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Show WILSON'S PARDON 1 i SAVES A WOMAN FROM EXECUTION WASHINGTON, Ozt 14 President Wilson saved from trie gallows Josephine Berry, a young neress, under sentence ' to be hanged here tomorrow for j the murder of another negTO ' woman. Her sentence was com-muted com-muted to life imprisonment. No woman has been hangtd in the District of Columbia since die exc utiorj of Mrs. Surrat in connection with the Lincoln as- J , sassinaticn. Sever?! persons have inter-ested inter-ested thi res in the girl's behalf, declaring they were strongly opposed to capital pv.n-:shmcnt pv.n-:shmcnt in the case of women. 4. |