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Show AROUSING HOPE ' IN A PRISONER! Denver, Nov. 11. To what evtont will tho commutation of a sentenco-from sentenco-from life Imprisonment to fifty years nroueo hope In the heart of a broken man? - This is what tho state board of par-' dons has set Itself to find out In rank- ; ing such a change In the penalty Ini-' posed ujon Robert Cain, who. as a lad ' of i'j years, was scut to the penlten- ' Mary ten years ago for murder. Cain, i prison physicians say, lb dying by Inches from shoer lack of interest In life. "Whothor the chance of ultimate freedom, remote as It Is, will quicken j in him a deslro to live, is what the board of pardons seeks to know. j In making Cain tho subject of an experiment, which Is certain will be ' watched with Interest by students of I prison conditions, tho board Is not playing as grim Joko on him as at first would appear. By keeping hlm-Holf hlm-Holf eligible for parole, Cain can shorten his term to a little more than , 2G yearn, ten of which ho has already served. no |