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Show Murderer Given Time to Prepare to Meet His God NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 19. Ash-burj Ash-burj Melds, sentenced to die in the electric chair for murder today was lv! n :i SO-dicy respite at the state pen-itentiary pen-itentiary by Governor Taylor on his pleading that he was "not ready to die ' and thai ha wanted the extra time in which to "prepare to meet his Maker." Fields was convicted of knocking a man In the head with a I hammer and killing him after he had 'enticed him into a forobt on the pretext pre-text of selling him some whisky. |