| Show lU m T TUff UFE OF f and Several Friends Sister Send Letters to 0 0 or 01 f Family Salt Lake La kc City CIl tHY THEY PETITION FOR MERCY Justify the Double SIt Seek S to f Ask for Clemency I from the m moth mother lh The TI following friends friend of OC Jamea Jam I I nd ir er who killed two L t bockleY January loat ell In ill tb ICeD ea 14 A In with requests ken iii thAt tat trW Ir 25 2 the 10 Stilt people of O and nd Salt Sail UKo Lak Good real to you yoo ou for tor mercy for my nr cat u lal tuG aro Just ant and yIo four punishment e tb tote wid widm those could restore to Ute It II lii to I would try OJ m nc give him up Blk I th t gri blinK back tack live an MIer er toy bar to w we have and It If you ou Ke He II all the him to be when hen ho io knew I si as from home borne you OU would I away 1 tnt Ant rIal nt lie be tor to ho was hell ther hellI bo boHe boy boyHe I InnOt anti It I you would oung He I IS would do all allIn tie ho life I 1 sin am sure blame 1 blI right the wrong he be hOR hORe ha hae In ui i 4 warn ware 10 t other boys to guird e temptations whIch have ho gitt the his bb and hoping that you may te be I remain W and ana nt Mother other I 1 Sift M far of Uth Belt Belle o ad d he the only way say possible to I tiki t and would to 10 aol lou I could S Ute tle n 10 Itch LC of 01 you oU by b the tho hand ha n bU I appeal to you for tor mercy merc In be beIt talf It ot 01 my ny poor erring misguided Saw t am lame Shockley rater who have haro your oUr oona Kons with ith wee Ibele you ran nn an Advise and guide wi foJ p they have escaped the ns the snares and ond the tho pitfalls world God grant It may be bo BO so i Paw rIOJa for lof IO a moment and think of this I here bert In Missouri whoso whose only ion eon bit II 13 Ii al ir mercy mer This fattier father strove both br and precept to Ui tp in It In the Ibe h paths of honesty honest and up tip hID but the boy wandered away ma hone and Its Us blessed ul at limed lira fed from the paths pa of right who day da by b day see your teat lC around you ou and can lie llo down lown nt at sal know they the are safe from bra rs think of 01 this mother whose only 01 t o g tuned with sin Is s yet the child I fit Hill feels teela for him that mother I bea re alove a love that abides and amI endures tun there tharo I is 18 no greater and nd bt j none rone but mothers can fully I mi Ind all who vho have n a brother bo M ehat al my sister alter and I feet feel at lit this ibis JI rn He lie Is u young oung and there here Is a hops hope ho fit II If Mi Ms life lire Is he spared ho he may mn by b Ethi ht In the future atone for tor V hi lily GOIt In His Infinite Wisdom move Jor ir hart with compassion n and may ana anaHI hi Hi put It into Inlo the tho minds of those who hn ml IM tO nt tit IRIA Ing I 1 lr power pow r to I Justice with arT it IS the prayer of ot his heartbroken en Mr mIZA POEt VO B Bt Mo Marh 2 We the un d desire d lre to make u II few tow state 11 rs relative to James McPherson McPhersons s t kly y whom who you OU have halo In custody A written and ami signed by F IT C V II Logan lr Pr I M Owens anti and 0 O p D Underwood cashier of at Hello nello ted hM 1 already rca been P Published I In III Edt late n 0 statement r That guo 1 0 of oC hb his family toni of ot tho the high In Si they art are held her eI to thu statement we wo shall shull speak c cot o ot i the young oung man iut himself v do not leek 6 lo to justify y his tt it wt think J that tha a I wron wrong Impression Its in III th minds ot of the reo jeo te Ce of his early de e LIt we Wi sIncerely desire to let lct you ou k the truth In th tho h matter WI Ve have MIe neighbors t to his hla fir erU lirra his earl P pa childhood and eon can r make tha th following he was IS bright and quick to toe a sn a I h he Rr grew w lip up ho vas Il a ta fa titHe lIh hI ten e hera s At t school his deport ment nent us shown shon by reports given shen ien him by br hi h his teachers was as good Rood goodHe goodlie He lie was Will never a n vicious boy bo and while he sometimes engaged in III boyish bolah pranks or tricks hicks oven even these were ot of such a nature as na to 10 exhibit traits com corn common common mon moo to boys bos mid and were vere not In the least indicative of ot Inherent wickedness or crime Knowing these to he be facts wo vo think It justly due duo not only to his fam tarn family I ily II hi hut but to the young man himself lt to lot let It be he known to the tho people of ot your OUI state and wo we send this kindly asking you to publish the same caine In your our paper raper and as nR It is n a case of ot life lire and death anti ond ns as lis Is trial comes ort off so soon we would respectfully ask aMk you Oll to tl publish It at your our very ver earliest convenience Most Moet sincerely yours C I b OWENS 8 R A CHIDEn STOCKTON WILLIAM |
