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Show WRONG MAN CONVICTED. Utah Man Comes Near Hanging for Another's Crime. Salem, Ore. John G. II. Slercks, an Inmato of tlio state insane asylum, confessed Sunday night to tho killing of Mrs. DaUy Wehrman and her small son, for which John Arthur Pender of Ogden was convicted. Pender was un-dor un-dor sentonco to bo hanged until tho people of tho statu abolished capital punishment. Ho will ho freed by executive exec-utive order within a fow days. Slercks confessed when confronted by a lock of his own hair which had beon pried from Mrs. Wchrniun's douched hand. Tho tragedy occurred nenr Scappooso, Oro., Soptombor 4, 1911- |