| Show lYNCH TO PL PLEAD D HIS OWN ON CASE Will Personally Beg cg the Pardon Board to Set Aside Death Sentence EXECUTION FIXED FOR JAN 8 Stron Strong Petition for Majors Anti And harry addell Will Also lie he Present to Plead for Ills Lire Life There will be n a special meeting ot of the state late board ot oC next Satur Saturday day when James Lynch trill appear to ninke n a plea plen In his hili behalf and asic that his hili death sentence bo be changed to Imprisonment for life lite There wilt will ho be present also Abo Majors and harry ho bit the recent break brenk at the tho tate state anti who iho fire are expected to testify that had nothing to ole do with the affair beyond attempting to escape anti that ho nothing of at the plot until Connor Ills his cell door and told him hitia to get Bet out Guards Jacobs and wilt will also abo lie he present to state thc they may know knowIn In the matter maUer Governor W II has called tue tho special meeting ot of the board boara In consequence ot of tIle tho following petition which has been circulated by Lynchs counsel t 1 abe City Utah lion Hon Heb lIeber r lit Id Veils Wella Governor and the State Board ot of Pardons the undersigned bar barlag lag Ing fully In niina the welfare find and safe safety ty of the tue people do most earnestly pe Ie titian for tor the commutation of the tho sen sentence tence ot of James Lynch to life lICe Imprison Imprisonment meat ment h have a In mind the facts In Inthe inthe the case cao ns as they have been from frem time to time antI We also have In the statement of oC the tho prison authorities show that thill when h he was waR offered an to escape Lynch paused Ion long I enough tn In tho ho night flight to render material ns In the saving of at the thc life ot of one of at the tho am cers of at the prison Lynch have known that delay his hili chances of at escape We must regent his net therefore IU as both courageous humane It If the tho principle or of 1 a alife life lito for lor t life lite he bo urged we answer that Justice may well be satisfied with n IL life lito spared for Cor 1 a life lito saved All An Lynch saved life wo we urge his tiia own life lite rudy be spared Ii H I 1 Henderson Frail T A n 13 Irvine Arthur Brown Sno Snow A n It Barnes I 1 C Evans L JI It WI v II H ICing H 11 J 1 Dinnin M Id Id I M I P William A Lee A J A DuncAn Unless the tho above petition I I Lynch will be executed on the ot of next month by shooting The Tue su premo court lien passed upon his case calle i twice and three times the man has had tho ho death passed upon him himAt himAt At the tho last m th of the tho board ot of par pardons dons lonK 1 a effort was wall made malO to so cure I a commutation of sentence JUt but without result Hut special effort has be been n made since and the board is III or III tIered convened nain aln ns as previously noted |
