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Show BREWER mi WILL BE DECIDED TODAY Young Murderer Is Asking a Commutation of His Death Sentence. UP TO PARDON BOARD It Is Not Likely That Any Additional Pleas Will Be Heard. Whether or not. (Tarry Brewer, con-victcil con-victcil murderer of Kllgene Allen, shall .ay the penalty of his erinie ley forfeiting forfeit-ing his life, or shall be granted a tin-nintation tin-nintation of sentence of life imprisonment imprison-ment is scheduled to tic decided today at tint regular monthly meeting of the state board of pardons. Hiewer's ease, is the last on the list to be considered today, an. I waht his fate, will be cannot be determined until the. board has disposed of other matters mat-ters before it. It was stated lost night bv Governor Spry that it probably would be afternoon' before a decision in the case could be reached. In the meantime. Brewer, who made a plea for clemency before the board at its last meeting," is anxiously awaiting await-ing the news that will either send him to death at the hands of the executioners, execu-tioners, or will commute his sentence to life imprisonment the only mercy he has asked at the hands of the board. Makes Good Impression. Brewer was under sentence to have been shot to death for his crime on September 2fl, but the day before the date for execution a special meeting of the board of pardons was held at the state prison and a plea for commutation commu-tation of sentence was made in his behalf be-half by his attorney, Parley P. Jen-ou, Jen-ou, and a number of prominent citizens, who had become interested in his caBo through the publication in the local papers pa-pers of his life's story. Brewer himself went before the board nt this time and related in detail the historv of his career. As "no formal application for clem-' clem-' ency had been filed with the board at the time of the hearing, the board could not take any formal action, save to grant a stay of execution until .the next regular meeting of the board to give the attorney for the young man' an opportunity op-portunity to file a forma! petition for commutation of sentence. This was filed shortly after the last board meeting, meet-ing, and it is this petition that will be considered and acted upon by the hoard at its regular meeting today. View of Governor. Governor Spry stated last night that the hearing in the case had been' concluded con-cluded at the last session of the board, and ho did not anticipate that there would be any further hearing today. He stated, however, that if anyone appeared ap-peared who might have something new to tell the board in regard to the caBe he thought the board would hear it He stated, however, that the board would not be inclined to open its doors to anyone who might simply want to talk o'n the matter without having something some-thing now to offer the board that would bear directlv upon the case. As ia usiial in such eases, the hoard will take tbc application up in executive execu-tive session, discuss it and the matters laid before it at the special session when valiant appeals in the behalf of the voting man were made by a number of citizens whose interest had been aroused in his behalf. should the board deny the application for commutation then the prisoner, as was done in the Hillstrom case, will have to be taken hef ore the trial court again for the court to fix the date of execution, as the date originally set by the court has now passed. |