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Show PRESIDENT PARDONS INDIAN. WASHINGTON, July IS. William Phillips, Phil-lips, a Cherokee Indian, serving a life sentence sen-tence for killing a fellow tribeaman. was given hla fredom yesterday by Prealdent Wilson Phillip waa convicted at what waa then Tahlequah. Indian territory, and haa served the equivalent of a fifteen-year fifteen-year Mnlence- The president decided that th deed, committed at a dance at which llrjuor ia aald to have been freely dla-penaed. dla-penaed. to have been done In self defense or was at most second degree murder. I |