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Show BOTH CAN'T BE GUILTY. Two Men Confess to Murdering a Brakeman In Montana. Oovernnr Toole of Montana will not demand of the governor of Missouri the extradition of William Miles, tha alxty-yesr-old man who, a few days ago, at Kanaaa City, confessed that he had killed a brnkeman on the Montana Union railroad, north of Deer Lodge, In 1886, for which crime a man named Waitham la now serving a life sentence sen-tence at the penitentiary at Deer Lodge. The gnvornor said that because of the mental condition of the cunvlct who la now paying the pennlty for what may have been tho crime of another, an-other, he la disposed to pardon Waitham. Wai-tham. The rase Is a moat unusual one. fnr the reason (hat In both Instances the men have confessed that they ware the elayers of the brakeman. |