Show DUG UP CORPSE AND SAVED A LIFE Montana Man Who Had Been Convicted Con-victed of Murder May Now Get Full Pardon ML DUE TO ATTORNEYS DARING DUInterred Body and Took Head to Governor to Prove That Man Had Not Been Shot From Behind Lcwlstown IontA petition to governor Toole asking him to grant I full pardon to Milton 0 Howell who s serving a life sentence for the mur Ser of Thomas foaling has been forwarded for-warded to Helena It Is signed by Ibout 800 residents of Fergus county lad several residents of Meaghor Yellowstone Yel-lowstone and Deer Lodge counties ind In addition bore tho signatures Df 400 residents of tho section of rexas where Howell was reared Tho case Is one of tho most sensational sensa-tional that has over occurred In Montana Mon-tana and only tho daring of Howolls attorney W K Cart now of Los Angeles An-geles saved him from tho scaffold At the trial tho state showed by a number num-ber of witnesses that Roiling was shot from behind and It was wholly upon this showing that tho verdict of first degree murder was returned Howoll was sentenced In 1900 to bo hanged and later Attorney Cort went alone to the place vhoro Rozllnga body was Interred dug It up took tho head to Helena and showed tho governor gov-ernor that the deceased was not shot from behind Upon this tho executive commuted the sentence to life imprisonment Im-prisonment and tho effort to obtain further clemency has been malting over since The petition Is one of tbd largest ever secured In Montana In a case of this kind |