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Show FRIENDS OF PRISONER MAY PREVENT HANGING Butte, Mont., March 2S. Reports from Helena and Glendive indicate there may be serious trouble Friday ever the execution at Glendive of Jo-soph Jo-soph Hurst, under eentence of death for the murder of Dominick Cava-' ;;augh. Hurst and Cavanaugh were j opposing candidate? for sheriff of Daw- i son county at the fall election of 1S0S. I 1 O-vanaugh wra a Democrat, Hurst a Republican. Cavanaugh won. Some wks later he was found dead in an alley at Glendive, with his s'.iull j crushed in. The commissioners of j Dawsen appointed Hurst to the vacan- i oy. Later he was arrested for the mur-i d r and convicted. j The evidence against him was alto- j p-ether circumstantial and based large- y on the outcome of the election. On : appeal, the supreme court could lind no error in the legal proceedings, but ! commented severely on the testimony, i thi,uh under established rule in suchj cases, unable to go into that branch of the subject. Frienda of Hurst have been working for weeks to secure commutation of sentence, or at least sufficient reprieve to allow them to hunt up evidence to show that Hurst is innocent. This morning word came from Helena that the governor refused to interfere, and Hurst may hang Friday. From Glen-oive Glen-oive comes word that Hurst's friends are determined to prevent what they consider a leal crime and injustice, 7"en if it becomes necerarv to attack the jail and rescue fne prisoner. Hurst is only 29 year., old and well connected. The dead man was sh-rin! at the time of hin re-election and the murder. He was very popular. Hurst's friends claim that there was no testimony tes-timony to warrant conviction beyond that of a man who has disappeared from Glendive since the present excitement ex-citement began. Four-fifths of the prominent people of the state petitioned for the clemency the governor refused, ' |