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Show ASK FOR RETRIAL FOR CONDEMNED MAN PHILADELPHIA. Fe IL-Attorneys representing Samuel Greason. . a. negro who. with Mr. Kate Edwards, ia condemned con-demned to ba hanged at Reading ; next Thursday for the murder of Mrs. Edwards's Ed-wards's husband, came from Reading- today to-day to lay before the Supreme court a petition asking that Oreason's case be reopened re-opened and sent back to the Berks county court, for retrial. The petition -is based on the confession made by Mrs. Edwards on Thursday. Q reason haa been, respited more than a dozen times, and the death warrant has been read to him twelve times. |