grant S. Young of Salt Lake County will take his place a few feet from the condemned man. After making sure all preparations are complete, Sheriff Young will lower his hand. The five hidden rifles will crack and Deering’s oftenexpressed wish to “die before the

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firing squad and get it over with” will have been carried out. When Deering, who has spent all but three of the last 23 years behind prison bars, was arrested in July in Detroit, and charged with murdering Oliver R. Meredith Jr., Salt Lake City leather merchant, on May 26, he confessed his guilt. He had been traced to Michigan through Nevada—where he pawned the death gun—Idaho and Illinois. When informed that Utah’s capital punishment law gave him a choice of being hanged or shot by a firing squad, Deering replied: “I'm no good, anyway. I want to get it over with the quickest way possible. I'll take the firing squad.”

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Returned to Salt Lake City, Deering attempted to plead guilty, but his plea was refused and he was forced to stand trial on first degree murder charges. The trial was brief, marked by a violent outburst from Deering when he protested against Meredith's aged widow being required to testify.

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to California prisons three different times to serve terms for burglary. Mr. Meredith was shot as he entered his automobile, parked on a Salt Lake City residential street. Deering said he was already in the machine, attempting to steal it, when Mr. Meredith entered. Tells of Murder “When I told him to hand over the keys, he reached for his pocket,” Deering said in his confession. “I thought he was reaching for a gun, so I shot him. I immediately ran down the street and didn’t know he was dead until I read it in the papers the next day.” Since confined to prison, Deer-

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The detective division of the State Police Department investigated 147 cases, made 135 arrests and obtained 83 convictions during Séptember, acting Lieut. George Granholt reported today.

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