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Show DEFENDS HER HUSBAND. Mrs. Hu tellings Recalls Foots in an Old Murder Trial. Editor Trlbuno Droiicht to my notloo and boforo mo la an artlclo publltlioJ In your paper pa-per of December 2, under a caption of 'Tar-don 'Tar-don Not Amiss," and sub-heading, "Ex-Con-vlct In Dolce Woll, and Itemombcra lllo Bono-factor." Bono-factor." Probably only fi rosolnz notice would have attracted thu iiUontlon of tho rolatlvoB and many friends of' tho victim of this o-convlct had your artlclo ended with Its fourth paragraph, para-graph, "Ln t Inasmuch as tho fifth and ending pnxasTrtph convoys to tho publlo that thlB -convict was Justlflod In hla raih act of Ullllnjr Joseph 12. Hutching! becauno of tho latters throat against WIUlame'H llfo, I fool In duty bound for tho ralko of tho honor of my do-ceased do-ceased husband ojid our children, who were loft fatherloM and depundent upon a wldowel mother for the.ie past twenty-two yean, to wrlto you thin correction. Tho parucruph to which I refer read as follows: "Thoro woro extonuatlnir circumstances ln "U'llllamo's crlmu. Ho killed a man named Hutchlnirn, whom ho discharged from tho mlno ln which ho vrna phlft boas, Hutchincs wont around tolling what ho wao colnK to do to Williams. Tho men mot ono day when no ono olse was near and had n. quarrel Wll-II Wll-II am a had been told of ITutohlncs'H threatn und expected mischief. Ho thought Hutchlncs ould tr' to kill him and anticlpatod him." Thoro was no euoh ovldcnco boforo tho trial court, hut on tho othor hand tho ovldonco boforo bo-foro tho court and nflldavlta on lllo boforo tho Board of Pardons all went to Bhow that my husband, unarmod, wrtli deliberately shot down ln cold blood wntlo pleading for his life, for tho .ako of his wlfo and children whom ho loved dearer than his llfo nnd for whom ho wan fltrueelliu; to maintain. Tho testimony showed thnt Sir. Ilutchlnga won not a quarrolnomo man. If you talco tho troublo to look over tho fllos of Tho Trlhuno you will find nufflclent support for tho otatomcnts made ln this correction. cor-rection. Very respectfully, MRS. J- E. HUTCHING3, |