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Show -uu H WIFE AND DAUGHTER SAVED MURDERER Tacoma, Wash.. Sept. 20. Gov. Os- H wald West of Oregon, who came to ilH this city last night to attend tho wed- jH ding of his nieco, declared two womon M and not a poem caused him to save B Jesse P. Webb, the Oregon murderer. fl who was reprieved on tho way to the jJ gallows. M "It has been said that I was moved M to pardon Webb by reading Stanton's H poem, "They are hanging Bill Jones," ho said. "Tho truth Is, "Webb's wifo jH and daughter kept on my trail until I felt like a dog. But I've felt right jH ever since, and that shows 1 did tho 'lH right thing. When I Baw those wo- ' men in my office the morning set for M the hanging. I loiew Webb would IH nover swing." H |