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Show : LIFE PRISONER IN OS1SQ OWES HSS I f PARDON TO GOV. HARMON'S W!FE ' i . ' R i I I KyiiSfcS? mrs.harHon And davJc?h i tn ii II Loil.iBlS, O.. Doc 9. rtiitJa U Burchum. a life convict In tho Ohio II, penitentiary, owes his freedom to Uio vlfo of Goveruor Harmon (Before ill maliim- the plea that lndurod Gocr- W,- nor Harmon to give a Chrletmas .ar- Bb on to Burcham. Mrs. Harmon maile Wk tho cmlct promlfie to abstain f-rin HI ttrong drink anl to lead an uprlsn .h.lu was onwetou oi com-i com-i liclty in tjie murder ot a Portsmoulli (Ohlol man. for which crime Moso Johnson, colored, was electrocuted in 1!)04 Before his death Johnson exonerated ex-onerated Burcham in n statement 10 Wcrdon Hcrshy of the prison Befoie tho warden could urgent the facts 1 1 the goerr r he fpH d"d. |