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Show WILL ASK CHANGE IN DEATH SENTENCE WASHINGTON. Dee. 2ft. Keconnnen-elation Keconnnen-elation will be made to President Wilson by the department of justice that the court martial sentence of death imposed some fourteen months ago on Jjathor Witsche. former German naval officer, for plotting against tiie United States be set aside and that the officer be tried for violation of the espionage law by a federal fed-eral court, it was stated tonight by a high official of the department. Witsche, who Is said by 'officials here to have been captured in Nogales, Ariz., earlv in 191S. is now beintf held in the military prison at Fort Sam Houston awaiting presidential disposition of the findings of the court martial which tried him. |