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Show INNOCENT MAN TO DB IIANUCD. Montana tlun (omlrle.1 I.J I rtii.llre U Nuw IUIIvel l I lunoeent Joseph C llurtt, a young man, la tcntcneed to be hangol at (llendlve on tho 30th of March and the evidence that hat lately come to light Icavta no room for doubt that ho It Innocent of the crime of murder, for which he It to bn banged, the killing of SlierKt lloml-nick lloml-nick Cavanaugh on the S3rd of Diccm-ber, Diccm-ber, KM Tho tuprcmo court wat appealed to but decided Hint II could not pnta oil tho tufllclenry of the ovldcmo agalntt llurtt and there wcra no crrora In tho record upon which ho lould be given rt uew trial. I Attormy-tleneral Nolan refined to appear In tho cato brcauto ho claimed It thould be dlimlttcd Ho hadiuvctll-gated hadiuvctll-gated It beforo llurtt wat tried and tatd no procccdlngi thould have been taken agalutl him llurtt and Ida frlendt nndnttorneya wero to confident that the cato would not bo allowed to go to tho Jury that lltllo defeuio waa offered, but hit conviction followed in a rrtult ottho publle feeling over tho murder, and at tomebody'a conviction Mai demanded Not only wat thcro no evldcnco ngalutt llurtt, but n potlllve alibi wat proven and the further fact that lie waa n friend of tho murdered man There aeemt no protpect of taring the young mau and the people of the atato nro tilghly wrought up ovir tho cato I'rcaehert, terret toeletlrn, wotnrn'e clubt and many atato olllelala familiar with the facta nro exerting thcmtelvea to prevent tho execution, but their only hope It cxeeutlvo clem-nicy clem-nicy or atianloii mid Governor Hmlth It not In tho ttatv |