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Show The (io.eitioi's "Dally." Among n number of letters which reached Governor A. I. Thomas y es-terdsy es-terdsy afternoon, there was one from Mrs. Kva Detmond O'llrlon,of Pueblo, Colorado. Hhe supports the petition asklug for executive clemency on behalf be-half of Thomis H. Todd, who la serving a sentence lu tho Utah lenllentlary for tbe killing of her former husband, P. J. Desmond. Hho is willing that Todd shall bu pardoned, aa llu may have had reason to believe ho was acting In aclf defense,as ho claims, and that ho actud on the Impulse of the moment. Hho thinks hu hss been sufllclently punished, and ns hla ago! mother now Hot low with oonaumt Hon aud uxi roses as her last with that her eon be pardoned, Mrs. O'llrieu asks that Todd may tn given ix chanco to livo n better li'e. The petition Is signed by about 100 citizens of Weber county, Utah, where the crime was committed. |