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Show TO TAKE LIFE OF MURDERER FLORENCE, Ariz., Jan., 7. (UP) Bill Lawrence, Oklahoma desperado, must hang here tomorrow tomor-row for the murder of Hazen Burch. Phoenix constable. Final preparations for tlie execution execu-tion were made today following word from Phoenix that, the, state board of pardons had refused to commute tlie death sentence. The condemned mans' mother and his 10-yea r-old sister Fay, arrived here today for a final visit, in the death cell. They made a dramatic plea in vain yesterday for Lawrences' Lawr-ences' life. Mrs. Lawrence was prost rated with brief. She has worked constantly con-stantly since the trial to save her son from the gallows. The sister was form calm, declaring declar-ing she had done all that is possible to save her brothers' life and resigning re-signing herself stoically to his fate. |