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Show YEARNS FOR, GALLOWS j V Idaha Murderer Prefers 1 Death te Prisen. ' SAYS HE WILL SU1C11E i ' . (i l Supreme Court Refused Him a I Now Trial. ; Last Hope-of Georgo Levy, a French- jH man, Gone, and He Says Ho Would Welcome Death. TRIBUNE SPECIAL. Boise, Ida., Jan. 22. "Tuko mo out and hang mo' now, warden., I am innocent. If thc court says I am guilty. I want to die now. If you do .lot hang me I will take my 011 life." These -words were spoken by George H Levy, thc Frenchman, condemned lo death H for thc murder, on October 3, 1901, of Da- vis Levy, in thin city, and whosa case was H yesterday decided adversely by the State Supreme court. H Warden Pcrrln did not notify Levy oC J the decision of thc court until this morn- jH ing. The news stunned him. In a mo- flH men l, however, he excitedly demanded to flH bo hanged M once, threatening to kl'l JH himself I he could not be accommodated. IH Tho warden did his best to quiet the man, but c-ouM do little with him. JH After Levy had been taken back to his AH cell from the warden's office ho paced tM up and down like a "nged lion. When 1c HB was suggested to Levy that the Prison ll board might do something for him, hn shouted: "I will not havo It. I am inno- cent, but if the court says guilty, then tM hang mc at once. I will kill myself before jM I atay in this prison." 1 The condemned man chafes under con- fH flncmcut, and Warden Perrlu fc-ars thau H even If his sentence should be commuted. jH he will endeavor to take ids own life. IH Everything was removed from Levy's coll while the warden was talking to bin In M the office and thc cage searched. I.evv fM will from now on bo kept under constant |