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Show WIFE MAKES PLEA FOR HER CONVICTED HUSH AND JOLIKT. III., April 20. "1 want my husband back home with me. 1 havo no relatives and but few friends. 1 am alone in the world ami I need my husband for company and support. I know myself ho whould not be here, but as ho cannot get out without being pardoned. I ask the board to do all they can for my husband." hus-band." Thii: plea was made today before the state pardon board In behalf of former Judge Abner Smith of Chicago, who is serving a term of imprisonment for conspiracy con-spiracy to wreck the I3a.uk of America. No one opposed the petition for a pardon, par-don, which previously wa.s denied. |