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Show tALEB POWERS -. 1EFEN9S NEGRESS. Washington, June 22. Representative Representa-tive Caleb Powers of eKntucky last night made a plea for Mattle Lomax, a negress under sentence to be hanged hang-ed for the murder of her husband. The Kentupklan spoke at a mass meet- . " ing of negroes held In furtherance of a movement to secure commutation oT the woman's sentence. Mr. Powers referred to his own casq In Kentucky. "I know what this, suspense sus-pense to Mattle Lomax. meansy he said, "for I have been n a similar 3,tateJwhcIr7they wejo trying to com-, mitt judicial murder, on m.o n 'Kentucky, 'Ken-tucky, I feel for her, for the 'facing of death Is part of. her dally i(e as it was mine I feared "death every day and every minutp,.oCthe day. I arose with it, spent the day with it and went to bed with it" |