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Show CAMPAIGN FOR WOMAN'S PARDON CHICAGO, July 7. Some of the most prominent women of Chicago have taken up tbe cause of Mrs. Angelina Napolitano, who is under sentence of death for the murder of her husband at Sault Hte. Marie, Canada. The date for the execution ia set for August 12. Unless the calculation of the prison physicians phy-sicians are wrong, August 12 will fall within two weeks after Mrs. Nspoli-tano Nspoli-tano baa become a mother. Th. women at the head nt the move- ment in Chicsgo are Mrs. Charles Hen-rot Hen-rot in of the Chicago Women's club, Mrs. La Verne W. Moves of the Psugh-ters Psugh-ters of the Amerfcsn Revolution; Mrs.- L. D. Railley of the Catholic Woman's league; Mrs. Charles F. Fish-back Fish-back of the Tuesday Art and Travel elub. and Miss Julia Lathrap of Hull house. Their campaign takea the form of an appeal to every woman in Chicago to write a letter to Hir Allen Avleaworth, minister of justice of Canada, urging him to grant Mrs. Napolitano a respite nntil a month or six weeks after the child is born. |