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Show MOTHER GOES TO THE AID OE HER SON HI 0REC0I Mrs. James F. Pender is In Portland, Port-land, Oregon. In the Interest of hei son J A. Pender, who last month was convicted by a jury of killing Mrs. I laisy Wehrman and her baby two ears ago. Since the trial new evidence has been obtained which, it is said, will clear the former Ogden boy of the -tain upon his good name. J. A Pender Is a veteran of the Spanish-American war, a son of the former chief of detectives of this city and was well thought of when he lived here. Four years ago he moved to Oregon and located on a homestead adjoining the farm where the woman and child were found dead Having no direct clues, the officers placed Pender under arrest. Now the husband hus-band of the dead woman Is to be arrested ar-rested and made to explain his actions ac-tions at the time of the tragedy and since The Portland Oregonlan of recent date, under the heading, ' Plan trap to catch man believed to be real murderer. ' has the following: "Certain parties in Portland are planning a third degree trap for the man they believe to be the real murderer mur-derer of Mrs. Daisy Wehrman and her baby, who were killed in their cabin near St. Helens 18 months ago of which John A Pender, a neighbor of the Wehrmans, was convicted by a jury last Saturday. Bias of the subsidized press is seriously declared to have been largely large-ly to blame for the conviction of a ; man who is verily believed to be ab ! solutely Innocent The first jury disagreed. dis-agreed. Between that and the second 1 trial somebody spread a report about ; St. Helens, where the jury was drawn, that Pender had been dishonorably discharged from the army In the Philippines and that he was reputed to have slain several Filipino women. Such evidence would not have been admitted against him in court, hence the trick. "Attorneys John A Jeffry and John A. Lopan of Portland, who defended Lhe accused, heard about these reports re-ports In time to prepare to refute them They got from Pender's super lor officers fine letters about him and (also copies of his honorable discharge papers But they did not get a chance to use them at the trial, though the reports circulated by Pender's enemies en-emies are believed to have had their natural effect "Throughout the last trial a certain witness who was in court throughout the trial and demeaned himself as any thing but an innocent man was constantly con-stantly watched by a trained eye, though he probably was not aware of It "The suspicion against hiin amounts to conviction in several minds and his ordeal has not yet really com meneed, if reports circulated in Port land since Saturday, be true." oo |