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Show DUG UP CORPSE AND SAVED A LIFE Montana Man Who Had Been Convicted Con-victed of Murder May Now Get Full Pardon. ALL DUE TO ATTORNEY'S DARING Disinterred Body and Took Head to Governor to Prove That Man Had Not Been Shot From Behind. Lowlstown, Mont. A petition to Governor Toole asking him to grant a full pnrdon to Milton O. Howoll, who Is serving n llfo Bcntonco for tho murder mur-der of Thomas Rozllng, has been for-warded for-warded to Helena. It Is signed by nbout 800 residents of Fergus county nnd several residents Of Meagher, Ycl-lowstono Ycl-lowstono nnd Deer Lodgo counties, nnd In addition boro tho Blgnnturcs of 400 rosldents of tho section of Toxos whero Howell wns reared. Tho caeo Is ono of tho most sensational sensa-tional thnt has over occurred in Montana, Mon-tana, and only tho daring of Howell's attorney, W. E. Cort, now of Ios Angeles, An-geles, saved him from tho scaffold. At tho trial tho stato showed by a number num-ber of witnesses thnt Rozllng was Bhot from behind, nnd It was wholly upon this showing that tho verdict of first degroo murder was returned. Howell wns sentenced In 1900 to bo hanged, nnd later Attorney Cort wont nlono to tho place whero Rozllng'fl body was Interred, dug It up, took tho head to Helena and showed tho govornor gov-ornor that tho deceased was not shot from behind. Upon this tho cxecuttvo commuted tho Bcntcnco to llfo Imprisonment Im-prisonment nnd tho effort to obtain further clomoncy has been mnklng over since. Tho petition Is ono of tho largest ever secured In Montana In a case of this kind. |