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Show INDIAN WOMAN WINS REPRIEVE FOR SON Lad Serving Terra for Larceny, Victim of Tuberculosis, Allowed to Go Home "With Mother to Die. Special to The Tribune. BOTSK, Idaho, Jan. 1. A New Year's day gift of her son was what Mrs. Baker, a full-blooded Indian woman of the Fort Hall Indian reservation, received today from the governor of the state, and she left with him for Pocatello. Austin Baker, an Indian lad, was arrested in bannock county some time ago, charged with grand larceny, convicted and sentenced sen-tenced to serve from one to fourteen years in the state penitentiary. Arrayed in all of her native Indian attire, at-tire, Mrs. Baker came to Boise to plead for her boy's liberation. He was sick, she said, and needed a mother's attention. atten-tion. The prison authorities were consulted. con-sulted. It was found that young Baker was dying with consumption, so the governor gov-ernor signed a reprieve and allowed his mother to take him back to the reservation reserva-tion to die. |