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Show thk noun or AM AHUEL fctiorl laftave Twe releadleea klBaere froua ueib. KamhahCitv, Mo., May 14 A 13-yeai-old girl petitioning Kanaaa City 'a bualuaea men to algu a rvqu-at to Uov emur Htooe lo aava tba Uvea of two negro muiderera waa a nuhle eight wltneeaed here today. Hhe waa It ale Howe aud the bad volu .urlly aiarud her tmdeaViire lu behalf of i'ullard and llarrla, who bad murdered an Italian in a aaloou row, woum the governor bad reluaed lo grant a further raaplte, and lor whom tkwlr lawjuta bad apparently ap-parently given up hop. The girl appeared lu the elllca of Hugh Jtnberit, atluroi-y for the condemned con-demned men, before be bad arrived there tbia morning. "1 want to do nuiaUilug lor lbee men," aald abe, "1 don', think they ought to bang, 'there dea not teem lo be any ooe tr". lug tuhoip them, aud that la wbal I am here lor.'1 The youthful pleader nervouaty watched the aurprlaed lawyer fur a moment after delivering the above, and then eoutlutie j i want you to write me a peiltlou aud I'll get a thousand thou-sand people to atgn It belure Friday mormiu'. 1M I unt make the governor uummu'e ibelr aeutence. Hurry, plvaae, i can't waateuiy time.' Mlaa Howe could not ba arKiiet out of ber Intention. Hhe waa el ub born in ber purpoae aud, at l-at, aimed wltu a, petltiou, left tua oUice Irluuiphautly. The i etllloo waa vlgorouily clreola'ed n the city ball and up aud down the buIne-a street , nearly every man ibe met furnlahlng tbe oovted aignaturf. Hhe worked loica-antiy and when, at In the day, abe dlaplayed her pctltl-m niled wtln name, her far beamed wllh Joy. Hhe it t rtapectable prrnt-aia prrnt-aia and wa one of a uiimhernf vialtor ebonw the prlaonara durlog t'jo r In earcaratlon. |