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Show SAVES A . MAN'S. H JLe'llil iL Mrs. Taft Persuades the President to Commute Death Sentence Washington, June 7. Mrs. Taft has saved the life of a man named Pcro-vlch, Pcro-vlch, convicted of murder in the first ilegree at Fairbanks, Alaska, and sen-. sen-. tt-nccd to be hanged, i-TcsiGcnt Taft ! was not inclined to Interrcro in the ! rase, and the law would probably have taken its course had he not submitted r the papers to Mrs. Tart. She read i ihem and touched by their contents, r.dded her plea for a commutation or V tcntonco. I Application for commutation of Sentence Sen-tence was submitted to the President tome time ago by Judge Wickersham, the present delegate from Alaska. Perovlch had been trlfd and convicted while Wickersham was United States judge in Alaska and the appeal for commutation was recommended by him. It was also recommended " by Attorney General Wickersham. But , the Intervention of Mrs. Taft completely com-pletely swayed the President's mind in favor of mercy and ho commuted Pennicb's sentence to imprisonment , for life. |