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Show FROM OHIO TO TEXAS TO GET SON'S PARDON FORT WORTH. Tex., Oct. 29. Mrs. Lydia Wilson arrived here from Wa-verly, Wa-verly, O., to secure the release of her son Estodus. who is serving a life sentence sen-tence for murder committed about five years ago in West Texas. Wilson, aged 15, ran away from his home near Denison. While stealing a ride on a Fort Worth railway freight car he shot and killed a man with whom he was playing caids. He was arrested and convicted. While being conveyed to the penitentiary peniten-tiary by the Sheriff of Young county Wilson escaped from the train. He Joined his mother, who had left Texas and moved -to Ohio. He was captured after being at liberty several months. The Jutge and Jury who sentenced him for life and the Sheriff have signed a petition addressed to the Governor requesting re-questing that young Wilson be pardoned. par-doned. His widowed mother is at present pres-ent at Austin to present the petition to Gov. Lanham. Mrs. Wilson has sacrificed sacri-ficed a valuable farm to procure money to spend in behalf of her son. |