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Show GOVERNOR STONE SAYS HE CANNOT REMEMBER . PITTSBURG. Oct. 24. William A. Stone, former governor of Peuns3-Ivauia, when shown a copj' of the letters made publio tonight by William R. Hearst, made tho following statement to the Associated Press: "I have no personal recolleotiou whatever of receiving these letters. Mr. Henderson was not appointed to tho supreme bench by me. therefore these letters did not influence in that appoint-I appoint-I ment. I had known Jiidgo Mnrrispn years before I appointed him. He had I been .a judge in McKoen and Potter ' counties and had made a splendid record. rec-ord. I knew him personaUy, and knew him to be a very able lawyer, That is what influenced me in appointing him, and his splendid record on the bench since his appointment justifies it.'' |