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Show CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. After being sentenced to death four times and after seven attempts for a new trial and two hearings for executive exe-cutive clemency, the governor of I G-eorgia has commuted the death pen-alt' pen-alt' for Leo. M Frank, for the alleged alleg-ed murder of Mary Phagan, to life Imprisonment Circumstantial evidence evi-dence was strongly against, the de fendant, details of the case pointing almost overwhelmingly to Frank as tho guilty man. Ho stoutly proclaims his innocence and, after two years and at almost the last moment, his life Is spared The governor faces the wrath of the friends of the dead girl and, obeying tho dictates of his conscience, declares he cannot have that man's blood on bis hands. Frank may be guilty as charged, or he may be innocent as he affirms, but some very striking proofs of the Injustice of hanging a man on the results of circumstantial evidence are recorded in the criminal history of this country coun-try and the governor acted wisely and justly by commuting the sentence of |