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APPEAL PAPERS LATE; HANGS LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 10. Appeal papers which would have halted execution of Rush Griffin, negro, were served on the attorney general three days after Griffin was hanged. Fredric H. Vercoe, public defender, said that an immediate investigation would be undertaken by his office to ascertain the negligent parties. He advocates an immediate change in the state laws barring any judge from signing a death warrant until after the full time for appealing has passed.
