Show HAMMONDS CASE Pleas Made in Ins llehalf Hii Brothers Broth-ers Ideas CHICAGO April 29Charles Billings a mining engineer of this city and a friend of John Hays Hammond of San Francisco in the latters behalf telegraphed tele-graphed United States Senator James McMillan a follows In the name of humanity I beseech you to do everything in your power to save the life of John Hays Hammond Ham-mond I knew him to be honest and upright Treasonable action justifying the death penalty could not be performed per-formed by such o < man a he is I appeal I ap-peal t you because I know your warm heart will go out towards a fellow countryman placed in such a position I as Hammond finds himself in I can hardly be called a personal I friend of Mr Hammond said Mr Bil lincs I met him some years ago at the Institute of Mining Engineering in New York but like everyone knew him slightly I came to admire him Ii needless to say that his standing as a mlninc engineer i of the very highest high-est and he is known to as a man n possess pos-sess the highest sense of honor I think every one of his countrymen haying hay-ing influence should bestir limself to the end that his life be saved lfe saye I know John Hays Hammond intimately inti-mately says John L loughteling of the firm of HoughitelingPeabody Investment In-vestment company He was a classmate class-mate of mine being a member of the class of 76 at Tale I have not the slightest fear that I a sentence of death wjll be carried out either In his ease or the others When they consented to plead guilty to the I charge of treason I believe there was an understanding as to What the punishment pun-ishment was to be I think the purpose pur-pose of the sentence is to assert the dignity and independence of the Transvaal Trans-vaal |