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Show LEV WILL NOT' HANG. Board of Pardons Commutes Sentence of Idahoan Convicted of Murder. Tho state board of pardons at Bolso, Idaho, on Monday commuted tho sentonco ot Georgo Lovy to lite Imprisonment. Ho wns to havo been hanged on Friday for tho murder 0! Dnvla Lovy In October, 1901. The feature of tno application for clomency was a showing Indicating that another man may have com mltted tho deed. Soon after Levy was murdered tho public administrator administra-tor rocolvcd through tho mall what purported to ho a will left by him. Tho principal beneficiary under this will wns Harry Watklns, a furniture dealer. It Is claimed an Investigation Investiga-tion hns demonstrated that tho document docu-ment was written on a typowrlter ln tho possession of Watklns, also that ho had Levy's slgnaturo on a slip ot paper In his desk. Tho lattor fact was tostlflcd to before tho board by men who had been in Watklns' employ. em-ploy. Tho murdered man was nn old miser and was quite wealthy. Watklns Wat-klns wns Indebted to him nt the time of his death. George Levy was not n rolatlvo of the murdered man. He Is a Frenchman who rented property from tho old man for Immoral purposes. |