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Show WEST TELLS WHY HE PARDONED WEBB TACOMA. Wash.. Sept. . Oor. Oswald Os-wald West of Oregon, who came to this city lest night to attend -th wdllnr of hla alec, -declared two Women and not a poem caused htm to save Jesse p. Webb, tit Oregon murderer, who waa reprieved on the way to th gallows. "It haa been ld that I waa moved to f.irdon tvelib by reading sjis.ntoj' pcern. T!wy Ar Hanging BUI Jonea." " he aaid. "Toe truth la. Webb's wife and daughter Kent on mv trail until 1 felt like a dog. Bui I've felt riirht ever sine. nd tha! shows t did the rtgM thing. When I saw those women In my office the morn-Inr morn-Inr set for the hanging I knew Webb would never . swing." |