Show Idaho Wife Sl Sla Slayer y er r Is Is' Denied Pardon by Board I BOISE Ida Dec 3 In AP-In AP In d de I the application for pardon of John M M. McDowell serving a life me sentence for the killing kUling of his wile wife ie at Springston KootenaI county In 1910 Idaho's pardon board announced an- an an announced yesterday that applicants for or pardon from convictions of murder must prove provo their Innocence beyond a a. reasonable doubt The McDowell case was made one for tor special consideration following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing the discovery of or a transcript of or the trial but board members after examination of ot the tho transcript expressed the belief tho the jury was was' much more more capable of j judging the weight of ot evidence than a pardon board could seventeen years later McDowell was convicted of having havIng having hav hav- ing poisoned his wife with tho the state attributing McDowell's motive motive motive mo mo- tive to his love for far another woman |