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Show Chance for LIT. SACRAMENTO. April IT. -Gov. Pardee yes-terdaj yes-terdaj granted John MeClure a reprieve until June I. MeClure was to have been hanged at Kan Quentin May 4 for the murder of two man named Zedlkoff and O'Bhea. While on. appeal the Supreme court found no error in the record. Chief Justice Beatty and Associate Justice hsw t recommended that the Governor give tha case serious study. Gov. Pardee has granted the reprieve to enable him to look Into the case. The Governor also commuted the sentence of William F. Hopkins, sentenced to ninety days' imprisonment for simple assault committed com-mitted in San Francisco. i |