Show GOVERNOR SEES ELECTRIC CHAIR CHAIRa Ma a I Promises Par Pardons ons If Convicts Behave HUNTSVILLE Texas April 21 Sl Illy By Uy The rhe Associated Press Press- Press Governor Miriam A Ferguson and her husband former Governor James E TS Ferguson erguson brought a message of hope to the tho prisoners In the tho Texas here Tuesday promising that a new record for pardons would mould be set It Ir the convicts establish the best prison record ever se seen n In ln Texas Telas Mr F addressing the prisoners predicted 1 that his wire wife would be bo re elected governor an and l ld d declared the next two years will witness the greatest pardoning from the tho he penitentiary that has hs eve ever r been Leen seen If tr you will Iu put t up the best Lest prison record and the fe cst escapes from the prison system Governor Ferguson told tod the prison audience that working well and being good under my ad administration ministration means more than anythIng else and I am always happy hap to pardon you ou of course under the law Scores of prisoners told their storIes to the governor and asked for pardons She shook h hands with all Two negroes under sentence or of death knelt at the bars of theIr cells clutching at the hem of oher her dress and kissing her hand hantl The first thing the governor wanted to see sec was the tho electric chair from front which she Eho saved six men condemned to 10 die and antl where abe let Itt 11 II pay the extreme penal penal- penalty ty As she gazed s upon the chair she remarked that she did not p pOil well Oil the tho first night of an execution during her administration tion 00 oo |