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Show - 7 t:cli::s to Accept Cci ' miitaticn to Life Im- priscament - : . BOISE. Id., April 11 Geort. Levy, the condemned murderer, whose aentenc to b hanged aezt Friday was commuted to life imprisonment 2y the State Pardon Eoard, was called Into th warden's oftlc yetrday and notified of the action of the bord. . -. . ' , . , i. "I don't want my sentence commuted.' he exclaimed. "I refuse to accept It." Ae oon as he was called to go to the warden's office Levy knew that the board had reached some kind of a decision deci-sion In-his rM and he was quite nervous. -As aoe-u as he had tj?ard the words that consigned hlm to a prison cell for tlae remainder of his life he broke out In a disjointed avowal that he wanted the Warden to hang: him. The old ar rumen t that if he was guilty he should he hanged and lf innocent should be permitted to ro free was advanced again and Levy declared, de-clared, that he would cot accept the commutation com-mutation offered him by the board. He talked in a indirect way of eni Clde. . : Levy was In a better frame of mind wtaen -he ieft- the' Warden's office than when "be was first told of the action of the pardon board, but. as a matter of Srecautlon, H was deemed best to keep 1m locked in his cell for a few days. |