Show LIFE PRISONERS PLEA FOR PARDON Application of Thomas Williams Before Board Today STRONG OPPOSITION TO IT PrIsoner Was Va or of I E In 1883 The State board ot of pardons pardon met In special session toda teda to consIder the tho applIcation for tor executive clemency of at Thoma Thomas Wiliam Williams now n ft Jib sentence n for tor the tho kiln killing of Joseph JosephE h E ot at tb the Mammoth mine on February 21 US 1583 B 8 1 1 Arstrong Armstrong sip al I in behalf b ot of the petitioner while the family of at who arc strongly o posed opposed to the granting ot of 1 a pardon Were represented pr by Judge 0 v lowern Quite 1 a number of at the of the tue murdered man were irate In attendance nt at pr and took 1 a deep Interest In 11 all that transpired They belec believe the tho judgment anti sentence or I to hare hae been 1 a Just one the they insist that I it should ho be carried out that thre thore ar are no Circum stances In the Cal case which would ivar ar arrant rant any Rny clemency clemeno Attorney Armstrong took the peel that Wiliams Williams ought neVer to have hao been convicted ot of murder In the first degree and claimed that the tho man hall hail been enough for tor what ho lied had done 10 lie read numerous leter letters nt mill antI am petitions to the board In favor ot of Williams Many peron person stat stated ed th that t the prisoners chatter character bo be before toro fore the murder was al food good that ho he iA known ns as a quiet Inoffensive and citizen The Ile prison tel ties stated that hI his conduct since 00 oon ha has been ot of a most malt exemplary exemplar Other went to show how that Hutchings had threatened Williams bo be because cause caulo the tho hatter who wal was a shi shift bOS boss had discharged from the Mammoth mine ld of partes parties were signed set setting ting forth th that t Williams dill did not receive a fair trial for tor the tho reason he be woe was fot not read ready wih with hs his witnesses and that the COUrt Emerson refused to grant granta a continuance The whole of at the morn log Ing was taken up with the tho ot of papers apers TO DASKIN As s soon loon l as Attorney Armstrong had concluded the rea reading Judge lowers was wal heard in Opposition le lie objected to Justice sit sitting tin In the ene case for tor forthe the reason that at a former hearing be before taro fore the judge became a 0 member of at the board ito he had made showing nn an incident the character ot of Hutchings explained tha that lie he V would sit lit wih with time the board In open see ses sian but I It thu tho other members thought he wa was on Recount account of the tho thoa a he hind had previOUsly presented he would not take an any part In the Ina final dIsposition at o the tho case caso when It wa was con considered I In execUte executive session The In incident dro dropped ped Judge Juden then asked the leKI legs ot of beinG being allowed to keep his sat seat keep while presenting his aide of at tM the ease at a a that he Wi was worn out over ocr the he Benbrook trial The Tho ro no Quest was 4 granted no He then proceeded to rend t the affidavit ot of henry at the tho time ot Of the murder was em 1 at th the Mammoth and an eye eyo eyewitness witness ot of the tho Kohl derbes describes the murder ns as In the extreme le lie was ot sUbpoenaed RS as n a witness at the trial and says he did not M say mich much about tM the shooting as ho he was WIlS afraid ot of hl life lite Other affidavits letter Ind and of parties protesting against lb this granting ot of a pardon were read af ton ter which Hutchinson real offered A similar documents In rebuttal rebuttal |