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Show DUG UP CORPSE $ND SAVED A LIFE Montana Man Who Had Been Convicted Con-victed of Murder May Now Get Full Pardon. , , ALL DUE TO ATTORNEY'8 DARING - v v Dltlnterred Body and Took Head to Governor to Prove That Man Had Not Been Shot From Behind. Lowlstown, Mont. A petition (o Governor Toole nsklng him to grant a full pardon to Milton O. Howell, who Is sorvlng a llfo sentence for tho murder mur-der of Thomas Itozllng, has boon for-wnrded for-wnrded to Helena. It is signed by nbout 800 residents of Fergus county nnd sovornl residents of Meagher, Yel-lowstono Yel-lowstono and Deer Lodge counties, and in addition boro tho signatures of 400 residents of tho section ot Texas whero Howell was reared. Tho caso is ono of tho most sensational sensa-tional that has over occurred in Montana, Mon-tana, and only tho daring of Howell's attorney, AV. E. Cort, now of Los Angeles, An-geles, saved him from tho scaffold. At tho trial tho stato showed by a number num-ber of witnesses thnt Hozllng was shot from behind, and It was wholly upon this showing that tho verdict of first degrco murder was returned. Howell was sentenced In 1900 to be hanged, and later Attorney Cort went nlono to tho placo whero Itozllng's body was Interred, dug It up, took tho head to Helena and showed tho governor gov-ernor that tho deceased was not shot from behind. Upon this tho oxecutlvo commuted tho sontenco to llfo imprisonment im-prisonment and tho effort to obtain further clomoncy has been making ovor slnco. Tho petition is ono of tbo lnrgcst over secured in Montana in a caso of this kind. |