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Show If PARDON BOABO 10 PASS I Has Been Going Over Record of if Case, in Preparation for , j Decision. Vj i The State Board of Pardons meets Ml' - Saturday at 10 o'clock to .lccidc on Uic Jljji -fate of .Mbort TJ&. Dntho nopro con- i S'JYi vlcted of killing Horace II. Voss. negro. 'A f ami condemned to lie shot Krlduy, Dc- 1X ccuibcr 1". at the Stale prison. The Mil IwanJ consIstH of '"dp8,w.allvML9,Ii?!: Wl D. i Straup. .losph E. I' rick, of tho Jil Supreme Court; Gov. .Mm C Cutlet 1; and M. -. Brccden. Stale Altorucy- Sl; GDur?nR the past week the members of II? tho board have been oliis ovor i"C iei " 'H ords of DnVs trial, and niakutp a 11101 " jt ough Investigation of th- ease. " I reported that the iiinetlne 1 be hel-I ' 11 In tho rooms of the Supreme Court i.u - ' I cr than In the penitentiary, as is t e 1 :!l ; custom This special session of the rJ 1 tord Is called for the solo purpose of Mil Uklns Hay's ease, under consider.it on. .ii E The testimony that .onvletcd Da to the effect that he had wull'.ed lo w ' 'fl I door of a room hi whi.-h v,fs.v.y,b Handing talking lo a friend, and dolib- :t."4 f crately shot him down. I Day's si ory was thai he had a eontro- I versy with Voss. In which the lattei I threatened him and reached fir his hip rckot. and that as Voss made that nio- .-. k lion. Dav shot. , , , 00 The bullet entored (he right side r Vosx's forehead and lodged at the baeK ' ' i ot bis bead. There were .-ye witnesses mt- to the shooting, who told that Uay had I thot without warning or provocation. |
