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Show PRISONER WHO MMTIiOi MRS PARDON SALEM. Ore.. Dec. 15. Acting Governor Gov-ernor Roy W. Rltner has granted a full pardon to Jesse P. Webb, author of "Tho American Prison System." who was received at tho state prison August 6, 1M1 under sentence of death and whose sentence was cm-muted cm-muted to life Imprisonment by former Governor West within five minutes of the time he was to drop from the scaffold. Webb was convicted of tho murder of William Johnson ln Portland He was Intoxicated when he committed the crime and It later developed that the nun wero In a brawl when the killing occurred, according to prison officials Since coming to the prison. "Webb a printer, has studied hard, has written writ-ten a book, ami long heen editor of the prison newspaper He is 63 years old He is credited by the governor with having done much good among the other prisoners |