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Show MOTHER'S PLEA -GETrDYING" SON FROM PRISON Youth, Shot When Ks- raping, Has .a F?w I lours to Live. Yielding1 to the pleas of hi mother, the- state txiard of pardons ' allowrd Harvey Kelt hum. 1 S n-ar of Hire, to he removed from the stale prison to Hi Canyon road thin morn Inn. The hoy j waff shot ly Hheriff I. M. Atlammn of Tooele county fo. lowing his escape from the prison road camp near St. John. Ketchum has but a few hours I or dai to live, according to physi-cia physi-cia na. The boy a mother came to Salt Ijike from 1-is Angeles aa soon as ahe heard of hla Injury, liach day ahe a pent aa mmli time with hlin In prison aa was allowed by the regulations. The youth wept bitterly when hi mother diacov- l ered hla plight and made vowa to reform. re-form. He waa shot in the spine. I K v e n If he reco vc is, he will be a 'cripple for life. According tn hla moth-, r, the boy received a sevure injury to the top of hla head while a child and r haw never hey n same einre. Ttiln Injury ahe hlamea for hi escapades , ami ataiea that nit early operation would probably have saved him from , hla preaent fate. I Ketchtim waa serving a abort sentence sen-tence for stealing an automobile. He and another youth named August Cummin Cum-min jt a were working tn a road camp near St. John. It.'uh fled from the guard. Warden Htorra and Sheriff Adanifun went in search of them. nrn- , mings Is Hlill at large. Keichum waa i sighted, but ref lined to atop when told to do ao, and waa ahot. When Ketrhum told the warden of j hla family in Los Angele It waa learned that he came of highly re- spec ted parents. |