Show LEVY WILL NOT HANG board of pardons commutes sentence of idahoan convicted of murder the state board of pardons at boise idaho on monday commuted the sentence of george levy to life imprisonment he was to have been hanged on friday the murder ot davis levy in october 1901 the feature of the aepli atlon for clemency was a snowing indicating that another man may have corn bitted the deed soon after levy was murdered the adm inist a tor received through the mail what purported to be a will left by him the annc pal beneficiary dundei this will was harry watkins a furniture dealer it is claimed an in tion has demonstrated that ade docu ment was written on a typewriter in the possession of watkins also that he had levy s signature on a blip ol 01 paper in his desk the latter fact was testified to before the board by men who had been in watkins em ploy the murdered man w as an old miser and was quite wealthy wat kins was indebted to him at the time of his death george levy was not a relative of the murdered man he Is a frenchman who rented property from the old man for immoral pur poses |