he nor his wife were seen for 4wo more days, the landlady, accompanied
by two other tenants entered the apartment and found her body lying
on the bed. She had been bludgeoned to death with a flatiron and
had been hit so often and with so much viciousness that her features
were completely obliterated. Any laundry marks or other clues to
the identity of her and her husband had been removed. On Dec. 235
DeWeese went to the Chicago, Ill. police station and told him that he
was the murdered woman's husband but that he was innocent of the crime
Officers from Salt Lake City came and returned him to Utah when he
waived extradition. He maintained that he and his wife had attended
the theater in Salt Lake City on the night of the 2lst and that she
had been wearing some expensive stolen jewlery. He said that when
they returned home, he went out for a while, leaving the door unlocked
and that, when he returned, he found her murdered and the jewelry
gonee He gave a list of the missing items and they were subsequently
located in a safe deposit box that he had rented in St. Louis, Mo.
The State contended that he had killed her because she planned to
leave him and had too much knowledge of his activities as a burglar,
His conviction was appealed to the Utah Supreme Court which affirmed
the lower court and he was shot at the Utah State Prison on May 2h,
1918,
172 PACIFIC 290
he nor his wife were seen for &wo more days, the landlady, accompanied
by two other tenants entered the apartment and found her body lying
on the bede She had been bludgeoned to death with a flatiron and
had been hit so often and with so much viciousness that her features
were completely obliterated. Any laundry marks or other clues to
the identity of her and her husband had been removed. On Dec. 235
DeWeese went to the Chicago, Ill. police station and told him that he
was the murdered woman's husband but that he was innocent of the crime
Officers from Salt Lake City came and returned him to Utah when he
waived extradition. He maintained that he and his wife had attended
the theater in Salt Lake City on the night of the 2lst and that she
had been wearing some expensive stolen jewlery. He said that when
they returned home, he went out for a while y leaving the door unlocked
and that, when he returned, he found her murdered and the jewelry
gone. He gave a list of the missing items and they were subsequently
located in a safe deposit box that he had rented in St. Louis, Mo.
The State contended that he had killed her because she planned to
leave him and had too much knowledge of his activities as a burglar,
His conviction was appealed to the Utah Supreme Court which affirmed
the lower court and he was shot at the Utah State Prison on May 2h,
1918,
172 PACIFIC 290
he nor his wife were seen for wo more days, the landlady, accompanied
by two other tenants entered the apartment and found her body lying
on the bed. She had been bludgeoned to death with a flatiron and
had been hit so often and with so mch viciousness that her features
were completely obliterated. Any laundry marks or other clues to
On Dec. 23,
the identity of her and her husband had been removed.
Weese went to the Chicagoy Ill, police station and told him that he
leave him and had too much knovled
His conviction was appealed to the Utah Supreme Court which affi
the lower court and he was shot at the Utah State Prisewe, tay Dh"
1918,
172 PACIFIC 290
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Di WEESE, Howard
DeWeese, a white man, was a professional burglar who had ‘considered
the three years that he served in a penitentiary a blessing because
it had enabled him to break his drug addiction. For a period of
twelve years, he successfully followed his profession all over the
United States, ‘In 191), he was living and burglarizing homes in New
York City when he fell in love with his landlady, Mrs, Fanny Fisher,
in 1915, accompanied by her married son and r, they eloped
and went to Reno, Nevada. She took Some valuable: jewelry which they
pawndd, using the proceeds to open a boarding house until she could
secure a divorce and they married, He frequently left town during
this period and went into other cities and states for the purpose of
breaking and entering houses, After the divorce was final, ‘they
married and went to California while her son and daughter-in-law re-
turned to New York, The DeWeeses quarreled frequently and finally
she shipped two trunks of her clothing to her son, They left Califor-
nia together and arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Sept, 20, 1916,
where they rented a two-room a tment at 155% South Second East St,
Linder the alias 'Mr, and Mrse De C. Robbins,"~ DeWeese was seen
leaving the apartm 3 en nei-
Di WHESE, Howard
DeWeese, a white man, was a professional burglar who had ‘considered
the three years that he served in a penitentiary a blessing because
it had enabled him to break his drug addiction. For a period of
twelve years, he successfully followed his profession all over the
United States, ‘In 191) » he was living and burglarizing homes in New
York City when he fell in love with his landlady, Mrs, Fanny Fisher,
In 1915, accompanied by her married son and r, they eloped
and went to Reno, Nevada. She took some valuable: jewelry which they
pawndd, using the proceeds to open a boarding house until she could
secure a divorce and they married, He frequently left town during
this period and went into other cities and states for the purpose of
breaking and entering houses, After the divorce was final, ‘they
married and went to California while her son and daughter-in-law re-
turned to New York, The DeWeeses quarreled frequently and finally
she shipped two trunks of her clothing to her son, They left Califor-—
nia together and arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Sept. 20, 1915,
where they rented a two-room a artment at 155% South Second East Ste
Dnder the alias "Mr, and Mrs. D. C. Robbins."” DeWeese was seen
leaving the apartm i en nei-
D2 WEESE, Howard
DelWeese, a white man, was a professional burglar who had considered
the three years that he served ina penitentiary a blessing because
it had enabled hin to break his drug addiction, For a period of
twelve years, he successfully followed his profession all over the
United States, “In 19, he was living and burglarizing hones in New
York City when he fell in love with his landlady, Mrs, Fanny Fisher.
i dsci » they eloped
and went to Reno, Nevada, She took some valuable jewelry which they
ed in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Sept. 20, 1916,
where they rented a two-room apartment at 1159s South Second East St.
Gnder the alias ™r, and Mrs, D. C, Robbins."~ Delieese waecsean
leaving the apartment earl h i nd-and-when nei=
ee
