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Show 00 MAKES STRANGE PLEA FOR PARDON Leavenworth, Kan. Jan. 11. One of the strangest pleas for a pardon ever submitted to the officials of the prison here is that of Joseph Klr-wn. Klr-wn. serving a life sentence Kirwin claims that as the whole body changes chang-es every seven ears he has lost his youthful lust for strangling women since his imprisonmeuL 1 The mania was born in him When 1 he wig a boy he tried to choke a lit-1 lit-1 tie Rirl to death. When he grew to manhood he was arrested for chol Ing la woman to death in a park in Cleveland, Cleve-land, but escaped conviction. Later, on a steamboat on the great JlakeH. Kirwin crept Stealthily Into the berth Of a sleeping woman and his fingers clutched her throat When be left her he fancied he had strangled her to death. "Every tissue of my physical being I has been changed since I came to prison," Kirwin said. "You know sci- ! ence savs our liven are divided into' cvclos of seven years and that In I each seven years our entire physical 1 being is made over, so that in vout body as well as mine, there is nol one. tissue, not one particle of bone, not one nerve cell that was there I seven years ago. That is a well es- I tablished fac-L accepted by all the thinkers of the world" 00 |