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Show Efforts to Save Life of a Woman Pcnnsylvanlans Hope to Prevent the Execution of the Slayer of a Man. READING, Pn Feb. 7. Letters from all parts of the country continue to pour In upon Oliver Lcntz, attorney for Mrs. Kate Edwards, sentenced to be hanged in this city February 16 for murder. In ench case the writer thinks that It would be an outrage to hang her. A number of reasons are given for this belief, tho principal one being that Ghe Is a woman and the state she was In at the time the crime was committed com-mitted was caused. In part at leost, by the conduct of her husband. Many of tho letters arc eloquent and the writers offer to circulate petitions to be sent to the Board of pardons. Thousands Sign Petitions. It Is estimated that at the meeting of the board next week petitions signed by 60,000 people will be presented asking ask-ing for mcroy for the woman. The press department of the W. C. T. U. has written that It is trying to get concerted con-certed action on the part of the entire en-tire association In the matter, and that It will use every effort In Its power to save the condemned woman from the fate that overshadows her. Will Ask Reprieve Attorney Lentz mailed today to the Board of Pardons at Harrlsburg tho petition to have tho sentence of Mrs. Edwards commuted. He will call on Gov. Pennypackcr tomorrow in an cn-deaor cn-deaor to get a reprieve, and John H. Rothortnol, counsel for Samuol Greaser, her negro accomplice, will go to Harrlsburg Harrls-burg on a similar mission Thursday. Rev. Stephen Schweitzer of Ephrala, Pa., Mrs. Edwards' spiritual adviser, of whose congregation she formerly was a member, Is circulating petitions among the people of her old home. Thcro nas not been one refusal. In the meantlmo Mrs. Edwards 13 preparing for death with her prison-born prison-born daughter, Alma, In her cell. |