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Show i Convict Under Death Sentence 16 Years Thoenix, Ariz. William Faltin, j, sentenced to death sixteen years ago for tlie murder of his room- 4. mate, near Phoenix, has had a still further stay of a month i given by the state board of par- dons and paroles to permit In- troductlon of evidence In his be- half. He had been ordered to 1' the gallows a number of times , and was to have been hanged recently after appeal to the . Supreme court fiad failed. ? Some of tlie long interim since t his crime has been spent in the : state Insane asylum, while he hud a degree of reprieve during ! two years in which Arizoua had no capital punishment He ap peared to have been forgotten after his return to tlie state prison from the insane asylum J until lawyers, in his behalf, ? sought liberation on habeas cor- : us. Then it was discovered thai : the sentence of death still Is In X effect .J..:..J.;...,,.:.,.;,.;;,..j,....... ,..,.., |