Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-13 | Page 1 | Mother Pleads for Confessed Slayer

VJU MOTHER PLEADS FOR CONFESSED SLAYER SACRAMENTO. Feb. 12 - -Mrs. Anna Bowles Wiley, u Terr0 Haute, Ind., newspaper woman, and Mrs Fannie Hall, mother of Wlllium Henry Nor-ris, Nor-ris, alias Arthur Owon Davis, confessed con-fessed slayer of City Marshal J. W. Reives. Of Redding, were in Sacramento Sacramen-to today on behalf of the young slayer. slay-er. Norrls Is under sentence to be hanged March 2 6. At tho office of Governor Stephens Mrs. Wiley declared that Norrls, who, sho said, records show to bo 17 years of age, Was mentally subnormal. She said that commutation of the sentence sen-tence would be askeel of the governor on that ground on