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Show MURDERER DECLINES . TO SEEK CLEMENCY Concurs With Judge Who Declares That He Is Not Fit to Live. i PARES. June 12 (Correspondence of . the AsLociated Press. ) CamiHe van der Marden was sentenced to death by the1 assizes of the Seine et Oise some three weel;s ago. He had murdered an elderly j woman to rob her of a few francs There 1 were no extenuating circumstances and i in sentencing him the judge t;aid he was 1 a monster who 'did not deserve to live Some days ago his attorney asked him I to sign a plea for clemency, which would ! be presented to President Poincare, ask- I trig that sentence of death be commuted I to life imprisonment. Van der Marden i refused to put his name at the bottom of the document, saying: "The judye said T didn't deserve to live." His lawyer, law-yer, however, presented the plea- "for clemency over 1 1 jo refloat of his client. This morning President Poincare received re-ceived the following letter: "Please do not pardon me. I don't want to be pardoned. The judge said i I wasn't fit to live." It is signed "Van I dei- Marden." j , Van der Marden will be executed. I |