Show 8 I L LYNCHS L S S Tf LL Convicted Slayer Slaver of Col Cul Godfrey Gets ts Life Im Imprisonment DECISION ARRIVED AT TODAY Men Icu Who ho Figured PI In III the jail Give mc Testimony lu in Ills lIIs after ater 1 t this Ihl afternoon thy th tate state board of or pardons voted Otel oto l I unanimously to commute the th sentence of Jr James Jarnes Lynch to life lICe nt The decision was arrived II at ut after Iter a a 11 thorough examination of oC thoe those who figured In the lat lato jail delivery at tho tt state prison at ut which time Lynch Is Isaid aid to have hare prevented the killing ot of Guard Juard Zebulon Jacobs u he was wall about to tu be shot by b Abe Aba Majors Among those examined t d cie ele Lynch IlIch himself Abe A be Major Waddell Connors Mullen and several others other The slate tat board of ot met to today today day In III session eIon at lit the state tatu prison and anti OIl l tlell lie Iho t application nf ot James Jume Lynch IlIch for Cor or commutation of at sentence to life lire Imprisonment Lynch Is I under to be 11 1 executed on Friday Jan 8 3 for tor the murder of at Colonel Godfrey e nt It tho thu Sheep gambling hou houa o on Commercial street on au Sept 11 H OO JOO Ills case nan haK been appealed to tl the supreme awl tho the judgment Ju of ot the lower court wag In each ench instance At the last regular meeting of oC the hoard board of or pardons on Saturday Dec 19 1903 Lynchs application for tor commutation lion tion of ot sentence Was wan denied Since that time his attorney and tid friends have havel l on en hard at work to additional facts to present to tb the board In order tr in secure lIec re him a 1 second sr hearing be before before Je fore tore that tha body Ever Y r since tho the tact fact kI that Lynch prevented the tiit other rom killing Guard I duIng the recent prison break the sympathy bf bt tho the community hns has gone Ione the condemned nina man and nn andon on every crry hand expressions have ha Vo been I heard favoring a commutation I of oC his sentence when the th I hoard board denied his hie Mr a I petition tr Jor A rehe was WaR aR at nt once onea circulated anil received d tho the signatures of ot a n nn tr of citi citizen zen acne The board boad then th n called the special meeting i today TilE BEGINS The Tho meeting wan wa nut to order In tho the supreme court room nt at the city anti county building Governor Wells the object of ot tho the moling nod then stated that arrangements arrangement hul hI 1 been heen made malic for tor tho the board hoar to 10 meet U Utho t l tho the slate slain prison In lii order ordel to i hear henr tho ni statements ot of those thOM who might throw Home Kollie light on the case caso end that a room had been provided tar for tho meeting Turning to t 0 Justice Barton Bartch Cloy Gov 00 Wells risked him him If It bat arrangement nt would b bo be to tn him hiI anti Insured him bun that ho ha then have 1110 tilt tho of ot his first Or t In jail AM the members of o the ho board present stated that they the willing to go ItO olt oit to the tho prison whereupon Gov Un ins Wells assured them their term of lit would not be bt a 11 very ery long one ono oneCIO CIO 10 0 TO STATE The board then adjourned to the state prison flon The who ho were vere pres Ires present eat ent are 1110 re Gay Gov Wells Justice Jus Ju tics lice McCarthy Mc and anil Chief Justice was wa the tho only nb al In III addition to tho the members of oj J the tho board Attys tty H U C e Edwards I aim Will F 10 Wanless representing Lynch ami several parties who testified ell before the th went out outto to tho prison also |