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Show JOHN ARTHUR PENDER SAVED BY GOVERNOR OE OREGON John Arthur Pender of Ogden, son of James Pender, deceased, form -r chief of detectives, is not to be handed this month, according to a letter received re-ceived todn by Mrs. John Pnyr. . 2'r, Wall avenue, from her son Philip who is with the Twenty-first infantry at Vancouver. Wash , which Is across the Columbia river from Portland. Ore. Governor West of Oregon commuted the sentence rl Pender convicted of murder in the first degree for killing Mrs. Daisy Wehrman and child. In Columbia Co-lumbia County, several years ap;o, to life Imprisonment. The governor made his decision for leniency after listening to the argument of Pender's attorney. John F Logan; to Sheriff Tom Word of Multnomah county, and to members of the Spanish-American wnr veterans Governor West commuted the per tence with the understanding that Pender's attorneys were not to take advantage of any flaws which the bill abolishing capital punishment might have, should it be found to have passed. This measure contains no saving clau?e, and the governor desired de-sired that it be understood that blfl attorney! would not take advantage of this, in order to obtain absolute freedom for Pender, and they agreed that they would not. but would go before be-fore Governor Witbyeombe for a pardon, should the evidence later be found, which would conclusively show that Pender was Innocent Attorney Logan In pleading for his client, declared the evidence was circumstantial, cir-cumstantial, and that Sheriff Thomp son had worked much of It up agains Pender for campaign purposes; and that Thompson was now a thief and would soon grace the penitentiary He recited that Circuit Judge Campbell, Camp-bell, who presided at the first trial of Pender, had declared that had Pender Pen-der been found guilty he would not have allowed the verdict to stand He presented a letter from Circuit Judge Eakin, who presided In the second trial tri-al in which he declared that It was a caBe where an executive would be justified in commuting the sentence Jay Upton, representing a delegation delega-tion of Spanish War Veterans, spoke of '.he character of Pender ss a sol- dlcr and man. He said he believed the man was not guilty. Sheriff Tom Word of Multnomah county, also said he did not believe Pender was guilty and urged the Governor to commute the sentence. The mother, wife and sister of tho condemned man were at the hearing, and. unable to control their emotions during tho nrgument, they had to leave the executive office several times. The murder was committed near Scnppoose, in Columbia county, in the mountains. The theory was that Mrs. Wehrman and tho child n ere killed In order to cover up an other crime. oo AT MAIDS' AND MATRONS' CLUB. There will be no special hostess this afternoon and evening at the Maids' and Matrons' club rooms. Dancing will be the main feature of the evening's even-ing's entertainment Tomorrow afternoon from 4 until 6 o'clock, Mrs Ralph Hoag will entertain en-tertain in the club rooms at one of the series of Red Cross teas Special dancing both afternoon and evening will he enjoyed. nn |