Eureka Reporter | 1905-08-11 | Page 2 | Dug up Corpse and Saved a Life

DUG UP CORPSE AND SAVED A LIFE montana man who had been con evicted of murder may now get full pardon ALL DUE TO ATTORNEYS DARING disinterred body and took head to governor to prove that man had not been shot from behind mont A petition to governor toole asking to grant a full pardon to milton 0 howell who is serving a life sentence tor thea mur der ot thomas has been for warded to helena it Is signed by about residents of fergus county and several residents of meagher yel low stone and deer lodge counties and in addition bore the signatures of residents of the section of texas where howell was reared the case Is one of the most sensa that bas ever occurred in moi tana and only the daring of howell s attorney W E cort now of los an geles saved him scaffold at the trial the state showed by a num ber of witnesses that was shot from behind and it was wholly upon this showing that the verdict of first degree murder was returned howell was sentenced in 1900 to be hanged and later attorney cort went alone to the place where s body was interred dug it up took the head to helena and showed the gov arnor that the deceased was not shot from behind upon the executive commuted the sentence to life am and the effort to obtain further clemency has been making ever since the petition is one of the argest ever secured in montana in a aase of this kind